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12 Million Black Voices, first published in 1941, combines Wright's
prose with startling photographs selected by Edwin Rosskam from the
Security Farm Administration files compiled during the Great
Depression. The photographs include works by such giants as Walker
Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Arthur Rothstein. From crowded, rundown
farm shacks to Harlem storefront churches, the photos depict the
lives of black people in 1930s America--their misery and weariness
under rural poverty, their spiritual strength, and their lives in
northern ghettos. Wright's accompanying text eloquently narrates
the story of these 90 pictures and delivers a powerful commentary
on the origins and history of black oppression in this country.
Also included are new prefaces by Douglas Brinkley, Noel Ignatiev,
and Michael Eric Dyson. "Among all the works of Wright, 12 Million
Black Voices stands out as a work of poetry, ...passion, ...and of
love."--David Bradley "A more eloquent statement of its kind could
hardly have been devised."--The New York Times Book Review
Lonely Planet's Burmese Phrasebook and Dictionary is your handy
passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and
useful Burmese phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs.
Ask directions to Myanmar's many temples, bargain for fruit at a
market and order tea at a local tea shop; all with your trusted
travel companion. Get More From Your Trip with Easy-to-Find Phrases
for Every Travel Situation! Feel at ease with essential tips on
culture, manners, idioms and multiple meanings Order with
confidence, explain food allergies, and try new foods with the menu
decoder Save time and hassles with vital phrases at your fingertips
Never get stuck for words with the 3500-word two-way,
quick-reference dictionary Be prepared for both common and
emergency travel situations with practical phrases and terminology
Meet friends with conversation starter phrases Get your message
across with easy-to-use pronunciation guides Inside Lonely Planet's
Burmese Phrasebook and Dictionary: Full-colour throughout
User-friendly layout organised by travel scenario categories
Survival phrases inside front cover for at-a-glance, on-the-fly
cues Convenient features 5 Phrases to Learn Before You Go 10 Ways
to Start a Sentence 10 Phrases to Sound like a Local Listen For -
phrases you may hear Look For - phrases you may see on signs
Shortcuts - easy-to-remember alternatives to the full phrases QandA
- suggested answers to questions asked Covers Basics - time, dates,
numbers, amounts, pronunciation, reading tips, grammar rules
Practical - travel with kids, disabled travellers, sightseeing,
business, banking, post office, internet, phones, repairs,
bargaining, accommodation, directions, border crossing, transport
Social - meeting people, interests, feelings, opinions, going out,
romance, culture, activities, weather Safe Travel - emergencies,
police, doctor, chemist, dentist, symptoms, conditions Food -
ordering, at the market, at the bar, dishes, ingredients The
Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet's Burmese Phrasebook and Dictionary,
a pocket-sized comprehensive language guide, provides on-the-go
language assistance; great for language students and travellers
looking to interact with locals and immerse themselves in local
culture. About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel
media company, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information
for every kind of traveller since 1973. Over the past four decades,
we've printed over 145 million guidebooks and phrasebooks for 120
languages, and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of
travellers. You'll also find our content online, and in mobile
apps, videos, 14 languages, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks,
and more, enabling you to explore every day. 'Lonely Planet guides
are, quite simply, like no other.' New York Times 'Lonely Planet.
It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveller's hands.
It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and
it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.'
Fairfax Media (Australia)
Language endangerment is a fundamental issue for humanity. What
rights do minority communities have concerning their languages? How
does each language conceptualize the world differently? How much
knowledge about the world and a local ecosystem is lost when a
language disappears? What is the process involved and how can
insights about this process contribute to linguistic theory? What
typological insights will be lost if undescribed languages
disappear before their unique structural properties are known? How
can language shift be stopped or reversed? This volume comprises: *
a general overview introduction * four theoretical chapters on what
happens during language shift * ten case studies of autochthonous
languages under threat * four case studies of migrant languages at
risk * three concluding chapters discussing strategies and
resources for language maintenance.
Language endangerment is a fundamental issue for humanity. What rights do minority communities have concerning their languages? How does each language conceptualize the world differently? How much knowledge about the world and a local ecosystem is lost when a language disappears? What is the process involved and how can insights about this process contribute to linguistic theory? What typological insights will be lost if undescribed languages disappear before their unique structural properties are known? How can language shift be stopped or reversed? This volume comprises: * a general overview introduction * four theoretical chapters on what happens during language shift * ten case studies of autochthonous languages under threat * four case studies of migrant languages at risk * three concluding chapters discussing strategies and resources for language maintenance.
