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Stopgap Measures presents an exciting selection of essays, interviews and shorter pieces on the work of American artist Mike Kelley (19542012) written over more than three decades by the noted art historian and cultural critic John C. Welchman. Kelleys provocative career gave rise to some of the most conceptually and materially diverse work of recent times in performance, writing, painting, drawing, sculpture, banners, multimedia installation, appropriated objects and images and video, as well as numereous collaborations. This volume includes reflections on specific works, and features a signature series of pathbreaking essays on Kelleys innovations in photography and writing as well as explorations of major themes in his practice, research and thinking: physical comedy and verbal humor; memory; popular culture, dress-up and Americana; the uncanny; imaginative projection and dark fantasy; appropriation and giving; authorship and self-construction; and the artists littleremarked upon negotiation with the histories of and ideas about Asia. The book concludes with new essays on Kelleys engagement with animals and the nonhuman; and on the refrain disappearances that punctuate Kelleys career set in relation to specters of social catastrophe and nuclear annihilation.

Stopgap Measures presents an exciting selection of essays, interviews and shorter pieces on the work of American artist Mike Kelley (19542012) written over more than three decades by the noted art historian and cultural critic John C. Welchman. Kelleys provocative career gave rise to some of the most conceptually and materially diverse work of recent times in performance, writing, painting, drawing, sculpture, banners, multimedia installation, appropriated objects and images and video, as well as numereous collaborations. This volume includes reflections on specific works, and features a signature series of pathbreaking essays on Kelleys innovations in photography and writing as well as explorations of major themes in his practice, research and thinking: physical comedy and verbal humor; memory; popular culture, dress-up and Americana; the uncanny; imaginative projection and dark fantasy; appropriation and giving; authorship and self-construction; and the artists littleremarked upon negotiation with the histories of and ideas about Asia. The book concludes with new essays on Kelleys engagement with animals and the nonhuman; and on the refrain disappearances that punctuate Kelleys career set in relation to specters of social catastrophe and nuclear annihilation.

Una obra que merece ser colocada en un segundo lugar de excelencia después de El Quijote, ahora en una nueva edición accesible avalada por la Real Academia Española.Escritos con un lenguaje popular y agudo, los Entremeses retratan escenas de la vida cotidiana llenas de humor, satira y critica social. Cervantes se burla de los vicios y defectos humanos como la avaricia, la hipocresia, el engaño y la falsa honra. Los protagonistas son personajes del pueblo llano, picaros, engañadores, mujeres astutas y maridos celosos, que reflejan con ironia los problemas sociales y morales de la epoca.A traves de situaciones absurdas y dialogos ingeniosos, Cervantes demuestra su maestria en el teatro breve y su vision critica del mundo. Aunque no tuvieron tanto exito en su tiempo como sus novelas, hoy se valoran por su riqueza literaria y su frescura escenica.

La primera novela de Miguel de Cervantes en una nueva edición accesible avalada por la Real Academia Española.La Galatea es, al mismo tiempo, un homenaje a la novela pastoril, cuyos rasgos temáticos y estructurales le sirven de sustento basico, y una protesta contra las limitaciones o convenciones acomodaticias con que sus antecesores la habian cultivado.La obra narra las desventuras amorosas de varios pastores idealizados en un entorno bucolico. La historia gira en torno a Galatea, una bella y virtuosa pastora que es cortejada por varios pastores, especialmente Elicio y Erastro, aunque ella prefiere mantenerse libre. A traves de dialogos, poemas y relatos intercalados, Cervantes explora temas como el amor no correspondido, la amistad, la libertad personal y la belleza.

In this fascinating novel, one of the masters of impossible crime fiction takes on one of the greatest criminals of all time. Sticking scrupulously to the facts, Paul Halter explores the Jack the Ripper murders and offers his own theories about the identity of the monster, what drove him, and how he was able to vanish under the noses of the police during the spree of escalating horror which sent the citizens of fog-ridden London into paroxysms of fear in the autumn of 1888.But the year before Saucy Jacky began his reign of terror, someone started to investigate an astonishing impossible murder committed in the country village of Blackfield nine years earlier. That, too, involved a monstrous murderer who slaughtered witnesses and vanished under the noses of his pursuers. Is there a connection with the Ripper cases which followed?Paul Halter, who has been fascinated by Jack the Ripper from a tender age, won the coveted French Prix du Roman dAventures in 1988 and the prestigious Japanese Hunkaku Mystery Award 2005 for Le Brouillard Rouge (The Crimson Fog).

The Trinity is revealed at last, but the key to unlocking its power remains unknown. Tor and Alyssa are surrounded by danger. Old enemies return, and a new threat is looming: a god has installed himself on the throne and is determined to kill Tor and those he loves.The battle lines are drawn for the final confrontation between the two most powerful sentients ever to walk the land. Was Tor doomed from the start, or can he protect Tallinor from its ultimate enemy?

