The Devil Makes Work for Creative Hands

The Devil Makes Work for Creative Hands

Author: Jamie H. Scrutton

Publisher: Paragon Publishing

Published: 2021-07

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 1782228551

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An Artist, Animator and Performance Poet, Jamie H. Scrutton takes you on a journey into his animated imagination. From creating his often bizarre characters, through to his observational whimsical anecdotes, to his personal experiences with mental health, these scribbles are all compiled from selected Journal entries.


The Chicken Salad Club

The Chicken Salad Club

Author: Marsha Diane Arnold

Publisher: Dial

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13:

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Nathaniel's great-grandfather, who is 100 years old, loves to tell stories from his past but seeks someone to join him with a new batch of stories.


Creative Journal Writing

Creative Journal Writing

Author: Stephanie Dowrick

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2009-02-05

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1440659419

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Winner of the COVR Award for Book of the Year (2007) From the #1 creativity publisher in the country comes our latest creativity bestseller—Creative Journal Writing—the ultimate book for those who are looking to use this powerful tool to heal, expand, and transform their lives. In this exceptionally positive and encouraging book, Stephanie Dowrick frees the journal writer she believes is in virtually everyone, showing through stories and examples that a genuine sense of possibility can be revived on every page. Creative journal writing goes way beyond just recording events on paper. It can be the companion that supports but doesn?t judge, a place of unparalleled discovery, and a creative playground where the everyday rules no longer count. Proven benefits of journal writing include reduced stress and anxiety, increased self-awareness, sharpened mental skills, genuine psychological insight, creative inspiration and motivation, strengthened ability to cope during difficult times, and overall physical and emotional well-being. Combining a rich choice of ideas with wonderful stories, quotes, and her refreshingly intimate thoughts gained through a lifetime of writing, Dowrick?s insights and confidence make journal writing irresistible?and your own life more enchanting. Included in Creative Journal Writing are: u stories of how people have used journal writing to transform their lives; · inspirational instructions, guidelines, and quotes; · key principles, practical suggestions, and helpful hints; · 125 starter topics, designed to help even the most reluctant journal writer; · more than forty powerful exercises; · and much more!


Changing European Visions of Disaster and Development

Changing European Visions of Disaster and Development

Author: Vanessa Pupavac

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2020-09-02

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 1538144948

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Goethe’s 1832 poem Faust offers a vision of humanity realising freedom and prosperity through transcending natural adversity. Changing European Visions of Disaster and Development returns to Faust as a way of exploring the rise and fall of European humanist aspirations to build free and prosperous national political communities protected from natural disasters. Faust stories emerged in early modern Europe linked to the shaking of the traditional religious and political order, and the pursuit of new areas of human knowledge and activity which led to a shift from viewing disasters as acts of God to acts of nature. Faust’s dam building and land reclamation project in Goethe’s poem was inspired by Dutch hydro-engineering and in turn inspired others. Faustian dreams of an engineered future were pursued by the American Yugoslav inventor Nikola Tesla and the country of his birth towards establishing its national independence and escaping the fate of being a borderland. Faust remains a compelling reference point to explore European visions of disaster and development. If Faust captured the European spirit of earlier centuries, what is today’s outlook? Ambitious Faustian development visions to eradicate natural disasters have been replaced by anti-Faustian risk cosmopolitanism sceptical towards human activity in ways counter to building collective protection from disaster. Tesla’s country of birth fears returning to being an insecure borderland of Europe. This powerful and timely book calls for a rekindling of European humanism and Faust’s vision of ‘free people standing on free land’.


