In Bed with Jocasta

Author: Richard Glover
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 0730494292
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 21

Book Description
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.

Jocasta's Gift

Author: Deborah Hockney
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1780880502
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 249

Book Description
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.

Phenomenal

Author: Jezreel Jones
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1665531312
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177

Book Description
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....

In Bed with Jocasta

Author: Richard Glover
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 0732268648
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 21

Book Description
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'.

Am

Author: Simon Plant
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291241280
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 73

Book Description
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.

Three Pretty Widows

Author: Barbara Else
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN: 1775530922
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254

Book Description
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.

AM (combined)

Author: Simon Plant
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291916482
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 582

Book Description
When reality, fiction and imagination melanged into the personal diary, writings and religion of an academic schizophrenic within the asylum of mental health protection, Am was born. A unique experience, by a survivor, that you can now revisit, but don't let it get in your head!It is book about survival and the story of one persons survival in a mental health regime!It is a psychological thriller about my attempt to make sense of a confusing life situation.

Grimus

Author: Salman Rushdie
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307358739
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 390

Book Description
After drinking an elixir that bestows immortality upon him, a young Indian named Flapping Eagle spends the next seven hundred years sailing the seas with the blessing–and ultimately the burden–of living forever. Eventually, weary of the sameness of life, he journeys to the mountainous Calf Island to regain his mortality. There he meets other immortals obsessed with their own stasis and sets out to scale the island’s peak, from which the mysterious and corrosive Grimus Effect emits. Through a series of thrilling quests and encounters, Flapping Eagle comes face-to-face with the island’s creator and unwinds the mysteries of his own humanity. Salman Rushdie’s celebrated debut novel remains as powerful and as haunting as when it was first published more than thirty years ago.

Meaning, Expression and Thought

Author: Wayne A. Davis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139441159
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 674

Book Description
This philosophical treatise on the foundations of semantics is a systematic effort to clarify, deepen and defend the classical doctrine that words are conventional signs of mental states, principally thoughts and ideas, and that meaning consists in their expression. This expression theory of meaning is developed by carrying out the Gricean programme, explaining what it is for words to have meaning in terms of speaker meaning, and what it is for a speaker to mean something in terms of intention. But Grice's own formulations are rejected and alternatives developed. The foundations of the expression theory are explored at length, and the author develops the theory of thought as a fundamental cognitive phenomenon distinct from belief and desire, argues for the thesis that thoughts have parts, and identifies ideas or concepts with parts of thoughts. This book will appeal to students and professionals interested in the philosophy of language.

Euripides and His Age

Author: Gilbert Murray
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465579044
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1371

Book Description