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  • Playwriting

    Structure, Character, How and What to Write

    For over two decades, Stephen Jeffreys's remarkable series of workshops attracted writers from all over the world and shaped the ideas of many of today's leading playwrights and theatre-makers. Now, with this inspiring, highly practical book, you too can learn from these acclaimed Masterclasses.Playwriting reveals the various invisible frameworks and mechanisms that are at the heart of each and ... Read more

    $26.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Four Freedoms, The

    Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Evolution of an American Idea

    Unabridged

    8 hours 4 min

    The specter of global war loomed large in President Franklin Roosevelt's mind as he prepared to present his 1941 State of the Union address. He believed the United States had a role to play in the battle against Nazi and fascist aggression already underway in Europe, yet his rallying cry to the nation was about more than just national security or why Americans should care about a fight still far ... Read more

    $32.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Growing Moral

    A Confucian Guide to Life (Guides to the Good Life)

    Narrated by Jeffrey Machado ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 23 min

    Ancient and enduring, rich and wide-ranging, the tradition of Confucianism offers profound insights into how we can lead good lives--lives built on understanding that we are deeply connected to one another.For thousands of years, Confucian thinkers have carefully honed a philosophy for living fully, passing that knowledge along to their students over generations. Kongzi, also known as Confucius ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Libertine

    2016 edition

    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    'I am up for it. All the time. That's not a boast. Or an opinion. It is bone-hard medical fact.'John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester. Charismatic poet, playwright and rake with a legendary appetite for excess. Yet when a chance encounter with an actress at the Playhouse sends him reeling, he is forced to reconsider everything he thinks and feels.With all the wit, flair and bawdiness of a Restoration ... Read more

    $18.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Black Cat Weekly #34

    Here is the 34th issue of Black Cat Weekly, packed with more than 500 pages of great reading, with contents ranging from mystery to adventure to science fiction and fantasy. The complete contents includes:Mysteries / Suspense / Adventure:"Skin," by Stephen D. Rogers [Michael Bracken Presents short story]"Booked for Murder," by Hal Charles [solve-it-yourself mystery]"Grateful Touring," by Sarah M. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Interruptions

    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    A boldly innovative drama exploring ideas about democracy, politics and leadership.The country is preparing for an election.The country undergoes a military coup.The country must live through the consequences.Stephen Jeffreys' play Interruptions, written while he was resident at the University of California, Davis, was inspired by his interest in the collective aspect of politics and his ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stephen Jeffreys: Plays

    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    A selection of the best work of Stephen Jeffreys, whose career stretches from an award-winning play at the National Student Drama Festival in 1977 through to an adaptation of The Alchemist for the RSC in 2016.Included here are his first big success, Valued Friends, a comedy of manners about the property market which won both the Evening Standard and Critics' Circle Awards; a riotous farce set in ... Read more

    $29.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Assault on the State

    How the Global Attack on Modern Government Endangers Our Future

    What if the state as we know it didn’t exist? Our air would be poisonous, our votes uncounted, and our markets dysfunctional. Yet across the world, in countries as diverse as Hungary, Israel, the U.K., and the U.S., attacks on the modern state and its workforce are intensifying. They are morphing into power grabs by self-aggrandizing politicians who attempt to seize control of the state for ... Read more

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  • A Going Concern

    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    A play about a washed-up family business, from the author of The Libertine.The technological revolution has not yet reached Chapel & Sons, an ailing family business making billiard tables. In the dilapidated workshop, three generations conspire against each other for control of the firm.Stephen Jeffreys' play A Going Concern is at once a lament for the passing of an industrial age, a retelling of ... Read more

    $14.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Stephen King Wants to Reach Out and Grab You — with His Writing

    by Stephen King ...
    Narrated by Stephen King, Jeffrey Brown ...

    Unabridged

    6 min

    Novelist Stephen King is best known for his works of horror, but he says what scares him the most is not being able to write. Jeffrey Brown spoke with him at the Library of Congress National Book Festival about his latest novel, End of Watch, the last in a trilogy, and about writing itself -- how he lets the story go where it takes him, his writing routine and his dread of a blank slate. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Inferno

    Tales of Terror and the Supernatural

    This multiple award-winning anthology of twenty psychological and supernatural horror stories explores the outer limits of fear.To create this volume, renowned horror editor Ellen Datlow wrote to her favorite authors asking for stories that would "provide the reader with a frisson of shock, or a moment of dread so powerful it might cause the reader outright physical discomfort; or a sensation of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Analyzing Social Networks Using R

    This approachable book introduces network research in R, walking you through every step of doing social network analysis. Drawing together research design, data collection and data analysis, it explains the core concepts of network analysis in a non-technical way.The book balances an easy to follow explanation of the theoretical and statistical foundations underpinning network analysis with ... Read more

    $73.79 USD