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Springer International Publishing AG Stories, Storytellers, and Storytelling
This book advances social scientific interest in a field long dominated by the humanities: stories, and storytelling. Stories are a whole lot more than entertainment; oral narratives, novels, films and immersive video games all form part of the sociocultural discourses which we are enmeshed in, and use to co-construct our beliefs about the world around us. Young children use them to learn about the world beyond their immediate sensory experience and, even in an era of interactive electronic media, the bedtime story remains a cherished part of most children’s daily routine. Storytelling is thus the first abstract formal learning method we encounter as human beings. It is also probably transcultural; perhaps even an immanent part of the human condition. Narratives are, at heart, sequences of events and presuppose and reinforce particular cause-and-effect relationships. Inevitably, they also construct unconscious biases, prejudices, and discriminatory attitudes. Storying (a term we use in this book to encompass stories, storytellers and storytelling) is complex, and this book seeks to make sense of it.
£139.99
Imagine That Publishing Ltd Milo Goes Bananas
£7.78
Little, Brown Book Group Wake Up and Sell More Coffee: Fresh Ways to Make Money from Your Coffee Business
These experts and coffee shop owners seek to answer two main questions:1. What is the one thing they wish they'd known before they started 2. What is the secret to success of their business and of great coffee shops and cafés in general.Some of these owners have just one site and some have multiple sites and worldwide success but all are acknowledged as being exceptional.
£10.99
Penguin Random House Children's UK My Mummy is Magic
I think my mummy's MAGIC - I notice every day . . .That whenever MAGIC happens, Mummy's never far away!From a morning cuddle to a bedtime kiss, follow a mum and her little one through the day as they find magic in the simplest of things. The perfect gift to share with Mum on Mother's Day and every day.Just as the bestselling Daddy is My Hero celebrated dads, this is a celebration of mums and the magic they do every day!
£7.15
Penguin Random House Children's UK My Mummy is Magic
I think my mummy's MAGIC - I notice every day . . .That whenever MAGIC happens, Mummy's never far away!From a morning cuddle to a bedtime kiss, follow a mum and her little one through the day as they find magic in the simplest of things. The perfect gift to share with Mum on Mother's Day and every day.Just as the bestselling Daddy is My Hero celebrated dads, this is a celebration of mums and the magic they do every day!
£7.78
SCHOTT MUSIC GmbH & Co KG, Mainz Beginning Jazz Piano
Méthode de Piano Jazz - Partie 1: Tous les outils pour bien commencer (in French)This book is aimed at players with some piano experience who wish to develop a grasp of the basic tools required to play and improvise in a jazz style. It includes many unique features and resources to kick start your journey:19 pieces spanning a range of styles, taking you in easy steps from one chord only, to tunes with three chordsEach piece includes a simple bass line for a friend or teacher, to help you keep the flow and play with a consistent grooveDownloadable audio files of every piece, featuring examples of improvised solosBacking tracks with bass and drums only, for when you''re by yourselfREPLAY' tracks for most pieces, featuring scrollable music and adjustable temposUnique Sing & Play' tracks to help you develop your aural skills and improvise with pentatonic scalesInsight into basic jazz harmony and improvisation techniques, including scales, chords and left-hand shapesInvaluable suggested li
£22.50
Libri Publishing Hows and Knotts: A Guide to Lakeland Views
In 2017 the English Lake District was awarded World Heritage status by UNESCO as a “cultural landscape” of global significance; a landscape gifted by Nature and modified by the activities of humankind to create a very distinctive and special place.The famous English landscape painter John Constable once said “We see nothing truly until we understand it”. This suggests that gaining some understanding of why Lake District landscapes look as beautiful as they do will enable us see them more clearly and have our enjoyment of them enriched. To provide a beginning to this understanding is what this book is all about. Readers are taken to 22 prominent viewpoints around the World Heritage Site, all with an historical, Norse-derived name of ‘how’ or ‘knott’. Then, whether sitting on a rock at the viewpoint or sitting in an armchair at home (with an online panorama to assist), the guide relates the historical story of the view - how the key features came about and how they may change in the future in response to new environmental challenges. After reading this book, readers will have enjoyed the beauties and story of the Lake District’s acclaimed landscapes, and quite probably will not look at them again in quite the same way.
