This author is renowned for his innovative dramatic adaptations and poetry that often explores historical and mythological themes with a contemporary sensibility. His work, characterized by a penetrating language and ambitious scope, is unafraid to confront complex social issues and historical events. He frequently experiments with staging performances in unconventional locations, lending his theatrical works a unique power and resonance. Through his translations and original pieces, he has cemented his position as a significant voice in contemporary literature and theater.
Today you're the fire engine driver! Enter a world of imaginative play and build early learning skills. Children will love using their imagination to pretend to use the fire engine's controls to switch on the siren and turn on the flashing lights! Encourages problem solving and teamwork, as well as recognition of colours, shapes, and numbers.
JUMP INTO THE DRIVER'S SEAT TO ENTER A WORLD OF IMAGINATIVE PLAY! With this new and innovative picture books series, children can race a fire engine to the rescue, build a house with a digger, and climb aboard a tractor to help out on the farm! Vehicle drivers on a building site have a very important job. They are in charge of the big machines that mix, dig, and lift. Now, it's your turn to be the driver! I'm the Digger Driver puts the reader in charge with a dashboard design across the bottom of each page—children will love using their imagination to pretend to use the vehicle’s controls. The narrative is embedded with key early learning concepts, and each book ends with a sense of achievement as the task is completed. • Inspires imaginative play and builds self-confidence by putting children in charge. • Encourages problem-solving and teamwork, as well as recognition of colors, shapes and numbers. • Children will love making their own sound effects, acting out real-life situations and spotting their favorite vehicles.
Written by world-leading fertility experts and edited by mums who have undertaken multiple cycles of IVF and know what it takes to succeed, this guide advises you on the entire IVF process and how to maximise your chances of success. All IVF topics are covered, from how to choose your fertility clinic, to understanding the stages of an IVF cycle, to how to prepare yourself physically and emotionally for the treatment. Looks at how to optimise your nutrition and how to improve egg and sperm quality Examines the growing trends of egg freezing and donor-assisted IVF Shares real-life stories of a variety of IVF journeys and their inspiring outcomes Includes key contributions from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), the UK's independent regulator for fertility treatment and researchIVF: All You Need to Know is an essential handbook for couples and individuals who are considering IVF, who want to find out what's involved, and who want to be as well prepared as they can be. It is also for those who may have already tried IVF, have experienced failed cycles and want to boost their chances of success next time around.
Harrison's sixth collection contains his translation of Euripides' Hecuba, which inaugurated the modern amphitheatre of Delphi in 2005; the remarkable Fram, which opened at the National Theatre in 2008; and Iphigenia in Crimea, which premiered on BBC Radio 3 to mark Harrison's 80th birthday in 2016.
'Search Press have reissued their eminently useful Top Tips series in paperback. If you haven't encountered these before, they're a handy way of taking the advice of your favourite artists out in the field with you.' Paint Magazine
Situating ballet within twentieth-century modernism, this book brings complexity to the history of George Balanchine's American neoclassicism. It intervenes in the prevailing historical narrative and rebalances Balanchine's role in dance history by revealing the complex social, cultural, and political forces that actually shaped the construction of American neoclassical ballet.
A varied selection of Tony Harrison's provocative prose of the last fifty years, the great poet of page, stage and screen that presents a lifetime's thinking about art and politics, creativity and mortality.
Combining the private and the public in a way Harrison has made distinctly his own, and drawing on his working-class upbringing in Leeds, these are powerful poems for modern times.
What happens when you are finally given the perfect man, only to discover that perfect can get a little old?
Bermondsey Priory was founded in the 1080s on the south bank of the Thames, located opposite the White Tower on an island which was also the site of an Anglo-Saxon minster. Bermondsey became a centre of pilgrimage and in 1399 the priory became an abbey, before its transformation in the 16th century into a courtier's mansion.