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This work captures personal experience of the Armys Surgeon General as a military doctor in crisis and war, spanning 30 years from Northern Ireland; through Kosovo to the Iraq and Afghanistan campaigns; culminating in the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russo-Ukraine war.Poetry provides the ability to say what is otherwise difficult or unpalatable. Some of the poems are critical and challenging. Some are humorous, as dark humour is a well-recognised resilience tool of the soldier. All are observationaland all are grounded in the realities of crisis and conflict.It is likely you have read war poetry from the perspectives of the combat soldier: but this book is the alternative perspective of those who manage the consequences of war. The work exposes that saving lives in conflict, picking up the human pieces, takes a toll on the carers. Writing these poems has been a means for the author to sustain mental resilience and to cope with serial morally injurious events.

Its about the question of the "right life". When Paul receives a life-threatening diagnosis, the answer is all the more urgent. Together with his friend, he begins a journey through time, back to the days of his childhood. Pauls grandparents conventional philosophy of life, which always found its own individual expression while safeguarding their own interests, makes his carefree childhood at Lake Starnberg appear in a different light in retrospect. By interweaving the 1950s with the present, Paul comes closer to understanding. And even if, from todays perspective, he considers quite a few of the arrangements of the time to be questionable, his benevolent, appreciative attitude brings him very close to "life lived properly".

Mountaineering on Kilimanjaro, swimming in the Amazon or crossing the Sahara - there is probably no adventure that Richard Gruber would say no to. He describes extraordinary vacation experiences in a pleasantly factual and knowledgeable manner, but also provides an insight into the culture and history of the countries he has visited.His memories focus on the highlights of his numerous trips, fascinating natural spectacles and unique encounters. Rounded off with numerous pictures, these travelogues will not only make adventurers hearts beat faster, but will also make lovers of balconies visit their nearest travel agency.

Two brothers, two fates, a turbulent time. In the 20th century, Alfred and Ernst Hofer are drawn from the tranquil Emmental to faraway places. But in the turmoil of the Russian Revolution, Alfred is forced to flee in a hurry and soon settles in France. But even there he had to fear for his life because of the horrors of the Second World War and the dangerous actions of the Resistance. The merchant Ernst ended up in Italy and Paris, but the First World War forced him to serve as an infantry corporal at the front. The Great Depression also brought setbacks, but Ernst did not give up. The two eyewitness accounts allow us to share in the extraordinary lives of two brothers in a time of upheaval, in which they courageously fought for their survival.

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Box inédito reúne três grandes romances de Alice Walker, incluindo sua obra-prima, A cor púrpura, vencedor do Pulitzer e do American Book Award, adaptado pela segunda vez para o cinema. Este box apre

A devastating attack on a luxury hotel in Bali triggers a red alert in South East Asia. American special agent Robin is sent to Singapore to lead the fight against Islamist terrorists in the region. The hardened and experienced agent relies on stealth and deception to infiltrate the terrorist cells, but will not shy away from merciless liquidations if necessary. In the fascinating exotic ambience of Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, a bitter struggle with many dramatic twists and turns ensues, with the agent also experiencing many a nasty surprise.The fact that Robin knows her way around in all situations is not only demonstrated by her acquaintance with the young Frenchman Julien ...

Isa is married, has two grown-up children, works as a freelancer for a translation agency and is involved in the cultural sector. Tim is a successful theater and film actor, freedom-loving, unattached and over ten years younger than Isa. A deep bond develops from an encounter after a performance and subsequent conversations. The intensity of their love and the kindred spirit that exists between them changes both of their lives. They have no choice, these feelings force them to cross conventional boundaries, even though the fear of loss is great. Will they find a way?

Widowed Sam Price inherited the journals of his great-grandfather, and his great-grandfathers love of art. On a visit to a Parisian auction house, Sam sees a painting his great-grandfather once owned and questions its authenticity. This leads to the auction house offering him a job valuing artworks and establishing their provenance.When "the Item" is stolen, Sam helps to find it, but is it actually a forgery? While Sam researches its provenance, the story jumps from present to past to follow the lives it has touched.In the course of his research Sam comes into contact with four different women. Will one these become his new love? And what secrets do his great-grandfathers journals contain which may help to find the missing artworks and solve the crimes?

