If the burlesque stripper with her bawdy spirit & unruly insubordination has emerged for many as a new empowering model for the sexually aware woman then she also strikes horror in the heart of second wave feminism. Embodied by high profile artistes such as Dita von Teese & Catherine DLish the explosive revival of striptease burlesque & overt female sexual performance has proved no less alluring to a new generation of women artists familiar with the provocative work of 70s performance artists such as Hannah Wilke & Carolee Schneeman. Eloquent on prettiness & power desire & knowingness money sex & class & with an extensive knowledge of burlesques rich tradition Willson raises long overdue questions about womens erotic expression within a postfeminist condition. The new burlesque demands above all a response
- this fresh brazen provocative book at last provides it.
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Meet Nick Sax a corrupt intoxicated ex-cop turned hit-man adrift in a stinking twilight world of casual murder soulless sex eczema & betrayal. With a hit gone wrong a bullet in his side the cops & the mob on his tail & a monstrous child killer in a Santa suit on the loose Nick & his world will be changed forever this Christmas
- by a tiny blue horse called Happy! It collects issues numbered 1-4 of the mini-series.
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A collection of hilarious & compelling insights & anecdotes diary entries poems 'true' facts & cartoons on travel from Karl Pilkington unlikely star of the Ricky Gervais Show the world's most successful podcast
- now in paperback. This is the travel book for people who don't particularly like travelling it's Karl Pilkington star of The Ricky Gervais Podcast Show with a suitcase occasionally with his passport more often with a bemused suspicion of anything vaguely exotic & an observant eye for the disappointments tedium general weirdness & absurdities of being a tourist abroad & at home. From staring at Mount Vesuvius in case it erupts & the horrors of a Lanzarote nudist beach to the curiosities to be seen in the world's weirdest museum. Told with his inimitable deadpan humour Pilkington's stories are interspersed with fond reflections on life back in England from Salford joy riders to what his girlfriend's mum & dad have for dinner on a Thursday (it's chops & veg. in case you're wondering).
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When we speak of an individual's state we are actually referring to something that transcends the duality of the body & soul something that reflects the entirety of a person's being. Because each of us is a unity of body & soul there is no psychic structure or inner tension that is not reflected outwardly in the form & order of the body. When we find the physical centre of the body we also find the psychological centre of the soul. According to Zen masters by correcting posture & breathing to balance this centre one can cultivate inner tranquillity & balance: the state called Hara. In Hara Karlfried Graf Durckheim shows the Western world how to overcome the physical & spiritual decay of modern life by adopting the age-old techniques of Japanese Zen masters. By leaving behind the chest out
- belly in" posture & attitude of the west & adopting the belly-centred posture & attitude of Hara individuals can live a calm grounded & more balanced life. Included in this classic text are vital life force practices & translations of the wisdom teachings of three Japanese Zen masters. This book also explores how the practice of Hara emphasises empirical learning & the cultivation of self-knowledge through the perfection of arts such as painting & archery."
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Scarborough 1880. Jeannie spends her days watching the harbour girls
- mending nets gutting herring
- & waiting for Ethan Wharton

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You'll start this diet to lose weight. You'll stay on it because you'll feel healthier than you can ever remember
- & you'll lose
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Tab nabs were the biscuits dished out in the mess rooms of ships in the merchant navy. If a helmsman was asked if the ships helm was hard a-starboard or hard a-port he often would reply Hard a tab nab sir." Master Mariner J. R. de L. Inniss has spent a lifetime sailing the worlds oceans first as a boy seaman on the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious in the mid 1950s & then working his way up through the ranks of the merchant navy. He saw the great days of British shipping & was able to adapt to the great changes that transformed the merchant marine during his long career. There were long hours of very hard work hardly any sleep & at times atrocious feeding; but the seafaring life also lived up to its reputation for excitement & adventure with a good deal of fun & laughter along the way." ...

Who was just seventeen & made Pauls heart go boom? Was there really an Eleanor Rigby? Wheres Penny Lane? In A Hard Days Write" Steve Turner shatters many well-worn myths & adds a new dimension to the Fab Fours rich legacy by investigating the events immortalised in The Beatles music & now occupying a special niche in popular cultures collective imagination." ...

Who was Just seventeen" & made Pauls heart go " Boom"? Was there really an Eleanor Rigby? Wheres Penny Lane? In "A Hard Days Write" Steve Turner shatters many well-worn myths & adds a new dimension to the Fab Fours rich legacy by investigating the events immortalised in The Beatles music & now occupying a special niche in popular cultures collective imagination. This title is updated for 2012 to include new information on many songs plus br&-new stories." ...

A young boy is found dead in a rubbish heap suffocated & with one finger cut off. Another boy is missing. A psychopath is stabbing babies as they lie sleeping in their cots. A fifteen-year-old has been abducted then found naked by the roadside. The corpse of a petty criminal is discovered with the tops of three fingers chopped off. The small children of a carpet fitter are murdered; his wife's body is found on the railway line. A supermarket MD is sent a ransom demand for the missing boy accompanied by one of the child's fingers... Jack Frost scruffy & insubordinate foul-mouthed & fearless staggers from crisis to crisis his bumbling modus operandi disguising his extraordinary powers of detection. ...