Convivialities is a collection of dialogues with contemporary writers and artists Dana Michel, Joshua Clover and Jasper Bernes, Shanzhai Lyric, Cecily Nicholson, Raven Chacon, Divya Victor, Carlos Soto Román, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Gail Scott, Kevin Davies, The Culture and Technology Discussion and Working Group, and Ryan C. Clarke. The dialogues vary. Some are chatty, others theoretical. They model how we might talk, think, and listen together.Convivialities inve...

The Ritualites is Michael Nardone's book-length poem on the sonic topography of North America.Composed over ten years at sites all across the continent--from Far Rockaway to the Olympic Peninsula, Great Bear Lake to the Gulf of California--the book documents the poet's listening amid our public exchanges, mediated ambiances, and itinerant intimacies. The Ritualites is a series of linguistic rituals that shift, page to page, through a range of forms and genres--a rh...

A thrilling collection of dramatisations from the classic Scottish master of talesRobert Louis Stevenson was a novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer, and created some of the most famous and influential characters in modern literature. From Long John Silver and David Balfour to Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, his figures swiftly became the shorthand for piracy, monstrous medicine, and the slave trade in America. A master of atmosphere and an enthusiast ...

Planting the Seeds of ImaginationHolly Ordway has established herself as one of the preeminent voices in the field of cultural apologetics. Her ability to engage with the imagination is clearly demonstrated through her own scholarly work, most recently the paradigm-shifting Tolkien's Modern Reading, but her influence was critical in the founding of An Unexpected Journal as well. This collection of essays, poetry, and stories demonstrates her wide-...

Outre-Atlantique, les dernières élections de mi-mandat ont marqué un échec de Trump, mais le trumpisme reste bien vivace. Il déterminera largement la posture du Parti républicain pour les prochaines présidentielles et il est part intégrante du débat de politique étrangère ouvert par la fin de l’unipolarité américaine. Les États-Unis doivent-ils imposer sans apprêt leur puissance ? Doivent-ils se voir comme leader mondial de l’ordre démocratique ? Ou ne s’occuper du monde que quand son déso...

Viele Geistes- und Verhaltensstörungen können in kurzer Zeit geheilt werden, so die Vertreter der Kurzzeittherapie. Ihre Grundfrage lautet: Wie verhalten sich Menschen zu der von ihnen selbst konstruierten Wirklichkeit, und wie nehmen sie diese wahr? Der international renommierte Psychotherapeut Paul Watzlawick und Giorgio Nardone geben in diesem Band gemeinsam mit weiteren Experten eine umfassende Einführung in Theorie und Praxis der Kurzzeittherapie.

A gripping BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the classic adventure story by Robert Louis StevensonIt is 1751, and seventeen-year-old David Balfour is all alone in the world. Recently orphaned, he receives a letter instructing him to seek out his sole remaining relative at the House of Shaws. But on meeting his uncle Ebenezer, David soon realises that he is a shifty, miserly man with designs on his inheritance.After an attempt on David's life fails, Ebenezer tricks him ...