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Paleobiology of Ammonoids and their Relatives
AvAlistair McGowan
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
1 043 kr
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The expert guide to the evolution and fossil record of cephalopods In Paleobiology of Ammonoids and their Relatives, Dr. McGowan delivers an up-to-date and comprehensive exploration of the evolution and biology of cephalopods that is written for non-specialists and experts in invertebrate biology and paleobiology alike. The book bridges the biology-paleontology divide, challenging some established thinking about cephalopod evolution and highlighting new research methods and results. The author explores areas of controversy, as well as the focus of current research, as he discusses the contributions of cephalopod research to discoveries in macroevolution and paleobiology. The only text to cover both extant and extinct cephalopod groups, this book also offers: A thorough introduction to the major cephalopod groups, including their fossil recordComprehensive explorations of the hard and soft tissues of cephalopods, including internal and external shells, as well as cephalopod brains and sensory systemsDetailed surveys of the growth and form of cephalopods, as well as their locomotion and feedingInsightful discussions of cephalopod reproduction and life history, phylogeny and classification, and cephalopod biogeographyWritten for students and researchers in cephalopod biology and paleobiology, Paleobiology of Ammonoids and their Relatives will also earn a place in the library of every ammonoid fossil collector.
Matter of Life and Death
Or How to Wean a Man off Football
AvAlistair McGowan,Ronni Ancona
E-bok
Engelska, 2009
103 kr
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"Couples argue about a lot of things - money, seeing old partners, football, having children, looking after children...and football. Clothes, washing up...and football. If you think about the relationships you've had, football is probably the cause of more arguments than anything else."From TV's funniest male/female double act comes a hilarious new book about the wrangles, rows and off-side rules of relationships. Ronni's challenge is this: to wean a die-hard football fan off the not-so-beautiful game. She needs a guinea pig on whom she can try out her theory. Who better than her best friend and ex-boyfriend, the truly obsessed Alistair McGowan? If she can persuade Alistair and all the men like him that there are more fulfilling ways of spending time than reading sports pages and watching Match of the Day, then surely she will help women all over the world to richer, more rewarding romantic lives. But could Alistair every really give it up? And if he did, what would remain of the man? Part comic self-help book, part confessional memoir, A Matter of Life and Death is a brilliant and original take on the differences between men and women.
Like Never Before
AvAlistair McGowan
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
144 kr
Skickas
Comic, poignant, and observational, these poems embrace the theme of a changing world – linguistically, politically, and environmentally – and the changes we all experience as we age. This is Alistair – like never before – commenting on a world that is accelerating like never before.
Behind the Author's Desk: Dramas of Famous Writers' Real Lives
A BBC Radio 4 drama collection
AvJudith Adam,Sian Ejiwunmi-Le Berrem. fl.
Ljudbok
Engelska, 2021
173 kr
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18 biographical dramas based on the lives and loves of celebrated writersThese surprising, revealing dramas take a behind-the-scenes look at some of our best-loved authors, mingling fact and fantasy to explore their extraordinary hidden lives. From love affairs, friendships and family relationships to traumas, tragedies and journeys of self-discovery, we glimpse the unwritten worlds that shaped their unforgettable fiction. Among the star casts are Andrew Scott, Toby Jones, Richard Dormer, Glenda Jackson, Bella Ramsey, Julia Davis, Ian McDiarmid, Haydn Gwynne, David Threlfall, Alistair McGowan, Tom Goodman-Hill, Hattie Morahan, Rosie Cavaliero, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Paul Ritter and Lia WilliamsJane and Tom - Writing to her sister, Jane Austen describes her love for Tom Lefroy - a love that would lead to Pride and Prejudice.When Fanny Met Germaine - A delightful romp through the passionate, scandalous friendship between two 18th Century writers: Fanny Burney and Mme de Stael.Comrade Ackland - Dorset, 1936. Newly returned from an illicit trip to Civil War Spain, Sylvia Townsend Warner and her lover Valentine Ackland have an unexpected visitor....Tongues of Fire - 1913. When a Nobel laureate visits Dublin''s Abbey Theatre, fireworks erupt between WB Yeats and Sean O''Casey.A Year at the Races - Approaching the end of his career, Groucho Marx meets a wisecracking fan determined to teach him new comedy tricks.Spike and the Elfin Oak - A comic fantasy inspired by Spike Milligan''s madcap attempts in the mid-1960s to preserve a curious sculpture in Kensington Gardens.Everybody''s Got Conditions - Casting Bette Davis in his play The Night of the Iguana proves the biggest mistake in Tennessee Williams'' career...I