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  • Intellectual Property Issues In Biotechnology

    This book integrates a science and business approach to provide an introduction and an insider view of intellectual property issues within the biotech industry, with case studies and examples from developing economy markets. Broad in scope, this book covers key principles in pharmaceutical, industrial, and agricultural biotechnology within four parts. Part 1 details the principles of intellectual ... Read more

    $141.19 USD

  • The Clothes They Stood Up In

    by Alan Bennett ...
    Series series
    The Clothes They Stood Up In is Alan Bennett's first story. Like Charles Dickens' novels which were first published in magazines, it originally appeared in the London Review of Books - which the author says 'seems to me (and not just because I occasionally contribute to it) the liveliest, most serious and also the most radical literary periodical we have'. ... Read more

    $4.08 USD

  • The Library Book

    From Alan Bennett's Baffled at a Bookcase, to Lucy Mangan's Library Rules, famous writers tell us all about how libraries are used and why they're important. Tom Holland writes about libraries in the ancient world, while Seth Godin describes what a library will look like in the future. Lionel Shriver thinks books are the best investment, Hardeep Singh Kohli makes a confession and Julie Myerson ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Wind in the Willows

    Unabridged

    2 hours 20 min

    One Spring morning, Mole abandons his spring cleaning and surfaces into the sunlight and warm grass of a great meadow. Rambling busily along the hedgerows he comes all at once to the edge of a river. Mole is entranced. Here on the river bank he meets the Water Rat. Mole stays with the Water Rat in his snug waterside home where the river laps at the sill of the window and here he meets Ratty's ... Read more

    $14.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Four Stories

    by Alan Bennett ...
    Like everything Bennett does, these stories are playful, witty and painfully observant of ordinary people's foibles. They all have brilliant twists, are immensely entertaining and highly moral. And all are modern classics.The Laying on of HandsThe painfully observant account of a memorial service for a masseur to the famous.The Clothes They Stood Up InThe comic tale of an elderly couple's trials ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • The Laying On Of Hands

    by Alan Bennett ...
    Series series
    Clive Dunlop was a masseur of exceptional talents. His 'services' were much in demand amongst the great and the good and after his untimely death at the age of 34 they -- the film stars and politicians, the writers and publishers, the TV pundits and celebrity chefs -- are gathered for his memorial service. The conduct of the service is a great worry for the priest taking the service, but it proves ... Read more

    $4.08 USD

  • The Uncommon Reader

    A Novella

    by Alan Bennett ...
    From one of England's most celebrated writers, a funny and superbly observed novella about the Queen of England and the subversive power of readingWhen her corgis stray into a mobile library parked near Buckingham Palace, the Queen feels duty-bound to borrow a book. Discovering the joy of reading widely (from J. R. Ackerley, Jean Genet, and Ivy Compton-Burnett to the classics) and intelligently, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The History Boys

    The Film

    by Alan Bennett ...
    Now a major motion picture from Fox Searchlight Pictures, The History Boys: The Film contains Alan Bennett's diary of the filming, the shooting script, and an introduction by director Nicholas Hytner, as well as an extensive plate section that includes a look behind the scenes and stills from the film.An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form (or senior) boys in a British boys' school are, as ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Father! Father! Burning Bright

    by Alan Bennett ...
    Series series
    Alan Bennett's second story. This time, set in the 1970s, in classic Bennett country, Yorkshire. 'On the many occasions Midgley had killed his father, death had always come easily. He died promptly, painlessly and without a struggle. Looking back, Midgley could see that even in these imagined deaths he had failed his father. It was not like him to die like that. Nor did he.' Midgley is determined ... Read more

    $6.19 USD

  • Alan Bennett Plays 2

    Kafka's Dick; Insurance Man; Old Country; Englishman Abroad; Question of Attribution

    by Alan Bennett ...
    This second volume of plays by Alan Bennett includes his two Kafka plays, one an hilarious comedy, the other a profound and searching drama. Also included is An Englishman Abroad and A Question of Attribution. The fascination of these two plays lies in the way they question our accepted notions of treachery and, in different ways, make a sympathetic case for Guy Burgess and Anthony Blunt. ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • The Lady in the Van and Other Stories

    by Alan Bennett ...
    Now a major motion picture starring Maggie Smith, Bennett's famous and heartwarming story "The Lady in the Van" and more of his classic short-form work.Alan Bennett has long been one of the world's most revered humorists. From his acclaimed story collection Smut to his hilarious and sharply observed The Uncommon Reader, Bennett has consistently remained one of literature's most acute observers of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Smut

    Stories

    by Alan Bennett ...
    One of England's finest and most loved writers explores the uncomfortable and tragicomic gap between people's public appearance and their private desires in two tender and surprising stories.In The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson, a recently bereaved widow finds interesting ways to supplement her income by performing as a patient for medical students, and renting out her spare room. Quiet, middle-class ... Read more

    $9.89 USD