New Releases by Elizabeth Fuller

This memoir, the first of three, follows one woman''s journey through the roles of child prodigy, trapped teen, college dropout, radiant bride, theatre-maker, and mother. It''s about discovery- a roller-coaster process of becoming herself, and she''s still evolving. Elizabeth Fuller has lived her life making theatre, from Off-Broadway to state prisons and church basements. She has composed more than 50 theatre scores and with her mate Conrad Bishop has written dozens of produced plays and eight novels. Besides playing roles ranging from Lady Macbeth to Lear''s Fool, she has engineered for public radio, built stud walls, done full-charge accounting, and mothered two children.

At the behest of his patron, a medieval scribe narrates his ordeal as an inquisitive, befuddled six-year-old on tour with his family troupe of players. Performing their farces across a landscape of war, plague, religious strife and feral cats, they travel from sunny Greece into the uncharted north, playing market fairs and noblemen''s banquets, while transporting a hamper of curse-bearing masks that intrude themselves into the boy''s dreams and the troupe''s reality, culminating in a Nordic Armageddon. Though set in Late Antiquity, it''s based on the authors'' own experience as a family of traveling players with an offbeat mix of farce and tragedy: playing for gods, playing for peasants, playing for cats. It''s about carrying the curses bequeathed by previous generations, dealing with catcalls and calamities, improvising making sense of the fears that provoke self-destruction and improvising the strategies of daily survival.

A young carpenter scores his dream job with a mad heiress and spends his life in service to her obsession.

A PARADY DESCRIBING THE BEDTIME THOUGHTS OF KIM JONG UN

Tom the Turkey shares daily reflections for the month of Thanksgiving reminding kids and adults of what to be thankful for in life. Tom shares photos of his travels both near and far in this heartwarming, charming book.

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In the course of their fifty years of marriage, Bishop & Fuller have collaborated as performers, playwrights, producers and puppeteers in bringing hundreds of stories to thousands of audiences. Now they tackle their own story - a chronicle of parenting, uprootings, successes and failures, polyamory, spiritual quests, strict accounting practices, dancing naked around bonfires, and perpetual improvisation.

"Mrs. Wishy-Washy says Sudsy Soap will wash anything!"--p. [4] of cover.

"Today is the big farm fair. But the animals are not clean!"--p. [4] of cover.

"Mrs. Wishy-Washy and the animals take the Sunshine train to the sea"--p. [4] of cover.

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Spanning five thousand years of human experience, from the Fertile Crescent to the inventor''s lab, Mythic Plays includes four dramas evolved from collaboration with American theatres by playwrights Conrad Bishop and Elizabeth Fuller and their performance ensemble The Independent Eye. From Greek myth (Medea/Sacrament), Norse saga (Ragnarok: Doom of the Gods), Sumerian archetype (Descent of the Goddess Inanna) and Mary Shelley''s "Modern Prometheus," Frankenstein, these plays offer models for a synthesis of poetry, physical theatre, and the immediate reality of myth.

Supporters of neoliberalism claim that free markets lead to economic growth, the creation of a middle class, and the establishment of democratically accountable governments. Critics point to a widening gap between rich and poor as countries compete to win foreign investment, and to the effects on the poor of neoliberal programs that restrict funding for health, education, and welfare. This book offers a ground-level view from Sumatra of the realities behind these debates during the final years of Suharto’s New Order and the beginning of a transition to more democratic government. The author’s wealth of primary data from ten years of interviews and local newspaper reportage (1994–2004) shows how farmers and laborers were dispossessed by both government policies and crony capitalism. Elizabeth Collins relates the stories of populist efforts in South Sumatra to combat "development" policies responsible for producing extreme poverty and allowing corruption to flourish. She describes how student-led NGOs worked with farmers fighting to retain their livelihoods in the lowland forests of South Sumatra. She reports on a local branch of the Indonesian Environmental Forum as it battled multinational companies and Indonesian conglomerates responsible for damage to the environment; on contract workers protesting exploitation by a company with ties to a Suharto crony; and on systemic corruption under the New Order, which spread throughout all levels of government and into civil society organizations. She examines the sometimes strained relationships between Islamists and human-rights activists, arguing that there is no inherent contradiction between Islam and democratic politics. Collins concludes that for real change to occur, neoliberal capitalism must be recognized as a utopian ideology; democracy, imperfect as it is, offers the best hope for sustainable development in Indonesia.

There is a best loved bear competition at school and Tim is going to enter his teddy bear, Toby. But Toby is threadbare and very scruffy. He even has a plaster on his nose Tim starts to worry. What will everyone say when they see such an old and battered bear...''