The legends say something happened in Chaneysville. The Chaneysville Incident is the powerful story of one man's obsession with discovering what that something was--a quest that takes the brilliant and bitter young black historian John Washington back through the secrets and buried evil of his heritage. Returning home to care for and then bury his father's closest friend and his own guardian, Old Jack Crawley, he comes upon the scant records of his family's proud and tragic history, which he drives himself to reconstruct and accept. This is the story of John's relationship with his family, the town, and the woman he loves; and also between the past and the present, between oppression and guilt, hate and violence, love and acceptance.
Offering a comprehensive overview of the challenges, risks and
options facing the future of mechatronics, this book provides
insights into how these issues are currently assessed and managed.
Building on the previously published book 'Mechatronics in Action,'
it identifies and discusses the key issues likely to impact on
future mechatronic systems. It supports mechatronics practitioners
in identifying key areas in design, modeling and technology and
places these in the wider context of concepts such as
cyber-physical systems and the Internet of Things. For educators it
considers the potential effects of developments in these areas on
mechatronic course design, and ways of integrating these. Written
by experts in the field, it explores topics including systems
integration, design, modeling, privacy, ethics and future
application domains. Highlighting novel innovation directions, it
is intended for academics, engineers and students working in the
field of mechatronics, particularly those developing new concepts,
methods and ideas.
Applied Underwater Acoustics meets the needs of scientists and
engineers working in underwater acoustics and graduate students
solving problems in, and preparing theses on, topics in underwater
acoustics. The book is structured to provide the basis for rapidly
assimilating the essential underwater acoustic knowledge base for
practical application to daily research and analysis. Each chapter
of the book is self-supporting and focuses on a single topic and
its relation to underwater acoustics. The chapters start with a
brief description of the topic's physical background, necessary
definitions, and a short description of the applications, along
with a roadmap to the chapter. The subtopics covered within
individual subchapters include most frequently used equations that
describe the topic. Equations are not derived, rather, assumptions
behind equations and limitations on the applications of each
equation are emphasized. Figures, tables, and illustrations related
to the sub-topic are presented in an easy-to-use manner, and
examples on the use of the equations, including appropriate figures
and tables are also included.
David Bradley sets out to discover how Elizabethan theatre
companies prepared plays for performance: how playwrights
understood the composition of the actor-companies they wrote for,
how actors followed their directions for entrances and exits and
what happened when plays were adapted for changes on personnel or
for other companies. For his study, Bradley has evaluated documents
which survived from the records of Stage Revisers (or Plotters as
they were known). Bradley's evidence includes seven theatre plots
and seventeen manuscript plays, come from theatre productions which
took place at the Shakespearean playhouse, or Rose Theatre. The
Stage Revisers worked from plots or lists which indicated the
action taking place on stage, the props needed, costume changes and
the actors who should appear. The book contains reproductions of
the extant plots of the period, an appendix listing playwrights,
plays, theatre companies and the number of actors needed for
performance and an extensive bibliography.
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Hummingbird (DVD)
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Forced to confront his past, an ex-soldier embarks on a trail of
revenge in this action thriller starring Jason Statham.
Battle-scarred ex-special forces soldier Joey Jones (Statham),
trying to avoid a court martial, finds himself homeless and eking
out a living on the streets of London. After falling foul of an
underworld gang, however, a desperate Joey seizes the chance to
reinvent himself by assuming the identity of a wealthy Covent
Garden businessman. When his pregnant girlfriend is later found
murdered, Joey, armed with his new identity and his connections in
the Chinese underworld, sets out to track down the man responsible,
meting out instant justice to anyone who stands in his way.
Up to ninety percent of humanity's traditional languages and
cultures are at risk and may disappear this century. While language
endangerment has not achieved the publicity surrounding
environmental change and biodiversity loss, it is just as serious,
disastrously reducing the variety of human knowledge and thought.
