The five plays collected here offer a unique insight into the role of theatre in a situation of oppression They were produced in close collaboration with their original black amateur casts drawing on their lives & everyday experiences in the townships They range from the early apprentice work of the brash but vital Sophiatown plays No-Good Friday & Nongogo to the freer more urgent & profound New Brighton plays including the most famous Sizwe Bansi is Dead & The Island & the previously unavailable The Coat ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Nazi Germany 1941 a legendary Occult book that holds the secret of bringing inanimate objects to life ends up in the hands of Toymaker Amos Blackwood As the Nazis terrorize the locals while searching for the book the Toymaker uses the power of the book & gives life to his collection of vintage dolls & handmade toys The SS raid the Toymaker&s shop confiscating the book & arresting Amos But the animated dolls & toys don&t take kindly to the loss of their master So begins a mission to rescue the Toymaker from the clutches of the Nazis & exact their brutal & bloody revenge ...

Do you remember when you believed in magic? It is 1917 & while war wages across Europe in the heart of London there is a place of hope & enchantment The Emporium sells toys that capture the imagination of children & adults alike patchwork dogs that seem alive toy boxes that are bigger on the inside soldiers that can fight battles of their own Into this family business comes young Cathy Wray running away from a shameful past The Emporium takes her in makes her one of its own But Cathy is about to discover that the Emporium has secrets of its own A dark enchanting spectacularly imaginative novel perfect for fans of Jessie Burton's The Miniaturist & Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus ...

Your hands-on guide to the secrets of Toyota's success! Jeffrey Liker first revealed the management principles Toyota's worldwide reputation for quality & reliability in the international bestseller The Toyota Way Now he & Toyota veteran David Meier take those lessons a step further with The Toyota Way Fieldbook You'll receive the diagnostic tools worksheets & exercises
- many adapted from Toyota originals
- so you can craft the most effective approach for your organization Learn how to develop a long-term philosophy of cost reduction build a culture that stops to fix problems quickly develop leaders that live your system & transform your company into a true lean learning organization that continuously improves meets the needs of its customers & positions itself for long-term success Most importantly you'll understand the thinking behind lean tools & approaches so you can implement Toyota's 4P Model for success in your organization Philosophy
- the company is a vehicle for adding value to customers society the community & its associates; Process
- when leaders follow the right process they get the right results including long-term cost-reduction & quality improvement; People & Partners
- add value to an organization by challenging its people & partners to grow & become more skilled & confident; & Problem solving
- continuously solve root problems to drive organizational learning





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How to speed up business processes improve quality & cut costs in any industry In factories around the world Toyota consistently makes the highest-quality cars with the fewest defects of any competing manufacturer while using fewer man-hours less on-hand inventory & half the floor space of its competitors The Toyota Way is the first book for a general audience that explains the management principles & business philosophy behind Toyota's worldwide reputation for quality & reliability Complete with profiles of organizations that have successfully adopted Toyota's principles this book shows managers in every industry how to improve business processes by Eliminating wasted time & resources Building quality into workplace systems Finding low-cost but reliable alternatives to expensive new technology Producing in small quantities Turning every employee into a quality control inspector ...

'I'm Tracy Beaker This is a book all about me I'd read it if I were you It's the most incredible dynamic heart-rending story Honest' Ten-year-old Tracy is one of the most popular & well-loved children's book characters ever created She lives in a Children's Home but would like a real home one day with a real family Meet feisty funny Tracy follow her adventures & share her hopes for the future in these three beautifully observed hilarious & touching tales all told in Tracy's own words Featuring THE STORY OF TRACY BEAKERSTARRING TRACY BEAKERand THE DARE GAMEPlus an exclusive letter from Jacqueline Wilson about how Tracy was created! ...

The updated edition of this classic treatise on the behavior of great powers takes a penetrating look at the question likely to dominate international relations in the twenty-first century Can China rise peacefully? In clear eloquent prose John Mearsheimer explains why the answer is no a rising China will seek to dominate Asia while the United States determined to remain the world's sole regional hegemon will go to great lengths to prevent that from happening The tragedy of great power politics is inescapable ...

The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship & emphasis on performance The series features line-by-line commentaries & textual notes on the plays & poems Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical stage & screen interpretations For this second edition of King Lear Jay L Halio has added a new introductory section that focuses on recent developments in scholarly criticism as well as on contemporary productions of the play The edition features a comprehensive account of Shakespeare's sources including literary political & folkloric influences on the work Halio's text is edited from the Folio & he explains the differences between the quarto & Folio versions alerting the reader to the rival charms of the quarto by sampling parallel passages in the Introduction & by including in an Appendix annotated passages that are unique to the quarto An updated reading list completes the edition ...

Dark & violent Macbeth is also the most theatrically spectacular of Shakespeare's tragedies Indeed for 250 years
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Shortlisted for the 2017 TS Eliot Prize A 2017 Poetry Book Society Recommendation Shortlisted for The Forward Prize for Best Collection 2017 Shortlisted for the 2018 Irish Times Poetry Now Award Following her 2013 debut This is Yarrow (winner of the Seamus Heaney Prize & the Shine Strong Award) Tara Bergin returns with her second collection The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx The poems draw on folksong fairytale & theatrical monologue as Bergin explores the alluring & sometimes tragic consequences of translation When she committed suicide in 1898 Eleanor Marx (daughter of Karl Marx pioneering sociologist & translator of Flaubert's Madame Bovary) imitated Flaubert's heroine Emma Both women in their own ways died passionate deaths & Bergin's poems are concerned with intense love intense grief With a sing-song rhythm & dark humour they play off the natural theatricality of great lovers great writers & great readers who like the fancy-dressed children in ' Mask' are both 'themselves & strangers' ' That's all they wanted' ...