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Side Stories

Short Fiction by Game Developers

By: Greg Costikyan,Chris Dahlen,Rees Savidis,David Dubord,Pedro Walsh,Christopher Mitchell,Jason Dozois,Andrew Laing

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Side Stories

Short Fiction by Game Developers

By: Greg Costikyan,Chris Dahlen,Rees Savidis,David Dubord,Pedro Walsh,Christopher Mitchell,Jason Dozois,Andrew Laing

Side Stories" is an anthology of short stories by game developers. Authors come from both digital and analog game development, computer games to paper games. Contributors include Greg Costikyan (veteran game designer of "Paranoia" and "Star Wars: The Role-Playing Game"), Christopher Mitchell (WGA award nominee for game writing, "Deathspank", "Simpsons Hit and Run"), and Rees Savidis (writer and award winning filmmaker, "SSX", "Driver: San Francisco"), and others. A share of proceeds will be donated to the Child’s Play charity. Included stories: “Sheepdog” by Bren Lynne An armed student defends his classroom from a shooter. “Spaceship and Bicycle” by Greg Costikyan Asteroid prospectors undertake innovative repairs after their spaceship is crippled. “Fizzy Piss Grape Shit” by Rees Savidis The end of the world, from the other perspective. “And The Heart Goes Tick Tick Tick” by Chris Dahlen A matchmaker finds adventure and romance when and where she least expects it. “Buried Legends” by David Dubord Unearthing buried treasure releases unexpected riches. “Paper Cuts” by Peter Walsh A software developer has problems after he reveals the weaknesses in government surveillance systems. “Cultists” by Christopher Mitchell Members of an apocalypse cult, frustrated with the lack of results, take matters into their own hands. “Lucky Malloy and the Cuban Zombie Crisis” by Jason Dozois A washed-up football player turned zombie hunter faces trouble when his cat becomes a zombie boss monster. “The Christmas Trolls” by Andrew Laing A game developer stands trial for creating a game that turns users into Trolls.

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Bren Lynne

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1311904581

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9781311904584

Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

By: Olivia Laing

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Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

By: Olivia Laing

“One of the finest writers of the new nonfiction” (Harper’s Bazaar) explores the role of art in our tumultuous modern era. In this remarkable, inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a brilliant case for why art matters, especially in the turbulent political weather of the twenty-first century. Funny Weather brings together a career’s worth of Laing’s writing about art and culture, examining their role in our political and emotional lives. She profiles Jean-Michel Basquiat and Georgia O’Keeffe, reads Maggie Nelson and Sally Rooney, writes love letters to David Bowie and Freddie Mercury, and explores loneliness and technology, women and alcohol, sex and the body. With characteristic originality and compassion, she celebrates art as a force of resistance and repair, an antidote to a frightening political time. We’re often told that art can’t change anything. Laing argues that it can. Art changes how we see the world. It makes plain inequalities and it offers fertile new ways of living.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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1324005734

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9781324005735

Acts and Proceedings of the General Assemblies of the Kirk of Scotland, From the Year M.D.LX

By: David Laing

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Acts and Proceedings of the General Assemblies of the Kirk of Scotland, From the Year M.D.LX

By: David Laing

Reprint of the original, first published in 1839.

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3385139279

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9783385139275

The Origins of Britain

By: Lloyd and Jennifer Laing

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The Origins of Britain

By: Lloyd and Jennifer Laing

The Origins of Britain (1980) follows the path of man’s occupation of Britain from the scattered pockets of habitation in the earliest Palaeolithic period through to his growing domination of the landscape and his capacity to mould his environment evident in the late Bronze Age. Among the many subjects which the book discusses in detail are the extent of knowledge of astronomy and mathematics in Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain, and the extent to which the pattern of life in the Iron Age was already set by the end of the preceding Bronze Age.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000921026

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Everybody: A Book about Freedom

By: Olivia Laing

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Everybody: A Book about Freedom

By: Olivia Laing

Astute and consistently surprising critic" (NPR) Olivia Laing investigates the body and its discontents through the great freedom movements of the twentieth century. The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. In her ambitious, brilliant sixth book, Olivia Laing charts an electrifying course through the long struggle for bodily freedom, using the life of the renegade psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich to explore gay rights and sexual liberation, feminism, and the civil rights movement. Drawing on her own experiences in protest and alternative medicine, and traveling from Weimar Berlin to the prisons of McCarthy-era America, Laing grapples with some of the most significant and complicated figures of the past century—among them Nina Simone, Christopher Isherwood, Andrea Dworkin, Sigmund Freud, Susan Sontag, and Malcolm X. Despite its many burdens, the body remains a source of power, even in an era as technologized and automated as our own. Arriving at a moment in which basic bodily rights are once again imperiled, Everybody is an investigation into the forces arranged against freedom and a celebration of how ordinary human bodies can resist oppression and reshape the world.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393608786

