A well-balanced mix of nonfiction, general fiction, romance and mystery in the lightweight softcover format preferred by many readers. Selections are a blend of international authors, chosen for the broadest appeal. There are also some carefully selected backlist titles by proven favorite authors.Julie Christie has enchanted moviegoers for four decades. Born on her father's tea plantation in India, she became an icon of the 1960s through films such as Darling (for which she won an Oscar) and Doctor Zhivago. In the 1970s Christie teamed up with her lover, actor Warren Beatty, and earned an Oscar nomination for McCabe and Mrs. Miller. But by the early 1980s she had left Hollywood for her Welsh smallholding, concentrating on humanitarian causes and more serious films. Hayward's biography fills in the blanks of Julie Christie's intriguing life and career.
This book provides timely clinical information on the ambulatory and i npatient medical care of children from birth through infancy and adole scence. Highlights in this new edition include new chapters on eating disorders and rehabilitation and sports medicine, along with the revi sion and reorganization that the old chapters underwent.
Explores the university’s altering landscape, the conflicts over its core values and legitimacy, and the challenge for the university to negotiate the new landscape and to redefine itself within a larger educational context.
Aimed at couch potatoes and occasional viewers alike, this guide helps anyone online to exploit the possibility of vastly increasing the joys of television. It contains over 100 in-depth reviews of TV-related websites, each of which is rated for content, speed and ease of navigation.
a talented and instantly likeable cast.' Mail on Sunday 'the drama has both gentle humour and real tension' Radio Times The first series of 6 x 50 minute programmes screened in the autumn of 1997 achieved ratings of 11 million viewers the best first season for a drama since Peak Practice and Heartbeat. Ten new episodes have been commissioned for 1999 and 10 for 2000. Set against the beautiful rugged landscape of Yorkshire Where the Heart Is follows the busy professional and family live of district nurses Peggy Snow and Ruth Goddard. They are very much the heart of the tight knit community of Skelthwait. This prime time drama series is an engaging story of life, love, family and people's ever-changing fortunes in the heart of England. The two principle characters are Pam Ferris (The Darling Buds of May/Matilda) and Sarah Lancashire (Coronation Street) Where the Heart Is book will revisit the series from episode one and chronicle lives of the characters and profile the actors and actresses in the series. All those involved in the series will be interviewed and the places where the series is filmed will be visited. This will be an official book with the full cooperation of the producers and the ITV network. Exclusive behind the scenes photos have been made available.
Australian-born, British-based journalist, John Pilger, has covered many of the world's major upheavals and his films have celebrated the victories of ordinary people against authority. They represent more than a quarter of a century of history, from the United States's war in Vietnam to the aftermath of Pol Pot's Cambodia; from repression in Czechoslovakia, East Timor and Burma, to continuing discrimination against the Aborigines in Australia. Throughout thirty years of documentary-making justice and human struggle have remained recurring themes. Now Anthony Hayward examines the journalist and his long career on the small screen, He details all the programmes, their effects and controversies, compares them with TV's other factual output and discovers how John Pilger defies the broadcasters' conventional notions of 'impartiality' and 'balance' to present a truth that is often unpalatable to authority.
Popular Current format gives user the most comprehensive and up-to-date information available in a concise, quickly accessible form. -- One of the best-selling books in the CURRENT series, second only to Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment. -- Two brand new chapters in this edition. -- Chapter authors are widely-know authorities in their subspecialty areas. This complete and practical reference provides up-to-date clinical information on the ambulatory and inpatient medical care of children from birth through infancy and adolescence. New chapters include information on HIV and other Retroviral infections and Diabetes Mellitus. Extensive tables and figures offer quick access to important information such as anti-infective agents, drug dosages, immunization schedules, differential diagnoses, and developmental screening tests.
Look at Hazards, Look at Losses developed out of a series of conversations, exchanges and visits between kuda.org, Anthony Iles and Marina Vishmidt over 2015-2017 through which different approaches to common problems of cultural production in early-21st century Europe and its peripheries were debated and conceptually probed. Setting out from Theodor W. Adorno's concept of 'the aesthetic relations of production' these discussions proceeded to explore problems bearing upon organisation in small groups in the field of culture, philosophical idealism and materialism, poetry, error and crisis. The anthology assembled reflects these concerns through engagement with the writing of others who have helped orientate us through these discussions. The book which is the outcome consists of seven original contributions by poets and theorists which attempt to move toward new political interventions in culture and beyond 'crisis as a way of life'. The publication of this book is part of the project 'Aesthetic Education Expanded' realised in collaboration with kuda.org Novi Sad; Multimedia Institute and Kulturtreger Zagreb; Kontrapunkt Skoplje and Berliner Gazette Berlin, and supported by the EU cultural program Creative Europe. http: //www.kuda.org/sr/pro-irena-estetska-edukacija-aesthetic-education-expanded-2015-2017
Emmerdale: Behind the Scenes follows the building of the new village set and takes the reader on a house-by-house, family-by-family tour, as well as visiting the pub, post office, tearooms, and church, where the rural soap's drama has taken place for a quarter of a century. The book will feature new and exclusive photographs taken especially for this book by distinguished landscape photographer Derry Brabbs, as well as a unique look at the construction of the village and how the authenticity of the sets and streets was achieved.
Listing characters from television's most popular soap operas, this book is arranged primarily by programme, and then alphabetically by character portrayed. Past favourites are included, together with famous people who have played cameo roles, and there are true-life profiles of the stars.
The first translation into English of all the extant Targums, together with introductions and annotations. Each volume examines the place of a particular Targum or group of Targums in Jewish life, liturgy and biblical interpretation. Each Targum is evaluated in the light of Jewish tradition and of modern linguistic and biblical research. The notes point to parallel passages in other Jewish and Christian biblical and liturgical texts. Each translated Targum has its own apparatus indicating the relationship between the English translation and the Aramaic original and every volume has a useful bibliography. Praise for Canticles "...students of Scripture and Judaica as well as those concerned with the New Testament and early Christianity will warmly welcome The Aramaic Bible . . . strongly recommended to theological, biblical and Jewish studies libraries." --Geza Vermes, Wolfson College, Oxford
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