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Penguin Books Ltd The Hurricane Girls: The inspirational true story of the women who dared to fly
Celebrating the lives of the magnificent women, the ATA girls, who courageously flew Spitfires, Tiger Moths, Lancaster Bombers and many other aircraft during World War Two Since the invention of aeroplanes, women have taken to the skies.They have broken records, performed daredevil stunts and faced such sexism and prejudice that they were effectively barred from working as pilots. That changed in the Second World War. Led by firebrand Pauline Gower, an elite group of British women were selected as ferry pilots to fly for the Air Transport Auxiliary. They risked their lives flying munitions and equipment for the boys on the front line. Flying day and night without radio; dodging storms, barrage balloons and anti-aircraft fire; and with only a map, compass and their eyesight to guide them, they navigated the treacherous wartime skies. The Hurricane Girls is the thrilling, moving and inspirational story of the female air force who once ruled our skies.
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Anomie Publishing David Batchelor – Concretos
Throughout his international career spanning more than thirty years, artist and writer David Batchelor has long been preoccupied with colour. ‘Colour is not just a feature of [my] sculpture or painting,’ he notes, ‘but its central and overriding subject.’ This new publication is devoted to an ongoing series of sculptures titled Concretos. First made in 2011, Concretos combine concrete with a variety of brightly coloured – and often found – materials.The publication features a text by Batchelor charting the origins and development of Concretos. He reveals that the first Concreto was made after encountering coloured glass shards embedded in a concrete wall in the back streets of Palermo. Over time these Concretos, their title a nod to the Latin American art movement to which Batchelor’s work is much indebted, have become more complex adventures in layering, pattern and process. Elements such as acrylic plastic, spray and household gloss paint, steel, fabric and found objects all find themselves set in a concrete base. The most recent works, titled Extra-Concretos (2019–) retain much of the simplicity of the early pieces while working on a much larger scale.In an essay commissioned for the publication, curator Eleanor Nairne considers Concretos in light of their material possibilities. Nairne’s vivid text draws connections between the sculptures and a wide range of art historical and literary references. Some of the playful and sensual characteristics of Batchelor’s artistic vocabulary are considered in relation to floral bouquets, sewing-machines, ice cream and poetry.Architectural historian Adrian Forty’s essay discusses concrete’s physical qualities and relationship with modernity. He notes that the imperfect nature and apparent neutrality of the material is key to its enduring place within architecture, design and in Batchelor’s case, contemporary sculpture. ‘In the Concretos,’ asserts Forty, ‘concrete plays a necessary part in allowing colour to be itself. Present, but at the same time part of the barely noticed, half-invisible infrastructure of the city, concrete’s very neutrality performs an unexpectedly active part in these works.’The publication is edited by David Batchelor and Matt Price, designed by Hyperkit, printed by Park, London, and published by Anomie, London. The publication coincides with the first large-scale survey exhibition of Batchelor’s work taking place at Compton Verney, Warwickshire in 2022. The publication has been supported by Goldsmiths’ College, University of London, and Arts Council England.David Batchelor was born in Dundee in 1955 and lives and works in London. In 2013, a major solo exhibition of Batchelor’s two-dimensional work, ‘Flatlands’, was displayed at Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh and toured to Spike Island, Bristol. Batchelor’s work was included in the landmark group exhibition ‘Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915–2015’ at Whitechapel Gallery, London. ‘My Own Private Bauhaus’, a solo exhibition of sculptures and paintings by Batchelor was presented by Ingleby Gallery during the Edinburgh Art Festival, 2019. Between 2017 and 2020 a large-scale work by Batchelor was displayed in the collection of Tate Modern. He is represented by Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, and Galeria Leme, São Paulo. Batchelor’s portfolio also includes a number of major temporary and permanent artworks in the public realm including a chromatic clock titled ‘Sixty Minute Spectrum’ installed in the roof of the Hayward Gallery, London.‘Chromophobia’, Batchelor’s book on colour and the fear of colour in the West, was published by Reaktion Books (2000), and is now available in ten languages. His more recent book, 'The Luminous and the Grey' (2014), is also published by Reaktion. In 2008 he was commissioned to edit ‘Colour’ an anthology of writings on colour from 1850 to the present published by Whitechapel/MIT Press.
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University of Illinois Press Latin American Melodrama: Passion, Pathos, and Entertainment
Like their Hollywood counterparts, Latin American film and TV melodramas have always been popular and highly profitable. The first of its kind, this anthology engages in a serious study of the aesthetics and cultural implications of Latin American melodramas. Written by some of the major figures in Latin American film scholarship, the studies range across seventy years of movies and television within a transnational context, focusing specifically on the period known as the "Golden Age" of melodrama, the impact of classic melodrama on later forms, and more contemporary forms of melodrama. An introductory essay examines current critical and theoretical debates on melodrama and places the essays within the context of Latin American film and media scholarship.Contributors are Luisela Alvaray, Mariana Baltar, Catherine L. Benamou, Marvin D’Lugo, Paula Félix-Didier, Andrés Levinson, Gilberto Perez, Darlene J. Sadlier, Cid Vasconcelos, and Ismail Xavier.
£22.99
Temple University Press,U.S. Democratizing Urban Development: Community Organizations for Housing across the United States and Brazil
Rising housing costs put secure and decent housing in central urban neighborhoods in peril. How do civil society organizations (CSOs) effectively demand accountability from the state to address the needs of low-income residents? In her groundbreaking book, Democratizing Urban Development, Maureen Donaghy charts the constraints and potential opportunities facing these community organizations. She assesses the various strategies CSOs engage to influence officials and ensure access to affordable housing through policies, programs, and institutions. Democratizing Urban Development presents efforts by CSOs in four cities across the hemispheric divide: Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Washington, DC, and Atlanta. Donaghy studies the impact and outcomes that ensue from these efforts, noting that CSOs must sometimes shift their own ideology or adapt to the political environment in which they operate to ensure access to housing and support the goals of an inclusive city.
£26.99
HarperCollins Publishers The Magician’s Nephew (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 1)
The Adventure Begins. A beautiful paperback edition of The Magician's Nephew, book one in the classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia. This edition is complete with cover and interior art by the original illustrator, Pauline Baynes. On a daring quest to save a life, two friends are hurled into another world, where an evil sorceress seeks to enslave them. But then the lion Aslan's song weaves itself into the fabric of a new land, a land that will be known as Narnia. And in Narnia, all things are possible. The Magician's Nephew is the first book in C. S. Lewis's classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia, which has captivated readers of all ages for over sixty years. This is a stand-alone novel, but if you would like to journey through the wardrobe and back to Narnia, read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the second book in The Chronicles of Narnia.
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Duke University Press Against the Closet: Black Political Longing and the Erotics of Race
In Against the Closet, Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman interrogates and challenges cultural theorists' interpretations of sexual transgression in African American literature. She argues that, from the mid-nineteenth century through the twentieth, black writers used depictions of erotic transgression to contest popular theories of identity, pathology, national belonging, and racial difference in American culture. Connecting metaphors of sexual transgression to specific historical periods, Abdur-Rahman explains how tropes such as sadomasochism and incest illuminated the psychodynamics of particular racial injuries and suggested forms of social repair and political redress from the time of slavery, through post-Reconstruction and the civil rights and black power movements, to the late twentieth century.Abdur-Rahman brings black feminist, psychoanalytic, critical race, and poststructuralist theories to bear on literary genres from slave narratives to science fiction. Analyzing works by African American writers, including Frederick Douglass, Pauline Hopkins, Harriet Jacobs, James Baldwin, and Octavia Butler, she shows how literary representations of transgressive sexuality expressed the longings of African Americans for individual and collective freedom. Abdur-Rahman contends that those representations were fundamental to the development of African American forms of literary expression and modes of political intervention and cultural self-fashioning.
