As the child of an Air Force career man, poet Miriam Susan Carstons grappled with the advantages and pitfalls of a nomadic youth. By the time she was 17, she had settled and pulled up roots from New York, New Mexico, New Jersey, California, Maryland, Virginia, and Japan. And it was in Japan that an inward journey would also begin. In her collection, Somewhere Between Dreams and Memories, Miriam continues that inner journey with a unique and insightful perspective that touches on a plethora of topics from creation to reincarnation, to human nature, to mother nature, to love. Whether Miriam is offering up an observation, expanding on a notion or just telling a memory story; her poems are alive with imagination and possibility.

Catalogue accompanying an exhibition at Beam Contemporary art gallery (Melbourne, Australia), curated by Simone Hine.

This psychological thriller takes you inside the mind of a fascinating character who lives a quiet life—with disturbing secrets hidden in memory lapses. M works in publishing and enjoys watching people. M also suffers from panic attacks and odd memory lapses. Lately, M has developed an intense relationship with Caleb, who lives across the street. The only trouble is Caleb doesn’t know M exists . . . When M starts to practice memory recall exercises, some of the things that bubble to the surface are surprising—even disturbing. As M begins to fill in the blind spots of the past, the truth sheds new light on this fascination with Caleb. Is M dangerous or just disturbed? One way or another, Caleb is about to find out . . .

Kosar the thief senses that Rafe Baburn is no ordinary boy. After witnessing a madman plunder Rafe's village and murder his parents, Kosar knows the boy needs his help. And now, for a reason he cannot fathom, others are seeking the boy's destruction. Uncertain where to begin, Kosar turns to A'Meer, an ex-lover and Shantasi warrior whose people, unbeknownst to him, have been chosen to safeguard magic's return. A'Meer knows instantly that it is Rafe who bears this miracle of magic. Now Kosar and a band of unexpected allies embark on a battle to protect one special boy. For dark forces are closing in–including the Mages, who have been plotting their own triumphant return. From the Trade Paperback edition.

During the fifty years since the end of hostilities, European literary memories of the war have undergone considerable change, influenced by the personal experiences of writers as well as changing political, social, and cultural factors. This volume examines changing ways of remembering the war in the literatures of France, Germany, and Italy; changes in the subject of memory, and in the relations between fiction, autobiography, and documentary, with the focus being on the extent to which shared European memories of the war have been constructed.

Memory is a subject that recently has attracted many scholars and readers not only in the general historical sciences, but also in the special field of art history. However, in this book, in which more than 130 papers given at the XXIXth International Congress of the History of Art (Amsterdam) 1996 have been compiled, Memory is also juxtaposed to its counterpart, Oblivion, thus generating extra excitement in the exchange of ideas. The papers are presented in eleven sections, each of which is devoted to a different aspect of memory and oblivion, ranging from purely material aspects of preservation, to social phenomena with regard to art collecting, from the memory of the art historian to workshop practices, from art in antiquity, to the newest media, from Buddhist iconography to the Berlin Wall. The book addresses readers in the field of history, history of art and psychology.

My life began at Queen of Angels Hospital. A rather appropriate name when you consider the city that I was born in . . . namely, Los Angeles. I was raised in Orange County and have spent my entire life within a comfortable seventy-five-mile radius of that same hospital, which, of course, is no longer there. After all, life in SoCal is nothing if not transitory. As a frustrated musician, or more accurately, drummer, and aspiring lyricist, I've spent most of my life attempting to craft the perfect "concept album." What lies within these pages is the result . . . sans music of course. This book is first and foremost, a love letter written from a father to and for his daughters. In that vein, I have attempted to capture their collective essence and robust, romantic spirits. After doing that I then dropped them into the middle of a fantasy land that's well . . . mostly fiction. The clues to unraveling the mystery of this tale are hidden within the lyrics and illustrations at the beginning of each chapter. I hope that you enjoy the journey but remember . . . nothing is ever what it seems!

These essays chart the development of Ciaran Carson's career, scrutinizing his experiments in a new urban poetics, including his obsessive concern with maps and labyrinths. The essays examine his interest in narrative, and explore the continuities between his poetry and his prose, and they consider his relation to various poetic traditions.--From publisher description.

Top Ten Finisher in the 2014 P & E Readers Poll (2nd Place: anthologies category). Everyone dreams but not everyone remembers them... Sometimes that's a very good thing. This collection of dark stories explores dreams, their impact, their meaning, their results... Read and enjoy ... gentle warning, watch your own dreams from now on...

Australian mathematician Christos studies neural networks, memory and learning, and adaptive systems. He presents a theory of how memory is stored, processed, retrieved, and manipulated; proposes ideas of how the brain can generate novel information and creative ideas; contemplates what the brain may be doing during dreaming; and delivers his theory about the cause of sudden infant syndrome. He tries to keep the discussion accessible to general readers, but hopes scientists may also find interest in it.