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‘Fabulous.’ Dan Richards, author of Holloway ‘Terrifically
strange and thrilling.’ Melissa Harrison, author of All Among the
Barley 'A modern-day bard.'Â Madeline Miller, author of Circe
This is a book of literary activism – an antidote to the shallow
thinking that typifies our age. In Courting the Wild Twin,
acclaimed scholar, mythologist and author of Smoke Hole and
Bardskull, Martin Shaw unravels two ancient European fairy tales
concerning the mysterious ‘wild twin’ located deep inside all
of us. By reading these tales and becoming storytellers ourselves,
he challenges us to confront modern life with purpose, courage, and
creativity. Martin summons the reader to the ‘ragged edge of the
dark wood’ to seek out this estranged, exiled self – the part
we generally shun or ignore to conform to societal norms – and
invite it back into our consciousness. If there was something we
were meant to do with our few, brief years on Earth, we can be sure
that our wild twin is holding the key. After all, stories are our
secret weapons – and they might just save us.
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 carried within him for
decades: the deep history of Dartmoor itself; the lives of distant
family members; Arthurian legend; and tales from India, Persia,
Lapland, the Caucasus and Siberia. But these stories and their
tellers don't arrive as the bearers of solace or easy wisdom. As
with all quests, Shaw is entering a domain of traps and tests.
Bardskull can be read as a fable, as memoir, as auto-fiction or as
an attempt to undomesticate myth. It is a magnificent,
unclassifiable work of the imagination.
With potent, lyrical language and a profound knowledge of
storytelling, Shaw encourages and illuminates the mythic in our own
lives. He is a modern-day bard. Madeline Miller, author of Circe
and The Song of Achilles Through feral tales and poetic exegesis,
Martin Shaw makes you re-see the world, as a place of adventure and
of initiation, as perfect home and as perfectly other. What a gift.
David Keenan, author of Xstabeth At a time when we are all
confronted by not one, but many crossroads in our modern lives -
identity, technology, trust, love, politics and a global pandemic -
celebrated mythologist and wilderness guide Martin Shaw delivers
Smoke Hole: three metaphors to help us understand our world, one
that is assailed by the seductive promises of social media and
shadowed by a health crisis that has brought loneliness and
isolation to an all-time high. We are losing our sense of
direction, our sense of self. We have "networks", not communities.
Smoke Hole is a passionate call to arms and an invitation to use
these stories to face the complexities of contemporary life, from
fake news, parenthood, climate crises, addictive technology and
more. Martin asks that we journey together, and let these stories
be our allies, that we breathe deeper, feel steadier and become
acquainted with rapture. He writes, 'It is not good to be walking
through these times without a story or three by your side.'
Available now as a podcast! Subscribe to Smoke Hole Sessions to
hear amazing conversations between Martin Shaw and some of our most
admired writers, actors, comedians, musicians and more, including:
Sir Mark Rylance, Tommy Tiernan (Derry Girls), David Keenan (For
the Good Times, This is Memorial Device), Jay Griffiths (Wild, Why
Rebel), John Densmore (The Doors), Natasha Khan (Bat for Lashes),
John Mitchinson (QI, Backlisted podcast) and others. Subscribe to
Smoke Hole Sessions * On Apple here:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/smoke-hole-sessions/id1566369928
* On Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISKkqLlP1EzAOni9f9gGt?si=lnq8jApxRlGZ2qpLlQaOSg
There is a radical agency in John Moriarty's work that we as
readers don't always spot. As our heads spin with mythological
cross-referencing, poetical leaps and the philosophical bent, it is
clear that there is nothing domestic, nothing tame, about John
Moriarty. The power of Moriarty is that he has found a thousand
beautiful ways to say something very disturbing: we have to change
our lives. In this small book of big thoughts, award-winning
author, mythologist and storyteller Martin Shaw situates Moriarty's
work with respect to our eco-conscious era and a readership seeking
spiritual and philosophical guidance. Moriarty asks of us only one
thing - that we move our gaze from seeing to beholding. And there
the trouble begins, when we realize there is a world beyond us far
bigger than our temporary ambitions. A Hut at the Edge of the
Village presents a collection of Moriarty's writings ordered
thematically, with sections ranging from place, love and wildness
through to voyaging, ceremony and the legitimacy of sorrow. These
carefully chosen extracts are supported by an introduction by
Martin Shaw and foreword by Tommy Tiernan, a long-time admirer of
Moriarty's work. According to Shaw, 'These are not pastoral times
we are living in, but prophetic. We are at a moment when the world
as we understand it has been turned upside down. The challenge is
that there are fewer and fewer people who can interpret such
happenings in a deep, soulful way. Moriarty can do that. When
culture is in woeful crisis, the insights never come from
parliament, senate, or committee; they come from the hut at the
edge of the village. Let's go there. There is tremendous,
unexpected hope waiting.'
