The heartrending story of a family with twelve children

‘Massively enjoyable’ Dawn French

A tribute to a classic - Dirty Dancing. If you're a Patrick Swayze fan or just love the movie, take this with you whereever you go. -100 pages of lined paper- 9x6 in size, put it in your purse- Matt cover, white pages

A songbook that features over twenty songs from the hit stage show, Dirty Dancing and one bonus song, arranged for piano, voice and guitar.

Renowned film critic Roger Ebert said Dirty Dancing "might have been a decent movie if it had allowed itself to be about anything." In this broadly researched and accessible text, Stephen Lee Naish sets out to deconstruct and unlock a film that has haunted him for decades, and argues that Dirty Dancing, the 1987 sleeper hit about a young middle-class girl who falls for a handsome working-class dance instructor, is actually about everything. The film is a union of history, politics, sixties and eighties culture, era-defining music, class, gender, and race, and of course features one of the best love stories set to film. Using scene-by-scene analyses, personal interpretation, and comparative study, it's time to take Dirty Dancing out of the corner and place it under the microscope.

“This country's leading hell-raiser" (The Nation) shares his impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know “the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one.” First published in 1971 and written in the midst of radical political developments whose direction Alinsky was one of the first to question, this volume exhibits his style at its best. Like Thomas Paine before him, Alinsky was able to combine, both in his person and his writing, the intensity of political engagement with an absolute insistence on rational political discourse and adherence to the American democratic tradition.

"An earlier edition of this work was published in Great Britain in 2015."--Title page verso.