Mark Woods

Having a baby is a big deal. Such a big deal in fact that something like 3 BILLION books have been written to give women the advice and support they need to get through safe and sound. But this isn't one of them. The book you are holding is a rare and precious thing; a comprehensive and utterly honest guide designed to help men navigate the choppy waters of pregnancy - waters that may well eventually break all over the back seat of your car and usher in the MOST EXTRAORDINARY EVENT OF YOUR LIFE, witnessing the birth of your child. Taking the whole thing a month at a time and using the experiences of scores of first time Dads, this is a FRANK, FACTUAL AND FUNNY journey charting what men need to know, need to do and need to avoid like the absolute plague when they partners are carrying a baby.

Featuring a range of media, including sculpture, installation, photography and jewellery making, this is the first monograph on the work of British artist Mark Woods. Woods (born 1961 in Surrey, UK) is an artist with a background in contemporary jewellery production and boat building. He produces elaborate artefacts that blur the boundaries between jewellery, fine art, fetish objects and items from cabinets of curiosities. Unnerving and evocative, the viewer is confronted with exquisite beauty, sophisticated craftsmanship and an awakening of unexpected emotions. Woods's works invites the viewer to leave their comfort zone and question human desires. Formula + Fetish explores four aspects of his practice: "Objects" - luxurious objects of desire and contemporary art fetishes; "Staged Self-Portraits" - a performance with the camera lens; "Creative Images" - a joining of objects; and "Jewellery" - the origins of the artist's skills in object making. Alongside visually striking photography, documenting his key exhibitions, the book includes critical essays by leading art writers Paul Carey-Kent, Michael Petry and Peter Suchin, who offer individual and sometimes contradicting responses to Woods's world of objects and imagery.

The authoritative guide to pregnancy and babies for new and expectant dads, now in a revised and combined editionFatherhood is just round the corner - but are you ready? Most pregnancy books are for the mother but this one is just for you, the new father (although all mums-to-be are welcome too, of course). It'll guide you through nine months of joy, excitement - and yes, even a little fear - and then beyond into the baby and toddler years. Taking the whole thing a month at a time and drawing on the experiences of scores of first-time dads, this is a frank, funny and factual journey charting what men need to know, need to do and need to avoid throughout pregnancy and beyond. From how your baby grows month by month to how to support your partner every step of the way, this is your ultimate survival guide.* Previously published separately as Pregnancy for Men and Babies & Toddlers for Men

The z-pocalypse starts here...the end of days is finally upon us. As the dead and recently deceased start returning to life, and more and more people slowly become infected, several groups of survivors do their best to fight for their survival, but as they'll soon find out, the odds are stacked heavily against them.

The Halloween Horror Lives On... For the month of October 2017, J. Ellington Ashton Press, on their Wicked Little Things blog-talk radio, broadcasted a series of Halloween stories. These "Fireside Stories" (as they were called) were a big hit with the listeners, and the decision was quickly made to publish these tales of terror into a kindle/paperback/audiobook anthology. Written by some of JEA's most terrifying authors-Catt Dahman, Jim Goforth, Mark Woods, Michael Noe, Essel Pratt, Amanda M. Lyons, Michael Fisher, Toneye Eyenot, Kitty Kane, and Roma Gray-these stories will send a shiver up your spine and remind you what Halloween is all about.

The concept and values of wilderness, along with the practice of wilderness preservation, have been under attack for the past several decades. In Rethinking Wilderness, Mark Woods responds to seven prominent anti-wilderness arguments. Woods offers a rethinking of the received concept of wilderness, developing a positive account of wilderness as a significant location for the other-than-human value-adding properties of naturalness, wildness, and freedom. Interdisciplinary in approach, the book combines environmental philosophy, environmental history, environmental social sciences, the science of ecology, and the science of conservation biology.

Does God have a specific plan for your life - or mine? Can we really make sense of everything that happens to us? In this bonfire of some of the most precious of all evangelical myths, Mark Woods asks whether a truly biblical faith really supports many supposed evangelical 'shibboleths', and thereby points us towards a faith that is deeper, more dangerous, and more fitting for adults.

"In this remarkable journey, Mark Woods captures the essence of our National Parks: their serenity and majesty, complexity and vitality--and their power to heal." --Ken Burns For many childhood summers, Mark Woods piled into a station wagon with his parents and two sisters and headed to America's national parks. Mark's most vivid childhood memories are set against a backdrop of mountains, woods, and fireflies in places like Redwood, Yosemite, and Grand Canyon national parks. On the eve of turning fifty and a little burned-out, Mark decided to reconnect with the great outdoors. He'd spend a year visiting the national parks. He planned to take his mother to a park she'd not yet visited and to re-create his childhood trips with his wife and their iPad-generation daughter. But then the unthinkable happened: his mother was diagnosed with cancer and given just months to live. Mark had initially intended to write a book about the future of the national parks, but Lassoing the Sun grew into something more: a book about family, the parks, and the legacies we inherit and the ones we leave behind.