Author: Richard Glover Publisher: HarperCollins Australia ISBN: 0730494292 Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 21
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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.
Author: Deborah Hockney Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd ISBN: 1780880502 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 249
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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.
Author: Jezreel Jones Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1665531312 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 177
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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....
Author: Richard Glover Publisher: HarperCollins Australia ISBN: 0732268648 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 21
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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'.
Author: Sally Banes Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134833180 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 294
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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.
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.
Author: Rush Rehm Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400825075 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 466
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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.
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.
Author: Craig S. Walker Publisher: Broadview Press ISBN: 155111139X Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 866
Book Description
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.
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