£21.99
University of British Columbia Press Indigenous Legal Traditions
Although Indigenous peoples had their own systems of law based on their social, political, and spiritual traditions, under colonialism their legal systems have often been ignored or overruled by non-Indigenous laws. Today, however, these legal traditions are being reinvigorated and recognized as vital for the preservation of the political autonomy of Aboriginal nations and the development of healthy communities.The essays in this book present important perspectives on the role of Indigenous legal traditions in reclaiming and preserving the autonomy of Aboriginal communities and in reconciling the relationship between these communities and Canadian governments. Contributors include Andrée Lajoie, Minnawaanagogiizhigook (Dawnis Kennedy), Ghislain Otis, Ted Palys and Wenona Victor, Paulette Regan, and Perry Shawana. Common threads linking the essays include the relationship between Indigenous and Canadian legal orders, the importance of Indigenous legal traditions for Aboriginal communities’ autonomy, and the ways in which these traditions might be recognized and given space in the Canadian legal landscape.In its examination of different aspects of and models for the recognition of Indigenous legal orders, this book addresses important issues relating to legal pluralism. It will be of interest to a wide audience including lawyers and legal academics, teachers, students, policy makers, and members of Aboriginal communities.
£84.60
Pushkin Press DO NOT DETONATE Without Presidential Approval: A Portfolio on the Subjects of Mid-century Cinema, the Broadway Stage and the American West
Writings on people and places, theater and film, in a portfolio of essays and photographs informing Wes Anderson's film Asteroid City. Featuring 8 newly commissioned pieces alongside more than 20 classic essays from the likes of François Truffaut and Jonas Mekas, DO NOT DETONATE explores key influences on celebrated director Wes Anderson's new film Asteroid City. Together they form a detailed, captivating portrait of the mid-century film world and the enduring myths of the American West. Contents: A Conversation Between Wes Anderson and Jake Perlin A Life excerpt - Elia Kazan The Celluloid Brassière - Andy Logan Rainy Day - Lillian Ross The Outskirts: Other Men's Women - Gina Telaroli The Petrified Forest - Jorge Luis Borges Ace in the Hole: Noir in Broad Daylight - Molly Haskell What Makes a Sad Heart Sing: Some Came Running - Michael Koresky One False Start, Never Wear the Same Dress Twice - Durga Chew-Bose Maigret at the Coroner's excerpt - Georges Simenon Sunbelt Noir: Desert Fury - Imogen Sara Smith The Voyage Down and Out: Inferno - Kent Jones Bad Day Near The River's Edge - Nicolas Saada Watching Fail Safe at the End of the World - K. Austin Collins Black Desert, White Desert - Serge Toubiana Marilyn Monroe and the Loveless World - Jonas Mekas Beyond the Stars - Jeremy Bernstein Coming: Nashville - Pauline Kael Coming Around the Mountain: Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Matt Zoller Seitz Selections from Close Encounters of the Third Kind Diary - Bob Balaban Introduction to Small Change: A Film Novel - François Truffaut By The Time I Get to Phoenix - Thora Siemsen My Guy - Hilton Als Wild to the Wild - Sam Shepard
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Sin Nombre
Tito pasa su primer año de instituto sumido en la monotonía. En su medido universo todo encaja a la perfección, hasta que la profesora de lengua encomienda a sus alumnos la redacción de un relato. Para mayor calamidad, paulatinamente se ve abordado en su espacio más íntimo por extraños personajes de los que no se puede zafar. Tan insólitos ellos y tan privativo lo que traen consigo, que ni siquiera echa mano de algún auxilio.Todo parece desplomarse, sin embargo, a medida que entran en su vida, va reconociendo que quizás no sean tan perniciosos como creía. Tomando como pretexto de sus elucubraciones el relato que debe escribir, pronto se convierten en sus máximos valedores, y más allá de eso, le arrastran hacia un laberinto de espejos del cual no aciertaa encontrar la salida. Traído hasta el límite de lo posible con lo improbable, revelará lo que se esconde bajo su equívoca identidad.
£16.69
SelfMadeHero The Anxiety Club
An illustrated guide to help identify, understand, and manage anxiety. In The Anxiety Club we are introduced to three characters, each with a different form of anxiety. After hearing their stories, we follow them into the therapy room, where they discover the behavioral, cognitive, and emotional tools to help free themselves from anxious thinking. Many people believe that there is no treatment for anxiety: they try to soothe their inner suffering with medication, alcohol, drugs, or binge eating. However, there are healthy ways to manage such negative thoughts and feelings. This self-help handbook, written by leading anxiety expert and psychiatrist Dr. Frédéric Fanget and editor Catherine Meyer and drawn by Pauline Aubry, helps the reader to identify, understand, and find freedom from anxiety.
£15.29
University of California Press Earth Sound Earth Signal: Energies and Earth Magnitude in the Arts
Earth Sound Earth Signal is a study of energies in aesthetics and the arts, from the birth of modern communications in the nineteenth century to the global transmissions of the present day. Douglas Kahn begins by evoking the Aeolian sphere music that Henry David Thoreau heard blowing along telegraph lines and the Aelectrosonic sounds of natural radio that Thomas Watson heard through the first telephone; he then traces the histories of science, media, music, and the arts to the 1960s and beyond. Earth Sound Earth Signal rethinks energy at a global scale, from brainwaves to outer space, through detailed discussions of musicians, artists and scientists such as Alvin Lucier, Edmond Dewan, Pauline Oliveros, John Cage, James Turrell, Robert Barry, Joyce Hinterding, and many others.
£27.00
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Sword Fighting 2: An Introduction to the Single-Handed Sword and Buckler
In the sequel to the first volume, which introduced the long sword, Herbert Schmidt explains single-handed sword fighting techniques with a buckler, or small shield. “Single-handed sword” here refers to the sword wielded in one hand, as used throughout almost the entire Middle Ages. This book analyzes historical evidence, taken mainly from the 13th-century German combat manual Manuscript I:33, or “Tower Manuscript,” the oldest and most widely trusted European sword fighting manual in existence. Find information on binds, posture, footwork, free fighting, and individual plays taken from the writings of fencing masters Hans Talhoffer, Andre Lignitzer, and Paulus Kal in this modern textbook that allows anyone interested—whether beginner or advanced—to work and improve his single-handed sword fighting skills.
£33.29
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Sword Fighting: An Introduction to handling a Long Sword
In the sequel to the first volume, which introduced the long sword, Herbert Schmidt explains single-handed sword fighting techniques with a buckler, or small shield. “Single-handed sword” here refers to the sword wielded in one hand, as used throughout almost the entire Middle Ages. This book analyzes historical evidence, taken mainly from the 13th-century German combat manual Manuscript I:33, or “Tower Manuscript,” the oldest and most widely trusted European sword fighting manual in existence. Find information on binds, posture, footwork, free fighting, and individual plays taken from the writings of fencing masters Hans Talhoffer, Andre Lignitzer, and Paulus Kal in this modern textbook that allows anyone interested—whether beginner or advanced—to work and improve his single-handed sword fighting skills.
