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A Dictionary of Modern Design

By: Jonathan Woodham

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Over 950 entries From the Arts and Crafts Movement to Postmodernism, Apple to Frank Lloyd Wright, this fascinating dictionary covers the past 160 years of international design, with accessible entries on branding, graphics, industrial design, functionalism, and fashion. New entries on digital design and sustainable design bring the coverage up to date. The dictionary's international focus takes in major movements, key concepts, design terminology, and important design institutions, museums, and heritage sites. The new edition reflects the growing global importance of design, with coverage of India, China, the countries of the Pacific Rim, Eastern Europe and East Asia, and demonstrates how developments in the design of technology influence everyday life, with new entries on fonts, games developers such as Gunpei Yokoi of Nintendo, Android, Samsung, and Blackberry, and a fully revised entry on Apple. The A-Z entries are complemented by an extensive bibliography and a timeline.

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Oxford University Press

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0192518534

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Twentieth Century Design

By: Jonathan M. Woodham

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Twentieth Century Design

By: Jonathan M. Woodham

A look at the wider issues of design and industrial culture throughout Europe, Scandinavia, North America, and the Far East. The book explores the way in which 20th-century designs such as the Coca-Cola bottle have affected our culture more than those considered true classics

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Oxford Paperbacks

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0192842048

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Twentieth Century Design

By: Jonathan M. Woodham

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Twentieth Century Design

By: Jonathan M. Woodham

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How Curious a Land

Conflict and Change in Greene County, Georgia, 1850-1885

By: Jonathan M. Bryant

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How Curious a Land

Conflict and Change in Greene County, Georgia, 1850-1885

By: Jonathan M. Bryant

The story of the Civil War and Reconstruction in Greene County, Georgia, is a remarkable tale of both fundamental change and essential continuity. In How Curious a Land, Jonathan Bryant follows the county's social, economic, and legal transformation from a wealthy, self-sufficient plantation economy based on slavery to a largely impoverished, economically dependent community dominated by a new commercial class of merchants and lawyers. Emancipated slaves made up two-thirds of the county's population at the end of the Civil War, and thanks to an able, charismatic, and politically active leadership, they enjoyed early success in pressing for their rights. But their gains, says Bryant, were only temporary, because the white elite retained control of the legal system and used it effectively against blacks. Law also helped shape the course of economic change as, for example, postbellum laws designed to benefit the new commercial elite ensured poverty for most of the county's small farmers, both black and white, by relegating them to the status of sharecroppers and tenants. As a result, the county's wealth, though greatly diminished in the postbellum years, remained concentrated in the hands of a small elite.

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UNC Press Books

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1469617110

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Hollywood and the Invention of England

Projecting the English Past in American Cinema, 1930-2017

By: Jonathan Stubbs

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Hollywood and the Invention of England

Projecting the English Past in American Cinema, 1930-2017

By: Jonathan Stubbs

Drawing on new archival research into Hollywood production history and detailed analysis of individual films, Hollywood and the Invention of England examines the surprising affinity for the English past in Hollywood cinema. Stubbs asks why Hollywood filmmakers have so frequently drawn on images and narratives depicting English history, and why films of this type have resonated with audiences in America. Beginning with an overview of the cultural interaction between American film and English historical culture, the book proceeds to chart the major filmmaking cycles which characterise Hollywood's engagement with the English past from the 1930s to the present, assessing the value of English-themed films in the American film industry while also placing them in a broader historical context.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501305840

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Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Product Design

By: Jonathan Chapman

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Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Product Design

By: Jonathan Chapman

As a cultivated form of invention, product design is a deeply human phenomenon that enables us to shape, modify and alter the world around us – for better or worse. The recent emergence of the sustainability imperative in product design compels us to recalibrate the parameters of good design in an unsustainable age. Written by designers, for designers, the Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Product Design presents the first systematic overview of the burgeoning field of sustainable product design. Brimming with intelligent viewpoints, critical propositions, practical examples and rich theoretical analyses, this book provides an essential point of reference for scholars and practitioners at the intersection of product design and sustainability. The book takes readers to the depth of our engagements with the designed world to advance the social and ecological purpose of product design as a critical twenty-first-century practice. Comprising 35 chapters across 6 thematic parts, the book’s contributors include the most significant international thinkers in this dynamic and evolving field.