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9780393608786

A Passionate Schooling: Key Ideas Behind Steiner Waldorf Education

By: Alduino Mazzone,Susan Laing

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A Passionate Schooling: Key Ideas Behind Steiner Waldorf Education

By: Alduino Mazzone,Susan Laing

A Passionate Schooling provides a clear, scholarly overview of the key ideas behind Steiner Waldorf education. It examines how Rudolf Steiner developed his ideas in the context of his life and the culture in which he lived. A Passionate Schooling focuses on Steiner's insights as they relate to: - the nature of the human being; - freedom and the ideals of education and social renewal; - new perspectives on child development; - the evolution of consciousness, - and the transformation of the self. It also explores the concepts of goodness, beauty and truth as ideals in education, as well as the adaptability of the Steiner Curriculum. It re-interprets Steiner's ideas in the context of post-modernist thought and contemporary challenges and practices. A Passionate Schooling is a revealing text for students of education, teachers and parents. More at www.passionateschooling.com

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Lulu.com

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1326633708

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9781326633707

Imagining the American West through Film and Tourism

By: Warwick Frost,Jennifer Laing

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Imagining the American West through Film and Tourism

By: Warwick Frost,Jennifer Laing

The West is one of the strongest and most enduring place images in the world and its myth is firmly rooted in popular culture – whether novels, film, television, music, clothing and even video games. The West combines myth and history, rugged natural scenery and wide open spaces, popular culture and promises of transformation. These imagined places draw in tourists, attracted by a cultural heritage that is part fictional and mediatised. In turn, tourism operators and destination marketing organisations refashion what they present to fit these imagined images. This book explores this imagining of a mythic West through three key themes, travel, film and frontiers to offer new insight into how the imagination of the West and popular culture has influenced the construction of tourism. In doing so, it examines the series of paradoxes that underlie the basic appeal of the West: evocative frontier, a boundary zone between civilisation and wilderness and between order and lawlessness. It draws on a range of films and literature as well as varying places from festivals to national parks to showcase different aspects of the nexus between travel, film and frontiers in this fascinating region. Interdisciplinary in character, it includes perspectives from cultural studies, American studies, tourism and film studies. Written by leading academics, this title will be valuable reading for students, researchers and academics in the fields of cultural studies, tourism, film studies and media studies and all those interested in film tourism.

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Routledge

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1317665112

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9781317665113

Two Years of Trump on the Psychiatrist's Couch

By: Dr David Laing Dawson

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Two Years of Trump on the Psychiatrist's Couch

By: Dr David Laing Dawson

An analysis of Donald Trump in a series of blog posts by Canadian psychiatrist David Laing Dawson.

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Bridgeross Communications

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1927637325

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9781927637326

Royal Events

Rituals, Innovations, Meanings

By: Jennifer Laing,Warwick Frost

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Royal Events

Rituals, Innovations, Meanings

By: Jennifer Laing,Warwick Frost

Royal events such as coronations and jubilees encompass a wide spectrum of planned events involving monarchs and their families that are strategically designed to reinforce the role of royalty within social and political structures. Royal events may have a long heritage, but often involve traditions that are invented, revived or undergoing major innovations in response to changing times or to meet different purposes. The change from absolutism towards constitutional monarchies has seen a shift towards using royal events to promote national identity, community and inclusiveness. While the function and meaning of royal ritual and ceremony is a product of its particular political, economic and cultural context, conversely, royal events are often an influence on the broader milieu. This book is the first to explore royal events within the context of Events Studies, and takes an historical approach, examining the development of royal events through different periods. It starts with four broad pre-modern eras, namely Classical, Byzantine, the Dark Ages and the Medieval Period, then moves through to the early modern dynasties such as the Tudors, Stuarts, Georgians and Bourbons and on to contemporary times, incorporating the Victorian and Edwardian eras and the current reign of Elizabeth II, including the legacy of Diana and an analysis of current issues affecting royal events. Themes emphasised throughout include the institutional dynamism of royalty, the invention of tradition, the ritual structure of events, the impact of the media and the influence of individual tastemakers. This multidisciplinary work will appeal to postgraduate students and academics from a wide variety of disciplines, including cultural studies, history, tourism, events and sociology.

