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Frissure
Frissure is an exquisite collection of prose-poems and illustrative work exploring healing, mortality, intimacy, memory and the natural world. It is about the intimate process of looking and seeing as it passes from one person - a cancer patient - looking at herself, from being 'examined' by a surgeon, to being looked at by an artist. In each situation a transformation occurs. The gaze of the patient on her own body and its post-operative scarring is objectified by that of the surgeon assessing the success of his work. But then the creative eye of the artist takes over and what was regarded as a mark of disease and of violation takes on an extraordinary flowering, and becomes a thing of beauty.
Outfield Magicked
When the Samhain wind blows, the veil between the worlds grows thin… The Pattersonville West High School Unicorns have finally won the State Championship. But a surprise visit from their Fairy Realm neighbors during their celebrations brings a unique invitation for the mortal champions to play in the upcoming Fall Season. Star players Emily DeWitt and Adrien Thorn have learned hard lessons about dealing with fairy lords, but they can’t convince their excitable Unicorn teammates to decline. Even Benji Amberman, the spiderkin-descended caretaker of the fabulous Web Gem, wants to play, noting that Samhain’s approach makes traversing the fairy ring under Unicorn Field even easier. Luckily,...
Curveball Curesed
To play or not to play, that is the question… Having helped her Small Folk teammates win the Fairy League Series and gain control of the powerful Web Gem, star player Emily DeWitt is back at Pattersonville West High School for a redo of her senior year, hoping to repeat the magic as her Unicorns quest for the State Championship. This time she’ll be joined by Adrien Thorn, the century-old Designated Hitter she saved from the Unseelie Queen’s dark clutches last season. Since one-time rival Callie McMasters has contracted to play the summer season with the Wild Hunt, the path is clear to win it all. But unbeknownst to anyone else, Adrien isn’t fully free of the Unseelie Queen. Her parti...
Kathleen Jamie
Analyses media representations of riots, strikes and protests
Adventures in Human Being
Sunday Times bestseller We have a lifetime's association with our bodies, but for many of us they remain uncharted territory. In Adventures in Human Being, Gavin Francis leads the reader on a journey through health and illness, offering insights on everything from the ribbed surface of the brain to the secret workings of the heart and the womb; from the pulse of life at the wrist to the unique engineering of the foot. Drawing on his own experiences as a doctor and GP, he blends first-hand case studies with reflections on the way the body has been imagined and portrayed over the millennia. If the body is a foreign country, then to practise medicine is to explore new territory: Francis leads t...
Fairy Tales and Fables from Weimar Days
This book is a collection of traditional German fairy tales and fables, deliberately transformed into utopian narratives and social commentary by political activists in the Weimar Republic (1919-1933). Against a backdrop of financial and political instability, widespread homelessness, and the reformation of public institutions, numerous gifted writers such as Berta Lask, Kurt Schwitters, Hermynia zur Mühlen, Oskar Maria Graf, Bruno Schönlank, and Joachim Ringelnatz responded to the need for hope among the common people by creating fairy tales and fables that offered a new and critical vision of social conditions. Though many of their tales deal with the grim situation of common people and their apparent helplessness, they are founded on the principle of hope. This revised edition includes over 50 illustrations by contemporary international artists who reveal how similar the Weimar conditions were to the conditions in which we presently live. In this respect, the Weimar fairy tales and fables have not lost their spirit and significance.
Another Kind of One Nation
This first volume in the Young South African Writing series is a collection of short prose, excerpted, and graphic works written by young South Africans in 1994. The writing was selected from entries submitted by high schools from all over the country and reflects a broad spectrum of insights and experiences. Together these pieces give the reader a true insight it the world of South Africa just after the first democratic elections in the country.
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