![]() Our credit and debit card payments are securely processed by Stripe, and your full card information is neither stored by our site or accessible to our team. Orders placed via our website can be paid using any of the following methods: Rave is an instant classic, a coming-of-age story about the secret spaces young women create and the wider social structures that fail them. She captures teenage antics and banter with astute comedic style, simultaneously skewering bullies, a culture of slut-shaming, and the devastating impact of religious zealotry. Author Jessica Campbell (XTC69) uses frankness and dark humour to articulate Lauren’s burgeoning crisis of faith and sexuality. Afterward, a potent blend of Christian guilt and internalised homophobia causes Lauren to question the experience. That evening, Mariah gives Lauren a makeover and the two melt into each other, in what becomes Lauren s first queer encounter. Mariah has dial-up internet, an absentee mom, and a Wiccan altar the perfect setting for a study session and sleepover to remember. ![]() She s a devout member of an evangelical church, but when her Bible-thumping parents forbid Lauren to bring evolution textbooks home, she opts to study at her schoolmate Mariah s house. ![]() ![]() Lauren is fifteen, soft-spoken, and ashamed of her body. ![]()
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![]() Create a color-coded map of the position of the other people in relation to you. Visit a park or public area, or a place where people congregate on your travels. Make sketches of one item that stands out most about each person. ![]() ![]() Sit in a public location and document people you see for one hour. If you find yourself being questioned as to the reasons for your activities, the phrase ‘I’m conducting research’ usually satisfies the noisiest interloper.Įxpect the unexpected (and you will find it). This applies to aspects of nature, human or otherwise (and also includes property, public or private). Respect the community in which you explore. Practice deep looking or deep listening, and work alone. Never leave home without a notebook and pen. ![]() Your mission is to document and observe the world around you as if you’ve never seen it before. If you come across something valuable and tuck it away in your metaphorical suitcase there’s sure to come a moment when you can make use of it.’ – Jurgen Bey 2. It’s a matter of recognising that value, that quality, and then to transform it into something that can be used. ‘Everything has a value, provided it appears at the right place at the right time. ![]() Five top tips taken from Keri Smith's new book How to be an Explorer of the World to help you see more, in a creative way, when you travel. ![]() ![]() ![]() For one thing, the messages include only a subject line, and the text itself. There are lots of books that use email to tell the story, either partly or in its entirety (the classic E: A Novel springs to mind), but this one is a bit different. We don’t know where the book is set other than it’s a German-speaking city, but that is immaterial anyway as the story takes place entirely online. What starts as an insignificant, casual message quickly becomes something much more important to both her and Leo as two people who have never met start to share their secrets and wishes, dreams and fears with each other, not just because they can but, it seems, because they have to. When Emmi sends and email to cancel a magazine subscription, she has no idea what a slight typo in the email address will lead to – a life-changing, potentially marriage-wrecking, all-consuming online love affair with the man whom she emails in error. ![]() Suprising, sweet and thoroughly captivating. Summary: Told entirely through the medium of emails, this is an addictive book that's much better than it needed to be. ![]() ![]() This is a coming-of-age story about the Y-generation in Hungary, trying to find their own life and identity amid frustrated hopes, resentment of their parents’ generation, the dark shadows cast by the terrible 20 th century, and the ideological and emotional chaos of the turn of the millennium. It is Bálint who tries to make sense of the story as it unfolds from fragmented pieces: a tape left in an abandoned nursing home, some rumours, a few scant words uttered by Bálint’s friend. The protagonist of the novel, Bálint Lente is a thirty-something journalist working for the online press, an intelligent guy who is nevertheless fairly slow on the uptake when it comes to the feelings of those around him – his girlfriend, his divorced mother, or his friend from high school. Gradually, the pieces of the mosaic slowly come together in this slow-paced, beautiful and poignant book, the first novel from Dénes Krusovszky, one of the most significant poets of his generation. In 1986, a patient suffering from post-polio syndrome and lying in an iron lung asks his male nurse to record him narrating his life. In 2013, a young man wakes up in Budapest after a bitter row with his girlfriend and takes the train to his native town in the eastern part of the country. ![]() In 1990, a man crashes his car and dies close to Iowa City. ![]() ![]() ![]() When her long-widowed father unexpectedly comes home with a new fiancée, Jordan is thrilled. Growing up in post-war Boston, 17-year-old Jordan McBride is determined to become a photographer. But a shared secret could derail their mission unless Ian and Nina force themselves to confront it. To find her, the fierce, disciplined investigator joins forces with the only witness to escape the Huntress alive: the brazen, cocksure Nina. Yet one target eludes him: a vicious predator known as the Huntress. Transformed by the horrors he witnessed from Omaha Beach to the Nuremberg Trials, British war correspondent Ian Graham has become a Nazi hunter. When she is stranded behind enemy lines, Nina becomes the prey of a lethal Nazi murderess known as the Huntress, and only Nina’s bravery and cunning will keep her alive. ![]() ![]() When the Nazis attack the Soviet Union, she risks everything to join the legendary Night Witches, an all-female night bomber regiment wreaking havoc on the invading Germans. ![]() In the aftermath of war, the hunter becomes the hunted….