£21.53
Imperial War Museum Wartime Christmas
Christmas has been regularly celebrated during wartime. From the Christmas truce of 1914 out in no-mans land on the Western Front, to POWs cooking up their very unique Christmas dinners with whatever they could get their hands on in German prisoner of war camps in the 1940s, the privations and difficulties caused by conflict has never stopped people indulging in a little Christmas cheer. This highly illustrated gift book tells the stories of those who lived through these challenging times, when wrapping paper was banned, rationing was in force and children were separated from their families. Also included are tips and tricks to create recycled presents and greetings cards, and recipes to cook a delicious wartime Christmas meal. Wartime Christmas explores the dichotomy apparent in celebrating 'peace to all men' while continuing to fight a war of aggression.
£12.99
Imprint Academic Gypsy Debate: Can Discourse Control?
£20.76
Destinworld Publishing Ltd Boeing 757 Timelines
£16.99
North Star Editions Cutting Edge Technology: All About Social Networking
Explores the fascinating world of social networking. With colorful spreads featuring fun facts, sidebars, and a "How It Works" feature, the book provides an inspiring look at this exciting technology.
£28.79
Manchester University Press The Genesis of International Mass Migration: The British Case, 1750-1900
Why did very large numbers of people begin to depart the British Isles for the New Worlds after about 1770? They were the vanguard of mass economic migration, the carriers of new global labour forces, agents of dispossession and settlement, of family dreams, of individual aspirations, of imperial strategies. But it was new in scale, and it was a pioneering movement, a rehearsal for modern international migration. These first mass inter-continental stirrings began most of all in the British Isles.What activated these great exchanges of humanity, the precursors of so much modern population transfer and turmoil around the globe? This is a question in the middle of most genealogies and central to the making of the modern world.
£85.00
GLOBAL PUBLISHER SERVICES DRUID HILLS
£19.79
Forgotten Books Sir Charles Grandison (Classic Reprint)
£7.85
Freedom Press Part-time Photographer's Portrait Gallery
£10.07
Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. Inspiring Butterflies
£33.29
Manchester University Press Domestic Life and Domestic Tragedy in Early Modern England: The Material Life of the Household
In a theatre which self-consciously cultivated its audiences’ imagination, how and what did playgoers ‘see’ on the stage? This book reconstructs one aspect of that imaginative process. It considers a range of printed and documentary evidence - the majority previously unpublished - for the way ordinary individuals thought about their houses and households. It then explores how writers of domestic tragedies engaged those attitudes to shape their representations of domesticity. It therefore offers a new method for understanding theatrical representations, based around a truly interdisciplinary study of the interaction between literary and historical methods. The plays she cites include Arden of Faversham, Two Lamentable Tragedies, A Woman Killed With Kindness, and A Yorkshire Tragedy.
£72.00
University of Wales Press Wales on the Western Front
Two months after being posted to France in 1917, Edward Thomas wrote: 'I already know enough to confirm my old opinion that the papers tell no truth at all about what war is and what soldiers are - '. This anthology provides an impression of what it meant to be a soldier on the Western front in the First World War and, above all, what it meant to be a Welsh soldier. Although this collection of writings, prose and poetry, includes such famous names as Edward Thomas, Robert Graves, David Jones and Saunders Lewis, the pieces have been chosen not purely by literary criteria, but to reflect as wide a range as possible of experience within Welsh military units. These personal reminiscences record not just horrific and dramatic events, soldiers under artillery bombardment or coping with mud, or the confusion of attacks or retreats, but also routine activities - the everyday working parties to repair trenches, the tunnelling, the waiting, the food, the blisters and the cold - and the comradeship in the Welsh regiments. Some additional background military information is provided in the appendices.
