Best Selling Books by David LLOYD

Anomalous States is an archeology of modern Irish writing. David Lloyd commences with recent questioning of Irish identity in the wake of the northern conflict and returns to the complex terrain of nineteenth-century culture in which those questions of identity were first formed. In five linked essays, he explores modern Irish literature and its political contexts through the work of four Irish writers--Heaney, Beckett, Yeats, and Joyce. Beginning with Heaney and Beckett, Lloyd shows how in these authors the question of identity connects with the dominance of conservative cultural nationalism and argues for the need to understand Irish culture in relation to the wider experience of colonized societies. A central essay reads Yeats''s later works as a profound questioning of the founding of the state. Final essays examine the gradual formation of the state and nation as one element in a cultural process that involves conflict between popular cultural forms and emerging political economies of nationalism and the colonial state. Modern Ireland is thus seen as the product of a continuing process in which, Lloyd argues, the passage to national independence that defines Ireland''s post-colonial status is no more than a moment in its continuing history. Anomalous States makes an important contribution to the growing body of work that connects cultural theory with post-colonial historiography, literary analysis, and issues in contemporary politics. It will interest a wide readership in literary studies, cultural studies, anthropology, and history.

David Lloyd''s verses are a genuine contribution to the literature of haiku. They capture an image, a moment in time, and engrave it in the memory for all time. This is the mark of good haiku, as indeed it is of good verse in general. His haiku can excite the senses, as in: See the sharp needles forever sewing the sky To the pine branches. Free of irony, except the irony of nature which sets the tone, calls the shots, with a not always recognizable impartiality, their perceptions are too clear for comment: Flowing downstream Between the mountain pines, A bird''s embryo. Dogwood blossoms, Their edges turning brown, Recalling legends. Poetic magic raised to a higher power by the author''s pen and ink vignettes, complementing each verse. Eye pleasing and evocative, these sketches open little doors to experience.

Big Hills A boy succeeds through hard work and imaginative violence. Young Anson Kerrigan begins his tale atop a tall red horse, leading an elderly mule, starving and alone in country both strange to him and full of hostiles. His possessions are minimal, and long worn. While the boy copes, sometimes at great effort and in tremendous danger, there is a reality to how he copes that makes this little western a gripping read. David Lloyd Sutton is moving into full novel work from a long history of short stories and fact articles, the articles largely in equestrian, martial arts, and firearms magazines. He says, "Every technique in this book is real, and I''ve either done it or seen it done." The author''s experience set goes a long way toward explaining the immediacy and clarity of this read. Also some of its humor. The author adds, "I''ve come hard off a big chestnut just as often as my character." Anson meets remote dwellers in New Mexico''s outlands, and both hostile and friendly folk along his trail. Eventually he decides that since he can''t buy what he needs, he will simply have to make it. In the high reaches of the Sangre De Christos Mountains, he hunts for hides and meat, crafts an outfit, and at one point has a house guest. This proves to be trying and crowded. In Las Cruces, where he has gone to barter for necessities, ruffians insult the lad. His response is so fast it startles him ... too. After capturing the gang, which involves busting a cap and breaking some bones, Anson marches them out of town, and then discovers that they''ve been a local nuisance. His trading is more successful for having done the locals a service. Unfortunately for the newly equipped trader, one of the locals is a beautiful girl. That introduces a complication to his plans. After a trip to Deming Anson finds himself back in Las Cruces, where that lovely complication tells him the gang he kicked out has come back and exacted revenge for his good treatment. Those broken bones had belonged to the gang''s leader. The townsfolk ask him to replace the sheriff that gang had chased off. Accepting, most eagerly, since he will be boarding in the same house as the complication, the boy embarks on town life, finding that being a sheriff is something he can do well. Then the vengeful bandits stage a night raid, and the battle is an explosive one. Anson is unhurt, through prior planning and a good deal of luck.He and the complication are planning a marriage by this time, and, the gang repulsed, the sheriff takes a vacation in his old hunting grounds to make wedding presents. That turns out to be where the defeated gang fled. A battle of maneuver and ambush stretches over long days of agony.The ending is obscured in gun smoke.

''Cultivating the Masses'' examines the Russian Communist Party''s pursuit of pronatal policies to boost the population, whilst at the same time ruthlessly executing, incarcerating and deporting.

From choosing paper and brushes to painting techniques, composition, and development, Acrylic: Seasons is bursting with valuable skills and lessons to help beginning artists master painting in acrylic.

"Oil & Acrylic: Pastoral Landscapes" provides essential information for aspiring artists who want to develop their oil and acrylic painting skills by learning to paint stunning, colorful landscapes.

