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This clear and comprehensive manual contains everything you need to know in order to create and portray armed stage fights with the rapier and dagger (or just a rapier) that are dramatically effective, and, above all, safe.Starting with the essential concepts, including footwork, eye contact, targeting and distance, it then takes you step by step through all the key techniques:Performing attack moves including slashing and slicing, thrusting, and cutting Parrying moves and defending yourself against attacks using a single weapon or two weapons together Counterattacks such as taking control of your partners blade and ripostes Each technique is clearly described and extensively illustrated, with accompanying online videos demonstrating every move. Also included are sections on how to put together your own fight sequences, make them dramatically compelling and realistic, and convey your characters pain, wound or death.Whether you are an actor preparing for a role with a sword fight, or a student learning your craft, this book will help you execute the techniques with precision and control, build your confidence and keep you safe. It also helps you to recognise when you may need to call upon the services of a qualified professional. For those already trained in stage combat, it will serve as an invaluable refresher as well as supplementing your ongoing training.Whatever your current level of experience, Stage Combat: Armed is a vital resource for directors, actors, students and teachers, or indeed anyone looking to incorporate safe, effective sword fights into their stage productions.Roger Bartlett is a professional fight director and Master Teacher for the British Academy of Stage & Screen Combat (BASSC), the UKs leading provider of stage-combat training. He is also the author of Stage Combat: Unarmed.

A collection to inspire discussions, debate and embolden the difficulties faced by women in the healthcare system.This is a bilingual anthology of new writing from 13 women poets of Wales who suffer with pain and/or chronic illness and health conditions. The aim of the book is to bring about change in legislation, and a voice for the women of Wales and beyond, who are not given the autonomy and power of voice to speak up about their own bodies within the patriarchal healthcare system. The book will be distributed in GP surgeries and healthcare settings and is designed to open up conversations for the women and men that use them and work in them. The book is edited by Hanan Issa and Gwyneth Lewis. A powerful and unflinching collection of poems about living with long term health conditions.It is an act of testimony, a call to awareness, and, in many ways, a rallying cry. Dr Helen Munro, Clinical Lead Womens Health Network in WalesI hope that any woman reading this will find comfort in these pages. You may be unwell. The future may be uncertain. But you are not alone and do not have to endure pain by yourself. Hanan Issa, National Poet of WalesAll the poets in this book have, in some way found the creative resources to respond to the surreal world of illness in poems that show insight, generosity and a joy that defy the downward pull of being constantly ill at ease. This is a significant human achievement. Gwyneth LewisCasgliad pwerus a dewr o gerddi yn trafod byw gyda chyflyrau iechyd hirdymor.Fel cyfanwaith, maer gyfrol hon yn weithred o dystiolaeth, yn alwad am ymwybyddiaeth, ac, mewn sawl ffordd, yn gri i godi llais. Dr Helen Munro, Arweinydd Clinigol Rhwydwaith Iechyd Menywod yng NghymruRwyn gobeithio y bydd unrhyw fenyw syn darllen yn canfod cysur yn y tudalennau hyn. Efallai eich bod yn sal. Efallai bod y dyfodol yn ansicr. Ond dydych chi ddim ar eich pen eich hun a does dim rhaid i chi ddioddef poen ar eich pen eich hun. Hanan Issa, Bardd Cenedlaethol CymruMae pob un or beirdd yn y gyfrol hon wedi ... dod o hyd i adnoddau creadigol i ymateb i fyd swrrealaidd salwch mewn cerddi syn dangos dealltwriaeth a haelioni yn ogystal a llawenydd syn gwrthsefyll syrthni anhwylder. Mae hon yn gamp fenywol arwyddocaol. Gwyneth Lewis

Há dores que o tempo não cura, apenas adia. Pedágios da Alma nasce desse território profundo onde memória, emoção e fé se cruzam. O livro convida o leitor a caminhar por dentro de si mesmo, reconhece

Após a mãe de Alan sofrer um AVC com sequelas severas, a família se uniu em um desafio íntimo de cuidado e dedicação. Os papéis se inverteram: os filhos, junto ao pai, se tornaram cuidadores, trocand

Nuri is a beekeeper; his wife, Afra, an artist. They live a simple life, rich in family and friends, in the beautiful Syrian city of Aleppo until the unthinkable happens. When all they care for is destroyed by war, they are forced to escape. On their terrifying journey, they must face the pain of their own unbearable loss alongside incredible danger. Above all, they must journey to find each other again. This compassionate and beautiful play is a story of connection between friends, families and strangers.Nesrin Alrefaai and Matthew Spanglers adaptation of Christy Lefteris bestselling novel The Beekeeper of Aleppo was first seen at Nottingham Playhouse and on tour in 2023, and is revived in 2026.

