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Conceived in the Gilded Age, the Ferry Building opened in 1898 as
San Francisco’s portal to the world—the terminus of the
transcontinental railway and a showcase of civic ambition. In
silent films and World’s Fair postcards, nothing said “San
Francisco” more than its soaring clocktower. But as acclaimed
architectural critic John King recounts, the rise of cars and
double-deck roads severed the city from its beloved structure.
King’s narrative spans the rise and fall and rebirth of the Ferry
Building, introducing colourful figures who fought to preserve its
character (and the city’s soul)—from architect Arthur Page
Brown and legendary columnist Herb Caen to poet Lawrence
Ferlinghetti and Senator Dianne Feinstein. A microcosm of the
changing American waterfront, the saga of the Ferry Building
explores the tensions of tourism and development—and the threat
that sea level rise poses to a landmark that in the twenty-first
century remains as vital as ever.
Clay Shooting For Beginners and Enthusiasts A full colour very high
quality hardback which has been a consistent top seller since its
publication September 2009. It has always ranked in the Google top
3 clay shooting books and regularly ranks No.1.It has received 5
star reviews only; at Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk Waterstones on line
and WH Smith
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The Seal Club (Paperback)
Alan Warner, Irvine Welsh, John King
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“Tribal Leadership gives amazingly insightful perspective on how people interact and succeed. I learned about myself and learned lessons I will carry with me and reflect on for the rest of my life.”
—John W. Fanning, Founding Chairman and CEO napster Inc.
“An unusually nuanced view of high-performance cultures.”
—Inc.
Within each corporation are anywhere from a few to hundreds of separate tribes. In Tribal Leadership, Dave Logan, John King, and Halee Fischer-Wright demonstrate how these tribes develop—and show you how to assess them and lead them to maximize productivity and growth. A business management book like no other, Tribal Leadership is an essential tool to help managers and business leaders take better control of their organizations by utilizing the unique characteristics of the tribes that exist within.
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Ghost Ship (DVD)
Dermot Walsh, Hazel Court, Hugh Burden, John Robinson, Joss Ambler, …
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B-movie ghost story starring Hazel Court and Dermot Walsh as a
young couple who decide to buy a luxury steamboat for a romantic
getaway. They think that they've found the perfect boat, and scoff
at warnings that it's haunted. However, despite their initial
incredulity they are gradually convinced that there is something
strange going on in their new love-nest, and they decide to bring
in a paranormal expert, Professor Mansel Martineau (John Robinson)
to investigate. A horrifying secret about the boat's previous
owners is eventually revealed...
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Fourteenth Century England VIII (Hardcover)
Jeffrey S. J.S. Hamilton; Contributions by Beth Allison Barr, Charlotte Whatley, Katherine Harvey, Lisa Benz St John, …
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Fourteenth Century England has quickly established for itself a
deserved reputation for its scope and scholarship and for admirably
filling a gap in the publication of medieval studies. HISTORY
Drawing on a diverse range of documentary, literary and material
evidence, the contributors to this volume examine several
inter-related topics on political, social and cultural matters in
late medieval England. Aspects of both arms production and
armigerous society are explored, from the emergence of royal
armourers in the early fourteenth century to the social
implications of later armour and armorial bearings. Another major
focus is the church and religion more broadly. The nature and
significance of the ceremonial entry, the adventus, of bishops is
explored, as well as the legal impact of provisions in shaping
church-state relations in mid-century. Religious constructsof women
are considered in a comparative analysis of orthodox and Lollard
texts. Finally, a group of papers looks at aspects of politics at
the centre, with an examination of the queenship of Isabella of
France and the issue of the Mortimer inheritance in the early years
of Richard II. J.S. Hamilton is Professor and Chair, Department of
History, Baylor University. Contributors: Beth Allison Barr, Philip
Caudrey, Katherine Harvey, Mark King, Malcolm Mercer, Shelagh
Mitchell, Lisa Benz St John, Charlotte Whatley
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The Working Man's Ballet (Paperback)
Alan Hudson; Introduction by John King; Afterword by Martin Knight
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Reflecting the variety of modern Spanish literature, these stories range from the sharp insights of Gabriel García Marquez's "María dos Prazeres" to Isabel Allende's powerful evocation of the oral traditions of the Amerindian "Walimai," the deceptive simplicity of Javier Marías's "On the Honeymoon," and the philosophical speculation of Laura Freixas's "Absurd Ending."
From their ability to use energy from sunlight to make their own
food, to combating attacks from diseases and predators, plants have
evolved an amazing range of life-sustaining strategies. Written
with the non-specialist in mind, John King's lively natural history
explains how plants function, from how they gain energy and
nutrition to how they grow, develop and ultimately die. New to this
edition is a section devoted to plants and the environment,
exploring how problems created by human activities, such as global
warming, pollution of land, water and air, and increasing ocean
acidity, are impacting on the lives of plants. King's narrative
provides a simple, highly readable introduction, with boxes in each
chapter offering additional or more advanced material for readers
seeking more detail. He concludes that despite the challenges posed
by growing environmental perils, plants will continue to dominate
our planet.