£28.79
Trifaldi Producciones Multimedia S.L. Erasmo Toms Moro Melanchthon
Tres personajes fundamentales para entender la primera década del siglo XVI, cuyas vidas vienen marcadas por la cuestión religiosa y social de la Reforma. En el caso de Erasmo, cabeza visible de la intelectualidad europea, porque se vio asaltado por la rivalidad de las dos facciones (católicos radicales y reformados) que pretendían atraerlo hacia sus respectivas posiciones. La vida de Tomás Moro evoluciona desde el humanista autor de La Utopía, gran amigo y confidente de Erasmo, hasta el católico radical cercano al fanatismo del final de su vida. Melanchthon representa el humanismo y la pedagogía dentro de la Reforma. Desde su encuentro con Lutero en la Academia de Wittenberg, irá paulatinamente implicándose en la nueva doctrina para moderarla desde dentro, como pretendía, y como demostró en la Confesión de Ausburgo.
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Faber & Faber The Seasons of Cullen Church
Shortlisted for the 2016 T. S. Eliot Prize, this new collection of expert lyric poems from Whitbread Poetry Award winner Bernard O'Donoghue movingly animates the scenery and characters of his childhood in County Cork. The mythologies of family are here: the relative who maybe emigrated to America to be 'set upon at his arrival / for the few pounds sewn inside his coat'; the memory of 'Barty, a hopeless speller', caned so hard he dances; the big top come to the town park; the stolen apples raided from the orchard near the old school. Here too are the collective myths, the groundwater of older texts - Virgil's Aeneid, the Riddles of the Exeter Book, Dante's Purgatorio, the lives of the ancients and the gods - all of which in O'Donoghue's dexterous and discerning care reach forward from their long-ago origins to echo down our own lives.Many of these poems speak in elegy: for Connolly's Bookshop - closed down and mourned - or for lost friends; for the nostalgic places to which one cannot return, the field-corners and long roads of the deep past: 'So wistful is the recognition now / of the places that I hardly noted'.The stunning title piece, and the deft and poignant poems that make up this collection, will confirm O'Donoghue's place as one of the most approachable and agile voices in contemporary Irish and British poetry.'I'm fascinated by O'Donoghue's wry vision, his infinitely gentle manner of displacing our more predictable reactions to things as they are so that we glimpse their underlying tragedy.' Tom Paulin
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Oxford University Press Inc East of the Wardrobe: The Unexpected Worlds of C. S. Lewis
A fascinating look at the rich but under-appreciated Eastern sources behind the Narnia book C. S. Lewis was no great traveller but he was a prodigious bibliophile who absorbed the world's traditions of myth, religion, and cosmology. The Chronicles of Narnia are steeped in allusions to the Bible, Greek mythology, and medieval literature, all of which has been amply discussed by critics. But, until now, what has been overlooked are Lewis' significant borrowings from Eastern influences: Arabian Nights and the Persian poets, great travellers from Herodotus and Marco Polo to T. E. Lawrence and Robert Byron, and the famous fictional adventurers Baron Munchausen, Gulliver, and Sindbad. In East of the Wardrobe, Warwick Ball explores hitherto unrecognised and unexpected Eastern aspects in and influences on C. S. Lewis' Narnia books. These include storylines, themes, imagery, religious elements, and even the cities and landscapes of the East, as well as the 'Persian' style adopted by the illustrator of Narnia, Pauline Baynes. Themes borrowed from the great epics can also be found, from The Odyssey and Aeneid to the Kalevala and The Knight in the Panther's Skin. Delve deeper and Christianity is there along with paganism, but so too are Zoroastrian, Manichaean, and even Islamic and Sufi messages. Ultimately, these influences act as a reflection of the complex intellectual world that Lewis inhabited, of both his own unique philosophy and the wider social and intellectual climate of Oxford in the first half of the twentieth century. All readers of Lewis will find in East of the Wardrobe surprising new paths into the world of Narnia.
£25.30
Peeters Publishers Ephesische Entheullungen 1: Fruhe Christen in Einer Antiken Grossstadt. Zugleich Ein Beitrag Zur Frage Nach Den Kontexten Der Johannesapokalypse
In Ephesos befand sich eine der sieben Gemeinden, an welche der Seher Johannes seine Apokalypse schickte. Doch die Johannesapokalypse ist nicht der einzige neutestamentliche Text, der eine Verbindung mit Ephesos hat. Auch im Corpus Paulinum und in der Apostelgeschichte spielt Ephesos eine bedeutende Rolle, wenngleich viele "Einleitungsfragen" umstritten sind. Uber das antike Ephesos sind wir durch die Ausgrabungen und ein reichhaltiges Corpus von Inschriften sehr gut informiert. Allerdings blieben die Kontakte zwischen althistorischer und exegetischer Forschung bislang meistens sparlich. Ephesische Enthullungen 1 ist der erste Teil einer lokalgeschichtlichen Studie zur Johannesapokalypse. Dieser Band bundelt gleichermassen althistorische und exegetische Erkenntnisse uber Ephesos und die fruchristlichen Gruppen in dieser Stadt: Offenbar gab es um 100 n. Chr. in Ephesos unterschiedliche christliche Gemeinden, deren Texte - etwa das lukanische Doppelwerk - im Neuen Testament erhalten sind. Damit wird sowohl der hellenistische und romische als auch der judische und christliche Hintergrund beleuchtet, vor dem ihre ephesischen Horer die Johannesapokalypse rezipieren konnten.
£104.33
Springer Verlag, Singapore Digital Quantum Information Processing with Continuous-Variable Systems
The book provides theoretical methods of connecting discrete-variable quantum information processing to continuous-variable one. It covers the two major fields of quantum information processing, quantum communication and quantum computation, leading to achievement of a long-sought full security of continuous-variable quantum key distribution (QKD) and proposal of a resource-efficient method for optical quantum computing. Firstly, the book provides a security of continuous-variable QKD against arbitrary attacks under a realistic condition such as finite communication rounds and the use of digitized information processing. The book also provides the unified view for conventionally used approximate Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) codes, which encodes qudits on a continuous-variable system, enabling direct comparison between researches based on different approximations. The book finally proposes a resource-efficient method to realize the universal optical quantum computation using the GKP code via the direct preparation of the GKP magic state instead of GKP Pauli states. Feasibility of the proposed protocol is discussed based on the existing experimental proposals for the GKP state preparation.
£129.99
Pitch Publishing Ltd Flamengo: Winning all the Cups
Stephen Brandt tells the story of how Brazilian club Flamengo became the best football team in the world, winning cups at every level before beating the mighty Liverpool in 1981 to capture the Intercontinental Cup. On one side were the kings of Europe who'd recently won their third European Cup in six years, and on the other side Flamengo, who had just won the Copa Libertadores. Amid the dying days of a military dictatorship, Flamengo brought home a country-unifying title, a feat not seen since Pele's Santos won back-to-back Intercontinental Cups in 1962 and '63. Along the way, we meet the special players of that golden generation, including the legendary Junior, the underdog Nunes, Zico, the small-statured talent who was dubbed the next Pele, and the brilliant Tita. The Brazilian side managed by Paulo Cesar Carpegiani played an attractive, free-flowing style of football that Europeans had never seen before. Just a year later they provided many stars for Tele Santana's great team that lit up the 1982 World Cup.