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1317435923

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A History of Ireland in 250 Episodes – Everything You've Ever Wanted to Know About Irish History

Fascinating Snippets of Irish History from the Ice Age to the Peace Process

By: Jonathan Bardon

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A History of Ireland in 250 Episodes – Everything You've Ever Wanted to Know About Irish History

Fascinating Snippets of Irish History from the Ice Age to the Peace Process

By: Jonathan Bardon

THE ONLY BOOK ON IRISH HISTORY YOU'LL EVER NEED!From invasions to rebellions, heroic martyrs to pragmatic politicians, industrial development to mass emigration, A History of Ireland in 250 Episodes by renowned Irish historian Jonathan Bardon will take you on a sweeping journey through Irish history, getting behind the historical headlines to reveal the lived experience of Irish people.Written in easy-to-read bitesize episodes, Bardon's original and engaging style will make you feel as though you're alongside William Smith O'Brien and his rebels at the Battle of Widow McCormack's Cabbage Patch, traversing the country to banish snakes and convert Celts with St Patrick, and feasting with the Spanish Armada's Captain Francisco de Cuellar and his wild Irish hosts. From taking up arms with the United Irishmen at Vinegar Hill to standing in solidarity with the workers of the Dublin 1916 Lockout, A History of Ireland in 250 Episodes will take you right to the heart of Irish history.Featuring a cast of characters that leap off the page, from the well-known, like the hero of the War of Independence, Michael Collins, to the quirky, such as Susannah Cibber, the first soprano to sing Handel's Messiah, A History of 250 Episodes will thrill, excite and inform you from start to finish. Whether you dip in and out of episodes or devour it from cover to cover, Bardon's must-have book will teach you everything you've ever wanted to know about Irish history and much, much more beyond.

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Gill & Macmillan Ltd

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0717157547

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Florence Nightingale at Home

By: Paul Crawford,Anna Greenwood,Richard Bates,Jonathan Memel

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Florence Nightingale at Home

By: Paul Crawford,Anna Greenwood,Richard Bates,Jonathan Memel

Winner of the 2021/2022 People's Book Prize Best Achievement Award Homes can be both comforting and troubling places. This timely book proposes a new understanding of Florence Nightingale’s experiences of domestic life and how ideas of home influenced her writings and pioneering work. From her childhood homes in Derbyshire and Hampshire, she visited the poor sick in their cottages. As a young woman, feeling imprisoned at home, she broke free to become a woman of action, bringing home comforts to the soldiers in the Crimean War and advising the British population on the home front how to create healthier, contagion-free homes. Later, she created Nightingale Homes for nursing trainees and acted as mother-in-chief to her extended family of nurses. These efforts, inspired by her Christian faith and training in human care from religious houses, led to major changes in professional nursing and public health, as Nightingale strove for homely, compassionate care in Britain and around the world. Shedid most of this work from her bed after contracting the debilitating illness, brucellosis, in the Crimea, turning her various private homes into offices and ‘households of faith’. In the year of the bicentenary of her birth, she remains as relevant as ever, achieving an astonishing cultural afterlife.

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Springer Nature

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3030465349

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Sharing the Burden of Sickness

A History of Healing and Medicine in Accra

By: Jonathan Roberts

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Sharing the Burden of Sickness

A History of Healing and Medicine in Accra

By: Jonathan Roberts

A medical history of Accra that accounts for plural medical traditions and multiple notions of health and healing.

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Indiana University Press

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0253057914

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Chelmsford in the Great War

By: Jonathan Swan

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Chelmsford in the Great War

By: Jonathan Swan

Almost 400 men from the Chelmsford were lost in the Great War. This book explores how the experience of war impacted on the Town, from the initial enthusiasm for sorting out the German Kaiser in time for Christmas 1914, to the gradual realization of the enormity of human sacrifice the families of Chelmsford were committed to as the war stretched out over the next four years. A record of the growing disillusion of the people, their tragedies and hardships and a determination to see it through. The Great War affected everyone. At home there were wounded soldiers in military hospitals, refugees from Belgium and later on German prisoners of war. There were food and fuel shortages and disruption to schooling. The role of women changed dramatically and they undertook a variety of work undreamed of in peacetime. Meanwhile, men serving in the armed forces were scattered far and wide. Extracts from contemporary letters reveal their heroism and give insights into what it was like under battle conditions.