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The complete second seaason of the classic 1970s crime series.
Bodie (Lewis Collins) and Doyle (Martin Shaw) are two elite
officers in the secretive CI5 service, a unit staffed by expert
policemen, soldiers and special forces to combat anarchy, terrorism
and high-profile crime. In this series, Doyle is assigned to test a
new laser-beam rifle, Bodie's girlfriend is critically injured in a
terrorist bombing, and the team go up against a rogue agent.
Episodes are: 'Hunter/Hunted', 'The Rack', 'First Night', 'Man
Without a Past', 'In the Public Interest', 'Rogue', 'Not a Very
Civil Civil Servant', 'A Stirring of Dust', 'Blind Run' and 'Fall
Girl'.
Reveals myth and "otherness" as keys to restoring self, nature, and
society * Shows how myths contain medicine to restore wholeness
amidst trauma, exile, sudden life change, disability, illness,
death, or grief * Synthesizes lessons from shamanic practice,
quantum physics, alchemy, soul poetry, wildness, social justice,
and the author's lived experience * Discloses the blessings of
outsiderhood and the gifts and insights gained and contributed to
culture by those who are marginalized and outcast There is an
"other" that lives within each of us, an exiled part that carries
wisdom needed for ourselves and the culture at large. Having
survived disabling polio as an infant, Daniel Deardorff knows the
oppressions of exclusion and outsiderhood. He guides readers on an
initiatory journey through ancient myth, literature, and personal
revelation to discover our own true identity. These 10,000-year-old
stories contain sacred medicine with insights that release
imagination and restore wholeness amid trauma, exile, climate
chaos, disability, illness, death, and grief. Illustrating how
archetypal figures of the Other--the Trickster, Daimon, Not-I,
etc.--hold paradox, Deardorff teaches us to reframe disparities of
self/other, civilization/ wilderness, form/deformity and transform
the experience of being outcast. Synthesizing lessons from shamanic
practice, quantum physics, alchemy, social justice, and his own
lived experience, Deardorff affirms the disruptive and
transgressive forces that break through dogma, conventionality, and
prejudice. He discloses blessings of outsiderhood and gifts to
culture by those who are marginalized. Through mythmaking
(mythopoesis), the experience of Otherness--cultural, racial,
religious, sexual, physiognomic--becomes one of empowerment, a
catalyst for human liberation.
'Terrifically strange and thrilling. One for all you storytellers.'
-Melissa Harrison, author of All Among the Barley The business of
stories is not enchantment. The business of stories is not escape.
The business of stories is waking up. 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. We need to think boldly, wildly and in new ways about
ourselves, as individuals and as a collective, to confront modern
challenges with purpose, courage and creativity. After all, stories
are our secret weapons-and they might just save us. In Courting the
Wild Twin, acclaimed scholar and mythologist Martin Shaw unravels
two ancient European fairy tales concerning the mysterious 'wild
twin' located deep inside all of us. By reading these tales and
becoming storytellers ourselves, he challenges us to confront
modern life with purpose, courage, and creativity. Shaw summons the
reader to the 'ragged edge of the dark wood' to seek out this
estranged, exiled self-the part we generally shun or ignore to
conform to societal norms-and invite it back into our
consciousness. If there was something we were meant to do with our
few, brief years on Earth, we can be sure that our wild twin is
holding the key.
