Glossalalic. Postal. Echolalic. Anti-art. Offalic. Eliptical. Lucidic. These are some of the words Phil Smith uses to describe his writing. In this group of plays, he explores and deconstructs the meaning of theater, dramatic literature, and the intent of language itself. What do these plays mean? "They believe in themselves," he says. "And that's good enough."

Pomes is a collection of poetry thirty years in the making. Reflecting Smith's concerns with conceptual, experimental, post, and concrete writing, it is profoundly influenced by William Burroughs, John Cage, Gertrude Stein, and a host of other avant garde word artists. Here, he plays with a variety of styles and formats, trying to discover and outline the nature of discourse and communication. Deeply personal, at times autobiographical, his writing in these pieces looks at text, words, grammar, and syntax, exploring the very meaning of language itself.

In this Footbook, Phil Smith (Mytho, Crab Man) extends his critical account of the gentle walking arts to the predatory lurch of the living dead. A keen observer of the zombie mythos for the past 35 years, he draws on the multitude of plots, images and metaphors swarming from movies and comics to describe a groundbreaking way to have presence in everyday life. Invoking slowness, fragmentary consciousness, thickness and thingness, the author describes in strategic theory and a horde of tactics, how to walk from Night to Day and away from the old Dawn into a radical nothingness. Gorehounds will...

The Brehm Scholar Research Monograph is published annually by the Delores Soderquist Brehm Center for Special Education Scholarship and Research, at Eastern Michigan University's Department of Special Education. It highlights the work of the department's Brehm Scholars, undergraduate and graduate students exploring the world of special education.

This is the definitive guide to Counter-Tourism, except that Counter-Tourism has a low opinion of definitive guides. So it's more like an equivocal misguide. It includes dozens of detailed Counter-Tourism 'tactics' plus the thinking behind Counter-Tourism, its academic and philosophical background, and its roots in film, music and literature.

Terrestrial Navigation: A Primer for Deck Officers and Officer of the Watch Exams prepares the reader for the Officer of the Watch and Master/Mate certificates required by all officers on commercial seagoing vessels. Revision and self-test guide to all navigation-related elements contained within the Officer of the Watch exams are included. Top tips are highlighted throughout the book. The case studies and checklists have been designed to add context and aid recall.

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Tides: A Primer for Deck Officers and Officer of the Watch Exams prepares the reader for the Officer of the Watch and Master/Mate certificates required by all officers on commercial seagoing vessels. From the formation of tides and and tidal stream data, right through to practice questions with answers, and even mock exam papers, this book will provide you with all the reference material you need in order to pass your exams.

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The Brehm Scholar Research Monograph is published annually by the Delores Soderquist Brehm Center for Special Education Scholarship and Research, at Eastern Michigan University's Department of Special Education. It highlights the work of the department's Brehm Scholars, undergraduate and graduate students exploring the world of special education.

We notice people who don't walk normally. We notice ourselves when we don't walk normally. There is, it seems, an intense, invisible pressure to walk normally. Straight is the gait. For about 9 months, two walking authors/artists, Alyson Hallett and Phil Smith, found themselves wrestling with not being able to walk normally. They wrote to one another about it and, amongst other things, reflected on: prostheses; waddling; Butoh; built-up shoes; walking in pain; bad legs; vertigo; falling (and fallen) places; hubris; bad walks; scores for falling down; walking carefully; disappointment. This...