As If By Chance

Author : David Lan
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780571357819

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As if by Chance by David Lan Pdf

A family day at the beach. There's a song, an argument, a dash across the white sand and into the high rolling waves. We're in Cape Town and David Lan is ten years old. Cut to 1969 and, visiting London fresh out of high school, he interviews theatre luminaries Sybil Thorndike, Tom Stoppard, Trevor Nunn, Paul Schofield before heading home to join the South African army. Now it's 1999. We're at the Young Vic where David is interviewed to be artistic director, a job he'd do for eighteen years, ensuring its flowering into a great world theatre. There's a redesign to be imagined, money to be raised, shows to be staged. And when the doors reopen in 2006 we meet the extraordinary artists he draws in: Ivo Van Hove, Jude Law, Richard Jones, Gillian Anderson, Patrice Chereau, Katie Mitchell, Stephen Daldry, the Isango Ensemble, Yerma, The Jungle, The Inheritance. We travel to Peter Brook's Paris, to Iceland in pursuit of a circus Romeo and Juliet, to Lithuania in search of his great grandparents, to a refugee camp in Congo with Joe Wright and Chiwetel Ejiofor, to Broadway for the Tony Awards. There's spirit mediums in the Zambezi Valley, Chekhov's Yalta, Luc Bondy's Vienna, making a BBC film in Angola, rehearsing a new play in Israel/Palestine. Along the way, memories constantly rise to the surface: the Royal Court in the 70s and 90s, school plays, his parents' complicated marriage. Woven through it all is his decades long relationship with playwright Nicholas Wright. At times hilarious and always deeply felt, David Lan's deft travels evoke a wildly varied life in theatre as well as a unique theatre of life.

Author : Kevin Reed Donley
Publisher : Fulton Books, Inc.
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9798885057936

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As If By Chance by Kevin Reed Donley Pdf

The age of print was begun by Johannes Gutenberg in 1440 in Mainz, Germany. His invention of the mechanized and mass production of print replaced the previous handwriting of the scribes and was a transformative achievement. It was both the product of and a catalyst for far-reaching intellectual, social, and political changes that began during the Renaissance and continued for centuries right up to the present. The age of electronic media was begun by Steve Jobs in 1985 in Cupertino, California. His integration of the elements of desktop publishing--personal computer, page-layout software, page-description language, and laser printer--replaced the previous photomechanical processes of printing and was a transformative achievement. It was both the product of and a catalyst for the intellectual, social, and political changes during the digital revolution that will extend for generations into the future. This book discusses these two bookends in the age of print. It follows the transitions and stages of innovation in printing between the fifteenth and twenty-first centuries and shows how the inventors responsible for this progress are bound together in a chain of revolutionary technical change called disruptive continuity. While the works of Gutenberg and Jobs are separated by more than five centuries, there are striking parallels and differences between these two innovations. They both sparked the quantitative expansion of literacy and the spread of knowledge around the world. However, the emergence of electronic publishing--especially in its present-day social media forms--has brought a vast increase in the consumption of information while also heralding a qualitative transformation that places the tools of wireless and mobile multimedia publishing into the hands of billions of people on earth. Much in the same way that there was a historical lag between Gutenberg's invention and the full impact of printing on the world, so too in our own time, the long-term societal consequences of electronic publishing have yet to be realized.

Author : Major General John Strawson
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781447235538

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If By Chance by Major General John Strawson Pdf

Could Napoleon have won the battle of Waterloo? And what would have happened if he had? Or suppose Nelson had not destroyed the French fleet at Aboukir, would Napoleon have conquered India and become Emperor of the East? What if Hitler had not halted his panzer forces before Dunkirk and had entrapped the entire British Expeditionary Force? How would Churchill have then denied the Wehrmacht? If by chance Hitler had been assassinated in 1944 and the German General Staff taken control, would there have been a totally different kind of surrender? In examining these and other contingencies, Major General Strawson brings his experience of command in war and his skill as a military historian to present us with an enthralling catalogue of chance and speculation, while emphasising how profoundly the character of commanders influenced events and how events affected their character.

Author : Richard Bach
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451697469

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Nothing By Chance by Richard Bach Pdf

In Nothing by Chance, Richard Bach shares the adventure of one magical summer he spent as an old-fashioned barnstormer flying an antique biplane. The journey is another soaring adventure of wonder and insight from the author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull.

Author : Tim Thayne
Publisher : Advantage Media Group
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781599323176

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Not by Chance by Tim Thayne Pdf

Your struggling teenager is going to a residential or wilderness treatment program. Their addictions, learning disabilities, or emotional/behavioral issues have brought you to a moment of decision. Heartsick, anxious, and exhausted, questions bounce endlessly around your mind, “Will this work? Was this really necessary? Will she ever forgive me? Can we handle him at home when the time comes?” Dr. Tim Thayne delivers the answers in his groundbreaking book Not by Chance. As an owner/therapist of wilderness and residential programs, Thayne was frustrated when young people made monumental progress, only to return home where things quickly unraveled. His mission became to vastly improve long-term success by crafting and proving a model to coach parents on their power to lead out through full engagement during treatment and management of the transition home. Not by Chance engages readers through solid research, simple exercises, and captivating stories taken from Thayne’s own life and the living rooms of hundreds of American homes. This book serves up concrete tools, hope, confidence, and stamina for families, professionals and mentors. Topics include: • Why good programs work • How to boost—not undermine—treatment • Nine dangers waiting after discharge • How to identify natural mentors for your teen • What to do when the testing begins • When and how to grant back privileges and freedoms • How to ease your young adult’s transition from treatment to independent living • When you know you’ve succeeded If you are even considering out-of-home treatment for your teen, do not gamble with the outcomes. Not by Chance should claim its rightful place on your nightstand.

