Download or read book The Crack In The Teacup written by Michael Gilbert and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barhaven, on the south coast, is a fairly sleepy place and it seems incredulous that it could be where local councillors manage to line their own pockets. Enter a young lawyer, who finds himself at the centre of a major campaign against racketeering. The public and the press become involved and it ends with a twist that is totally unexpected.
Download or read book Sex Time and Power written by Leonard Shlain and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-08-03 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As in the bestselling The Alphabet Versus the Goddess, Leonard Shlain’s provocative new book promises to change the way readers view themselves and where they came from. Sex, Time, and Power offers a tantalizing answer to an age-old question: Why did big-brained Homo sapiens suddenly emerge some 150,000 years ago? The key, according to Shlain, is female sexuality. Drawing on an awesome breadth of research, he shows how, long ago, the narrowness of the newly bipedal human female’s pelvis and the increasing size of infants’ heads precipitated a crisis for the species. Natural selection allowed for the adaptation of the human female to this environmental stress by reconfiguring her hormonal cycles, entraining them with the periodicity of the moon. The results, however, did much more than ensure our existence; they imbued women with the concept of time, and gave them control over sex—a power that males sought to reclaim. And the possibility of achieving immortality through heirs drove men to construct patriarchal cultures that went on to dominate so much of human history. From the nature of courtship to the evolution of language, Shlain’s brilliant and wide-ranging exploration stimulates new thinking about very old matters.
Download or read book As I Walked Out One Evening written by W. H. Auden and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1995-08-08 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: W. H. Auden once defined light verse as the kind that is written by poets who are democratically in tune with their audience and whose language is straightforward and close to general speech. Given that definition, the 123 poems in this collection all qualify; they are as accessible as popular songs yet have the wisdom and profundity of the greatest poetry. As I Walked Out One Evening contains some of Auden's most memorable verse: "Now Through the Night's Caressing Grip," "Lullaby: Lay your Sleeping Head, My Love," "Under Which Lyre," and "Funeral Blues." Alongside them are less familiar poems, including seventeen that have never before appeared in book form. Here, among toasts, ballads, limericks, and even a foxtrot, are "Song: The Chimney Sweepers," a jaunty evocation of love, and the hilarious satire "Letter to Lord Byron." By turns lyrical, tender, sardonic, courtly, and risqué, As I Walked Out One Evening is Auden at his most irresistible and affecting.
Download or read book The Crack in the Teacup written by Michael Francis Gilbert and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Crack in the Teacup written by Joan Bodger and published by . This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Crack in the Teacup, Joan Bodger has done more than write a fascinating autobiography that reveals the power of stories. With courage, unblinking honesty, the eye of a storyteller, and the pen of a poet, she has shown how a life-and a century-can be shaped and given meaning by personal mythology.
Download or read book Cracked Teacups written by B. E. Moore and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cracked Teacups is a breath of fresh air that gives a candid, humorous and thought-provoking account of one woman's struggle with depression. Donna was a middle-aged woman who came from a dysfunctional background and suffered silently from depression for most of her life. Feeling shame about her inability to "snap out of it," Donna never sought professional help. Everyone has to reach bottom before truly seeing the light, and Donna reached hers when she tried to take her own life. This moving narration is the story of a woman's experience with depression, the mental illness that many are ashamed to admit they have. "Three West" is the psychiatric ward that Donna is in and out of after her suicide attempt and the reader is given an intimate view of what that place is really like-funny, frustrating, painful-but necessary. From the absurd actions of her fellow patients, the rigid yet caring attention of the staff, the aloof persona of psychiatrists, and the strange world of psychiatric medicine, Donna works her way through the system and through her depression with lighthearted insight and sincere devotion to healing herself. Cracked Teacups is a poignant, amusing, and brutally honest narration that will resonate with anyone who has experienced the isolation of depression. It gives voice to the thousands of people suffering from the illness and pays homage to those who are actively participating in their own healing.
Download or read book The Strangeness of the Good Including Quarantine Notebook written by James Matthew Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-12 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Matthew Wilson makes the everyday lyrically urgent and memorable. Few poets writing today do so with such unfailing elegance, close attention to the human world, and generosity of spirit.
