Innards

Innards
Author: Chris Marsh
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2001-08
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0595190030

Innards drives full-throttle through the dangerous curves of love,loss, life, and death with courage and tension, gas pedal deliberately mashed to the floor, teetering ever so gracefully somewhere between pure bliss and intimate rupture.

On Innards

On Innards
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Release: 2015
Genre: Artistic collaboration
ISBN: 9780957682856

Innards: Stories

Innards: Stories
Author: Magogodi oaMphela Makhene
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2023-06-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1324051019

This incendiary debut of linked stories narrates the everyday lives of Soweto residents, from the early years of apartheid to its dissolution and beyond. Set in Soweto, the urban heartbeat of South Africa, Innards tells the intimate stories of everyday black folks processing the savagery of apartheid with grit, wit, and their own distinctive bewildering humor. Rich with the thrilling textures of township language and life, it braids the voices and perspectives of an indelible cast of characters into a breathtaking collection flush with forgiveness, rage, ugliness, and beauty. Meet a fake PhD and ex-freedom fighter who remains unbothered by his own duplicity, a girl who goes mute after stumbling upon a burning body, twin siblings nursing a scorching feud, and a woman unraveling under the weight of a brutal encounter with the police. At the heart of these stories about deceit and ambition, appalling violence, familial turmoil, and love is South Africa’s history of slavery, colonization, and apartheid. Like many Americans today, Innards’ characters must navigate the shadows of the recent past alongside the uncertain opportunities of the promised land. Full to bursting with life, in all its complexities and vagaries, Innards is an uncompromising depiction of black South Africa. Visceral and tender, it heralds the arrival of a major new voice in contemporary fiction.

Helen Chadwick

Helen Chadwick
Author: Marina Warner
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2022-09-13
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1846382521

An illustrated exploration of Helen Chadwick’s erotic, playful, and fierce 1986 installation. In 1986 the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London showed a new commission by the artist Helen Chadwick (1954–1996). What Chadwick conceived for the ICA exhibition explored her characteristic themes—the female body (her own), the aesthetics of pleasure, the material variety and wonder of phenomena—but took them in a new, flamboyant direction. In this illustrated volume, Marina Warner examines one part of Chadwick’s installation, The Oval Court. This work was erotic, playful, and fierce; it showed imaginative ambition on an exceptional scale and a unique, piquant sensibility, both raunchy and delicate. Despite the work’s recognition as a feminist monument of rare intensity, it has rarely been shown or discussed since the author’s catalogue essay for the original exhibition. Warner here reconsiders Chadwick’s influence as an artist who helped to shift conventional aesthetics and transvalue despised, even abominated forms. Exploring the work’s richly layered composition in light of intervening years, Warner shows how Chadwick’s imagination has shaped many artists’ ideas and ethics, and emboldened their adventures with materials.

Dark Highlands Anthology Volume 3

Dark Highlands Anthology Volume 3
Author: Alex Kane
Publisher: Dark Highlands
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2011-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466426004

Dark Highlands Anthology returns with its third crusade of cringe, ushering readers to the darkest edges of humanity. Experience the hunger for flesh, revel in the tyranny of cold-blooded caregivers, and suckle on the souls of the damned. More disgusting and tantalizing encounters await. Dark Highlands Anthology is a literary and art journal that specializes in horror, the supernatural, dark science fiction and fantasy. Published in April and October of each year, Dark Highlands showcases writers, poets and artists from the Midwest. In this volume: Alyssa Bersine, Srijon Chowdhury, Shawn Cook, Sarah Corson, Andrea N. DeFoe, Emily Dix, Andrew Ek, Bradley Ellis, Paul-Thomas Ferguson, Alex J. Kane, Joshua Kolbow, Shelly Li, Gina G. Markee, Nick Medina, R.L. Naquin, William Perry, Jonathan H. Roberts, Clare Rosean, Misty Rowan, Nicomedes Austin Suarez, Danielle Thompson, JR Tschopp, Eric S. Wellen, and Zac Woodside.

