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Step into the past. Rush headlong at the future. The Age of Calamities is here.Henry VIII wants Anne Boleyn dead, but theres just one small problem - shes alive again by morning, sipping tea at the breakfast table. In the gilded hush of the Winter Palace, the Romanov sisters slip through time and waltz aboard a star-bound spaceship. A woman on the run strikes a sinister bargain with the ghost of Joan of Arc, but can she reclaim her body in time for sunrise?Fiercely inventive and darkly playful, these stories unfold on historys fault lines, where women take their revenge against ill-fated times. With sly wit and piercing poignancy, The Age of Calamities exhumes the past to haunt the present, charting the tragicomic yet hopeful act of living.

WHEN SARAH GETS HER CHANCE, her one and only chance, to fulfil some of her deepest emotional and sexual desires, was she wrong to seize the opportunity?Are the lines between fidelity and adultery really black and white or is there a possibility that they can be acceptably blurred?Her story doesnt set out to answer these questions - simply to ask that the reader save any considerations until the end before forming an opinion on Sarah and her actions and decisions.To the outsider, or anyone reading this book from the innocent party of an adulterous relationship, what Sarah created was a decade long web of lies and deceit sprinkled with episodes of unadulterated passion.The question the book poses is not whether Sarah was right or wrong or whether the reader believes her to be right or wrong.The question to be answered is given the exact same circumstances - what would YOU have done?

Harness the beauty of the natural world to create unique textile art pieces.Learn how to create beautiful textile art inspired by details in nature in this practical and inspirational guide. Acclaimed textile artist Marian Jazmik shows how to use unusual recycled and repurposed materials combined with traditional fabric and thread.Marian reveals the secrets of her lushly textured and sculptural embroidered pieces, from initial photograph to finished object. Exploring nature as a constant source of inspiration, she shows how to turn a chance spotting of lichen on a tree trunk or a scattering of autumn leaves into glorious textile or mixed-media art. Marian goes on to explore the myriad of techniques she uses in her work, including: How to begin with photography, homing in on details in nature. How to manipulate images to create microscopic and surprising detail. How to translate the images into 3-D work, using an eclectic mix of natural and man-made textiles, as well as unusual recycled materials otherwise be destined for landfill (packaging, plastics and household DIY products). Hand and machine embroidery. Dyeing, printing and painting. Using heat gun and soldering iron to create heavily textured surfaces. Packed with practical tips, inspiration and illustrated throughout with glorious examples of Marians work, this book will provide you with endless imaginative ideas for distilling the wonders of nature into your own textile art.

Textile artist and surface designer Mandy Pattullo marries fabric with collage techniques to produce beautiful pieces of art. In Textile Collage she shows a fresh way to use scraps and oddments of fabrics to create something unique and personal, while also being economical perfect for those who have hoarded bits of fabric, trim and memory-filled domestic textiles over the years.Chapter one covers Materials: collecting and sourcing fabric including unpicking and storing found fabric. In chapter two, Make, Mandy guides you through all the artistic and creative elements that you need to consider to create a beautiful collage. The following chapter Portray looks at piecing together a collaged portrait human or animal showing the figurative approach in collage work that includes transfer images and using found photographs. In the chapter Worn, the collage technique is used to embellish skirts, jackets and accessories. The final chapter Book looks at the fabric book as a receptacle for textile collage, with a range of approaches and forms explored.This is a wonderful resource for all textilers looking to make the most of the found fabrics they love and fully explore the technique of collage with textiles.

Una novela sincera e incisiva que abre la puerta de la narrativa masculina sobre el deseo heterosexual en la generación milenial.Ernest, el protagonista de esta novela, le escribe a alguien a quien ama: le quiere narrar su deseo, quiere recordar la noche anterior, celebrarla. Pero no puede hacerlo. No puede hablar sobre el deseo sin enzarzarse en la autojustificacion y la culpa, y por eso convoca a un narrador.Es esta nueva voz, inteligente y desinhibida, la que nos cuenta su historia: conocemos a Ernest cuando aun es un niño y asistimos a su despertar sexual, con las primeras obsesiones, los extraños mecanismos de la seduccion, la pornografia, el amor, los desengaños Le seguimos durante la juventud hasta que se enamora de Aurora, con quien traba una relacion insolita y salpicada por otras personas, como Gisela, casada, madre, interesada en el amor libre. De esta manera, vemos desfilar casi dos decadas las de la consolidacion de las redes sociales y el feminismo, las que van de Messenger a Tinder como una educacion sentimental y politica. Trampeando el peso de las normas y las convenciones, Ernest, como toda una generacion, intenta crear su codigo personal.Sincero e incisivo, Aria Paco abre la puerta de la narrativa masculina sobre el deseo heterosexual, sobre la seduccion y sobre el sexo de unos hombres que aun no son otros, pero que ya no son los mismos; una narrativa a la que no le valen los relatos antiguos ni las etiquetas de estar por casa, y que tiene todo un paisaje nuevo por explorar.