īold and fearless, Nina Markova always dreamed of flying. Award Nominee Rosepoint Publishing: Five Stars Book Blurb:įrom the author of the New York Times and USA Today best-selling novel The Alice Network comes another fascinating historical novel about a battle-haunted English journalist and a Russian female bomber pilot who join forces to track the Huntress, a Nazi war criminal gone to ground in America. ![]() ![]() ![]() Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. While waiting in heaven for divine judgment to be passed on her second husband Henry II, Eleanor and three of the people who knew her well recall the events of her life. Newbery Medalist Konigsburg tells the story of Eleanor of Aquitaine from a unique perspective. ![]() Their reminiscences do far more than help distract Eleanor - they also paint a rich portrait of an extraordinary woman who was front and center in a remarkable period in history and whose accomplishments have had an important influence on society through the ages. ![]() ![]() While Eleanor, never a patient woman in life 'or' afterlife, waits, three people, each of whom was close to Eleanor during a time of her life, join her. A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver by E.L. Konigsburg, 9780689301117, available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. Finally, the day has come when Henry will be judged for admission. 5.48 Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver by E.L. A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver by E.L. Eleanor of Aquitaine, wife to two kings, mother to two others, has been waiting in Heaven a long time - eight centuries, more or less - to be reunited with her second husband, Henry II of England. ![]() ![]() ![]() Features new covers by Clowes, and "Behind the Eightball": the author’s annotations for each issue, heavily illustrated with art and photos from his archives. It includes more than 500 pages of vintage Clowes: seminal serialized graphic novels, strips, and rants, such as "Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron," "Ghost World," "Pussey," "I Hate You Deeply," "Sexual Frustration," "Ugly Girls," "Why I Hate Christians," "Message to the People of the Future," "Paranoid," "My Suicide," "Chicago," "Art School Confidential," "On Sports," "Zubrick and Pogeybait," "Hippypants and Peace-Bear," "Grip Glutz," "The Sensual Santa," "Feldman," and many more. Show details Start over Product description Review A brutal, cock-eyed lampooning of the human condition, as searing and sensual now as it was then. Now, Fantagraphics is collecting every single page of these long out-of-print issues in a paperback edition. This item: The Complete Eightball 1-18 £3735 + Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron £1999 Total price: Add both to Basket One of these items is dispatched sooner than the other. From 1989 to 1997, he produced 18 issues of what is still widely considered one of the greatest and most influential comic book titles of all time. The beloved comic book series Eightball made Daniel Clowes' name even before he gained fame as a bestselling graphic novelist ( Ghost World, Patience, David Boring, Ice Haven) and screenwriter. Collecting issues 1-18 of the iconic Daniel Clowes comics anthology Eightball it contains the original installments of Ghost World, the short that the film Art School Confidential was based on, and much more, newly designed for paperback by the author. ![]() ![]() ![]() The first book in the series was chosen by Amazon as the Best Teen Book of 2011, and the sequel, Days of Blood and Starlight, was also on the list in 2012. In 2011, she published Daughter of Smoke and Bone, a young adult fantasy series. ![]() The sequel, Dreamdark: Silksinger, was a winner of the 2009 Cybil Award. Her first novel, Dreamdark: Blackbringer, was published in 2007. In 2004, she wrote a graphic novel for Image Comics, illustrated by her husband, Jim Di Bartolo. She always wanted to be a writer, and was 35 before she finished her first novel. ![]() She currently lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and daughter. Taylor was born in Chico, California, grew up as a US military kid in Europe and California, and earned her English degree from UC Berkeley. Laini Taylor (born December 22, 1971) is an American young adult fantasy author and a finalist for the National Book Award in Young People's Literature, best known for the Daughter of Smoke and Bone series, Strange the Dreamer, and Muse of Nightmares. ![]() ![]() In comparison, a board book is a subgenre of the picture book that is designed for the youngest of children. This is just one of the reasons why board books are recommended for babies – they are made to withstand all of your baby’s chomping, tossing, tearing, and more. Babies and toddlers can easily rip and tear the inner pages leaving the hardcover intact but the pages destroyed. However, hardcover books only work well to protect the inner pages when adults treasure them. ![]() The outside cover works to protect the inner pages and the pages are bound with stitching or glue. If you are a book collector, you most likely prefer hardback books over paperbacks because they’re more durable. ![]() It’s a book that is designed with a hardcover, but it has traditional paper pages inside. ![]() A hardcover book is exactly what it sounds like. ![]() ![]() ![]() What exactly does this mean? It means that our cognition isn’t confined to our cortices. Thus, to understand reason we must understand the details of our visual system, our motor system, and the general mechanism of neural binding. This is not just the innocuous and obvious claim that we need a body to reason rather, it is the striking claim that the very structure of reason itself comes from the details of our embodiment. arises from the nature of our brains, bodies, and bodily experiences. However, as George Lakoff and Rafeal Núñez explain:Ĭognitive science calls this entire philosophical worldview into serious question on empirical grounds. From it, western thought developed two basic ideas: reason is disembodied because the mind is disembodied and reason is transcendent and universal. the mind or soul of man is entirely different from the body.” In the proceeding centuries, the notion of the disembodied mind flourished. In sharp contrast is dualism, a theory of mind famously put forth by Rene Descartes in the 17 th century when he claimed that “there is a great difference between mind and body, inasmuch as body is by nature always divisible, and the mind is entirely indivisible. ![]() ![]() Embodied cognition, the idea that the mind is not only connected to the body but that the body influences the mind, is one of the more counter-intuitive ideas in cognitive science. ![]() |