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Download: $2.79 SpaceFruit
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Print: $18.24 Download: $5.60 There is a silence where hath been no sound.
There is a silence where no sound may be.
In the cold grave,
under the deep, deep sea.
Thomas Hood (1799 1845)
During the summer of 1831, in a market town in North East England, George Neilsen, a handsome young innkeeper, is longing for a way out of his humdrum world. He meets the enigmatic Sir Bernard Sanderson and his beautiful wife, Julia. Next day, he tells Mary Charlton, his childhood friend and confidante, of his encounter. Mary, who is secretly in love with George, teases him over his apparent infatuation with the aristocratic pair.
What follows is a tale of adventure and misadventures, doubts and truths, secrets and lies, silence and tears.
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MermaidMermaid (artwork)
Download: $3.51 A mermaid couple, enjoying an underwater embrace.
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Print: $11.22 Download: $4.20 A collection of poetry with original illustrations inspired by the planets and the mythology and magic connected with them.
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Print: $12.63 Download: $7.01 A good memory is truly important for anyone to possess. Your memory of faces, names, facts, information, dates, events, circumstances and other things concerning your everyday life is the measure of your ability to prevail in today’s fast-paced, information-dependent society. With a good memory, you don’t have to fear forgetting/misplacing important stuff and you can overcome mental barriers that hinder you from achieving success in your career, love life, and personal life.
In this book you will learn about:
• Sharp Memory Factors
• Attention
• Basic Memory Tools
• Overcoming Forgetfulness
• Memory and Your Senses
• How to Remember Names and Faces
• How to Remember Numbers
• How to Remember Places
• How to Remember Events
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Print: $9.12 Download: $5.60 Focus: Can it work for you?
Are you doing exactly what you want to do in your life today?
Have you attained every goal you ever set yourself?
If you can answer yes to these questions, then this book is probably not for you.
But wait! If you answered NO to these questions and your answers to the following questions are still NO, then you NEED this book.
Everybody’s life has its ups and downs, but not everybody is aware that they can actually DO something themselves to turn things around. Knowing how to focus, how to build up confidence and self-esteem, and knowing when to exercise self-discipline are HUGE steps toward a better life for yourself and those around you.
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Print: $11.22 Download: $7.01 Tired of piles of paper and scraps covering your desk? Can’t see your diary for sticky notes? Sure you’d get more done if you could just get it all sorted out? This is THE BOOK for any aspiring or professional writer.
Inside you’ll find
• Monthly planners to help you keep deadlines
• Detailed charts to track your submissions
• Reading lists
• Website lists
• Project development grids
• To Do lists
• And even pages of prompts for each month to combat the dreaded writer’s block!
Get organised, and give your writing a kick start this year!
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Print: $12.63 Download: $5.60 The concept of the postmodern is one fraught with the problems of definition, of choosing and using names. It is not enough to talk only of the postmodern: first one has to say which postmodern is being referred to.
In a sense, 'postmodernity' is a label for an era, and thus in a way all art which is produced in the era of postmodernity must fall under the rubric of postmodernism. Thus, there exists a tension between talk of the cultural age of postmodernity and talk about the work produced which is labelled 'postmodern'. This book explores this tension: whether postmodern art, or at least the theories which are labelling and creating 'postmodernism' in the arts, can be said to be a meaningful expression of what art may be or may do in the postmodern world.
One question to be answered is whether this particular construct can rationally tolerate this kind of theorising, or whether, given its peculiar inclusiveness and eclecticism, such a movement is contrary to its whole philosophical basis.
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Download: $14.03 Hardcover Print: $28.08 As with the relationship between any two cultural areas, the flow of ideas between science and science fiction is two-way. An exchange of knowledge and perspectives exists, fed by the concerns of society at large. This book explores the dialogues that take place between science fiction and the postmodern world, and what effects these have had on identity.