This new book from Anthony Burton looks at ten pivotal moments in transport world history, ranging over five centuries, from the age of sailing ships to the modern jet liner. The diverse individuals range from Cornish mining engineer Richard Trevithick to French nobleman the Marquis Jouffroy dAbbans. The varied inventions cover developments on land, at sea and in the air, charting leaps in development that caused permanent change, including aqueducts and flights of locks for inland waterways, to paddle steamers and iron-hulled vessels, the hot air balloon and jet engine, the internal combustion engine for road transport, or the first electric locomotive. This is a book that tells of exciting discoveries and the lives of those who made them.

Walking the Radical Path of Jesus in Todays Fractured World In our current cultural moment, we are fractured by political polarization, performative religiosity, consumerism, nationalism, and deepening inequality. Christians need to resist these forces with the alternative spiritual and theological vision of the Jesus Way.Ten Movements of the Jesus Way is a call to reimagine discipleship not as belief alone but as a life radically shaped by the sacrificial way of Jesus. Rooted in Scripture and global Christian traditions, theologian Graham Hill offers a prophetic invitation back to the radical, countercultural path of Jesusa path marked by humility, servanthood, justice, and love.Hill guides readers through ten transformative movements such as: Moving from material success to spiritual riches, confronting the idolatry of wealth and status. Shifting from power to servanthood, exposing the ways Christians have clung to cultural dominance instead of Christlike humility. Moving from exclusion to embrace, challenging systemic racism, xenophobia, and the politics of division with the inclusive love of Jesus. The Jesus Way is a path of deep love for God and neighbor, where discipleship isnt defined by status or success but by sacrificial love, radical generosity, and faithful commitment to justice and reconciliation. This book invites readers to walk that path, living as a people who reflect Jesus in a world desperate for his hope and renewal.Ten Movements of the Jesus Way features: Embodied practices for living like Jesus in radical love and compassionate discipleship Practical ways to join Gods mission to heal, reconcile, and renew the world A global perspective drawn from Scripture and diverse Christian traditions from African, Asian, Indigenous, and Latin American expressions of faith Questions for reflection and discussion great for book clubs or small groups With Ten Movements of the Jesus Way, discover how you can anchor your discipleship in the life and teachings of Christ, reclaim a gospel thats been politicized and commodified, and help restore the Western church.

A macabre and chilling supernatural gothic horror about a group of teenagers cursed to die on their 18th birthday from the Stoker Award shortlisted author of The Book of the Baku. Perfect for fans of Clay McLeod Chapman, The September House by Carissa Orlando and The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes.Flynn heads with her boyfriend, Jackson, and a group of their friends to spend the night in Temple Fall, a mysterious house up on the moors with a strange history. Breaking in for a night of drinking and teenage debauchery they instead find themselves trapped in a strange nightmare after a joke seance goes wrong. Suddenly forced into strange acts and behaviours outside their character, the tight-knit group starts to fall apart - and then Jackson falls to his death.In the aftermath Flynn must confront the traumas of her childhood, her upbringing in captivity with her mother who suffered from crippling paranoia and OCD. As a foster child she has been forced to make her own place in the world, to forge a new family out of the few scraps of hope and compassion she has been offered in her life. And everywhere she looks she sees the ghostly figure of a Victorian woman, that no one else can see.The woman that pushed Jackson.Reeling from the tragedy the group find themselves split apart, each grieving and trying to survive on their own. But when they start to die, one-by-one, on the very second of their 18th birthday, Flynn must keep them all together to keep her found family alive. And she must dig into the lost secrets of her family past, to stop the curse being passed down to the next generation again.

TELENOVELA explores the secret lives of a family swept up in the final days of Pinochets dictatorship in Chile. There is Lucho: bullied by fellow soldiers for his love of poetry, thwarted in his ambitions to become a writer. He seems like a loving father. He seems loveable. And maybe he is. But as TELENOVELA unfolds, other things come to light about Lucho that are less easy to indulge or forgive. There is Ramona, Luchos wife: tormented by anxiety, overwhelmed by body image problems. Ramona once hoped to become a telenovela star; she secretly daydreams that she might still get her big break. She seems like an innocent. But is she? Then there is Pablo, their son: dreamy, gentle, eager to form his own band and write some worthwhile songs. Desperate to be cool... And increasingly, just desperate. These people are deeply human - but Telenovela makes us understand how inhumane they can also be. How easy it is to be complicit in authoritarian regimes - and how personal stories can take on universal significance..

