Download or read book In Bed with Jocasta written by Richard Glover and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the family finds it hilarious that you've been talked into buying a pair of women's jeans and you're a bloke; when the bathroom floor you've laboured over starts to rise and the toilet begins to talk; when the mystery of keeping children's shoelaces tied becomes too much, turn to Richard Glover, a bloke who's given a lot of thought to life's eternal dilemmas. In Bed with Jocasta is laugh-out-loud funny and presents an insider's view into the family and life in the suburbs.
Download or read book Jocasta s Gift written by Deborah Hockney and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2011-12-22 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While studying at the Woodbridge Academy on Earth, Jocasta is surprised to discover that, along with her friend David, she has been selected to train as a cadet for the prestigious Elite Corporation. This involves training on Mars, far away from her family and home, where she will learn all the skills necessary to become one of the special Elite students, who will enhance the work of the corporation.On her journey, she develops new friendships and meets some strange and interesting characters – the fascinating but hostile Antigone and the excitable Tara. Jocasta finds out that every other cadet possesses a talent or gift, be it transmogrification or telepathic ability, but much to her dismay she seems unable to discover what hers might be. Until, that is, she embarks on an illicit and dangerous journey across the plains of the red planet, leaving behind the safety and security of the Elite life.This is the story, not only of Jocasta’s search for her own unique and elusive ability, but of a secret that has long been buried under the shifting red sands of Mars. Jocasta’s Gift is an adventure story that will appeal to children aged 9 to 14 years who enjoy fantasy and science fiction novels. Author Deborah is inspired by a range of authors, including John Wyndham, Enid Blyton, Michael Morpugo, J. K. Rowling and George Orwell.
Download or read book In Bed with the Ancient Greeks written by Paul Chrystal and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2016-05-15 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Spartans to Alexander the Great, Paul Chrystal brings the murky world of sex with the Ancient Greeks to life.
Download or read book Phenomenal written by Jezreel Jones and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-08-09 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jocasta Jones is the best in her field, and the youngest, being in her mid-20s. Studying superheroes has been her life's dream, and now she has the opportunity to work with the world's most elite team of heroes, the Phenoms. Among them is Katerina Gradoff, a superhero with incredible powers, and a woman who instantly enraptures Jocasta. This new job is an opportunity of a lifetime. Can she risk it by getting involved with someone she is studying? And this project is a huge deal for the future of her field. Can she even stop working long enough to get to know her? Katerina is a superhero who always puts her job first, and who cares about her team like they're her family. She has always been a serious person, even if she's only in her 20s. She's never been distracted by love or even lust for that matter, but her new coworker is something else. Can Katerina finally let down some of her walls for this captivating scientist? Not to mention there's a pretty dangerous group of terrorists that the Phenoms are trying to take down. Can she even allow herself to be distracted from the job at hand? Join these two women as they venture into the unknown, both romantically and professionally. With a job like theirs, something wild is bound to happen....
Download or read book In Bed with Jocasta written by Richard Glover and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2000 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of humorous reflections on life centred on the author's family life with his wife and children. Topics covered include home renovation, shopping, food, body image, backyard cricket, and being a girl magnet. Author publishes a weekly column in the 'Sydney Morning Herald' and presents the drive-time show on ABC Radio Sydney. Previous titles include 'Grin and Bear It' and 'The P-Plate Parent'.
Download or read book Dancing Women written by Sally Banes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dancing Women: Female Bodies Onstage is a spectacular and timely contribution to dance history, recasting canonical dance since the early nineteenth century in terms of a feminist perspective. Setting the creation of specific dances in socio-political and cultural contexts, Sally Banes shows that choreographers have created representations of women that are shaped by - and that in part shape - society's continuing debates about sexuality and female identity. Broad in its scope and compelling in its argument Dancing Women: * provides a series of re-readings of the canon, from Romantic and Russian Imperial ballet to contemporary ballet and modern dance * investigates the gaps between plot and performance that create sexual and gendered meanings * examines how women's agency is created in dance through aspects of choreographic structure and style * analyzes a range of women's images - including brides, mistresses, mothers, sisters, witches, wraiths, enchanted princesses, peasants, revolutionaries, cowgirls, scientists, and athletes - as well as the creation of various women's communities on the dance stage * suggests approaches to issues of gender in postmodern dance Using an interpretive strategy different from that of other feminist dance historians, who have stressed either victimization or celebration of women, Banes finds a much more complex range of cultural representations of gender identities.
