Steve Harrison

Changing the World Is the Only Fit Work for a Grown Man

Advice on getting people to notice your copy, engage with it and do what you want them to do.Whether you're an agency writer in need of inspiration, a one-woman-band drumming up work from new clients, an established business trying to get more from that mysterious thing called 'content', or you simply want to persuade your colleagues to adopt your point of view, this book will help you write better copy. It starts with the thinking before the writing, and how to create the all-important Brief. Then it takes you step-by-step from how to write a headline to how to get the response you want from your reader. With examples at every stage, and explanations based on both the author's 25 years' experience and recent scientific research, this book will help hone your skills - whether you're writing websites or press ads, e-zines or direct mail, brochures or blogs, posters or landing pages, emails or white papers.

How to Write Better Copy

Mike Pearson

Patricia Harrison

The Geography of the Environment

Into Geography

Life begins and ends with pain. We cry when we are born, and our family and friends cry when we die. In between, we face a cruel world that never fights fair. You know how just about everyone hates pain, wonders why we suffer, and asks why a good God allows suffering? Well, Suffering Love affirms the truth that everyone does suffer, it is normal, and offers relevant wisdom for today to help you live through the pain, knowing that God knows what is going on and will never leave you. Suffering Love offers hope for tomorrow so we can understand how God is actively redeeming our suffering making our lives even more beautiful than they would be without the spiritual blessing of suffering. Suffering need not be wasted. It can lead us into deeper connection, stronger character, and ultimate fulfillment of our hope. "Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children" (Rev. 21:7). Suffering Love is the third installment in the Warrior Bride Trilogy. Get it now.

Suffering Love

John Gribbin

Christopher G. Nuttall

Douglas Thompson

Rhys Hughes

Sanem Ozdural

Peter Wolfe

Tej Turner

Ira Nayman

Robin Moran

Tanya Reimer

Dave Weaver

Peter R. Ellis

Susan Oke

J.A. Christy

Edwin Hayward

Stefan Jackson

Andy McKell

Siobhan McVeigh

Chloe Skye

The title, Existence is Elsewhen, paraphrases the last sentence of André Breton’s 1924 Manifesto of Surrealism, perfectly summing up the intent behind this anthology of stories from a wonderful collection of authors. Different worlds… different times. It’s what Elsewhen Press has been about since we launched our first title in 2011. Here, we present twenty science fiction stories for you to enjoy. We are delighted that headlining this collection is the fantastic John Gribbin, with a worrying vision of medical research in the near future. Future global healthcare is the theme of J A Christy’s story; while the ultimate in spare part surgery is where Dave Weaver takes us. Edwin Hayward’s search for a renewable protein source turns out to be digital; and Tanya Reimer’s story with characters we think we know, gives us pause for thought about another food we take for granted. Evolution is examined too, with Andy McKell’s chilling tale of what states could become if genetics are used to drive policy. Similarly, Robin Moran’s story explores the societal impact of an undesirable evolutionary trend; while Douglas Thompson provides a truly surreal warning of an impending disaster that will reverse evolution, with dire consequences. On a lighter note, we have satire from Steve Harrison discovering who really owns the Earth (and why); and Ira Nayman, who uses the surreal alternative realities of his Transdimensional Authority series as the setting for a detective story mash-up of Agatha Christie and Dashiel Hammett. Pursuing the crime-solving theme, Peter Wolfe explores life, and death, on a space station; while Stefan Jackson follows a police investigation into some bizarre cold-blooded murders in a cyberpunk future. Going into the past, albeit an 1831 set in the alternate Britain of his Royal Sorceress series, Christopher G. Nuttall reports on an investigation into a girl with strange powers. Strange powers in the present-day is the theme for Tej Turner, who tells a poignant tale of how extra-sensory perception makes it easier for a husband to bear his dying wife’s last few days. Difficult decisions are the theme of Chloe Skye’s heart-rending story exploring personal sacrifice. Relationships aren’t always so close, as Susan Oke’s tale demonstrates, when sibling rivalry is taken to the limit. Relationships are the backdrop to Peter R. Ellis’s story where a spectacular mid-winter event on a newly-colonised distant planet involves a Madonna and Child. Coming right back to Earth and in what feels like an almost imminent future, Siobhan McVeigh tells a cautionary tale for anyone thinking of using technology to deflect the blame for their actions. Building on the remarkable setting of Pera from her LiGa series, and developing Pera’s legendary Book of Shadow, Sanem Ozdural spins the creation myth of the first light tree in a lyrical and poetic song. Also exploring language, the master of fantastika and absurdism, Rhys Hughes, extrapolates the way in which language changes over time, with an entertaining result.