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Routledge

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1317312007

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9781317312000

Political Leadership

An Introduction

By: Matthew Laing

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Political Leadership

An Introduction

By: Matthew Laing

Drawing upon a diverse range of traditions and contexts, this authoritative new textbook presents a systematic introduction to political leadership. Making extensive use of examples of real leaders from a variety of cultural backgrounds, the book links theoretical ideas and concepts to real-world political leadership and in doing so helps students to make sense of why different leaders lead as they do and why people choose to follow them. This is ideal reading for students taking courses on political leadership and related topics.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350311421

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9781350311428

Picturing the Woman-Child

Fashion, Feminism and the Female Gaze

By: Morna Laing

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Picturing the Woman-Child

Fashion, Feminism and the Female Gaze

By: Morna Laing

The childlike character of ideal femininity has long been critiqued by feminists, from Mary Wollstonecraft to Simone de Beauvoir. Yet, women continue to be represented as childlike in the western fashion media, despite the historical connotations of inferiority. This book questions why such images still hold appeal to contemporary women, after three, or even four, waves of feminism. Focusing on the period of 1990–2015, Picturing the Woman-Child traces the evolution of childlike femininity in British fashion magazines, including Vogue, i-D and Lula, Girl of my Dreams. These images draw upon a network of references, from Kinderwhore and Lolita to Alice in Wonderland and the femme-enfant of Surrealism. Alongside analysis of fashion photography, the book presents the findings of original research into audience reception. Inviting contemporary women to comment on images of the 'woman-child' provides an insight into the meaning of this figure as well as an evaluation of theory on the 'female gaze'. Both scholarly and accessible, the book paves the way for future studies on how readers make sense of fashion imagery.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350059617

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9781350059610

The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

By: Olivia Laing

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The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

By: Olivia Laing

An Oprah Daily Summer Reading Recommendation • Named one of the most anticipated books of 2024 by the BBC, The Observer, Irish Times, The Guardian, and The Millions. Inspired by the restoration of her own garden, "imaginative and empathetic critic" (NPR) Olivia Laing embarks on an exhilarating investigation of paradise. In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore an 18th century walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work brought to light a crucial question for our age: Who gets to live in paradise, and how can we share it while there’s still time? Moving between real and imagined gardens, from Milton’s Paradise Lost to John Clare’s enclosure elegies, from a wartime sanctuary in Italy to a grotesque aristocratic pleasure ground funded by slavery, Laing interrogates the sometimes shocking cost of making paradise on earth. But the story of the garden doesn’t always enact larger patterns of privilege and exclusion. It’s also a place of rebel outposts and communal dreams. From the improbable queer utopia conjured by Derek Jarman on the beach at Dungeness to the fertile vision of a common Eden propagated by William Morris, new modes of living can and have been attempted amidst the flower beds, experiments that could prove vital in the coming era of climate change. The result is a humming, glowing tapestry, a beautiful and exacting account of the abundant pleasures and possibilities of gardens: not as a place to hide from the world but as a site of encounter and discovery, bee-loud and pollen-laden.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393882012

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9780393882018

Selling Happiness

Calendar Posters and Visual Culture in Early-Twentieth-Century Shanghai

By: Ellen Johnston Laing

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Selling Happiness

Calendar Posters and Visual Culture in Early-Twentieth-Century Shanghai

By: Ellen Johnston Laing

From the early twentieth century until the Communist takeover in 1949, Shanghai commercial artists created thousands of colorful posters and black and white advertisements that formed an essential part of modern life in the city. This visually appealing and richly illustrated work describes the origin and evolution of modern commercial art in China, focusing on colorful advertisement calendar posters that featured distinctive feminine images. It makes clear how essential commercial art and its institutional backing were to the development of modern art and even modern society in China over the past century. Selling Happiness discusses not only advertising art but also the production and marketing of the calendar poster. These posters, like other advertisements, were rendered in a Western realistic technique and were wildly and widely popular. Ordinary people throughout China often acquired them to decorate their homes. Laing outlines how the Chinese commercial artist, who rarely attended formal Western art classes, gained skills in Western representational art. In the final chapter of the book, she explains how the styles developed by the commercial poster artists during the 1920s and 1930s became the basis for certain types of propaganda art under the Chinese Communists in the 1950s and 1960s.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824843436

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9780824843434

Lindores Abbey and its Burgh of Newburgh. Their History and Annals

By: Alexander Laing

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Lindores Abbey and its Burgh of Newburgh. Their History and Annals

By: Alexander Laing

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

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3385529816

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Side Stories

Side Stories

Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

Acts and Proceedings of the General Assemblies of the Kirk of Scotland, From the Year M.D.LX

Acts and Proceedings of the General Assemblies of the Kirk of Scotland, From the Year M.D.LX

The Origins of Britain

The Origins of Britain

Everybody: A Book about Freedom

Everybody: A Book about Freedom

A Passionate Schooling: Key Ideas Behind Steiner Waldorf Education

A Passionate Schooling: Key Ideas Behind Steiner Waldorf Education

Imagining the American West through Film and Tourism

Imagining the American West through Film and Tourism

Two Years of Trump on the Psychiatrist's Couch

Two Years of Trump on the Psychiatrist's Couch

Royal Events

Royal Events

Political Leadership

Political Leadership

Picturing the Woman-Child

Picturing the Woman-Child

The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

Selling Happiness

Selling Happiness

Lindores Abbey and its Burgh of Newburgh. Their History and Annals

Lindores Abbey and its Burgh of Newburgh. Their History and Annals

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