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Polycene

Poetry of Our Age

by Russell E. Willis ...

In late 2025, New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman described a new era--the Polycene--characterized by the increasingly complex interplay of powerful forces: AI, climate change, global economics, and geopolitics. These forces accelerate within a highly interconnected system, demanding that humanity address complexity at a planetary scale. In AI and the Crisis of Control (2026), Russell E. ... Read more

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In late 2025, New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman described a new era--the Polycene--characterized by the increasingly complex interplay of powerful forces: AI, climate change, global economics, and geopolitics. These forces accelerate within a highly interconnected system, demanding that humanity address complexity at a planetary scale. In AI and the Crisis of Control (2026), Russell E.
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AI and the Crisis of Control

How Leaders Can Reclaim Responsibility in the Age of AI

by Russell E. Willis ...

Artificial intelligence now shapes decisions once guided by human judgment—and in the process, responsibility is quietly disappearing. As AI systems spread through organizations and institutions, leaders find themselves surrounded by power they can neither fully see nor clearly answer for. In AI and the Crisis of Control, Russell E. Willis argues that the central challenge of AI is not runaway ... Read more

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Artificial intelligence now shapes decisions once guided by human judgment—and in the process, responsibility is quietly disappearing. As AI systems spread through organizations and institutions, leaders find themselves surrounded by power they can neither fully see nor clearly answer for. In AI and the Crisis of Control, Russell E. Willis argues that the central challenge of AI is not runaway
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Blood Brothers

by Willy Russell ...

Series series Modern Classics
A Liverpudlian West Side Story: twin brothers are separated at birth because their mother cannot afford to keep them both. She gives one of them away to wealthy Mrs Lyons and they grow up as friends in ignorance of their fraternity until the inevitable quarrel unleashes a blood-bath.'Willy Russell is less concerned with political tub-thumping than with weaving a close-knit story about the working ... Read more

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A Liverpudlian West Side Story: twin brothers are separated at birth because their mother cannot afford to keep them both. She gives one of them away to wealthy Mrs Lyons and they grow up as friends in ignorance of their fraternity until the inevitable quarrel unleashes a blood-bath.'Willy Russell is less concerned with political tub-thumping than with weaving a close-knit story about the working
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Shirley Valentine

by Willy Russell ...

Series series Modern Plays
Nominated for Best Revival at the Olivier Awards 2024I'd fallen in love with the idea of living... because we don't do what we want to do, do we? We do what we have to do and pretend that it's what we want to do.Shirley Valentine is the joyous, life-affirming story of the woman who got lost in marriage and motherhood, the woman who wound up talking to the kitchen wall whilst cooking her husband's ... Read more

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Nominated for Best Revival at the Olivier Awards 2024I'd fallen in love with the idea of living... because we don't do what we want to do, do we? We do what we have to do and pretend that it's what we want to do.Shirley Valentine is the joyous, life-affirming story of the woman who got lost in marriage and motherhood, the woman who wound up talking to the kitchen wall whilst cooking her husband's
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Shirley Valentine & One For The Road

by Willy Russell ...

Series series Modern Plays
Shirley Valentine, 42-year-old put-upon mother and housewife, leaves the drudgery of cooking dinner for her husband, packs her bags and heads for the sun. The note on the kitchen table reads "Gone to Greece back in two weeks." "It is a simple and brilliant idea...the profound and perennial point of the comedy is the problem we seem to have contemplating the idea of a woman alone - in a pub, on a ... Read more

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Shirley Valentine, 42-year-old put-upon mother and housewife, leaves the drudgery of cooking dinner for her husband, packs her bags and heads for the sun. The note on the kitchen table reads "Gone to Greece back in two weeks." "It is a simple and brilliant idea...the profound and perennial point of the comedy is the problem we seem to have contemplating the idea of a woman alone - in a pub, on a
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Reading J. Z. Smith

Interviews & Essay

Edited by Willi Braun, Russell T. McCutcheon ...

