Selected Poems gathers together a lifetime's work by beloved, prize-winning poet and musician, Roger Robinson, reflecting on the joys and pains of life**'**His poems are deep, mature, moving and inventive' BERNARDINE EVARISTO'Robinson is one of the most important poetic voices in the UK right now' RAYMOND ANTROBUS'Roger Robinson shows us that he can be the voice of our communal consciousness' AFUA HIR...

Your Writer’s Block Is Bullsh*t begins with a confession: the authors themselves avoided writing this book.From that honest starting point, psychologist Dr Vincent Fogliati and professional ghostwriter Roger Joyce invite readers on a transformative journey through the three acts of a writer’s creative life — fear, confrontation, and freedom.In Act One – Your Writing World, they introduce the ACT Matrix, a tool that helps writers map their ...

What does it mean to pursue the comfort of daily life alongside legacies of profound injustice? What are the ethical demands that histories of atrocity place on us, even if we did not participate in them? These are the kind of questions that lay at the heart of this book, which explores the nature of silencing, accountability, and the obligations we have to each other as individuals and as a society. Award winning author and psychoanalyst Roger Frie travels to sites of atrocity to meet wit...

More Poetry and Reflection is Roger Neumaier's second volume of poetry written after his retirement in 2014. Neumaier's poems track his recognition and acceptance of changes in, and challenges to, his life as well as his growing understanding of the world around him. The book straddles the line between personal philosophy and poetry.More Poetry and Reflection addresses the philosophical questions Neumaier cares about, namely exploring how humans respond to the wor...

How can we create musical sounds through computation? How can we represent, organize, and manipulate music compositions through digital means? How can computers perform music with expression and emotion? Can computers listen to music? Understand music? Compose music? These and many related questions are the subject of Computer Music research and practice. The book provides a comprehensive review of these topics. It explains how musical sounds and musical scores can be represented and manip...

Who was Jesus of Nazareth? While everyone may have an opinion, the only firm evidence comes from the four Gospels found in the New Testament, the first three of which are known as “Synoptic Gospels,” while John is a gospel unto itself.Who was Jesus of Nazareth in his own context? What did he do and why? The Gospels paint different portraits of Jesus. How should these very different portrayals of Jesus in his own context and in the contexts of the Gospel writers be perceive...

“Wow wow wow! Grips you in a choke hold and does not let go… Oozes suspense and bone-chilling twists and turns. Astonishing… One of those rare books you stay up all night to read.” @a\_likely\_storie, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐The beautiful young woman is perfectly still, curled up in the trunk of the car, her long dark hair hiding her face. Her cotton blouse has ridden up a little, revealing two small dots an inch apart on her back. Just like the other...

'A clever, stylish, affable locked-room caper, worthy of recovery, ripe for discovery.' A J FINNA classic crime novel and golden age 'closed circle' murder mystery, perfect for fans of Knives Out and Agatha Christie.When a wealthy bachelor is murdered in his mansion, all of his relatives are suspects…A grand mansion.Nearing the end of his life, the wealthy Martin Greenough hides awa...

Discover the history, culture, traditions, and lived experiences of Mexican Americans in the United States.With over 37.2 million Mexican Americans in the United States, Mexican Americans constitute the largest immigrant group in the US. Though neighbors with the United States, Mexico has its own unique culture, history, and customs, all of which immigrants bring with them when they come to the US.This volume explores what it means to be a Mexican American,...

Charles Hawtrey, the skinny one with the granny glasses, was everybody's favourite in the Carry Ons - but who exactly was he?Up to now the man has remained a mystery. Examining Hawtrey's origins as a child star and as a performer in revue and the Will Hay films, this wonderful little book also looks at his career in radio and television, and then to the sad and slow decline of a belligerent recluse in Deal, on the Kent coast. The high camp exuberance of his acting ...

Examines the emotional, formal, and environmental dimensions of war commemorationExperiencing War Memorials is a compelling edited collection of essays that examines how war is commemorated through public memorials and the powerful emotions and ideologies these sites generate. Drawing on fields such as war studies, affect studies, public memory studies, and the environmental humanities, the volume demonstrates that commemoration is not only an int...

A rigorous, accessible examination of how Jesus led—and what his methods reveal about leadership that actually works. Not devotional inspiration. Practical formation.There are thousands of books about Jesus. There are thousands of books about leadership. Imitate This is the rare book that treats Jesus's approach to leading people as a subject worthy of serious, practical examination.Each chapter takes a defining quality of Jesus's leadership—humility, coura...