The Hand of the Devil

The Hand of the Devil

Author: Dean Vincent Carter

Publisher: Delacorte Press

Published: 2009-06-03

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0307495787

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Ashley Reeves is a young journalist at freak-of-nature magazine Missing Link. His future's bright, even if he does spend most of his time investigating hoaxes. When he receives a letter promising him a once-in-a-lifetime story, he jumps at the opportunity. The only thing is, his life is exactly what it might cost him. The letter is from Reginald Mather, a man who at first seems no more than an eccentric collector of insects, happy to live in isolation on a remote island. But when Ashley finds himself stranded with Mather and unearths the horrific truth behind the collector's past, he is thrown headlong into a macabre nightmare that quickly spirals out of control. Ashley's life is in danger. . . . And Mather is not the only enemy. . . . Gruesome, compelling, and terrifying, The Hand of the Devil will make you never want to leave the house without bug spray again.


Challenging the Aid Paradigm

Challenging the Aid Paradigm

Author: J. Sörensen

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-12-17

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 0230277284

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Challenging the Aid Paradigm critically examines central aspects of Western international aid policy, while at the same time exploring non-western, especially Chinese, aid and assesses to what extent these may be competitive or complementary.


Benjamin's Arcades

Benjamin's Arcades

Author: Peter Buse

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2006-09-19

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9780719069895

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'Benjamin's Arcades' is an innovative text for students and specialists on the intellectual and political context of Walter Benjamin's unfinished masterpiece, 'The Arcades Project'. It includes a special 'convoluted index' to aid the reader in discovering recurrent themes and ideas, both in the book itself and Benjamin's methods.


The Devil Makes Work

The Devil Makes Work

Author: John Clarke

Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13:

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Part one reviews existing sociological theories of leisure and considers leisure as an aspect of social organization. Part two focuses on the conditions under which leisure is experienced and state-provided frameworks within which leisure choices take place. Offers an account of leisure which considers the way in which social groups encounter institutions of leisure and create leisure activities.


Are We There Yet?

Are We There Yet?

Author: Dennis D. Hunt

Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1905886268

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Life. The great mystery. What is it? How can we make sense of it? Has it any purpose for us beyond simply the survival of the species? Does God exist? Was Darwin right? These are fundamental and challenging questions, still awaiting satisfactory answers. Are We There Yet? Explores these questions and more.


Everyday Shakespeare

Everyday Shakespeare

Author: Ben Crystal

Publisher: Chambers

Published: 2023-05-25

Total Pages: 459

ISBN-13: 1399809350

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An absolutely joyous, gasp-out-loud achievement. - Stephen Fry A cathedral of consciousness - Shakespeare's uncanny insight into human nature finds us, unearthed here. - LionHeart, artist, poet, and BBC Radio London presenter Shakespeare had an ear and hand that was able to capture our everyday thoughts and emotions, pin them to a page, and express them so well that still today they can make us feel stunned to be seen. 'Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.' 'Make not your thoughts your prisons.' 'Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.' 'And I have heard it said, unbidden guests are often welcomest when they're gone.' With a quote for every day of the year, this beautiful book gathers the finest lines from the lesser-known corners of Shakespeare's plays and poems. While you may not be familiar with these 400-year-old phrases, you will be surprised by the immediate, easy resonance they have with modern day-to-day life and, hopefully, inspired to learn a few quotes, say them out loud, and drop them into conversation. Each page bears a gift of Shakespearean delight - around which lies a treasure trove of trivia, miscellaneous fact, and opportunities for reflection. The Crystals - son and father - draw attention to points of daily life, literary, linguistic, and theatrical interest through their entertaining commentary. They offer notes of context for anyone who wants to know who originally said the words, in which play, and why. And finally, the authors provide three indexes, allowing readers to help find the right quote for a task, or to follow-up on a quote's original source. Shakespeare's words are a mirror for us to peer into, to see if any part of ourselves, familiar or strange, is visible. Each day as you read his lines, you'll get glimpses of loves you've known, jealousies you've felt, relationships you've had, and situations you've encountered that bring a smile - or a wince - of familiarity. Everyday Shakespeare shares the simple lines that encapsulate the wondrous complexity of life, and the enduring appeal of the Bard. Shakespeare was not of an age, but for all time. - Ben Jonson