When evil clowns menace the screen, do we scream or laugh? When zombies converge to tear a victim limb from limb, do we cringe and hide our eyes, or shriek “What??! Play that again!!”? What about those instances when these seemingly opposite reactions happen at once? This is the phenomenon known as sLaughter.Horrific Humor and the Moment of Droll Grimness in Cinema: Sidesplitting sLaughter presents the first focused look at the moment in audience reception where screams and laughte...

Short Story Press Presents Ben's Missing Pin by Kim ChaseBen enters a Spelling Bee at school. He was thrilled when he was named the winner for the second grade class! As a special award, Ben was given a pin as first prize! This pin meant a great deal to him; especially since he had to study so hard just to be in the contest. Ben loved to look at his pin every day. Everything was going well; at least until the day Ben's pin disappeared. In the blink of an eye, it seemed to have vani...

Brought to you by Penguin.'Hornby is the poet of the everyday' Observer_______________________________________________________**Lucy married just the sort of man you might expect: a university graduate who runs his own business. Unfortunately he turned out to have serious dependency issues.Joseph is shaking off the memory of his last date, a girl who ticked all the right boxes and also drove him up the wall.**

Organizations today understand that superior talent can create competitive business advantage. Executives are working with human resource managers and talent professionals to significantly improve their organization's ability to attract, develop, deploy, and retain the talent needed to achieve the organization's strategies. Effective CEOs and senior leaders are realizing that strong talent resources are as critical to business success as financial resources.This book in the SIOP Pr...

Ben enters a Spelling Bee at school. He was thrilled when he was named the winner for the second grade class! As a special award, Ben was given a pin as first prize! This pin meant a great deal to him; especially since he had to study so hard just to be in the contest. Ben loved to look at his pin every day. Everything was going well; at least until the day Ben’s pin disappeared. In the blink of an eye, it seemed to have vanished; right into thin air!Will you be able to unravel the...

Join Alex and Ben - aka The Pin - in their weird twist on the double-act sketch show.The Pin are a multi-award-winning comedy duo with a unique brand of self-reflexive comedy. Performed in front of a live studio audience, their sketches exist somewhere between razor-sharp smartness and joyous silliness. Expect sketches, commentary on the sketches, subtext, rewinds and replays until the line between the performance and critique blurs to hilarious effect.‘One of the smartest,...

Papy Pinpin se comporte bizarrement.Il oublie là où il range les carottes.Il s’assoit dans le pot de fleurs sans savoir pourquoi.Et un jour, il oublie même le prénom de Ben.Qu’arrive-t-il à Papy Pinpin ?Le docteur dit que c’est la démence sénile, mais qu’est-ce que c’est ? Et qu’est-ce que Ben peut faire pour aider son grand-père ?Un album illustré pour aider les enfants à comprendre la démence sénile et trouver comment agir avec des ...