Product Description: Why the need for a new animal-liberation philosophy? We are owning up to our role in the disruption of our climate. Now, we need to do better than react to serial emergencies. It's time to redefine our role within Earth's great biological community...read more

Product Description: In 1934, a group of Ashington miners and a dental mechanic hired a professor from Newcastle University to teach an Art Appreciation evening class. Unable to understand each other, they embarked on one of the most unusual experiments in British art as the pitmen learned to become painters...read more

Product Description: Sensing the need for fresh ideas in advocacy, and the importance of making animal-rights theory relevant in a time of biotechnology, rapid extinctions and climate change, On Their Own Terms: Bringing Animal-Rights Philosophy Down to Earth challenges us to think of ourselves and other conscious beings in new ways...read more

Product Description: (Vocal Selections). A dozen songs from the Elton John/Lee Hall tuner based on the 2000 film about a poor British boy who trades boxing gloves for ballet shoes. Includes: Born to Boogie * Grandma's Song * Once We Were Kings * Shine * Solidarity * The Stars Look Down * and more, in standard piano/vocal format with the melody in the piano part...read more

Product Description: Capers in the Churchyard offers a fresh examination of conduct within a movement that has historically focused on the conduct of others. While noting the contradictions between the acts and ideals of activism that strikes the militant pose, Capers in the Churchyard uncovers the thinking under a spectrum of human ways of regarding the use of other animals...read more

SUPERANNO A totally vegan cookbook, its recipes will appeal to vegetarians and non-vegetarians, first time cooks and experienced chefs. This book is designed to be put to use in the kitchen--with its lay-flat binding, wipe-clean laminated cover, and easy to follow recipes. Bake delicious homemade breads. Try new vegetarian ideas for breakfasts, make sandwiches, salads, soups, and pastas for lunch and dinner. Explore vibrant raw foods. Original.

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Presents a collection of plays by the British dramatist.

Product Description: A new version of Holland's most popular play, brilliantly adapted by Lee HallDisplaying his characteristic disdain for bourgeois hypocrisy, in The Good Hope Heijermans takes up the cause of exploited fishermen. Set in Whitby, this fresh adaptation by Lee Hall breathes new life into a modern European classic...read more

Product Description: Two comic plays by Lee Hall which have had success at the Edinburgh Festival and are coming to London in February 2000Cooking with Elvis is a domestic play that is both farcical and upsetting. Mam and Jill live together in an uneasy calm...read more

Product Description: Set in northern England during the 1984 miner's strike, Billy Elliot tells the story of a young working class boy who chooses not to follow his widowed father's instructions to train to be a boxer. Instead, fascinated by the ballet class sharing the same building as his gym, Billy hangs up his gloves to pursue dreams of being a dancer...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: An award-winning play which took the nation by storm when first heard on BBC Radio 4, now in a new stage versionLee Hall's extraordinary, award-winning play about faith, love and the meaning of life was first broadcast on Radio Four in 1997 to unprecedented acclaim...read more

An intimate account of American postwar art icons Willem and Elaine de Kooning, offers readers a true tale of love, sex, obsession, and artistic genius (view table of contents)

Product Description: Author Lee Hall takes the unusual tack of melding the hypothetical “life” of one mythological being—the goddess Athena—into a single, chronological narrative. By drawing upon the richness of ancient history, archaeology, and classical art and literature, she follows the metamorphosis of Athena’s identity, tracing through it not only the origins of our concepts of justice and revenge, our attitudes toward wisdom and the useful arts, but the disturbing mistrust of women inherited from the ancient world, as well as the struggle between male and female that attended the very birth of western culture...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Containing all four plays from the Radio 4 series IN GOD'S COUNTRY, which deal with life's fundamental issues from a child's point of view. Issues dealt with, by the children in the plays, include questioning the existence of God, faith, coping with death, parental relationships and divorce...read more

Product Description: This work is a dual "biography" of Frederick Law Olmstead, the "father of American landscape architecture" and of the times that helped shape him and his work - and that he, in turn, did much to shape. He stands among America's great innovators, but his story is one of great achievement and miserable failure, of public acclaim and official derision...read more

Product Description: From the breathtaking body decorations of native Americans to the oppressive austerity of their Puritan contemporaries' clothing, from the propriety of Victorian garb to free-and-easy Flapper elegance and the body-beautiful 1980s, this book looks at subjects such as the impact of Levi's riveted denim jeans, the drives for dress reform and the role of clothing in establishing and maintaining distinctions of class, race, age and gender...read more

Recounts the life and career of the woman who brought Abstract Expressionism into the full view of the art world

Product Description: The brilliant and meticulous relief constructions, executed mainly in geometrically shaped bits of natural and colored woods, suggest ordering and reordering, the connections and interconnections between the intellect and the world...read more

Product Description: This leading text examines the meaning of multicultural education from historical and conceptual perspectives. It provides a thorough analysis of the theory and practice of five major approaches to dealing with race, language, social class, gender, disability, and sexual orientation in today's classrooms...read more