MICHAEL DAVIDSON (1897-1975) was an English foreign correspondent who caused a sensation in 1962 when he published an autobiography, The World, The Flesh and Myself, which opened with the sentence "This is the life history of a lover of boys." In an England where homosexuality was still illegal and widely reviled, it was incredibly daring, but his patent honesty won hearts and it was well-received:"the twofold story of a courageous and lovable person's struggle to come to ter...

This new book by eminent scholar Michael Davidson gathers his essays concerning formally innovative poetry from modernists such as Mina Loy, George Oppen, and Wallace Stevens to current practitioners such as Cristina Rivera-Garza, Heriberto Yépez, Lisa Robertson, and Mark Nowak. The book considers poems that challenge traditional poetic forms and in doing so trouble normative boundaries of sexuality, subjectivity, gender, and citizenship. At the heart of each essay is a concern with the "p...

Fundraising is the hardest work you ask your board members to do. If they're not fully committed and engaged and they don't feel they have a strong stake in your organization, they aren't going to fundraise for it. In this groundbreaking book, Michael Davidson and Brian Saber bring their collective expertise and their 20 years of working together on governance and fundraising issues to help you understand how good governance is a means to inspire your board to fundraise.Most board ...

The role of disability and deafness in artDistressing Language is full of mistakes—errors of hearing, speaking, writing, and understanding. Michael Davidson engages the role of disability and deafness in contemporary aesthetics, exploring how physical and intellectual differences challenge our understanding of art and poetry.Where hearing and speaking are considered normative conditions of the human, what happens when words are misheard and misspok...

Concerto for the Left Hand is at the cutting edge of the expanding field of disability studies, offering a wide range of essays that investigate the impact of disability across various art forms---including literature, performance, photography, and film. Rather than simply focusing on the ways in which disabled persons are portrayed, Michael Davidson explores how the experience of disability shapes the work of artists and why disability serves as a vital lens through which to interpret mod...

Addendum: Unorthodox, Ontological Analogy Concerning Existence and Reality, is meant as an introduction to metaphysics; a word coined my Aristotle to express a reality other than the physical. We begin with a focus on consciousness, followed by an emphasis on ancient Greek wisdom. At times we will wander in rivulets to other topics along the way.The scope of this treatises is, as said and introduction to the ancient metaphysical wisdoms, but also a plunge into the fathomless ocean ...

Fire and Ice came to me on a morning while living in Sierra Madre, California. It was like watching a film, and I simply wrote what I saw. The Grave was an experiment in writing in a different style, and was written after visiting an overgrown and disorganized graveyard in the hills east of Cambria, California. Meet Me at Ala Mar is a fictional tale focused on a quaint motel on the Cabrillo Highway in Santa Barbara, California, overlooking the Santa Barbara harbor. It tells the story of a ...

One nation, without God...Colton Pierce apprehends Abberants—those who display symptoms of faith—and quarantines them on a remote island to ensure public safety. Years prior, the government released a genetically-engineered super flu that destroyed the genes believed to be the biological source of spiritual experience in an effort to rid the world of terrorism. As an extractor with the Center for Theological Control, Colton is dedicated to the cause.But Colton's steadfast c...

Michael J. Davidson was born in 1940, in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Qualified as a Dental Surgeon in Johannesburg, emigrating to London in 1962. He retired in 2005.Previous publications 1998 'Odd Bedfellows' a compilation of Poetry and Prose. 'Thoughts in an MRI Scanner ' was published in Medical Journals in UK South Africa and even Japan!. 2009 his first novel , 'Brothers and Lovers ' was published 2012 'Quadrangulation', a novel in Fatal Attraction genre.Sports and hob...

Familial chylomicronemia syndrome (FCS) is an ultra-rare genetic disorder characterized by the abnormal build-up of chylomicrons, the largest type of lipoprotein, which transport dietary fat from the gut to the rest of the body. Patients with FCS often experience severe symptoms, the most feared of which is acute, potentially life-threatening, pancreatitis. This resource is intended to raise awareness of FCS among all members of the healthcare team who come into contact with patients with ...

Quadrangulation, an intense novel following four characters whose lives intersect, recounts a four-year period that goes from peaceful to terrifying, as events whirl out of control.----Josh Miller is a London oral surgeon and Jo-anne is his wife of 20 years. Belinda, 22, is Joshs former surgery assistant, while Craig is Belindas boyfriend and travelling companion.----Out of the blue, Josh is stunned when his home is invaded, their beloved dogs poisoned, Jo-annes motor car defaced and an ob...

This volume is based on the 10th annual Harvard Symposium for the Quantitative Analysis of Behavior. The first Harvard Symposium was devoted to signal-detection analyses of reinforcement and choice behavior. The present volume reprises the original signal- detection theme, incorporating additional insights based on experimental and theoretical analyses undertaken during the years separating the two conferences. This collection illustrates how signal-detection theory, first advanced to acco...