Seagulls In The Attic

Author : Tessa Hainsworth
Publisher : Preface Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781848092631
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seagulls in the Attic written by Tessa Hainsworth and published by Preface Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tessa is now a pillar of the community, or so she thinks. Life is becoming hard for her and her family as they realise that being part of a small community is not quite the idyll she had been lead to believe, as lack of money and the demands of family life take their toll. But, as with the first book Up With the Larks, Tessa finds the fun and resilience to turn all the hardships to her advantage - eventually.

Author : Tessa Hainsworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781445029702
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seagulls in the Attic written by Tessa Hainsworth and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book finds Tessa a fully-fledged member of the community. However, that doesn't mean life has become any easier. Her initial delight now has to be tempered with the reality of financial downsizing and learning a whole new way of living. Her natural exuberance and sense of fun help her to turn all the hardships to her advantage, eventually.

Author : Subarna Mondal
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho and Taxidermy written by Subarna Mondal and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are numerous scholarly works on Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960). Some of these works have explored its Gothic potentials. However, no detailed effort has yet been made to explore one of its major motifs – taxidermy. Taxidermy as an art of corporeal preservation has effectively been used in mainstream body horror films years after Psycho was released. Yet Psycho was one of the first films to explore its potentials in the Gothic genre at a time when it was relegated to a low form of art. Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and Taxidermy focuses on taxidermy as a cultural practice in both Victorian and modern times and how it has been employed both metaphorically and literally in Hitchcock's films, especially Psycho. It also situates Psycho as a crucial film in the filmic continuum of body horrors where death and docility share a troubled relationship.

Author : Douglas Rosenberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199981620
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies written by Douglas Rosenberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-03 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies offers a full overview of the histories, practices, and critical and theoretical foundations of the rapidly changing landscape of screendance. Drawing on their practices, technologies, theories, and philosophies, scholars from the fields of dance, performance, visual art, cinema and media arts articulate the practice of screendance as an interdisciplinary, hybrid form that has yet to be correctly sited as an academic field worthy of critical investigation. Each chapter discusses and reframe current issues, as a means of promoting and enriching dialogue within the wider community of dance and the moving image. Topics addressed embrace politics of the body; agency, race, and gender in screendance; the relationship of choreography to image; constructs of space and time; representation and effacement; production and curatorial practice; and other areas of intersecting disciplines. The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies features newly-commissioned and original scholarship that will be essential reading for all those interested in the intersection of dance and the moving image, including film and video-makers, dance artists, screendance artists, academics and writers, producers, composers, as well as the wider interested public. It will become an invaluable resource for researchers and professionals in the field.

Author : Tessa Hainsworth
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409052141
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Home to Roost written by Tessa Hainsworth and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ____________________________ What's it really like to give it all up and follow your dream? The follow-up to Up With the Larks, and the second volume in the heartwarming, laugh-out-loud true story of Tessa, who moved from the London rat-race to become a postie in rural Cornwall. Tessa and her husband are delighted when a new young couple arrive in the village fresh from the city - just as they once did. However what looks such a promising new friendship turns to a nightmare, as these are people who think money can buy them acceptance - and the village is soon in quiet revolt. Tessa finds herself in the thick of it - and realises that she has grown very strong roots in the community in the two years she has been in Cornwall. Like so many in the country, she has to think about turning her house into a source of income in the summer months. Having finally got the place up to scratch, she and her family are wondering whether to camp for a couple of months when they are asked to take over a B&B owned by friends of friends. Tessa is bubbly, outgoing - but quite inexperienced at being a landlady. She muddles through only with the generous help of the 'customers' on her postal round. ____________________________ Written with her usual warmth and good humour, Tessa Hainsworth enchants us again with her stories of life as a newcomer to 'deep' Cornwall and makes us dwell on the true value and meaning of 'home'.

Author : April Pulley Sayre
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 168437197X
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seagulls Soar written by April Pulley Sayre and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning author April Pulley Sayre explores everyone's favorite impertinent birds--seagulls--examining their intelligence, behavior, and surprisingly widespread habitat in this STEAM nonfiction picture book. Did you know that seagulls sometimes live far from the sea--near a lake or farm, or even in a desert? Or that they are omnivores, eating everything from fish and clams, to grasshoppers and mice, and even to blueberries? Or that they dance? These birds are full of surprises! Join April Pulley Sayre as she poetically describes the curious behaviors and wide-ranging habitats of one of the most graceful birds to soar in the sky.