Believe I Have Genius- Humble and obscure, young Charlotte Brontë travels to Brussels to study at a girls'' school.Marian and George - Marian Evans (aka George Eliot) must choose between her adored brother and the love of her life...Lying Low - An intriguing drama imagining what happened to Samuel Beckett during his mysterious three weeks in Folkestone in 1961.A Terrible Beauty - WB Yeats travels to France to propose to beautiful Maud Gonne, soon after her husband''s execution in the 1916 Easter Rising.The Watcher on the Wall - Dramatised from his letters, this is the story of Louis MacNeice''s transatlantic love affair and the poetry it inspired.Edith Sitwell in Scarborough - Returning to her birthplace, Edith Sitwell sets out to wreak revenge.Mrs Tolstoy - A five-part drama charting the tempestuous marriage between Leo and Sofya Tolstoy.The ''B'' Word - The opening night of George Bernard Shaw''s Pygmalion causes a scandal and sparks a passionate love/hate triangle...The Rules of Palship - The young Noël Coward demanded fierce loyalty from his friends - but did he live up to his own high standards?The Lost Road - A playful tribute to the long friendship between CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien and how it influenced their respective masterpieces.Luxembourg Gardens - Re-imagined from Katherine Mansfield''s stories, letters and journals, this Mansfieldesque play explores her last day in Paris, where she is dying of consumption aged 34.Copyright © 2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd
Not What We Were Expecting
AvAlistair McGowan
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
144 kr
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A debut collection of poetic snapshots written between 1986 and 2024. "All the wit you'd expect and yearn for but with a really surprising and delicious sensitivity." Joanna Lumley "Alistair's sense of fun we know but the tenderness of his poetry adds new depths to our understanding of the man and his work." Henry Normal"Funny, moving, and with a real depth of feeling." Mary Killen, The Spectator"You don't get to be a great impressionist without a feel for rhythm and rhyme and pitch. These are terrific, truthful poems." Sir Richard Stilgoe"Verbally adroit ... skewering the passing moment, holding it up for examination but with an undertow of great feeling. Masterly." Simon Callow"Sometimes just funny, then melancholic, occasionally beautifully profound, often soulful, now and then amusingly imitative, always insightful and well observed." Franny Moyle
Pygmalion
A brand new BBC Radio 4 drama plus the story of the play''s scandalous opening night
AvAlistair McGowan,Bernard Shaw
Ljudbok
Engelska, 2018
86 kr
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A star-studded BBC radio production of Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion – plus bonus drama The ‘B’ Word, telling the story of the play’s scandalous opening night.Irascible phonetics professor Henry Higgins makes a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering that he can train Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle to talk ‘like a lady’ and pass as a duchess at the Ambassador’s Ball. As the day of reckoning approaches, can Eliza convince the assembled aristocrats that she’s one of them? And what will become of her afterwards?This effervescent radio version of Shaw’s classic comedy features a stellar cast, including award-winning comedians Alistair McGowan as Henry Higgins, Morgana Robinson as Eliza Doolittle and Al Murray as Alfred Doolittle.Also featured on this release is The ‘B’ Word, written by and starring Alistair McGowan as Bernard Shaw. Centring on the shocking opening night of Pygmalion – the first time that the word ‘bloody'' was used on the British stage – it also explores the passionate love-hate relationship between Shaw; his leading man, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and his leading lady, Mrs Patrick Campbell, who played the 19-year-old Eliza Doolittle at the age of 49.Cast and creditsPygmalionHenry Higgins……………………Alistair McGowanEliza Doolittle……………………Morgana RobinsonAlfred Doolittle……………………Al MurrayColonel Pickering……………………Hugh FraserMrs Higgins……………………Siân PhillipsMrs Pearce/Maid……………………Charlotte PageMrs Eynsford-Hill……………………Georgie GlenClara Eynsford-Hill……………………Maeve Bluebell WellsFreddy Eynsford-Hill.....……………………Tom ForristerNepommuck……………………David SturzakerAmbassador……………………John DougallAmbassador''s wife……………………Sarah RidgewayBystander……………………David SterneWritten by Bernard ShawProduced and directed by Emma HardingThe ‘B’ WordBernard Shaw……………………Alistair McGowanGeorge Alexander……………………David SturzakerMrs Patrick Campbell.....……………………Charlotte PageSir Herbert Beerbohm Tree……………………Richard McCabeCharlotte Shaw……………………Georgie GlenMerivale……………………Philip FoxGurney/Fishman……………………Simon LuddersBell……………………Charlie ClementsMaid……………………Sarah RidgewayWritten by Alistair McGowanProduced and directed by Emma Harding

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Alistair McGowan – författare

Paleobiology of Ammonoids and their Relatives

Matter of Life and Death

Like Never Before

Behind the Author's Desk: Dramas of Famous Writers' Real Lives

Not What We Were Expecting

Pygmalion

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