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Pen and Sword

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1473855128

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The Gap-year Guidebook 2013

Everything You Need to Know about Taking a Gap-year Or Year Out

By: Jonathan Barnes

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The Gap-year Guidebook 2013

Everything You Need to Know about Taking a Gap-year Or Year Out

By: Jonathan Barnes

The Gap-Year Guidebook 2013' has comprehensive advice on travelling, volunteering, working round the world, languages, sports courses, office skills, career breaks and life after the gap year.

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1908095601

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Battle of Britain 1917

The First Heavy Bomber Raids on England

By: Jonathan Sutherland

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Battle of Britain 1917

The First Heavy Bomber Raids on England

By: Jonathan Sutherland

Beretter om de første tyske bombeangreb på England under 1. verdenskrig. Da de tyske bombefly kom frem i efteråret 1916, kunne de flyve væsentligt højere end noget britisk jagerfly på denne tid.

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1844153452

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Designers Visionaries and Other Stories

A Collection of Sustainable Design Essays

By: Jonathan Chapman,Nick Gant

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Designers Visionaries and Other Stories

A Collection of Sustainable Design Essays

By: Jonathan Chapman,Nick Gant

Designers, Visionaries and Other Stories unpacks the complex and crucial debates surrounding sustainable design to deliver a compelling manifesto for change, at a time of looming ecological crisis, mounting environmental legislation and limited progress. This is a book about sustainable design, by the leading sustainable design thinkers, for creative practitioners, professionals, students and academics. This challenging work provides the reader with a rich resource of future visions, critical propositions, creative ideas and design strategies for working towards a sustainable tomorrow, today. The authors boldly present alternative understandings of sustainable design, to curate a challenging, sometimes uncomfortable and always provocative, collection of essays by some of the worlds leading sustainable design thinkers. The result is an impacting and polemical anthology that reinvigorates the culture of critique that, in previous years, has empowered design with the qualities of social, environmental and economic revolution.

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Taylor & Francis

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1136568336

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Cheerful Sacrifice

The Battle of Arras, 1917

By: Jonathan Nicholls

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Cheerful Sacrifice

The Battle of Arras, 1917

By: Jonathan Nicholls

This WWI history examines the significant yet overlooked British offensive that achieved major advances on the Western Front. Fought between April 9th and May 16th of 1917, the Battle of Arras was the most lethal and costly British offensive battle of the First World War. Lasting a brutal thirty-nine days, its average casualty rate was far higher than at either the Somme or Passchendaele. It also represented the longest advance against Germany up to that point since the beginning of trench warfare. In Cheerful Sacrifice, military historian Jonathan Nicholls gives the Battle of Arras its proper place in the annals of military history, enhancing his text with a wealth of eye-witness accounts. One is left in no doubt that the survivor who described it as 'the most savage infantry battle of the war', did not exaggerate.

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Pen and Sword

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1844687562

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The Middling Sort of People

Culture, Society and Politics in England 1550-1800

By: Jonathan Barry,Christopher Brooks

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The Middling Sort of People

Culture, Society and Politics in England 1550-1800

By: Jonathan Barry,Christopher Brooks

This volume of essays seeks to offer a radical re-evaluation of most of our preconceptions about the early-modern English social order. The majority of people who lived in early-modern England were neither very rich nor very poor, yet a disproportionate amount of historiography has been directed towards precisely these groups. This book intends to define the term 'middle classes' and treat them as active participants of history, rather than as a simple by-product rising and falling according to others' activities.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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134923656X

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Contract Law Minimalism

A Formalist Restatement of Commercial Contract Law

By: Jonathan Edward Morgan

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Contract Law Minimalism

A Formalist Restatement of Commercial Contract Law

By: Jonathan Edward Morgan

Critically examines moral-promissory, economic and socio-legal perspectives on contract law, arguing that it should be formal and minimalistic by design.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107021073

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A User's Guide to Copyright

By: Michael Flint,Clive Thorne,Jonathan Cornthwaite

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A User's Guide to Copyright

By: Michael Flint,Clive Thorne,Jonathan Cornthwaite

A User's Guide to Copyright, Seventh Edition is long established as one of the key texts in the field. Renowned for its practical, user-friendly and authoritative approach and for its practical application to the main copyright using industries, the book is considered essential reading for legal practitioners, copyright law students and - crucially - for those working in the copyright using industries. Extensively cross-referenced to cases, legislation and leading texts and articles, this book clearly and effectively illustrates and explains the scope and relevance of copyright law in the new digital information era. Legislation and case law includes: WIPO Treaties; Number of EU Directives; Enterprise and regulatory Reform Act 2013; Football Association Premier League case (CJEU (C-403/08)); Infopaq (C-302/10); Public Relations Consultants Association v The Newspaper Licensing Agency (C-360/13); ITV v TVCatchup (C-607/11); Da Vinci Code case – Baigent v Random House; Fisher v Brooker 2009 UKHL 41 – the Whiter Shade of Pale case.