I take the science fiction novel to be the paradigmatic form of postmodernism. Instead of presenting a truth with possible explanations between which it may be impossible to choose, the science fiction novel presents possible worlds. The 'stuff' of fiction, the 'human condition', is framed by unusual worlds which in turn create surprising dilemmas with which the characters must cope. It is this question of possible worlds, exploring how they relate to temporality in postmodern fiction, linking to ideas of hyperspace, and finally to my discussion of the postmodern city and the notion of the wildzone.
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Print: $12.63 Download: $5.60 Predominant in postmodern theories of representation are approaches and practices that locate 'the body' within systematised networks and circuits.
The cyborg is our ontology; it gives us our politics. Subjected to these discursive frameworks or grounding ontologies, the body, as a clearly delineated unit, blurs into negotiated relatedness, and postmodern systematicity ushers in a contemporary meltdown of the discrete body. In other words, it would seem difficult to try to discuss 'the body' with distinct boundaries, whereas referring to the bounded body can emerge as a reflective postmodern image.
The dissolution of apparently clear distinctions is what propels the cyborg - it lurks at the boundaries constructed and demanded by humanist thought, dismantling discretion in favour of interconnected networks and integrated systems. Boundaries 'breached', or at least 'leaky', include those between human and animal, between human and machine, and between the physical and the non physical.
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Print: $12.63 Download: $5.60 This study looks at the issues of feminism with regard to poststructuralism and postmodernism. This will lead to a discussion of androgyny and fantasy in women's writing, and how male writers can gain access to the wildzone through strategies of postmodern and fantasy writing techniques. Fantasy shows that what we thought was 'natural' is constructed. This underlines the idea that what we've accepted as 'normal' need not exist, as anything and everything can be changed.
Fantasy comes from the Greek word fantasia, meaning to make visible another order of reality, and thus can be said to give voice to everything the old realist novels are quiet about. Fantasy shows the underside of realism, the things that are not dealt with, and therefore fantasy is not completely divorced from the real world. Fantasy writing produces something apparently new, but still comes from our world, and is produced in a social context.
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Print: $12.63 Download: $5.60 This book focuses on ideas of fragmentation, the death of the subject and the search for authenticity, with a discussion of the mechanisation of the body and ideas of the psyche as constituted by popular or image culture.
Topics include postmodern architecture and the creation of the artificial, problems of defining boundaries and the city as a state of mind or a projection of subconscious desires. The film BladeRunner is used at length to illustrate the argument.
I aim to show the postmodern city as an unreal world of simulation, a constituted dreamspace - a schizopolis created through hallucination or psychic projection which, as simulacrum creates its own characters.
‘A dazzling knowledge of architecture, literature, film and critical theory, leaving you feeling educated, but not exhausted.’ amazon.co.uk
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Download: $14.03 Hardcover Print: $28.08 Originally published as four books - Down By The Water, Coming Up For Air, Fanning the Flames and Scorched Earth - this artist’s book, comprises the full set of four elements. Created in a limited edition, each is unique, featuring hand finished detail.
‘The bridge hums broken tunes under its breath…’
‘I heard the cry of the driven clouds... the endless companies that hurried across the width of heaven.’
‘Out of the fiery furnace crept ... a scent of something newly opened upon the world.’
‘I want to hear this soft damp night breathing.’
‘A fantastic read, crammed full of beautiful language... beautiful illustrations by the author herself.’ amazon.co.uk
‘An avant-garde novel, comprising story chapters interspersed with poems forming the inner monologues of characters, including the heroine, drowned by her lover, and haunting his descendants.’ amazon.co.uk
‘Wow … making a huge mythology if you immerse yourself in them all. Thanks for the dreaming!’ amazon.co.uk
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Print: $12.63 Download: $4.20 ‘I want to hear this soft damp night breathing.’
‘We only know the sudden shadow-cold… black with coal, and the long tunnels of the afternoons pelting into the future like stones lobbed by bullies at our faces.’
