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Banker for All Seasons Bank of Crooks and Cheats Inc.
ISBN: PB: 9780857426406, Seagull Books, March 2019
264 pp., 20x14.4 cm
During the late Seventies and Eighties a new logo began to jostle for space with the more traditional landmarks on high streets throughout Britain. It was the badge of a remarkable Third World Bank... the BCCI (Bank of Credit and Commerce Internation...
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£12,99
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Bottle Fly
ISBN: PB: 9780300235012, Yale University Press, November 2018
88 pp., 22.9x14 cm
Set in a bar in the Florida Everglades, this biting, brutally funny multigenerational family drama concerns a Gulf Coast couple, their disabled young ward, two lesbian tenants, and the bonds that bind them all together. It is a powerful story born ou...
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£13,99
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Barbra Streisand Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power
ISBN: PB: 9780300230611, Yale University Press, November 2017
296 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Barbra Streisand has been called the "most successful... talented performer of her generation" by Vanity Fair, and her voice, said pianist Glenn Gould, is "one of the natural wonders of the age". Streisand scaled the heights of entertainment-from a p...
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£10,99
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Balanchine Teaching
ISBN: PB: 9780871301000, DAP, Eakins Press Foundation, November 2016
36 pp., 25.4x22.8 cm, 14 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! In 1961, Nancy Lassalle, long-time ballet patron and associate of Lincoln Kirstein, co-founder of the New York City Ballet, was given permission to photograph a two-day teacher seminar led by George Balanchine at the School...
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£22,00
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Ballet Lover's Companion
ISBN: PB: 9780300223415, Yale University Press, October 2016
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
A richly informed, up-to-date performance guide to more than 140 favorite ballets, from the classical era to the present day This engaging book is a welcome guide to the most successful and loved ballets seen on the stage today. Dance writer and crit...
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£18,99
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Beautiful Province
ISBN: PB: 9780300195460, Yale University Press, December 2013
144 pp., 21x14 cm
A fifteen-year-old boy decides to accompany his severely depressed high school French teacher on a road trip to the Canadian province of Quebec, where the mother tongue of Voltaire and Balzac is still spoken and cherished. Clarence Coo's mesmerizing...
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£16,00
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Beijing Xingwei Contemporary Chinese Time-based Art
ISBN: PB: 9780857420879, Seagull Books, December 2013
420 pp., 25x15 cm, 50 halftones, 100 colour illus.
From cannibalism to light-calligraphy, from self-harming to animal sacrifice, from meat entwined with sex toys to a commodity-embedded ice wall, the idiosyncratic output of Chinese time-based art over the past twenty-five years has invigorated contem...
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£30,00
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Bigger, Brighter, Louder 150 Years of Chicago Theater as Seen by "Chicago Tribune" Critics
ISBN: HB: 9780226059266, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones
The first known "Chicago Tribune" theater review appeared on March 25, 1853. An anonymous notice, it shared the page with two other announcements – one about a pair of thousand-pound hogs set to be slaughtered and another trumpeting the largest load...
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£20,50
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Biography A Game
ISBN: PB: 9781906497460, Seagull Books, August 2010
121 pp., 22x12.8 cm
In this play by Swiss playwright and novelist Max Frisch, a middle-aged behavioral researcher Kurmann is given the opportunity to start his life over at any point he chooses and change his decisions and actions in matters both serious and mundane – H...
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£9,00
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Ballet's Magic Kingdom Selected Writings on Dance in Russia (1911-1925)
ISBN: PB: 9780300164497, ISBN: HB: 9780300124620, Yale University Press, May 2009
352 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 24 black&white illus.
Akim Volynsky was a Russian literary critic, journalist, and art historian who became Saint Petersburg's liveliest and most prolific ballet critic in the early part of the twentieth century. This book, the first English edition of his provocative and...
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£20,00
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£27,50
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