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152650491X

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The Railway Preservation Revolution

A History of Britain's Heritage Railways

By: Jonathan Brown

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The Railway Preservation Revolution

A History of Britain's Heritage Railways

By: Jonathan Brown

A ride on a steam train is a popular family outing. More than 100 heritage railways cater for that demand, capturing the spirit of nostalgia while preserving the engines and equipment of past days of rail travel. Their interests even extend to the modern era of 1960's - 70's diesels.Those heritage railways themselves have a long pedigree, back to 1951, when a group of enthusiasts saved the Talyllyn Railway in mid-Wales from closure. They ran this railway as volunteers, out of their love of the little trains and a desire to keep it going. Their example was followed by many more preservation societies who preserved and restored branch lines, country lines and industrial lines for our enjoyment now.Six decades have passed, and we are now beginning to realize what an impressive history the heritage railway movement has. This book traces that history, from the humble beginnings the hopes and ambitions of the pioneers on the different railway projects. There were times of failure and frustration, as some fell by the wayside, but others have made it through times of adversity to become the major heritage businesses of today.

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Casemate Publishers

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1473891191

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Art History: The Key Concepts

By: Jonathan Harris

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Art History: The Key Concepts

By: Jonathan Harris

A comprehensive critical guide, Art History: The Key Concepts considers the full range of issues facing the field today, drawing on related areas such as cultural theory and media studies.

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Routledge

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Substantive Protection under Investment Treaties

By: Jonathan Bonnitcha

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Substantive Protection under Investment Treaties

By: Jonathan Bonnitcha

This book seeks to determine the level of substantive protection that investment treaties should provide to foreign investment.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107042410

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Principles of Cybercrime

By: Jonathan Clough

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Principles of Cybercrime

By: Jonathan Clough

A comprehensive doctrinal analysis of cybercrime laws in four major common law jurisdictions: Australia, Canada, the UK and the US.

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1107034574

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Emotionally Durable Design

Objects, Experiences and Empathy

By: Jonathan Chapman

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Emotionally Durable Design

Objects, Experiences and Empathy

By: Jonathan Chapman

Emotionally Durable Design presents counterpoints to our ‘throwaway society’ by developing powerful design tools, methods and frameworks that build resilience into relationships between people and things. The book takes us beyond the sustainable design field’s established focus on energy and materials, to engage the underlying psychological phenomena that shape patterns of consumption and waste. In fluid and accessible writing, the author asks: why do we discard products that still work? He then moves forward to define strategies for the design of products that people want to keep for longer. Along the way we are introduced to over twenty examples of emotional durability in smart phones, shoes, chairs, clocks, teacups, toasters, boats and other material experiences. Emotionally Durable Design transcends the prevailing doom and gloom rhetoric of sustainability discourse, to pioneer a more hopeful, meaningful and resilient form of material culture. This second edition features pull-out quotes, illustrated product examples, a running glossary and comprehensive stand firsts; this book can be read cover to cover, or dipped in-and-out of. It is a daring call to arms for professional designers, educators, researchers and students from in a range of disciplines from product design to architecture; framing an alternative genre of design that reduces the consumption and waste of resources by increasing the durability of relationships between people and things.