£17.09
Pitch Publishing Ltd Kit and Caboodle: Football's Shirt Stories
Kits are cultural touchstones that tell us more about our club, ourselves and the beautiful game's custodians than we often realise. The colours, crests, designs and prices show what makes the game - and us - tick. Kit and Caboodle searches out the stories that our shirts tell us about our support and the society we accept or try to rebel against. The book alternates short, shirt stories with a deeper dive into themes of ethics, philanthropy and dumb decision making. We listen to MP Tracey Crouch as she tells us about her Fan Led Review and how shirts show the progress being made to a more equitable football ecosystem. Shirts also illustrate the rise and mutation of gambling from pools to NFTs and cryptocurrencies, attitudes to the LGBTQ+ community, how clubs like St Pauli are determined to be driven by their values and why Messi's transfer to PSG Qatar can never be financed by shirt sales. Unlike anything else we wear, our club shirts envelop us in the history of our team and give us a hint of the future.
£22.50
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Accidental Producer: How Anyone Can Get Their Show on Stage
Found yourself organising a show that you didn’t mean to? Or frustrated that no one else is producing your show and just want to do it yourself? You’re not alone. The Accidental Producer is the first-timer’s guide to getting a play, musical or anything else on stage. This step by step handbook explains every stage of the production process, from funding your project to selling the show and everything in between. Written by an experienced theatre producer this book additionally shares the perspectives of eleven industry specialists you might encounter on your journey. · Park Theatre Artistic Director, Jez Bond on how to connect to a venue decision maker · Fleabag producer, Francesca Moody on the secrets to success at the Edinburgh Fringe · Arts Council England Relationship Manager, Paula Varjack on how securing their funding actually works · Press representative, Chloe Nelkin on how to maximise a show’s press coverage · Agent, Alex Segal on approaching star actors This much-needed book’s liberating message is that anyone can produce a successful show, especially if they have in their armoury the advice of those that have come before.
£20.31
The University of Michigan Press Tomorrow Is the Question: New Directions in Experimental Music Studies
In recent decades, experimental music has flourished outside of European and American concert halls. The principles of indeterminacy, improvisation, nonmusical sound, and noise, pioneered in concert and on paper by the likes of Henry Cowell, John Cage, and Ornette Coleman, can now be found in a variety of new locations: activist films, rock recordings, and public radio broadcasts, not to mention in avant-garde movements around the world.The contributors to Tomorrow Is the Question explore these previously unexamined corners of experimental music history, considering topics such as Sonic Youth, Julius Eastman, the Downtown New York pop avant-garde of the 1970s, Fluxus composer Benjamin Patterson, Tokyo’s Music group (aka Group Ongaku), the Balinese avant-garde, the Leicester school of British experimentalists, Cuba’s Grupo de Experimentación Sonora del ICAIC, Pauline Oliveros’s score for the feminist documentary Maquilapolis, NPR’s 1980s RadioVisions, and the philosophy of experimental musical aesthetics. Taken together, this menagerie of people, places, and things makes up an experimentalism that is always partial, compromised, and invented in its local and particular formations—in other words, these individual cases suggest that experimentalism has been a far more variegated set of practices and discourses than previously recognised. Asking new questions leads to researching new materials, individuals, and contexts and, eventually, to the new critical paradigms that are necessary to interpret these new materials. Tomorrow Is the Question, gathering contributions from historical musicology, enthnomusicology, history, philosophy, and cultural studies, generates future research directions in experimental music studies by way of a productive inquiry that sustains and elaborates critical conversations.
£69.00
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Passio Christi, Tribulatio Discipuli: Eine exegetische und narratologische Untersuchung zu den Leidensvorstellungen des lk Doppelwerks
Die Arbeit analysiert durch exegetische und narratologische Untersuchungen die Charakteristika des lukanischen Doppelwerks. These ist, dass die Geschichte der Jünger bereits im Passionsbericht des Evangeliums antizipierend mitgedacht ist. Die lk Passionsgeschichte stellt die Jünger als Co-Subjekt des Leidens dar. Darüber hinaus weist diese Geschichte eine multiple story line auf. D.h., die Jüngergruppe treibt als Protagonist auch einen eigenständigen Subplot voran, während Jesus als Mentor ihnen hilft. Da dieselbe Erzählstruktur, in der die Jünger leiden und Jesus ihnen hilft, auch in Acta zu beobachten ist, erweist sich die lk Passionsgeschichte als Angelpunkt in der Erzählstruktur des Doppelwerks, während in der Auslegungsgeschichte bisher nur von Parallele die Rede war. Dadurch dass die Passio Christi und die Tribulatio Discipuli bei Lukas terminologisch voneinander unterschieden und in ein hierarchisches Verhältnis zueinander gebracht werden, lenkt Lukas die Leserempathie durch verschiedene Erzählfaktoren konsistent von Jesus auf die Jünger. Im Gegensatz zum übrigen NT und zur LXX unterscheidet Lukas beide Typen des Leidens vom Subjekt her, nämlich das Leiden Jesu als pa?e?? (passio) und das der Jünger als ??????(tribulatio). Lukas benutzt ??????als terminus technicus, mit dem er ausschließlich die Leidenssituationen der Jünger beschreibt. Für die Analyse der Empathie-Konstellation im lk Doppelwerk werden aktuelle Forschungen zur narrativen Empathie aufgegriffen und ein Modell kreiert, mit dem man quantitative Analysen durchführen kann. Verglichen werden u. a. die Perikopen Kreuzigung Jesu vs. Steinigung des Stephanus und letztes Gespräch Jesu vs. nAbschiedsrede des Paulus. Die Arbeit entwickelt zum Schluss ein Modell für eine Leidenshermeneutik. Das Modell nimmt sich als Leidensspirale aus.
£68.39
John Wiley & Sons Inc Relativistic Effects in Chemistry, Theory and Techniques and Relativistic Effects in Chemistry
E = mc2 and the Periodic Table . . . RELATIVISTIC EFFECTS IN CHEMISTRY This century's most famous equation, Einstein's special theory of relativity, transformed our comprehension of the nature of time and matter. Today, making use of the theory in a relativistic analysis of heavy molecules, that is, computing the properties and nature of electrons, is the work of chemists intent on exploring the mysteries of minute particles. The first work of its kind, Relativistic Effects in Chemistry details the computational and analytical methods used in studying the relativistic effects in chemical bonding as well as the spectroscopic properties of molecules containing very heavy atoms. The first of two independent volumes, Part A: Theory and Techniques describes the basic techniques of relativistic quantum chemistry. Its systematic five-part format begins with a detailed exposition of Einstein's special theory of relativity, the significance of relativity in chemistry, and the nature of relativistic effects, especially with molecules containing both main group atoms and transition metal atoms. Chapter 3 discusses the fundamentals of relativistic quantum mechanics starting from the Klein-Gordon equation through such advanced constructs as the Breit-Pauli and Dirac multielectron Hamiltonian. Modern computational techniques, of importance with problems involving very heavy molecules, are outlined in Chapter 4. These include the relativistic effective core potentials, ab initio CASSCF, CI, and RCI techniques. Chapter 5 describes relativistic symmetry using the double group symmetry of molecules and the classification of relativistic electronic states and is of special importance to chemists or spectroscopists interested in computing or analyzing electronic states of molecules containing very heavy atoms. An exceptional introduction to one of chemistry's foremost analytical techniques, Relativistic Effects in Chemistry is also evidence of the still unending reverberations of Einstein's revolutionary theory.
