Mark Taylor: 73 books
by Mark Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Time to Declare tells with unflinching candour Mark Taylor's story in a fascinating and revealing autobiography. Taking block, Taylor throws new light on the highs and lows, the controversies and the triumphs of a truly remarkable sporting career. By the end of his journey, which included 104 Tests...
Field Notes from Elsewhere
Reflections on Dying and Living
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
In the fall of 2005, Mark C. Taylor, the controversial public intellectual and widely respected scholar, suddenly fell critically ill. For two days a team of forty doctors, many of whom thought he would not live, fought to save him. Taylor would eventually recover, but only to face a new threat: surgery...
Rewiring the Real
In Conversation with William Gaddis, Richard Powers, Mark Danielewski, and Don DeLillo
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Digital and electronic technologies that act as extensions of our bodies and minds are changing how we live, think, act, and write. Some welcome these developments as bringing humans closer to unified consciousness and eternal life. Others worry that invasive globalized technologies threaten to destroy...
by Charles Day, Mark Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Jessica won’t stay dead. And when she comes for you, it’s already too late…. When old friends Al and Benny hit the town for their usual alcohol-fueled binge, things go wrong when Al insists on driving home. All the while, young Jessica is cycling along their dangerous route home. When the three...
1 Corinthians
An Exegetical and Theological Exposition of Holy Scripture
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
“For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ." -1 Corinthians 3:11
The New American Commentary series is an exceptionally acclaimed resource for ministers and Bible students who want to understand and expound the Scriptures. Each volume includes:
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Refiguring the Spiritual
Beuys, Barney, Turrell, Goldsworthy
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
Mark C. Taylor provocatively claims that contemporary art has lost its way. With the art market now mirroring the art of finance, many artists create works solely for the purpose of luring investors and inspiring trade among hedge funds and private equity firms. When art is commodified, corporatized,...
by mark taylor
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2013
Enter the hilarious world of Graham Hazelnut the thiry-eight year old tryer whose recently seperated [her fault] and back with his parents[desperate had no choice]. Loveless [for now but working hard on that one, really shouldn't mention 'working hard on'] and about to start a new job....
by Mark Taylor-Batty, Dr Juliette Taylor-Batty
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
"An impressively complete survey of the play in its cultural, theatrical, historical and political contexts." - David Bradby, co-editor of Contemporary Theatre Review
Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot is not only an indisputably important and influential dramatic text -it is also one of...
The Contemporary American Monologue
Performance and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Talk-show confessions, online rants, stand-up routines, inspirational speeches, banal reflections and calls to arms: we live in an age of solo voices demanding to be heard. In The Contemporary American Monologue Eddie Paterson looks at the pioneering work of US artists Spalding Gray, Laurie Anderson,...
Watching War on the Twenty-First Century Stage
Spectacles of Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
What do we watch when we watch war? Who manages public perceptions of war and how? Watching War on the Twenty-First-Century Stage: Spectacles of Conflict is the first publication to examine how theatre in the UK has staged, debated and challenged the ways in which spectacle is habitually weaponized...
Social and Political Theatre in 21st-Century Britain
Staging Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
In a context of financial crisis that has often produced a feeling of identity crisis for the individual, the theatre has provided a unifying forum, treating spectators as citizens. This book critically deals with representative plays and playwrights who have stood out in the UK and internationally...
by Mark Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Its just your typical detective story: local baddies start dropping like flies, hard drugs begin appearing on the streets, and rumors of a ruthless kingpin named Protagoras begin striking fear into criminals and police alike. But Detective Blake Justice is anything but typical. With a hulking frame,...
Brecht in Practice
Theatre, Theory and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
David Barnett invites readers, students and theatre-makers to discover new ways of apprehending and making use of Brecht in this clear and accessible study of Brecht's theories and practices. The book analyses how Brecht's ideas can come alive in rehearsal and performance, and reveals just how carefully...
Genetic Data and the Law
A Critical Perspective on Privacy Protection
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Research using genetic data raises various concerns relating to privacy protection. Many of these concerns can also apply to research that uses other personal data, but not with the same implications for failure. The norms of exclusivity associated with a private life go beyond the current legal concept...