Globalisation is widely understood as a set of processes driven by
technological, economic and cultural change. Few have successfully
defined the changing character and role of politics in global
change. Political institutions such as the nation-state have been
seen as undermined by globalisation, or needing to respond to it.
This book clarifies the tensions which global change has provoked
in our understanding of politics. Politics and Globalisation
suggests that globalisation is a process which is politically
contested and even politically constituted. The volume presents
five key intellectual and political contests in globalisation: *
the extent and political significance of globalising changes in
economy and society * how and how far the relations and forms of
nation-state organisation are transformed * whether the given
concepts and methods of political science as a discipline can be
applied to global and regional politics, and whether they require
radical reformulation; * the role and significance of ethical
questions in global change * whether global change is constituted
by, or denies, radical political agency
Globalization is widely understood as a set of processes driven by
technological, economic and cultural change. Few have successfully
defined the changing character and role of politics in global
change. Political institutions such as the nation-state have been
seen as undermined by globalization, or needing to respond to it.
This book clarifies the tensions which global change has provoked
in our understanding of politics. It suggests that globalization is
a process which is politically contested and even politically
constituted. The volume presents five key intellectual and
political contests in globalization: the extent and political
significance of globalizing changes in economy and society; how and
how far the relations and forms of nation-state organization are
transformed; whether the given concepts and methods of political
science as a discipline can be applied to global and regional
politics, and whether they require radical reformulation; the role
and significance of ethical questions in global change; and whether
global change is constituted by, or denies, radical political
agency. The book brings together experts in the fields of political
science and international rela
Songs of Praise was first published in 1925, and is still an
immensely popular hymnbook, particularly in schools. The
compilation falls into two parts: Book 1 contains hymns grouped by
subject and theme, together with a selection of verses, canticles
and doxologies; Book 2 contains general hymns listed alphabetically
by first line.
Genocide and International Relations lays the foundations for a new
perspective on genocide in the modern world. Genocide studies have
been influenced, negatively as well as positively, by the political
and cultural context in which the field has developed. In
particular, a narrow vision of comparative studies has been
influential in which genocide is viewed mainly as a 'domestic'
phenomenon of states. This book emphasizes the international
context of genocide, seeking to specify more precisely the
relationships between genocide and the international system. Shaw
aims to re-interpret the classical European context of genocide in
this frame, to provide a comprehensive international perspective on
Cold War and post-Cold War genocide, and to re-evaluate the key
transitions of the end of the Second World War and the end of the
Cold War.
Genocide and International Relations lays the foundations for a new
perspective on genocide in the modern world. Genocide studies have
been influenced, negatively as well as positively, by the political
and cultural context in which the field has developed. In
particular, a narrow vision of comparative studies has been
influential in which genocide is viewed mainly as a 'domestic'
phenomenon of states. This book emphasizes the international
context of genocide, seeking to specify more precisely the
relationships between genocide and the international system. Shaw
aims to re-interpret the classical European context of genocide in
this frame, to provide a comprehensive international perspective on
Cold War and post-Cold War genocide, and to re-evaluate the key
transitions of the end of the Second World War and the end of the
Cold War.
This ambitious book rewrites the terms of debate about globalization. Focusing on two major new concepts--the unfinished global-democratic revolution and the global-Western state--Martin Shaw evaluates global change, considering the radical implications for social, political and international theory, and offering a fundamental critique of modern social thought and mainstream global theory. Required reading for sociology, politics and international relations, Theory of the Global State offers a historical, theoretical and political framework for understanding state and society in the emerging global age.
