“Life Changes” is a chapbook filled with an array of enriching poems that touches on many topics such as pain, love and life. This book is meant to take each individual reader on their own personal spiritual journey. With the flip of each page is different thought provoking questions and poems. This book is meant to encourage rich discussion with others, touch hearts and change minds.

What you see before you is no mere glossary of the profane. It is a map of the taboo, a cartography of consciousness that traces the unspeakable currents flowing beneath polite society's polished veneer. When Robert Anton Wilson first compiled this euphoric lexicon of expletives and eroticisms, he wasn't just collecting dirty words he was staging a linguistic jailbreak.Wilson understood long before the term went vogue that information is the prima materia of reality. He kn...

Tales of myths legends, history and wild imagination. Reincarnation. Parallel Universes. Legends and the Land of Eternal Youth - Tír no nÓg. The horror of being branded an informer. A man finds a solution to his 'severe communication disorder' high in the Andes. A planned invasion of Ireland during WW2? Overcoming rationing in WW2.

Josie Bateil had one remaining option to escape the harassment and terror that's been thrust upon her. RUN! She uprooted her entire life. She left behind family, friends plus a career she loved. For two years, Josie kept running, constantly looking over her shoulder. When she would arrive in a new town, small and tucked out of the way, she’d begin the cycle again, dealing with her situation the only way she knew how. She’d never stay put for long—the risk was far too great.Then she...

At last, for those who adapt literature into scripts, a how-to book that illuminates the process of creating a stageworthy play. Page to Stage describes the essential steps for constructing adaptations for any theatrical venue, from the college classroom to a professionally produced production. Acclaimed director Vincent Murphy offers students in theater, literary studies, and creative writing a clear and easy-to-use guidebook on adaptation. Its step-by-step process will be valuab...

The book tells the story of the 10th Australian Light Horse during World War One. It takes the reader on a journey with the first enlisted men from West Australia from their enlistment, through training at Black Boy Hill, their encampment at Meadi, Egypt, the call to Gallipoli and then the slow process of taking the Sinai, the drive through Beersheba to Jerusalem and finally their capture of Damascus. The war for the 10th did not stop here because they had to maintain the peace. Eventually...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This inspiring meditation on kindness from the author of Lincoln in the Bardo is based on his popular commencement address.Three months after George Saunders gave a graduation address at Syracuse University, a transcript of that speech was posted on the website of The New York Times, where its simple, uplifting message struck a deep chord. Within days, it had been shared more than one million times. Why? Becaus...

Robert McKee's screenwriting workshops have earned him an international reputation for inspiring novices, refining works in progress and putting major screenwriting careers back on track. Quincy Jones, Diane Keaton, Gloria Steinem, Julia Roberts, John Cleese and David Bowie are just a few of his celebrity alumni. Writers, producers, development executives and agents all flock to his lecture series, praising it as a mesmerizing and intense learning experience.In Story, McKee expands...

"This is a book about making art. Ordinary art. Ordinary art means something like: all art not made by Mozart. After all, art is rarely made by Mozart-like people; essentially—statistically speaking—there aren't any people like that. Geniuses get made once-a-century or so, yet good art gets made all the time, so to equate the making of art with the workings of genius removes this intimately human activity to a strangely unreachable and unknowable place. For all practical ...

A bold and strikingly original new work from one of America's greatest living poetsAlice Notley is considered by many to be among the most outstanding of living American poets. Notley's work has always been highly narrative, and her new book mixes short lyrics with long, expansive lines of poetry that often take the form of prose sentences, in an effort "to change writing completely." The title piece, a folksong-like lament, makes a unified tale out of many stories...

This timeless masterclass on visual storytelling guides you through the common processes used to craft emotionally satisfying scripts for television, streaming, and beyond—from “the most sought-after screenwriter teacher in the world” (Hollywood Reporter).No one knows more about screenwriting than Syd Field—and now the ultimate Hollywood insider shares his secrets and expertise in The Screenwriter’s Workbook. Filled with new material—including fre...

Do you feel like people step all over you (or are you kind of the one doing the stepping)? Do you struggle with saying no without guilt and yes without resentment? THE BOUNDARIES SONG can help you figure out where you end and the rest of the world begins. From the 'This or Prozac' series by Matt Prager - short focused advice for everyday life. Matt is a licensed therapist who offers dating coaching business coaching and phone therapy for both individuals and couples. He also offers ...