Step into the epic world where gods walked among mortals and heroes forged legends that would echo through millennia. John A. Scott's masterful exploration reveals how one blind poet from ancient Greece became the foundation of Western literature, shaping everything from Shakespeare's tragedies to modern cinema. This isn't merely academic analysis - it's a thrilling journey through the mind that created Achilles' rage, Odysseus' cunning, and Helen's devastating beauty. Scott illuminates ho...

‘This tale of obsessive love focuses on the intimate correspondence between a writer and a woman he has met just once. As their letters grow increasingly erotic, they begin their own investigations, betrayals, and confessions—as the story builds toward a startling climax.’ Australian Bookseller and PublisherFirst published in 1993, What I have Written won the Victorian Premier’s Award for Fiction in the following year. A film version was released in 1995...

Award-winning collection of 30 prose poems from John Scott.Reviewing Scott’s most recent novel, N, for The Age in 2014, critic Peter Craven began: ‘Back in the late 1960s when drugs and Vietnam were all the go, when Albert Langer fomented revolution and Elijah Moshinsky directed plays, Monash University sported a young poet called John Scott. It was a good period and a good place for poetry: Scott’s fellow Monash poets included Alan Wearne and Laurie Dug...

The Handbook of Brief Psychotherapy by Hypnoanalysis is the culmination of a life time of work to heal the emotional and mental wounds of suffering people. It is not so much about Hypnosis as about the tools to use for brief, successful therapy. Dr. Scott details the history of hypnoanalysis and goes on to explain the Medical Hypnoanalysis process. He includes the fascinating practice of providing a subconscious diagnosis. Medical Hypnaanalysis seeks to get to the root of such problems and...

Edward and Florence arrive at Chesil Beach, unaware their wedding night will define their lives.It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their private fears of the wedding night to come and, unbeknownst to them both, the events of the evening will haunt them for the rest of their lives.‘A masterpiece’ Times Literary Supple...

Ten years in the making, comes a literary work like no other, from the legendary author of Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and From Hell.In the half a square mile of decay and demolition that was England’s Saxon capital, eternity is loitering between the firetrap tower blocks. Embedded in the grubby amber of the district’s narrative among its saints, kings, prostitutes and derelicts a different kind of human time is happening, a soiled simultaneity that does no...

This guide covers the basic principles of psychology for introductory courses. It includes information on sensation, perception, memory, personality, abnormal behavior and much more.

Middle age took Jane Shilling by surprise. She hadn't seen it coming, and she certainly wasn't ready for it. Living a flawed, bittersweet version of the idyll she dreamed of in her twenties, in a tumbledown urban cottage by the Thames, with a son, a cat and a horse in a livery fifty miles away, she wondered whether middle age was the beginning of the end. Or was there one last great adventure to be had?The Stranger in the Mirror is one woman's attempt to understand what mi...

'Confronting the inevitable desiccation of her ageing body, a woman reflects on her life as an erotic adventurer, and through these vivid stories of the flesh, a mind and a soul emerge in full. Susan Johnson is a writer in her prime, and her most enduring love affair is with language itself. ' Geraldine BrooksThat afternoon in the small bedroom the light was blue. The curtains were cream and blew softly in the wind. There was a cry, far off, almost out of earshot. There was a m...

In his first poetry collection for a decade, Craig Raine addresses themes of transformation in human nature and the natural world and confronts the quiddities of death and sex, memory and desire, commemoration and love. At the core of How Snow Falls are four long poems that explore the possibilities of the form; there are two ardent elegies, one for the poet's mother and one for a dead lover; a sparkling reworking of Ryunosuke Akutagawa's story In a Grove; last a 'film-poem', High...

WINNER OF THE VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS C.J. DENNIS PRIZE FOR POETRYSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2011 WESTERN AUSTRALIAN PREMIER'S BOOK AWARDSDisarming, warm, and always accessible, Cate Kennedy’s poems make ordinary experiences glow. Everything that suffuses her well-loved prose is here: compassion, insight, lyrical precision, and the clear, minimalist eye that reveals how life can turn on a single moment. Musing on the undercurrents and ...

Is the emotionally disturbed person a victim of forces beyond his awareness, over which he has no control? This is the belief on which neuropsychiatry, psychoanalysis, and behavior therapy are all based. But what if this premise is wrong? What if a person’s psychological difficulties stem from his own erroneous assumptions and faulty concepts of himself and the world? Such a person can be helped to recognize and correct distortions in thinking that cause his emotional disturbance.N...