Download or read book The Crack in the Tea cup written by Cynthia Kee and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Black Seraphim written by Michael Gilbert and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Scotland, a young pathologist, decides on a quiet holiday in Melchester, but amid the cathedral town's quiet medieval atmosphere, he finds a hornet's nest of church politics, town and country rivalries, and murder. With modern forensic pathology he unravels the unvarnished truth, but not before unexpected romance intervenes.
Download or read book Crack in the Tea Cup written by Outlet and published by . This book was released on 1985-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Empty House written by Michael Gilbert and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Alexander Wolfe seemingly plunges over a cliff in his car. His body is never recovered and it emerges his life was recently insured for a considerable sum. An insurance loss adjuster is sent to investigate. There is romance, possible gang involvement in arson, and a potential job offer in store. Is Wolfe really dead?
Download or read book Trouble written by Michael Gilbert and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explosives destined for a terrorist bombing campaign are being smuggled into the UK. One plot is foiled but the security services suspect another. A seemingly unconnected problem occurs with race riots in London. The true extent of the nightmare facing the government and the solution depends on a single, quite astonishing, piece of evidence.
Download or read book Fear To Tread written by Michael Gilbert and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of how Mr. Weatherall, the headmaster of a school and an ordinary man, was introduced to a huge nationwide black market operation. It seems anything goes to ensure profits of crime on a vast scale. Moreover, was the victim run over by a train before, or after, he died? And can Weatherall succeed in a one man battle against such odds?
Download or read book The Haunting of Alma Fielding written by Kate Summerscale and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR • The Sunday Times • The New Statesman • The Times • The Spectator • The Telegraph “Prepare not to see much broad daylight, literal or metaphorical, for days if you read this.... The atmosphere evoked is something I will never forget.”—The Times (London) London, 1938. In the suburbs of the city, a young housewife has become the eye in a storm of chaos. In Alma Fielding’s modest home, china flies off the shelves and eggs fly through the air; stolen jewelry appears on her fingers, white mice crawl out of her handbag, beetles appear from under her gloves; in the middle of a car journey, a turtle materializes on her lap. The culprit is incorporeal. As Alma cannot call the police, she calls the papers instead. After the sensational story headlines the news, Nandor Fodor, a Hungarian ghost hunter for the International Institute for Psychical Research, arrives to investigate the poltergeist. But when he embarks on his scrupulous investigation, he discovers that the case is even stranger than it seems. By unravelling Alma’s peculiar history, Fodor finds a different and darker type of haunting, a tale of trauma, alienation, loss and revenge. He comes to believe that Alma’s past has bled into her present, her mind into her body. There are no words for processing her experience, so it comes to possess her. As the threat of a world war looms, and as Fodor’s obsession with the case deepens, Alma becomes ever more disturbed. With characteristic rigor and insight, Kate Summerscale brilliantly captures the rich atmosphere of a haunting that transforms into a very modern battle between the supernatural and the subconscious.
Download or read book Over And Out written by Michael Gilbert and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The slaughter of World War I in the trenches continues unabated. Luke Pagan finds himself in the Intelligence Corps, investigating an illegal organisation controlled by a Belgian, which is encouraging British soldiers to desert and move across to the German side. Pagan enters dangerous territory and faces disaster.
Download or read book The End Game written by Michael Gilbert and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Regional Crime Squad is after an organised crime empire involved with drug smuggling. David Morgan goes undercover and finds himself posing as a vagrant so as to track down a former employee who knows of the whereabouts of incriminating documents. This is a 'Snakes and Ladders' operation with twists and ranges from London to Florence.
Download or read book The Other Side of Assertiveness written by Andrena Sawyer and published by Andrena Sawyer. This book was released on 2012-06-24 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assertiveness is characterized by bold or confident behavior, and having a strong or distinctive flavor or aroma.”For the assertive woman, this definition is by far one of the highest compliments. Many books have been written about how women can become more assertive. Women grow up hearing from parents, teachers, coaches and mentors about the importance of being assertive. However, what no one ever explains is that assertiveness comes with a price and it is easily mismanaged and misunderstood. Within the pages of this short eBook are some hard-hitting, humorous, and even hopeful lessons about the sometimes daunting effect of being an assertive woman in this day and age.
