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  • Westminster Abbey

    by A Murray Smith ...
    Westminster Abbey has held a hugely important role in Britain's History over the last 800 years. This fascinating book describes the inside of the Abbey, giving the reader an amazing insight into the architecture, history and feel of the building. Many full colour illustrations are included to give the reader a complete picture of this historic abbey where Kings and Queens are crowned. This ... Read more

    $8.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Trainspotting

    by Murray Smith ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    In 1996 Trainspotting was the biggest thing in British culture. Brilliantly and aggressively marketed, it crossed into the mainstream despite being a black comedy set against the backdrop of heroin addiction in Edinburgh. Produced by Andrew Macdonald, scripted by John Hodge and directed by Danny Boyle, the team behind Shallow Grave (1994), Trainspotting was an adaptation of Irvine Welsh's barbed ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • The Female of the Species

    by Joanna Murray-Smith ...
    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    A deliciously wicked comedy that proves that the female of the species is not only deadlier, but funnier than the male. From the author of the West End-hit, Honour.Thirty years ago Margot Mason, pioneer of the 1970's Women's Liberation movement and fearless academic, wrote her groundbreaking work, The Cerebral Vagina. Numerous best-sellers and international adulation followed, but now she has ... Read more

    $20.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Julia

    by Joanna Murray-Smith ...
    'I'm ignited by three small words. I will not.'It's 9 October, 2012. She's been PM for two years and four months and she's worn down. She's been hounded, slurred, dissected, libelled. She's been violated over and over again by words. Julia Gillard's prime ministership was marred by the Australian media monopoly's inability to step over one thing: that she was a woman. A woman who, as a young ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Bombshells

    by Joanna Murray-Smith ...
    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    Six funny and perceptive monologues about the stresses of modern female life.Meryl Davenport – A mother who tells the story of her non-stop day in a rapid-fire internal monologue.Tiggy Entwhistle – A cactus lover bravely attempting to rise above her relationship crisis.Mary O'Donnell – A feisty teenage schoolgirl competing in a talent quest.Theresa McTerry – An increasingly disillusioned bride on ... Read more

    $20.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Honour

    by Joanna Murray-Smith ...
    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    An unsettling play about infidelity seen from the perspective of the three women involved: the wife, the lover and the daughter.George and Honor have been happily married for thirty-two years. She is a successful writer, he is a revered columnist. They have a perfect understanding of each other. Until a pushy young female journalist - on an assignment to 'profile' George - quite deliberately seeks ... Read more

    $20.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Westminster Abbey

    by Mrs. A. Murray Smith ...
    Kings are thy nursing fathers and their queens thy nursing mothers. From the reign of Edward the Confessor, the last sovereign of the royal Saxon race, till the death of Elizabeth, the last Tudor queen, these words of the old Hebrew prophet were literally applicable to the great West Minster. When Edward knelt within the Benedictine chapel on Thorneye, which had so miraculously withstood the ... Read more

    $6.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Film, Art, and the Third Culture

    A Naturalized Aesthetics of Film

    by Murray Smith ...
    In the mid-1950s C.P. Snow began his campaign against the 'two cultures' - the debilitating divide, as he saw it, between traditional 'literary intellectual' culture, and the culture of the sciences, urging in its place a 'third culture' which would draw upon and integrate the resources of disciplines spanning the natural and social sciences, the arts and the humanities. Murray Smith argues that, ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Engaging Characters

    Fiction, Emotion, and the Cinema

    by Murray Smith ...
    Characters - those fictional agents populating the fictional worlds we spend so much time absorbed in - are ubiquitous in our lives. We track their fortunes, judge their actions, and respond to them with anger, amusement, and affection - indeed the whole palette of human emotions. Powerfully drawn characters transcend their stories, entering into our imaginations and deliberations about the actual ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Human Growth and Development in Children and Young People

    Theoretical and Practice Perspectives

    by Stephen Cowden, Gurnam Singh, Deborah Hadwin, Atle Ødegård, Siv E N Sæbjørnsen, Elisabeth Willumsen, Louise Oliver, Christine Cocker, Lisa Bunting, Sue Taplin, Richard Heslop, Melanie Watts, Nick Frost, Alison Rodriguez, Wilfred Mcsherry, Jo Finch, Margarete Parrish, Joanna Murray Smith ...
    Unparalleled in its coverage of concepts and themes, this textbook uses insights from across sociology, psychology, criminology and other areas of expertise to show how children and young people negotiate crucial challenges and transitions in their lives.It considers a wide range of theories, issues and practice dimensions and clearly shows how they connect, with fresh insights on topics including ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Haunted Pittsburgh

    by Timothy Murray, Michelle Smith, Haydn Thomas ...
    Series series Haunted America
    A ghost tour team mines the Steel City's past for the stories of spirits that stalk its streets today.Founded amidst the bloodshed of the French and Indian War, Pittsburgh is haunted by the ghosts of its gritty and sometimes violent past. Many believe American industrialist Henry Clay Frick still inhabits Clayton, one of the last surviving homes on Millionaires' Row. The spirit of Kate Soffel ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Apostles of the Weird

    by S. T. Joshi, John Shirley, Gemma Files, Jonathan Thomas, Steve Rasnic Tem, Nancy Kilpatrick, W.H. Pugmire, Lynda E. Rucker, Michael Washburn, Jason V Brock, Michael Aronovitz, Clint Smith, George Edwards Murray, Richard Gavin, Darrell Schweitzer, Cody Goodfellow, Lynne Jamneck, Reggie Oliver, Stephen Woodworth ...
    Weird fiction is an incredibly rich and varied genre, running the gamut from supernatural horror to imaginary-world fantasy to psychological terror. This anthology seeks to exhibit the wide range of themes, motifs, and imagery that weird fiction allows, as embodied in the work of some of the leading contemporary writers in the field.The ghost or revenant is a venerable motif, and stories by John ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus