Bøger af David Barnett

This volume surveys and assesses the contributions of Vsevolod Meyerhold, Erwin Piscator and Bertolt Brecht to theatre-making, which richly exemplify the range of ways that directors address dramatic material, theatrical space and their audiences. Their directorial work marks an unmistakeable interest in developing the political potential of theatre in the early 20th century, although each director offered more to their actors, collaborators and spectators than simply the staging of politics and the political.

This novel explores love, sexuality, and race.Four bombs have gone off in central London. One of those is at Kings Cross. The story opens with the desolate streets of Soho and the knowledge that the two lead characters, Greg and Martina have been speeding towards an uncertain destiny. They have arranged to meet at Kings Cross that very morning. You the reader have no idea what will happen to them, as you are taken through the months leading up to that one point in time.We have two relationships running in parallel; one hetrosexual white couple (adrift) and one homosexual black couple (living on the edge of their community) As the connection between the lead characters becomes increasingly charged, there is the danger that it may ignite and if it does the fall out out may well destroy all of their lives.Love is the one thing that unifies the characters in their journey towards a greater understanding of life, themselves, and each other.This book takes you the reader on a roller coaster of emotion; frank in it's portrayal of the very feelings and actions at the centre of the human condition.

Students from traditionally marginalized groups lack voice and become invisible within the educational setting, subject to the pacing of curriculum delivery by those who speak out. Evaluation of assessment data finds an overrepresentation of students from traditionally marginalized groups falling in the lower tiers of student achievement creating achievement gaps (Ginter and Barnett, 2011). According to Jones and Gerig (1994), 25-33% of the students in schools cannot or will not speak out. These students are often over-looked and over-represented in our dropout rates (U.S. Department of Education, 2010). Christian (2011) found that students who have been retained during high school are 50% more likely to dropout. Schultz (2009) identified the following categories as silence as resistance, power, protection, and response to trauma, and she noted that students who have these issues often have academic difficulties. Participants in this study included eighty-five high school students in one rural, eastern Kentucky school district over a two and one-half year period. Surveys and interviews were conducted to answer the question of why students are silent in the classroom. Using Schultz's (2009) phenomenology study as the foundation another category became evident as the interviews continued. This method showed that social expectations, hence social conformity, have begun to emerge as a classification. This study used a qualitative approach to action research with supporting data (i.e. grades, attendance) together with a grounded theory approach to identify external and internal factors of what impacts student voice. Results from this study have been recorded and analyzed. Results indicated that all but two research participants have since experienced improved grades and attendance, some have gotten involved in extracurricular activities, and eight have recently graduated while five are seeking higher education. One of the students dropped out to avoid truancy charges, but attained his GED within weeks of withdrawing.

Androgeus Frost has recently joined LOWBORN HIGH, a rundown inner-city comprehensive magic school that is often struggling with funding, but its pupils can still be capable of some truly amazing feats, as Androgeus finds out when he becomes friends with fellow pupils Maisy, Ali and Drill.

David Barnett's Gideon Smith and the Mechanical Girl is a fantastical steampunk fable set against an alternate historical backdrop: the ultimate Victoriana/steampunk mash-up! Nineteenth century London is the center of a vast British Empire. Airships ply the skies and Queen Victoria presides over three-quarters of the known world-including the East Coast of America, following the failed revolution of 1775. London might as well be a world away from Sandsend, a tiny village on the Yorkshire coast. Gideon Smith dreams of the adventure promised him by the lurid tales of Captain Lucian Trigger, the Hero of the Empire, told in Gideon's favorite "penny dreadful." When Gideon's father is lost at sea in highly mysterious circumstances Gideon is convinced that supernatural forces are at work. Deciding only Captain Lucian Trigger himself can aid him, Gideon sets off for London. On the way he rescues the mysterious mechanical girl Maria from a tumbledown house of shadows and iniquities. Together they make for London, where Gideon finally meets Captain Trigger. But Trigger is little more than an aging fraud, providing cover for the covert activities of his lover, Dr. John Reed, a privateer and sometime agent of the British Crown. Looking for heroes but finding only frauds and crooks, it falls to Gideon to step up to the plate and attempt to save the day...but can a humble fisherman really become the true Hero of the Empire?

"Daisy is the night security guard at the Manchester Museum of Social History. She takes her job very seriously, protecting the museum from teenage troublemakers. Nate works the day shift, though he'd be more suited as a museum guide the way he chats with the visitors. Daisy doesn't approve: how does he find it so easy to talk to strangers? For five minutes each day their shifts overlap at handover. It's the only interaction they have... until mysterious things begin to happen at the museum. Daisy notices priceless objects going missing and then reappearing, with no explanation (with nothing on the CCTV!). No one believes her except Nate, and he agrees to help her solve the mystery. They soon discover they have a lot more in common than they realized... and their investigations uncover more than just the truth"--

