“How to Like a Human Being”, by professional teacher and writer Chris Sharp, is a guide book for people who love everyone but don't really like anyone very much. Sharp draws from his experience as a teacher to discover how people develop obstacles against liking and trusting other people, and using history and a workshop technique he challenges readers to drop these barriers that exclude them from giving and receiving with a more promising human community. But the book carries a warning: Liking people is not as abstract as loving humanity, and it will require more work and courage.
In Chris Sharp's new epic fantasy Cold Counsel, Slud of the Blood Claw Clan, Bringer of Troubles, was born at the heart of the worst storm the mountain had ever seen. Slud’s father, chief of the clan, was changed by his son’s presence. For the first time since the age of the giants, he rallied the remaining trolls under one banner and marched to war taking back the mountain from the goblin clans. However, the long-lived elves remembered the brutal wars of the last age, and did not welcome the return of these lesser-giants to martial power. Twenty thousand elves marched on the mountain intent on genocide. They eradicated the entire troll species—save two. Aunt Agnes, an old witch from the Iron Wood, carried Slud away before the elves could find them. Their existence remained hidden for decades, and in that time, Agnes molded Slud to become her instrument of revenge. For cold is the counsel of women. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
CIRCLES is a collection of ten short stories written over the years, each one containing different characters and locations, humour and tragedy, fantasy and realism, but all share one element - a wicked twist in the tail!
Elaborate cons, impossible heists and high-speed chases were his thing. His talent in boxing and engineering made those pursuits a gamble with death he never wanted to quit. Then he left the world of crime with his woman, a blonde bombshell who was also accomplished in boxing and was his engineering equal. Their late boxing coach gives them a reason to return to The Life with his last wish. His will instructs his former pupils to join with other multitalented individuals, form a team that will commit major crimes for the sake of communities on the Gulf Coast. A job Coach Eddy started before he was murdered: Taking on the Vietnamese Mafia.
War Games in an Urban Village follows the adventures of a Ten-year-old Boy and his peers during the last year of WW11. Under the British austerity of 'Blood, Sweat and Tears', his simple, regulated Welsh lifestyle is quickly overturned by the appearance of Victoria Courtney, an orphan evacuated from the bombed out slums of Stepney, London. Streetwise and cunning, Vicky soon establishes herself into his unsophisticated young life, neigbourhood and School. Set against the unfolding background of War in Europe, the stories of his escapades with Vicky contain all the ingredients of childhood at that time; fun and humour, sorrow and poignancy, hope and despair. It also includes love and hate...
The best Vietnam War novels yet for this age range." -- Kirkus Reviews Of all his friends, Ivan is the only one looking forward to war.That's because Ivan has never backed down from a fight--especially when it comes to fighting for what's right. He has protected his friends from bullies for years. And now, as war erupts in Vietnam, Ivan wants nothing more than to fight for his country, just as his father did in World War II.Enlisting in the United States Army, Ivan is trained to be a sniper. And he's good at it. Very good. But Vietnam is not the war he was expecting. Somehow the glory and heroism of his father's war stories do not come so easily in the jungle.Now, for the first time, Ivan is forced to question what he's really fighting for... and whether it's a fight he can hope to win.
Second century Wales, and the Romans have consolidated their hold on the Celtic Tribes of Western Britain. For the Demetae, they have brought civilisation and peace with their technology, but for other tribes, this same technology is used for brutal occupation. When Cadog, a resistance leader of the oppressed Silures, is caught up in the Demetian Village of Pentre Cothi, he finds a world of peaceful fraternisation between the Natives and the Roman garrison. He also finds love in Rhaonell, the beautiful young widow of the local Chief. Torn between his disgust of what he sees as blatant collaboration with the enemy, and his love for Rhaonell, he decides to leave and return to his own people. But the Fates have other plans when Quintus, an ambitious young Roman Officer, moves quickly to intercept him. His actions precipitate anger and reprisals from a normally peaceful tribe. Coinciding with timultuous events in the North, and trained by the Silurian, the local uprising in this remote part of Britain quickly escalates to the extent that Caesar Hadrian leaves Rome to come to see for himself what is happening to the Western part of his Empire...