Author : Max Eisen
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443448550

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By Chance Alone by Max Eisen Pdf

WINNER of CBC Canada Reads In the tradition of Elie Wiesel’s Night and Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz comes a bestselling new memoir by Canadian survivor Finalist for the 2017 RBC Taylor Prize More than 70 years after the Nazi camps were liberated by the Allies, a new Canadian Holocaust memoir details the rural Hungarian deportations to Auschwitz-Birkenau, back-breaking slave labour in Auschwitz I, the infamous “death march” in January 1945, the painful aftermath of liberation, a journey of physical and psychological healing. Tibor “Max” Eisen was born in Moldava, Czechoslovakia into an Orthodox Jewish family. He had an extended family of sixty members, and he lived in a family compound with his parents, his two younger brothers, his baby sister, his paternal grandparents and his uncle and aunt. In the spring of1944--five and a half years after his region had been annexed to Hungary and the morning after the family’s yearly Passover Seder--gendarmes forcibly removed Eisen and his family from their home. They were brought to a brickyard and eventually loaded onto crowded cattle cars bound for Auschwitz-Birkenau. At fifteen years of age, Eisen survived the selection process and he was inducted into the camp as a slave labourer. One day, Eisen received a terrible blow from an SS guard. Severely injured, he was dumped at the hospital where a Polish political prisoner and physician, Tadeusz Orzeszko, operated on him. Despite his significant injury, Orzeszko saved Eisen from certain death in the gas chambers by giving him a job as a cleaner in the operating room. After his liberation and new trials in Communist Czechoslovakia, Eisen immigrated to Canada in 1949, where he has dedicated the last twenty-two years of his life to educating others about the Holocaust across Canada and around the world. The author will be donating a portion of his royalties from this book to institutions promoting tolerance and understanding.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Theosophy
ISBN : PSU:000058517291

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Lucifer by Anonim Pdf

Author : Diana W.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1543121330

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By Chance by Diana W. Pdf

Love is patient...Love is kind...And it sometimes has the ability to make you lose your mind!Zoe Daniels is a high school teacher, who is recovering from a devastating breakup with a cheating ex. One night when Zoe's cousin invites her out to stop moping, live a little, and have some fun; fate steps in with both feet and offers up a remedy. West Jameson is a typical ladies man, who is out for a good time, has no clue what it means to be in a relationship or in love. But one memorable one night stand, for both good and bad reasons, sends Zoe and West down a spiraling path neither one of them has anticipated.Take this journey with these two as they discover that love isn't always easy but it's worth it. Chances are never given, they're taken...& sometimes love happens purely...By Chance

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : American periodicals
ISBN : UCAL:C2670618

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The Illustrated American by Anonim Pdf

Author : Betty Neels,Mami Ishikawa
Publisher : Harlequin / SB Creative
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-02
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9784596690593

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CASSANDRA BY CHANCE by Betty Neels,Mami Ishikawa Pdf

Cassandra’s older sister has asked her to babysit her children while she goes on a couple’s vacation. She is enjoying life in the beautiful Scottish countryside when her niece and nephew tell her a strange tale of an “ogre” that lives in the mountains. Curious, Cassandra climbs the mountain and is chased away by a cold man who lives there. Benedict, a handsome but unfriendly man, perfectly fits the mold of an ogre. But Cassandra can’t help but wonder why he shuts himself off from everyone around him.

Author : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : American poetry
ISBN : BSB:BSB11665925

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Longfellow's poetical works by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HXTAQD

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All the Year Round by Anonim Pdf

Author : Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780297858720

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I Do Not Come to You by Chance by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani Pdf

'Sparklingly funny' Wired Magazine '[Nwaubani] not merely explores a side of modern existence that touches millions every day, but does so with wit, warmth and insight' Independent 'Beautifully written' Sunday Herald Kingsley is fresh out of university, eager to find an engineering job so he can support his family and marry the girl of his dreams. Being the opara of the family, he is entitled to certain privileges - a piece of meat in his egusi soup, a party to celebrate his graduation. But times are hard in Nigeria and jobs are not easy to come by. For much of his young life, Kingsley believed that education was everything, that through wisdom, all things were possible. But when a tragedy befalls his family, Kingsley learns the hardest lesson of all: education may be the language of success in his country, but it is money that does the talking. In desperation he turns to his uncle, Boniface-aka Cash Daddy-an exuberant character who suffers from elephantiasis of the pocket. He is also rumoured to run a successful empire of email scams. But he can help. With Cash Daddy's intervention, Kingsley and his family can be as safe as a tortoise under its shell. It is up to Kingsley now, to reconcile his passion for knowledge with his hunger for money, to fully assume his role of first son. But can he do it without being drawn into this outlandish milieu?

Author : Becky Cloonan
Publisher : Image Comics
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-26
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781534305748

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By Chance Or Providence by Becky Cloonan Pdf

BY CHANCE OR PROVIDENCE collects BECKY CLOONAN's award-winning trilogy: WOLVES, THE MIRE, and DEMETER, with lush colors by LEE LOUGHRIDGE and a sketchbook/illustration section. These stories cast a spell of hypnotic melancholy, weaving their way through medieval landscapes of ancient curses and terrible truths that will haunt you long after you've set them down.

Author : Sally John
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1410412148

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A Journey by Chance by Sally John Pdf

Everybody knows everything in Valley Oaks, population 1947. And that puts Dr. Gina Philips at a distinct disadvantage when she arrives from Southern California for her favorite cousin's wedding. Had Gina really thought four weeks in the Midwest would help her recover from a failed relationship, a lost job, and a serious injury? On top of all that, Gina's mother unexpectedly reveals a secret that forever changes how Gina views her family.