Author: Richard Boon
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571318894
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
This series contains what no other study guides can offer - extensive first-hand interviews with the playwrights and their closest collaborators on all of their major work, put together by top academics especially for the modern student market. As well as invaluable synopses, biographical essays and chronologies, these guides allow the student much closer to the playwright than ever before! In About Hare, Professor Richard Boon provides an in-depth study of one of the great post-war British playwrights. His study includes a rigorous analysis of Hare's work, as well as interviews with Hare and those who helped to put his work on stage, including Bill Nighy, Vicki Mortimer, Sir Richard Eyre, Lia Williams and Jonathan Kent. With the increasing interest in this major playwright, whose work attracts the very best of acting talent, this book is a timely publication for student and theatregoer alike.
Bad Hare Day (Goosebumps #41)
Author: R. L. Stine
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338338226
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Trick cards, floating scarves, disappearing doves. Tim Swanson loves magic tricks. Someday he wants to be a real magician. Just like his all-time favorite performer, Amaz-O.But then Tim goes to see Amaz-O's show. And he finds out his idol is really just a total grump. That's when Tim decides to steal the bag of tricks. Amaz-O's bag of secret tricks. Scary tricks.Like the one with the multiplying red balls.And all those hissing snakes...
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338338226
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Trick cards, floating scarves, disappearing doves. Tim Swanson loves magic tricks. Someday he wants to be a real magician. Just like his all-time favorite performer, Amaz-O.But then Tim goes to see Amaz-O's show. And he finds out his idol is really just a total grump. That's when Tim decides to steal the bag of tricks. Amaz-O's bag of secret tricks. Scary tricks.Like the one with the multiplying red balls.And all those hissing snakes...
Bad Hare Days
Author: John Fitzgerald
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781720191919
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
In Ireland the humble hare has been the subject of great controversy. After years of an abusive sport, which resulted in its child-like death screams being heard regularly throughout Ireland, a result was achieved. For those few dedicated people trying desperately to save the gentle creature from the horrors of the cruel sport of hare coursing, the struggle was painful and fought against great odds. Author, John Fitzgerald, writes about his experience of a campaign against this barbaric blood sport, focusing mainly on a controversial phase in the 1980s when the State deployed a police heavy gang to suppress anti-coursing activism. The author's own peaceful and non-violent action and that of, initially, a few others did arouse the public and achieve what at first appeared to be a hard-won benefit to the hare. But the hare's troubles were - and are -far from over. Though it can no longer be torn apart by greyhounds, now muzzled, it can still be mauled, injured, and tossed about like a rag doll on the coursing field. In addition to highlighting the hare's sad plight, this is also a campaigner's story. The author recounts vividly the ups and downs of his own fight against animal cruelty. He and others paid a major price for their role in the campaign. The gentle hare, apart from its use and abuse in coursing, has now become an endangered species in Ireland, and this book reinforces its right to be protected.
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781720191919
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
In Ireland the humble hare has been the subject of great controversy. After years of an abusive sport, which resulted in its child-like death screams being heard regularly throughout Ireland, a result was achieved. For those few dedicated people trying desperately to save the gentle creature from the horrors of the cruel sport of hare coursing, the struggle was painful and fought against great odds. Author, John Fitzgerald, writes about his experience of a campaign against this barbaric blood sport, focusing mainly on a controversial phase in the 1980s when the State deployed a police heavy gang to suppress anti-coursing activism. The author's own peaceful and non-violent action and that of, initially, a few others did arouse the public and achieve what at first appeared to be a hard-won benefit to the hare. But the hare's troubles were - and are -far from over. Though it can no longer be torn apart by greyhounds, now muzzled, it can still be mauled, injured, and tossed about like a rag doll on the coursing field. In addition to highlighting the hare's sad plight, this is also a campaigner's story. The author recounts vividly the ups and downs of his own fight against animal cruelty. He and others paid a major price for their role in the campaign. The gentle hare, apart from its use and abuse in coursing, has now become an endangered species in Ireland, and this book reinforces its right to be protected.
About Hare
Author: Richard Boon
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571318894
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
This series contains what no other study guides can offer - extensive first-hand interviews with the playwrights and their closest collaborators on all of their major work, put together by top academics especially for the modern student market. As well as invaluable synopses, biographical essays and chronologies, these guides allow the student much closer to the playwright than ever before! In About Hare, Professor Richard Boon provides an in-depth study of one of the great post-war British playwrights. His study includes a rigorous analysis of Hare's work, as well as interviews with Hare and those who helped to put his work on stage, including Bill Nighy, Vicki Mortimer, Sir Richard Eyre, Lia Williams and Jonathan Kent. With the increasing interest in this major playwright, whose work attracts the very best of acting talent, this book is a timely publication for student and theatregoer alike.
