The Troll Music

Five short stories which describe what it was like to grow up in Jerusalem in the first half of the twentieth century.

Leo Axelrod, blocked painter, successful illustrator, lonely and alone in England, asks a girl to go with him to Greece. He doesn't know anything about her, he doesn't even know her name, but amazingly she says yes. By the author of Madness, a Novel.

Life in a town in the north of England can be tough on a lad. Especially this lad. His mum is always embarrassing him; his dad is not around; and money is scarce. He falls out of a tree house trying to stop his friends from stealing school test answers -- and winds up with a broken leg. He wins second prize in an art contest -- but the drawing isn't his. And then he finds himself taking sides with a bunch of bullies when a new Jewish boy comes to school. If he doesn't act mean, the bullies will thump him, but he feels so guilty being mean.... No wonder he can't wait to swap. On the school exchange, he'll swap houses for a week with some posh lad from London. Who knows what he'll discover? George Layton brilliantly captures the balancing act of one boy's eleventh year, when he faces up to prejudice, poverty and pride, and unwittingly discovers who he is...and who he isn't.

Sven, a respected watchman on a drawbridge, finds his work disrupted when a thoughtless king blows the bridge up

"Judith Arcana's remarkable feat in Hello. This is Jane. is to paint, tile by tile, a complex mosaic of compelling linked stories- children's playgrounds and adult tattoo parlors, ill-advised lovers and underground abortion activists. In the mainstream and on the edges, you'll feel the urgency of the struggle for reproductive justice as you turn these pages." -Cindy Cooper, Founding Director of Words of Choice and The Reproductive Freedom Festival, Judith Arcana has taught and written about motherhood and reproductive justice for decades. The prose and poetry of Our Mothers' Daughters, Every Mother's Son, and What if your mother are feminist classics. The stories in this new collection, rooted in her experience as a Jane in Chicago's pre-Roe v. Wade underground abortion service, were written as the United States has moved relentlessly into constraining motherhood and denying reproductive justice. By necessity, these stories reach from the past into the future, offering history and hope. "I'm profoundly grateful to Judith Arcana for writing these vital, electrifying stories. With abortion rights in America being stripped away-state by state, clinic by clinic-we need to hear from those who've fought this battle before. Arcana is a Jane; her work in the pre-Roe abortion underground has provide the seeds for her fiction, stories rooted in essential history to spark action in our terrifying present." -Leni Zumas, Author of Red Clocks

In this powerful cultural critique, Ariel Dorfman explores the political and social implications of the smiling faces that inhabit familiar books, comics, and magazines. He reveals the ideological messages conveyed in works of popular culture such as the Donald Duck comics, the Babar children’s books, and Reader’s Digest magazine. The Empire’s Old Clothes was widely praised when it was first published in 1983. This edition, including a new preface by the author, makes a contemporary classic newly available.

In these stimulating essays, Alan Dundes presents a history of psychoanalytic studies of folklore while also showing how folklore methodology can be used to clarify and validate psychoanalytic theory. Dundes’ work is unique in its symbolic analysis of the ordinary imagination. His data are children’s games, folktales, everyday speech, cultural metaphors for power and prestige, and rituals associated with childbirth.

Originally written for students at St. Thomas' Hospital in London, this guide to child development offers an overview of child development for parents, teachers, and all adults concerned with raising children. Many of the book's ideas come from direct work with children and draw on Rudolf Steiner's approach to child development. The book's chapters are: (1) "Outer Aspects of Child Development Considered as a Whole"; (2) "The Child from Birth to Three"; (3) "The Child between Three and Six"; (4) "Temperament and Personality"; (5) "Children from Seven to Ten"; (6) "The Years from Eleven to Fifteen"; (7) "The First Adventure into Adult Life--Young People between Sixteen and Twenty"; and (8) "Epilogue: Threshold of Adult Life--21." Contains 92 references and a list of suggested further reading. (EV)

Part of the Gold Guides series, this book provides a guide to the Pacific coast resorts and the Baja Peninsular. The cities of Tijuana, Ensenada, Mexicali, Tecate, Rosarito Beach, Loreto, La Paz, Cabo San Lucas, Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlan, Manzanillo, Los Mochis, El Fuerte and the states of Guaymas and Sanora are included. The best hotels, restaurants, beaches and excursions are listed as well as suggestions for excursions to Baja lagoons to see California grey whales.

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.

Na een analyse van de rechten van kinderen wordt ingegaan op specifieke thema's zoals kindermishandeling, criminaliteit, opvoeding, de zorg voor kinderen.

The fifth in a series of Victorian murder mysteries set in London with a clever and determined female sleuth London 1881: When a body is found in the Paddington canal basin, a woman with a hearing impairment claims that the remains are those of her missing husband, who disappeared three years ago. Unable to prove her case, she appeals to Frances Doughty, the lady detective, to investigate. In this, her fifth case, Frances soon learns that the missing man has secrets of his own, and, when another body is discovered and a witness is viciously attacked, it becomes clear that she must choose her allies wisely.

Thirty-four stories by an Austrian poet who writes on familiar subjects from a new angle. In St. George and His Dragon, the dragon and St. George are friends, and the dragon's death is a mercy killing.