Political conflicts on Earth erupt into open hostilities between their colonies in space, with Xenomorphs as the ultimate weapon. On Earth, political tensions boil over between the United Americas, Union of Progressive Peoples, and Three World Empire. Conflict spreads to the outer fringes, and the UK colony of New Albion breaks with the Three World empire. This could lead to a... Colony War. Trapped in the middle are journalist Cher Hunt, scientist Chad McLaren, and the synthetic Davis. Seeking to discover who caused the death of her sister, Shy Hunt, Cher uncovers a far bigger story. McLaren's mission, fought alongside his wife Amanda Ripley, is to stop the militarization of the deadliest weapon of all--the Xenomorph. Their trail leads to a drilling facility on LV-187. Someone or something has destroyed it, killing the personnel, and the British are blamed. Colonial forces arrive, combat erupts, then both groups are overwhelmed by an alien swarm. Their only hope may lie with the Royal Marines unit known as "God's Hammer." Bonus Feature: An exclusive new game scenario based on the massively popular, award-winning Alien RPG from Free League Publishing!

By 1800 London was the world's greatest city and at the centre of the world's greatest empire. This book sets out to show that, in addition to providing financial and other essential service skills, the capital was also at the heart of the Industrial Revolution.

Gideon Smith and the Mask of the Ripper is the finale in David Barnett's riproaring steampunk adventures about a Britain that never was...but should have been.In an alternate nineteenth century where a technologically advanced Britain holds sway over most of the known world and the American Revolution never happened, young Gideon Smith is firmly established as the Hero of the Empire. Back in London, Gideon and his colleagues: journalist Aloysius Bent, airship pilot Rowena Fanshawe, and Maria, the mechanical girl to whom Gideon has lost his heart, are dragged into a case that is confounding the Metropolitan Police. For the city is on the edge of mass rioting due to the continuing reign of terror by the serial killer known only as Jack the Ripper, who is rampaging though London's less salubrious quarters.While chasing the madman, a villain from their past strips Gideon Smith of his memory and is cast adrift in the seedy underbelly of London, where life is tough and death lurks in every shadowy alley.With mob rule threatening to engulf London, the Empire has never needed its hero more...but where is Gideon Smith?

David Barnett's Gideon Smith and the Brass Dragon is a fantastical steampunk fable set against an alternate historical backdrop: the ultimate Victoriana/steampunk mash-up!Nineteenth century London is the center of a vast British Empire, a teeming metropolis where steam-power is king and airships ply the skies, and where Queen Victoria presides over three quarters of the known world-including the east coast of America, following the failed revolution of 1775.Young Gideon Smith has seen things that no green lad of Her Majesty's dominion should ever experience. Through a series of incredible events Gideon has become the newest Hero of the Empire. But Gideon is a man with a mission, for the dreaded Texas pirate Louis Cockayne has stolen the mechanical clockwork girl Maria, along with a most fantastical weapon-a great brass dragon that was unearthed beneath ancient Egyptian soil. Maria is the only one who can pilot the beast, so Cockayne has taken girl and dragon off to points east. Gideon and his intrepid band take to the skies and travel to the American colonies hot on Cockayne's trail. Not only does Gideon want the machine back, he has fallen in love with Maria. Their journey will take them to the wilds of the lawless lands south of the American colonies - to free Texas, where the mad King of Steamtown rules with an iron fist (literally), where life is cheap and honor even cheaper.Does Gideon have what it takes to not only save the day but win the girl?

Teenage Fergie and his invisible sidekick, the ghost of a punk rocker named Sid, head to London to find Fergie's absent father while the Department of Extra-Usual Affairs, led by the irascible Dorothy Culpepper, and Fergie's mom face demons from hell both personal and literal.Fergie and Sid have arrived in London... and a whole pile of trouble. All Fergie has to go on in the search for his father is an old photograph and some snippets of information that suggest "Billy" was involved in the music business in the Eighties and Nineties. Tracking down old contacts, Fergie and Sid find themselves getting mired in a shadowy undercurrent of the occult and whispers of entities not from our world. Meanwhile, back in Preston, Fergie's mum Julie forms an unlikely alliance with Natalie as they try to find the missing Fergie.

As if being an awkward, bullied 15-year-old weren't enough, suddenly "Fergie" Ferguson can see ghosts. Well, one ghost specifically... a certain punk rocker named Sid.Sid's spirit had been trapped in London's Heathrow Airport for forty years, until the day he met Fergie. Sid's ghost is now stuck to Fergie--as if Fergie doesn't have enough on his plate, being raised by a single mum whose idea of parenting is strictly fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants. Now Fergie has to contend with an unruly ghost sidekick and some weird, uncontrollable new "abilities." How does the father Fergie never knew fit into all this? And why is the Department of Extra-Usual Affairs showing an interest? Never Mind the Bollocks--all of this plus fish fingers, chunky chips and endless pints of anarchy in the new ongoing series PUNKS NOT DEAD!Collects Punks Not Dead issues #1-5.

The leading publication on Brecht, his work, and topics of interest to him; this annual volume documents the International Brecht Society's 2016 symposium, "Recycling Brecht."

In this collection of scenarios and episodes, many of which were experienced by the authors in their years as school administrators, you will find an array of provocative examples of social injustice in the classroom, and what you can do to prevent it in your own school community.