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Ever wondered what else happened to Sleeping Beauty when she finally woke up in the 21st century? Alan Ayckbourn provides the answer with this alternative seasonal fare in the musical Awaking Beauty. The prince awakens Princess Aurora and the eager, happy young couple are about to embark on their first night of passionate love when ugly, unloved Carabosse, the wicked witch, butts in having taken a fancy to the prince. But which one will be the Awaking Beauty? Love, lust, triplets and the ultimate in makeovers are just some of the...

How narcissistic must a man be to think that he is the victim when his tortured captive escapes? But that is the upside down world Sgt. Brandon Stiles enters when he returns home from war. How dare he disrupt the megalomaniacal dreams of his captor, Colonel Hassan Rashid. One attempt to silence Sgt. Stiles has already failed and now, on American soil, other attempts are made. Frustrated by incompetence, angered by the deception of a friend, and enraged by the inconvenience Sergeant Stiles has caused him by living, Colonel Rashid presses his attack to kill Sgt. Stiles and restore the Rashid...

This is the first of two volumes of this authoritative Cambridge history which review the Republican period, between the demise of imperial China and the establishment of the People's Republic. These years from 1912 to 1949 were marked by civil war, revolution and invasion; but also by change and growth in the economic, social, intellectual and cultural spheres. The chapters examine economic trends in the period and the rise of the new middle class. Intellectual trends are surveyed to show the changes in traditional Chinese values and the foreign influences which played a major role in...