What began as an underground 60s Mod scene in unlicensed, no-frills clubs in the North West of England became a youth craze that has long surpassed all others. The Northern Soul scene has confounded its critics by surviving and growing into an adult dance phenomenon whose followers share a passion for the music of Black America unrivalled anywhere else in the world. The Story of Northern Soul takes the first ever in-depth look at the culture, the music, the artists and the people ...

Put Your Faith Into ActionDo you ever feel like something in your faith is missing, that going to church, studying the Bible, and tithing just aren't enough? There has to be more, right? What would it look like to truly follow Christ and not just believe in him?David Nowell asked the very same questions, and was led to minister to the "least of these," whom God loves deeply. In Dirty Faith, Nowell shares powerful stories of faith in action...

On the peripheries of UK poetry culture during his lifetime, W. S. Graham is now recognized one of the great poets of the twentieth century. In the first concerted study of Graham's poetics in a generation, David Nowell Smith argues that Graham is exemplary for the poetics of the mid-century: his extension of modernist explorations of rhythm and diction; his interweaving of linguistic and geographic places; his dialogue with the plastic arts; and the tensions that run through his work, bet...

A master of modern European cinema and a key figure in the Italian neorealist movement, Roberto Rossellini had one of the longest and most varied careers of all major directors. From 'Rome Open City' and 'Paisà ' through to the 'Bergman' classics 'Stromboli 'and 'Journey to Italy' and his later work for television, Rossellini's work and ideas had a profound influence on filmmaking and criticism. This specially commissioned overview of Rossellini's works examines key issues and themes cover...

An exciting story about the future. As in all his novels, the author uses erotic material as a backdrop to provoke and shock readers while expressing his social political commentaries. Engineers and scientists complain that the sex gets in the way of the story. Some readers have accused the author of using LSD. Some will think that that it is too, too futuristic; however, the author feels it’s prophetic and should already be happening. This is the 4th installment of the ARK’s series starti...

Definition of CourtesanFormally, older definition: The mistress of a king, or other noblemenModern definition: A prostitute, especially with wealthy upper-class clientsIt is a love story about Poppy, who is a retired high-class call girl; her career started in Las Vegas at age 14. Later in life, she had a major operation that forced her into a premature retirement. Michael meets her through a newspaper dating service. He is in his early sixties, made his career as a...

This book shows how rhythm constitutes an untapped resource for understanding poetry. Intervening in recent debates over formalism, historicism, and poetics, the authors show how rhythm is at once a defamiliarizing aesthetic force and an unstable concept. Distinct from the related terms to which it’s often assimilated—scansion, prosody, meter—rhythm makes legible a range of ways poetry affects us that cannot be parsed through the traditional resources of poetic theory.Rhythm has ri...

This book is controversial because it attacks a system that has been around for a hundred or more years. It stings the male ego. The book is provoking, and it attacks the foundation of our societys hypocrisy, especially the males relationship to woman. It follows after the authors first novel, Spacestation, ARK, that shows a way, in the future, for fulfilling the males sexual needs. This is a harsher book; not a men are from Mars and women are from Venus, but a book of how men are from the...

Living in Space is very bland compared to what we Earth people experience in our everyday life. They don’t have beautiful sunsets, the smell of the ocean, no breeze, no rain, no grass, no trees, no snowcapped mountains, and not even day and night. Yes, they do have artificial gravity. Therefore, the Arkians’ motto, WORK HARD AND PLAY HARD, that task is aided by their sophisticated machines. Recreation is their number one priority because of their dangerous work duties. Their most sophistic...

Spacestation ARK is a business/ government. It becomes a master at harnessing the full potential and productivity of its over one million inhabitants thus becoming the most profitable corporation in the world and also the worlds newest superpower. The Arkians, with the help of thinking computers, have taken on the responsibility of funding new businesses and creating jobs for millions of jobless people throughout the world. Their computers control weaponry with their unique capability of a...