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Beyond (DVD)
Sid Phoenix, Gillian MacGregor, Richard J. Danum, Kristian Hart, Paul Brannigan, …
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R24
Discovery Miles 240
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British sci-fi drama. After an asteroid crashes into Earth, aliens
invade the ravaged planet to depopulate its surface. As the
invaders' spacecraft hangs ominously in the sky above them,
survivors of the first cull Cole (Richard J. Danum) and Maya
(Gillian MacGregor) frantically search for their missing daughter.
As they embark on their search, the couple's relationship yields to
the conflict of survival in the apocalyptic event's aftermath.
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Ai Weiwei: The Liberty of Doubt (Paperback)
Elizabeth Brown, Andrew Nairne; Contributions by John Tancock, James J. Lally; Interview of Ai Weiwei; Interview by …
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R495
Discovery Miles 4 950
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Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, exhibition catalogue on the
internationally renowned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei (b. 1957,
Beijing) in which new and existing work will be shown alongside
historic Chinese objects. The exhibition will explore notions of
truth, authenticity and value, as well as globalisation, the
coronavirus pandemic and the current geopolitical crisis. Ai Weiwei
will reflect upon the liberty in the West, in contrast to China and
other authoritarian regimes, to question truth and authority,
express doubt and seek transparency in political matters. However,
in relation to art appreciation, the Chinese have a long tradition
of a more fluid and less fixed view in relation to authenticity
than is the case in the West, often valuing the act of copying.
musicals, Dance, Popular, Broadway, musical revue, Black Studies,
History, Criticism
This book was originally published in 1998, when over 6,000
children lived in residential homes in England and Wales. The fact
that some children's homes are better than others is well
established, but why should this be so? Past answers have tended to
be tautologous - rather on the lines of 'a good home is one where
children do well; children do well because they are in a good
home.' This study examines various aspects of children's homes and
explores the connections between them in an attempt to break down
the old circular argument. Structures are discernible in the
relationship between different types of goals - societal, formal
and belief; the variable balance between these goals determines
staff cultures, which, in turn, shape the child cultures that
develop. Such relationships are important because of their close
association with outcomes - whether the children do well, whether
the homes prosper. The model described in the book provides a
conceptual framework and a set of causal relationships that should
help professionals to plan and manage residential care better and
so meet the needs of vulnerable children more effectively.
They said only men could paint powerful pictures, but Helen
Frankenthaler (1928-2011) splashed her way through the modern art
world. Channeling deep emotion, Helen poured paint onto her canvas
and danced with the colors to make art unlike anything anyone had
ever seen. She used unique tools like mops and squeegees to push
the paint around, to dazzling effects. Frankenthaler became an
originator of the influential "Color Field" style of abstract
expressionist painting with her "soak stain" technique, and her
artwork continues to electrify new generations of artists today.
Dancing Through Fields of Color discusses Frankenthaler's early
life, how she used colors to express emotion, and how she overcame
the male-dominated art world of the 1950s.
Written by Liz Keeley-Browne, the aim of this book is to introduce
new and already trained teachers, tutors or trainers working in the
learning and skills sector to the routes toward becoming licensed
to practise. Each chapter is designed as a journey from 'survival'
to 'success'.
The title page calls the author of this 1888 work 'A Lady
Astronomer'. She was Elizabeth Brown (1830 99), and the shadow she
was pursuing was the eclipse of the sun on 19 August 1887, which
could be best observed in northern Russia. Brought up by her father
to make weather observations and to use a telescope, she became a
member of the Liverpool Astronomical Society - on behalf of which
she undertook her Russian expedition - and was later active in
founding the British Astronomical Association. (The Royal
Astronomical Society did not at this point admit women.) The book
describes her journey, from her arrival at Hull to meet her
travelling companion, to Russia, and home again. The actual viewing
of the eclipse, at Kineshma, 200 miles north-east of Moscow, was
spoiled by cloud cover, but her lively and observant account of her
adventures is a fascinating record by a pioneering female
scientist."
Alexander Hamilton is commonly seen as the standard-bearer of an
ideology-turned-political party, the Federalists, engaged in a
struggle for the soul of the young United States against the
Anti-Federalists, and later, the Jeffersonian Republicans.
