This is It, is the never-before told and often shocking inside story of the King of Pop, Michael Jackson and his personal physician Dr. Conrad Murray. Told by Murray who was far more than Jackson's doctor. He was one of Jackson's closest friends and his only confidante. It was to Dr. Murray that Jackson unloaded years of his and his family's deepest and darkest secrets. This is It, with its pages packed with explosive revelations and startling news, is a riveting and unprecedented accounti...

Two Postcodes, two streets apartIn dear Merton where our story starts.Beef from the past creates new tension.Innocent blood spilled they need an intervention.A boy and a girl, supposed to be ops;They chat, hold hands, secret meetings by the shops.A remixed tale of star-crossed lovers.How much would you risk for the person you love?Forced apart by generations of hatred, young eye...

Winner of Best Theatre for Young Audiences Music/Sound at the Offies Awards 2023Sometimes they eat cheeseSometimes they eat breadThey even eat the tiny crumbs that fall under the bedThey eat jellyThey eat egg!They eat peasAnd stinky old brie….A rat will eat anything… anything… anything.It's the eve of the mayoral election, and the kids o...

This collection of three hip hop plays by Conrad Murray and his Beats & Elements collaborators Paul Cree, David Bonnick Junior and Lakeisha Lynch-Stevens, is the first publication of the critically acclaimed theatre-maker's work. The three plays use hip hop to highlight the inequalities produced by the UK's class system, and weave lyricism, musicality and dialogue to offer authentic accounts of inner-city life written by working-class Londoners.The plays are accompanied by two intr...

Mapplethorpe and the Flower: Radical Sexuality and the Limits of Control is the first dedicated book-length critical study of the late artist Robert Mapplethorpe's flower photographs. The book is an interdisciplinary investigation into the symbolism of the flower as envisioned by a photographer whose production was mired in controversy – triggered in large part by his thematic exploration of radical sexuality and queer subcultural life.Mapplethorpe came into international ...

Making Hip Hop Theatre is the essential, practical guide to making hip-hop theatre. It features detailed techniques and exercises that can guide creatives from workshops through to staging a performance. If you were inspired by Hamilton, Barber Shop Chronicles, Misty, Black Men Walking or Frankenstein: How to Make a Monster, this is the book for you.Covering vocal technique, use of equipment, mixing, looping, sampling, working with venues and dealing with...

Grief is a universal human response to death and loss. Mourning is an equally universally observable practice that enables the bereaved to express their grief and come to terms with the reality of loss. Yet, despite their prevalence, there is no unified understanding of the nature and meaning of grief and mourning. The Meaning of Mourning: Perspectives on Death, Loss, and Grief brings together fifteen essays from diverse disciplines addressing the topics of death, grief, and mourning. The ...

This collection of a dozen addresses given on the church as Christ’s bride at the 2014 Annual Conference of Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary unpacks three overarching themes: looking at the loveliness of Christ’s bride, walking in the path with Christ’s bride, and sharing in the sorrow and hope of Christ’s bride. Specific topics addressed include the beauty of the church’s essence, communion, holiness, unity, diversity, membership, preaching, worship, sacraments, discipline, ...

Machen Sie sich eine Tasse Tee und beherrschen Sie die Kunst der Deduktion. E-artnow präsentiert Ihnen eine Sammlung sorgfältig ausgewählter, spannender und rätselhafter britischer Krimis: Späte Rache (Arthur Conan Doyle) Das Zeichen der Vier (Arthur Conan Doyle) Der Hund der Baskervilles (Arthur Conan Doyle) Der Bund der Rothaarigen (Arthur Conan Doyle) Silberstrahl (Arthur Conan Doyle) Der geheime Garten (G.K. Chesterton) Der Unsichtbare (G.K. Chesterton) Tochter der Zeit (Josephine Tey)...

Gönnen Sie sich eine Tasse Tee und tauchen Sie ein in die Kunst der Deduktion. E-artnow präsentiert eine sorgfältig kuratierte Auswahl der faszinierendsten und mysteriösesten britischen Krimis: Späte Rache (Arthur Conan Doyle) Das Zeichen der Vier (Arthur Conan Doyle) Der Hund der Baskervilles (Arthur Conan Doyle) Der Bund der Rothaarigen (Arthur Conan Doyle) Silberstrahl (Arthur Conan Doyle) Der geheime Garten (G.K. Chesterton) Der Unsichtbare (G.K. Chesterton) Tochter der Zeit (Josephine...

In the 1850s, "Drapetomania" was the medical term for a disease found among black slaves in the United States. The main symptom was a strange desire to run away from their masters. In earlier centuries gout was understood as a metabolic disease of the affluent, so much so that it became a badge of uppercrust honor—and a medical excuse to avoid hard work. Today, is there such a thing as mental illness, or is mental illness just a myth? Is Alzheimer's really a disease? What is menopause—a bi...

This collection explores the cultural fascination with social media forms of self-portraiture, "selfies," with a specific interest in online self-imaging strategies in a Western context.This book examines the selfie as a social and technological phenomenon but also engages with digital self-portraiture as representation: as work that is committed to rigorous object-based analysis. The scholars in this volume consider the topic of online self-portraiture—both its social function as ...