Traditional playing cards in a cardboard pack. Poker size 54 card deck 9cm x 6.5 cm. Exact card size 8.7 cm x 6.2 cm. Cards consist of 13 ranks of each of the four suites and 2 jokers. Index labels on opposite corners. Your choice of red back or blue back patterns. View More...
The Crucible is a powerful indictment of McCarthyism and the 'frontier mentality' of Cold War America, published in Penguin Modern Classics.Arthur Miller's classic parable of mass hysteria draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch-hunt of 1692 - 'one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history' - and the American anti-communist purges led by Senator McCarthy in the 1950s. The story of how the small community of Salem is stirred into madness by superstition, paranoia and malice, culminating in a violent climax, is a savage attack on the evils of mindless persecution and th... View More...
Unlike any other league book on the market, Playing Rugby League with Benji Marshall is designed as an instructional and informative guide for young players about how to play the game of Rugby League effectively - the Benji Marshall way. Accompanied by images of Benji showing how each component skill of the game can be mastered, the NRL premiership and World-Cup winning champion provides a unique insight into how the game of Rubgy League should be played. View More...
Florence Scovel Shinn taught generations of readers how to live richer, fuller lives with her four empowering classics: "The Game of Life and How to Play It; Your Word Is Your Wand; The Secret Door to Success; "and "The Power of the Spoken Word. "This volume collects all four of those works, offering a wealth of affirmations and real-life success stories. Self-improvement expert Norman Vincent Peale praised Shinn's works as essential guides, helping readers to "find prosperity, solve problems, and have better health." View More...
Shows you how to play over 25 songs using a range of two octaves; major, minor and seventh chords; 12-bar blues; and turnaround progressions. This book also feature a chord section featuring over 50 different chords.
A set of keyboard stickers is provided for easy identification of keyboard letter names.
No prior knowledge of music or playing the keyboard is required. View More...
A comprehensive, lesson by lesson introduction to the guitar, covering notes on all six strings. Teaches music reading, picking techniques and basic music theory. Covers time signatures, note values, sharps, flats and the chromatic scale. An easy to follow Guitar method for the complete beginner. This book also has special sections on tuning, how to read sheet music and a chord chart. Includes melodies from many well-known songs in a variety of styles. A carefully graded, lesson by lessons method that assumes no prior knowledge of Music or Guitar. All guitarists should know all of the in... View More...
A comprehensive, lesson by lesson introduction to the guitar, covering notes on all six strings. Teaches music reading, picking techniques and basic music theory. Covers time signatures, note values, sharps, flats and the chromatic scale. An easy to follow Guitar method for the complete beginner. This book also has special sections on tuning, how to read sheet music and a chord chart. Includes melodies from many well-known songs in a variety of styles. A carefully graded, lesson by lessons method that assumes no prior knowledge of Music or Guitar. All guitarists should know all of the informat... View More...
Full color photos and diagrams. A comprehensive, lesson by lesson introduction to the guitar, covering notes on all six strings. Teaches music reading, picking techniques and basic music theory. Covers time signatures, note values, sharps, flats and the chromatic scale. An easy to follow Guitar method for the complete beginner. This book also has special sections on tuning, how to read sheet music and a chord chart. Includes melodies from many well-known songs in a variety of styles. A carefully graded, lesson by lessons method that assumes no prior knowledge of Music or Guitar. All guitarists... View More...
Full color photos and diagrams. A comprehensive, lesson by lesson introduction to the guitar, covering notes on all six strings. Teaches music reading, picking techniques and basic music theory. Covers time signatures, note values, sharps, flats and the chromatic scale. An easy to follow Guitar method for the complete beginner. This book also has special sections on tuning, how to read sheet music and a chord chart. Includes melodies from many well-known songs in a variety of styles. A carefully graded, lesson by lessons method that assumes no prior knowledge of Music or Guitar. All guitarists... View More...
Teen idol. King of Pop. Voice of the common man. Australian of the Year. Friend. Icon. Superstar. John Farnham is the quintessential Aussie legend. As a teenager he gave up an apprenticeship to chase his musical dreams, hitting the big time with 'Sadie (The Cleaning Lady)'. A family man at heart, and the most loyal of friends, John was sometimes uncomfortable with the spotlight and for many years struggled to take his career to the heights that those close to him, including Molly Meldrum and Glenn Wheatley, felt it could reach. He finally hit his stride with 1986's Whispering Jack and th... View More...
