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  • Stotty 'n' Spice Cake

    Stories and traditional recipes of North East cooking

    by Bill Griffiths ...
    Stotty 'n' Spice Cakebrings together regional recipes, dialect, social history and kitchen technology to give us an insight into how kitchen skills, tools and diets have developed. Bill Griffiths takes us on a journey through cooking history - from the griddle on an open fire and the 'beehive' oven to the widely used, much loved and polished kitchen range (th' yuven). This book describes the ... Read more

    $18.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pitmatic

    Stories and the Talk of The North East Coalfield

    by Bill Griffiths ...
    Pitmaticbrings together a wonderful regional pit language – its words, jokes and stories that are fast disappearing from our culture. This book helps attest to the remarkable vitality of the region's dialect and the inventiveness and humour of its speakers. The last major mine in the North East region closed in 2005 and with it went a way of life. Through dialect words, humour, stories and songs ... Read more

    $18.49 USD

  • Whare de yea belang?

    A Dictionary of North East Dialect

    by Bill Griffiths ...
    Where de yea belang?brings together the distinctive vocabulary of the North East dialect. "Abackabeyont, bait-poke, cracket, drucken, etten, fettle, guissie pigs, lonnin, marra, nyen, plote, queen-cat, reckling, skinch, tew, upcast, vine, willok, yem, zookers!" If you enjoy finding out about dialect words – how and where and when they were used – and where they came from – this is the best guide ... Read more

    $18.49 USD

  • Three Rocks

    The Story of Ernie Bushmiller: The Man Who Created Nancy

    by Bill Griffith ...
    From Bill Griffith, the acclaimed creator of Zippy the Pinhead, comes a history of comics as told through the life story of Ernie Bushmiller and his iconic comic strip Nancy.“As the widest-ranging cartoon chronicler of American absurdity in our time, Bill Griffith has topped himself. This is an instant comic-strip classic!” —Matt Groening, The SimpsonsFrom Bill Griffith, creator of Zippy the ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Photographic Memory

    William Henry Jackson and the American West

    by Bill Griffith ...
    Don't miss this timely read, an NPR “Books We Love”: “Deeply researched biography told in sharply attentive black-and-white comics.”Legendary cartoonist Bill Griffith brings a personal touch to this illustrated history of his great-grandfather, William Henry Jackson—a pioneering photographer of the American West whose work led to Yellowstone becoming the first National Park and was a major ... Read more

    $22.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nobody's Fool

    The Life and Times of Schlitzie the Pinhead

    by Bill Griffith ...
    A graphic biography of the real-life sideshow performer who inspired Zippy the Pinhead: "An uplifting, wonderfully humane book." — The New York TimesFrom Coney Island and the Ringling Bros. Circus to small-town carnivals and big-city sideshows, Nobody's Fool follows the long, legendary career of Schlitzie, today best known for his appearance in the cult classic film Freaks, the making of which is ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Empire Writes Back

    Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures

    by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin ...
    Series series New Accents
    The experience of colonization and the challenges of a post-colonial world have produced an explosion of new writing in English. This diverse and powerful body of literature has established a specific practice of post-colonial writing in cultures as various as India, Australia, the West Indies and Canada, and has challenged both the traditional canon and dominant ideas of literature and culture ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Postcolonial Studies

    The Key Concepts

    by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    Now in its fourth edition, this popular A-Z guide provides a comprehensive overview of the issues which characterize postcolonialism: explaining what it is, where it is encountered and the crucial part it plays in debates about race, gender, politics, language and identity.Fully revised and updated, the fourth edition contains more than 30 new entries, including:AnthropoceneBiopoliticsDecolonialityEcocriticismGlobal ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • You and Me and the Land of Lost Things

    by Andy Griffiths ...
    Illustrated by Bill Hope ...
    Series Book 1 - You & Me
    Come along with New York Times-bestselling author Andy Griffiths (The 13-Story Treehouse) on a brand-new adventure that plunks the reader right into the middle of all the wacky action and laughs with its unique storytelling style.Hey, you and me sure have had a lot of amazing adventures together, haven't we?Remember the time we flew to the moon without a rocket? And remember the time we went to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Bloomsbury Handbook of Experimental Approaches to Roman Archaeology

    Edited by Lee Graña Nicolaou, Dr Tatiana Ivleva, Bill Griffiths ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Handbooks
    This volume is the first comprehensive overview of Roman experimental archaeology, exploring its key themes, methodologies and applications through a diverse array of international case studies. Experiments, simulations and reconstructions are important methods for understanding the past, from uncovering how ancient objects and structures were made, used, destroyed, deposited and affected ... Read more

    $141.79 USD

  • You and Me and the Peanut Butter Beast

    by Andy Griffiths ...
    Illustrated by Bill Hope ...
    Series Book 2 - You & Me
    Come along with New York Times-bestselling author Andy Griffiths (The 13-Story Treehouse) on a brand-new adventure that plunks the reader right into the middle of all the wacky action and laughs with peanut butter monsters and its unique storytelling style—perfect for fans of Dog Man and InvestiGators!Hey, you—yes, you!Remember when we found that really deep hole and you jumped in and I had to ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Postcolonial Studies Reader

    Edited by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin ...
    The most comprehensive collection of postcolonial writing theory and criticism, this third edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to include 125 extracts from key works in the field.Leading, as well as lesser-known figures in the fields of writing, theory and criticism contribute to this inspiring body of work that includes sections on nationalism, hybridity, diaspora and globalisation. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD