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Thistle is a young woman whose father, a pilot, dies suddenly in a plane crash when she is thirteen years old. The airline's compensation payout is substantial but doesn't assuage the family's grief. By the time she is seventeen, Thistle has lost most of her teenage years trying to make sense of her father's premature death. In the meantime, her body is developing, and she finds herself sexualized and objectified by men against her will. Teenaged Thistle is increasingly aware of her allure but unsure of how to use that to her advantage. When her mother gifts her a camera, Thistle decides to turn the lens on herself, capturing her nude body in various poses just before she turns eighteen.

Through playful poetic prose, sharp social commentary and self-deprecating gallows humor Love the World or Get Killed Trying dives into the mind of Alvina, a trans woman on the eve of turning 30. The reader is invited to follow her journey through the breathtaking wilderness of Iceland and busy city boulevards of Berlin and Paris as she probes questions of eternity, sexuality, longing, death, love, and how hard it is to remain soft when you're a ceaseless target of straight men's secret lust and open disgust.

Just as in the analogue film with the same title, Wind Tide and Oar describes through narratives of sailors ad boatmen (and women) how sailing without an engine changes our perspective on life and our environment. The book, accompanying the film, shows us how tradition teaches us about sustainability, stamina and self knowledge. Engineless sailing is more than a way of relaxing or recreation, it is a way of living.

In Little Estuaries, Daniel Kramb goes in search for what's fleeting between the shores. Amid a constantly shifting sense of what can be seen, sensed, experienced, the poet probes the estuary as sphere: an opening up, a possibility. Whittled down, like sea to stream, his poems emerge, in their own distinct form, estuary-shaped on the page.

Music has a way of minding our brains, and Mind the Music explores the effects that it has on our cognition, emotion, and behaviour. As well as into the fabric of our culture, music is woven into the fabric of our humanity - but where does it come from, and how does it help us to learn?Intuition and improvisation turn out to be critical to understanding our own embodied cognition. We have hunches in a way that computers do not. But as technology takes over what were once human tasks, there is a temptation and even tendency to enjoy our creature comforts while neglecting our natural faculties. So how do we re-learn the ability to improvise, to help us find our place in the nexus of human and machine?Mind the Music is a reminder that it is important to keep your brain active, and an argument for the glory of intuitive choices. It dares you to improvise and dance to the music of the mind.

In her essay, On Being Ill Virginia Woolf asks whether illness should not receive more literary attention, taking its place alongside the recurring themes of "love, battle and jealousy". In this collaborative volume, authors, translators and illustrators have come together to represent past, present and future thinking about illness.

The Credit is an opera in verse, without music. The first Act recites the story of Hugo, a successful product of Jesuit education. Act two begins with the reported death of Hugo in Venice. Act three: the action moves onto the hill-town of Cioccolato where Hugo owns a bean factory.