A step-by-step guide to making paper lithography prints. This practical book explains how to use gum arabic to transfer a photocopied image without specialised equipment. It uses both hand-drawn and photographic images to show how paper lithography (or gum arabic transfer printing) is a quick and simple process that allows for creative experimentation on a range of surfaces. Packed with advice and ideas, it highlights this exciting, flexible and creative technique for artists and makers. Contains clear, detailed instructions to printing a lithographic transfer using a humble photocopy as a plate. Advice on how to incorporate the process as part of sketchbook, textile and etching practice, Ideas for more advanced multimedia applications and inspirational finished examples. Also includes tips for coping with common problems and warnings of pitfalls to be avoided.

This biography of Joseph Severn (1793-1879), the best known but most controversial of Keats's friends, is based on a mass of newly discovered information, much of it still in private hands. Severn accompanied the dying Keats to Italy, nursed him in Rome and reported on his last weeks there in a famous series of moving letters. After Keats's death in relative obscurity, Severn pressed hard for an early biography and a more fitting memorial in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome.
In the nineteenth century Severn's friendship with Keats was seen as a model of devoted masculine companionship and he was reburied by popular acclaim next to Keats in 1882. In the twentieth century, by contrast, he was denigrated as an unreliable, self-promoting witness. Sue Brown's book fills a major gap in studies of Keats and his circle. It reassesses Severn's character, friendship with Keats, and influence on the posthumous development of the poet's fame and provides new information on Keats's death.
The significance of Severn's artistic career has previously been downplayed. This book offers the first full assessment of his work and of his turbulent spell as British Consul in Rome from 1860 to 1871. Keats was not Severn's only famous friend. For most of his adult life Severn was at the heart of the large, lively British community in Rome welcoming amongst others Gladstone, who became his most important patron, Ruskin, Walter Scott, Wordsworth, Turner, Samuel Palmer, David Wilkie, and many more. He maintained long friendships with Leigh Hunt, Mary Shelley, Charles Eastlake, Richard Monckton Milnes, amongst others, and enjoyed a rich family life.

One of the essential functions of national leadership is to continuously construct a national sense of identity and mutual trust, and another is to ensure the effectiveness of institutions, both of delivery and democracy. In both these ways, this has been a hard year. In the 2007 Transformation audit, focus on leadership and legitimacy, we see a paradox: normally in democracies, economic and employment growth see higher ratings for government. But public confidence seems to be severely shaken. The Institute for Justice and Reconciliation conducts a yearly representative national public opinion survey called the South African Reconciliation Barometer, and the results this year constitute a stark warning. Confidence in leaders, and above all in representative institutions, has dropped sharply. In addition, approval of government's performance has dropped by over 20 per cent from the 2006 year on issues such as transparency and accountability; correct appointments; affirmative action; crime; narrowing the income gap and fighting corruption. Government and the ruling party face the imperative of healing the rifts opened by the protracted leadership battle, and regaining the trust both has lost. Education, skills and poverty reduction are crucial elements of intervention for opening up prospects of advancement for all. New legislation is pending for the skills sector, and a review of the Sector Education and Training Authorities gives a sense of the institutional and management hold-ups here. In schooling, the Department of Education is grappling with entrenched incapacities in the educational bureaucracy and at school level. School leaders and above all teachers are the points on which the entire structure pivots.

What's a mother to do when her high-achieving boy - adored by his close-knit family and private school community - turns bully overnight? How is she to know that his sudden headaches and vomiting are far more serious than all the doctors insist? The Twinkling of An Eye ?is the true, life-affirming memoir of a mother's harrowing but heroic fight against her son's rare brain tumour. Brown tells her story with courage, humour and heart. Hers is a revealing, frank and deeply affecting story of the light that shines even in the darkest of places.

Men Can Be Mean was featured in USA TODAY as one of the... "must read new contemporary novels." ************************************** Julie Randolph, a writer for an independent newspaper, makes the enlightening journey back into the "real world," through single motherhood and not letting life's tests get the best of her. A strong believer that, "We are not products of what has been done to us rather we are products of what we choose to do for ourselves." On any particular day, our current love situation may fail Then what? The statistical realism is that more than one-half of all marriages and relationships end in divorce and the obvious realism is that modern technology is as responsible for couples experiencing marital infidelity as it is for bringing couples together. Love is as necessary to humans as sun and water are to flowers. Life must be filled with love, but it has to be the right love or it doesn't grow and thrive. Flowers that receive either too much or too little water and sun do not survive. Humans are like that as well. With each failed love, perhaps we lose a petal or two However, the beauty of the creation still remains the same- love is waiting to be awakened, again-with each new opportunity. Given its due is the power of the Internet in furthering the ease in which both men and women can try first hand to find out if there might be a new love connection out there for them. Internet dating sites are permanent fixtures of "getting back out there." But can they survive the lies, tests, and challenges? REVIEWS... A novel as rich in life lessons... as a slice of seven layer cake It is equally as satisfying and does not disappoint the reader on any level. Expertly crafted and interwoven story lines of Love, Lies, Hope, and Fate allow personal identification on numerous levels. "I never see the next step of my life until I trip over it " For anyone who has lost in love, and that's about everyone, we finally get how it all works. With today's technology, one doesn't have to meet someone in a church or by introduction, although there will always be that option; there is now the power of the Internet. One single woman's journey is seamlessly woven in with the modern realities of raising a family solo, pursuing a career, and from time to time hoping to share life with someone. "Those damn hormones." . With the heart tug of a good Nicholas Sparks' tale and the plot weaving of a Jodi Picoult book, Men Can Be Mean is a great read. . Each flower opens in its own way and in its own time, but eventually all of them open. Love is like that too; it will find us. Not always in our time, but rather in the right time. From-- Men Can Be Mean . Is it Luck or Fate that guides us in looking for love or just perhaps, it's a bit of both.

Cassie remains in therapy along with Alan and Alicia Afterbirth. A small band of barking mad souls who meet every Wednesday at the local NHS Crumpled Clinic. Pete is still pissed and Mary is now digging in her dahlias with a dildo as she freefalls into the darkness that is dementia. Life eh?