The short play very traditional to Irish theatre is a little jewel of a structure, a lightning flash on a different world, the illumination made all the more acute by brevity Deirdre KinahanDeirdre Kinahan is an award-winning playwright and member of Aosdana, Irelands elected organisation of outstanding artists. This volume brings together five of her short plays, taken from the full span of her writing career, each of them shining a light into a forgotten corner of our humanity, giving voice to irrepressible characters that the world has done its best to overlook.In Be Carna (Tall Tales, 1999), five women reflect on their lives as prostitutes on the streets of Dublin, a dark tale inspired by true-life stories, reverberating with humanity, warmth and comic humour.In Hue & Cry(Tall Tales/Bewleys Cafe Theatre, 2007), two Dublin cousins, Damian and Kevin, are reunited for a family funeral in a highly charged encounter full of disillusion, denial and dark laughter.In Bogboy(Tall Tales/Solstice Arts Centre, 2010), originally written as a radio play for RTE, two lost souls a young heroin addict and a reclusive middle-aged farmer discover a budding friendship in the bogs of Meath, until a terrible secret comes to light.Wild Notes (Solas Nua, Washington D.C., 2018) explores the impact of colonialism through a meeting between Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave and abolitionist who visited Ireland in the 1840s, and a young Irishwoman hoping to emigrate to the country hes running from.An Old Song, Half Forgotten (Abbey Theatre, 2023) opens a window into the life and soul of an older actor who is living in care with Alzheimers disease, rebuilding a man just as he begins to crack and fade. Winner of the inaugural Pratchett Prize for challenging the stigma of Alzheimers Disease.

Reunião inédita dos poemas da grande Adalgisa Nery, escritora que retorna à vitrine da poesia brasileira, após quase 50 anos da publicação de seu último livro. "O acontecimento poético mais notável f

Zum 250. Geburtstag von Samuel Taylor Coleridge erscheint diese Auswahl von Gedichten, die den unbestrittenen Kern seines Werkes bilden und mit denen er sich als einer der groen sechs Dichter der englischen Romantik etablierte, neben Blake, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley und Keats.Die vorliegende handliche Auslese ist abwechslungsreich und lohnend, zumal es bis heute nie eine Ubertragung einer solchen Auswahl in deutscher Sprache gab. Immer wieder nachgedichtet wurden der Alte Seemann und Kubla Khan, doch entzog sich beispielsweise die fesselnde und ratselhafte Christabel neben vielen anderen Blankversen bis anhin der Ubersetzung.

Considerado por críticos e historiadores literários como uma dos romances mais importantes da literatura brasileira, A Pedra do Reino, de Ariano Suassuna, em 2021está completando 50 anos de sua primeira publicaço. Em comemoraço a esta data, a Nova Fronteira lança este box que traz, alem do romance propriamente dito, um belissimo Caderno de Textos e Imagens, contendo a reproduço de varios documentos e obras de arte ligados ao seu processo de criaço e a sua divulgaço, incluindo preciosidades do acervo do escritor que fazem do conjunto um inestimavel presente para os seus leitores e os estudiosos da literatura brasileira, de um modo geral. Dentre estas preciosidades, trechos do manuscrito "Sinesio, o Alumioso", a mais antiga verso da narrativa de Quaderna, datado de 1958 e ate hoje jamais divulgado, na integra ou em parte, e o texto integral da tambem ate hoje inedita "concluso" que Suassuna escreveu para uma verso televisiva do romance, cuja estreia ocorreu em 2007. A seleço, organizaço e apresentaço do volume especial so assinadas por Carlos Newton Junior, o projeto grafico de todo o conjunto e de autoria de Ricardo Gouveia de Melo, e a direço de arte, bem como as ilustraçes das capas, so de Manuel Dantas Suassuna, filho do escritor.

A Cor da vida – um mergulho singular no conteúdo!A Cor da vida se lê também: Acorda, vida, e ainda A corda vida.Violão de sete cordas, sete cores do arco-íris, que a nossa visão adentra – cada pessoa

In this collection of plays from one of our finest dramatists, Caryl Churchill demonstrates her remarkable ability to find new forms to express profound truths about the world we live in. Complete with a new introduction by the author, this volume contains:Seven Jewish Children (Royal Court Theatre, London, 2009): a short play about seven families wondering how to protect their children, written at the time of the bombing of Gaza by Israel in 20089.Love and Information (Royal Court, 2012): a fast-moving kaleidoscope in which more than a hundred characters try to make sense of what they know.Ding Dong the Wicked (Royal Court, 2012): two families on opposite sides of a war, locked in identical hatred.Here We Go (National Theatre, 2015): a play about dying and being dead.Escaped Alone (Royal Court, 2016): three old friends and an unexpected neighbour have tea in a sunny back yard, and face catastrophes.Pigs and Dogs (Royal Court, 2016): a look at how colonialism crushed the fluidity of sexuality in Africa and brought a new intolerance, as shown in the Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2014.Also included are three previously unpublished short plays, each written in response to political events: War and Peace Gaza Piece (2014), Tickets are Now On Sale (2015) and Beautiful Eyes (2017).The wit, invention and structural ingenuity of Churchills work are remarkable she never does anything twiceTelegraphThe most dazzlingly inventive living dramatist in the English languageNew York Times