Over the course of a career of more than forty years, Jonathan Z. Smith was among the most important voices of critical reflection within the academic study of religion, distinguishing himself as perhaps the most influential theorist of religion of the last half century. Among his significant body of work are essays and lectures on teaching and the essential role of academic scholarship on ... Read more

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Over the course of a career of more than forty years, Jonathan Z. Smith was among the most important voices of critical reflection within the academic study of religion, distinguishing himself as perhaps the most influential theorist of religion of the last half century. Among his significant body of work are essays and lectures on teaching and the essential role of academic scholarship on
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Desires

Collection of Poems

by Ari Cubangbang, Simona Beraru, Katelyn Wells, Kate Bustin, Michele Mekel, Peter Verbica, Suzanne Eaton, James Huneycutt, Thomas Simmons, Russell Willis, Lawrence Bridges, Paul Benkendorfer, Mark Tochen, Carol Durant, Stephanie Agostinelli, Duaa Khan, Joanne Rupp, Lisa Owens, Brianna Barberi, Velibor Baćo, maria wenzel, Josh Crummer, Kewayne Wadley, Laura Bradshaw, Patrice Bavos, Rebecca River Forbes, Lily Thomson, Alex Aimee Kist, Alyssa Jordan, Min Ji Park, J. Amber Griffin, Melody Heald, Sonja Cudmore, Joshua Mori, Vanessa Watters ...

Poets Choice is a poetry book publishing brand registered and having its head office in Mumbai, India. We are on the verge of setting up our offices in USA as well.We have been around since 2010.Our writers hail from over 48 countries across the world. To view the complete list visit our website.We welcome book reviews on our website – www.poetschoice.in . Books can also be ordered directly from ... Read more

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Poets Choice is a poetry book publishing brand registered and having its head office in Mumbai, India. We are on the verge of setting up our offices in USA as well.We have been around since 2010.Our writers hail from over 48 countries across the world. To view the complete list visit our website.We welcome book reviews on our website – www.poetschoice.in . Books can also be ordered directly from
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Close Friends And Relatives

Collection of Poems

by Bryan Barks, Pilar Saavedra-Vela, Anika Czander, Norman Walter, Gialina Morten, Richard Johnson, Judy Schneier, Hannah Maiorano, Julie Fitzpatrick, Elsa Bonstein, Hannah Su, Nancy Cardoza, Kelly Johnson, James Simpson, Bo Ransom, Ashley Myers, Babitha Marina Justin, Reena Kapoor, Mary Claire Shingleton, nicoline antonovitch, Echo Quinn, Jane Hillson Aiello, Michelle Hawkins MD MPM, Amanda Boyanowski-Morin, Velibor Baćo, Raquel Morris, DIANA BRANTLEY, William McMahon, John LoSasso, Max McCoubrey, Kate MacDonald, John Claxton, Quinn Li, Vera Ivanova, Chelsea Whitlow, Regina Gort, Anna Persky, Kendra Thompson, Maggie Swofford, Andrew Ballard, Russell Willis, Rachel Baila ...

Poets Choice is a poetry book publishing brand registered and having its head office in Mumbai, India. We are on the verge of setting up our offices in USA as well.We have been around since 2010.Our writers hail from over 48 countries across the world. To view the complete list visit our website.We welcome book reviews on our website – www.poetschoice.in . Books can also be ordered directly from ... Read more

$13.73 CAD

Poets Choice is a poetry book publishing brand registered and having its head office in Mumbai, India. We are on the verge of setting up our offices in USA as well.We have been around since 2010.Our writers hail from over 48 countries across the world. To view the complete list visit our website.We welcome book reviews on our website – www.poetschoice.in . Books can also be ordered directly from
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Willy Russell Plays: 2

Blood Brothers; Our Day Out - The Musical; Shirley Valentine; John, Paul, George, Ringo . . . and Bert

by Willy Russell ...

