This anthology illuminates the history practice & wonder of our most elusive art poetry. Intended for all those who love poetry including teachers readers writers & students the book should be valued by those who feel that an understanding of form-sonnet ballad villanelle & sestina would enhance their appreciation of poetry but are daunted by the terms the names & the histories of various poetic forms. The anthology draws the reader in by example & explanation to the excitement & entertainment of these forms. It explains their origins traces their development & shows examples from the past & present. In a feature called the form at a glance" the reader can try his or her own hand writing a particular form. Included are essays by each of the editors describing their own personal journeys toward a form for their poetic voice. Above all this anthology shows that poetic form is a continuing adventure." ...

A wave of internal conquest settlement & economic growth took place in Europe during the High Middle Ages which transformed it from a world of small separate communities into a network of powerful kingdoms with distinctive cultures. In this vivid & provocative book Robert Bartlett vividly shows how Europe was itself a product of colonization as much as it was later a colonizer & what this did to shape the continent & the world today. ...

This graphically compelling diversely illustrated volume is a behind-the-scenes look at Academy Award-winning director Ang Lees most ambitious film to date Life of Pi" an adaptation of Yann Martels international bestseller & Man Booker Prize-winning novel. The book

Includes:: a foreword by Martel & an introduction by Lee. This 3-D film is released on December 21 2012."

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In The Making of Modern Britain" Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire. Between the death of Queen Victoria & the end of the Second World War the nation was shaken by war & peace. The two wars were the worst we had ever known & the episodes of peace among the most turbulent & surprising. As the political forum moved from Edwardian smoking rooms to an increasingly democratic Westminster the people of Britain experimented with extreme ideas as they struggled to answer the question How should we live? Socialism? Fascism? Feminism?. Meanwhile fads such as eugenics vegetarianism & nudism were gripping the nation while the popularity of the music hall soared. It was also a time that witnessed the birth of the media as we know it today & the beginnings of the welfare state. Beyond trenches flappers & Spitfires this is a story of strange cults & economic madness of revolutionaries & heroic inventors sexual experiments & raucous stage heroines. From organic food to drugs nightclubs & celebrities to package holidays crooked bankers to sleazy politicians the echoes of todays Britain ring from almost every page." ...

In The Making of Modern Britain" Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire. Between the death of Queen Victoria & the end of the Second World War the nation was shaken by war & peace. The two wars were the worst we had ever known & the episodes of peace among the most turbulent & surprising. As the political forum moved from Edwardian smoking rooms to an increasingly democratic Westminster the people of Britain experimented with extreme ideas as they struggled to answer the question ' How should we live?' Socialism? Fascism? Feminism? Meanwhile fads such as eugenics vegetarianism & nudism were gripping the nation while the popularity of the music hall soared. It was also a time that witnessed the birth of the media as we know it today & the beginnings of the welfare state. Beyond trenches flappers & Spitfires this is a story of strange cults & economic madness of revolutionaries & heroic inventors sexual experiments & raucous stage heroines. From organic food to drugs nightclubs & celebrities to package holidays crooked bankers to sleazy politicians the echoes of today's Britain ring from almost every page." ...

Pink Floyds THE WALL is one of the most iconic & imaginative albums in the history of rock music endlessly discussed & dissected. It is loosely based on the life & experiences of Roger Waters & the stage performances & film were created in close collaboration with Gerald Scarfe. Scarfe & Waters worked together on the new version of the stage show. Gerald retains all the imagery & from this massive archive the book

Includes:: hundreds of photographs of the creation staging & filming of The Wall as well as the live stage performances. In addition Roger Waters allowed us to reproduce all the interviews & texts associated with the production of the album the stage performances & the film. This is the authorised definitive book of THE WALL.

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Edgehill 1642: Surveying the disastrous scene in the aftermath of the first battle of the English Civil War Oliver Cromwell realizes that war can no longer be made in the old feudal way: there has to be system & discipline & therefore
- eventually
- a standing professional army. From the New Model Army of Cromwells distant vision former soldier Allan Mallinson shows us the people & events that have shaped the army we know today. How Marlboroughs momentous victory at Blenheim is linked to Wellingtons at Waterloo; how the desperate fight at Rorkes Drift in 1879 underpinned the heroism of the airborne forces at Arnhem in 1944; & why Montgomerys momentous victory at El Alamein mattered long after the Second World War was over. From the Armys origins at the battle of Edgehill to our current conflict in Afghanistan this is history at its most relevant
- & most dramatic.


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This is a book that revolutionised our understanding of English social history. E. P. Thompson shows how the English working class emerged through the degradations of the industrial revolution to create a culture & political consciousness of enormous vitality. ...

Lydia Robyn & Dean don't know each other
- yet. They live very different lives but each of them independently has always felt that
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In a hospice in Bury St Edmunds a man called Daniel is slowly fading away. His friend Maggie sits with him every day; she holds his hand & she listens to the story of his life to his regrets & to his secrets. & then he tells her about the children he has never met & never will. He talks of them wistfully. His legacy he calls them. Lydia Dean & Robyn dont know each other. Yet. & they are all facing difficult changes. Lydia is still wearing the scars from her traumatic childhood & although she is wealthy & successful her life is lonely & disjointed. Dean is a young man burdened with unexpected responsibility whose life is going nowhere. & Robyn wants to be a doctor just like her father
- a man shes never met. But is her whole life built on an illusion? Three people leading three very different lives. All lost. All looking for something. But when they slowly find their way into each others lives everything starts to change.. .
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