Before television and radio, people would gather on porches, on the steps outside their homes, and tell stories. Their bewitched listeners would sit and listen long into the night as moths flitted around overhead. Storytelling phenomenon The Moth recaptures this lost each week in cities across America, Britain, Australia and beyond, playing to packed crowds at sold-out live events.Occasional Magic is a selection of 50 of the finest Moth stories from recent shows, from stor...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The definitive guide to telling an unforgettable story in any setting, drawing on twenty-five years of experience from the storytelling experts at The MothYou are a multitude of stories. Every joy and heartbreak, every disappointment and dizzying high, has the makings of an unforgettable story. Whether your goal is to deliver the perfect wedding toast, give a moving eulogy, ace a job interview or simply connect more deeply to th...

With an introduction by Neil GaimanBefore television and radio, before penny paperbacks and mass literacy, people would gather on porches, on the steps outside their homes, and tell stories. The storytellers knew their craft and bewitched listeners would sit and listen long into the night as moths flitted around overhead. The Moth is a non-profit group that is trying to recapture this lost art, helping storytellers - old hands and novices alike - hone their stories...

Design and build a simple backyard structure—from a basic garden shed or chicken coop to a fully finished tiny house—even if you've never built anything before!In this inspiring beginner's guide to building, author Lee Mothes illustrates the entire process from start to finish, beginning with site evaluation and ending with a finished building. Using his own detailed drawings and clear step-by-step instructions, Mothes shows how to:Build one small (6ʹ...

A collection of Christmas- and winter-themed short stories from an international group of authors with diverse perspectives. Each of the stories was selected for the incredible world building, character development, and fantastic storytelling. The collection is divided into two groups: stories that include Christmas or have a Christmas theme, and stories that take place in winter. None of these stories are for the faint of heart, and we strongly advise that everyone read the content notes ...

The 1990s was a period that saw the last vestiges of old company liveries and fleet names and also saw the slow (at first) dawning of the era of the low-floor bus. In this fascinating look at the bus scene of those years in Kent, south Essex, Surrey, Hampshire, Berkshire and Hertfordshire, from St Albans to the Isle of Wight and from Reading to Folkestone, and many places in between, David Moth presents a terrific selection of previously unpublished images, all taken by the author of buses...

This book covers the ever-changing bus scene in and around Perth, the Fair City. Including a wide variety of locations in Perth itself as well as surrounding villages and towns such as Blairgowrie, Crieff, Spittalfield, it covers the tail end of the Perth bus war with Routemasters being used by both Stagecoach and Strathtay as they competed for passengers. The story is brought up to date with images documenting the scene’s evolution over the years. The photographs are arranged in chronolog...

This book covers the ever-changing bus scene in Norfolk, Suffolk and northern Essex since 2016. Operators featured include First Essex, First Eastern Counties, Arriva Colchester, Ipswich Buses and the Go Ahead Group, as well as independents such as Sanders and Panther. A wide variety of locations are explored, such as Ipswich, Norwich, Dereham, Great Yarmouth, Colchester, Harwich, Clacton and Braintree. Major operators in these areas have surprisingly varied fleets displaying a range of li...

In this book David Moth chronicles buses in South West England between 1990 and 2005. This was a time when there were still a lot of older buses in service in the region in a variety of different company liveries now very much consigned to the past. Areas covered include Wiltshire, Dorset, Avon, Cornwall, Gloucestershire, and parts of Somerset and Devon. Operators include, among others, Badgerline, Cityline, Cheltenham & Gloucester, Smiths, Wilts & Dorset, Southern National and First Weste...

In this timely analysis, Rich Moth assesses mental health services in a period of major change.Based on extended fieldwork in community mental health services, he explores the many impacts of policy reform, marketisation and austerity on NHS mental health provision, and positions developments in the contexts of neoliberalism and an increased emphasis on individual responsibility.Firmly rooted in the lived experiences of people using mental health services and the everyday p...

This collection features images of buses taken throughout most of Northern England although it mainly concentrates on the historic counties of Lancashire and Yorkshire. Other places, however, are included such as New Brighton, Birkenhead, Warrington during the time of the bus war in 1995, Hartlepool, Bishop Auckland, Barrow-in-Furness, Workington, Carlisle and Middlesbrough.There are images taken from a wide area from Chester to Hull and from Sheffield to Carlisle, taking in some now-vanis...

An ancestor of the French divine who under the name of Fenelon has made for himself a household name in England as in France, was Bertrand de Salignac, Marquis de la Mothe Fenelon, who in 1572, as ambassador for France, was charged to soften as much as he could the resentment of our Queen Elizabeth when news came of the massacre of St. Bartholomew.