Stories traversing identity, sexuality, and human connection across the industrial towns and satellite villages of Northern England. Opening with the Commonwealth Prize-winning "Lech, Prince, and the Nice Things," the collection weaves through teenage sexual awakening, family secrets, and post-pandemic isolation. Characters grapple with class divisions, discrimination, and desires they barely understand themselves. Unflinching and deeply human, these stories capture pivotal moments when lives quietly but irrevocably change course.

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.

La psicoterapia breve y de emergencia ha jugado un papel trascendental en los esfuerzos por cuidar la salud mental de las personas en situaciones extremas. Este libro, el más conciso y completo sobre la materia, incluye los principios y teorias que sustentan las intervenciones terapeuticas breves y los modelos a seguir, asi como el procedimiento del diagnostico, y explica como se enfrenta la crisis en un programa de seis sesiones.Los casos que los autores abordan van desde violaciones, asaltos, cirugias mayores, duelos masivos o patologicos, hasta cuadros clinicos de riesgo como depresion reactiva, propension al suicidio, ataques de panico, despersonalizacion, estados psicoticos incipientes, entre otros.

A vengeful god is about to break free and destroy the land. Only the Trinity can stop him wreaking vengeance.Saved from death by a powerful act of Spiriting, Torkyn Gynt lives in hiding from his enemies, threats that loom from many directions. In Tallinor, Alyssa believes her beloved Tor is dead and must find the strength to forgive the king who ordered his execution.But the Trinity itself remains a mystery. Can Tor discover its identity to fulfil his destiny?

In these two novellas and three short stories for adult readers, Hans Christian Andersen displays the imagination and descriptive brilliance familiar from his fairy tales, but turns his eye to subtler social themes: class mobility in a changing Europe; the unfairness with which talents and opportunities are meted out in this world; the struggle between natures claims on humanity and civilizations.The title novella, The Ice Virgin, unites all these ideas in a piece of beautifully structured storytelling considered by some to be Andersens masterpiece. Rudy is orphaned young, rescued as an infant from a glacial crevasse where his mother fell and died. He lives, but the stunning yet unforgiving mountain landscape of Switzerland may yet claim him. His love for the rich millers daughter Babette brings out all his bravery and ingenuity - but also his stubbornness and resistance to change. In a masterfully ambivalent climax Andersen makes us wonder what happiness and fulfilment truly mean.Elsewhere in the collection Andersen turns his gaze to the hostile shores and wooded heights of Denmarks Jutland, where in his time submissive poverty was giving way to feverish social transformation. We meet a shipwrecked youngster struggling to fit into his adopted community, a couple whose wise humility echoes down the wealthy generations that follow with comically unexpected effects, and a steadfast friend whose saintly patience is ill rewarded by the object of her loyalty. Full of irony, enchanting imagery and bravura prose, these stories showcase Andersens perceptiveness, empathy, and deep engagement with the world around him.

Throughout Girling, the boundaries between living and death, between history and present, and how these are preordained for us in the fabric of our DNA, but also via our geographical or cultural spaces, are wrestled and contended with throughout this open-hearted debut collection. Through a personal relationship with illness and a closeness to death, the author asks the reader, I hope its ok to die. I can / be something / like actualised metaphor.Recounted is the story of a father left abandoned in a church, a grandmothers home in a travellers caravan. Grief is portrayed with a tongue in cheek, cosmic register, as the speaker invests in lions mane, attempts to feel super-radiant, and moves into moon pose, while we watch electronic deep-sea claws on YouTube, and google what to do if your mum died last night.Philosophical, funny, pertinent, ecological, global and intimate, this is a collection of poems for the contemporary moment, a book deeply personal yet communal in its intention, beginning from a personal history then resonating outwards, ending on a note so gorgeously hopeful, as life moves towards the speaker, gloriously close.

This cosy, atmospheric Sapphic multiverse fantasy spins a tale of love against all odds and across many worlds, for fans of The Ten Thousand Doors of January and V. E. Schwabs Shades of Magic series.Every morning, Tansy takes tea to her employer, Lady Aster. She goes on a walk along the cliffs, waving to the cat on her way. She dusts the elaborate glass globes full of strange and beautiful worlds that Lady Aster creates. She cleans their cottage, Oubliette. Every day, exactly the same.Until, one afternoon, Tansy drops the globe containing a replica of the cottage, leaving a tiny fracture in the glass. And things begin to change.She finds an injured knight from another world, Merit, sleeping in their pigsty. Merit was raised to be a monster, a servant of the terrible Unmaker who once terrorised her worldbut after betraying a fellow knight, she escaped through a crack between places and found herself in the Oubliette.Theres a reason every day in the Oubliette is identical; that Tansy cant remember anything about her life before she joined Lady Asters service. As she and Merit begin to explore the many worlds outside the Oubliette, they realise one story unites them all: the trail of war, violence and destruction left by the Unmaker, who they fear will one day return. Andhowever unwittinglyTansy and Merit have opened the door.The crack in the Oubliette was only the beginning. Soon, as the Unmakers story becomes increasingly ensnared with their own, both Tansy and Merit will have to choose: are they who they were born to be, or the people theyve become to each other?

