This book investigates how British contemporary artists who work with clay have managed, in the space of a single generation, to take ceramics from niche-interest craft to the pristine territories of the contemporary art gallery. This development has been accompanied (and perhaps propelled) by the kind of critical discussion usually reserved for the 'higher' discipline of sculpture. Ceramics is now encountering and colliding with sculpture, both formally and intellectually. Laura Gray exam...

Trump Fiction: Essays on Donald Trump in Literature, Film, and Television examines depictions of Donald Trump and his fictional avatars in literature, film, and television, including works that took up the subject of Trump before his successful presidential campaign (in terms that often uncannily prefigure his presidency) as well as those that have appeared since he took office. Covering a range of texts and approaches, the essays in this collection analyze the place Trump has assumed in l...

Liars. Every last one of them. The kings and queens of my new high school. The father and stepmother I never knew.Each has more wealth and privilege than I could've ever imagined. Each has a pile of wicked dirty secrets they'd do anything to protect. These people have grown accustomed to getting what they want, and what they want is to make my life a living hell. Too bad for them, you can't break someone who's already broken. Too bad for them, I won't give up witho...

The inspirational memoir of a woman who survived a brutal sexual assault and went on to become a university professor.Northern Arizona's Mountain Living Book of the YearGold Medalist, 2014 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Autobiography/Memoir III (Personal Struggle / Health Issues) categoryFinalist for the 2013 May Sarton Memoir Award presented by the Story Circle Network

Museums and biographies both tell the stories of lives. This innovative collection examines for the first time biography - of individuals, objects and institutions - in relationship to the museum, casting new light on the many facets of museum history and theory, from the lives of prominent curators, to the context of museums of biography and autobiography. Separate sections cover individual biography and museum history, problematising individual biographies, institutional biographies, obj...

This book surveys the history of basic writing scholarship, suggesting that we cannot adequately theorize the situations of basic writers unless we examine how they construct their own conceptions of their identities, their constructions of their relationships to social forces, and their representations of their relationships to written work. Using a cross-disciplinary analytic model, Gray-Rosendale offers a detailed examination of the oral conversations that take place within one basic wr...

This detailed and practical guide is designed to help students understand and master the all-important AO2 skills of Critical Analysis & Evaluation, which are vital for performing well in the essay writing/long evaluation answers in the AQA GCSE exam.- Written for the AQA GCSE RS Spec A covering Component 1: Religious Beliefs, Practices & Traditions (comparing two religions) and Component 2: Thematic Studies.- Covers all specification content across Components 1 & 2 for Chris...

The world has been witnessing a long unfolding process of urbanization that not only has altered the structural basis of society in terms of political economy, but has also symbolically relegated rural people and life to a secondary or deviant status through an ideology of urbanormativity. Both structural and cultural changes rooted in urbanization are connected in complex ways to spatial arrangements that can be described in terms of inequality and uneven development. Through a focus on l...

Erotic stories, racy illustrations, and practical advice to heat things up in the bedroom.You've read Fifty Shades of Grey. You've wondered what it would be like to play sexy power games in the bedroom but have no idea where to start. Or maybe you've been getting a little kinky for years but want to add a little more spice to the mix. 50 Nights in Gray shows you how, weaving together 50 compelling, erotic tales with black-and-white drawings and eas...

Imagine a world in which nature has lost patience with humanity. The wild is done waiting for humans to change their ways. Nature is ready to take matters into her own hands…And she is angry.In this new anthology, twenty two diverse authors explore what nature's vengeance might be like, and how humanity could adapt and change, giving these stories of climate change and disasters a center of hope. Within these pages, you will meetA grandmother who promises both bitte...

Serena Gray has made a mistake. She has made several mistakes, in fact. First, she has angered the police department with her latest article. A good reporter doesn't add opinion. Even when it is glaring. This left her without a usual haunt to sip coffee and type her latest scoop.The Bean Baile seems like any other coffee shop. There are cappuccinos, chai lattes, muffins, and croissants. It is tucked into a cozy strip mall just off the college campus. But this coffeehouse holds more...

The rain fell steadily against the worn cobblestone streets, castingan almost spectral glow over the quiet town. Each raindrop seemedto whisper secrets, carrying the weight of history through the mistynight. As the storm raged outside, the old Victorian house on thehill stood silent, its dark windows like eyes watching the worldbelow.