Life in a Cold Climate: Nancy Mitford?the Biography, Thompson Laura

Автор: Thompson Laura
Название: Take Six Girls
ISBN: 1784970891 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784970895
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Описание: The contrasting lives of the Mitford sisters - stylish, scandalous and tragic by turns - hold up a mirror to upper-class life before and after the Second World War.

Автор: Ayanna Thompson, Laura Turchi
Название: Teaching Shakespeare with Purpose: A Student-Centred Approach
ISBN: 1472599616 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472599612
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: What does it mean to teach Shakespeare with purpose? It means freeing teachers from the notion that teaching Shakespeare means teaching everything, or teaching “Western Civilisation” and universal themes. Instead, this invigorating new book equips teachers to enable student-centred discovery of these complex texts. Because Shakespeare’s plays are excellent vehicles for many topics —history, socio-cultural norms and mores, vocabulary, rhetoric, literary tropes and terminology, performance history, performance strategies — it is tempting to teach his plays as though they are good for teaching everything. This lens-free approach, however, often centres the classroom on the teacher as the expert and renders Shakespeare’s plays as fixed, determined, and dead. Teaching Shakespeare with Purpose shows teachers how to approach Shakespeare’s works as vehicles for collaborative exploration, to develop intentional frames for discovery, and to release the texts from over-determined interpretations. In other words, this book presents how to teach Shakespeare’s plays as living, breathing, and evolving texts.

Автор: Thompson Dr Laura, Version Abridged
Название: Root Systems
ISBN: 1304569403 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781304569400
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 19540.00 T
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Описание: Root Systems is intended to facilitate the unfolding of roots that may currently serve as a block to the usefulness of the gift in this time and season. It is the hope of this researcher to have you make distinctions between roots, and the systems that keep them going, while looking in retrospect at a dismal society through the eyes of hope.

Автор: Thompson Laura
Название: Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life
ISBN: 1681776537 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781681776538
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Цена: 29260.00 T
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It has been one hundred years since Agatha Christie wrote her first novel and created the formidable Hercule Poirot. A brilliant and award winning biographer, Laura Thompson now turns her sharp eye to Agatha Christie. Arguably the greatest crime writer in the world, Christie's books still sell over four million copies each year--more than thirty years after her death--and it shows no signs of slowing.

But who was the woman behind these mystifying, yet eternally pleasing, puzzlers? Thompson reveals the Edwardian world in which Christie grew up, explores her relationships, including those with her two husbands and daughter, and investigates the many mysteries still surrounding Christie's life, most notably, her eleven-day disappearance in 1926.

Agatha Christie is as mysterious as the stories she penned, and writing about her is a detection job in itself. With unprecedented access to all of Christie's letters, papers, and notebooks, as well as fresh and insightful interviews with her grandson, daughter, son-in-law and their living relations, Thompson is able to unravel not only the detailed workings of Christie's detective fiction, but the truth behind this mysterious woman.

Автор: Thompson Laura
Название: Empowered to Minister
ISBN: 0972075097 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780972075091
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 32570.00 T
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Автор: Laura Thompson
Название: Six, The
ISBN: 1250099544 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250099549
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"Riveting. The Six captures all the wayward magnetism and levity that have enchanted countless writers without neglecting the tragic darkness of many of the sisters' life choices and the savage sociopolitical currents that fueled them." - Tina Brown, The New York Times Book Review

The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman; the third was a fascist who married Oswald Mosley; the fourth idolized Hitler and shot herself in the head when Britain declared war on Germany; the fifth was a member of the American Communist Party; the sixth became Duchess of Devonshire.

They were the Mitford sisters: Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Jessica, and Deborah. Born into country-house privilege in the early years of the 20th century, they became prominent as "bright young things" in the high society of interwar London. Then, as the shadows crept over 1930s Europe, the stark--and very public--differences in their outlooks came to symbolize the political polarities of a dangerous decade.

The intertwined stories of their stylish and scandalous lives--recounted in masterly fashion by Laura Thompson--hold up a revelatory mirror to upper-class English life before and after WWII. The Six was previously published as Take Six Girls.

Автор: Thompson Laura
Название: Introduction to the Ministry Life Cycle
ISBN: 0972075054 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780972075053
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Цена: 32570.00 T
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