The joys & challenges of being a writer are explored in this inspiring assemblage of wit wisdom & hard-won practical advice from some of the world's greatest authors musing on the art of writing & how they came to define themselves as writers From Samuel Johnson in eighteenth-century London to Lorrie Moore in twenty-first-century Wisconsin the contributors range from the canon to contemporary covering more than 250 years & come from all over the world Beautifully illustrated throughout this stunning anthology explores & illuminates the pleasures & pitfalls of the compulsion to write with advice about the whole messy business of writing literature & what it takes to be a writer The perfect gift for aspiring writers curious readers & anyone interested in what the world's greatest authors have to say about the art of writing ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Being AP is the incredible inside story of a sporting legend As AP Mc Coy nears the end of his career the characteristics that have driven him to dominate the most dangerous of sports remain as strong as ever Fearless & willing to sacrifice everything to achieve his goals this film reveals the exhaustive training routine injuries doubt triumphs failures & AP’s soul-searching to find a way to leave the stage With unprecedented access to AP & those closest to him Being AP celebrates an incredible man who became the greatest jump jockey the world has ever seen ...

The cruel early death of his wife Helen tears up the script of Adam Golightly's middle-class middle-aged existence Miserably single outnumbered by his kids & haunted by life's screaming fragility he recounts his fight back against the hand of fate This irreverent & frank memoir follows Adam's snakes-&-ladders journey through his grief in the year following his wife's death as he struggles with small town tongue wagging the trauma of teenage bra shopping & online dating anarchy Adam's is the biggest mid-life crisis anyone could face & as he starts to build a new alternative life for himself & his children he shows not just how to survive bereavement but how to be transformed by it ...

' Being Alive' is the sequel to Neil Astley's ' Staying Alive' which became Britain's most popular poetry book because it gave readers hundreds of thoughtful & passionate poems about living in the modern world Now he has assembled this equally lively companion anthology for all those readers who've wanted more poems that touch the heart stir the mind & fire the spirit ' Being Alive' is about being human about love & loss fear & longing hurt & wonder ' Staying Alive' didn't just reach a broader readership it introduced thousands of new readers to contemporary poetry giving them an international gathering of poems of great personal force poems with emotional power intellectual edge & playful wit It also brought many readers back to poetry people who hadn't read poetry for years because it hadn't held their interest ' Being Alive' gives readers an even wider selection of vivid brilliantly diverse contemporary poetry from around the world A third companion anthology ' Being Human' (2011) completes this modern poetry trilogy ...

Anthropology is a disciplined inquiry into the conditions & potentials of human life Generations of theorists however have expunged life from their accounts treating it as the mere output of patterns codes structures or systems variously defined as genetic or cultural natural or social Building on his classic work The Perception of the Environment Tim Ingold sets out to restore life to where it should belong at the heart of anthropological concern Being Alive ranges over such themes as the vitality of materials what it means to make things the perception & formation of the ground the mingling of earth & sky in the weather-world the experiences of light sound & feeling the role of storytelling in the integration of knowledge & the potential of drawing to unite observation & description Our humanity Ingold argues does not come ready-made but is continually fashioned in our movements along ways of life Starting from the idea of life as a process of wayfaring Ingold presents a radically new understanding of movement knowledge & description as

Dimensions not just of being in the world but of being alive to what is going on there

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Full of sensitive pastoral advice & shot through with arresting & illuminating theological insights Rowan Williams' new book explores the meaning & practice of four essential components of the Christian life baptism Bible Eucharist & prayer This book is an invitation to everyone to think through the essentials of the faith & how to live it making it an ideal gift for anyone at the start of their spiritual journey or thinking about confirmation ...

Timothy Bentinck has played the part of David Archer in BBC Radio 4&s The Archers since 1982 He is also the Earl of Portland & the voice of & Mind The Gap& on the Piccadilly Line Aimed primarily at the five million regular Archers listeners Timothy takes the reader behind the scenes of the longest running drama series in the world a British institution with a theme tune that Billy Connolly wants to be the National Anthem But that&s not all With wry self-deprecating humour Timothy recounts his enormously varied life
- a successful actor in TV film & theatre a voice specialist working in every vocal medium He&s also been an HGV truck driver a US tour guide a computer programmer & website designer an inventor with UK & US patents farm worker house renovator & he sat as a crossbencher in the House of Lords for three years Unlike many acting memoirs this isn&t a succession of thespian tales of freezing digs forgotten lines & name dropping This is an articulate funny & thoughtful account of how to survive an insecure life
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The autobiography of actor Timothy Bentinck who has played the role of David Archer the Paterfamilias of the Archer family since 1982 336 pages 2x 8pp colour plate sections Bentinck Timothy ...

This fresh & inspiring look at the meaning of discipleship covers the essentials of the christian life includingfaith hope & love; forgiveness; holiness; social action; life in the Spirit Written for the general reader by one of our greatest living theologians this book will help you to see more clearly love more dearly & follow more nearly the way of Jesus Christ ...

' To read Being Ecological is to be caught up in a brilliant display of intellectual pyrotechnics' PDSmith Guardian Why is everything we think we know about ecology wrong? Is there really any difference between 'humans' & 'nature'? Does this mean we even have a future? Don't care about ecology? This book is for you Timothy Morton who has been called ' Our most popular guide to the new epoch' (Guardian) sets out to show us that whether we know it or not we already have the capacity & the will to change the way we understand the place of humans in the world & our very understanding of the term 'ecology' A cross-disciplinarian who has collaborated with everyone from Bjoerk to Hans Ulrich Obrist Morton is also a member of the object-oriented philosophy movement a group of forward-looking thinkers who are grappling with modern-day notions of subjectivity & objectivity while also offering fascinating new understandings of Heidegger & Kant Calling the volume a book containing 'no ecological facts' Morton confronts the 'information dump' fatigue of the digital age & offers an invigorated approach to creating a liveable future ...