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571318894
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
This series contains what no other study guides can offer - extensive first-hand interviews with the playwrights and their closest collaborators on all of their major work, put together by top academics especially for the modern student market. As well as invaluable synopses, biographical essays and chronologies, these guides allow the student much closer to the playwright than ever before! In About Hare, Professor Richard Boon provides an in-depth study of one of the great post-war British playwrights. His study includes a rigorous analysis of Hare's work, as well as interviews with Hare and those who helped to put his work on stage, including Bill Nighy, Vicki Mortimer, Sir Richard Eyre, Lia Williams and Jonathan Kent. With the increasing interest in this major playwright, whose work attracts the very best of acting talent, this book is a timely publication for student and theatregoer alike.
The Cambridge Companion to David Hare
Author: Richard Boon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139827618
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 11
Book Description
David Hare is one of the most important playwrights to have emerged in the UK in the last forty years. This volume examines his stage plays, television plays and cinematic films, and is the first book of its kind to offer such comprehensive and up-to-date critical treatment. Contributions from leading academics in the study of modern British theatre sit alongside those from practitioners who have worked closely with Hare throughout his career, including former Director of the National Theatre Sir Richard Eyre. Uniquely, the volume also includes a chapter on Hare's work as journalist and public speaker; a personal memoir by Tony Bicât, co-founder with Hare of the enormously influential Portable Theatre; and an interview with Hare himself in which he offers a personal retrospective of his career as a film maker which is his fullest and clearest account of that work to date.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139827618
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 11
Book Description
David Hare is one of the most important playwrights to have emerged in the UK in the last forty years. This volume examines his stage plays, television plays and cinematic films, and is the first book of its kind to offer such comprehensive and up-to-date critical treatment. Contributions from leading academics in the study of modern British theatre sit alongside those from practitioners who have worked closely with Hare throughout his career, including former Director of the National Theatre Sir Richard Eyre. Uniquely, the volume also includes a chapter on Hare's work as journalist and public speaker; a personal memoir by Tony Bicât, co-founder with Hare of the enormously influential Portable Theatre; and an interview with Hare himself in which he offers a personal retrospective of his career as a film maker which is his fullest and clearest account of that work to date.
The Year of the Hare
Author: Arto Paasilinna
Publisher: Pushkin Press
ISBN: 1805330365
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
A delightfully witty and mordant modern classic from Finland: the story of a journalist who befriends an injured hare and embarks into the Finnish wilderness __________ 'No wonder the French have made this book into a cult. Finnish wit as sharp as the Arctic weather' Mail on Sunday 'A change-your-life novel' New York Magazine 'Sums up the Finnish culture and people' Guardian __________ Kaarlo Vatanen is fed up with his life. He's sick of his job, his wife, his urban lifestyle in Helsinki. But all this changes one warm summer's evening, when he encounters an injured hare on a deserted country road. On an impulse he can't fully explain, Vatanen abruptly abandons his car, his home, his wife and his job to chase the hare into the forest. A year of comic misadventures ensues, where Vatanen and his unlikely companion battle through forest fires, pagan sacrifices, military war games and encounters with murderous bears, kept afloat by the help and understanding of other sympathetic free spirits. A much-loved classic in Finland, The Year of the Hare is a freewheeling adventure through the Finnish countryside, and a witty portrayal of one man's long detour from conventional living.
Publisher: Pushkin Press
ISBN: 1805330365
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
A delightfully witty and mordant modern classic from Finland: the story of a journalist who befriends an injured hare and embarks into the Finnish wilderness __________ 'No wonder the French have made this book into a cult. Finnish wit as sharp as the Arctic weather' Mail on Sunday 'A change-your-life novel' New York Magazine 'Sums up the Finnish culture and people' Guardian __________ Kaarlo Vatanen is fed up with his life. He's sick of his job, his wife, his urban lifestyle in Helsinki. But all this changes one warm summer's evening, when he encounters an injured hare on a deserted country road. On an impulse he can't fully explain, Vatanen abruptly abandons his car, his home, his wife and his job to chase the hare into the forest. A year of comic misadventures ensues, where Vatanen and his unlikely companion battle through forest fires, pagan sacrifices, military war games and encounters with murderous bears, kept afloat by the help and understanding of other sympathetic free spirits. A much-loved classic in Finland, The Year of the Hare is a freewheeling adventure through the Finnish countryside, and a witty portrayal of one man's long detour from conventional living.
