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It's a Gas! is one of four exciting new science songs in the
cross-curricular Songsheets series. Each of the songs links with
the KS2 Science curriculum. All four songs are catchy, easy to
learn and cover key topic facts - in a fun way! Perfect for
assemblies, concerts and for enlivening topic work. It's a Gas! is
one of four exciting new science songs in the A&C Black
cross-curricular Songsheets series. Each of the songs links with
the KS2 Science curriculum. All four songs are catchy, easy to
learn and cover key topic facts - in a fun way! Perfect for
assemblies, concerts and for enlivening topic work. Each songsheet
in this series contains a piano/vocal score, photocopiable lyrics,
teaching/performance guidance and a CD containing backing tracks,
teaching and performance tracks. FREE downloadable resources are
available and include whiteboard lyrics, tuned and untuned
percussion parts and teaching notes.
The title Story Alchemy isn't a metaphor. It's the real deal. Ideas
for stories, the prima materia of the story alchemist, are gifts.
They are provocations from the unconscious, lures. The unconscious
lies in wait, stalking you with a story aimed directly at your
heart. Even when you get an idea from the outside world, it has
resonated with something locked away inside your Unconscious. A
story has its own ego. It wants to be told. Once the idea has come
to you, and it comes of its own volition, you must consciously
establish contact with the psychic energy that contains the story.
It takes a collaboration between Consciousness and the Unconscious
to bring the words across. We know certain things about stories
that will aid us in the telling. Story is a particular form of
psychic energy to which details cling, a unity of psychic energy.
That energy has the same shape, the same form, but the details are
different, so different that we hardly recognize the form from one
story to another. Cinderella is such a story that has been told
many times under different guises throughout the centuries. You
must find your stories, those meant for you alone. To tell them,
your awareness must cross the psychic threshold, the Iris of Time,
and enter the Imaginarium. Story Alchemy unveils the alchemical
processes involved in that divine art, the Philosopher's Stone of
storytelling.
The Escape of Bobby Ray Hammer is a second generation "Grapes of
Wrath" novel in that Bobby's parents migrated to California during
the 1930s, the "Dust Bowl" days. Bobby is just entering his senior
year in high school and eager to graduate and go on to college to
get out of his rural farming community; however, he realizes that
he must resolve family problems that originated, he believes, with
the death of his older brother before he can fulfill his dream.
Little does he realize the trail of misery he will cause as he
uncovers the family secrets that led to his brother's death.
In 480 BC, fifteen-year-old Melaina's biggest worry, she thinks, is
wishing to follow Artemis and remain virgin when her mother and
grandfather want her to marry and became a priestess. But when the
Persians invade, the gods themselves have plans for Melaina,
including carrying a divine child and divining for the Greek fleet
in a battle to determine the salvation or ruin of all Greece.
The Mysteries, A Novel of Ancient Eleusis is a trilogy set in
ancient Greece at the time of the Persian invasion. Historians
constantly remind us that in 480 BC, when the great Persian Empire
invaded Greece, King Xerxes planned to expand his dominion to the
Atlantic Ocean, and if Greece hadn't repulsed the invasion, Western
Civilization, together with its democratic institutions, would not
exist. Today we would be Oriental. Much has been written about the
invasion, but little concerning heroic women. According to
Herodotus, feminine influence in the form of the goddess Demeter
was a deciding factor in the famous battles of Salamis, Plataea,
and Mykale. Thus, the female spirit played an unheralded role in
the salvation of democracy. The Dadouchos Volume 2 of The
Mysteries, concerns this feminine influence as personified by the
priestess of Demeter and her daughter. They represent the essence
of the great Mysteries of Eleusis, the spiritual underpinning of
the ancient Greek religion.
Novelsmithing, The Structural Foundation of Plot, Character, and
Narration provides the beginning novelist, or perhaps even the
experienced novelist who has lost his way, with a discussion of the
underlying structure and methods of novel writing. Nowhere else can
the aspiring author learn the skills necessary to achieve the
organic unity of the novelist's divine trinity: character, conflict
and theme, so necessary to a fine work of literature. He will also
learn the art of narration, how to lock the conflict, resolve the
conflict, all the while, laying out the integral chapter structure.
This approach to novel writing is not about the art of creative
writing. It's about the craft, the novelsmithing, of making a story
into a novel. The aspiring screenwriter will also find most of the
chapters useful. Completing the first nine chapters of
Novelsmithing will provide the author with a rough draft for his
novel.
When David Sheppard was 20, he considered a literary life,
beginning with an extensive trip to Greece. But a potentially
deadly encounter with his father derailed these plans, and instead,
Sheppard pursued a thirty-year career in aerospace, on the way
marrying and fathering two children. Now, 32 years later, he
fulfills his life-long literary dream on a three-month solo odyssey
through Greece, a journey that quickly becomes a quest to
understand his past. In the process of relating his own life
stories to those of ancient Greek myth, Sheppard succeeds in
creating his own personal mythology, with the goal of settling a
complicated father-son relationship, a divorce from his wife of 18
years, and the disappearance of his only daughter. Can he survive
the search within while traveling this ancient land of murder and
suicide? Travel with the author through this internal, mythic
landscape as he uncovers startling revelations about his own life
as a particular case of the human condition.
Authorised biography of Brian Eno - the 'Father of Ambient Music' A
sonic alchemist to the stars, Brian Eno's address book is a
veritable who's who of rock and pop. Tellingly, his involvement
with Roxy Music, David Bowie, Talking Heads and U2 has coincided
with these artists producing their most challenging and critically
revered work. ON SOME FARAWAY BEACH is the first serious, critical
examination of the life and times of Brian Eno, from an
idiosyncratic childhood to 1960s art school and the sharp end of
pop charts around the world.
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