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In the late 18th century, Limestone, Tennessee, saw a quick
succession of fascinating events. Washington College Academy, named
after Pres. George Washington, was opened in 1780. In 1786,
Limestone was the birthplace of Davy Crockett, America's most
famous frontiersman and folk hero, and in 1792, the community's
signature stone dwelling, the Colonel Gillespie House, was built. A
Civil War battle was later fought in the town. Limestone prospered
in the early 20th century as a watering stop for livestock trains
but then declined as a rural trading center with the popularity of
the automobile. Through fire, floods, war, and economic downturn,
this unincorporated community's rural spirit enabled Limestone to
successfully meet the needs of its citizens into the 21st century.
Poems by 60 poets involved in The Practice of Poetry course(
students, tutors and visiting poets)at the University of Warwick
from 2000 to 2010; poems arranged alphabetically, with an
introduction by David Morley. Poems by Peter Belgvad, Zoe Brigley,
James Brookes, Phil Brown, Peter Carpenter, Swithun Cooper, Jane
Holland, Luke Kennard, Anna Lea, Michael McKimm,Glyn Maxwell, David
Morley, Jon Morley, Ruth Padel, Fiona Sampson, George Szirtes,
George Ttoouli, Simon Turner and others.
The 1990s was the decade in which the Soviet Union collapsed and
Francis Fukuyama declared the 'end of history'. Nelson Mandela was
released from prison, Google was launched and scientists in
Edinburgh cloned a sheep from a single cell. It was also a time in
which the president of the United States discussed fellatio on
network television and the world's most photographed woman died in
a car crash in Paris. Radical pop band The KLF burned a million
quid on a Scottish island, while the most-watched programme on TV
was Baywatch. Anti-globalisation protestors in France attacked
McDonald's restaurants and American survivalists stockpiled guns
and tinned food in preparation for Y2K. For those who lived through
it, the 1990s glow in the memory with a mixture of proximity and
distance, familiarity and strangeness. It is the decade about which
we know so much yet understand too little. Taking a kaleidoscopic
view of the politics, social history, arts and popular culture of
the era, James Brooke-Smith asks - what was the 1990s? A lost
golden age of liberal optimism? A time of fin-de-siecle decadence?
Or the seedbed for the discontents we face today?
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Spoils (Hardcover)
James Brookes
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Panegyric (Paperback)
Guy Debord; Translated by James Brook, John McHale
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Guy Debord's silver-tongue-in-cheek autobiography mixes precision
and pastiche in a whirlwind account of philosophy, exploit, and
inebriation. From the stark professions of Volume I to the
illustrated sequences of Volume 2, Panegyric confronts us with a
figure who strategically, demonically tried to wrest life from the
disabling modern 'spectacle.'
The Gunman, originally published as The Prone Gunman, is now a
major motion picture starring Sean Penn. This is the official movie
tie-in edition. The film, opening March 20th, 2015, also stars
Javier Bardem, Idris Elba and Ray Winstone, and is directed by
Pierre Morel (Taken). About The Gunman: Terrier is a hired killer
who wants out of the game, so he can settle down and marry his
childhood sweetheart. But the Organization won't let him go: they
have other plans for him. In a violent tale that shatters as many
illusions as bodies, Jean-Patrick Manchette subjects his characters
and the reader alike to a fierce exercise in style. This tightly
plotted, corrosive parody of "the success story" is widely
considered to be Manchette's masterpiece, and was named a New York
Times "Notable Book" in 2002. The Gunman is a classic of modern
noir. Also available in its original edition titled The Prone
Gunman, along with Manchette's Three to Kill, published by City
Lights in 2002. "For Manchette and the generation of writers who
followed him, the crime novel is no mere entertainment, but a means
to strip bare the failures of society, ripping through veils of
appearance, deceit, and manipulation to the greed and violence that
are the society's true engines." Boston Globe "There's not a
superfluous word or overdone effect . . . one of the last cool,
compact and shockingly original crime novels Manchette left as his
legacy to modern noir fiction." New York Times Jean-Patrick
Manchette was a French crime novelist credited with reinventing and
reinvigorating the genre. He wrote ten short novels in the 1970s
and early 80s, and is widely recognized as the foremost French
crime fiction author of that time. His stories are violent,
existentialist explorations of the human condition and French
society. Jazz saxophonist and screenwriter, Manchette was also a
left-wing activist influenced as much by the writings of the
Situationist International as by Dashiell Hammett.
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The Prone Gunman (Paperback)
Jean-Patrick Manchette; Translated by James Brook
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Martin Terrier is a hired killer who wants out of the game--so
he can settle down and marry his childhood sweetheart. After all,
that's why he took up this profession But the Organization won't
let him go: they have other plans. Once again, the gunman must
assume the prone shooting position. A tour de force, this violent
tale shatters as many illusions about life and politics as
bodies.
Jean-Patrick Manchette (1942-1995) rescued the French crime
novel from the grip of stodgy police procedurals, restoring the
noir edge by virtue of his post-1968 leftism. Manchette is a totem
to a generation of French mystery writers, and his stories have
inspired several films, including Claude Chabrol's "Nada."
Also Available by Jean-Patrick Manchette
"Three to Kill"
TP $11.95, 0-87286-395-6 - CUSA
The British public school is an iconic institution, a training
ground for the ruling elite and a symbol of national identity and
tradition. But beyond the elegant architecture and evergreen
playing fields is a turbulent history of teenage rebellion, sexual
dissidence, and political radicalism. James Brooke-Smith wades into
the wilder shores of public-school life over the last three hundred
years in Gilded Youth. He uncovers armed mutinies in the late
eighteenth century, a Victorian craze for flagellation,
dandy-aesthetes of the 1920s, quasi-scientific discourse on
masturbation, Communist scares in the 1930s, and the salacious
tabloid scandals of the present day. Drawing on personal
experience, extensive research, and public school representations
in poetry, school slang, spy films, popular novels, and rock music,
Brooke-Smith offers a fresh account of upper-class adolescence in
Britain and the role of elite private education in shaping youth
culture. He shows how this central British institution has inspired
a counterculture of artists, intellectuals, and radicals--from
Percy Shelley and George Orwell to Peter Gabriel and Richard
Branson--who have rebelled against both the schools themselves and
the wider society for which they stand. Written with verve and
humor in the tradition of Owen Jones's The Establishment: And How
They Get Away With It, this highly original cultural history is an
eye-opening leap over the hallowed iron gates of privilege--and
perturbation.
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Limestone (Hardcover)
James Brooks
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A Seven Months' Run
James Brooks
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A Seven Months' Run
James Brooks
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