Asia
The world's largest and most populous continent with 4.6 billion inhabitants, Asia offers a variety of culture and landscape unmatched elsewhere, ranging from the 6000km- (3728 mile-) long Yangtze River - the heart of Chinese culture and commercia...
Acrylics
Painting is one of the most rewarding ways of expressing yourself. It sparks creativity, engages the imagination and relaxes you, reducing stress levels and leaving you feeling mentally clear and calm. Most people assume that the ability to paint ...
A Restatement of the English Law of Contract
Following the success of the first edition, this is the fully updated second edition of A Restatement of the English Law of Contract. Designed to enhance the accessibility of the common law the Restatement comprises a number of clear and succinct ...
Handel: Messiah
This new guide to Handel's most celebrated work traces the course of Messiah from Handel's initial musical response to the libretto, through the oratorio's turbulent first years to its eventual popularity with the Foundling Hospital performances. ...
Handel
Handel is one of the most remarkable figures in the history of western music. His compositions form one of the peaks of creative achievement in the Baroque period, and cover a remarkable range: full-scale Italian operas and English oratorios (incl...
Guidelines for Mystical Prayer
Guidelines for Mystical Prayer
Blackmail, Scandal, and Revolution
This important study, newly available in paperback, examines the activities, adventures, publications, and influence of the most venomous critics of the late Bourbon monarchy. These were the French exile libellistes who flocked to London to publis...
Safeguarding Mindfulness in Schools and Higher Education
Although mindfulness can be located in a number of different traditions and disciplines, it was originally an esoteric and powerful practice based on developing a capacity attainable only by certain people. After previously publishing on the posit...
Manic Street Preachers
Contains a detailed, month-by-month timeline tracing the band from formation in 1985 to the announcement of their fourteenth album in 2021, one of the most detailed and comprehensive guides to the band yet published.
Choreographer's Handbook
On choreography: 'Choreography is a negotiation with the patterns your body is thinking.' On rules: 'Try breaking the rules on a need to break the rules basis.' The updated and revised edition of 'A Choreographer's Handbook' invites the reader to ...
Foreboding of Petrels
On suspension and unable to work, DCI Domenic Jejeune finds his attention snared by an unexplained death at an Antarctic research base. Meanwhile, DS Danny Maik investigates a string of arson attacks in Norfolk. When a corpse is discovered in a bi...
The Illustrator's Guide to Procreate
Unlock your creativity with easy digital illustration techniques. Learn how to create professional-looking art and illustration in Procreate, the industry-leading digital painting app for iPad. In this step-by-step guide you will learn how to crea...
Henry James and the Promise of Fiction
Henry James and the Promise of Fiction
London Boys
Rock 'n' Roll fanatics, mods, beat group wannabes, underground hippies, glam rock icons: David Bowie and Marc Bolan spent the first part of their careers following remarkably similar paths. From the day they met in 1965 as Davie Jones and Mark Fel...
Weird Sea
WARNING: after reading this book, you'll never look at the sea the same way again! What does the sea make you think of? Crashing waves, crumbling sandcastles . . . maybe a squawking seagull or two? Well how about . . . Ghost ships! Mega sharks! The Bermuda triangle! Zombie starfish! Psychic sea serpents! And don't even get us started on something called the Hot Tub of Despair . . . You see, the sea is actually weird. Really weird. Not only is it full of amazing creatures and mini monsters, some of the world's most mind-blowing myths and legends revolve around the sea too. So what are you waiting for? Get ready to dive in and discover some of the incredible secrets of our weird, wonderful and totally wild oceans. This quirky collection of the sea's strangest facts is perfect for curious kids aged 5–7.
A Dance of Cranes
A Dance of Cranes
Nye of Pheasants
When a street brawl abroad turns deadly, Danny Maik faces a charge of manslaughter, but when evidence emerges that he may have planned the victim's murder, he is looking at the death penalty. His only hope is reaching out to those he can trust bac...
Pitying of Doves
The second book in Steve Burrows' series of Birder Murders With murder, everyone pays a price ... Why would a killer ignore expensive jewellery and take a pair of turtledoves as the only bounty? This is only one of the questions that piques Chief ...
Cast of Falcons
Book 3 in Steve Burrows' fabulous Birder Murder mystery series The threat from above casts a dark shadow. A man falls to his death from a cliff face in western Scotland. From a distance, another man watches. He approaches the body, tucks a book in...
Hans livs kärlek
Är hon hans försvunna kärlek?/ Lord Matthison med sin mörka aura och skrämmande uppenbarelse ryktas vara i förbund med Djävulen själv. Han lever i utkanten av samhället, hjärtskärande förlorad i sorgen över sin försvunna kärlek. När han möter en kvinna som är en spegelbild av den förlorade Cora, är han övertygad om att hon lever. Men hur ska han övertyga denna Mary att hon egentligen är Cora?
Directed by James Burrows
'Being directed by the Jimmy Burrows, while on Friends, was like hitting the jackpot. I'm delighted that everyone can now share in his incredible insight with this book.'--JENNIFER ANISTON From the director of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Taxi, Cheers, Frasier, and Will & Grace comes an insightful and nostalgic behind-the-scenes memoir that's 'as difficult to put down as a Friends marathon is to turn off' (The Washington Post). Legendary sitcom director James Burrows has spent five decades making America laugh. Here readers will find never-revealed stories behind the casting of the dozens of great sitcoms he directed, as well as details as to how these memorable shows were created, how they got on the air, and how the cast and crew continued to develop and grow. Burrows also examines his own challenges, career victories, and defeats, and provides advice for aspiring directors, writers, and actors. All this from the man who helped launch the careers of Ted Danson, Kelsey Grammer, Woody
