"Mira corpora" è un romanzo di formazione distorto che segue l'infanzia e l'adolescenza di Jeff Jackson, protagonista omonimo dell'autore. Tra paesaggi irreali, bambini selvaggi, oracoli, esperienze simboliche e abusi, il romanzo rappresenta con immagini memorabili, uno stile selvaggio e un linguaggio originale e intenso l'esperienza del distacco, sia dal proprio corpo sia dalle proprie radici, facendo vivere al lettore l'esperienza rara di trovare, sotto una coltre di oscurità, momenti di...

Mira Corpora is the debut novel from acclaimed playwright Jeff Jackson, an inspired, dreamlike adventure by a distinctive new talent.Literary and inventive, but also fast-paced and gripping, Mira Corpora charts the journey of a young runaway. A coming-of-age story for people who hate coming-of-age stories, featuring a colony of outcast children, teenage oracles, amusement parks haunted by gibbons, mysterious cassette tapes and a reclusive underground rockstar.With astoundin...

Is God still active around the world today desiring to reach mankind with a personal relationship, or is He just a God from the pages of a two-thousand-year-old book? Jeff Jackson takes you on a few personal journeys to find out the lengths that God is willing to go in using ordinary people to make this relationship a reality no matter where people are found.

(Author) Jeff Jackson former high school "GATORADE" Player Of The Year and Philadelphia Phillies former #1 Draft Pick takes you on a journey deep into his life... He reveals his truth about his professional baseball career as well as his experience with the Philadelphia Phillies and shares what really happened... For the first time, he divulges his most interpersonal thoughts and feelings about his life and career in this new book titled, "THE GIFT AND THE CURSE"... This book is packed wit...

Jeff Jackson was fifteen the first time he laid eyes on a beautiful girl that was thirteen. A few months later he asked Helen to "go steady" with him, and she said yes. Neither of them could have known the incredible journey that initial commitment to one another would generate throughout the rest of their lives. After becoming husband and wife while still teenagers, they relocated a few days after their wedding ceremony to the country where he was stationed as a member of the U.S. Army, a...

"A wild roar of a novel . . . Writing about music is tricky. Ninety-nine percent of the time hearing the actual song or going to the actual concert is far more revealing than any paragraph describing it. But Jackson pulls off this near-impossible feat, pulling the reader past the velvet ropes into the black-box theaters and sweaty, sticky-floored stadiums." —Marisha Pessl, The New York Times Book ReviewAn epidemic of violence is sweeping the country: music...

It all started in 1973. A pair of eyes, as green as emeralds, drove a mentally challenged boy to murder. Then again it happened in 1995, when the emerald green eyes caused a young wife to jump to her doom. They say life goes in circles.Now people are dying in Long Beach, California. People seemed to be cursed by the lovely emerald green eyes of Kelly Christian. It seems anyone she meets dies a horrible death. But Kelly can't even remember her own past, let alone know what is going o...

Managing Risk is the adventure guide's resource for risk management and systems planning. The second edition etext is fully updated,revised and expanded from the original widely adopted Managing Risk textbook. Adventure guiding is anchored in managing risk, and this etext builds the risk assessment and systems planning skills all professional outdoor guides require. Equal parts guide manual and management reference, this book is required reading for pro guides, program managers, and owner/...

The third book in Hoopoe's "All About Me" series, What's the Catch? looks at how people (from our parents to our peers) and media (from TV commercials to the Internet) try to influence us. In many situations, we're influenced to think, feel or behave in ways that we might not otherwise pursue. Sometimes such influence is helpful, but at other times we end up being shortchanged. What's the Catch? explores situations and presents examples that will help readers become more aware of ...

A New York Times Bestseller**By the author of Showtime—the source for HBO’s Winning Time—the definitive sports biography of mythic multi-sport star Bo Jackson.“A legendary tome on a legendary athlete." —Chris Herring, author of Blood in the GardenFrom the mid-1980s into the early 1990s, the greatest athlete of all time streaked across American sports and popular culture. Stadiums struggle...

Selected from the pages of Woodworker's Journal, these classic table projects will deliver both form and function to your home. Appropriate for beginner to intermediate woodworkers, these projects have been test built by experts and are presented with detailed instructions and color photos, exploded drawings, lists of required materials, and complete finishing options that guarantee success.

Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel The Gambler is one of the most profound literary works to treat the phenomenon of gambling with a remarkable depth of psychological analysis and a wide-ranging cultural and philosophical exploration of obsessive behavior, from addictive gambling to erotic passion. This novel delves into the cultural, psychological, and philosophical issues surrounding games of chance such as temporality, freedom, rebellion, choice, uncertainty, determinism, and creativity...