Ryan Craig: 24 books
How to think the Unthinkable: After Sophocles' Antigone
Based on Antigone
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Antigone makes everything OK. Gives me hope. I’m utterly devoted to her. I couldn’t imagine what would happen if she weren’t here.
What could a play written 2,500 years ago possibly mean today? Ryan Craig’s new adaptation of Sophocles’ famous tragedy captures the passion, danger and...
National Theatre Connections 2013
The Guffin; Mobile Phone Show; What Are They Like?; We Lost Elijah; I'm Spilling My Heart Out Here; Tomorrow I'll Be Happy; Soundclash; Don't Feed the Animals; Ailie and the Alien; Forty-Five Minutes
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Drawing together the work of ten leading playwrights – a mixture of established and current writers – National Theatre Connections 2013 offers young performers between the ages of thirteen and nineteen everywhere an engaging selection of plays to perform, read or study.
Each play is specifically...
A New U
Faster + Cheaper Alternatives to College
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
Every year, the cost of a four-year degree goes up, and the value goes down. But for many students, there’s a better answer.
So many things are getting faster and cheaper. Movies stream into your living room, without ticket or concession-stand costs. The world’s libraries are at your...
by Ryan Craig
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
‘NO! We can't change the subject! This is the subject! There is no other subject. Not for us.'
Sickened by the everyday arguments and compromises he saw around him in his native London, the idealistic Josh has moved to Israel and joined the army. There, however, he finds himself in a situation...
by Ryan Craig
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
‘Nothing changes. Everything just gets worse. What's the point of that?’
Two couples trample on friends and lovers as they search for happiness. In Fringe First and Peggy Ramsay award winner Ryan Craig's play, their dialogue crackles with desperation and raw humour. Happy Savages was performed...
College Disrupted
The Great Unbundling of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
For nearly two decades, pundits have been predicting the demise of higher education in the United States. Our colleges and universities will soon find themselves competing for students with universities from around the world. With the advent of massive open online courses ("MOOCS") over...
by Tadeusz Slobodzianek, Ryan Craig
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Your classmate is like your family. Maybe even more important than that. A group of schoolchildren, Jewish and Catholic, declare their ambitions: one to be a fireman, one a film star, one a pilot, another a doctor. They are learning the ABC. This is Poland, 1925. As the children grow up, their country...
by Ryan Craig
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
In a safe-house in the suburbs, human rights lawyer Myles Brody meets with a high-profile and controversial historian. She has been charged with denying the Holocaust, and he has agreed to defend her in court.
But as her guilt becomes apparent, Myles is forced to doubt his most sacred principles,...
by Ryan Craig
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
1968 East London. In a rapidly changing Britain the Solomon family must adapt their business or die. But the competing agendas of each volatile member threaten to tear the whole firm apart. Tough, ruthless, but always devoted matriarch Yetta built her ‘empire’ from nothing, from a small market...
by Ryan Craig
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
As big-hearted patriarch David clings to a deal that could save both his ailing catering firm and his cherished standing in the Edgware Jewish community, his children are at loggerheads.
‘You must have heard him banging on about the long line of Rosenbergs, stretching back to the Bible. He...
Nights of the Living Dead
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
In 1968, the world experienced a brand-new kind of terror with the debut of George A. Romero’s landmark movie Night of the Living Dead. The newly dead rose to attack the living. Not as vampires or werewolves. This was something new . . . and terrifying. Since then, zombies have invaded every aspect...
Come Up and Get Me
An Autobiography of Colonel Joe Kittinger
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
A few years after his release from a North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp in 1973, Colonel Joseph Kittinger retired from the Air Force. Restless and unchallenged, he turned to ballooning, a lifelong passion as well as a constant diversion for his imagination during his imprisonment. His primary goal...
by Craig Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
The untold story of an eccentric, scientific visionary whose death-defying research has saved millions of lives.
Sixty years ago, cars and airplanes were still deathtraps waiting to happen. Today, both are safer than ever, thanks in part to one pioneering air force doctor’s research on seatbelts...
Sustainability Planning and Collaboration in Rural Canada
Taking the Next Steps
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Rural communities, often the first indicators of economic downturns, play an important role in planning for development and sustainability. Increasingly, these communities are compelled to reimagine the paths that lead not only to economic success, but also to the cultural, social, environmental,...
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