Matt Abbott was volunteering at the Calais Jungle refugee camp when his native Wakefield voted 66% Leave. Why did so many working-class communities like his support Brexit so strongly? How can the UK ignore a humanitarian crisis just 22 miles from Dover? And does anything ever actually change for people like Maria?Matt's one man poetry show, Two Little Ducks, is a powerful, personal and political spoken word show from one of UK poetry's rising stars. He channels the human ...

With surprising honesty and words that resonate long after reading, A Hurricane in My Head tackles the themes of friendship, bullying, technology and the life of a modern teenager. These poems say the things we can't always put into words; they may make you laugh, they may make you cry, but they will most definitely make you reminisce, escape, discover...This is a truly stunning collection from Matt Abbott, nationally acclaimed writer and performer, with poems that will ma...

With surprising honesty and words that resonate long after reading, A Hurricane in My Head tackles the themes of friendship, bullying, technology and the life of a modern teenager. These poems say the things we can't always put into words; they may make you laugh, they may make you cry, but they will most definitely make you reminisce, escape, discover...This is a truly stunning collection from Matt Abbott, nationally acclaimed writer and performer, with poems that will ma...

Great journalism relies on a narrative arc to engage and inform the reader. Stories Can Save Us looks at how the best reporters and writers craft narrative literary journalism. Journalist Matt Tullis uses the material he gathered in the more than seventy-five interviews he conducted with the best narrative and literary journalists in the country through his podcast, Gangrey: The Podcast, to show how these professionals conceive and writesuch compelling stories.Thr...

On This Day: August 13. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Death of Julia Child; Hernán Cortés captured Tenochtitlán winning Mexico for the crown of Spain; birth of Alfred Hitchcock.

Harness the power of Drupal 8 to create enterprise-grade, highly scalable websitesAbout This BookBuild complete, complex websites with no prior knowledge of web development entirely using the intuitive Drupal user interfaceEnsure your sites are modern, responsive and mobile-friendly through utilizing the full features available in Drupal 8Quickly master theme administration, custom block layouts, views, and the Twig template stru...

Mad Men Carousel is an episode-by-episode guide to all seven seasons of AMC's Mad Men. This book collects TV and movie critic Matt Zoller Seitz’s celebrated Mad Men recaps—as featured on New York magazine's Vulture blog—for the first time, including never-before-published essays on the show’s first three seasons. Seitz’s writing digs deep into the show’s themes, performances, and filmmaking, examining complex an...

You've heard of secret agents and superheroes, but have you ever heard of the day being saved by a snail? When there's trouble in the animal kingdom, Sergio (and his friends Wormy and Hawkeye) always find a way to fix things. It's all thanks to Sergio's super snail powers. He can climb walls, breathe underwater thanks to his shell, use his snail slime to put out fires! Sergio is one epic snail!

A must-listen collection of fifteen bibliomysteries by bestselling and award-winning authorsBibliomysteries Volume 2 includes:● "Remaindered" by Peter Lovesey● "The Compendium of Srem" by F. Paul Wilson● "The Sequel" by R. L. Stine● "Mystery, Inc." by Joyce Carol Oates● and many others