Terribly Twisted Crosswords
Author: Henry Hook
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781402732713
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
It happens to every crossword lover at some point: a feeling of sameness sets in, and the standard puzzles just don't pack enough punch anymore. What's needed is a twist and a tweak--and that's exactly what Henry Hook, creator of the original "Twisted Crosswords" collection, provides! These out-of-the-ordinary crosswords offer a higher level of challenge, with some diagrams that literally break out of the box--including "Around and Abouts" that go in a circle. For "Marching Bands," the solver has to figure out where one answer ends and another begins. And there are also Honeycombs; Intersections, with two clues per number; Mazes; Pathfinders, where the words make right-handed turns; and many more.
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781402732713
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
It happens to every crossword lover at some point: a feeling of sameness sets in, and the standard puzzles just don't pack enough punch anymore. What's needed is a twist and a tweak--and that's exactly what Henry Hook, creator of the original "Twisted Crosswords" collection, provides! These out-of-the-ordinary crosswords offer a higher level of challenge, with some diagrams that literally break out of the box--including "Around and Abouts" that go in a circle. For "Marching Bands," the solver has to figure out where one answer ends and another begins. And there are also Honeycombs; Intersections, with two clues per number; Mazes; Pathfinders, where the words make right-handed turns; and many more.
The New York Sun Crosswords #12
Author: Peter Gordon
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781402736810
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
What makes these 72 crosswords from The New York Sun the best ever? They’re carefully edited so those obscure words that nobody actually uses are out, and solving pleasure is in, thanks to tricky clues and witty puns. Most of the puzzles have clever and original themes that add to the fun. (The title hints at the topic.) Plus, solvers will enjoy the wide range of difficulty, which is indicated by the number of stars on top.
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781402736810
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
What makes these 72 crosswords from The New York Sun the best ever? They’re carefully edited so those obscure words that nobody actually uses are out, and solving pleasure is in, thanks to tricky clues and witty puns. Most of the puzzles have clever and original themes that add to the fun. (The title hints at the topic.) Plus, solvers will enjoy the wide range of difficulty, which is indicated by the number of stars on top.
Bleating Hearts
Author: Mark Hawthorne
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 1780998503
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Comprehensive and hard-hitting, Bleating Hearts examines the world’s vast exploitation of animals, from the food, fashion, and research industries to the use of other species for sport, war, entertainment, religion, labor and pleasure. ,
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 1780998503
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Comprehensive and hard-hitting, Bleating Hearts examines the world’s vast exploitation of animals, from the food, fashion, and research industries to the use of other species for sport, war, entertainment, religion, labor and pleasure. ,
The Boston Globe Sunday Crossword Puzzles
Author: Henry Hook
Publisher: Random House Puzzles & Games
ISBN: 0812934857
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
The three reasons The Boston Globe Sunday Crossword Puzzles has been named "one of America's best" by Games magazine are Henry Hook, Emily Cox, and Henry Rathvon. The puzzles in this volume are filled with the original themes and clues, pop-culture references and whimsical wordplay that make this series a favorite of solvers.
Publisher: Random House Puzzles & Games
ISBN: 0812934857
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
The three reasons The Boston Globe Sunday Crossword Puzzles has been named "one of America's best" by Games magazine are Henry Hook, Emily Cox, and Henry Rathvon. The puzzles in this volume are filled with the original themes and clues, pop-culture references and whimsical wordplay that make this series a favorite of solvers.
Fuzzy Logic
Author: Darby Conley
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 1449425828
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Cats are famous for being aloof, but "cat-titude" reaches new heights in Get Fuzzy, the bitingly funny comic strip from cartoonist Darby Conley. Wry and witty, Get Fuzzy is a hilarious portrait of single life with pets. Rob Wilco is the human who heads the household, but it's really Bucky the cat who's in charge. Satchel, the gentle pooch with a sensitive soul who tries to remain neutral, frequently ends up on the receiving end of Bucky's mischief. Together, this trio makes it through the trials and tribulations of daily life as an unlikely team. Darby Conley's Fuzzy Logic will hit the funny bone of everyone who enjoys their pets with an attitude.
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 1449425828
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Cats are famous for being aloof, but "cat-titude" reaches new heights in Get Fuzzy, the bitingly funny comic strip from cartoonist Darby Conley. Wry and witty, Get Fuzzy is a hilarious portrait of single life with pets. Rob Wilco is the human who heads the household, but it's really Bucky the cat who's in charge. Satchel, the gentle pooch with a sensitive soul who tries to remain neutral, frequently ends up on the receiving end of Bucky's mischief. Together, this trio makes it through the trials and tribulations of daily life as an unlikely team. Darby Conley's Fuzzy Logic will hit the funny bone of everyone who enjoys their pets with an attitude.