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135 produkter
Weathermonger
Häftad, 2003
146 kr
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Long-awaited new editions of Peter Dickinson’s cult classicsEngland in the future – but an England that is less rather than more civilised. This is the time of The Changes – a time when people, especially adults, have grown to hate machines and returned to a more primitive lifestyle. It is a time …
Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits
Av Robin McKinley, Peter Dickinson
Häftad, 2004
228 kr
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My Vancouver Dance History
Story, Movement, Community
Häftad, 2020
500 kr
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In the past decade, Vancouver dance has received tremendous acclaim nationally and internationally, as witnessed by the success of choreographer Crystal Pite and a rejuvenated Ballet BC. But this is only part of a vibrant and diverse story of contemporary movement practices in the city. In My …
My Vancouver Dance History
Story Movement Community
E-bok, 2020
419 kr
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In the past decade, Vancouver dance has received tremendous acclaim nationally and internationally, as witnessed by the success of choreographer Crystal Pite and a rejuvenated Ballet BC. But this is only part of a vibrant and diverse story of contemporary movement practices in the city. In My …
Ropemaker
E-bok, 2007
110 kr
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Tilja has grown up in the peaceful Valley, which is protected from the fearsome Empire by an enchanted forest. But the forest’s power has begun to fade and the Valley is in danger. Tilja is the youngest of four brave souls who venture into the Empire together to find the mysterious magician who can …
Inside Grandad
E-bok, 2009
79 kr
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An unusual and moving story about the magical bond between a boy and his grandfather. Does it just happen that Gavin and Grandad see the seal while they are fishing in the harbor? Just happen that Grandad talks about the selkies, the seal people who can leave the water and take human form? Just …
Tears of the Salamander
E-bok, 2009
79 kr
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Alfredo, a choir boy in 18th-century Italy, loses his family in a fire, and his mysterious Uncle Giorgio spirits him away to their ancestral home below a volcano. There he learns that Uncle Giorgio is the Master of the Mountain; he can control the volcano. He is also an alchemist, able to make gold …
Ropemaker
E-bok, 2013, 12-15 år
136 kr
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The magic in the Valley is dying.In the forest, the cedar trees whisper the news. The age-old spell can no longer protect the land from its enemies.Four companions must find the sorcerer who conjured the ancient power. He has not been seen for centuries, hidden in the dark heart of an evil Empire. …
Angel Isle
E-bok, 2013, 12-15 år
119 kr
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‘They are terrible. They are like the demons of old . . . They must be stopped, and you are here to bring that about, where everyone else has failed. You must find the Ropemaker.’ Despite his immense powers, the Ropemaker alone could not control the chaos raging through the Empire, so he chose …
Angel Isle
E-bok, 2007
126 kr
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ONCE THE 24 MOST powerful magicians in the Empire pledged to use their magic only to protect the people. But the promise that bound them has now corrupted them. They have become a single terrible entity with a limitless desire for domination. Only the Ropemaker may be able to stop them, but he has …
World Stages, Local Audiences
Essays on Performance, Place and Politics
Inbunden, 2010
1263 kr
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World Stages, local audiences argues that the forms of intimacy and identification that come from being part of the public of a local performance, provide a potential model for rethinking our roles as world citizens. Using his own experience of recent theatrical practice in Vancouver as a starting …
Fire: Tales of Elemental Spirits
Av Peter Dickinson, Robin McKinley
E-bok, 2009
147 kr
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Master storytellers Robin McKinley and Peter Dickinson, the team behind Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits , collaborate again to create five captivating tales incorporating the element of fire. In McKinley?s ?First Flight,? a boy and his pet foogit unexpectedly take a dangerous ride on a dragon, …
Elementals: Water
Av Peter Dickinson, Robin McKinley
E-bok, 2011
125 kr
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Six fabulous tales - vividly imagined and powerfully told.The shriek of the wind, calling the waters to rebel - and a silver man from the sea with a voice like the roar of a seashell . . .A long-told story of the sea people and their song - and a golden eye, glittering in a pool at the edge of a …
Chuck and Danielle
E-bok, 2012
111 kr
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Chuck is a whippet. A very nervous whippet, who's scared of absolutely everything: paper bags, pigeons, supermarket trolleys, cats (even the little fluffy ones). Some people say Chuck's a wimpet, not a whippet, and Mum keeps pretending she's going to give Chuck away, but Danielle loves her …
Water
Tales of Elemental Spirits
Av Peter Dickinson, Robin McKinley
E-bok, 2004
153 kr
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Master storytellers Robin McKinley and Peter Dickinson share tales of mysterious merfolk and magical humans, all with close ties to the element of water. From Pitiable Nasmith''s miserable existence in a seaside town whose inhabitants are more intertwined with the sea than most people know, to …
Screening Gender, Framing Genre
Canadian Literature Into Film
E-bok, 2006
919 kr
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Audiences often measure the success of film adaptations by how faithfully they adhere to their original source material. However, fidelity criticism tells only part of the story of adaptation. For example, the changes made to literary sources in the course of creating their film treatments are …
Lively Dead
A Crime Novel
E-bok, 2015
131 kr
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In this mystery from CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson, a landlady discovers a corpse beneath her crowded London boardinghouseA sturdy young woman with a knack for home repair and a practical sense of Marxism, Lydia is renovating her London townhouse while her husband finishes law school. To …
King and Joker
A Crime Novel
E-bok, 2015
131 kr
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In the cavernous halls of Buckingham Palace, a series of pranks lead to murder in this mystery by CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter DickinsonPrincess Louise and her father, King Victor II of England, agree that life has become painfully dull. When she''s not in school, Louise spends her days roaming the …
King and Joker
A Crime Novel
E-bok, 2015
131 kr
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In the cavernous halls of Buckingham Palace, a series of pranks lead to murder in this mystery by CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter DickinsonPrincess Louise and her father, King Victor II of England, agree that life has become painfully dull. When she''s not in school, Louise spends her days roaming the …
Skeleton-in-Waiting
A Crime Novel
E-bok, 2015
33 kr
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A New York Times Notable Book: CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson revisits his alternate British monarchy, ensnaring the imagined royal family in a dark conspiracy of kidnapping, politics, scandal, and murderBritain''s beloved Princess Louise is a grown woman now, married to commoner Piers …
