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Fracked!: Or: Please Don't Use the F-Word

Fracked!: Or: Please Don't Use the F-Word

Alistair Beaton

This new razor-sharp black comedy by Alistair Beaton takes a timely look at the conflicted core of planetary energy and earthly power. Fracked! received its world premiere at the Chichester's Minerva Theatre on 8 July 2016.
Feelgood

Feelgood

Alistair Beaton

An outrageously funny satire on modern politics, New Labour and the fine art of spin Alistair Beaton's hilarious play, part farce, part biting satire, is set in the plush seaside hotel of a party conference.
Contemporary Scottish Plays: Caledonia; Bullet Catch; The ...

Contemporary Scottish Plays: Caledonia; Bullet Catch; The ...

Alistair Beaton

To paraphrase Alistair Beaton's Caledonia - the first play in this collection - 'The English have anthologies, the Spanish have anthologies, the French have anthologies . . . why should not Scotland have its anthology?
The Arsonists

The Arsonists

Alistair Beaton

Max Frisch's parable about appeasement is given its first major UK revival since its Royal Court premiere in 1961, which was directed by Lindsay Anderson.
The Arsonists

The Arsonists

Alistair Beaton

Max Frisch's parable about appeasement is given its first major UK revival since its Royal Court premiere in 1961, which was directed by Lindsay Anderson.
A Planet for the President

A Planet for the President

Alistair Beaton

It's one thing when there are floods in Bangladesh, quite another when almost 2,000 Americans die in flooding in Texas. His advisers warn him he could be remembered as the President who wrecked the planet.
The Little Book of Complete Bollocks

The Little Book of Complete Bollocks

Alistair Beaton

Give yourself treats. Leave little love letters to yourself around the house where you can discover them by chance when hoovering. Start your new life now. Don't read the T-shirt. Buy this book. 144 insights that will change your life.
Reader's digest condensed books

Reader's digest condensed books

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Joseph Viertel, Fletcher Knebel, Paul De Kruif, Charles Waldo Bailey, Wayne Miller, Alistair MacLean. Alistair MacLean Clayton Evant Alistair MacLean was a schoolteacher in Glasgow when, in i954, he entered a ...
Pretty in Ink: North American Women Cartoonists 1896–2010

Pretty in Ink: North American Women Cartoonists 1896–2010

Trina Robbins

Jessica Fink's webcomic Chester 5000-XYV (collected by Top Shelf in 2011) is a sexy steampunk adventure. Kate Beaton's Hark! A Vagrant is probably the best- known webcomic by a woman. In 2007, Beaton, a Canadian with a degree in ...
Alistair's Elephant

Alistair's Elephant

Marilyn Sadler

Alistair's life is never quite the same again after the day an elephant follows him home from the zoo.
Alistair's World

Alistair's World

Keith M. Hopwood

Influenced by his brilliant college professor, Alistair is convinced that all living things are subjected to the natural rhythms and symmetries of the Universe,governed by a set of fixed scientific laws determined some relatively short time ...
Veterans: Faces of World War II

Veterans: Faces of World War II

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My son's death has made me feel terrible. The pain hurts me tremendously, but the rest of my family helps me and lets me know how much they love me. Alistair Cormack ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND My name is Alistair Cormack. I 64 Lakshman  ...
Pursuit of Justices: Presidential Politics and the Selection ...

Pursuit of Justices: Presidential Politics and the Selection ...

David Alistair Yalof

Winner of the 2000 Richard E. Neustadt Award for Best Book on the American Presidency Drawing on the papers of seven modern presidents-and firsthand interviews with key figures like Edwin Meese, Ramsey Clark, and Gerald Ford-David Alistair ...
Yeats and Joyce: Cyclical History and the Reprobate Tradition

Yeats and Joyce: Cyclical History and the Reprobate Tradition

Alistair Cormack

Challenging characterisations of Joyce and Yeats as polar opposites, Alistair Cormack shows that Joyce and Yeats independently challenged a linearity and materialism they identified with empire and celebrated Ireland as destabilising the ...
An Intellectual History of Cannibalism

An Intellectual History of Cannibalism

Cătălin Avramescu

Cătălin Avramescu, Alistair Ian Blyth ... A special word of gratitude is due to Professor Gabriel Liiceanu, the editor of the first, Romanian edition of this book, and to Alistair Ian Blyth, the translator who struggled with my prose. The work of ...
What is Philosophy?: An Introduction

What is Philosophy?: An Introduction

Alistair Sinclair

"Dr. Alistair J. Sinclair is an independent philosopher living in Glasgow. For many years he taught philosophy courses for adult learners in the University of Strathclyde's Continuing Education programme. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.
Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game

Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game

Alistair Cockburn

Alistair Cockburn and Jim Highsmith, Series Editors Agile software development centers on four values identified in the Agile Alliance's Manifesto: • Individuals and interactions over processes and tools • Working software over comprehensive ...
Forgiveness and Truth

Forgiveness and Truth

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Alistair McFadyen, Marcel Sarot. THE SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF THEOLOGY Explorations in Contemporary Theology Edited by ALISTAIR I. MCFADYEN MARCEL SAROT ANTHONY THISELTON THE SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF ...
The education sector workforce: a report on the education ...

The education sector workforce: a report on the education ...

Alistair Dunn

a report on the education services census Alistair Dunn, Nicholas Pole, Jenny Rouse. ISBN 0-477-05019-0 &" Iff ! THE EDUCATION SECTOR WORKFORCE 7e Pewanga Whakaakoranga o te Hunga Whaimahi A Report on the Education ...
Out [o] Fashion Photography: Embracing Beauty

Out [o] Fashion Photography: Embracing Beauty

Deborah Willis

Includes images from the 19th through the 21st century by Diane Arbus, Cecil Beaton, Imogen Cunningham, Gertrude Kasebier, Andy Warhol, Garry Winograd, and others.
Agatha Raisin and the Haunted House

Agatha Raisin and the Haunted House

M.C. Beaton

'Only that our Mrs Raisin has been driving around with Paul Chatterton and the pair of them looking like an item.' Under the shadow of the brim of her hat, Mrs Davenport's face tightened in disapproval. Had she not presented Mr Chatterton  ...

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