Series Book 2 - Contemporary Dramatists
A new collection of plays from Willy Russell, one of Britain's best-loved dramatists, features the smash hits Blood Brothers, Our Day Out: The Musical and Shirley Valentine as well as the previously unpublished John, Paul, George, Ringo . . . and Bert.Blood Brothers: A Liverpudlian West Side Story,thisis the story of twin brothers separated at birth because their mother cannot afford to keep them ... Read more

$32.99 CAD

A new collection of plays from Willy Russell, one of Britain's best-loved dramatists, features the smash hits Blood Brothers, Our Day Out: The Musical and Shirley Valentine as well as the previously unpublished John, Paul, George, Ringo . . . and Bert.Blood Brothers: A Liverpudlian West Side Story,thisis the story of twin brothers separated at birth because their mother cannot afford to keep them
... Read more
Educating Rita

by Willy Russell, Steve Lewis ...

Series series Student Editions
'One way of describing Educating Rita would be to say that it was about the meaning of education ... Another would be to say that it was about the meaning of life. A third, that it is a cross between Pygmailion and Lucky Jim. A fourth, that it is simply a marvellous play, painfully funny and passionately serious; a hilarious social documentary; a fairy-tale with a quizzical, half-happy ending.' ... Read more

$15.99 CAD

'One way of describing Educating Rita would be to say that it was about the meaning of education ... Another would be to say that it was about the meaning of life. A third, that it is a cross between Pygmailion and Lucky Jim. A fourth, that it is simply a marvellous play, painfully funny and passionately serious; a hilarious social documentary; a fairy-tale with a quizzical, half-happy ending.'
... Read more
The Color Purple Songbook

Piano/Vocal Selections

by Allee Willis, Stephen Bray, Brenda Russell ...

(Vocal Selections). Our piano/vocal folio features 13 songs from the Oprah Winfrey-produced Broadway adaptation of the powerful Alice Walker novel. Includes: The Color Purple * Hell No! * Mysterious Ways * Push Da Button * Too Beautiful for Words * What About Love? * and more. The arrangements are standard piano/vocal format with the melody in the piano part. ... Read more

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(Vocal Selections). Our piano/vocal folio features 13 songs from the Oprah Winfrey-produced Broadway adaptation of the powerful Alice Walker novel. Includes: The Color Purple * Hell No! * Mysterious Ways * Push Da Button * Too Beautiful for Words * What About Love? * and more. The arrangements are standard piano/vocal format with the melody in the piano part.
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Corona Global Lockdown

Collection of Poems

by Shay Wills, Cathy Hollister, Neal Cohen, Jason Montgomery, Aubrie Dickson, Ralf Schrader, Erin Johnson, Morgan Boyer, Abigail Chorley, Melissa Speed, Emiliano Gomez, C.J. Pendergast, Chris Reim, Kenneth Mills, Elizabeth Bluth, Limor Weisberg Caspi, Mark Dixon, Lawrence Bridges, Elder Gideon, Amanda Piekarz, Amy Barry, Russell Willis, Ralph La Rosa, Maggie Mosher, Chris Kleinfelter, Jill Crainshaw, Emily Bornstein, Kristen Bales, sophia wilson, PJ DAmico, Mari-Carmen Marin, Alper Yilmaz, Ashley Andrews, Aarush Iyengar, Amy Hardy, Jodie Baeyens, Teresa H. Janssen, Edward Miller, Lori Graham, Jonathan Stolzenberg, Laura Saint Martin, Susan Coronel, Lorene Bossong, Maureen McElroy, Janice Tatarka, Mali woods, Jones Irwin, Laura Iodice, Kendryk Youngblood, Peter Prizel ...

This book of poems is compiled by "Akshay Sonthalia". Different writers from around the globe have sent their entities based on global pandemic CORONA, exploring the emotions and politics of locking down, fearing & dancing with death, the choices left before us, and the emerging revelations, and many more things. They write out their dread, their fear, their boredom, their adventure, their ... Read more

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This book of poems is compiled by "Akshay Sonthalia". Different writers from around the globe have sent their entities based on global pandemic CORONA, exploring the emotions and politics of locking down, fearing & dancing with death, the choices left before us, and the emerging revelations, and many more things. They write out their dread, their fear, their boredom, their adventure, their
... Read more

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