Kirjahaku

So here's the thing about poems that rhymeIt doesn't happen every timeSometimes I'm blocked (like a rat in a drain)Sometimes my thoughts are hard to explainBut if you care to persevereI'm sure you'll find something you like in here

So here's the thing about witches' talesThey're like blackboards and fingernailsScratching and screeching til your eardrums ringBut here's the extra-special thingThey're magical and mysterious and really cleverAnd though happy endings are hardly everYou'll have yourself a rolicking good timeWith stories that just happen to rhymeSo hold your nose and dive right inAnd let the witch's tale beginOnce upon a time in the Kingdom of Grim...

From the author of 'From One Extreme To The Other' and 'The Witch's Tale' comes a Gothic ghost story that will thrill and delight you with a surprisingly light-hearted touch. Mildread and Maudelin Bellwether have discovered a body buried beneath the blackberry bush. Almost immediately, their lives are in danger as more secrets are uncovered and a terrible truth is about to be revealed that will affect every person in Bitterly Bay. Can the Bellwether Rules for the Dead really help when you're dealing with witches and ghosts and an ever-present murder of crows?

From the author of 'From One Extreme To The Other', 'The Witch's Tale', and 'The Bellwether Rules For The Dead', comes another Birdy Black book from Bitterly Bay. When Theodora van Runkle tells her closest friends that the man in the shed is dead, naturally they all assume that she has killed him but with skeletons unearthed and the ghost of past loves haunting her, the truth begins to emerge about what kind of person Theodora truly is and whether she's capable of doing such a devious thing.

This is the second collection of my algorithmic art. In this volume, 89 images are featured, created from 2009 - 2014. As before, the images encompass a variety of styles, themes, and techniques, including fractals, geometric designs, and photo manipulations.

An exploration of the production and reception of nature and spirituality in America's national park system America's national parks are some of the most powerful, beautiful, and inspiring spots on the earth. They are often considered "spiritual" places in which one can connect to oneself and to nature. But it takes a lot of work to make nature appear natural. To maintain the apparently pristine landscapes of our parks, the National Park Service must engage in traffic management, landscape design, crowd-diffusing techniques, viewpoint construction, behavioral management, and more—and to preserve the "spiritual" experience of the park, they have to keep this labor invisible. Spirituality and the State analyzes the way that the state manages spirituality in the parks through subtle, sophisticated, unspoken, and powerful techniques. Following the demands of a secular ethos, park officials have developed strategies that slide under the church/state barrier to facilitate deep connections between visitors and the space, connections that visitors often express as spiritual. Through indirect communication, the design of trails, roads, and vista points, and the management of land, bodies and sense perception, the state invests visitors in a certain way of experiencing reality that is perceived as natural, individual, and authentic. This construction of experience naturalizes the exercise of authority and the historical, social, and political interests that lie behind it. In this way a personal, individual, nature spirituality becomes a public religion of a particularly liberal stripe. Drawing on surveys and interviews with visitors and rangers as well as analyses of park spaces, Spirituality and the State investigates the production and reception of nature and spirituality in America's national park system.

An exploration of the production and reception of nature and spirituality in America's national park system America's national parks are some of the most powerful, beautiful, and inspiring spots on the earth. They are often considered "spiritual" places in which one can connect to oneself and to nature. But it takes a lot of work to make nature appear natural. To maintain the apparently pristine landscapes of our parks, the National Park Service must engage in traffic management, landscape design, crowd-diffusing techniques, viewpoint construction, behavioral management, and more—and to preserve the "spiritual" experience of the park, they have to keep this labor invisible. Spirituality and the State analyzes the way that the state manages spirituality in the parks through subtle, sophisticated, unspoken, and powerful techniques. Following the demands of a secular ethos, park officials have developed strategies that slide under the church/state barrier to facilitate deep connections between visitors and the space, connections that visitors often express as spiritual. Through indirect communication, the design of trails, roads, and vista points, and the management of land, bodies and sense perception, the state invests visitors in a certain way of experiencing reality that is perceived as natural, individual, and authentic. This construction of experience naturalizes the exercise of authority and the historical, social, and political interests that lie behind it. In this way a personal, individual, nature spirituality becomes a public religion of a particularly liberal stripe. Drawing on surveys and interviews with visitors and rangers as well as analyses of park spaces, Spirituality and the State investigates the production and reception of nature and spirituality in America's national park system.