An account of the poet authors love affair with Dutch art, and the consolations and ecstasies of the objects we gather on our way through life. We begin standing in the Met in front of a painting by Jan Davidsz de Heem: Still Life with Oysters and Lemon. Looking almost more closely than we can bear at this image from the 17th century, Doty attempts to tell us everything it holds, from pigments to forms, and above all, meaning.This confrontation with beauty is one of many that shapes his life, from the pinwheel peppermints that emerge from his grandmas purse in his Tennessee childhood to the cracked china platter that graces the mantelpiece in the home he shares with his dying husband. But it is Dutch still-life painting that seems to have the most to tell him. This book is his record of years spent looking closely at bunched asparagus, translucent wine glasses, curling lemon peel and the bloom on grapes.In a brief, lucid, powerfully concentrated narrative, which tells the story of a life of self-discovery and an avid gaze, Mark Doty writes with poetic specificity and painterly clarity. In his loving description of reality, we begin to see that simply looking can be the most tender reverence.

In 1933, Gertrude Stein published her groundbreaking memoir The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, which gained her instant celebrity. The following year she was invited to return to the United States for the first time since she left for France in 1903, to give a series of lectures on art and literature. Newly famous, Stein delivered her lectures, which double as a manifesto for her own, notoriously difficult work, to packed audiences at universities, galleries, members clubs and public spaces up and down the country. The lectures are vital and provocative works which articulate the legendary writers thoughts on the effect of modernism on literary form, the relationship between narrative and history, and between a writer, their work and its audience. In her trademark style she meditates on the creative possibilities of repetition, as well as her ambivalence toward her own literary fame and the destabilizing effect that notoriety had on her daily life. Listen to Me brings Steins sparklingly witty, illuminating lectures together in one volume for the first time, selected by her acclaimed biographer, Francesca Wade.

Gabriel Reece should be starting university, but new super powers and dark family mysteries stand in the way of higher education. Hes taking a gap year to keep his spooky boyfriend from killing his super-powerful brother, watch out for his unpowered best friend, and hunt down the puppet masters who wont leave any of them alone.

Radio is becoming the deadliest gig in town when the bodies pile up at CGNU Saskatoon. P.I. Ben Ames isnt looking for an out-of-province adventure, but his musician boyfriend has connections that put them both on the trail of a killer at the Gnu.Ben Ames is a western Canadian PI who investigates murder and major crimes with a little help from his friendswhether he wants it or not. Having a boyfriend whos a rock musician has made him an occasional detective to the stars, but his office door is always open to an interesting case or a client who needs him.

With gorgeous sprayed edges in the first edition In this #1-Spiegel-bestselling seasonal romcom fake dating was the plancatching real feelings wasnt.Becca and Nils are best friends who end up in bed together every New Years Eve. On the 10th anniversary of their annual one-night stand, kindergarten teacher Becca scrapes together her savings, planning to finally confess her love to Nils at a romantic Alpine chalet. But things dont go as planned. When Nils shows up with his new fiancee, Becca asks Raphael, the obnoxiously snooty uncle of one of her students, to play the role of her fake boyfriend. The two had always clashed but, when sparks fly, the fire between them is anything but fakeEnglish Edition by ForeverGerman edition also available

Deep in the folklore of Tallinor lies a dark legend: the story of a powerful sentient who almost destroyed the entire land.Now, centuries later, any sentient who is discovered is executed. But in a village far from the royal city, a young scribe, Torkyn Gynt, blazes with undetected power and healing abilities. To fulfil his destiny, Tor must leave his home and his love, Alyssa to become apprentice to the royal physic.Guided by a falcon and a mysterious woman who appears to him in his dreams, Tor embarks on a journey that will test his courage and his heart.A journey that can only end in triumph or betrayal.

Two women hunting the same killer. One seeks justice. One seeks fame. Both have something to hide.In a remote Scottish town where everyone knows everyone, the disappearance of local girl Poppy McCarthy should be impossible to hide. But as Detective Sarah Morton discovers, some secrets run deeper than blood.When internet sensation Casey Jones arrives to investigate, her viral YouTube videos about the case spark a media frenzy. The town divides: some worship Casey as a crusader for justice, others see her as a dangerous provocateur. For Sarah, shes a threat not just to the investigation, but to the fragile peace of a community already fracturing under pressure.As Caseys revelations start destroying lives, Sarah realizes shes dealing with something far more sinister than a fame-hungry influencer. Because Casey knows things about Poppy she shouldnt. And Sarah is beginning to suspect that the real predator isnt hiding in the shadowy hills of Galloway, but broadcasting to millions from plain sight...