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This Wretched Splendour

By: Rebecca Wilby

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A full-length stageplay in two acts. Seven bored and demoralised survivors in a Flanders trench in 1916 find their lives transformed by the arrival of a new officer, David Cartwright. With his bright charisma and subversive approach to authority he inspires them to face their seemingly inevitable fate with courage, high-spirited stoicism and a sanguine sense of humour â€“ the only defence against a bleak and mindless war. "An engaging, affectionate foray into an alien world." - Time Out

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144615419X

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9781446154199

The Abbey Papers

By: Gareth Knight,Rebecca Wilby

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The Abbey Papers

By: Gareth Knight,Rebecca Wilby

For a period of ninety days in 1993, Gareth Knight received a sequence of communications which seemed to come from three inner plane communicators who had worked regularly with Dion Fortune for much of her life. Forming a series of teachings and practical meditations which later became important knowledge papers issued to the Gareth Knight Group, the scripts construct an elaborate and multi-faceted magical image of an "Inner Abbey" which serves as a focal point for a wide variety of magical purposes and the evolution of consciousness. As well as providing vivid magical forms and pathworkings within the structure of the abbey, the papers discuss at length the development and use of such magical images and how to establish the magical vortex which empowers them. Three years later, while working with the Inner Abbey papers, Knight's daughter Rebecca received a further series of communications which augment the original material and add a practical example of its use, culminating in the Chapel of Remembrance ritual, a magical vortex focused on spiritual resolution for war victims. Now published together for the first time, the scripts provide a tried and trusted construct for personal magical work along with a fair amount of practical advice on occult and mystical techniques. It is open to the reader to follow up on this to find their own way into the Inner Abbey and come to a personal judgement of its experiential validity.

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Skylight Press

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1908011440

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9781908011442

In Different Skies

By: Rebecca Wilby

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In Different Skies

By: Rebecca Wilby

In the trenches of Loos and the Somme, two disaffected young subalterns, Munro and Tate, struggle to find humour and purpose in a rapidly disintegrating world; brothers unto death - with a firmer bond than anything in their real families. A world away, in another time and place, Katherine is startled when she starts to recover memories - someone else's memories - of the first world war trenches. These involuntary glimpses into the life of a lost soldier open up a visionary world and a search across the fields of northern Europe for the historical truth behind it. A powerful story - fused with many realities.

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290

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Skylight Press

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1908011025

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9781908011022

The Next Big Thing in School Improvement

By: Ben White,Matthew Evans,Rebecca Allen

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The Next Big Thing in School Improvement

By: Ben White,Matthew Evans,Rebecca Allen

This is a book about educational fads, why they arise, and how we might learn to live with them. Those working in schools are subject to perpetual waves of novelty in the name of school improvement. And yet, in the long term very little actually changes. Big ideas come and go, leaving only faint clues as to their existence. The trouble is that the appealing stories that take hold will never solve the fundamental problems of modern schooling. The school system is too complex, too diverse, and too uncertain to be fixed by any Big Idea. Before too long, the Next Big Thing replaces the Last Big Thing. The Next Big Thing in School Improvement brings together the unique perspectives of a policy analyst, a headteacher, and a classroom teacher, to explain why it is that the school system often resists our attempts to improve it. Drawing on the recent history of English education policy, a variety of disciplinary traditions, and the emerging field of complexity science, the authors present a new take on why the school system behaves in ways that defy our attempts to change it. This is a book about finding a better way to improve our schools. It is not the Next Big Thing, but it does explain why there will inevitably be one, and what to do when it arrives.

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288

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John Catt

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1914351681

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9781914351686

Women of the World

Women Travelers and Explorers

By: Rebecca Stefoff

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Women of the World

Women Travelers and Explorers

By: Rebecca Stefoff

This volume features eight women whose heroic journeys added to the world's geographic knowledge: Ida Pfeiffer, an 19th century women with "an insatiable desire to travel" who circled the world -- twice Fanny Bullock Workman, the world's foremost woman mountaineer, an early feminist, and one of the most controversial figures in modern geography, and Alexandra David-Neel, the first western woman to enter Lhasa, the Forbidden City of Tibet.

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150

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195076885

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9780195076882

This Wretched Splendour/Wild with All Regrets

By: Rebecca Wilby

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This Wretched Splendour/Wild with All Regrets

By: Rebecca Wilby

This Wretched Splendour is a full-length stage play in two acts. Seven bored and demoralised survivors in a Flanders trench in 1916 find their lives transformed by the arrival of a new officer, David Cartwright. With his bright charisma and subversive approach to authority he inspires them to face their seemingly inevitable fate with courage, high-spirited stoicism and a sanguine sense of humour - the only defence against a bleak and mindless war. This new edition of This Wretched Splendour includes a one-act play, Wild With All Regrets, an evocative biographical drama woven from the words and experiences of Wilfred Owen on the Western Front. "The standard first world war play is still RC Sherriff's Journey's End. But Rebecca Wilby, a 29-year-old from Cheltenham, knocks it into a cocked hat with This Wretched Splendour. Where Sherriff's play is steeped in the public-school ethos, this one conveys the eccentric humanity and the tragedy of life at the front line." Michael Billington, The Guardian

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1908011939

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This Wretched Splendour

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Book's by Rebecca Wilby

This Wretched Splendour

This Wretched Splendour

The Abbey Papers

The Abbey Papers

In Different Skies

In Different Skies

The Next Big Thing in School Improvement

The Next Big Thing in School Improvement

Women of the World

Women of the World

This Wretched Splendour/Wild with All Regrets

This Wretched Splendour/Wild with All Regrets

This Wretched Splendour

This Wretched Splendour

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