La doctora Isabel Díaz Portillo, psiquiatra y psicoanalista, expone en Técnica de la entrevista psicodinámica la metodología para conducir de la mejor manera posible el proceso de la entrevista y la integracion de la historia clinica en psicoterapia. Ademas, la desarrolla de una forma clara y precisa los fundamentos teoricos para comprender el alcance de esta herramienta.Esta obra es un texto clasico de la bibliografia psicologica para estudiantes y profesionales de carreras enfocadas en la salud mental.

Ediço Comemorativa dos 80 AnosA reediço do livro Teatro Experimental do Negro: Testemunhos e Ressonancias, que celebra os 80 anos da primeira encenaço do TEM, destaca sua importancia e oferece uma viso abrangente sobre a contribuiço do TEN para a cultura e para a sociedade brasileira. A nova ediço foi coordenada por Elisa Larkin Nascimento e Jesse Oliveira e organizada em tres partes: Testemunhos, com o textos e autores que contribuiram para a ediço original de 1966, organizada por Abdias Nascimento, fazendo o registro de sua trajetoria dos seus primeiros vinte anos, incluindo nomes importantes como Efrain Tomas Bo, Guerreiro Ramos, Nelson Rodrigues e Florestan Fernandes.A nova ediço, sob a direço de Elisa Larkin Nascimento e Jesse Oliveira, traz novos testemunhos de artistas e intelectuais contemporaneos, refletindo a continuidade deste legado e de como o TEN permanece como referencia inescapavel para os novos autores, seja pela qualidade das montagens ou pela abordagem a questo do negro no Brasil.Inclui, ainda, um ensaio fotografico com imagens da epoca de autoria do fotografo Jose Medeiros, grande colaborador do TEM e parceiro proximo de Abdias Nascimento.Ensaio Fotografico de Jose MedeirosO ensaio fotografico de Jose Medeiros complementa a narrativa do TEN, capturando momentos significativos da companhia.Medeiros foi um Fotografo renomado e amigo do TEN, Medeiros contribuiu com um acervo valioso das atividades do grupo. As imagens refletem a essencia, o comprometimento dos atores e a trajetoria do teatro negro no Brasil, a partir das encenaçes do grupo e serve como um testemunho visual da luta e da arte do TEN.Legado e Impacto ContemporaneoO livro e um registro vital da resistencia cultural e artistica dos negros no pais e evidencia como o legado do TEN continua a influenciar o teatro negro contemporaneo no Brasil, com novas geraçes se apropriando de sua historia e a nova ediço do livro inclui reflexes de artistas atuais sobre a relevancia do TEN.

Así como un té puede ser dulce, amargo, fuerte, suave o reconfortante, la vida de la mujer cristiana también está hecha de etapas y sabores. En Toma un té conmigo, Cleide Morey abre su corazón en 21 capitulos escritos como conversaciones intimas, llenas de fe, esperanza y cariño.Entre reflexiones sobre la maternidad, la amistad, la identidad, el crecimiento, las enfermedades, las decisiones y los nuevos comienzos, la autora te invita a desacelerar, orar y redescubrir la alegria de vivir en intimidad con Dios.No se trata de un libro, sino de un regazo. Un espacio seguro para respirar, perdonar, renovarte y encontrar sentido incluso en medio del caos.Prepara tu taza, toma asiento y acepta la invitacion: Toma un te conmigo es un tiempo de descanso para el alma y un encuentro transformador con Dios.

Un recorrido fidedigno por la carrera de la cantante más influyente de toda una generación. Un análisis de 248 temas y (pronto) veinte años de éxitos, como ningún otro libro lo ha hecho antes, en un repaso de la trayectoria de una joven apasionada por el country, ridiculizada en sus inicios por sus elecciones artisticas y que ha sabido transformar cada dificultad en un triunfo. Desde sus modestos comienzos en Nashville, donde firmo su primer contrato a los quince años, hasta sus 11 Grammy Awards, pasando por las tormentas mediaticas a las que ha tenido que enfrentarse, Taylor Swift ha sabido imponer su voz y su estilo. Compositora prolifica, empresaria y estratega formidable, asi como una estrella comprometida con los derechos de las minorias y los artistas, tambien es para millones de fans una figura siempre tranquilizadora y a menudo catartica. A su joven edad, ya ha dejado una huella indeleble en la historia de la musica. Una invitacion a sumergirse de lleno en el fenomeno Taylor Swift y a descubrir todos sus secretos.

The new novel by the international bestselling author of Fresh Water for Flowers When Agnes hears from the local police her Aunt Colette has died, she cant believe her ears. Her fathers sister Colette, her Tata, died three years ago and has been resting in peace in the cemetery of Gueugnon. Agnes is called to identify the body: there is no doubt, its Aunt Colette. But then, who rests under the stone engraved with Colettes name? And why did she fake her own death? So begins an investigation back in time, as Agnes pieces together the multitude of stories that lie behind her aunts second death. An intricate, compelling web of stories told with irony, delicacy and depth, Tata will keep readers glued to every page.