Neste terceiro volume da coleção César Aira, uma nova leva de novelitas inéditas no Brasil dão a ver a criatividade inesgotável deste que é um dos mais importantes escritores da América Latina. Desde

Você acredita que seus pensamentos são privados?Ada Web acreditava. Como psicanalista, oferecia aos pacientes o mais sagrado na era digital: privacidade absoluta. Até descobrir que ALGO a observava.A

Over almost seventy years, the original Land Rover evolved from the ground-breaking Series I model in 1948 to the final Defender in 2016. Now there is a totally new Defender for the 2020s.Land Rover charts the history of the authentic bloodline in this carefully compiled collection of striking and, in some instances, very rare photographs.It presents the memorable mileposts and bizarre diversions in an astonishingly long life and is a rich visual tribute to the genius and guts of these legendary vehicles.

Marco do pragmatismo, A vontade de crer investiga a relação entre fé, razão e experiência. Nesta tradução rigorosa e fluente, William James questiona a origem de nossas crenças e o limite da racional

Acclaimed maritime historian William H. Miller presents a vivid collection of photographs charting a century of cruising the ocean waves from the 1920s to the start of the current cruising boom.100 Years of Cruise Ships in Colour includes many early, often seasonal, liners, along with the more purposeful generation of floating hotels that began in the 1960s.There are favourites, such as the pre-Second World War Franconia, Reliance, Nieuw Amsterdam and Normandie; then, in greater numbers, a fleet starting from the 1950s and 60s ships such as the Caronia, Andes, Queen of Bermuda, Nassau, Italia, Bahama Star, Reina Del Mar, Oceanic, Skyward, Song of Norway, Hamburg, Royal Viking Star and Queen Elizabeth 2. Finally, steaming into the twenty-first century, we see the likes of the Royal Princess, Statendam, Crystal Symphony, Oriana, Queen Mary 2, Allure of the Seas and Viking Star.This is a magnificent scrapbook of a great and grand generation of ships.

Fruto de um incansável trabalho de jornalismo investigativo, este é o primeiro grande livro a expor a realidade catastrófica do comércio global de lixo — um negócio clandestino cuja finalidade é desp

A first-class mysteryBernard OKeeffe is on a roll to the big time Daily Mail. Perfect comfort reading The Times. An enthralling mix of mystery and murder Mail on Sunday. An enthralling mix of mystery and murder Mail on Sunday. What goes around comes around on the carousel of time. Every summer four friends gather at Barnes Fair to ride the carousel in memory of Esther, the school friend they lost in a car crash they were all involved in as teenagers.This year, the morning after the fair, one of those friends, Shelley Gregory, is found murdered on that very carousel. DI Garibaldi has questions to ask. Who killed Shelley, and why there? Is her death linked to the tragedy the friends commemorate each year, or do the answers lie closer to home in the quiet Thameside village of Barnes, where Shelley was well known but not always well liked? As Garibaldi pieces together the events of that summer night, he uncovers dark undercurrents beneath Barness genteel surface and begins to see the truth: what goes around comes around when you ride the carousel of time.

As long as you only have one sort of person telling the stories, well then our world will just end up looking very like that one sort of person. It makes sense, doesnt it?1841. Mary Ann Evans is of marriageable age. Her father has recently moved with her to Bird Grove House, with the sole purpose of finding her a suitable husband. But Mary Anns remarkable intellect and growing self-confidence are forming progressive new ideas in her mind; ideas that challenge her fathers most strongly held beliefs.If she is to become the writer she has always dreamt of being, Mary Ann will have to break every societal convention expected of her.A funny and poignant exploration of family ties and self-determination, Alexi Kaye Campbells play Bird Grove tells the untold story of the woman who was to become one of Englands greatest writers: George Eliot. It premiered at Hampstead Theatre, London, in 2026, directed by Anna Ledwich.

Com lirismo e ironia, o autor mais emblemático do Harlem Renaissance narra os medos e fantasias que fundamentam a violência racial e, ao mesmo tempo, as micro resistências cotidianas aos caprichos da

Some islands are erased from maps.Others are erased from memory.This story belongs to the latter.!Island of the Damned is not merely a work of speculative fiction. It is an examination of a recurring human impulsethe belief that isolation grants permission, that secrecy absolves responsibility, and that power, when hidden far enough from public sight, can reshape morality itself.Across history, islands have served as laboratories of ambition. Removed from law, distanced from conscience, they become ideal vessels for experimentationnot only on bodies, but on ethics, identity, and the very definition of humanity. In this novel, Aethelburg Island stands as such a place: a sealed ecosystem where science detaches from accountability, where progress is pursued without restraint, and where the human form becomes raw material.Island of the Damned asks a simple but unsettling question:If humanity could be redesigned.Who would be trusted to decide what must be removed?This book does not offer comfort. It offers reflection. It invites the reader to confront the seductive nature of control, the danger of believing oneself exempt from moral limits, unsettling truths