Alexander Hamilton and the Development of American Law counters
such conventional wisdom with a new, more nuanced view of Hamilton
as a true federalist, rather than a one-dimensional nationalist,
whose most important influence on the American founding is his
legal legacy. In this analytical biography, Kate Elizabeth Brown
recasts our understanding of Hamilton’s political career, his
policy achievements, and his significant role in the American
founding by considering him first and foremost as a preeminent
lawyer who applied law and legal arguments to accomplish his
statecraft. In particular, Brown shows how Hamilton used inherited
English legal principles to accomplish his policy goals, and how
state and federal jurists adapted these Hamiltonian principles into
a distinct, republican jurisprudence throughout the nineteenth
century. When writing his authoritative commentary on the nature of
federal constitutional power in The Federalist, Hamilton juxtaposed
the British constitution with the new American one he helped to
create; when proposing commercial, monetary, banking,
administrative, or foreign policy in Washington’s cabinet, he
used legal arguments to justify his desired course of action. In
short, lawyering, legal innovation, and common law permeated
Alexander Hamilton’s professional career. Re-examining
Hamilton’s post-war accomplishments through the lens of law,
Brown demonstrates that Hamilton’s much-studied political career,
as well as his contributions to republican political science,
cannot be fully understood without recognizing and investigating
how Hamilton used Anglo-American legal principles to achieve these
ends. A critical re-evaluation of Hamilton’s legacy, as well as
his place in the founding era, Brown’s work also enhances and
refines our understanding of the nature and history of American
jurisprudence.
This book was originally published in 1998, when over 6,000
children lived in residential homes in England and Wales. The fact
that some children's homes are better than others is well
established, but why should this be so? Past answers have tended to
be tautologous - rather on the lines of 'a good home is one where
children do well; children do well because they are in a good
home.' This study examines various aspects of children's homes and
explores the connections between them in an attempt to break down
the old circular argument. Structures are discernible in the
relationship between different types of goals - societal, formal
and belief; the variable balance between these goals determines
staff cultures, which, in turn, shape the child cultures that
develop. Such relationships are important because of their close
association with outcomes - whether the children do well, whether
the homes prosper. The model described in the book provides a
conceptual framework and a set of causal relationships that should
help professionals to plan and manage residential care better and
so meet the needs of vulnerable children more effectively.
"There is no other study that I know of which considers
mother-daughter relationships in the literatures of such diverse
non-European cultures." --Violet H. Bryan, Associate Professor of
English, Xavier University of Louisiana
Interest in the mother-daughter relationship has never been
greater, yet there are few books specifically devoted to the
relationships between daughters and mothers of color. To fill that
gap, this collection of original essays explores the
mother-daughter relationship as it appears in the works of African,
African American, Asian American, Mexican American, Native
American, Indian, and Australian Aboriginal women writers.
Prominent among the writers considered here are Toni Morrison,
Alice Walker, Maxine Hong Kingston, Cherrie Moraga, Leslie Marmon
Silko, and Amy Tan. Elizabeth Brown-Guillory and the other
essayists examine the myths and reality surrounding the
mother-daughter relationship in these writers' works. They show how
women writers of color often portray the mother-daughter dyad as a
love/hate relationship, in which the mother painstakingly tries to
convey knowledge of how to survive in a racist, sexist, and
classist world while the daughter rejects her mother's experiences
as invalid in changing social times.
This book represents a further opening of the literary canon to
twentieth-century women of color. Like the writings it surveys, it
celebrates the joys of breaking silence and moving toward
reconciliation and growth.
Criminal justice practices such as policing and imprisonment are
integral to the creation of racialized experiences in U.S. society.
Race as an important category of difference, however, did not arise
here with the criminal justice system but rather with the advent of
European colonial conquest and the birth of the U.S. racial state.
Race and Crime examines how race became a defining feature of the
system and why mass incarceration emerged as a new racial
management strategy. This book reviews the history of race and
criminology and explores the impact of racist colonial legacies on
the organization of criminal justice institutions. Using a
macrostructural perspective, students will learn to contextualize
issues of race, crime, and criminal justice. Topics include: How
"coloniality" explains the practices that reproduce racial
hierarchies The birth of social science and social programs from
the legacies of racial science The defining role of geography and
geographical conquest in the continuation of mass incarceration The
emergence of the logics of crime control, the War on Drugs, the
redefinition of federal law enforcement, and the reallocation of
state resources toward prison building, policing, and incarceration
How policing, courts, and punishment perpetuate the colonial order
through their institutional structures and policies Race and Crime
will help students understand how everyday practices of punishment
and surveillance are employed in and through the police, courts,
and community to create and shape the geographies of injustice in
the United States today.
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Poems of Memory and Hope
Elizabeth Browning
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Discovery Miles 16 310
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Beautiful Shades of Love
Mary Elizabeth Browning Fallis
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R260
Discovery Miles 2 600
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Tales of the Dead
Sarah Elizabeth Brown Mrs ] [Utterson, Fantasmagoriana
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R945
Discovery Miles 9 450
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