Matthew Ross Smith ist ein Autor, Lehrer und Musiker. Er ist auch der Gründer des Projekts "The Spaces Between Your Fingers", einer gemeinnützigen Organisation, die Menschen mit Alzheimer kostenlos Biografen zur Verfügung stellt.
Ihr Tod schockierte die Welt - er bleibt bis heute mysteriös. Was geschah in der Nacht zum 5. August 1962 wirklich? Minutiös widerlegt der Autor die Selbstmordtheorie. Sein schlagkräftigster Beweis sind ihre geheimen Tonbandaufzeichnungen. Sein Fazit: Alle Indizien sprechen für Mord!
Social psychiatry was a mid-twentieth-century approach to mental health that stressed the prevention of mental illness rather than its treatment. Matthew Smith offers a history of the rise and fall of social psychiatry that also explores the lessons this largely forgotten movement has to offer today.
From the woman who wanders the halls of a department store and tests the water in the empty baths, to the man who dances in his garden with a mysterious partner who eyes his escape, the characters in Matthew Smith's poems are united in the strangeness and the unsettling quality of the lives they lead.
When Grant Falloon's dreams of winning the Babblemoney Games are hindered by his parents' alternative lifestyle, he creates his own Internet country to get back into the competition. --
Jim Henson's The Storyteller is a beloved celebration of fairy tales and folklore.
Exploring Greek Myth offers an extensive discussion of variant forms of myths and lesser-known stories, including important local myths and local versions of PanHellenic myths. Clark also discusses approaches to understanding myths, allowing students to gain an appreciation of the variety in one volume.
Lizzy Trudeaux loves basketball. She doesn’t have much by way of money, but she has access to the community court, a worn ball named Ginger, and she practices constantly. After fighting to join the boy’s team at her school, Lizzy is finally given the opportunity to show off her hard-earned skills.When she answers what she believes is another bill collecting phone call, Lizzy receives a magical wish: the ability to sink every shot. Pure Swish. Now eviscerating the competition in the boy’s league is small potatoes—she has the skills to dominate in the NBA. With the help of her BFF Toby and some viral video action, Lizzy goes all the way to the Philadelphia Bells’ starting lineup, making history and taking names. Then, just as she’s about to go face to face with her hero, the best player on the planet, things begin to fall apart. But Lizzy isn’t a quitter and she’ll play her hardest for the love of the game.
It's not the stories you tell, but how they are told.
Rome's first emperor, Augustus, the adopted son of Julius Caesar, has probably had the most lasting effect on history of all rulers of the classical world. He also considers the contrasting fates of the main poets of Augustus' reign, Virgil and Ovid, and the public monuments that - as much as poetry -- served to shape his reputation.
The popular all-ages reimagining of 2000 AD's classic characters returns! Cadet Dredd stars in three action packed adventures! Judge Anderson restores mayhem to the streets of Mega-City One! Johnny Alpha the teenage mutant bounty hunter goes undercover! All this and more in the second volume of 2000 AD's celebrated all-ages series!