Existence is Elsewhen

Media Space: 20+ Years of Mediated Life is loosely divided into three different, but interconnected, approaches to media space research. Each part opens with an introduction that lays out how readers can best approach the book, and provides a basic guide to the theory and research literature, technological developments and other notable events to help contextualize the book. The ‘social ‘ approach uses the rhetoric and methods familiar to a CSCW audience, but moves into actual situations that involve close working bonds, broken trust, shared joy, community building, interpersonal tension, anxiety etc. The section on ‘spatial’ approaches guides the reader through an intellectual landscape of spatiality, the ‘communications’ part is a field guide to sense-making in the as-lived mediated condition, demonstrating that media space sense-making combines an understanding of in-the-moment alongside sense made of existence in the world and reflecting upon it.

Media Space 20+ Years of Mediated Life

Carman Neustaedter

Abigail Sellen

New technologies are radically changing the way that families connect with one another: we can text our teenagers from work, eat dinner with far-away parents via video link, and instantly upload and share photos after a family day out. Whether we are bridging time or distance, and whether we are enhancing our closest relationships or strengthening the bonds of extended family, as computer technologies alter the communication landscape, they in turn are changing the way we conduct and experience family life. This state of the art volume explores the impact of new communication systems on how families interact – how they share their lives and routines, engage in social touch, and negotiate being together or being apart – by considering a range of different family relationships that shape the nature of communication. Composed of three sections, the first looks at what is often the core of a ‘family’, the couple, to understand the impact of technology on couple relationships, communication, and feelings of closeness. The second section studies immediate families that have expanded beyond just the individual or couple to include children. Here, the emphasis is on connection for communication, coordination, and play. The third section moves beyond the immediate family to explore connections between extended, distributed family members. This includes connections between adult children and their parents, grandparents and grandchildren, and adult siblings. Here family members have grown older, moved away from ‘home’, and forged new families. Researchers, designers and developers of new communication technologies will find this volume invaluable. Connecting Families: The Impact of New Communication Technologies on Domestic Life brings together the most up-to-date studies to help in understanding how new communication technologies shape – and are shaped by – family life, and offers inspiration and guidance for design by making clear what families need and value from technological systems.

The Impact of New Communication Technologies on Domestic Life

Connecting Families

This is a complete guide to creating effective and award winning creative work. Harrison reveals the dynamic that lies at the heart of all great work and provides a step-by-step process to ensure you too produce award winning creative work that sells.

How to Do Better Creative Work

First contact? “Take it easy,” said Kylie, still with a hint of amusement. “You’re perfectly safe. Think of me as a tourist.” Polly squinted back at her. She couldn’t help herself. “Are you invading earth?” “Are you kidding? Do you know how much that would cost?” “Then what are you doing here?” “We found you after you activated the camera on the satellite and were impressed by the other stuff you did to hide your tracks. Easy for us, but we all thought it was very cool. For an Earth human, anyway.” “You don’t talk like an alien.” “How many do you know?” asked Kylie. Polly couldn’t argue with that. “Good point.” When Polly Hart agrees to swap places with a girl from another planet, she has no idea that this makes her a fugitive in the fabulous universe revealed by her new friend, and now she must outwit the school bully, a weird teacher and an interstellar hit squad to survive. So annoying! Visit bit.ly/BlurredVision-Harrison Cover photography – Earth: NASA Earth Observatory; Polly & Kylie: Dean Drobot/shutterstock.com

A Polly Hart Chronicle

Blurred Vision

Designed for children at Key Stages 2 and 3 (ages 7 to 14) this atlas addresses curriculum themes on weather, communications, economic activities, the environment and population. Divided into 4 sections: Mapping Skills, the British Isles, Historical and The World.

Folens Ordnance Survey World Atlas

Stuart Glover

Amandine Moores

Jean-Claude Gilles

Corinne Dzuilka-Heywood

Our bestselling AQA GCSE French course has been updated for the 2016 specification. This course offers brand new content, helping to develop the productive skills students need to manipulate language confidently and to prepare thoroughly for their exam. Its differentiated approach supports your mixed-ability classes, facilitating co-teaching.

AQA GCSE French Higher Ebook

A Curious Tourist's Journey Back to Póvoa de Varzim in the 1950s

A Tale of Two Cities

A examination of how progressive politics is adversely affecting the advertising industry.

Advertising, Politics and Culture Wars. Why Adland Has Stopped Selling and Started Saving the World

Can't Sell Won't Sell

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