£19.99
Permuted Press Entrances and Exits
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER As seen on The Today Show, The View, and Jesse Watters The man who brought the kavorka to the Seinfeld show through one of the most remarkable and beloved television characters ever invented, Kramer, shares the extraordinary life of a comedy genius—the way he came into himself as an artist, the ups and downs as a human being, the road he has traveled in search of understanding.“The hair, so essential, symbolizes the irrational that was and is and always will be the underlying feature not only of Kramer but of comedy itself. This seemingly senseless spirit has been coursing through me since childhood. I’ve been under its almighty influence since the day I came into this world. I felt it all within myself, especially the physical comedy, the body movements, so freakish and undignified, where I bumped into things, knocked stuff down, messed up situat
£22.50
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Flaming Lips' Zaireeka
Released in October 1997, the "Flaming Lips' Zaireeka" was met with some critical praise and more general puzzlement. The album comes as four separate CDs intended for playback at the same time. Which means, of course, that four CD players are required. And four amps. And eight speakers. And at least four sets of hands to make them all go. "Zaireeka" requires several people to get together for the express purpose of listening to music; there's nothing to dance to and nothing to look at. It's almost quaint, really. There was a time when people sat together to listen to records; and, "Zaireeka" celebrates this disappearing moment. It is, in other words, an album that does away with the very thing that caused recorded music become a phenomenon so quickly in the 1920s and helped it stay that way ever since: it is not convenient. Ten years later, convenience continues to drive the music business from the top-down and the listening experience from the bottom up. Digital music has become divorced from physical reality; with an MP3 file played on devices using flash ROM, the whole thing happens without a single moving part. Headphones, the sound delivery technology most in favor, blur the borders between device and listener, all in complete isolation. We're shoving the speakers into our ear canals; the music is literally inside of us even before it's left the wire. And so, the human experience of music in the developed world is proceeding along two parallel lines: we're either retreating into a private world of solitary consumption, or we hear music in the background, in coffee shops or on commercials, where it is ambience, part of an environment. Which is part of what makes "Zaireeka" even more fascinating now than it was at the time of release. In addition to being a fantastic album of imaginative psychedelic pop and arguably the Flaming Lips' masterpiece, it was first the final shot fired in the struggle for the rock album to maintain the centrality it had enjoyed since the late 1960s. It defies segmentation. The effort it takes to hear the record properly ensures that the music will be listened to carefully. It's music that even the interested will experience only a few times in their lives; it involves hard work. So listening to "Zaireeka" is a rare event, and it's also a social experience.
£9.99
Hachette Children's Group History in Infographics: The Maya
History in Infographics helps children to visualise facts and statistics using a clever and appealing mix of graphics and numbers. The colourful, high-impact design will appeal to a wide range of children, from visual learners to struggling readers, capturing and then holding their attention. Infographics are a really exciting, different way to learn about core historical topics, and are ideal for fact-hungry children, revision work, and to improve the quality of presentations. History in Infographics: The Mayans allows children to explore the Mayan civilisation like never before, finding out how people lived, what they ate, what they wore, how they were ruled, the games they played and how the civilisation died out. Children can discover that the Maya were the first people to make hot chocolate, and how they did it, that they went to war to capture prisoners they then sacrificed to their gods, and all about other South American civilisations, including the Aztecs and the Incas. Ideal for children of 9+, and fact and history lovers of all ages, the Mayans have never seemed more exciting!
£9.37
Thames & Hudson Ltd Splat!: The Most Exciting Artists of All Time
Splat! traces art history through its key turning points and helps to map important art movements from the Renaissance and Impressionism to Surrealism and contemporary art. At the beginning, a spread explores how early peoples represented animals and everyday life. Then brief sections explore the stories of particular artists who helped to make important artistic innovations, including Michelangelo and the High Renaissance; Bruegel and his paintings of everyday peasant life; Manet and the shock of Impressionism; and Duchamp and the Dada revolution. Read the real-life stories of artists, such as Caravaggio, Jan Vermeer, Henri Rousseau, Vincent Van Gogh, Wassily Kandinsky and Frida Kahlo, who dared to imagine new ways of depicting the world. The achievements of these artists and the challenges, difficulties and dangers they faced are excitingly brought to life.
