' Staying Alive' is an international anthology of 500 life-affirming poems fired by belief in the human & the spiritual at a time when much in the world feels unreal inhuman & hollow These are poems of great personal force connecting our aspirations with our humanity helping us stay alive to the world & stay true to ourselves Many people turn to poetry only at unreal times whether for consolation in loss or affirmation in love or when facing other extremes & anxieties ' Staying Alive'

Includes:: many of the great modern love poems & elegies but it also shows the power of poetry in celebrating the ordinary miracle taking you on a journey around many of the different aspects of everyday life explored in poems A strong poem is not just for crisis Such a poem is there for all times helping us face or embrace daily change & disruption It will also speak to us when nothing seems to be happening when the poem's importance is in helping us stay alive to the world & stay true to ourselves ' Staying Alive' has reached a wider readership than any other anthology of contemporary poetry It is a landmark in the history of literary publishing A sequel ' Being Alive' (2004) & a companion anthology ' Being Human' (2011) complete this poetry trilogy

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Tusker & Lily Smalley stayed on in India Given the chance to return 'home' when Tusker once a Colonel in the British Army retired they chose instead to remain in the small hill town of Pangkot with its eccentric inhabitants & archaic rituals left over from the days of the Empire Only the tyranny of their landlady the imposing Mrs Bhoolabhoy threatens to upset the quiet rhythm of their days Both funny & deeply moving Staying On is a unique engrossing portrait of the end of an empire & of a forty-year love affair ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play The sequel to Jewel in the Crown Paul Scott&s Booker prize winning novel about a British colonel & his wife who decide to remain in India after the departure of the British is dramatized as an award-wining television series Actors Trevor Howard Celia Johnson Saeed Jaffrey Pearl Padamsee & Fida Bai Director Silvio Narizzano Certificate PG Year 1979 Screen Fullscreen 43 Languages English Duration 1 hour 26 minutes (approx) ...

Phil ' The Power' Taylor is the uncontested king of darts his sixteen world championship titles between 1990 & 2013 far outclassing anything else the game has seen He started out as a protege of Eric Bristow the Crafty Cockney having wandered into his Burslem pub with a set of darts his wife had given him for his birthday At that time Taylor was earning GBP52 a week working in a ceramics factory & hardly played But jaws dropped & pint mugs tipped over as this newcomer suddenly unleashed a gift for flight that had soon eclipsed even the Crafty Cockney himself & amassed Phil a haul of over 200 professional tournament victories Staying Power is a year in the life of a legend twice nominated for BBC Sports Personality of the Year a man who made darts look a doddle to British pub-goers everywhere & set his seal on the game as the bloke to beat A year of triumph & disaster in which Taylor crashed out of the world championship in the second round to young outsider Michael Smith & fell asleep at home on Christmas day exhausted from the strain of constant winning A year when he played arguably the greatest ever game of darts in the Grand Slam semi-final against recent world champion Adrian Lewis the two slugging it out to the wire A year in which Taylor rocked Australia feted like royalty A year of spats & hecklers clashes on stage & off of head-to-heads with the Dutch superstar Michael van Gerwen But most of all this is a year in which Phil Taylor one of sport's greatest champions has looked hard at his life in his determination to stay in power ...

The internet is full of amazing possibilities but just like the real world there are lots of potential dangers & difficulties too Whether you're worried about oversharing on social media or coming across dangerous people this guide gives you tips & tools to take control & stay safe online ...

Stays & Corsets Historical Patterns Translated for the Modern Body goes a step beyond traditional historical costuming texts by not only providing you with historical pattern diagrams & information but by showing you how to adapt these patterns to the contemporary body shape Using her original pattern-drafting system author Mandy Barrington will show you how to draft a historical pattern for a modern body shape while still retaining an accurate historical silhouette Each pattern has been generated from an original stay corset or pattern taken from a historical garment The instructions to follow these new patterns are designed to accommodate any size of female figure allowing you to avoid extremely difficult time consuming & inaccurate historical pattern re-sizing Requiring only basic prior knowledge of pattern drafting all calculations have been worked out for the costume maker & are provided in simple tables accompanied by easy-to-read step-by-step diagrams that clearly show how the historical pattern is plotted onto the female basic block coupled with photographs of the constructed stays & corsets ...

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From the video game Street Fighter comes this super cute figure It stands approx 14 cm tall & comes in a gift box packaging ...

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When asked to talk to students at Broome Community College in upstate New York in the spring of 2011 Austin Kleon wrote a simple list often things he wished he'd heard when he was their age ' Steal like an artist; Don't wait until you know who you are to start making things; Write the book you want to read; Use your hands; Side projects are important; Do good work & put it where people can see it; Geography is no longer our master; Be nice (the world is a small town); Be boring (it's the only way to get work done); & Creativity is subtraction' After giving the speech he posted the text & slides to his popular blog where it quickly went viral Now Kleon has expanded his original manifesto into an illustrated guide to the creative life for writers artists entrepreneurs designers photographers musicians & anyone attempting to make things
- art a career a life
- in the digital age Brief direct & visually interactive the book

Includes:: illustrative anecdotes & mini-exercise sections calling out practical actions readers can take to unleash their own creative spirits



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