Questing Marilyn: In Search of My Holy Grail, Personal Growth Through Travel, a self help memoir, shares a journey to sacred and historic sites in England and Ireland while exploring the process of how changes in thinking can result in dramatic life changes. Author, Marilyn Barnicke Belleghem M.Ed., a Registered Marriage and Family Therapist, uses her personal experiences to reveal how she applies life skills to her adventures. It is a voyage of the inner soul as she visits Stonehenge, Avebury, Glastonbury, Bath, Kilkenny, Dublin and other favourites. Reviewers applaud the book as a new kind of travel guide that tells the reader not only how to discover a foreign country but how to discover their inner spirit. Throughout her Quest, Marilyn confronts past negative teachings that have kept her from achieving her desires. When she focuses her personal energy and is true to her Self, she creates a plan that takes her to experiences that bring deep satisfaction and joy. As Marilyn's energy changes, new experiences appear in her life that reveal the natural process of personal growth. Opportunities appear in unexpected, rich, and marvellous ways. Share the surprises. Readers can believe they are travelling with Marilyn as her rich descriptions create intimacy that allows an inner sense of personal transformation. Her changes in attitude can help readers learn to transform their own sense of Self too. Order Questing Marilyn now! Available on Kindle.

Shows how love and compassion can initiate a healing process and demonstrates the transformation of painful experiences through a meditation on loving-kindness.

Marilyn Monroe Returns tells the remarkable story of Sherrie Lea Laird, a young Canadian singer whose life has an astonishing twist: she seems to be the reincarnation of Marilyn Monroe. Undeniable physical similarities coupled with the astonishing memories that surfaced during her therapy convinced Dr. Finkelstein of her authenticity. Will it convince you?

The House That Jack Built collects for the first time the four historic talks given by controversial poet Jack Spicer just before his early death in 1965. These lively and provocative lectures function as a gloss to Spicer's own poetry, a general discourse on poetics, and a cautionary handbook for young poets. This long-awaited document of Spicer's unorthodox poetic vision, what Robin Blaser has called "the practice of outside," is an authoritative edition of an underground classic. Peter Gizzi's afterword elucidates some of the fundamental issues of Spicer's poetry and lectures, including the concept of poetic dictation, which Spicer renovates with vocabularies of popular culture: radio, Martians, and baseball; his use of the California landscape as a backdrop for his poems; and his visual imagination in relation to the aesthetics of west-coast funk assemblage. This book delivers a firsthand account of the contrary and turbulent poetics that define Spicer's ongoing contribution to an international avant-garde.

A critical monograph of the San Francisco Renaissance poet Jack Spicer, informed by much archival material.

Are English children able to grasp grammar better or worse than that of children in other countries? Are they better or worse at numeracy than their neighbours? Does the English education system measure up to the challenge from its competitors? This is an examination of the education system in England as compared with neighbouring countries, such as France. This text shows what pupils in England and France are doing in the classroom and what standards they achieve. The voices of the pupils themselves articulate numerous perceptions.

Screenwriting With a Conscience: Ethics for Screenwriters is for screenwriters who care deeply about what they write; who are aware that movie images matter and can influence audiences; and who want to create meaningful screenplays that make powerful statements while entertaining and winning over audiences. A user-friendly guide to ethical screenwriting, this book makes the case that social responsibility is endemic to public art while it emphatically champions First Amendment rights and condemns censorship. In this dynamic and practical volume, author Marilyn Beker provides methods for self-assessment of values, ideas, and ethical stances, and demonstrates the application of these values to the development of plot, character, and dialogue. Screenwriters are introduced to ethical decision making models and shown--through specific film examples--how they can be utilized in plot and character development. In addition, specific techniques and exercises are supplied to help screenwriters determine the difference between "good" and "evil," to write realistic and compelling characters based on this determination, and to present "messages" and write dialogue powerfully without preaching. This book also puts forth a livable work philosophy for dealing with the ethics of the screenwriting business, and presents a viable personal philosophy for surviving in the screenwriting world. Screenwriting With a Conscience: Ethics for Screenwriters is an indispensible, dynamic guide for the ethics-conscious screenwriter. It is intended for screenwriters at the student and professional level, and is appropriate for beginning to graduate screenwriting courses in film and English programs, and for film courses dealing with Ethics in the Media.