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Competing with Idiots

Herman and Joe Mankiewicz, a Dual Portrait

by Nick Davis ...

A fascinating, complex dual biography of Hollywood's most dazzling—and famous—brothers, and a dark, riveting portrait of competition, love, and enmity that ultimately undid them both.One most famous for having written Citizen Kane (with Orson Welles, as most recently portrayed in David Fincher's acclaimed Netflix film, Mank); the other, All About Eve; one, who only wrote screenplays but believed ... Read more

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A fascinating, complex dual biography of Hollywood's most dazzling—and famous—brothers, and a dark, riveting portrait of competition, love, and enmity that ultimately undid them both.One most famous for having written Citizen Kane (with Orson Welles, as most recently portrayed in David Fincher's acclaimed Netflix film, Mank); the other, All About Eve; one, who only wrote screenplays but believed
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Enchantment and Dis-enchantment in Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama

Wonder, the Sacred, and the Supernatural

Edited by Nandini Das, Nick Davis ...

Series series Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
This volume addresses dealings with the wondrous, magical, holy, sacred, sainted, numinous, uncanny, auratic, and sacral in the plays of Shakespeare and contemporaries, produced in an era often associated with the irresistible rise of a thinned-out secular rationalism. By starting from the literary text and looking outwards to social, cultural, and historical aspects, it comes to grips with the ... Read more

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This volume addresses dealings with the wondrous, magical, holy, sacred, sainted, numinous, uncanny, auratic, and sacral in the plays of Shakespeare and contemporaries, produced in an era often associated with the irresistible rise of a thinned-out secular rationalism. By starting from the literary text and looking outwards to social, cultural, and historical aspects, it comes to grips with the
... Read more
The Misuse of Alcohol

Crucial Issues in Dependence Treatment and Prevention

Edited by Nick Heather, Ian H. Robertson, Phil Davies ...

Series series Routledge Library Editions: Alcohol and Alcoholism
In the 1980s the study of alcoholism was in a period of rapid change, this book, originally published in 1985, identifies and explores the three most controversial contemporary issues: changes at the basic explanatory level in our concept of harmful drinking; the undermining of our confidence that drinking behaviour can be effectively modified in the traditional context of ‘treatment’; and the ... Read more

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In the 1980s the study of alcoholism was in a period of rapid change, this book, originally published in 1985, identifies and explores the three most controversial contemporary issues: changes at the basic explanatory level in our concept of harmful drinking; the undermining of our confidence that drinking behaviour can be effectively modified in the traditional context of ‘treatment’; and the
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Cuckoo

Cheating by Nature

by Nick Davies ...

A gifted biologist's careful and beguiling study of why cuckoos have got away with tricking other birds into hatching and raising their young for thousands of years.The familiar call of the common cuckoo, “cuck-oo,” has been a harbinger of spring ever since our ancestors walked out of Africa many thousands of years ago. However, for naturalist and scientist Nick Davies, the call is an invitation ... Read more

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A gifted biologist's careful and beguiling study of why cuckoos have got away with tricking other birds into hatching and raising their young for thousands of years.The familiar call of the common cuckoo, “cuck-oo,” has been a harbinger of spring ever since our ancestors walked out of Africa many thousands of years ago. However, for naturalist and scientist Nick Davies, the call is an invitation
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How to Be Great at The Stuff You Hate

The Straight-Talking Guide to Networking, Persuading and Selling

by Nick Davies ...

You have to do it… you might as well enjoy itNo one likes a pushy, smarmy salesman – no one wants to be that guy ... but most of us need to sell to some extent. How else can we get any business? We all have to do it now, whether we're lawyers, accountants or start-ups. But don't despair – there's no need to go on some cringey sales training day. How to be Great at the Stuff You Hate shows you how ... Read more

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You have to do it… you might as well enjoy itNo one likes a pushy, smarmy salesman – no one wants to be that guy ... but most of us need to sell to some extent. How else can we get any business? We all have to do it now, whether we're lawyers, accountants or start-ups. But don't despair – there's no need to go on some cringey sales training day. How to be Great at the Stuff You Hate shows you how
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The Best Selling Coach

Business Development for Business Coaches, Consultants and Advisors

by Rebecca Bonnington, Nick Davies ...

Written by a sister and brother team with 35 years of combined experience, this book demystifies business development and offers a simple and highly effective method of selling for business coaches and consultants.Selling professional services, particularly for new or aspiring consultants, can seem daunting and distasteful. This book shows that it doesn’t need to be this way and, using a four ... Read more

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Written by a sister and brother team with 35 years of combined experience, this book demystifies business development and offers a simple and highly effective method of selling for business coaches and consultants.Selling professional services, particularly for new or aspiring consultants, can seem daunting and distasteful. This book shows that it doesn’t need to be this way and, using a four
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You Had To Be There

How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution, Spread Love and Overalls, and Created a Community That Changed the World

by Jane Mendelsohn, Stewart F Lane, Nick Davis ...

