Mark Thomas is one of the UKs most effective & best-known political activists as well as being a highly successful st&-up comedian. His show The Mark Thomas Product" ran for six highly acclaimed series on Channel Four. Amazingly this is his first book. " As Used On the Famous Nelson Mandela" is a deeply funny deeply disturbing account of Marks rampage through the arms trade. Under a fairly flimsy disguise & with the use of some worryingly poor accents Mark set off on a journey of discovery in the company of arms dealers torture victims politicians cops crusties & geeks. The result is a shockingly entertaining read. Embedded within the sharpness of his humour is the truth of an industry fraught with loopholes complacency & greed; that allows corrupt regimes to kill maim & displace but whose deals are often subsidised by the British taxpayer. Hard-hitting laugh-out-loud funny & extremely unsettling " As Used on the Famous Nelson Mandela" is never anything less than compulsive." ...

The wry honest & often hilarious chronicles of a very brave & clever TV presenter Arctic Explorer & general drawer of the Short Straw. As one third of the BBCs Top Gear team Richard Hammonds year since his near-fatal accident has been full of stunts & drama. From a race to the North Pole (with skis & dog-sled) to a journey through Botswana in a car named Oliver & a seventeen-mile run through floods to his Gloucestershire home in order to get to his daughters birthday party the year has been eventful to say the least.. . With his boundless optimism in the face of certain failure Richard Hammond has become one of our funniest writers about a life (and a job) which constantly present a challenge. ...

This new edition of As You Like It is part of the established Cambridge School Shakespeare series & has been substantially updated with new & revised activities throughout. Remaining faithful to the series active approach it treats the play as a script to be acted explored & enjoyed. As well as the complete script of As You Like It you will find a variety of classroom-tested activities an eight-page colour section & an enlarged selection of notes including information on characters performance history & language. ...

As You Like It is one of Shakespeare's finest romantic comedies variously lyrical melancholy satiric comic & absurd. Its highly implausible plot generates a profusion of love-lorn men a resourceful heroine in disguise sexual ambiguity melancholy philosophising & finally a multiplicity of marriages. The ironic medley of pastoral artifice romantic ardour & quizzical reflection has helped to make As You Like It perennially popular in the theatre. ...

No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of As You Like It" on the left-hand page side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right. Each No Fear Shakespeare contains The complete text of the original play A line-by-line translation that puts Shakespeare into everyday language A complete list of characters with descriptions Plenty of helpful commentary" ...

When Rosalind is banished by her uncle who has usurped her father's throne she flees to the forest of Arden where her exiled father holds court. There dressed as a boy to avoid discovery she encounters the man she loves now a fellow exile & resolves to remain in disguise to test his feelings for her. A gloriously sunny comedy As You Like It is an exuberant combination of concealed identities & verbal jousting reconciliations & multiple weddings. ...

From the Royal Shakespeare Company -- a fresh new edition of Shakespeares journey into the Forest of Arden THIS EDITION
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With its explorations of sexual ambivalence As You Like It speaks directly to the twenty-first century. Juliet Dusinberredemonstrates that Rosalinds authority in the play grows from new ideas about women & reveals that Shakespeares heroine reinvents herself for every age. But the play is also deeply rooted in Elizabethan culture & through it Shakespeare addresses some of the hotly debated issues of the period. This will be the definitive edition of As You Like It for many years to come"
- Phyllis Rackin University of Pennsylvania"
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Eloisa James returns to what she does best in this omnibus of four novellas previously published digitally & together in print for the first time. Travel back once again to the people of the ton & their gossip flirtations & sensual romantic liaisons. Love lust & a touch of drama ensues.. . Four luscious novellas four chances to get wrapped up in Eloisa James: With this Kiss With this Promise With this Ring Seduced By A Pirate. ...

This book is full of clear notes & exam-style practice questions covering every AS Biology topic for the AQA Exam Board. The whole thing's designed to make revision straightforward
- everything you need to know is explained simply & thoroughly helped by full-colour diagrams. It

Includes:: sections on How Science Works & Interpreting Experimental Data. There's also a sprinkling of jokes to lighten the mood. It's exactly what you need to prepare for your exams!


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