Author : Alice Allen
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1913201120
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daylight of Seagulls written by Alice Allen and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-11-23 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Alice Allen spent her formative years in Jersey, and her poems are imbued with its landscape, language and people. The particular focus of Daylight of Seagulls is the occupation of the island during WWII and the bravery of its citizens in the face of invasion. But Allen's poems offer more than a history retold - they are compassionate, lyrical, inventive, often taking on voices of ordinary men and women who've remained unheard. She unearths the island's secrets and sets them in front of us - treasures from a bygone world. This is a beautiful debut from a poet who understands how to evoke the potency of place.' Tamar Yoseloff 'Like the granite of the islands, this collection glitters with facets, sharp-edged glints of many lives. Good writing of place is also about time; addressing a difficult history, these poems show how the past, especially the unspoken, lives in the present tense.' Philip Gross

Author : Henry Meyerson
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0573697264
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Life of Seagulls written by Henry Meyerson and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne and Don, married ten years, are on vacation in Florida. Anne inanely chatters on about beaches, seagulls and garbage dumps. Don, fed up, walks away, leaving Anne sitting on the beach alone. Don has gone to visit his friend Jim, a man of little insight but great obsession about golf, to tell him that he has left Anne. Jim, in turn, has just returned from a golfing vacation to discover that his wife, Sandy, has apparently left him. George, a seagull who lives contentedly with his wife, Ethel, on the Staten Island landfill, has just arrived on the Florida beach and meets Fred, a seagull without ties but with a dark past. The play follows these four humans and Fred as they attempt to define themselves, their lives, relationships and values. George, the Staten Island Seagull, however, is content being who he is.--From publisher description.

Author : Ann Kelley
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1909912492
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bower Bird written by Ann Kelley and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2007 Costa award This title continues the story of Gussie, a precocious young girl diagnosed with a rare heart condition. Despite her health problems, she is determined to live life to the fullest, experiencing typical adolescent woes such as love and strained relations with her parents. Never complaining, she offers a direct and honest insight about herself and the world around her, bringing this poignant, charming and oddly optimistic tale to life. REVIEWS 'Brilliant' THE MAIL ON SUNDAY 'I'm pleased to be able to announce that Gussie has lived to see another day with Kelley capturing so beautifully Gussie's optimism and hope.' SUE BAKER'S PERSONAL CHOICE, PUBLISHING NEWS 'The world of life and death, beauty and truth seen through the eyes of a 12 year old girl. A rare and beautiful book of lasting quality - we felt this is a voice that needs to be heard and read.' COSTA AWARD JUDGES 'It's a lovely book - lyrical, funny, full of wisdom. Gussie is such a dear - such a delight and a wonderful character, bright and sharp and strong, never to be pitied for an instant.' HELEN DUNMORE, author of 'Ingo' BACK COVER Gussie is twelve years old, loves animals and wants to be a photographer when she grows up. The only problem is that she's unlikely to ever grown up. 'I had open heart surgery last year, when I was eleven, and the healing process hasn't finished yet. I now have an amazing scar that cuts me in half almost, as if I have survived a shark attack'. Gussie needs a heart and lung transplant, but the donor list is as long as her arm and she can't wait around that long. Gussie has things to do; finding her ancestors, coping with her parents' divorce and keeping an eye out for the wildlife in her garden.

Author : Michael Lawrence
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838714383
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animal Life and the Moving Image written by Michael Lawrence and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the proto-cinematic sequencing of animal motion in the nineteenth century to the ubiquity of animal videos online, the histories of animal life and the moving image are enigmatically interlocked. Animal Life and the Moving Image is the first collection of essays to offer a sustained focus on the relations between screen cultures and non-human animals. The volume brings together some of the most important and influential writers working on the non-human animal's significance for cultures and theories of the moving image. It offers innovative analyses of the representation of animals across a wide range of documentary, fiction, mainstream and avant-garde practices, from early cinema to contemporary user-generated media. Individual chapters consider King Kong, The Birds, The Misfits, The Cove, Grizzly Man and Microcosmos, the work of Sergei Eisenstein, Robert Bresson, Malcolm Le Grice, Peter Greenaway, Carolee Schneemann and Isabella Rossellini, and YouTube stars Christian the lion and Maru the cat.