£209.95
Milkweed Editions A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2023A Library Journal Recommended Read for 2023A Ms. Magazine Most Anticipated Book of 2023A vibrant collection of personal and lyric essays in conversation with archival objects of Black history and memory.What are the politics of nature? Who owns it, where is it, what role does it play in our lives? Does it need to be tamed? Are we ourselves natural? In A Darker Wilderness, a constellation of luminary writers reflect on the significance of nature in their lived experience and on the role of nature in the lives of Black folks in the United States. Each of these essays engages with a single archival object, whether directly or obliquely, exploring stories spanning hundreds of years and thousands of miles, traveling from roots to space and finding rich Blackness everywhere.Erin Sharkey considers Benjamin Banneker’s 1795 almanac, as she follows the passing of seasons in an urban garden in Buffalo. Naima Penniman reflects on a statue of Haitian revolutionary François Makandal, within her own pursuit of environmental justice. Ama Codjoe meditates on rain, hair, protest, and freedom via a photo of a young woman during a civil rights demonstration in Alabama. And so on—with wide-ranging contributions from Carolyn Finney, Ronald Greer II, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Sean Hill, Michael Kleber-Diggs, Glynn Pogue, Katie Robinson, and Lauret Savoy—unearthing evidence of the ways Black people’s relationship to the natural world has persevered through colonialism, slavery, state-sponsored violence, and structurally racist policies like Jim Crow and redlining.A scrapbook, a family chest, a quilt—and an astounding work of historical engagement and literary accomplishment—A Darker Wilderness is a collection brimming with abundance and insight.
£14.99
Hips Road/Tazadik Arcana X: Musicians on Music
The final installment of John Zorn's major series of new music theory, with Oren Ambarchi, Peter Blegvad, Annea Lockwood, Henry Threadgill and many more Initiated in 1997 and now in its tenth and final installment, John Zorn's acclaimed Arcana series is a major source of new music theory and practice in the 21st century. Illuminating directly via the personal vision and experience of the practitioners themselves, who experience music not from a cool, safe distance, but from the white-hot center of the creative crucible itself, Arcana elucidates through essays, manifestos, scores, interviews, notebooks and critical papers. Over 25 years the ten volumes of Arcana have presented the writings of over 300 of the most extraordinary musical thinkers of our time, who address composing, performing, improvising, touring, collaborating, living and thinking about music from diverse, refreshing and often surprising perspectives. Technical, philosophical, political, artistic and mystical in nature, these writings provide direct connections to the creative processes and hidden stratagems of musicians from the worlds of classical, rock, jazz, film soundtrack, improvised music and more. Contributors include: Susan Alcorn, Oren Ambarchi, Ran Blake, Peter Blegvad, Tyondai Braxton, Patricia Brennan, John Butcher, Ben Coniguliaro, Amir Elsaffar, Kenny Grohowski, Tom Guralnick, Mark Helias, David Hertzberg, Stefan Jackiw, Dan Kaufman, Derek Keller, Richard Kessler, Pauline Kim, Ulrich Krieger, Hannah Lash, Dan Lippel, Annea Lockwood, Dave Lombardo, Charlie Looker, Thomas Morgan, Stephen O’Malley, Laura Ortman, Alex Paxton, Alexandria Smith, Conrad Tao, Pat Thomas, Henry Threadgill, Anna Webber, Fay Victor, Christian Wolff and Miguel Zenon.
£27.00
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Mean Streets
Mean Streets was Martin Scorsese’s third feature film, and the one that confirmed him as a major new talent. On its premiere at the New York Film Festival in 1973, the critic Pauline Kael hailed the film as ‘a true original of our period, a triumph of personal film-making’. The tale of combative friends and small-time crooks is set amid the bars, pool halls, tenements and streets of Manhattan’s Little Italy. Scorsese has said of his childhood neighbourhood, ‘its very texture was interwoven with organised crime’, and this quality would dramatically inform the tone and restless energy of his seminal film. Demetrios Matheou’s insightful study considers Mean Streets’ production history in the context of the New Hollywood period of American cinema, noting also the key roles played by John Cassavetes and Roger Corman. He analyses the importance of Scorsese’s background to the film’s characters and themes, including preoccupations with guilt, redemption and criminal subcultures; the development of the director’s film-making process and signature style; the way in which he both drew upon and invigorated the crime genre; his relationship with emerging stars Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel, and the film’s reception and legacy. Matheou argues that while Taxi Driver (1976) and Raging Bull (1980) are regarded as Scorsese’s greatest films of the period, Mean Streets is the more influential achievement. With it, Scorsese not only paved the way for a new kind of crime movie, not least his own GoodFellas (1990), but also inspired generations of independently-minded film-makers.
£12.99
Thames & Hudson Ltd Gwen John: Art and Life in London and Paris
A Sunday Times Art Book of the Year: the first critical illustrated biography of this much-loved artist, locating her firmly in the art worlds of late 19th- and early 20th-century London and Paris. One of the most significant British artists of the twentieth century, Gwen John (1867-1939) made her life and work within the heady art worlds of London and Paris. This critical biography demolishes the myth of Gwen John as a recluse and situates her, brilliant, singular and assured, amid a rich cultural milieu that included James McNeill Whistler, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Paula Modersohn-Becker and Maude Gonne. Art historian, curator and novelist Alicia Foster draws on previously unpublished archival sources to explore John’s many relationships with artists and writers, including her affair with Auguste Rodin, passionate friendships with Jeanne Robert Foster and Véra Oumançoff, and correspondence with, among others, the poet Rainer Maria Rilke and her Slade compatriot and fellow painter Ursula Tyrwhitt. John’s library, ranging from writing by her friends Rilke and Arthur Symonds to French philosophy and religious thought, is considered, as is her part in the increasing presence and visibility of women artists in the early-twentieth-century art world. From the life rooms of the Slade to the Paris salons, this is the story of an artist both devoted to her craft and deeply involved in the life and creativity of her era. With over 120 illustrations, Gwen John: Art and Life in London and Paris offers a lively, meticulously researched portrait of Gwen John as a vital and utterly compelling figure in twentieth-century art history.