Embryogenesis

Embryogenesis
Author: Richard Grossinger
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Total Pages: 974
Release: 2000
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 155643359X

Embryogenesis is an unusual book in that it brings together a highly illustrated, practical embryology book in simple language, perfect for health practitioners, with a fascinating read on the history and philosophy of biological science. It discusses the various stages of embryonic development (meiosis, fertilization, blastula development, and gastrulation, and then the embryology of each of the human organs and organ systems in detail). It puts each of them in context, both in terms of its phylogeny: the evolutionary trajectory of cell-organized systems on Earth, and its ontogeny: the formation of individual organisms in the modern world. There are 24 color plates, many of them commissioned uniquely for this volume, and several hundred black and white illustrations. The book is 950 pages hardcover, 8-1/2 by 10.Chapters include: The Original Earth; The Materials of Life; The First Beings; The Cell; The Genetic Code; Sperm and Egg; Fertilization; The Blastula; Gastrulation; Morphogenesis; Biological Fields; Chaos, Fractals, and Deep Structure; Ontogeny and Phylogeny; and Biotechnology. The Origin of the Nervous System; The Evolution of Intelligence; Neurulation and the Human Brain; Organogenesis; The Musculoskeletal and Hematopoietic Systems; Mind; The Origin of Sexuality and Gender. Healing; Transsexuality, Intersexuality, and the Cultural Basis of Gender; Self and Desire; Cosmogenesis and Mortality

Bad Beekeeping

Bad Beekeeping
Author: Ron Miksha
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004
Genre: Bee culture
ISBN: 9781412006279

A million pounds of honey. Produced by a billion bees! This memoir reconstructs the life of a young man from Pennsylvania as he drops into the bald prairie badlands of southern Saskatchewan. He buys a honey ranch and keeps the bees that make the honey. But he also spends winters in Florida swamps, nurse-maid to ten thousand dainty queen bees. From the dusty Canadian prairie to the thick palmetto swamps of the American south, the reader meets with simple folks who shape the protagonist's character - including a Cree rancher with three sons playing NHL hockey, a Hutterite preacher who yearns to roam the globe, a reclusive bee-eating homesteader, and a grey-headed widow who grows grapefruit, plays a nasty game of scrabble, and lives with four vicious dogs. Encompassing a ten-year period, this true story evolves from the earnest inexperience of the young man as he learns an art and builds a business. Carefully researched natural biology runs counterpoint to human social activities. Bee craft serves as the setting for expositions that contrast American and Canadian lifestyles, while exemplifying the harsh reality of a man working with and against the physical environment.

The Prophetic Persona

The Prophetic Persona
Author: Timothy Polk
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1984-01-01
Genre: Bible
ISBN: 090577471X

The subject of this work is not the historical Jeremiah, but the 'persona' of the prophet presented by the book. A sensitive and illuminating treatment of metaphor, the nature of biography, and the function of the imagination combines with a close reading of several passages (Jer. 4; 8-10; 14.1-15.4; 17; 20) to illuminate the theological quality of the depiction of Jeremiah.

Respect

Respect
Author: Rachel Brian
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2020-01-09
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1526362236

*Shortlisted for the 2020 North Somerset Children's Book Award* From the co-creator of the viral 'Tea Consent' video, this is the perfect introduction to consent for kids and families everywhere. Your body belongs to you and you get to set your own rules, so that you may have boundaries for different people and sometimes they might change. Like when you hi-five your friends and kiss your kitten, but not the other way round! But consent doesn't need to be confusing. From setting boundaries, to reflecting on your own behaviour and learning how to be an awesome bystander, this book will have you feeling confident, respected, and 100% in charge of yourself and your body Brought to life with funny and informative illustrations, this is the smart, playful and empowering book on consent that everyone has been waiting for.