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Laura Wade: Plays One
Laura WadeNot every writer delivers on their early promise. As this collection clearly shows, Wade certainly has.’ Aleks Sierz, from his Introduction COLDER THAN HERE ‘Laura Wade’s play is a 90-minute masterpiece, a jewel, dark but translucent.
Mason Wade, Acadia and Quebec
Mason WadeEssays written by the controversial but significant historian Mason Wade provide his last important work on the Maritimes.
Wade Davis: Photographs
Wade DavisA stunning photography collection from celebrated anthropologist Wade Davis, representing the vast diversity of communities and cultural traditions he has encountered in the course of his career
Colder than Here
Laura WadeLaura Wade's beautifully poised family drama was first performed at Soho Theatre, London. ‘Laura Wade’s play is a 90-minute masterpiece, a jewel, dark but translucent.
Murder, Magic, Madness: The Victorian Trials of Dove and the ...
Davies Owen3 For a thorough account of cunning-folk in this period see Owen Davies, Cunning-Folk: Popular Magic in English History (London, 2003); Owen Davies, Witchcraft, magic and culture 1736–1951 (Manchester, 1999), pp. 214–29; Owen Davies, ...
A Celtic Temperament: Robertson Davies as Diarist
Robertson DaviesWe would like to thank our readers, Miranda Davies, Rosamond Bailey, James Neufeld, Judith Skelton Grant and John Grant, and to acknowledge the support and enthusiasm from our publisher, Doug Pepper, and our editor, Jenny Bradshaw, ...
Alex Wade's Guide to affordable houses
Alex WadeOffers designs for inexpensive homes which take advantage of solar technology and new building techniques
Mason Wade, Acadia and Quebec
Naomi GriffithsEssays written by the controversial but significant historian Mason Wade provide his last important work on the Maritimes.
Imitation and Politics: Redesigning Modern Germany
Wade JacobyThrough a close analysis of these two cases, Wade Jacoby explores the conditions under which one society can serve as a model for the reshaping of another.
Globalization in the Asian Region: Impacts and Consequences
PreviewImpacts and Consequences Gloria Davies, Chris Nyland. Contributors. John Rallingall: New Zealand Institute of Economic ... Gloria Davies: School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, Monash University gloria. davies ...
Recollections of the Rev. Griffith Davies Owen, of ...
ReadCHAPTER I. MR. OWEN'S EARLY HISTORY. THE REv. GRIFFITH DAVIES Owen was the second surviving son of the late Thomas and Benedicta Davies Owen, and born on Sunday the 24th day of January, 1790, at Llanrwst, in Denbighshire.
A Love Like Ours (A Porter Family Novel Book #3)
Becky WadePraise for Becky Wade "I wasn't ready for this story to end, but when it did, I sighed the happy/longing sort of sigh that romance readers know so well.
One River
Wade DavisThe story of two generations of scientific explorers in South America—Richard Evans Schultes and his protégé Wade Davis—an epic tale of adventure and a compelling work of natural history.
Family, Unvalued
Full viewWade Nichols and his Taiwanese partner Francis Shen, living together in what for Wade is exile in Taipei, had considered a fake marriage to stay together in the U.S. Francis has been harassed by U.S. immigration before. He says marrying is ...
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors
Nicholas WadeIn his groundbreaking Before the Dawn, Wade reveals humanity’s origins as never before—a journey made possible only recently by genetic science, whose incredible findings have answered such questions as: What was the first human ...
The Sacred Headwaters: The Fight to Save the Stikine, ...
Wade DavisThe compelling text by Wade Davis, which describes the region's beauty, the threats to it, and the response of native groups and other inhabitants, is complemented by the voices of the Tahltan elders.
Healing Ways: Navajo Health Care in the Twentieth Century
Wade DaviesStephen C. Jett, "Pete Price, Navajo Medicineman ( 1868-195 1): A Brief Biography," American Indian Quarterly 15 (winter 1 991): 91-101; David M. Brugge, "Henry Chee Dodge: From the Long Walk to Self-Determination, " in Indian Lives: ...
A Bibliography of Robertson Davies
Carl SpadoniUsing Davies' archives and the archives of other authors, organizations, and publishers, Carl Spadoni and Judith Skelton Grant present A Bibliography of Robertson Davies to serve the research demands of Canadian literature and book history ...
Roe V. Wade: The Abortion Question
D. J. HerdaText and a few black and white photographs discuss the ideas and arguments behind the landmark abortion case of Roe v. Wade.
Ray Davies: Not Like Everybody Else
Thomas M. KittsBased on interviews with his closest associates, as well as studies of the recordings themselves, this book creates the most thorough picture of Davies’ work to date.
Other Hands
Laura WadeLaura Wade’s plays, Colder Than Here and Breathing Corpses played simultaneously at Soho Theatre and the Royal Court Theatre respectively, and are both published by Oberon Books.
The Cambridge History of Magic and Witchcraft in the West: ...
PreviewDavies, Owen. A People Bewitched: Witchcraft and Magic in NineteenthCentury Somerset. Bruton, 1999. Davies,Owen. Witchcraft, Magicand Culture, 1736–1951 . Manchester: ManchesterUniversity Press, 1999. Davies, Owen. CunningFolk: ...
Posh
Laura WadeLaura Wade's depiction of wealth and privilege is savagely funny - Time Out London Disgracefully entertaining... there is much fun to be had at the expense of these posh characters as they bicker, get wasted and lament the awfulness of the ...
Drop Us a Line... Sucker!: The Prank Letters of James and ...
James C. WadeFor more than five years, James Wade, an American businessman living in Switzerland, has been firing off preposterous letters to organizations all over the world, trying to determine whether he can elicit serious replies to bizarre ...
Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie
Wade DavisIn 1982, Harvard-trained ethnobotanist Wade Davis traveled into the Haitian countryside to research reports of zombies--the infamous living dead of Haitian folklore.
Conversations with Robertson Davies
Robertson DaviesEd. Judith Skelton Grant. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1979. The Rebel Angels. Toronto: Macmillan, 1981. Brothers in the Black Art. Vancouver: Alcuin Society, 1981. Robertson Davies: The Well-Tempered Critic. Ed. Judith Skelton Grant.
Alice
Laura WadeLyndsey Turner's production is as mad as a bag of trifle’ - The Critical List -Sunday Times Culture Magazine ‘In Laura Wade's engaging new version of Lewis Carrol's Alice in Wonderland a classic is given a wonderfully ingenious twist ...
Americana: The Kinks, the Road and the Perfect Riff
Ray DaviesThe book is interspersed with lyrics and also includes photographs from Davies's own collection and the Kinks’ archive.
Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature
Nick DaviesHow do they get away with it? In this enormously engaging book, naturalist and scientist Nick Davies reveals how cuckoos trick their hosts.
The Pilgrim's Regress: The Wade Annotated Edition
C. S. LewisThis splendid annotated edition, produced in collaboration with the Marion E. Wade Center in Wheaton, Illinois, helps readers recover the richness of Lewis's allegory.
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