‘Away was a revelation. For here was an Australian play set in the summer of 1967 68 that was truthful, fantastical, satirical and deeply touching. The characters were immediately recognisable and grounded in reality yet Gow’s quest opened up its claustrophobic, flawed, bittersweet domestic terrain to wider horizons enabling change and self awareness.’ — Bryce Hallett, Sydney Morning Herald One of the great Australian classics, Away opens with a school performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and the timeless Shakespearean themes of suffering, regeneration and reconciliation persist... View More...
This is the ideal guide for those, perhaps starting out in a band, who need to know quickly and simply how to develop the appropriate styles needed to play lead guitar in a rock band. Starting with invaluable information on the background, sounds and guitars of rock, the reader is then provided with description and instruction on the various guitar techniques that can be used. The main section of the book contains useful descriptions and notation samples of the various main rock genres such as soft, alternative, progressive, hard, punk...With helpful pictures, clear accessible text and a pract... View More...
An easy to follow method introducing the basics of Ukulele playing for the complete beginner. Covers essential left and right hand techniques along with chords, rhythms and strumming patterns. Suitable for students of all ages. Includes CD and DVD and Chord Chart Poster. View More...
Progressive Beginner Ukulele contains all you need to know to start learning to be a great ukele player - in one easy-to-follow, lesson-by-lesson ukulele tutorial.
Suitable for all ages and all types of ukuleles including concert ukulele, soprano ukulele and tenor ukulele. No prior knowledge of how to read music or playing the uculele is required to teach yourself to learn to play ukulele from this book.
Comes with instructions to receive free online video & audio demonstrating all examples. See and hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along with the backing band. Also inc... View More...
'One of the hottest, sultriest plays ever written' Guardian 'Big Daddy' Pollitt, the richest cotton planter in the Mississippi Delta, is about to celebrate his sixty-fifth birthday. His two sons have returned home for the occasion- Gooper, his wife and children, Brick, an ageing football hero who has turned to drink, and his feisty wife Maggie. As the hot summer evening unfolds, the veneer of happy family life and Southern gentility gradually slips away as unpleasant truths emerge and greed, lies, jealousy and suppressed sexuality threaten to reach boiling point. Made into a film starring Eliz... View More...
In Cat on a Hot Tin Roof a Southern family meet to celebrate 'Big Daddy' Pollit's birthday- Gooper with his wife and children, his brother Brick - an ageing, broken football star - and his wife Maggie. But as the party unfolds the facade of a happy family gathering is fractured by sexual frustration, repressed love, and greed in the light of their father's impending death.
This Student Edition provides an extensive introduction and notes by Philip C. Kolin, a world authority on Williams. The introduction includes- a chronology of Williams' life and times; a summary of the plot, commentary... View More...
A Student Handbook to the Plays of Tennessee Williams provides the essential guide to Williams' most studied and revived dramas. Authored by a team of leading scholars, it offers students a clear analysis and detailed commentary on four of Williams' plays- The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Sweet Bird of Youth. A consistent framework of analysis ensures that whether readers are wanting a summary of the play, a commentary on the themes or characters, or a discussion of the work in performance, they can readily find what they need to develop their understand... View More...
No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of A Midsummer Night's Dream on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right. Each No Fear Shakespeare contains: The complete text of the original play A line-by-line translation that puts Shakespeare into everyday language A complete list of characters with descriptions Plenty of helpful commentary. Demetrius and Lysander both want Hermia, but she only has eyes for Lysander. Bad news is, Hermia's father wants Demetrius for a son-in-law. On the outside is Helena, whose unreturned love burns for Demetrius. H... View More...
No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of Hamlet on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right. Each No Fear Shakespeare contains: The complete text of the original play A line-by-line translation that puts Shakespeare into everyday language A complete list of characters with descriptions Plenty of helpful commentary. William Shakespeare's Hamlet follows the young prince home to Denmark to attend his father's funeral, where Hamlet is shocked to find his mother already remarried to his Uncle Claudius. And Hamlet is even more surprised when his... View More...
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