This book shows why it matters, why and how it happens, and what
communities and scholars can do about it. David and Maya Bradley
provide a new framework for investigating and documenting
linguistic, social and other factors which contribute to languages
shifting away from their cultural heritage. Illustrated with
practical in-depth case studies and examples from the authors' own
work in Asia and elsewhere, the book encourages communities to
maintain or reclaim their traditional languages and cultures.
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The First Doctor Adventures Volume 4 (CD)
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This release features a recreation of the first ever cast of Doctor
Who, as seen on BBC TV in 2013's celebratory An Adventure in Space
and Time, with David Bradley then appearing as the Doctor in 2017's
Peter Capaldi finale. Contains two new adventures: 4.1 Return to
Skaro by Andrew Smith. A new plan to return to Earth actually
returns the TARDIS to another place its crew have recently visited
- Skaro, home world of the Daleks. But it is some time after their
previous visit. The Thals have moved on with developing their
species - Yet the shadow of the Dalek city always looms large over
them. Venturing into the abandoned metropolis, the Doctor and his
friends discover the Daleks aren't as dead as they might have
thought - and it isn't only their enemies who have secrets. 4.2
Last of the Romanovs by Jonathan Barnes. The TARDIS lands on Earth
near to an eerie and familiar house... with the only witness a
regal man watching from inside through a broken window. Leaving the
ship, the crew immediately find themselves in trouble - because
they have landed in Ekaterinburg early in the twentieth century.
The man inside the house is Nicholas, the last Tsar of Russia,
imprisoned with his family...and one of the most notorious crimes
in history is just about to happen. CAST: David Bradley (The
Doctor), Claudia Grant (Susan), Jemma Powell (Barbara Wright),
Jamie Glover (Ian Chesterton), Nicholas Briggs (The Daleks), John
Albasiny (Makerenkov), James Camp (Jyden), Nigel Hastings (Kreos),
Leighton Pugh (Nicholas Alexandrovich Romano/Thomas Preston),
Alisdair Simpson (Damadus), Dan Starkey (Yakov Yurovsky), Alex
Tregear (Anastasia Romanov), George Weightman (Grigory Nikulin),
Tracy Wiles (Tryana).
This volume contains the proceedings of the conference A Panorama
on Singular Varieties, celebrating the 70th birthday of Le Dung
Trang, held from February 7-10, 2017, at the University of Seville,
IMUS, Seville, Spain. The articles cover a wide range of topics in
the study of singularities and should be of great value to graduate
students and research faculty who have a basic background in the
theory of singularities. This book is published in cooperation with
Real Sociedad Matematica Espanola.
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Leave no
Hill Tribe subgroup or culture unimpressed by a dash of your
multi-lingual bon mots. Whether you're trekking Vietnam, China,
Laos, Thailand or beyond, let this handy phrasebook do some
talking. Covers Lahu, Akha, Lisu, Mong, Mien and more Individual
guides to pronunciation, sounds and grammar Detailed language maps
Practicalities - how to ask for directions or find a doctor Lonely
Planet gets you to the heart of a place. Our job is to make amazing
travel experiences happen. We visit the places we write about each
and every edition. We never take freebies for positive coverage, so
you can always rely on us to tell it like it is. Authors: Written
and researched by Lonely Planet, David Bradley, Christopher Court,
Nerida Jarkey, and Paul W Lewis. About Lonely Planet: Started in
1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide
publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as
well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital
travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely
Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the
world and to truly get to the heart of the places they find
themselves in. 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no
other.' - New York Times 'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's
bookshelves, it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile
phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling
entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax
Media (Australia)
This release features a recreation of the first ever cast of Doctor
Who, as seen on BBC TV in 2013's celebratory 'An Adventure in Space
and Time' with David Bradbury then appearing as the Doctor in
2017's Peter Capaldi finale. Contains two stories; 5.1 For the
Glory of Urth by Guy Adams. The TARDIS has barely landed in an
alien sewer when a distant scream sends Susan racing to give aid,
and the crew split up. Trying to reunite, the travellers find
themselves in something resembling a monastery led by a man
half-way between an Abbot and a warlord. They discover that they
are in 'Urth', a barbaric place clinging on to its former glory.