£27.00
Liverpool University Press Fernando Pessoa: A Critical Introduction
A Critical Introduction proposes a new didactic and dynamic way of reading the great twentieth-century poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935). The aim is to present a holistic vision of this complex poet, promoting his literary geniality in order to better understand his orthonymic-heteronymic poetry. A guiding motif is Pessoa's own Be as plural as the universe. In leading the reader through the poet's published literary work, Jerónimo Pizarro allows an intimate perspective, alongside an academic one, to better understand the workings of Pessoa's mind and life. Discussion centres on the dilemmas an editor faces when editing posthumously. A prime question revolves around the genesis of Pessoa's heteronyms and orthonyms. Understanding is revealed by a critical perspective on the unity that exists in all of Pessoa's literary work. Interpretations of the poems; explanation of the profundity of The Book of Disquiet; and his isms of Paulism, Caeirism, Intersectionism and Cessationism, are discussed and analysed. The issue of Pessoa's astrological predictions his birth year and the effects of this event on Portuguese national history is debated. A chapter is devoted to the effect that translating Omar Khayyám's Rubáiyát had on the poet. The work contains eleven texts written by Pessoa in English (including an autobiographical note from 1935), a substantive dual language bibliography, and is highly illustrated with facsimiles of the poet's own written material. A Critical Introduction is essential reading for all scholars and students of Pessoa's literary output and life circumstances. The work has been written to appeal to cultural studies (arts and aesthetics) enthusiasts in general at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, but given the engagement of new critical material it also provides a structured resource for future research.
£100.10
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Frühgeschichte der Mittelmeerkulturen: Historisch-archäologisches Handbuch
Von der ausgehenden Bronzezeit bis zum Beginn der sog. historischen Epoche (12. bis 6. Jh. v.Chr.) erschließt das Handbuch erstmalig gemeinsam die Frühgeschichte aller ans Mittelmeer angrenzenden Kulturen. Dazu zählen neben Phöniziern, Griechen und Etruskern zahlreiche weitere Völkerschaften wie Iberer, Ligurer, Thraker, Phryger, Luwier, Aramäer und Libyer. Der Band führt die aus materiellen Quellen, Schrift- und Bildzeugnissen gewonnen Erkenntnisse aller hierzu forschenden Einzelwissenschaften zusammen, u.a. der Vorderasiatischen, Phönizischen und Punischen wie auch Biblischen Archäologie, der Ägäis- und Nordafrika-Forschung, der Villanova-Forschung und Etruskologie, der Iberologie, Frühgriechischen Historiographie und Dark-Ages-Studien. Die Epoche ist insgesamt durch das kulturelle Zusammenwachsen der Mittelmeer-Anrainer geprägt, weshalb ein inhaltlicher Schwerpunkt auf den Kontakten, Kultur- und Wissenstransfers und gemeinsamen Schlüsselthemen wie Mobilität, Religion, Ressourcen, Sprachen und Schriften liegt. Mit Registern und zahlreichen Tabellen und Karten in Pauly-Qualität.
£177.45
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Student Guide to Freire's 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed'
This book serves as an important companion to Freire’s seminal work, providing powerful insights into both a philosophically sound and politically inspired understanding of Freire’s book, supporting application of his pedagogy in enacting emancipatory educational programs in the world today. Antonia Darder closely examines Freire’s ideas as they are articulated in Pedagogy of the Oppressed, beginning with a historical discussion of Freire’s life and a systematic discussion of the central philosophical traditions that informed his revolutionary ideas. She engages and explores Freire’s fundamental themes and ideas, including the issues of humanization, the teacher/student relationship, reflection, dialogue, praxis, and his larger emancipatory vision. Questions are included throughout Chapter 3, Reading the Text Chapter-by-Chapter, to enable greater discussion of, and engagement with, the text itself. The book includes an incisive interview with Freire’s widow, Ana Maria Araujo Freire. The bibliography offers invaluable support to those looking to read and study other works by Paulo Freire.
£16.43
SAGE Publications Inc Rational Emotive Behavioural Counselling in Action
`The book is highly readable and makes extensive use of an actual case study in order to illustrate the approach′ - Mark Edwards, Nurtuting Potential `As the creator of Rational Emotive Therapy I have probably read more books dealing with its theory and practice than has anyone else. Of all these books, Windy Dryden and Michael Neenan′s is easily one of the best. In a remarkably concise way they have distilled most of the main principles and methods into a small, highly practical and exceptionally readable volume. Any counsellor or therapist will find this book unusually useful and valuable′ - Albert Ellis, Albert Ellis Institute Rational Emotive Behavioural Counselling in Action, Third Edition is a brand new edition of this highly popular guide to a much used approach. Combining the theoretical with the practical, the book provides an accessible guide for newcomers to this form of counselling. The book describes the way in which the REB approach helps clients to identify the self-defeating beliefs behind their problems and instead to think, feel and behave differently as a means of achieving valued goals. Fully revised and updated, the book includes an important client case study following therapeutic work with `Paula′, which introduces the reader to the strategies and techniques needed at every stage of the process. Here, the reader is given an insight into the nuts and bolts of the therapeutic session, including conversations between client and therapist to illustrate the counselling sequence, how to help the client achieve goals, and how to end the counselling process. Rational Emotive Behavioural Counselling in Action, Third Edition is invaluable for trainees of REB counselling, as well as those who want to incorporate elements of the approach into their own therapeutic work.
£39.68
Punto de Lectura Te dejé ir
El thriller psicológico ganador del Theakston Old Peculier a la mejor novela policíaca del año. Un libro que no te dejará ir.Escalofriante, absorbente, una novela muy bien hecha con un giro bestial.Paula Hawkins, autora de La chica del trenTodo sucedió muy rápido. No podría haberlo evitado... o sí?En un solo segundo, el mundo de Jenna Gray se ha convertido en una pesadilla. Su único deseo ahora es huir para empezar una nueva vida lejos de todo. Desesperada por escapar, alquila una pequeña casa en la costa de Gales, esperando encontrar allí el modo de olvidar.Poco a poco, Jenna empezará a vislumbrar la luz de un futuro. Sin embargo, la persiguen sus miedos, una pena insoportable y el recuerdo de una oscura noche de noviembre que cambió su vida para siempre.Porque nadie puede huir de su pasado... y el pasado está a punto de alcanzarla.Reseñas:Un thriller inteligente que hace gala de una escritura de calidad
£12.25
Ediciones Akal 428 despus de Cristo Historia de un ao
El nuestro será un verdadero viaje a través del mundo tardorromano en un año que tendrá una gran importancia para su evolución política. Nos moveremos a lo largo de un recorrido circular entorno a los eventos y personajes que dan forma a éste mundo tardoantiguo. Partiendo del evento políticamente más relevante del año 428 d.C, la caída del reino de Armenia, atravesaremos la Europa y el Mediterráneo de la época, para después virar hacia Oriente, hasta el primer tramo de la Ruta de la Seda, hacia los confines de otros mundos. Durante este viaje encontraremos ciudades y desiertos, palacios y monasterios, escuelas paganas y santuarios cristianos. Y, sobretodo, conoceremos al elenco de personajes que dan forma a este largo año, como los emperadores Teodosio II, Valentiniano III y Vahrâm V. o generales romanos, como Flavio Dionisio. jefes bárbaros como Genserico, o señores de la guerra como el sarraceno al-Mundhir. También religiosos como Simeón Estilita, Paulino de Nola y Agostino. mujeres
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Editorial Sal Terrae Pablo de Tarso a Roma