Nemesius of Emesa''s On Human Nature (De Natura Hominis) is the first Christian anthropology. Written in Greek, circa 390 CE, it was read in half a dozen languages—from Baghdad to Oxford—well into the early modern period. Nemesius'' text circulated in two Latin versions in the centuries that saw the rise of European universities, shaping scholastic theories of human nature. During the Renaissance there were numerous print editions helping to inspire a new discourse of human dignity. David Lloyd Dusenbury offers the first monograph in English on Nemesius'' treatise. In the interpretation offered here, the Syrian bishop seeks to define the human qua human. His early Christian anthropology is cosmopolitan. He writes, ''Things that are natural are the same for all.'' In his pages, a host of texts and discourses—biblical and medical, legal and philosophical—are made to converge upon a decisive tenet of Christian late antiquity: humans'' natural freedom. For Nemesius, reason and choice are a divine double-strand of powers. Since he believes that both are a natural human inheritance, he concludes that much is ''in our power''. Nemesius defines humans as the only living beings who are at once ruler (intellect) and ruled (body). Because of this, the human is a ''little world'', binding the rationality of angels to the flux of elements, the tranquillity of plants, and the impulsiveness of animals. This compelling study traces Nemesius'' reasoning through the whole of On Human Nature, as he seeks to give a long-influential image of humankind both philosophical and anatomical proof.

This volume will provide eco-socially-oriented science and environmental educators with a diverse set of examples of how science and environmental learning for students and their co-learner teachers can be enacted in ways which contribute to their understanding of, commitment to and capabilities towards, living for a more eco-socially just and, therefore, more sustainable world. Science and environmental learning is set within a challenging framework, one that entails critical, transdisciplinary learning and acting, and values all the human and other-than-human beings sharing Earth’s rich, but finite, resources. The text asserts that ethical contemporary science and environmental education, which practitioners might find within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), will have at centre-stage not merely more factual knowledge, but also the development of learners’ affect and behaviour towards acting for eco-social justice. This will demand that learners more fully appreciate not only the necessity to transition swiftly to living within planetary boundaries, but also the requirements of ethical living—that humans share health and well-being more equally with their own and all other species. Further, the book proposes that eco-socially responsible science and environmental education must be set within a transdisciplinary and integral framework, one in which curriculum and pedagogy are embedded in everyday practice. In this transition project from unsustainable inequities to eco-social justice, teachers and community leaders need to work with their students/citizens in envisioning preferable futures, and developing shared knowledge, values, dispositions, courage and capabilities to work towards such futures, and in genuine attempts at affecting them.

Learn everything you need to know to create beautiful floral works of art in oil and acrylic! This comprehensive book opens with a guide to essential information on the necessary tools and materials for both sketching and painting, including pencils, paints and brushes, palettes, supports, and mediums. In addition to learning about basic drawing and painting techniques and color theory, readers will learn how to create compelling compositions, achieve depth, and render realistic textures. In The Art of Painting Flowers in Oil & Acrylic, several talented and experienced artists guide readers through easy-to-follow lessons covering a variety of floral and plant life, including tulips, dahlias, hibiscus, roses, daisies, freesia, water lilies, bird of paradise, and more. With sections devoted to both mediums, readers will learn everything they need to know to create beautiful floral works of art in oil and acrylic. Along the way, aspiring artists will discover helpful tips and tricks for mixing vibrant colors, working from photographs, working outdoors, and creating volume and dimension.

Anchored in the community of first-, second-, and third-generation Welsh Americans in Utica, New York, during the 1960s, the stories in David Lloyd''s The Moving of the Water delve into universal concerns: identity, home, religion, language, culture, belonging, personal and national histories, mortality. Unflinching in their portrayal of the traumas and conflicts of fictional Welsh Americans, these stories also embrace multiple communities and diverse experiences in linked, innovative narratives: soldiers fighting in World War I and in Vietnam, the criminal underworld, the poignant struggles of children and adults caught between old and new worlds. The complexly damaged characters of these surprising and affecting stories seek transformation and revelation, healing and regeneration: a sometimes traumatic "moving of the water."

A highly and colorfully illustrated international survey of contemporary architecture built according to bioclimatic, or green guidelines. Examines 50 buildings constructed in the past three years, explaining how they respond to the need to achieve harmony with their settings, conserve energy, and provide for the health and well-being of their occupants (after all, you can love the environment without necessarily wanting it in your bed). Also discusses the roots of the movement, its principles, its beginning in modern times, and future directions. The volume is 9.5" deep and 11.75" high. The price is $55.00 through the end of 1998. The CiP data shows the subtitle as Contemporary Green Buildings. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

A bear, two bees, some birds, and other creatures meet at a tree and say hello until the rain begins and they say goodbye.

A bear, two bees, some birds, and other creatures meet at a tree and say hello until the rain begins and they say goodbye.