Download or read book Am written by Simon Plant and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-12-09 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only upon publication do I realise this book's genre: Horror!The first part of this book Am is only a fragment of a book I wrote largely in the eighties about my search for my mind after a serious mental breakdown after leaving Oxford University in 1976, my subsequent conversion to Christianity and the development of a personal relationship with Jesus.It also describes some of the relationships in my life, my mother, my father, my ex wife and my brothers and sisters, plus a few friends, and associates.Their names are disguised!It is written in broken language to evoke my mentality at the time.Please forgive some of the errors in text, because i haven't had the time or patience(!)to work any more on it because it belongs in the past.However some of the 'errors' are deliberate, I was thinking very much of James Joyce's style in Ulysses.The second half, Regime in the Head, written before AM, is about my life in the mental health system and the Church of England, and is largely a diary.
Download or read book The Play of Space written by Rush Rehm and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is "space" a thing, a container, an abstraction, a metaphor, or a social construct? This much is certain: space is part and parcel of the theater, of what it is and how it works. In The Play of Space, noted classicist-director Rush Rehm offers a strikingly original approach to the spatial parameters of Greek tragedy as performed in the open-air theater of Dionysus. Emphasizing the interplay between natural place and fictional setting, between the world visible to the audience and that evoked by individual tragedies, Rehm argues for an ecology of the ancient theater, one that "nests" fifth-century theatrical space within other significant social, political, and religious spaces of Athens. Drawing on the work of James J. Gibson, Kurt Lewin, and Michel Foucault, Rehm crosses a range of disciplines--classics, theater studies, cognitive psychology, archaeology and architectural history, cultural studies, and performance theory--to analyze the phenomenology of space and its transformations in the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. His discussion of Athenian theatrical and spatial practice challenges the contemporary view that space represents a "text" to be read, or constitutes a site of structural dualities (e.g., outside-inside, public-private, nature-culture). Chapters on specific tragedies explore the spatial dynamics of homecoming ("space for returns"); the opposed constraints of exile ("eremetic space" devoid of normal community); the power of bodies in extremis to transform their theatrical environment ("space and the body"); the portrayal of characters on the margin ("space and the other"); and the tragic interactions of space and temporality ("space, time, and memory"). An appendix surveys pre-Socratic thought on space and motion, related ideas of Plato and Aristotle, and, as pertinent, later views on space developed by Newton, Leibniz, Descartes, Kant, and Einstein. Eloquently written and with Greek texts deftly translated, this book yields rich new insights into our oldest surviving drama.
Download or read book Three Pretty Widows written by Barbara Else and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delicately layered, humorous novel, deliciously written, ranging over time and place. In the aftermath of Barnaby Rivers' death, complictions arise for three beautiful women: Bella, Ruth and wicked old Jocasta. Now nothing can go on in the old way. Crisis looms. In her funniest novel yet, Barbara Else contrasts attitudes to beauty, motherhood . . . and men. Looking down on it all is Barnaby himself, not sure if he's an angel or ghost.
Download or read book The Broadview Anthology of Drama Volume 1 From Antiquity Through the Eighteenth Century written by Craig S. Walker and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2003-07-09 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Broadview Anthology of Drama: Plays from the Western Theatre is a chronological presentation of 43 plays in two volumes, ranging from the ancient theatre world to the present day. Each chapter focuses on a specific period and begins with an insightful introduction sketching the historical and theatrical landscape of that period. Contextualization for each play is provided through a thorough account of the literary and dramatic background of the play along with clear and comprehensive annotation. In addition, the editors have provided a glossary of terms used in the anthology to better equip students with a vocabulary for discussing the world of the stage.
