Insider tips on creating a luxuriously comfortable home from Darren Palmer. Easy Luxury is a sourcebook of stylish and achievable ways to create a luxury look in your home. Lavishly illustrated with photographs of Darren's own interior design projects, ranging from apartments to larger family homes, it provides key styling ideas that will help you get the most out of a space and create a big impact for a realistic investment of time, energy and money. Whether you are styling a new home, getting a property ready to sell, or simply redecorating, Easy Luxury provides expert design tips and solutions for creating a home that encompasses a luxe, designer aesthetic while still embodying comfort. The book moves from large-scale practicalities and planning through to the elements of design, and takes a detailed look at styling room by room (and the goals, opportunities and potential pitfalls involved).
Through a selection of family homes, Darren Palmer gives us an insight into their occupants' relationship to their living spaces, providing information as well as solutions to questions we may have about what some of our own design challenges may currently be, or may be in the future. Whether single parents with one child, married couples with kids, older working couples with grown children and grandchildren, middle-aged couples with no kids and no pets - our lives have different demands, and our homes reflect this, in every way. Each family group will have a different set of needs and challenges; the associated constraints, requirements and solutions resulting in specially designed spaces that are as individual as all the people living within them. Darren's book demonstrates in engaging, information-filled text and stunning photography that we can draw inspiration and practical solutions from the way different families have tailored various interior design elements - storage, lighting, furniture, materials, larger and smaller spaces - to their unique brief. In HomeSpace, we'll find out what makes people happy and fulfilled through the homes they have created, homes that work to support the family in their lives.
This book explores criminal justice responses to Sudanese Australians, crime and victimization. Based on research in four major Queensland communities, it adopts a multi-faceted approach to capture the ‘voices’ of various interest groups. Challenging the concept that Sudanese Australian refugees are the criminal ‘other’ that primary definers such as the media or would have us believe, it also highlights the differently situated subgroups of Sudanese Australians with a focus on how individuals and groups develop and maintain a sense of belonging: not always successful and not always law abiding but by no means indicative of the reductive notion of the criminogenic refugee.
Tyranny rules in Palanaev. King Tejenas and his Red Army have the world gripped with fear and contempt until a chance encounter leaves a boy with the power of myths and legends he'd been taught to fear and threatens to loosen the iron the grip of dictatorship. A world of mystery and magic. Palanaev will set Aleryn on a perilous quest for truth and vengeance with a mystical beast to call his own and a will set like stone. He will find himself in the midst of a thick and twisted plot where the truth of his origins is shockingly revealed and his world us forever changed.
Will & Love examines four of Shakespeare’s love plays (Romeo and Juliet, Troilus and Cressida, Twelfth Night, and Antony and Cleopatra) in light of the Augustinian psychology at the heart of the theological romance tradition. This tradition, which Shakespeare inherits from medieval theologian-poets such as Boethius, Dante, Petrarch, and Chaucer, issues from the idea, initially expressed by Augustine in his Confessions, that love functions as volitional weight, as a kind of magnetism or almost-gravitational force—that it moves the lover in mysterious ways yet without diminishing his or her agency. Will & Love highlights Shakespeare’s conception of love in terms of motion and explores the metaphysical, ethical, psychological, and dramatic implications of his doing so.
Taking its title from a 1987 Smith's song, Drew Pettifer's I keep mine hidden is a book of intimate photographs of the artist's friends and lovers taken over the past two years. These previously unseen images form something of a diary cum queer family album as the willing subjects make themselves available for the camera's gaze. The camera lingers - in bedrooms, bathrooms and often watery external environments - over the naked and semi-naked bodies of young men as they are caught in moments of self-admiration and introspection. Writing in the foreword to I keep mine hidden, Daniel Palmer observes: "While we might remark the prevalence of mirrors and liquids - hinting at the vulnerabilities and fluidity of a certain kind of youthful male sexuality - above all, it seems, these are simply images of pretty young men who have been persuaded to pose by a friend who likes to look... This is photography as a desiring machine and a tool to become other, reminding us that as much as photography concerns identity (from the family archive to the mug shot) it functions even more effectively as fantasy." Indeed Drew Pettifer himself, has stated "... this series focuses on the relationship between masculinity and vulnerability. As a queer man photographing mostly straight male subjects there is a strong element of sexual desire within these works. Much of the subsequent 'impersonation' of identity therefore revolves around the performance of masculinity and homosociality in response to the queer gaze".
Based upon original research, this book is a historically informed exploration of current thinking and practices concerning democratic policing. Rather than an exhaustive compendium of developments in any one country, the book encourages an appreciation of both the importance of thinking about the means towards enhancing democratic policing as well as an understanding of the links and tensions between democratic policing and the broader cultural, economic, and political contexts. Numerous case studies are presented which will be of interest to those researching and developing textbooks in the area.
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