"Schizophrenic Lullabies" is an insightful and revealing collection of dark poetry themed in the realms of mental illness as expressed with such startling clarity and profound depth in the unique style of dark writer, poet and mental health sufferer, Fritz O'Skennick. Now for the first time in one volume, "Schizophrenic Lullabies" past, present and previously unpublished collide in an engaging and captivating anthology.

"Balancing the Darkness & the Light" is a startling collection of new poetry and prose from dark writer and poet, Fritz O'Skennick. This collection features a chapter of 'Dreams, truths and dedications'. This is followed by a new chapter of his chilling and ever popular 'Gothic Tales' and moves into a chapter of new humorous poetry as expressed in his outrageous and unique style. Then smoothly into a chapter of deep, powerful verses of self exploration and inner thoughts, before finally settling on a chapter stunning collaborations with talented poets, Becky Blake, Beth Winter and Amanda J. Norton.

"Embracing the Darkness and the Light" is a startling collection of new poetry and prose from dark writer and poet, Fritz O'Skennick. This collection features a number of touching tributes and dedications to his idols, his children and friends interspersed with powerful messages to the future and lessons to humanity. This is quickly followed by a new chapter of his chilling and ever popular 'Gothic Tales'. Next we move on to a chapter of humorous poetry as expressed in his outrageous and unique style. Finally, the book finishes up with a chapter of deep, powerful verses of self exploration and inner thoughts that many can relate too.

Schizophrenia is one of the most enigmatic mental disorders, and language is one of its most essential and distinctive traits. Language and Schizophrenia provides a complete overview of schizophrenic language, utilising both psychological and philosophical perspectives to explore the unique way language impacts on this mental disorder. Language and Schizophrenia investigates specific features of schizophrenic language using cognitive psychology alongside the opposing field of phenomenological psychiatry, concluding that neither of these approaches fully succeeds in explaining the linguistic features unique to Schizophrenia. Cardella’s innovative approach of combining psychological perspectives with philosophy offers a direct alternative to traditional cognitive perspectives, emphasising the fundamental role that language plays in the disorder. This book provides a thorough analysis of the deep link between language and schizophrenia and will be of great value to researchers and postgraduates studying schizophrenia, phenomenology, neuropsychology and philosophy of language.

Jonathan Kent is tired of living. A self-absorbed angry man, his drinking and infidelity are destroying the one part of his life he wants to save - his marriage Alone in his car, he now understands that the wife who listened to all his lies will not accept the truth. As he turns the key in the ignition wanting to see his wife one more time, fate catches up with him. Terrified and bleeding, he searches for mercy and understanding. Soon, the agony his mortal body is suffering will come to its inevitable end. Jacob Lansing is tired of suffering. A decorated soldier and a loving husband, his passion to help others once defined his life. But terminal brain cancer has rewritten his dreams for his future with the ones he loves. He has watched his beloved wife, Elizabeth, turn into a sad, anxious woman, torn apart by her inability to help him. Whats more, the thought of abandoning Marcus Allen, a young man he hoped to make whole, crushes him. Soon, Jacob will take control of what remains of his life, and his suffering will cease. Their passage into eternity is stopped, frozen in time. God allows one to return to provide Marcus Allen with the guidance God always intended him to have. He keeps the other close at hand, in the hopes that he will learn the most difficult lesson of all: the joy of giving and accepting love. Can these two men redeem each other?

Melanie Wyatt always prided herself on being a good mother…until the night she awakened from a dream to find her baby dead. Now court-appointed psychologist Paul Murphy faced the greatest challenge of his career: to determine what actually happened that horrifying night. Did beautiful, demure Melanie kill her own child? Or had something more sinister and unbelievable occurred, causing her to erase the awful incident from her memory? Only Melanie knew the answer…and it lay buried deep within her troubled, confused mind..

'Like Angela Carter, she is relentlessly inventive' Sunday Times 'Full of pathos, spirit and iridescent innocence' Independent on Sunday The first novel by the author of The Lonely Hearts Hotel 12-year-old Baby is used to turmoil in her life. Her mother is long dead, her father is a junkie and they shuttle between rotting apartments and decrepit downtown hotels. As her father's addiction and paranoia grow worse, she begins a journey that will lead her through chaos and hardship; but Baby's remarkable strength of spirit enables her to survive. Smart, funny and determined to lift herself off the city's dirty streets, she knows that the only person she can truly rely upon is herself.

Sound and Music in Film and Visual Media: A Critical Overview is a comprehensive work defining and encapsulating concepts, issues and applications in and around the use of sound in film and the cinema, media/broadcast and new media. Over thirty definitive full-length essays, which are linked by highlighted text and reference material, bring together original research by many of the world's top scholars in this emerging field. Complete with an extensive bibliography, Sound and Music in Film and Visual Media provides the most comprehensive and wide-ranging consideration of this subject yet produced.