Este libro presenta una nueva reconstrucción de la historia de Pablo de Tarso, dentro del marco del movimiento cristiano antiguo. Para ello concede decididamente la primacía documental a las cartas auténticas paulinas. Todas ellas fueron escritas al ritmo de la problemática misional durante la primera mitad de la década de los años 50. Son, pues, los únicos escritos que se nos conservan de la primera generación cristiana. Y eso quiere decir que representan los documentos clave y absolutamente imprescindibles para la reconstrucción histórica no sólo de la vida de Pablo, sino también de los primeros pasos del cristianismo. El libro está estructurado conforme a las diversas etapas que se descubren en el camino histórico de Pablo. La primera época, de aproximadamente treinta años, fue la de su existencia dentro del ámbito del judaísmo helenista (Primera Parte). Después de ingresar en el movimiento cristiano, Pablo pasó una larga época, de aproximadamente dieciséis años de duración (33-49 d
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ediciones Pàmies La casa de los sueños
Siglo XII a. C. Ramsés III, segundo faraón de la XX dinastía, gobierna Egipto.En Asuat, pequeña población situada al sur de Tebas, la vida transcurre tranquila. Sus habitantes no poseen riquezas, pero disfrutan de paz y alimentos en abundancia. En este apacible rincón del reino se ha criado Thu, una niña despierta y ambiciosa, hija de un guerrero "libu" y de la comadrona del pueblo.Movida por el fuego de quienes le adivinan un destino de gloria, la joven Thu aprovecha la visita del misterioso e influyente Hui, médico y vidente, para introducirse en la corte de Ramsés. Gracias a su dominio del arte de la medicina y a sus indudables dotes de seducción, Thu se convierte en la concubina preferida del faraón. Sin embargo, a medida que su poder crece, la joven médica se ve envuelta en un mundo de intrigas y maniobras palaciegas que ponen su vida en peligro.Con "La casa de los sueños", los lectores de Pauline Gedge ?autora de "La dama del Nilo", "El faraón" y "El papiro de Saqqara
£21.10
Había una fiesta
La historia de unarave que salió mal, marcada por el costumbrismomillennial y el descubrimiento del feminismo a través de un grupo de turistas posadolescentes.Todo empieza y todo termina con esta fiesta: la que protagonizan cuatro jóvenes a las que los demás miran como si viajaran solas aunque ellas sepan que no pueden estar mejor acompañadas. Nadia, Jero, María y Paula tienen 18 años y se encuentran de viaje en la costa de Nápoles. Están a punto de cruzar el umbral de la vida adulta y esas vacaciones improvisadas prometían convertirse en las que iban a definir el resto de sus vidas. Entre la euforia de la adolescencia, los paisajes idílicos de Sorrento, las conversaciones sobre sexo y religión y una música ligera que les acompaña en los auriculares en todo momento, las cuatro deberán afrontar un episodio traumático que lo romperá sus expectativas en mil pedazos.Con una prosa sencilla y directa que unas veces recuerda a las autoras
£15.09
Trotamundos Brasil
Por dónde empezar? Será la primera pregunta que os hagáis cuando planifiquéis vuestro viaje a Brasil. Una pregunta difícil de responder pues este vasto país es un continente en el interior del continente americano. Otra pregunta común: playa o montaña? Aunque en este caso la formularíamos así: playa o selva? Tenéis por delante una emocionante labor, a dónde ir? cómo organizar el viaje?La guía Trotamundos de Brasil os proporciona algunas respuestas y os propone la visita comenzando por el sureste: Río de Janeiro y sus playas, Sao Paulo, Espirito Santo y minas de Gerais. En el centro y oeste encontraréis Brasilia, Goiás Velha, Mato Grosso y Mato Grosso do Sul. Al sur: Paraná y Santa Caterina. Por último, al norte y noreste: la Amazonía, Maranhao, Ceará, Río Grande do Norte, Pernambuco, Olinda, Porto de Calinhas, Salvador de Bahía y su litoral. Qué ilusión! Qué gran aventura! No os emocionáis de tan solo pronunciar estos nombres...?Todos los lugares propuestos van acompañados de p
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Pearson Education Limited Financial Accounting An Introduction
Gain a deeper understanding of the main Financial Accounting principles with a core textbook on the subject. Financial Accounting: An Introduction, 9th edition by Pauline Weetman and Darren Jubb will offer you the resources you need to explore and acquire a deeper understanding of a wide range of concepts around the discipline. Written by expert teachers in the field, this text is ideal for undergraduates in Business Studies degrees, Undergraduates in Accounting courses, students studying Accounting for MBA and Postgraduate courses, and Professional courses introducing Accounting for the first time. This edition focuses on retaining all the features that have contributed to its popularity, including its focus on the accounting equations, a clear and accessible writing style, a frequent short activities throughout the book, and the extensive use of real-world case studies, offering you a deeper understanding of the topics.
£60.21
Birlinn General Running the Smoke: 26 First-Hand Accounts of Tackling the London Marathon
This updated edition features a new introduction, and an exclusive interview with long-distance runner Paula Radcliffe. It is the world's most iconic road race. It is twenty-six-point-two miles of iconic landmarks, cheers, tears, sweat, pain, courage, determination and inspiration. It is triumph over adversity on a colossal scale. It is the London Marathon - and it's an event unlike any other. Running The Smoke tells the story of what it's like to take part in this race in the most enlightening and enriching way possible: from the perspectives of twenty-six different people who have participated in it since its inception in 1981. Candid and inspiring if you are preparing for your first marathon or your 100th, Running The Smoke will give you the encouragement, insight and belief you need to cross that line.
£11.24
Duke University Press Black Trans Feminism
In Black Trans Feminism Marquis Bey offers a meditation on blackness and gender nonnormativity in ways that recalibrate traditional understandings of each. Theorizing black trans feminism from the vantages of abolition and gender radicality, Bey articulates blackness as a mutiny against racializing categorizations; transness as a nonpredetermined, wayward, and deregulated movement that works toward gender’s destruction; and black feminism as an epistemological method to fracture hegemonic modes of racialized gender. In readings of the essays, interviews, and poems of Alexis Pauline Gumbs, jayy dodd, and Venus Di’Khadijah Selenite, Bey turns black trans feminism away from a politics of gendered embodiment and toward a conception of it as a politics grounded in fugitivity and the subversion of power. Together, blackness and transness actualize themselves as on the run from gender. In this way, Bey presents black trans feminism as a mode of enacting the wholesale dismantling of the world we have been given.
£24.99
Hodder & Stoughton The Blood Line: an absolutely gripping detective crime novel to keep you hooked
SOMEONE HAS BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS... Claire Beacham arrives home to a parcel on her doorstep - no note, no label. As a politician she has received her fair share of hate mail, but there's no way she could be prepared for what's inside the box. A severed head falls to her kitchen floor; the rich, red drip of blood on her hands. The terrifying package is a message. But who sent it and why? DI Finn and DC Mattie Paulsen are on the case. But what they don't yet know is that this is only Claire's first delivery. There will be more. And each package means another body... Praise for Will Shindler's DI Alex Finn series: 'Riveting' The Sunday Times 'Excellent' Weekend Sport'Unmissable' Sunday Express Magazine'Gripping' Heat'This is the best kind of police procedural' Literary Review
£9.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Freire and Critical Theorists
This book draws connections between Paulo Freire and some of the most influential critical scholars of the 20th century. Each chapter pairs Freire with one of eleven critical scholars, giving a biographical summary and expanding the shared themes in their work. The critical theorists covered are: Mikhail Bakhtin, Pierre Bourdieu, Enrique Dussel, Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault, Nancy Fraser, Erich Fromm, Antonio Gramsci, Jürgen Habermas, bell hooks and Iris Young. The book takes up Freire’s invitation to use his perspective as a lens into different contexts and offers an expanded look at Freire’s contribution to critical theory. While introducing the connections between Freire and other critical scholars the book reveals the importance of Freire’s work to political sociology, critical race theory, decolonial theory, feminist theories and critical linguistics.
