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Bardskull is the record of three journeys made by Martin Shaw, the celebrated storyteller and interpreter of myth, in the year before he turned fifty. It is unlike anything he has written before. This is not a book about{::}* *myth or narrative: rather, it is a sequence of incantations, a series of battles. Each of the three journeys sees Shaw walk alone into a Dartmoor forest and wait. What arrive are stories ¿ fragments of myth that he has c...

Ethan Sterling has been through many trials in his life including losing his father when he was just six years old. After he joins the marines at age seventeen, Ethan quickly excels, wins medals for bravery, marries, and is commanding ten soldiers in Afghanistan by the time he is twenty-three. But when a road accident instigated by guilt sends him to heaven's gate, everything changes for Ethan. After he is offered a choice to either fight an a...

Ethan Sterling has been through many trials in his life including losing his father when he was just six years old. After he joins the marines at age seventeen, Ethan quickly excels, wins medals for bravery, marries, and is commanding ten soldiers in Afghanistan by the time he is twenty-three. But when a road accident instigated by guilt sends him to heaven's gate, everything changes for Ethan. After he is offered a choice to either fight an a...

A compelling analysis of political racism in the Brexit campaign and in UK post-Brexit politics.

A compelling analysis of political racism in the Brexit campaign and in UK post-Brexit politics.

Through the Smoke Hole, we will find beauty in the wild. Through the Smoke Hole, we will escape the gaze of the Spyglass and find ourselves. Assailed by seductive promises and controlled by social media, we are losing our sense of direction. We are losing ourselves. We have networks, not communities. At a time when we are all confronted by not one, but many crossroads in our lives - identity, technology, trust, love, politics and global pandem...

Courting the Wild Twin is a book of literary activism-an antidote to the shallow thinking that typifies our age. It challenges us to wake up, to revive our 'condition of wondering' and examine our broken relationship with the world

Dramatic new retellings of Celtic poetry's great lyrics and legendsCinderbiter collects tales and poems originally composed and performed centuries ago in Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, when notions of history and authorship were indistinguishable from the oral traditions of myth and storytelling. In the spirit of recasting these legends and voices for new audiences, celebrated mythologist and storyteller Martin Shaw and award-winning poet Tony...

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Excerpt from The English Carol Book: Second SeriesMr. Cecil Sharp, to whom so many are indebted, has allowed us to include No. 49. For the late Mr. Chatterton Dix's Carol (no. 53) we are indebted to the kind permission of his daughter.It is highly desirable, in performing these Carols, never to sing all the verses through in the same way. Variety may be obtained, for instance, by singing the first and last verses (and in the case of a long Car...

Excerpt from The English Carol Book: Second SeriesMr. Cecil Sharp, to whom so many are indebted, has allowed us to include No. 49. For the late Mr. Chatterton Dix's Carol (no. 53) we are indebted to the kind permission of his daughter.It is highly desirable, in performing these Carols, never to sing all the verses through in the same way. Variety may be obtained, for instance, by singing the first and last verses (and in the case of a long Car...

I'm inviting you to join me on a pilgrimage I'll be making with a friend of mine! This pilgrimage will be of the imagination, of the heart. I suppose in truth, it's a fictitious pilgrimage. My friend is none other than St Francis of Assisi. For me, the imagination's a vital and an exciting tool for reliving something of a saint's life. So I'll be, as it were, 'walking and talking' with you, through these pages, about the story of the pilgrimag...

Genocide can be assumed to be a problem of dictatorial regimes. This book shows that targeted violence against population groups is a much larger problem, that patterns of genocide depend on international contexts, and that genocide in the modern world can be stimulated as well as constrained by global change.

This fully revised edition of Martin Shaw's classic, award-winning text proposes a way through the intellectual confusion surrounding genocide. In a thorough account of the idea's history, Shaw considers its origins and development and its relationships to concepts like ethnic cleansing and politicide. Offering a radical critique of the existing literature on genocide, he argues that what distinguishes genocide from more legitimate warfare is ...

This fully revised edition of Martin Shaw's classic, award-winning text proposes a way through the intellectual confusion surrounding genocide. In a thorough account of the idea's history, Shaw considers its origins and development and its relationships to concepts like ethnic cleansing and politicide. Offering a radical critique of the existing literature on genocide, he argues that what distinguishes genocide from more legitimate warfare is ...

This is the first book-length study of Carmen Miranda in English. It traces her origins as a radio singer, recording artist and film star in Brazil in the 1930s, before exploring in depth her Hollywood screen roles and the construction of her long-lasting star persona in the USA.

In Snowy Tower, Dr. Martin Shaw continues his trilogy of works on the relationship between myth, wilderness, and a culture of wildness. In this second book, he gives a telling of the Grail epic Parzival. Claiming it as a great trickster story of medieval Europe, he offers a deft and erudite commentary, with topics ranging from climate change and the soul to the discipline of erotic consciousness, from the hallucination of empire to a revisioni...

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