touchladybirdlucky studios jun 2022 (57 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Love is a common word, often misused, with a variety of meanings. Love of mate, brotherly love, love of country, love of coffee mocha ice cream. This collection looks at the various types of love. even the other side of its coin, hate. And yes, ice cream is mentioned. These poems are meant to get you to reflect, think, and hopefully smile.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Walker, Everett (illustratore). Neuware - A fractured Austria, 1947. World War II has ended, and David is facing more than just the regular difficulties of an eleven-year-old boy. In addition to school work and an older sister who's tough to compete with, David is starting to realize that people are fleeing from political persecution in war-torn Vienna. He's in the right place at the right time . . . can David help them ESCAPE TO THE WEST.

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Imani Tafari-Ama's Up for Air is a fictional retelling of events surrounding the Tivoli Gardens incursion of May 2021 - an imaginative conjuring from facts too gruesome to be believed and too horrific to remain hidden.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'A book of fascinations. Of poems as enthusiasms, that happened, in time, once ago, and now have expanded into permanence. For what else is a book but this in fact Presently is a significant debut for British poetry, or rather for those interested in a British poetry of expanse, which can carry the potential of the performative, the visual, the conceptual and the lyrical, together. Together being the operative word.A volume that breaks ground for the poem score as an idea, calling to David Antin as readily as Ian Hamilton Finlay. A book of the future then, but made of autodidacticism, of research and revelation, of bountiful, communal, heartfelt, innovative poetry.'SJ Fowler.

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Owen Roth's life has come to a screeching halt. His beloved wife Morgan, victim of a highway accident, has been in a coma for three months, and her condition has not changed. Owen no longer has the will to live. He decides to end the life of the man responsible for his wife's coma, and then put an end to his own life.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Frank Shivers tackles the puzzling question of 'why' bad things happen to good people from a biblical perspective providing answers, where there is one, and coping responses for all.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Freedom is a small word with far ranging implications for those who crave it. Gravestone Press writers have brought blood guts and mayhem to their stories and given a new look and meaning to the word.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - FACE CUT OUT FOR LOCKET is Jenn Blair's fourth collection of poetry. Her previous collections are MALCONTENT (winner of American Popular Culture's Press Americana Poetry Prize), THE SHEEP STEALER (Hyacinth Girl Press), and ALL THINGS ARE ORDERED (Finishing Line Press). Her work has been published in such journals as RATTLE, the KENYON REVIEW, COPPER NICKEL, PEMBROKE MAGAZINE, the BERKLEY POETRY REVIEW, ATTICUS REVIEW, SOUTHAMPTON REVIEW, CHATTAHOOCHEE REVIEW, APPALACHIAN REVIEW, the SOUTH CAROLINA REVIEW, NEW SOUTH, and the TULANE REVIEW among others. A former recipient of Broad River Press's Ron Rash Poetry Prize and a Dorothy B. Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Award, she teaches writing at Lander University, Lee University, and the University of Georgia. In Jenn Blair's FACE CUT OUT FOR LOCKET, voices of the past and present reckon with violence, guilt, doubt, and grief, even as they hope for grace. Blair reveals the rural landscape's hard truths along with its beauty in this place where 'anybody would tremble.' With taut, unsparing language, she exhorts the reader to 'retie your skittish mind to its/ stern tether of sinew and shank,' to pay attention to 'porch-light, leaf-litter, bone rot.' I am grateful to Blair's exacting eye for bearing witness to the anguish residing in each of us. -Carrie Green, author of STUDIES OF FAMILIAR BIRDS Jenn Blair's FACE CUT OUT FOR LOCKET opens with 'earth clinging / to the roots of wild.' In this poem, the wild takes the form of onions, but throughout her collection, such wild exists in a world which is often too gorgeous, too trying to measure. 'What do I do / what do I do / but there, at day's end, / wordlessly nod ' However, Blair's poems are committed to documenting the 'light pour[ing] through,' her poems full of shimmer amidst the urge to decipher it all. 'Have I ever done / it even once. Willingly let go. / Of anything ' These wonderful poems are a cartography of witness, of beauty, of experience. -Sara Henning, author of VIEW FROM TRUE NORTH and TERRA INCOGNITA? Reading this collection is a pilgrimage, a pensive path, of hard travel, largely rural, through 19th century and modern voices, sustained by minor comforts-moments of tenderness-'speckles of light.' Blair's careful discernment of heartbreaking violences, large and small, is executed with exquisite imagery and masterful idiom. Carrying the burden of mortality, and keen to the many ways that we fail one another, her narrators often offer counter-odes: poems of observant lives, luminously lyrical in their suffering. -Heather Matesich Cousins, author of SOMETHING IN THE POTATO ROOM.