The key to her future is trapped in the past...In 1715, the Earl of Nithsdale is sentence to be beheaded for his part in the doomed Jacobite rebellion for Scottish independence.In 1978, Jane Maxwell is plagued with doubts about her engagement. When tragedy leaves her fiance Will near death, Janes guilt makes her determined to save him... somehow.On a desperate and dangerous quest for answers, Jane finds herself trapped in the past. Convinced that saving Nithsdale will also save Will, Jane embarks on a daring plot to rescue the Earl from the Tower of London.Past and present become entwined in a gripping race against time, and both will be changed by one womans determination.

Walking boots. Check. Raincoat. Check. Emotional baggage? Check, check, check.Lydia Williams is used to putting on a smile and saying yes. So, when her friends beg her to join them on a cross-country hiking trip she agrees, even if shed rather be crying into a pint of ice cream post-breakup. And post-job loss. Yeah, its been a week.Shes barely got her boots laced when Ren Hunter rocks up, her ex-best friend shes been desperately avoiding since he broke her heart.Ren knows he made the biggest mistake of his life. Hes ready to grovel, but Lydias walls are higher than any peak theyre about to climb. So after his brother-slash-business partner shoots down his dream, he jumps at the chance for a break and a chance to maybe, finally, win her back.Lydia is determined to keep her heart zipped up tight. But with days spent walking side by side and nights spent just inches apart, old feelings come creeping back, and in the middle of nowhere, they might just find their way back to each other.

Self-made millionaire Pete Wargent achieved financial independence at the age of 33. Based on three golden rules for wealth-building, this book demystifies the secrets of money and success, offering practical strategies for setting ambitious goals, mastering the psychology of achievement, and leveraging powerful investment principles.Whether youre dreaming of escaping the daily grind, building your own thriving business, or achieving security through shares and property, "Take a Financial Leap" gives you the roadmap to a life by design, not default.This book is essential for anyone ready to break free from limitations and make their financial dreams a realityno matter your age or starting point. Make today the first step toward lasting financial freedom and the life you truly deserve.

May 1938. The young Japanese novelist Aoyama Chizuko arrives in Taiwan on the invitation the Japanese colonial government. With no interest in their imperial agenda, Chizuko longs to experience real island life and to taste as much of its authentic cuisine as her famously monstrous appetite can bear.Soon, a young Taiwanese woman is hired as her interpreter: the charming, meticulous Chizuru, who provides expert guidance on the Land of the South and cooks her sumptuous meals. Over scenic train rides and braised pork rice, Chizuko grows infatuated with her companion and intent on drawing her closer. But the elusive Chizuru seems to keep drawing away - and as conflict begins to simmer between them, Chizuko begins the painful process of understanding why.Disguised as a translation of a rediscovered text by a Japanese writer, Taiwan Travelogue is a bittersweet story of love between two women that is shadowed by complexities of language, history and power.

Over 250 works of the well-known Edition Eulenburg series of scores from orchestral and choral literature, chamber music and music theatre are now available in digital format. You can now enjoy the yellow study scores digitally with one click in excellent reproduction quality.Uber 250 Werke der beruhmten Edition Eulenburg Partiturreihe fur Orchester- und Chorliteratur, Kammermusik und Musiktheater sind nun auch in einer digitalen Aufbereitung erhaltlich. In optisch hervorragender Darstellung kann man die gelben Studienpartituren mit einem Klick jetzt auch digital genieen.

Los textos fundamentales que sintetizan el pensamiento del budismo, cuidadosamente seleccionados y traducidos. Tras salir de palacio y contemplar los estragos de la enfermedad, la vejez y la muerte, Siddhartha toma la decision de deshacerse de las cadenas que atan a los seres al sufrimiento y convertirse en Buda, el Iluminado. Doscientos años despues de su muerte, sus enseñanzas, sermones, consejos y relatos fueron escritos y recopilados por algunos discipulos tras generaciones de transmision oral. El corazon de su sabiduria es que todos podemos liberarnos de la engañosa servidumbre que nos esclaviza a los apetitos y deseos. Cuando constatamos que toda la existencia es interdependiente, que nada escapa al cambio o que la identidad no descansa en lugar fijo alguno, podemos salir de los estrechos confines del yo y llegar a una nueva manera de relacionarnos con el mundo y con nuestra mente. En los sutras se recogen los fragmentos mas importantes y reveladores de esos antiquisimos textos fundacionales del budismo, la esencia misma de las enseñanzas del Buda tal como el las impartio hace dos mil quinientos años. Dichos fragmentos han sido cuidadosamente revisados para conservar los textos originales con la mayor fidelidad posible.