Each year, Carole Morin - a movie junkie - refused to meet her mother (who lives in America) in Hollywood as she did not want her fantasies to be spoilt by plastic reality. This autobiography of seduction and self-destruction explores the relationship between movies and the real world.
From the author of Dead Glamorous comes this nihilistic novel of breathless elegance and unfettered imagination -- a disturbing, hedonistic journey through a young girl's twisted reality American readers first encountered Carole Morin's dark vision in Dead Glamorous, a novelistic memoir that New Yorker writer Al Alvarez called "wicked and funny and stylish". In her darkly brilliant first novel, Lampshades, Morin continues to pursue this dark vision. Her narrator, Sophira van Ness, is fair and democratic. She hates everyone -- the old, the fat, the poor -- and all fall victim to her even-handed intolerance. Obsessed with spiritual purity, death, and hygiene -- and consoled only by chocolate and frequent baths -- Sophira resurrects one hero from the graveyard of history: Adolf Hitler. Disturbing, but charismatic, Sophira draws the reader into a world of haunted reality and perverse glamour, watching, unblinkingly, as she visits the Queen at her toilet and as she falls in love with a latter-day Jack the Ripper. Lampshades is both blackly funny and utterly original, and confronts banality and evil with a cool, unflinching gaze. In Sophira van Ness, Carole Morin has created a seductive monster and in Lampshades a novel of breathless style blended with rare imaginative power.
The tenth book in Faber's collection of new short stories, this work comprises stories by authors who have not previously had work published in book form. The authors are Tom Harpole, Kathy O'Shaughnessy, Matthew Francis, Carole Morin, Hugo Hamilton and Anne Enright.
The tenth book in Faber's collection of new short stories, this work comprises stories by authors who have not previously had work published in book form. The authors are Tom Harpole, Kathy O'Shaughnessy, Matthew Francis, Carole Morin, Hugo Hamilton and Anne Enright.
Immortal assassins and the demi-gods who love them. Sanity once more in question, assassin Fen Jacen-rei finds himself faced with the reality of what the gods want from him this time. And with Malick suddenly unavailable, Fen will have to face it alone. ...Or maybe not. Old enemies and new allies seek 'Kamen's Untouchable' and it's going to take everything Fen's got to figure out which ones are which—and which ones are real. The second installment of an exciting Manga/Wuxia-inspired dark fantasy.
If only the gods cared about justice... In this Manga/Wuxia-inspired dark fantasy, an assassin stalks the alleyways, killing those who would bleed illegal magic from a people who once ruled. It’s the mystery of it that attracts Kamen Malik, and sends him on his own hunt. For the assassin he seeks is a Ghost in truth, an Untouchable whose kind once channeled the Voices of the Ancestors, one whose fate should be insanity and solitude. How can such a one survive?
The tools every EA needs to help each child reach their full potential The Educational Assistant’s Guide to Supporting Inclusion in a Diverse Society is an accessible, practical guide to acquiring the key skills and knowledge you need to be an effective, professional enhancement to the classroom. Chock-full of pro tips, tricks, tools, and tales from EAs who understand the importance of an individualized, holistic approach to student learning, The Educational Assistant’s Guide is your introduction to the many and varied roles and responsibilities of the effective EA. Updates for the second edition include five new chapters, a core-skills focus, targeted instructional strategies, EA wellness assessments, and more. Gain foundational knowledge that will make you an invaluable addition to any classroom team: - Canada’s legal commitments to diversity and inclusion - AI and other assistive technologies in the classroom - The argument for inclusive education - Societal issues affecting students - The basics of universal design for learning - Proven methods of supporting learning and inquiry - Scaffolding instruction for all learners - Applications of assistive technologies - Techniques for observing and documenting student progress - Positive guidance strategies for challenging behaviours - Relevant research on the brain, self-esteem, stress and trauma, resiliency, and multiple intelligences - Effective communication, advocacy, and relationship-building strategies - Strategies for problem-solving and professional growth
Psychoanalysis is a historical discourse of suffering and healing under conditions of modernity rather than a metaphysical discourse of universal truth, and must be so due to the ontological indeterminacy of psychic life. Demonstrating this proceeds through the substantiation of two primary theses. First, pluralism in psychoanalysis, thus the perspectival character of psychoanalytic knowing, is irreducible. Second, psychic life is partially pliable to interpretive constitution rather than a self-subsistent object domain fully available to third-personal, objective description. Together, these theses provide the framework for a radical rethinking of the authority of psychoanalytic knowledge and practice and of the nature of psychoanalytic claims to objectivity. Psychoanalytic interpretations are best understood as existentially interrogative – they test who and how one might be – and if successful, to some extent identity formative. The validity conditions of psychoanalytic knowledge thus concern the creation/discovery of satisfactory forms of practice-orienting self-narration rather than those regularly operative in the natural sciences. However, an adequate assessment of psychoanalytic claims requires that the claims of science are given due consideration and the impediments to practice-orienting self-narration under conditions of late modernity are acknowledged.
From the coauthor of the bestselling When Smart People Fail, expert advice on discovering the right career path. 50 million people in the United States are in the midst of changing, or contemplating changing, their jobs. Now Carole Hyatt makes this transition period easier with practical methods and inspiring stories.
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