£20.79
Hodder & Stoughton Kind of Cruel: Culver Valley Crime Book 7
The brilliantly chilling seventh crime thriller from the queen of psychological suspense - a must-read for fans of Clare Mackintosh and Paula Hawkins.'Utterly chilling' Observer'Truly hair-raising' Independent on Sunday Some secrets are so dark you keep them even from yourself . . .When Amber Hewerdine consults a hypnotherapist as a desperate last resort, she doesn't expect that anything much will change.She doesn't expect it to help with her chronic insomnia . . .She doesn't expect to hear herself, under hypnosis, saying words that mean nothing to her: 'Kind, cruel, kind of cruel' - words she has seen somewhere before, if only she could remember where . . .She doesn't expect to be arrested two hours later, as a result of having spoken those words out loud, in connection with the brutal murder of Katharine Allen, a woman she's never heard of . . .
£9.99
University of Notre Dame Press Irish Ethnologies
Irish Ethnologies gives an overview of the field of Irish ethnology, covering representative topics of institutional history and methodology, as well as case studies dealing with religion, ethnicity, memory, development, folk music, and traditional cosmology. This collection of essays draws from work in multiple disciplines including but not limited to anthropology and ethnomusicology. These essays, first published in French in the journal Ethnologie française, illuminate the complex history of Ireland and exhibit the maturity of Irish anthropology. Martine Segalen contends that these essays are part of a larger movement that “galvanized the quiet revolution in the domain of the ethnology of France.” They did so by making specific examples, in this instance Ireland, inform a larger definition of a European identity. The essays, edited by Ó Giolláin, also significantly explain, expand, and challenge “Irish ethnography.” From twelfth-century accounts to Anglo-Irish Romanticism, from topographical surveys to statistical accounts, the statistical and literary descriptions of Ireland and the Irish have prefigured the ethnography of Ireland. This collection of articles on the ethnographic disciplines in Ireland provides an instructive example of how a local anthropology can have lessons for the wider field. This book will interest academics and students of anthropology, folklore studies, history, and Irish Studies, as well as general readers. Contributors: Martine Segalen, Diarmuid Ó Giolláin, Hastings Donnan, Anne Byrne, Pauline Garvey, Adam Drazin, Gearóid Ó Crualaoich, Joseph Ruane, Ethel Crowley, Dominic Bryan, Helena Wulff, Guy Beiner, Sylvie Muller, and Anthony McCann.
£32.40
Columbia University Press How to Read Chinese Poetry: A Guided Anthology
In this "guided" anthology, experts lead students through the major genres and eras of Chinese poetry from antiquity to the modern time. The volume is divided into 6 chronological sections and features more than 140 examples of the best shi, sao, fu, ci, and qu poems. A comprehensive introduction and extensive thematic table of contents highlight the thematic, formal, and prosodic features of Chinese poetry, and each chapter is written by a scholar who specializes in a particular period or genre. Poems are presented in Chinese and English and are accompanied by a tone-marked romanized version, an explanation of Chinese linguistic and poetic conventions, and recommended reading strategies. Sound recordings of the poems are available online free of charge. These unique features facilitate an intense engagement with Chinese poetical texts and help the reader derive aesthetic pleasure and insight from these works as one could from the original. The companion volume How to Read Chinese Poetry Workbook presents 100 famous poems (56 are new selections) in Chinese, English, and romanization, accompanied by prose translation, textual notes, commentaries, and recordings. Contributors: Robert Ashmore (Univ. of California, Berkeley); Zong-qi Cai; Charles Egan (San Francisco State); Ronald Egan (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara); Grace Fong (McGill); David R. Knechtges (Univ. of Washington); Xinda Lian (Denison); Shuen-fu Lin (Univ. of Michigan); William H. Nienhauser Jr. (Univ. of Wisconsin); Maija Bell Samei; Jui-lung Su (National Univ. of Singapore); Wendy Swartz (Columbia); Xiaofei Tian (Harvard); Paula Varsano (Univ. of California, Berkeley); Fusheng Wu (Univ. of Utah)
£98.10
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Dialogues with Degas: Influence and Antagonism in Contemporary Art
Dialogues with Degas demonstrates the ongoing relevance of Edgar Degas to 20th- and 21st-century ideas and art practices. The first in-depth examination of this major artist’s impact on contemporary art, this book explores how contemporary practitioners have used Degas’s creativity as a springboard to engage imaginatively and critically with themes of colonialism, gender, race and class. Individual chapters are devoted to dialogues between Degas’s art and works produced by Frank Auerbach, Cecily Brown, Xinyi Cheng, Ryan Gander, Maggi Hambling, Damien Hirst, Howard Hodgkin, Chantal Joffe, Leon Kossoff, R.B. Kitaj, Juan Muñoz, Paula Rego, Jenny Saville, Yinka Shonibare, Cy Twombly and Rebecca Warren. Through close analyses of selected paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures, Kathryn Brown explores how Degas’s technical and compositional experiments have been extended or challenged in innovative ways. By experimenting with the materials and methods of existing works, contemporary artists generate visual palimpsests that make new demands of the viewer and prompt a reconsideration of ideas that have informed histories of 19th-century French art. The book overturns familiar conceptions of influence by eschewing a genealogical approach and prioritizing, instead, the analysis of non-linear encounters between artworks. This encourages a new conception of the agency of visual artefacts and of the conversations they are capable of entertaining with each other. While this study sheds new light on Degas’s art and that of his interlocutors, it also has methodological significance for the writing of art history.
£90.00
Columbia University Press Class Clowns: How the Smartest Investors Lost Billions in Education
The past thirty years have seen dozens of otherwise successful investors try to improve education through the application of market principles. They have funneled billions of dollars into alternative schools, online education, and textbook publishing, and they have, with surprising regularity, lost their shirts.In Class Clowns, professor and investment banker Jonathan A. Knee dissects what drives investors' efforts to improve education and why they consistently fail. Knee takes readers inside four spectacular financial failures in education: Rupert Murdoch's billion-dollar effort to reshape elementary education through technology; the unhappy investors—including hedge fund titan John Paulson—who lost billions in textbook publisher Houghton Mifflin; the abandonment of Knowledge Universe, Michael Milken's twenty-year mission to revolutionize the global education industry; and a look at Chris Whittle, founder of EdisonLearning and a pioneer of large-scale transformational educational ventures, who continues to attract investment despite decades of financial and operational disappointment.Although deep belief in the curative powers of the market drove these initiatives, it was the investors' failure to appreciate market structure that doomed them. Knee asks: What makes a good education business? By contrasting rare successes, he finds a dozen broad lessons at the heart of these cautionary case studies. Class Clowns offers an important guide for public policy makers and guardrails for future investors, as well as an intelligent exposé for activists and teachers frustrated with the repeated underperformance of these attempts to shake up education.
£16.99