The story of the ring, in archaeological terms, together with the final conclusions. This is the fourth in the ‘Ring of Elements’ set, and is composed of lyrical stories, poems and artwork. All are linked by the ring, the spirit of earth and those that inhabit it.
‘Wow … making a huge mythology if you immerse yourself in them all. Thanks for the dreaming!’ amazon.co.uk
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Print: $12.63 Download: $4.20 ‘Memory keeps delivering the past in brown paper parcels done up with tangled string…’
‘I saw a burning house once, coming home. It moved and it was still.’
‘Out of the fiery furnace crept our newborn son, half golden with freckles of rust and a scent of something newly opened upon the world.’
This is the third in the ‘Ring of Elements’ set, and is composed of lyrical stories, poems and artwork. All are linked by the ring, the spirit of fire and those that inhabit it, including an ancient fable, a burning pier and a baby of cinders and ore.
‘Wow … making a huge mythology if you immerse yourself in them all. Thanks for the dreaming!’ amazon.co.uk
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Print: $12.63 Download: $4.20 ‘There are things we should say, things we should not. And there are things we want to say but have never learned how.’
‘I heard the cry of the driven clouds, and the awful shout of the pursuers mingled with the clamouring and thudding of the endless companies that hurried across the width of heaven.’
This is the second in the ‘Ring of Elements’ set, and is composed of lyrical stories, poems and artwork. All are linked by the ring, the spirit of air and those that inhabit it, with the true meaning of balloons, prophecies fulfilled and myths developed.
‘Wow … making a huge mythology if you immerse yourself in them all. Thanks for the dreaming! ’ amazon.co.uk
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Print: $12.63 Download: $5.60 ‘The bridge hums broken tunes under its breath… Whispered in my submerged ear and I, breathing and floating, am now with the ocean’s force.’
‘Lanterns go bobbing along the shore, wild music skirls across the moonlit waters… music to scorch the blood to passionheat.’
This is the first in a series of four books, together comprising the ‘Ring of Elements’ set, and is composed of lyrical stories, poems and artwork, linked by the sea, the river and those that inhabit them.
‘A fantastic read, crammed full of beautiful language, similar to Dylan Thomas, perhaps, or GM Hopkins. Also beautiful illustrations by the author herself.’ amazon.co.uk
‘An avant-garde novel, comprising story chapters interspersed with some poems. These poems form the inner monologues of the main characters, including the heroine, drowned by her lover, and haunting his descendants.’ amazon.co.uk
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Print: $11.22 Download: $4.20 Café Ultima Menu
A few scenes from the place that’s open twenty-four hours serving coffee, tea, soft drinks and a range of hot snacks in a traditional environment. All major credit cards accepted.
And then there was the time when the café was in a rough area.
The café is open all night, including when the clubs close and everyone comes out from coming out to play.
‘A romp through the lives of various members of cafe society... violent moments, but strangely poetic in tone.’ amazon.co.uk
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Print: $8.41 Download: $3.50 'Loving longs for His delightful oblivion…
One big passionate angel is like his celebration.
It takes to dreams.'
A miniature art book containing a single extended poem, and featuring as its conclusion, the prize winning ‘Heart’ poem.
‘Truly beautiful and inspiring ‘amazon.co.uk
‘A beautiful item - an artefact in itself. ‘amazon.co.uk
By the author of Down By The Water, Sing of the City Electric and Silence and Tears.
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http://www.joannebenford.piczo.com
Non-fiction
My areas of research concentrate mainly on popular culture and include articles on many films, television programmes and cultural theories, and have been published in a variety of magazines, including The Idler, Towards 2012, Cracked Mirror, Talking Stick and The Edge. Full details can be supplied.
I have also appeared on a BBC programme discussing the X Files, and made a programme of my own research and interests to advertise the Open University and Learning Zone programmes.
Definition contributor to the Icon Critical Dictionary of Feminism and Postfeminism 1999.
I also regularly write features and articles for magazines such as Woman’s Own, People’s Friend and Best.
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