Two plays by David Edgar, written thirty-five years apart, both exploring the theme of youth and revolution.Maydays tells the story of the twenty-somethings who came of age in 1968 and were drawn into revolutionary politics; of defection from East to West as well as from Left to Right. It is told through a number of interlocking stories, across three continents and twenty-five years of tumultuous history.First performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Barbican, London, in 1983, Maydays was revived in this new version, also by the RSC, in 2018.Trying It On is an autobiographical monologue, written to be performed by Edgar, in which the author at seventy confronts the ideals of his twenty-something self. Does he still share the beliefs which once defined him as a person and as an artist? If not, is it he that has changed, or the world itself?Presented by Warwick Arts Centre and China Plate, Trying It On toured the UK in 2018, including performances at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, the Midlands Arts Centre and at the Royal Court Theatre, London as well as at the Royal Shakespeare Company, alongside the revival of Maydays.This edition also includes a new introduction by the author.

This third richly varied collection of plays by Marina Carr was published to coincide with the Royal Shakespeare Companys premiere of Hecuba at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, in September 2015.Sixteen Possible Glimpses imagines sixteen fleeting moments in Anton Chekhovs short life and work. Phaedra Backwards retells the Phaedra myth to discover what shaped her. The Map of Argentina offers a meditation on love and what happens when it is denied, or pursued and hunted down. Hecuba was written in reaction to the bad press this Trojan queen receives, and reimagines how she may have suffered and reacted. Indigo is a dark and passionate romance amongst fairies, demons, ghouls and every sort of fantastic creature out of folklore and myth.

Four plays from award-winning playwright Fin Kennedy, created in parnership with Mulberry School in East London - ideal for performance by schools and youth groups.Tender, uncompromising, haunting and lyrical, these four plays together comprise a contemporary chronicle of the lives of East Londons young women.In The Urban Girls Guide to Camping, four young friends leave the city behind and head into the wilderness, but a burning secret threatens to tear their lives apart. A bittersweet comedy about life, love and friendship once school is long gone.Mehndi Nightis a touching family tale about resentment and forgiveness on the night before a wedding, exploring the pleasures and pains of a cross-cultural identity in twenty-first century Britain.From the heart of Londons East End, Stolen Secretsare urban fairytales, bold, lyrical and gruesome, that can be performed individually or together for maximum shock value.In The Unravelling, a dying mother challenges her daughters to weave her the greatest tale, using nothing more than pieces of cloth. A Fringe First Award-winning fable about the power of mythology to change your life.These plays are the result of a unique four-year partnership between award-winning playwright Fin Kennedy and Mulberry School in East London. Originally performed by the school at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and at Southwark Playhouse, London, they are written in an ensemble storytelling style that will suit younger performance groups around the country, especially those looking for predominantly female roles.

N. F. Simpson was one of the leading exponents of the theatre of the absurd, and is best known for his play A Resounding Tinkle, made famous by its premiere at the Royal Court in 1957, and later to star Peter Cook. But beyond that he was a major force in the satire boom of the sixties, and wrote much exceptional comedy for film and TV for the likes of John Cleese, Beryl Reid, Hattie Jacques and Eric Sykes, as well as a number of brilliantly funny plays for theatre, which starred big names such as Harold Pinter and Kenneth Williams. His influence on everyone from Peter Cooks much-loved character E. L. Wisty to Monty Pythons Flying Circus helped spawn a generation of incredible comic talent. Plays included in the collection are A Resounding Tinkle, The Hole, Gladly Otherwise, One Way Pendulum, The Cresta Run, Was He Anyone? and his final work, If So, Then Yes, first performed in 2010. This collection celebrates the work of this lost comic genius, and seeks to put his reputation back at the heart of British - and world - comedy.

Winner of the Kekoo Naoroji Award Doug Scott was a legend among mountaineers. His expeditions, undertaken over a period of five decades, are unparalleled achievements. This book describes the extraordinary drama of them all, from the Himalaya to New Zealand, Patagonia, Yosemite and Alaska. It includes his famous epic on The Ogre, one of the hardest peaks in the world to climb, his ascent of Kangchenjunga without supplementary oxygen and his ascent, with Dougal Haston, of Everest in 1975. Catherine Moorehead also uncovers the elusive man behind the obsessive mountaineer. From his rumbustious youth in Nottingham through two tempestuous marriages to a secure third marriage, she shows how Scott matured in thought and action as his formidable global reputation increased. In doing so she reveals him to be a clash of opposites, an infuriating monomaniac who took extraordinary risks yet who developed a deep interest in Buddhism and inspired widespread affection. Scott spent almost as long as his climbing career in founding and developing Community Action Nepal, providing schools and health posts in remote parts of Nepal, where he is still much revered. Doug Scott died in 2020.