Mark Stevens is een veelgeprezen commercieel schrijver, auteur en blogger wiens werk is verschenen op televisie, radio, in kranten, tijdschriften, online, op billboards en in boeken. Zijn eerste e-book is een verzameling van 8 lange verhalen, die voor gelijke delen onnozel, vreemd, absurd, grappig en vergezocht zijn. Stevens schrijft met een uniek gevoel voor absurditeit en humor, waarmee hij verhalen creëert die zowel ongelooflijk als vermakelijk zijn. Zijn schrijfstijl wordt gekenmerkt door speels taalgebruik en onverwachte wendingen die de lezers voortdurend verrassen.
Exploring themes of perception and perspective, this book invites readers to question their understanding of reality. Through engaging narratives and thought-provoking illustrations, it challenges the way we see the world and encourages deeper contemplation of our surroundings. The work emphasizes the importance of empathy and connection, prompting readers to consider how their viewpoints shape their experiences and interactions with others.
Tiger eats too much cheese and feels poorly. Can his friend bear help him? Join in their adventures in town to find out.
Splatter Capital shows how a popular subgenre of cinematic horror has developed a uniquely sensitive perspective on the cycles of capitalism. It argues that the emphatically messy brand of horror mobilized in gore or "splatter" films is extremely responsive to the internal contradictions that threaten the future sustainability of capitalist accumulation. And, while responding to the prospect of that end, splatter promotes an extant truth: capitalist accumulation is and always has been a nightmare of systematized bloodshed. This book provides an account of that nightmare as told through a combination of economic history and filmic analysis. The story it tells will serve as a source of both theoretical and practical knowledge for surviving the horror movie we collectively inhabit.
Our systems are failing. Old models--for education, healthcare and government, food production, energy supply--are creaking under the weight of modern challenges. As the world's population heads towards 10 billion, it's clear we need new approaches. In We Do Things Differently, historian and futurologist Mark Stevenson sets out to find them, across four continents. From Brazilian favelas to high tech Boston, from rural India to a shed inventor in England's home counties, Mark Stevenson travels the world to find the advance guard re-imagining our future. At each stop, he meets innovators who have already succeeded in challenging the status quo, pioneering new ways to make our world more sustainable, equitable and humane. Populated by extraordinary characters--including Detroit citizens who created new jobs and promoted healthy eating by building greenhouses, an Austrian mayor who built a new biomass plant using the by-product of a local flooring company, and an Indian doctor who crowdsourced his research and published his findings online--We Do Things Differently paints a riveting picture of what can be done to address the world's most pressing dilemmas, offering a much needed dose of down-to-earth optimism. It is a window on (and a roadmap to) a different and better future.
Too often, we think of school as a fixed-rail path we all have to follow: teachers teach, students learn, exams are taken, futures set. That's how it's been since the introduction of compulsory schooling in the 19th century. But parents, teachers and corporations around the world are now voicing their dissatisfaction with education systems that are no longer fit for purpose. Too many of our young people are not being adequately prepared for the unprecedented challenges they will face in a world that is changing as rapidly as ours is. We should be preparing them for the test of life, not a life of tests. A group of distinctive voices - working in education and beyond - has produced a collection of essays that presents a call to action, a positive way forward, and a programme of change. Education Forward challenges us all to find another story for the future of schools.
As a young boy growing up in Port Elizabeth in the 1960s and 1970s, Steven Robins was haunted by an old photograph of three unknown women on a table in the dining room. Only later did he learn that the women were his father's mother and sisters, photographed in Berlin in 1937, before they were killed in the Holocaust. Steven's father, who had fled Nazi Germany before it was too late, never spoke about the fate of his family who remained there. Steven became obsessed with finding out what happened to the women, but had little to go on. In time he stumbled on official facts in museums in Washington DC and Berlin, and later he discovered almost one hundred letters sent to his father and uncle from the family in Berlin during the Nazi terror. The women in the photograph could now tell their story. Letters of Stone tracks Steven's journey of discovery about the lives and fates of the Robinski family, in southern Africa, Berlin, Riga and Auschwitz. It also explores the worldwide rise of eugenics and racial science before the war, which justified the murder of Jews by the Nazis and caused South Africa and other countries to close their doors to Jewish refugees. Most of all, this book is a poignant reconstruction of a family trapped in an increasingly terrifying and deadly Nazi state, and of the immense pressure on Steven's father in faraway South Africa, which forced him to retreat into silence
An Up-to-Date Overview of the Theory and Practice Underlying Gifted Assessment Essentials of Gifted Assessment introduces readers to the theory and practice underlying gifted assessment.
An original approach, combining a descriptive patient's view of life in the Victorian asylum with a historically accurate presentation of nineteenth century mental health.
Mark Stevens is an expert on Victorian asylum records. This revised version of his successful e-book will be published for Broadmoor's 150th anniversary in May 2013. The book consists of an introduction to the asylum, and case studies of several of Broadmoor's more infamous and criminally insane residents of the 19th century.
Exploring the future, Mark Stevenson embarks on a global journey to uncover what lies ahead for humanity. His adventures lead him to innovative farmers in Australia combating climate change, a mood-swinging robot, and a visionary planning a hotel in space. Despite confronting complex issues like genome sequencing and synthetic biology, Stevenson maintains an optimistic outlook. With his unique blend of humor and storytelling, he presents an engaging perspective on future challenges and advancements, making the unknown feel less daunting.