In 1972, a little-known Toronto production of Godspell brought together an extraordinary collection of young performers who would go on to transform comedy, theatre, television, and popular culture.Martin Short. Gilda Radner. Eugene Levy. Andrea Martin. Victor Garber. Paul Shaffer.Long before they became household names, they shared a stage, experimented with new ideas, forged lasting friendships, ... Read more

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In 1972, a little-known Toronto production of Godspell brought together an extraordinary collection of young performers who would go on to transform comedy, theatre, television, and popular culture.Martin Short. Gilda Radner. Eugene Levy. Andrea Martin. Victor Garber. Paul Shaffer.Long before they became household names, they shared a stage, experimented with new ideas, forged lasting friendships,
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Flat Earth News

AN AWARD WINNING REPORTER EX

by Nick Davies ...

Narrated by Steven Crossley ...

Unabridged

17 hours 44 min

Finally I was forced to admit that I work in a corrupted profession." When award-winning journalist Nick Davies decided to break Fleet Street's unwritten rule by investigating his own colleagues, he found that the business of reporting the truth had been slowly subverted by the mass production of ignorance. Working with a network of off-the-record sources, Davies uncovered the story of the ... Read more

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Finally I was forced to admit that I work in a corrupted profession." When award-winning journalist Nick Davies decided to break Fleet Street's unwritten rule by investigating his own colleagues, he found that the business of reporting the truth had been slowly subverted by the mass production of ignorance. Working with a network of off-the-record sources, Davies uncovered the story of the
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Birthplace of Dreams

The First Home of the Brontës

by Mark Davis, Steven Stanworth ...

Patrick Brontë was to say later in his life ‘Thornton, my happiest years.’Who would have thought that this humble little terraced property on the outskirts of Bradford in the village of Thornton was to be the birthplace of incredible literary genius? For in this house three girls were born early in the nineteenth century whose collective ability to weave magic with words created novels that are ... Read more

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Patrick Brontë was to say later in his life ‘Thornton, my happiest years.’Who would have thought that this humble little terraced property on the outskirts of Bradford in the village of Thornton was to be the birthplace of incredible literary genius? For in this house three girls were born early in the nineteenth century whose collective ability to weave magic with words created novels that are
... Read more
The Desiring-Image

Gilles Deleuze and Contemporary Queer Cinema

by Nick Davis ...

The Desiring-Image yields new models of queer cinema produced since the late 1980s, based on close formal analysis of diverse films as well as innovative contributions to current film theory. The book defines "queer cinema" less as a specific genre or in terms of gay and lesbian identity, but more broadly as a kind of filmmaking that conveys sexual desire and orientation as potentially fluid ... Read more

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The Desiring-Image yields new models of queer cinema produced since the late 1980s, based on close formal analysis of diverse films as well as innovative contributions to current film theory. The book defines "queer cinema" less as a specific genre or in terms of gay and lesbian identity, but more broadly as a kind of filmmaking that conveys sexual desire and orientation as potentially fluid
... Read more
Stories of Chaos

Reason and its Displacement in Early Modern English Narrative

by Nick Davis ...

Series series Routledge Revivals
First published in 1999, this volume re-examines narrative design in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Faerie Queene, King Lear and Paradise Lost. Written in a period newly set on finding practical application for available systems of reasoning, these texts confront in their different ways reason’s absolute limitation in the face of a Real which it cannot adequately represent to itself or ... Read more

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First published in 1999, this volume re-examines narrative design in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Faerie Queene, King Lear and Paradise Lost. Written in a period newly set on finding practical application for available systems of reasoning, these texts confront in their different ways reason’s absolute limitation in the face of a Real which it cannot adequately represent to itself or
... Read more
Jamaica - Culture Smart!

The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

by Nick Davis, Culture Smart! ...

Series series Culture Smart!
Laid back, sun-drenched tropical paradise, or hotbed of drug-related crime and violence? Neither stereotype is true. Jamaica suffers from a PR problem, created largely by tabloid headlines written thousands of miles away. The reality is more complex and more fascinating. Despite its small size, Jamaica punches above its weight. Its footprints in sport and music are, like its people, larger than ... Read more

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Laid back, sun-drenched tropical paradise, or hotbed of drug-related crime and violence? Neither stereotype is true. Jamaica suffers from a PR problem, created largely by tabloid headlines written thousands of miles away. The reality is more complex and more fascinating. Despite its small size, Jamaica punches above its weight. Its footprints in sport and music are, like its people, larger than
... Read more

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