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Growing up a Protestant in Catholic Ireland during the 1950s and '60s had its moments. and in the coastal town of Arklow, they were overwhelmingly good. Common struggles to make ends meet, stay healthy and raise happy families created a spirit of community that largely transcended any theological differences. Children played together, adults worked, sang and drank together, and when they went their separate ways, they did so in a spirit of equanimity.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Things aren't going well in Arlo's life, but they get a whole lot worse when a strange, heavily tattooed girl keeps appearing everywhere he goes. Is he prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice to save his friends and family.

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'Now it's my turn to offer what I wish someone had offered me during my crisis.'.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book is a new interpretation of the fall of later medieval Scotland's greatest noble family, the Black Douglases, in 1455. The discussion reaches back in time to over a century before, as the family began its rise to the pinnacle of Scottish society. The killing of William eighth earl of Douglas by King James II in 1452 receives particular attention, as also the way in which he, his brother James (his successor as earl), and their predecessors exercised their power and authority as earls and lords. The identifiable failings of the Douglases in this regard are the key to understanding the catastrophe that befell the family in 1455. The book's principal analytical tool is the law relevant to these events and the specific meaning and significance of the documents (which is often a legal question) that evidence them. This form of analysis is at least as relevant as any based more on contests for raw power, with 'legal consciousness' a vital feature of Scottish noble society.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'Last year Sam Pickering announced that he'd written his final word. 'I intend to sit in a chair at the edge of the driveway and on sunny days doze through hours waking up occasionally to identify birds on the feeder. My hands and lap will be empty, and I won't worry about a wind scattering papers across the yard.' Three days later Mike a college classmate wrote him. 'Given all the books you have written, it makes me sad to hear that you have written your last book. Please remember what mighty things 80-year-olds can do. For instance, Goethe taught himself Greek when he was 80. Too bad he died at 81.' 'I'm trapped,' Pickering said and picked up his pencil. 'Words are me.' Sam Pickering has written more than thirty books and barrows of articles. When not at his desk, he was in the classroom, the last thirty-five teaching English at the University of Connecticut. Originally from Nashville, he did not plan to teach, or write. 'But,' he says, 'the good life knocks a person about and takes him here and there'-in Pickering's case to years meandering the Mid-East, Eastern and Western Europe, to Australia, and Nova Scotia, to places great and small. He says he loved teaching, the secret to which was 'liking people.' His pages reflect his enjoyment of and love of life, particularly the ordinary things that form the fabric 'of all our lives''--Page 4 of cove.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Every zombie movie has a terrifying underlying message. The enemy isn't supernatural or an alien from another planet. 'The enemy is . . . us!' The 'undead' -- mutated humans, grotesque versions of their previous selves -- are destroying everything in their path and bringing about the downfall of civilization. Even worse, they are contagious, gradually absorbing the few survivors left into the hoard. In Spiteful Mutants, evolutionary psychologist Edward Dutton argues that we are experiencing a 'zombie apocalypse' of our own. The critical threat to civilization is not so much enemies abroad as it is nihilistic and self-destructive tendencies within our own populations. Dutton examines such salient social phenomena through a Darwinian lens: from BLM to QAnon; from those seeking sexual transformation to the Incels who don't have sex at all; from atheists to those with a religious zeal for 'social justice.' All these phenomena can best be understood as genetic results of the Industrial Revolution. Human evolution is an ongoing process. The question of who we, as a species, will become is a matter of who is being selected for in a particular ecology. Before industrialization, child mortality was the crucible of evolution: those who were physically and mentally sick -- that is, who possessed high levels of genetic mutation -- rarely survived into adulthood. The Industrial Revolution, and resultant medical advances, brought about the collapse of child mortality, allowing the explosive growth of people who are highly mutated in body and mind, and who would not have otherwise survived. These mutants, walking among us, are 'spiteful' in the sense that they actively affect the functioning of the group. They generate polarization and chaos, depravity and dysphoria, and even the gradual collapse of fertility. A new specter is haunting the industrialized world, the specter of Spiteful Mutants, a menace of our own making.'A ripping yarn, though a handsomely footnoted, scientific one. There is also a seductive, meta-level lesson hidden in plain sight. Until and unless opinion leaders return to a biologically informed survivalism, the West will continue to decline.'Dr. Frank SalterFormerly of the Max Planck InstituteEdward Dutton is Professor of Evolutionary Psychology at Asbiro University. Born in London in 1980, Dutton read Theology at Durham University, before completing a PhD in Religious Studies at Aberdeen University in 2006. He is based in Oulu in northern Finland. His books include Making Sense of Race (2020), Witches, Feminism, and the Fall of the West (2021), Islam: An Evolutionary Perspective (2021), among many others.