This book argues that practices of resistance cannot be separated from practices of domination, and that they are always entangled in some configuration. They are inextricably linked, such that one always bears at least a trace of the other that contaminates or subverts it. The team of contributors explore themes of identity, embodiment, organisation, colonialism, and political transformation, examining them from historical, contemporary and more abstract perspectives within a wide geographical and cultural spectrum. Case studies include German Reunification; Jamaican Yardies on British Television; Victorian Sexuality and Moralisation in Cremorne Gardens; Ethnicity, Gender and Nation in Ecuador; Sport as Power; the film Falling Down. Entanglements of Power presents an exciting and challenging account of the symbiotic relationship between domination and resistance, and contextualises this within the parameters of geography with a rich body of case-study material and a respected team of contributors.
The year is 1805 and the army of Napoleon Bonaparte is poised for an invasion of England. Not all the nation's perils live across the channel however and, when Mrs Lucy Ferrars' aid is sought, these very different waters pull her down to such dark and dangerous depths that the phrase 'living on one's wits' means exactly what it says.
This is the book accompanying the second iteration of the Lulennial, a biennial exhibition mired in paradox, taking place not every two year, and occupying in total 21 square meters of space, at Lulu, in Mexico City. The twenty-two artists were invited to show work that touched one subject matter: fruit. Fruit seems to almost always bring out the comedian in artists, but just as often the alleged humor is a vehicle for serious feelings. With Yuji Agematsu, Kelly Akashi, Deyra Akay, Nina Beier, Luis Miguel Bendaña, Meriem Bennani, Matthew Brannon, Donna Conlon & Jonathan Harker, Jef Geys, Rodrigo Hernandez, Allison Katz, Adriana Lara, Nancy Lupo, Nevine Mahmoud, Aliza Nisenbaum, Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, Shimabuku, Peter Shire, Gabriel Sierra, Erika Verzutti, Amelie von Wulffen, Maja Vukoje.00Exhibition: Lulu, Mexico City, Mexico (6.2. - 1.4.2018).
Berlin-based artist Claudia Comte has create an intriguing new artist book that functions as an alternative exhibition space for her art works to be viewed and explored. On each oversized double-page spread, the x- and y-axes of the Cartesian coordinate system become a playful mathematical space in which Comte explores the possibilities of her sculptures and geometric patterns. The resulting shapes playfully evolve and revolve around the point of origin where the axes meet, creating a rigorous array of visual combinations and permutations that turn this fascinating book into a two-dimensional sculpture. With the horizontal axis dividing each page into two planes, and the vertical axis along the fold of the book turning the planes into four, the book can suddenly be read from all directions. The massive size and choice to eliminate any text allows a purely visual experience to unfold. Comte has recently show at the Public Art Fund, City Hall Park, N.Y. (2016); the Knig Galerie, Berlin (2016) and the Gladstone Gallery, N. Y. (2015).
I'm too busy to be happy . . .' Do you ever think like this? Many of us do these days, says psychologist and happiness expert Dr Timothy Sharp. In our quest for better jobs, bigger houses, more exotic holidays and higher-performing children, we have become too busy to factor in the one component that will make all of the above worthwhile: happiness. The good news is that achieving happiness is not a herculean task. It doesn't require expensive therapy or years of self-examination. Oftern it is about fine-tuning our thoughts and putting in place some simple daily practices. Dr Sharp draws on the latest research into the science of happiness and presents it here in 100 bite-sized chunks of inspiration and instruction. Read it from cover to cover, or dip in and out for a regular dose of happiness training. Learn how to increase your happiness levels by: improving your physical healthcounting your blessingsnurturing positive relationships becoming a giverbetter managing your time.Accessible, informative and funny, 100 Ways to Happiness encourages us to regard happiness as something that is achievable, manageable and hugely enhancing to the lives we live now.
Nagtzaam's meticulous graphite-gray pencil drawings are often abstract, geometric but also seek to be representations of a concrete reality or space. His drawings take up the entire page and appear almost impenetrable. After a series of artist publications this book is the first monograph with a broad selection of his work from 1995 to today.
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