Download or read book Zoolanders written by David L. Birdsall and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mirage of Darkness written by Ervin Mendlovitz and published by Ervin Mendlovitz. This book was released on 2020-08-08 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mirage of Darkness is the story of a man named Bracticus who lives in a world where people have been fitted with microchips that allow an all-powerful government to control their every move. Bracticus' world is divided both by wealth and race with the darker skinned and mixed member of their society being in the lower-class positions. Things are lifeless and robotic, and people are being kept in place by media propaganda, the police and religion. One day, Bracticus receives a message from his deceased Uncle Homic who alerts him that as a high ranking Party Member, Homic knows that the Party is poisoning the atmosphere and that action will result in the death of millions of lower class people. Determined to alert the masses, Bracticus becomes an enemy of the state on the run with a mission to take down the regime.
Download or read book SHEER A Dark Fantasy Anthology written by Ivana Sanders and published by Aesthetic Press. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHEER: A Dark Fantasy Anthology full of dark, striking, daring, and otherworldly fantasy stories from 16+ authors from around the world.
Download or read book From One Medium to Another written by Paul A. Soukup and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1997 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteen experts from a wide variety of academic and professional fields engage key questions in a series of thought-provoking essays that define the emerging field of new media Bible translating, and how the biblical message will be communicated in the culture and media of the 21st century.
Download or read book Faith Fox written by Jane Gardam and published by Europa Editions. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel that’s “brilliant on sex, brilliant on bereavement and death, brilliant on god, brilliant on dottiness” from the acclaimed author of Old Filth (A. N. Wilson, Evening Standard). The story of a motherless girl named Faith and her family and close friends, all of whom are determined to see her live a happy life. Faith’s mother died in childbirth; her overworked father cannot raise his child alone; and her unconventional grandmother refuses to acknowledge the child whose birth took away the daughter she loved. And so a motley crew of family and friends converges to see that Faith is brought up correctly. The concerned parties include Faith’s uncle, who runs a commune in northern England; the Tibetan refugees who have moved in with him; and the splendidly bickering paternal grandparents. What ensues is a brilliant comedy of manners set equally amidst high society and low. Faith Fox is a story that explores the wonder of the human heart in all its thunderous eccentricity. Gardam has mastered the essence of age and youth and above all nonconformity. Her memorable characters are sure to delight. “Wonderful, sharply observed, deeply funny.” —The Minneapolis Star-Tribune “[A] cleverly wrought British import . . . That Gardam is a virtuoso of structure creeps up on you until you begin to glimpse the outlines of the multiple subplots converging with the satisfying click that reminds you that you’re in the hands of a master.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch “Hugely funny and deeply moving.” —The Atlantic “Pure pleasure.” —Anita Brookner, author of The Debut “An endearing story. Gardam’s feisty characters deliver a tale that crackles with charm and energy.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Download or read book The Infernal Machine and Other Plays written by Jean Cocteau and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1964 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four full-length plays by one of the greatest dramatists Europe has produced.
Download or read book Exchange and the Maiden written by Kirk Ormand and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marriage is a central concern in five of the seven extant plays of the Greek tragedian Sophocles. In this pathfinding study, Kirk Ormand delves into the ways in which these plays represent and problematize marriage, thus offering insights into how Athenians thought about the institution of marriage. Ormand takes a two-fold approach. He first explores the legal and economic underpinnings of Athenian marriage, an institution designed to guarantee the legitimate continuation of patrilineal households. He then shows how Sophocles' plays Trachiniae, Electra, Antigone, Ajax, and Oedipus Tyrannus both reinforce and critique this ideology by representing marriage as a homosocial exchange between men, in which women are objects who may attempt—but always fail—to become self-acting subjects. These fresh readings provide the first systematic study of marriage in Sophocles. They draw important connections between drama and marriage as rituals concerned with controlling potentially disruptive female subjectivities.
