Author: Pat Kane
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1447207114
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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‘Fizzes with intellectual curiosity. Kane writes engagingly and with a humility difficult to find among idea-entrepreneurs’ James Harkin, Independent We all think we know what play is. Play is what we do as children, what we do outside of work, what we do for no other reason than for pleasure. But this is only half of the truth. The Play Ethic explores the real meaning of play and shows how a more playful society would revolutionize and liberate our daily lives. Using wide and varied sources – from the Enlightenment to Eminem, Socrates to Chaos theory, Kierkegaard to Karaoke – The Play Ethic shows how play is fundamental to both society and to the individual, and how the work ethic that has dominated the last three centuries is ill-equipped to deal with the modern world. With verve, wit and intelligence, Pat Kane takes us on a tour of the playful world arguing that without it business, the arts, politics, education, even our family and spiritual lives are fundamentally impoverished. The Play Ethic seeks to change the way you look at your daily life, how you interact with others, how you view the world. It is a guidebook to new, exciting – and unsettling – times. Shocking, controversial, yet magnificently argued, The Play Ethic is a book no one who works, or has ever worked, can afford to be without. ‘Kane's Manifesto for a Different Way of Living is a brave attempt to inject a little playfulness . . . into the dull grind of the working stiff’ Iain Finlayson, The Times
Author: Ethel May Kelley
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Author: Kathleen N. Daly
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 143811995X
Category : Mythology, Norse
Languages : en
Pages : 126
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Alphabetically listed entries identify and explain the characters, events, and important places of Norse mythology.
Author: Dana Medoro
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Medoro (English, U. of Manitoba) finds in the three writers' works a conceptual relationship between menstrual blood and blood spilled to violence. The focus of her study is the cataclysmic treatment of menstruation by the two canonical male writers, but she also notes the shift in focus by the African-American woman writer, who at the same time employs an ominous language of menstruation. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Author: Nora Roberts
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780515141665
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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Combining elements of the supernatural with gripping suspense and seduction, #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts presents the second novel in her Circle Trilogy… He saw where the earth was scorched, where it was trampled. He saw his own hoofprints left in the sodden earth when he’d galloped through the battle in the form of a horse. And he saw the woman who’d ridden him, slashing destruction with a flaming sword… Blair Murphy has always worked alone. Destined to be a demon hunter in a world that doesn’t believe in such things, she lives for the kill. But now, she finds herself the warrior in a circle of six, chosen by the goddess Morrigan to defeat the vampire Lilith and her minions. Learning to trust the others has been hard, for Blair has never allowed herself such a luxury. But she finds herself drawn to Larkin, a man of many shapes. As a horse, he is proud and graceful; as a dragon, beautifully fierce; and as a man…well, Blair has never seen one quite so ruggedly handsome and playfully charming as this nobleman from the past. In two months’ time, the circle of six will face Lilith and her army in Geall. To complete preparations and round up forces to fight, the circle travels through time to Larkin’s world, where Blair must choose between battling her overwhelming attraction to him—or risking everything for a love that can never be… Don’t miss the other books in the Circle Trilogy Morrigan’s Cross Valley of Silence
Author: Julius Washington Muller
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Author: Marian Evans
Publisher:
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Author: Edgar Saltus
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434406881
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Edgar Saltus (1855-1921) was an American writer known for his highly refined prose style. In addition to his novels and poetry, Saltus also wrote two books of philosophy, The Philosophy of Disenchantment and The Anatomy of Negation.
Author: Rachel K. Olson
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1479735167
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 239
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Viola, I'm sorry, but I had to leave. I don't expect you to forgive me, but I hope you'll find it in your heart to try. Your mother is alive. Everyone says she is dead, but she's out there. And I have to find her. I can't sit around another minute knowing that she and I can be together. I'll be back someday. I'll be back, and Eclipse will be with me. We'll be a family again. I have made arrangements for you. You'll be living with Regis until I get back. I am giving everything to you. All of my art, all of my money, everything I have. Until I see you. I love you, Love Dad
Author: Shaun T. Griffin
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 1647791499
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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No Charity in the Wilderness is a long journey into the new American West. From the southern border to the isolating two-lane highways in the desert, this collection is a prayer of reconciliation with so much that troubles us—those who live without resources or voices—and their possible future in this ever-changing landscape of desire. Griffin has spent many decades in the high desert trying to find the way forward—when what he knows has been challenged and still there is breath on the horizon. One day an ancient Chinese poet comes to visit: "Snow deepens/ to quiet what I once believed, and Wang Wei stoops from the spine:/ this is how you become silence." Even if you doubt the old poet's counsel, like Griffin, you want to journey with him into the wilderness.
