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  • Tula the Revolt
    Jeroen Leinders / Brian Doyle-Du Breuil
    An inspiring historical novel based on the true story of the Great Slave Revolt on Curacao in 1795.***Now a major motion picture staring Danny Glover and Jeroen Krabbé***Tula, a slave in Curacao, is convinced that God made all human beings equal. Stirred by news from abroad - that the French have abolished slavery on neighbouring Haiti and that the New Dutch Republic is now und...
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    16,55 €

  • Flash Nonfiction Funny
    Brian Doyle / Doyle Brian
    The seventy-one flash essays collected here are hilarious proof that you don’t need more than 750 words to laugh out loud. Featuring both established and up-and-coming writers, these essays are no flashes in the pan—they demonstrate careful attention to craft and exploration: everything you want in a thoughtful essay, only shorter. This collection is perfect for students of wri...
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    15,79 €

  • KROM
    Brian Doyle
    In ancient times, warriors followed a code of honor, which granted them a place in Valhalla upon their death if they remained true to it. However, before this code existed, many fought without honor. Then, a man named Krom was born--known for his honor, dignity, and true warrior spirit. His destiny was to bring forth the rise of Valhalla, creating the code of honor and ensuring...
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    15,94 €

  • Summer Days Hot Nights
    Brian Doyle
    A must-read for anyone who grew up in America during the 50s and 60s. Revenge on a teacher. Saturday nights at the Drive-In. Fast cars, midnight shopping, and teenage sex. You’ll recognize the characters. They might have had different names in your town, but the escapades are universal. Relive your teen years with Brian, Marsha, Fusco, and the gang from Norwalk, CT. ...
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    11,55 €

  • Hoop
    Brian Doyle
    Brian Doyle himself explains it best: 'A few years ago I was moaning to my wry gentle dad that basketball, which seems to me inarguably the most graceful and generous and swift and fluid and ferociously-competitive-without-being-sociopathic of sports, has not produced rafts of good books, like baseball and golf and cricket and surfing have . . . Where are the great basketball n...
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    17,46 €

  • Kind of Brave You Wanted to Be
    Brian Doyle
    Proems, taut tales, small stories with rhythm and blues and grace and bruise and laughter between the lines. Brian Doyle's The Kind of Brave You Wanted to Be is a book of cadenced notes on the swirl of miracle and the holy of attentiveness; a book about children and birds, love and grief and everything alive, which is to say all prayers.Brian Doyle's uncategorizable for...
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    32,14 €

  • The Mighty Currawongs
    Brian Doyle
    Both intimate and irreverent, The Mighty Currawongs taps into the small truths of what makes a life worth living-from the oddly hilarious to the cherished and pure. ...
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    14,14 €

  • Working With Self Harm and Suicidal Behaviour
    Brian Keogh / Jean Morrissey / Louise Doyle
    Suicide and self-harm are world-wide public health issues that can have devastating effects on families, friends and communities. They are both a priority for anyone working in mental health, social work, emergency departments and related fields, however suicidal and self-harming behaviour can take place anywhere anytime - it may be a pupil in a school, an inmate in a prison or...
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    55,41 €

  • Shimmer of Something
    Brian Doyle
    Prose poems, chants, litanies, simple songs, cadenced prayers, brief bursts of rhythmic observation, elegies to little moments that are not little at all in the least whatsoever welcome to the melodic world of Brian Doyle s proems, swirling with voices unreeling tales, souls telling stories, moments photographed with ink. Accessible, easy to read, blunt, brief, and sometimes un...
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    26,81 €

  • Environmentalism, Resistance and Solidarity
    Brian Doherty / Timothy Doyle
    In the first detailed study of how a major environmental NGO works transnationally, Brian Doherty and Timothy Doyle examine the relationships between the 74 national organizations of Friends of the Earth International. Drawing from a rich mix of survey data, interviews, archival sources and access to internal meetings, they show how FoEI has developed a distinctive internationa...
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    65,06 €

  • English and Englishness
    Brian Doyle
    First published in 2002. This volume is part of the New Accent series looking at English and popular culture, language, policy, fiction and democracy. Each volume in the series will seek to encourage rather than resist the process of change; to stretch rather than reinforce the boundaries that currently define literature and its academic study. ...
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    43,75 €

  • Bin Laden’s Bald Spot
    Brian Doyle
    Welcome to the peculiar and headlong world of Brian DoyleÆs fiction, where the odd is happening all the time, reported upon by characters of every sort and stripe. Swirling voices and skeins of story, laughter and rage, ferocious attention to detail and sweeping nuttiness, tears and chortling—these stories will remind readers of the late giant David Foster Wallace, i...
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    15,03 €