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  • REVIEWS & ARTICLES 2021-2022
    Jim Burns
    This book contains reviews submitted to the Northern Review of Books website during 2021 and 2022 plus articles previously printed in The Crazy Oik magazine. ...
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    25,52 €

  • A Finding Joy in the Empty Nest
    Ph.D Jim Burns
    When the kids are gone, you can discover a richer, deeper, and more fulfilling life than you ever imagined!Whether you’ve been looking forward to it or dreading it, the experience of coming home to an empty nest brings with it a well of emotions, realizations, and one gigantic, all-consuming thought: Now what? In Finding Joy in the Empty Nest, Jim Burns combines his personal ex...
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    17,70 €

  • Anatomy of Embodied Education
    E. Timothy Burns / ETimothy Burns / Jim Brown
    Imagine that you have obtained a guidebook for exploring a vast, mysterious forest that you have heard of, but have never known how to approach-a forest so intricate and lush that most people feel reluctant to enter it without an experienced guide, and yet so alluring that you long to wander its paths, follow its streams to their source, gain access to its panoramic views of te...
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    25,21 €

  • A Have Serious Fun
    Ph.D Jim Burns
    After hearing the words no one wants to hear--'you have cancer'--Jim Burns set out to articulate the most important principles for a life well lived and now shares them with you as a collection of essential truths for a healthy, balanced, and successful life. What’s truly important for leading a life well lived? After being diagnosed with cancer and facing his mortality, prolif...
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    16,76 €

  • LAYING SOMETHING DOWN
    Jim Burns
    The collected poems 1962-2007 by north west poet and critic Jim Burns ...
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    15,48 €

  • MODERNISTS BOHEMIANS MAVERICKS
    Jim Burns
    In this twelfth collection of essays and reviews Jim Burns looks back to the 1930s and the problems faced by some writers of the period. Novelists such as Dawn Powell, Charles Reznikoff, and Tess Slesinger are spotlighted. Two writers, Denys Val Baker and Norman Levine, who lived in St Ives when it was a hotbed of creative activity, have their work analysed, with specific refer...
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    26,66 €

  • The Doing Life with Your Adult Children
    Ph.D Jim Burns
    Are you struggling to connect with your child now that they’ve left the nest? Are you feeling the tension and heartache as your relationship dynamic begins to change? In Doing Life with Your Adult Children, bestselling author and parenting expert Jim Burns provides practical advice and hopeful encouragement for navigating this tough yet rewarding transition. If you’ve raised a ...
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    22,31 €

  • Books Artists Beats
    Jim Burns
    This tenth collection of essays and reviews again throws the spotlight on Paris and some of the painters and places associated with the city. Montmartre in its heyday, the 1890s and thereabouts when Edgar Degas and Alphonse Mucha produced images of the spectacles to be seen in Paris and the leisure activities of its citizens. Some of them, at least. Neither artist was noted for...
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    17,97 €

  • Painting, Poetry, Politics
    Jim Burns
    As in the previous collection, Paris has a place in this one, with re-views/essays about various artists, writers, expatriates, editors, and others who were in the city at one time or another. I have to admit that I’m generally looking back in these pieces to the Paris of the 1890s or the 1920s, “golden periods”, as they’re called, though in a review of poets in translation I d...
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    18,60 €

  • Understanding Your Teen
    Jim Burns
    Parenting teenagers is one of the biggest challenges parents face. New realities make becoming independent more difficult. Teens are traveling a different road and are moving at a different pace than those of previous generations. Today’s cultural environment is more complicated and confusing than ever.But fear not! Family expert Jim Burns provides a handy guide for parenting t...
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    18,73 €

  • Paris, Painters, Poets
    Jim Burns
    This eighth collection of reviews, essays, and other pieces takes Paris as its starting point, with essays about artists like Picasso and Soutine, a look at the existentialists, a consideration of the role of the barricade in the various insurrections in the city, and the roles played by the photographer Nadar and the composer Offenbach in shaping images of the city both for i...
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    19,53 €

  • Anarchists, Beats and Dadaists
    Jim Burns
    This seventh collection of essays and reviews kicks off with a survey of some overlooked British poets from the 1940s who, through a network of little magazines with anarchist inclinations, attempted to offer an alternative to the MacSpaunDay generation’s sensibilities. Another piece considers how British writers were monitored by MI5 and local police forces, while a third swit...
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    16,99 €

  • Rebels, Beats and Poets
    Jim Burns
    This sixth selection of essays and reviews looks at a whole list of writers, poets, political activists and others who can be claimed to be rebels in their various ways. The strange communist Joseph Pogany or John Pepper, as he was known in America, is here, as is B. Traven, author of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, in his earlier role as Ret Marut, a German revolutionary. Th...
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    18,56 €

  • ARTISTS, BEATS AND COOL CATS
    Jim Burns
    Jim Burns continues his critical history of off-beat writers, artists and jazz musicians of the last century. This is volume 4 of his acclaimed series of essays. ...
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    18,65 €

  • BOHEMIANS, BEATS AND BLUES PEOPLE
    Jim Burns
    Essays on Beat and Bohemian writers, artists and Jazz musicians ...
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    21,40 €