"A Science-Fiction Novel"The Gods of Mars is a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs and the second of Burroughs Barsoom series.The Gods of Mars is a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs and the second of Burroughs Barsoom series. It features the characters of John Carter and Carters wife Dejah Thoris. It was first published in The All-Story as a five-part serial in the issues for January-May 1913. It was later published as a complete novel by A. C. McClurg in September, 1918 and in many editions subsequently.As usual for him, Burroughs begins with a frame story that explains how he (Burroughs) came into possession of the text. At the end of the first book, A Princess of Mars, John Carter was unwillingly transported back to Earth. The story proper begins with his arrival back on Barsoom (Mars) after a ten-year separation with Dejah Thoris, their unborn child, and the Red Martian people of the nation of Helium, whom he has adopted as his own. Unfortunately, Carter materializes in the one place on Barsoom from which nobody is allowed to depart: the Valley Dor, which is the Barsoomian afterlife.

Glenn Killbourne and his fiancee Carley Burch find a strange test of their love in the mountains and canyons of Arizona.What subtle strange message had come to her out of the West? Carley Burch laid the letter in her lap and gazed dreamily through the window.It was a day typical of early April in New York, rather cold and gray, with steely sunlight. Spring breathed in the air, but the women passing along Fifty-seventh Street wore furs and wraps. She heard the distant clatter of an L train and then the hum of a motor car. A hurdy-gurdy jarred into the interval of quiet."Glenn has been gone over a year," she mused, "three months over a year-and of all his strange letters this seems the strangest yet."She lived again, for the thousandth time, the last moments she had spent with him. It had been on New-Years Eve, 1918. They had called upon friends who were staying at the McAlpin, in a suite on the twenty-first floor overlooking Broadway. And when the last quarter hour of that eventful and tragic year began slowly to pass with the low swell of whistles and bells, Carleys friends had discreetly left her alone with her lover, at the open window.

This gentle volume gathers three winter-touched dream journeys by Christopher T. Winters into one continuous collection of calm, stillness, and quiet reflection.Across moonlit snowfields, sleeping gardens, and forests where light itself learns to dream, these stories invite the reader to slow down and rest within carefully crafted atmospheres of silence and warmth. Each narrative unfolds without urgency, allowing the mind to soften and the imagination to drift naturally toward sleep.Winters Quiet Stories Volume I is designed as a companion for nighttime readinga place where thoughts can loosen their grip, breath can deepen, and the world can feel gentle again. There is no conflict to resolve, no tension to overcome. Only presence, memory, and the soft reassurance of quiet landscapes shaped by moonlight.This collection includes: The Moon Wrote Its Quiet Secrets in Snow The Moons Quiet Garden The Forest Where Moonbeams Learned to DreamIdeal for readers seeking calming fiction, bedtime reading for adults, and poetic stories that linger softly at the edge of sleep.

The Boxcar Children is a childrens book series originally created and written by the American first-grade school teacher Gertrude Chandler Warner. The Boxcar Children tells the story of four orphaned children, Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny. They create a home for themselves in an abandoned boxcar in the forest. They eventually meet their grandfather, who is a wealthy and kind man (although the children had believed him to be cruel). The children decide to live with the grandfather, who moves the beloved boxcar to his backyard so the children can use it as a playhouse.When a baker and his wife learn that the children are orphans, they make plans the children dont like. They plan to send the children, who live in a house next door to the bakery, to live with their grandfather, but the children have been brought up to fear their grandfather, whom they have never met, because he did not like their parents marriage. The baker and his wife plan to take the three elder children, who are old enough to be helpful in the bakery, but to send the youngest, Benny to an orphanage.Finding an abandoned boxcar, the children start a new life of work.

Elara, however, had been raised on whispers and forbidden texts by her grandmother, a descendant of a hidden lineage. She wasnt interested in turning lead into gold; she was interested in the essence of things, their vibrational frequency, how they interacted not just on a molecular level, but on a well, a soul level. Her laboratory, powered by scavenged solar cells and hidden beneath a sprawling hydroponics farm, was a haven of bubbling beakers, glowing crucibles, and the pungent aroma of rare earth elements.Above the earth, the Techno-City rose like a monument to precisionglass towers, perfect algorithms, emotions regulated into compliance. Below it, buried beneath living roots and whispered knowledge, alchemy never truly died.Fire still remembered.Matter still listened.And frequency still told the truth.Elara was never interested in turning lead into gold.Gold was inert. Predictable. Dead.Elara, standing at the edge of her hydroponics farm, watched the city bloom with newfound life. She had saved them, not by replacing science, but by complementing it. The age of alchemy had returned, not as a mystical art, but as a vital, missing piece of a complex puzzle