These four h&-coloured maps of London in the Victorian age show all of London including the surrounding countryside & outlying villages such as Hampstead Stratford Merton & Beckenham. Perfect for researchers & genealogists they are presented in a slipcase box set & are so detailed that they show individual buildings the gardens of suburban houses separate platforms of new railway stations & even individual statues in Londons squares. ...

Stanislavski in Practice is an unparalleled step-by-step guide to Stanislavski's System. Author Nick O' Brien makes this cornerstone of acting accessible to teachers & students alike. This is an exercise book for students & a lesson planner for teachers on syllabi from Edexcel WJEC & AQA to the practice-based requirements of BTEC. Each element of the System is covered practically through studio exercises & jargon-free discussion. Over a decade's experience of acting & teaching makes O' Brien perfectly placed to advise anyone wanting to understand or apply Stanislavski's system. Features include: Practical extension work for students to take away from the lesson Notes for teachers on how to use material with different age groups Exam tips for students based on specific syllabi requirements A chapter dedicated to using Stanislavski when rehearsing a text A glossary of terms that students of the System will encounter ...

The most informal
- & in some ways the most delightful
- of all Stanislavski books"
- Sir Michael Redgrave No one has


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A fresh new look for the one-&-only 2D hero! Stanley in Space The President of the United States chooses Stanley & his family to become the first humans aboard a new top-secret spaceship. Stanley will meet the Queen of England have his birthday in outer space & face a city full of aliens! Stanley & the Magic Lamp Stanley finds a real genie inside his mothers teapot. Now the Lampchops can wish for anything in the world: fame a magical pet superpowers.. . Being famous is exhausting! Soon everyone longs for life to get back to normal. But can Stanley reverse the wishes? ...

Here for the first time is complete collection of actor & entertainer Stanley Holloway's incomparable comic monologues which he performed between 1929 & 1941. All the much-loved characters such as Albert Ramsbottom ('with a stick with an 'orse's 'ead 'andle') Sam Small (' Sam Sam pick oop tha' arm) & King Arold ('on his 'orse with his 'awk in his 'and') are gathered together & brilliantly illustrated by cartoonist Bill Tidy. ...

Imagine your misfortune if like Stanley Yelnats you found yourself the victim of a miscarriage of justice & interned in Camp Green Lake Correctional Institute. How would you survive? Thoughtfully Louis Sachar has learnt his knowledge & expertise to the subject & created this wonderful quirky & utterly essential guide to toughing it out in the Texan desert. Spiced with lots of information about the characters in Holes" as well as lots of do's & don'ts for survival this is an essential book for all those hundreds of thousands of " Holes'" fans." ...

Stanleys Stick is a teaming-up of hefty talents
- glorious poet John Hegley & award-winning illustrator Neal Layton. Stanleys stick
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For Crystal Wyatt growing up on a ranch in Northern California Hollywood seems a million miles away. Bold passionate & enchantingly beautiful she knows her destiny is waiting for her. But no one said it was going to be easy. Singled out for her devastating looks & captivating singing voice Crystal soon embarks on the dangerous road to stardom. Her dreams are creeping closer but then so are those determined to stop her. & when the darkest of scandals comes out Crystal must face the challenge of her life. ...

In this compulsively readable & constantly surprising book Peter Biskind the author of the film classics Easy Riders Raging Bulls & Down & Dirty Pictures writes the most intimate revealing & balanced biography ever of Hollywood legend Warren Beatty. Famously a playboy Beatty has also been one of the most ambitious & successful stars in Hollywood. Several Beatty films have passed the test of time from Bonnie & Clyde to Shampoo Heaven Can Wait Reds (for which he won the best director Oscar) Bugsy & Bulworth. Few filmgoers realize that along with Orson Welles Beatty is the only person ever nominated for four Academy Awards for a single film -- & unlike Welles Beatty did it twice. Biskind shows how Beatty used star power commercial success savvy & charm to bend Hollywood moguls to his will. Beattys private life has been the subject of gossip for decades & Star confirms his status as Hollywoods leading man in the bedroom describing his affairs with Joan Collins Natalie Wood Leslie Caron & Madonna among many others. Biskind explains how Beatty exercised unique control often hiring screenwriters out of his own pocket producing directing & acting in his own films. He was arguably one of the most successful & creative figures in Hollywood during the second half of the twentieth century & in this fascinating biography Warren Beatty comes to life -- complete with excesses & achievements -- as never before. ...

In the beginning nothing moves in the inky silence...until the golden godchild Atum gradually unfolds from a lotus bud. From him come the gods of the air & rain & their children
- Geb god of Earth & Nut goddess of the sky. Geb & Nut are inseparable. They clasp one another & share whispered secrets leaving no space between the sky & the earth for Atum to continue creating. So Atum has no choice but to have them forcibly separated leaving Geb enraged & Nut sad & lonely... The beautiful story that follows explains according to Ancient Egyptian beliefs how day night & the starry universe were first created.
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