£12.95
Schott Musik International GmbH & Co KG Beginning Jazz Piano 1: An Introduction to Swing, Blues, Latin and Funk Part 1: Everything You Need to Get Started: 1
£20.50
Foxton Books Foxton Readers Teacher's Resource Pack - Level-3
£26.81
Foxton Books Foxton Readers Teacher's Resource Pack - Level-4
£19.79
SPCK Publishing The Country House Murders: A 1930 Murder Mystery
Dear Jack, I think I’m about to be arrested and charged with murder. Tom Morris, busy cataloguing the library of Plumwood Hall, is in a fix. Three days before, a member of the family had keeled over at afternoon tea after eating a slice of fruit cake laced with poison. And Tom has been fingered by the weasel-like Inspector Hyde as chief suspect. The young scholar turns to the only person who can help: his old Oxford tutor, C. S. (‘Jack’) Lewis. As they investigate, mystery piles on mystery. Why did the victim’s husband disappear twelve months before? Why is a strange tattooed foreigner living in a cottage on the moors? Who is the wild man of the woods? And most puzzling of all: how did a massive dose of cyanide get into just one slice of cake? C. S. Lewis’s second mind-twisting case has all the hallmarks of a classic Country House Mystery.
£9.99
Schott Music Ltd Improvising Blues Piano: The Basic Principles of Blues Piano Explained for the Intermediate-Level Pianist in an Easy-to-Grasp Fashion
£29.99
Ablaze, LLC Zombie Makeout Club Vol 1: DeathWish
A rebellious high school student is brought back to life in a strange underground facility after commiting suicide. Now, she must piece together not only how and why she has been resurrected, but also confront the fragmented memories of her past and the horrors of the laboratory that want to send her back to the afterlife. This breakneck story illustrates a violent vision of life after death. Welcome to DEATHWISH. A graphic and chaotic comic about life, death, suicide, and the other side. Brought to you by the creator of ZOMBIE MAKEOUT CLUB. Collecting the popular Webtoon comic series plus bonus material.
£9.04
Austin Macauley Publishers Art, Design, Craft, Beauty and All Those Things...
£13.99
Christian Focus Publications Ltd Notebook for Eternity: 26 Reflections on the Nature of God
Notebook for Eternity is theology in easy–to–understand, bite–sized chunks. Using the alphabet as a template, each chapter focuses in on one characteristic of the nature of God.With each day offering verses from all over the Bible and a short devotional piece, this little handbook will help direct your mind and inform your thinking on your heavenly Father.
£6.12
Austin Macauley Publishers Psalms Together: A Journey of Faith
£8.42
Austin Macauley Publishers Fairy Tale World
£8.42
Austin Macauley Publishers Poppy Fields, Prime Ministers, Poker and PTSD - A Life No Less Ordinary
£10.99
Austin Macauley Publishers The Adventures of Treacle: The First Day Out
£11.99
Austin Macauley Publishers Big Bear
£9.04
Kensington Publishing Rage for Vengeance
£8.42
Kensington Publishing Dead Aim
£8.42
The History Press Ltd Cornish Family Names
The Cornish have for a long time long considered themselves a race apart from the English and their origins are indeed more related to those of the Welsh, Scottish and Breton peoples than to most others east of the River Tamar. Almost every town and village in Cornwall has been used as a surname, and the traditional Cornish trades of fishing and mining have also provided inspiration for family names. Features of the landscape such as hills and rivers have had a huge effect, with many of these containing elements of some names which can be tracked back to the old Celtic language, for example the prefixes Pen (headland) and Pol (pool). A lot of names are tied to a particular area of Cornwall: Rodda and Bottrell are seldom found east of Penzance, whilst names like Odgers, Opie and Wearne are most common in mid-Cornwall around the mining areas of Redruth and Gwennap. Surnames can reveal a lot about family history, but their origins can be difficult to trace. This handy lexicon, drawn together from an exhaustive research, serves as an ideal starting point for tracing ancestry. Packed with information about notable families and migration, this is also an ideal book for anyone interested in the story of Cornish people.
£13.49
Cambridge University Press Interchange Level 2 Workbook
Teach with confidence, using the world's favorite English course. Interchange is a four-level, American English course that has been used by over 50 million students worldwide. This Level 2 Workbook provides six pages of additional practice for each unit of the Student's Book. The workbook helps recycle and review language by providing additional practice in grammar, vocabulary, reading, and writing. It is appropriate for in-class work or can be assigned as homework.
