Return to the magical world of Neverland in this collection of new adventures with Peter Pan, Wendy, the Lost Boys, Captain Hook, Tinkerbell, and a surprisingly friendly crocodile.These stories follow the children through hidden corners of the island, unexpected friendships, and playful encounters with old rivals. Along the way, Michael meets a lonely crocodile, Wendy makes a quiet wish beneath the stars, and Peter finds new ways to outsmart Captain Hook.Tales from Neverlan...

Pooh’s New Adventures: Tales from the Hundred Acre WoodStep into the heartwarming world of the Hundred Acre Wood in this delightful collection of 20 charming short stories featuring Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Eeyore, and all their friends!From building forts and throwing surprise parties to catching falling stars and learning the true meaning of friendship, each tale is filled with

Drawing on the work of contemporary French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, Cinema and Contact investigates the aesthe-tics and politics of touch in the cinema of three of the most prominent and distinctive filmmakers to have emerged in France during the last fifty years: Robert Bresson, Marguerite Duras and Claire Denis. Countering the domi-nant critical account of touch elaborated by recent models of embodied spectatorship, this book argues that cinema offers a privileged space for understand...

In a world where magic dances on the wind and dragons hold the wisdom of the ages, The Kindred Dragons weaves together ten enchanting tales of friendship, courage, and discovery.Meet Zephyr, the dragon whose songs carry the wind itself, and Solstice, the frost-covered guardian with a heart warmer than any flame. Follow the tiny Blaze, who dreams of roaring like the great dragons, and Drizzle, the dragon who paints rainbows across the sky. From moonlit peaks to hidden valle...

From the proto-cinematic sequencing of animal motion in the nineteenth century to the ubiquity of animal videos online, the histories of animal life and the moving image are enigmatically interlocked.Animal Life and the Moving Image is the first collection of essays to offer a sustained focus on the relations between screen cultures and non-human animals. The volume brings together some of the most important and influential writers working on the non-human animal's significance for...

Hannah Arendt and the History of Thought, edited by Daniel Brennan and Marguerite La Caze, enrichens and deepens scholarship on Arendt’s relation to philosophical history and traditions. Some contributors analyze thinkers not often linked to Arendt, such as William Shakespeare, Hans Jonas, and Simone de Beauvoir. Other contributors treat themes that are pressing and crucial to understanding Arendt’s work, such as love in its many forms, ethnicity and race, disability, human rights...

Phenomenology and the Arts develops the interplay between phenomenology as a historical movement and a descriptive method within Continental philosophy and the arts. Divided into five themes, the book explores first how the phenomenological method itself is a kind of artistic endeavor that mirrors what it approaches when it turns to describe paintings, dramas, literature, and music. From there, the book turns to an analysis and commentary on specific works of art within the visual arts, li...

Higher Education Implications for Teaching and Learning during COVID-19 provides different perspectives regarding the impact of COVID-19 on college teaching and learning and on students, both collectively and individually. Contributors argue that the pandemic forced a higher education reckoning as institutions around the world were forced to shut their physical doors and open up their online platforms in a wider capacity. While these concerns are linked to a certain point in time, there is...

Which would you choose . . . love or career? For ambitious Lizzie career always came first. So, when an opportunity to climb the ladder lands in her lap, Lizzie ignores her attraction for the handsome client, and focuses on finally getting the promotion she's been after. Only this time, Lizzie has fallen in love and keeping the relationship professional is not going to be easy . . . Things get worse as Lizzie discovers that to help the object of her affection, she will have to choose betwe...

Bloomsbury presents House of Splinters by Laura Purcell, read by Juanita McMahon.'An enormous treat . . . beautifully vivid, claustrophobic and macabre . . . a masterful page-turner' Bridget Collins, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Binding'Laura Purcell really is a master of the unsettling ghost story' Jen WilliamsNot every house is a home...Belinda Bainbridge has spent her l...

A multi-author collection of eighteen original superhero tales ranging from the dark to the hysterical to the downright bizarre, including 2016 Aurora Award nominee "Super Frenemies" by Stephen Kotowych.