It's somewhere its populace are never allowed to leave, somewhere
keeping many secrets from its people. And today those secrets will
be revealed...5.2 The Hollow Crown by Sarah Grochala. When the
TARDIS lands in Shoreditch, 1601, the Doctor suggests going to see
a play at the Globe Theatre and his friends readily agree. But this
is a turbulent time. There is violence in the streets, plots
against the Queen, and rebellion is in the air. At the centre of it
all stands the most famous playwright in British history - William
Shakespeare - who is having troubles of his own. As tensions mount
and wheels turn within wheels, the travellers are about to discover
if the play really is the thing... Cast: David Bradley (The
Doctor), Claudia Grant (Susan), Jemma Powell (Barbara Wright),
Jamie Glover (Ian Chesterton), Nicholas Asbury (William
Shakespeare), Wendy Craig (Queen Elizabeth I), Liane-Rose Bunce
(Lady Penelope Rich/Hawker), Ian Conningham (Robert Devereaux, Earl
of Essex/Lord Cecil), Lauren Cornelius (Judith Shakespeare), Susie
Emmett (Sissy Cruciatu), Amanda Hurwitz (Mummy Martial/Computer
Voice), Phil Mulryne (Bruddle Medicus/Guard 2), Phyllida Nash
(Brooskin), Clive Wood (Daddy Dominus/Clubwell/Guard 1). Other
parts played by members of the cast
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The First Doctor Adventures Volume 3 (CD)
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Big Finish have been producing Doctor Who audios since 1999,
starring Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy,
Paul McGann, David Tennant and John Hurt. This very special release
features a recreation of the first ever cast of Doctor Who, as seen
on BBCTV in 2013's celebratory An Adventure in Space and Time, with
David Bradley then appearing as the Doctor in 2017's Peter Capaldi
finale last Christmas.
Up to ninety percent of humanity's traditional languages and
cultures are at risk and may disappear this century. While language
endangerment has not achieved the publicity surrounding
environmental change and biodiversity loss, it is just as serious,
disastrously reducing the variety of human knowledge and thought.
This book shows why it matters, why and how it happens, and what
communities and scholars can do about it. David and Maya Bradley
provide a new framework for investigating and documenting
linguistic, social and other factors which contribute to languages
shifting away from their cultural heritage. Illustrated with
practical in-depth case studies and examples from the authors' own
work in Asia and elsewhere, the book encourages communities to
maintain or reclaim their traditional languages and cultures.
In Chapter 1 Dudley Creagh writes on "synchrotron radiation and its
use in art, archaeometry, and cultural heritage studies." Loic
Bertrand has written in Chapter 2 on synchrotron imaging for
archaeology and art history, conservation, and palaeontology. Dr.
Bertrand is Archaeology and cultural heritage officer at the new
French synchrotron, Synchrotron Soleil (Orme les Mesuriers,
Gif-sur-Yvette, France). He is charged with the task of raising the
awareness of cultural heritage scientists to the use of synchrotron
radiation for their research. Chapter 3 has been written by Ivan
Cole and his associates Dr David Paterson and Deborah Lau. This is
concerned with the holistic modelling of gas and aerosol deposition
and the degradation of cultural objects. Dr. Cole is Deputy Chief
of the Novel Materials and Processes Division of the Commonwealth
Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (Melbourne,
Australia). He has over twenty years experience in involvement in
projects concerned with the preservation of cultural heritage. Ivan
is an internationally recognized leader in the field of the life
cycle of materials and the development of protective coatings for
metals. In Chapter 4, Giovanna Di Pietro describes two different
types of experiments she has undertaken in the study of the
mechanisms underlying the degradation of photographic media. In the
first Dr. Di Pietro describes the degradation of old back-and-white
plate. In the second she outlines her attempts to understand the
mechanisms by which comparatively modern motion picture film
degrades. A significant part of this project involved trying to
ascertain exactly what dyes were used by Kodak in their motion
picture film from about 1980 onwards. An entirely new technique for
the remote investigation of the pigments in paintings is presented
by Maria Kubik in Chapter 5. This technique will significantly
enhance the ability of conservators to study the palette of
pigments used by artists, check for repairs by others, and detect
fraudulent paintings.
. Demonstrates the amazing efforts being made in using physical
techniques for the study of art, archaeology and cultural
heritage
. Provides succinct accounts of how cultural heritage is being
preserved.
. Looks at how science is being used to enrich our knowledge of the
creative arts"
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