£19.26
Jessica Kingsley Publishers Collaboration and Assistance in Music Therapy Practice: Roles, Relationships, Challenges
Relating the innovative ways in which assistants and collaborators can become an integral part of a course of music therapy, this book explores how the involvement of a diverse range of individuals, such as family members, learning support assistants, caregivers and medical staff, can contribute to successful sessions. Illustrated by clinical examples, the book will help music therapists and students to make the most of opportunities to collaborate with individuals other than the client who may be present during therapy sessions. The book also takes into account the challenges that can arise in music therapy collaboration, and explores the relationships that can develop between music therapists, clients and collaborators.
£30.89
Cambridge University Press Interchange Level 2 Class Audio CDs
Teach with confidence, using the world's favorite English course. Interchange is a four-level, American English course that has been used by over 50 million students worldwide. These class audio CDs contain all of the audio for the Level 2 Student's Books. This includes Snapshots, Conversations, Grammar Focus, Listening, Pronunciation practice, Word Power, and Reading, all recorded in natural conversational English.
£70.35
Accelerated Education Publications Ltd 11+ Verbal Reasoning Year 5-7 Cloze Testbook 1
Each test should take about 10 or 20 minutes, however it is more important that a child completes the test accurately and does not rush their answers. Children will speed up naturally with practice. The testbook provides practice for the CEM 11+ exams and is also useful preparation for 11+ GL Assessment Style English tests and other school entrance exams. The testbook is designed to be used in conjunction with the 11+ Verbal Reasoning Year 5-7 CEM Style workbooks as an additional learning tool. After completion, the testpacks should be used for final exam preparation. Answers, Progress Charts and a Certificate of Achievement are included at the end of the book. All our materials have been rigorously classroom tested. The methodologies have been successfully used in AE Tuition classes for over 20 years.
£10.15
Accelerated Education Publications Ltd 11+ Non-verbal Reasoning Year 5-7 Workbook 5: Additional Practice Questions
The Non-verbal Reasoning series of workbooks are unique in giving children a comprehensive and progressive learning programme in skills acquisition for non-verbal reasoning. They introduce children to recognition, manipulation and movement of shapes, enabling them to develop advanced skills in spatial reasoning.
£11.00
Accelerated Education Publications Ltd 11+ Non-verbal Reasoning Year 5-7 Workbook 4: Additional Practice Questions
The Non-verbal Reasoning series of workbooks are unique in giving children a comprehensive and progressive learning programme in skills acquisition for non-verbal reasoning. They introduce children to recognition, manipulation and movement of shapes, enabling them to develop advanced skills in spatial reasoning.
£11.00
Verso Books Bohemians: A Graphic History
The countercultures that came to define bohemia spanned the Atlantic, encompassing Walt Whitman's Brooklyn and the Folies Bergère of Josephine Baker, Gertrude Stein's salons and the Manhattan clubs where Dizzy Gillespie made his name. Edited by Paul Buhle and David Berger, Bohemians is the graphic history of this movement and its illustrious figures. The stories collected here revisit the utopian ideas behind millennial communities, the rise of Greenwich Village and Harlem, the multiracial and radical jazz and dance worlds, and the West Coast, Southern, and Midwest bohemias of America, among other radical scenes.Drawn by an all-star cast of comic artists, Bohemians is a broad and entertaining account of the rebel impulse in American cultural history. Featuring work by Spain Rodriguez, Sharon Rudahl, Peter Kuper, Sabrina Jones, David Lasky, Afua Richardson, Lance Tooks, Milton Knight, and more.The ebook edition is expanded from the paperback edition, and includes additional chapters on the swing music scene, La Boheme and midwest bohemians, as well as expanded material on the Greenwich Village intellectuals, Walt Whitman and Harlem jazz club Minton's Playhouse.
£11.24
Nova Science Publishers Inc Health Insurance within the Affordable Care Act: Select Elements
£127.79
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Message from a Mouse
Part of a series about the adventures of the mice from the "Tribe of Mousity", this story looks at how they cope with the invasion of the Jones' grandson who can not only see them, but also hear them. The mice have to use all their cunning to win out in the end.
£7.70
Gwasg Carreg Gwalch Brenin y Trenyrs: Kaiser y Trenyrs 2
£7.17