Theatre/Archaeology is a provocative challenge to disciplinary practice and intellectual boundaries. It brings together radical proposals in both archaeological and performance theory to generate a startlingly original and intriguing methodological framework. It facilitates a new way of investigating landscape and cityscape, and notions of ...
Pirates, shipwreck and slavery - these are the key themes in this story of a young Englishman who spent 14 years of his life in captivity in Madagascar. This tale has been more or less lost to sight for centuries, for, although the shipwrecked sailor in question, Robert Drury, wrote a book about his adventures in 1729, it has long been out of ...
This text, part of the "Illustrated Case Histories" series, covers five main areas of respiratory disorders: airway disease; bronchiectasis; tumours; infections; and interstitial disease. The text contains questions and answers covering diagnosis, further investigations and management.
Wilderness chefs looking to make their meals more nutritious and appealing need look no further than this newest edition of 'NOLS Cookery', the National Outdoor Leadership School's classic guide to backcountry cooking. From Cowboy Coffee to Darn Tootin' Black Beans to Scrambled Brownies, the book's recipes and culinary advice are guaranteed to ...
First published in 1974, this is an anthology about British rock-climbing. 60 of the most famous climbs in the country are covered, including such classics as Cenotaph Corner, Central Buttress of Scafell and The Old Man of Hoy. Each route is described in essay form by a climber who relates his own experiences during an ascent, in the context of a ...
As fly fishing for trout becomes an ever more popular outdoor pursuit in North America, many enthusiasts are fuelling their passion by learning to tie their own flies. This complete creative process, from concept to finished pattern, is lavishly represented here in hundreds of close-up, colour photographs, demonstrating the beautiful feathers, ...
Grange, Butkus, Virgin, Henson, Huff, Zupke, Battle, Boudreau, Eddleman, Eggers, Buford, and Howard -- these are some of the greatest collegiate athletes, not only at Illinois but throughout the country. This is the first book to capture the history of all sports at Illinois. The book also includes a special two-page pictorial on Red Grange, a ...
"In Comes I" is about performance and land, biography and locality, memory and place. The book reflects on performances past and present, taking the form of a series of excursions in the agricultural landscape of eastern England, and drawing from archaeology, geomorphology, folklore, local and family history. Mike Pearson, a leading theatre artist ...
It has become increasingly common to read tourism and travel in the modern world as a form of religion, a new opiate of the masses. Yet what happens if we consider Church and theology as religious forms of tourism and travel? Likewise discussions of location, identity and the self have increasingly made use of religious texts, ideas and metaphors. ...
Description The story follows a humorous and occasionally harrowing account of one persons journey through depression from inside the world of a psychiatric social worker who is also becoming unwell. It places mental illness firmly in the realm of personal experience and should offer hope to both sufferers and carers. The book is informed by a ...
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