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Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2010, Keith Gray's hit novel features a group of three friends who embark on a remarkable journey from Cleethorpes to Scotland with a stolen urn containing the ashes of their best friend... Now adapted for the stage by Birmingham Rep for a production by their Youth Theatre in 2011, Ostrich Boys is ideal for KS3 and KS4 English and will appeal strongly to boys as well as girls. This educational edition in Methuen Drama's Critical Scripts series has been prepared by national Drama in Secondary English experts Ruth Moore and Paul Bunyan. Building on a decade of highly effective work and publications endorsed by national organisations and supported by teachers and consultants across Britain, each book in the series: meets the new requirements at KS3 and GCSE (2010) features detailed, structured schemes of work utilising drama approaches to improve literary and language analysis places pupils' understanding of the learning process at the heart of the activities will help pupils to boost English GCSE success and develop high-level skills at KS3 will save teachers considerable time devising their own resources.

The story of rock n' roll cannot be truly told without the spinal tales of the road crew and the characters that made it - and without whom, the business would not exist as we know it.Artists have always needed someone to take care of all sorts of things, such as wardrobe, travel, or even finding their way to the stage.The modern breed of rock crew did not exist until the late sixties or early seventies, coming to the fore with the advent of rock groups who started to require sophisticated equipment such as amplifiers and PA systems.When I first started, facilities were non existent. You slept in the van or in a railway station (popular as they were the only place you could get a cup of tea in the evening in those days). Things have come on a long way since then. Crews now enjoy sleeper coaches, hotels, organised catering at the gig, and so on.There are also more females on crews now. Pre-eighties it was very much a guys' world, with few exceptions.For me, one of the best things about being a tour manager and putting a tour together was picking a crew. Getting the right individual crew member could be the difference between a happy and successful tour or not so happy. On a couple of occasions I inherited some right bozos. I'm sure most tour managers would nod in agreement. It was matter of getting a blend of their skill at the task, coupled with the right personality, attitude and team ethic, all in one.

**Winner of the Transmission Prize 2019**THE OLD GODS ARE DYING.Giant corporations collapse overnight. Newspapers are being swallowed. Stock prices plummet with a tweet.NEW IDOLS ARE RISING IN THEIR PLACE. More crime now happens online than offline. Facebook has grown bigger than any state, bots battle elections, coders write policy, and algorithms shape our lives in more ways than we can imagine. The Death of the Gods is an exploration of power in the digital age, and a journey in search of the new centres of control. From a cyber-crime raid in British suburbia to the engine rooms of Silicon Valley, pioneering technology researcher Carl Miller traces how power is being transformed, fought over, lost and won. ‘A timely and incisive book that grapples with some of the most significant issues of our time.’ Wired'Uncovers the fascinating and often hidden characters that are changing the world. Essential reading.' Jamie Bartlett, author of The People vs Tech‘A magisterial guide to the impact of the digital revolution on our institutions and our lives.’ Anthony Giddens

A fast-paced and emotionally gripping modern adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic gothic thriller, Carl Miller's Frankenstein places the primal struggle between creator and created in a provocative contemporary setting, exploring Artificial Intelligence, virtual reality, emotional learning and what it means to be post-human.