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He Calls Me By Lightning: The Life of Caliph Washington and the forgotten Saga of Jim Crow, Southern Justice, and the Death Penalty

By: S Jonathan Bass

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He Calls Me By Lightning: The Life of Caliph Washington and the forgotten Saga of Jim Crow, Southern Justice, and the Death Penalty

By: S Jonathan Bass

Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post and Kirkus Reviews A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection A Southern Independent Booksellers Association “Spring Pick” This harrowing portrait of the Jim Crow South “proves how much we do not yet know about our history” (New York Times Book Review). Caliph Washington didn’t pull the trigger but, as Officer James "Cowboy" Clark lay dying, he had no choice but to turn on his heel and run. The year was 1957; Cowboy Clark was white, Caliph Washington was black, and this was the Jim Crow South. Widely lauded for its searing “insight into a history of America that can no longer be left unknown” (Washington Post), He Calls Me by Lightning is an “absorbing chronicle” (Ira Katznelson) of the forgotten life of Caliph Washington that becomes an historic portrait of racial injustice in the civil rights era. Washington, a black teenager from the vice-ridden city of Bessemer, Alabama, was wrongfully convicted of killing a white Alabama policeman in 1957 and sentenced to death. Through “meticulous research and vivid prose” (Patrick Phillips), S. Jonathan Bass reveals Washington’s Kafkaesque legal odyssey: he came within minutes of the electric chair nearly a dozen times and had his conviction overturned three times before finally being released in 1972. Devastating and essential, He Calls Me by Lightning demands that we take into account the thousands of lives cast away by the systemic racism of a “social order apparently unchanged even today” (David Levering Lewis).

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Liveright Publishing

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1631492381

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A Contemporary Archaeology of London’s Mega Events

From the Great Exhibition to London 2012

By: Jonathan Gardner

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A Contemporary Archaeology of London’s Mega Events

From the Great Exhibition to London 2012

By: Jonathan Gardner

A Contemporary Archaeology of London’s Mega Events explores the traces of London’s most significant modern ‘mega events’. Though only open for a few weeks or months, mega events permanently and disruptively reshape their host cities and societies: they demolish and rebuild whole districts, they draw in materials and participants from around the globe and their organisers self-consciously seek to leave a ‘legacy’ that will endure for decades or more. With London as his case study, Jonathan Gardner argues that these spectacles must be seen as long-lived and persistent, rather than simply a transient or short-term phenomena. Using a novel methodology drawn from the subfield of contemporary archaeology – the archaeology of the recent past and present-day – a broad range of comparative studies are used to explore the long-term history of each event. These include the contents and building materials of the Great Exhibition’s Crystal Palace and their extraordinary ‘afterlife’ at Sydenham, South London; how the Festival of Britain’s South Bank Exhibition employed displays of ancient history to construct a new post-war British identity; and how London 2012, as the latest of London’s mega events, dealt with competing visions of the past as archaeology, waste and ‘heritage’ in creating a vision of the future.

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UCL Press

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1787358445

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The Literary Churchill

Author, Reader, Actor

By: Jonathan Rose

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The Literary Churchill

Author, Reader, Actor

By: Jonathan Rose

“An interesting and at times surprising account of Churchill's tastes as a reader…many of [these] nuggets will be new even to Churchill junkies.”—TheWall Street Journal This strikingly original book introduces a Winston Churchill we haven’t known before. Award-winning author Jonathan Rose explores Churchill’s careers as statesman and author, revealing the profound influence of literature and theater on Churchill’s personal, carefully composed grand story and the decisions he made throughout his political life. In this expansive literary biography, Rose provides an analysis of Churchill’s writings and their reception (he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953 and was a best-selling author), and a chronicle of his dealings with publishers, editors, literary agents, and censors. The book also identifies an array of authors who shaped Churchill’s own writings and politics: George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Margaret Mitchell, George Orwell, Oscar Wilde, and many more. Rose investigates the effect of Churchill’s passion for theater on his approach to reportage, memoirs, and historical works. Perhaps most remarkably, Rose reveals the unmistakable influence of Churchill’s reading on every important episode of his public life, including his championship of social reform, plans for the Gallipoli invasion, command during the Blitz, crusade for Zionism, and efforts to prevent a nuclear arms race. Finally, Rose traces the significance of Churchill’s writings to later generations of politicians—among them President John F. Kennedy as he struggled to extricate the U.S. from the Cuban Missile Crisis. “Immensely enjoyable…This gracefully written book is an original and textured study of Churchill’s imagination.”—The Washington Post

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Yale University Press

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0300206232

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9780300206234

Special Places to Stay British Holiday Homes

By: Alastair Sawday,Jonathan Goodall

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Special Places to Stay British Holiday Homes

By: Alastair Sawday,Jonathan Goodall

A much-requested first edition of Sawday's British vacation rental selection, highlighting over 200 places--from the simple to the sumptuous. Sawday-style write-ups help readers avoid spending precious days in the wrong place!

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