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Inexplicably, William S. Burroughs has not been embraced by the LGBTQI community as one of our own, even though his queerness was central to his life and work. Fever Spores: The Queer Reclamation of William S. Burroughs serves as an appreciation and reclamation project. We seek to bring Burroughs into the gay literary canon. Editors Brian Alessandro, co-author of Edmund White's A Boy's Own Story graphic novel, and Tom Cardamone, author of the Lambda Award-winning speculative fiction novel Green Thumb, have compiled interviews and essays featuring emerging and established writers, filmmakers, musicians, artists, and critics, including Blondie founders and musicians Debbie Harry and Chris Stein, cultural critic and author Fran Lebowitz, Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Tony Kushner (Angels in America), filmmaker David Cronenberg (The Fly, Dead Ringers, A History of Violence, Naked Lunch), multiple Hugo-Nebula Award-winning science fiction writer Samuel R. Delany (The Mad Man, Nova, Babel-17), National Book Award-winner Edmund White, PUNK magazine founder and former SPIN and NERVE editor, Legs McNeil, Gregory Woods (A History of Gay Literature), Paul Russell (The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov), Charlie Vázquez (Dreaming Out Loud: Voices of Undocumented Writers), and Burroughs's bibliographer and literary executor, James Grauerholz, among many others. Some offer critical assessments of Burroughs, while others share personal experiences.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Freedom is a small word with far ranging implications for those who crave it. Gravestone Press writers have brought blood guts and mayhem to their stories and given a new look and meaning to the word.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Barmayeh, Eilnaz (illustratore). Neuware - Ahmed was reluctant to pack labne sandwiches for lunch. He didn't want to stand out. With the help of his mother, he learns to embrace his Arab heritage by spreading his love of labne sandwiches with the world. But what happens when the rest of the school gets a taste of this delicious spread Chaos ensues in the cafeteria and Ahmed learns his first lessons in business.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Lauren Zurcher (illustratore). Neuware - An African leopard named Kaya spends most of her time in trees, hiding from intruders. She struggles to find comfort in her home, and taking a risk may be the only solution.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Mind Bullet is a part of the INFINITE TIMELINE, a visionary collection of ten thrilling standalone books that all coalesce into three epic crossovers, The Order, Khaos, and Singularity.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Bell, Liesl (illustratore). Neuware - Follow the adventures of Alchemy the unicorn as she searches for her own special kind of magic.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Book of Proverbs, attributed to King Solomon, is a profound collection of Jewish wisdom, song, and inspiration. Yet to contemporary readers, the text can appear vague, ambiguous, and contradictory. In this refreshing and relevant commentary, Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz challenges us to find modern meaning in this ancient text. Using his signature blend of social justice practice and Jewish thought from throughout history, Rabbi Yanklowitz shows how the words of Proverbs are strikingly pertinent to issues we face today. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Rabbi Yanklowitz explores such topics as income inequality, feminism, animal rights, environmentalism, and many more. The author's commentary is paired with the full text of Proverbs-in both Hebrew and an updated, gender-accurate translation-so readers can glean their own insights.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'Will machines someday replace attorneys, physicians, computer programmers, and world leaders What about composers, painters, and novelists Will tomorrow's supercomputers duplicate and exceed humans Are we just wetware, natural computers doomed to obsolescence by tomorrow's ultra-powerful artificial intelligence In Non-computable You: What You Do That Artificial Intelligence Never Will, Robert J. Marks II answers these and other fascinating questions. Catch a glimpse of the geniuses behind todays' AI--their foibles, follies, and friendships--as told by someone on the inside. Learn about the exciting possibilities for artificial intelligence, but also hear how many of the heady claims for AI are provably overblown. Marks shows why there are some powers AI will never possess, no matter what.'--provided by publisher.