The forerunner to The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion fills in
the background which lies behind the more popular work, and gives
the earlier history of Middle-earth, introducing some of the key
characters. The tales of The Silmarillion are set in an age when
Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in Middle-Earth, and the High
Elves made war upon him for the recovery of the Silmarils, the
jewels containing the pure light of Valinor. Included on the
recording are several shorter works. The Ainulindale is a myth of
the Creation and in the Valaquenta the nature and powers of each of
the gods is described. The Akallabeth recounts the downfall of the
great island kingdom of Numenor at the end of the Second Age and Of
the Rings of Power tells of the great events at the end of the
Third Age, as narrated in The Lord of the Rings.
This ambitious book rewrites the terms of debate about globalization. Focusing on two major new concepts--the unfinished global-democratic revolution and the global-Western state--Martin Shaw evaluates global change, considering the radical implications for social, political and international theory, and offering a fundamental critique of modern social thought and mainstream global theory. Required reading for sociology, politics and international relations, Theory of the Global State offers a historical, theoretical and political framework for understanding state and society in the emerging global age.
In this beautifully illustrated gift edition, you'll discover more
than 240 mythological tales from around the world, featuring gods,
heroes, princesses, villains, magicians and monsters, as well as
animals with extraordinary powers. Let this collection guide you
through stories from every corner of the globe, from ancient Egypt,
Greece and Rome through the Vikings to the Slavic East, Japan and
China and the Americas. Each culture is rich in folklore and
magical tales, and this book offers a fascinating introduction to
them all. This is a radical collection of stories, filled with
voltage. Whether ninety or nine, there's something in these tales
that wants to speak directly to you. From tales of creation and the
first humans to apocalyptic battles at the end of time, explore the
most thrilling tales in all mythology: thunder god Thor losing his
hammer, Theseus callously abandoning Ariadne after defeating the
Minotaur, Hindu god Shiva destroying his rival Kama with a blast of
flame, Egyptian goddess Isis forcing the sun god to reveal his name
... and much more.
The most famous, complete, and widely used anthology first published in 1928. With its breadth of material, notes on sources, extended introduction and indexes, it is indispensable both as a choral collection and as a standard reference book.
Political Racism conceptualizes a distinctive form of racism -
intentional, organized hostility mobilized by political actors -
and examines its role in the Brexit conflict and in the rise of a
new nationalist politics in the UK. In a compelling analysis the
book argues that Powellite anti-immigrant racism, reinterpreted in
numerical terms, was combined with anti-East European and
anti-Muslim hostility to inform the Vote Leave victory. This type
of racism, which has a special significance in societies where
racism has been delegitimized, is shown to have further shaped the
form of EU withdrawal and also the government's post-Brexit
policies.
The revolt against white rule in Rhodesia nurtured incipient local
feminisms in women who imagined independence as a road to gender
equity and economic justice. But the country's rebirth as Zimbabwe
and Robert Mugabe's rise to power dashed these hopes. Using
history, literature, participant observation, and interviews,
Carolyn Martin Shaw surveys Zimbabwean feminisms from the colonial
era to today. She examines how actions as clearly disparate as
baking scones for self-protection, carrying guns in the liberation,
and feeling morally superior to men represent sources of female
empowerment. She also presents the ways women across Zimbabwean
society--rural and urban, professional and domestic--accommodated
or confronted post-independence setbacks. Finally, Shaw offers
perspectives on the ways contemporary Zimbabwean women depart from
the prevailing view that feminism is a Western imposition having
little to do with African women. The result of thirty years of
experience, Women and Power in Zimbabwe addresses the promises of
feminism and femininity for generations of African women.
Political Racism conceptualizes a distinctive form of racism -
intentional, organized hostility mobilized by political actors -
and examines its role in the Brexit conflict and in the rise of a
new nationalist politics in the UK. In a compelling analysis the
book argues that Powellite anti-immigrant racism, reinterpreted in
numerical terms, was combined with anti-East European and
anti-Muslim hostility to inform the Vote Leave victory. This type
of racism, which has a special significance in societies where
racism has been delegitimized, is shown to have further shaped the
form of EU withdrawal and also the government's post-Brexit
policies.
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