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. ...

Stanley Kubrick (USA 1928-99) was a master who took the art of filmmaking further than any other contemporary director a creative perfectionist whose work now fascinates new generations. He started out as a photographer before moving into film noir aged barely 25 after which the power & originality of his work soon brought him box-office success. In the 1960s he lived & worked in London away from the scandal caused by his adaptation of Lolita (1962) & from the major studios from which uniquely he was able to wrest total control of his films. He made only a dozen features in 50 years each of which displays an extraordinary degree of technical & aesthetic invention. From the sci-fi 2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968) onwards each of his masterpieces explores new genres & controversial topics such as Vietnam (" Full Metal Jacket" 1987) violence ("A Clockwork Orange" 1971) horror (" The Shining" 1980) & sexuality (" Eyes Wide Shut" 1999)." ...

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." ...

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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See the night sky like you have never seen it before with this all-encompassing guide to astronomy. Learn all there is to know about the layout of the skies the positions of the main constellations & the names of the brightest stars so you can become a backyard astronomer in no time at all. With easy-to-use star charts photographs & observational drawings of objects visible from both hemispheres The Star Book will take your understanding & enjoyment of stargazing to the next level. Whether you use binoculars or a telescope or even if you have no optical aid at all there are enough celestial sights to keep anyone enthralled for a lifetime. The Star Book provides a quick & simple reference to the major stars & constellations with easy-to-use star charts finder charts high-quality images & observational drawings covering the key stars viewable from all over the world. Author Peter Grego also

Includes:: a brief introduction to the history of astronomy an easy-to-follow explanation of the life-cycle of stars from ignition to collapse & information about deep sky objects such as nebulae & globular clusters. This fascinating attractive & accessible book will become a trusted resource to make sense of the night skies & is a wonderful gift for anyone with even a passing interest in astronomy.

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Born in the Dublin slums of 1901 his father a one-legged whorehouse bouncer & settler of scores Henry Smart has to grow up fast. By the time he can walk hes out robbing & begging often cold & always hungry but a prince of the streets. By Easter Monday 1916 hes fourteen years old & already six-foot-two a soldier in the Irish Citizen Army. A year later hes ready to die for Ireland again a rebel a Fenian & a killer. With his fathers wooden leg as his weapon Henry becomes a Republican legend
- one of Michael Collins boys a cop killer an assassin on a stolen bike.
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