This book tells the story of Sur, Argentina's foremost literary and
cultural journal of the twentieth century. Victoria Ocampo (its
founder and lifelong editor) and Jorge Luis Borges (a regular and
influential contributor) feature prominently in the story, while
the contributions of other major writers (including Eduardo Mallea,
William Faulkner, Andre Breton, Virginia Woolf, Alfonso Reyes,
Octavio Paz, Waldo Frank, Aldous Huxley and Graham Greene) are
discussed. Politically speaking, Sur represented a certain brand of
liberalism, a resistance to populism and mass culture, and an
attachment to elitist values which offended against the more
dominant phases of Argentine thought, from Peronism to the varied
forms of nationalism, socialism and Marxism. Dr King examines the
journal's roots, its development and its demise, relating it to
other journals circulating at the time, and highlighting vital
issues debated in its pages, such as Argentine attitudes towards
fascism during the Second World War.
On 14 July 1958, with the fall of the Hashemite monarchy in Iraq, a
chapter of Iraq's history ended. In the wake of this revolution - a
revolution that eventually brought to power the Ba'ath party of
Saddam Hussein - the ancien regime of Iraq found itself both
persecuted and imprisoned. Mohammed Fadhel Jamali, a former foreign
minister and prime minister of Iraq, was no exception. In this
remarkable firsthand account of his time in power he reveals the
diplomatic wrangling at the heart of the Iraqi monarchist regime,
and offers incisive analysis of Iraq's role at both regional and
international levels. The Middle East in the 1950s was a time when
Egyptian President Gamal Abdul Nasser's pan-Arab nationalism caught
the political and intellectual attention of policymakers,
politicians and 'the man on the street' alike. Here, Jamali
outlines how these ideas were put into practice. But despite the
intentions of the idea of pan-Arabism,this post-World War II era
was nonetheless beset with discord and diplomatic difficulties.
Inside the Arab Nationalist Struggle thus explores Iraq's relations
with other Arab states and the wider Middle East, as well as its
policies towards the nascent Israeli state and the newly created
Palestine 'problem'. As foreign minister in the years immediately
after the end of World War II, Jamali was uniquely placed to give
an insight into the formative years of the United Nations. He had
participated in the San Francisco Founding Conference of the United
Nations and signed the United Nations Charter in the name of Iraq.
He also lead the Iraqi delegation at the Asian-African Conference
at Bandung in April 1955, and was present at many of the
negotiations that culminated in the Baghdad Pact, an alliance in
which Iraq, Iran and Pakistan had pledged to collaborate with the
UK and the US in the Cold War confrontation with the Soviet Union.
His recollections and analysis thus function as a vital resource
for those trying to understand the roots and development of the
Cold War and the ways in which Cold War diplomacy affected the
Middle East.
John King Fairbank was the West's doyen on China, and this book
is the full and final expression of his lifelong engagement with
this vast ancient civilization. It remains a masterwork without
parallel. The distinguished historian Merle Goldman brings the book
up to date, covering reforms in the post-Mao period through the
early years of the twenty-first century, including the leadership
of Hu Jintao. She also provides an epilogue discussing the changes
in contemporary China that will shape the nation in the years to
come.
This book examines the social, political, and cultural factors that
have and continue to influence the evolution of the urban
waterfront as seen through production created from art and design
practices. Reaching beyond the disciplines of architecture and
urban design, Occupation:Boundary distills the dual roles art and
culture have played in relation to the urban waterfront, as mediums
that have recorded and instigated change at the threshold between
the city and the sea. At the moment in time that demands innovative
approaches to the transformation of urban waterfronts, and
strategies to foster resilient boundaries, architect Cathy Simon
recounts her career building at and around the water's edge and in
service of the public realm. In so doing, the work of contemporary
architects is presented, while the origins and principles of a
guiding design philosophy are located in meditations on art and
observations on coastal cities around the world. The port cities of
New York and San Francisco emerge as case studies that structure
the reflections and mediate a narrative that is at once a
professional and personal memoir, richly illustrated with images
and drawings. Comprising three parts, the first two corresponding
parts of Occupation:Boundary draw connections between the past and
present by tracing the rise and fall of urban, industrial ports and
providing context-in the forms of textual and visual media-for
their recent transformations. Such reinterpretations, achieved via
design, often serve the public through environmentally conscious
strategies realized through inventive approaches to cultural and
recreational programs. The work of visual artists, both historical
and contemporary, appears alongside architecture, poetry, and
literary references that illustrate and draw connections between
each of these sections. The third section features select
architectural work by the author, framed by critic John King and
the architect and urbanist Justine Shapiro-Kline. Introduced with a
foreword by the prominent landscape architect Laurie Olin,
Occupation:Boundary draws on artistic and cultural intuitions and
the experience of an architect whose practice negotiates the
boundary between urban contexts and the bodies of water that
sustain them. Together, the instincts, reflections, and
architectural production collected here evidence the role of art
and design in the creation of an equitable and inviting public
realm.
From their ability to use energy from sunlight to make their own
food, to combating attacks from diseases and predators, plants have
evolved an amazing range of life-sustaining strategies. Written
with the non-specialist in mind, John King's lively natural history
explains how plants function, from how they gain energy and
nutrition to how they grow, develop and ultimately die. New to this
edition is a section devoted to plants and the environment,
exploring how problems created by human activities, such as global
warming, pollution of land, water and air, and increasing ocean
acidity, are impacting on the lives of plants. King's narrative
provides a simple, highly readable introduction, with boxes in each
chapter offering additional or more advanced material for readers
seeking more detail. He concludes that despite the challenges posed
by growing environmental perils, plants will continue to dominate
our planet.
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Making Waves - Essays (Paperback)
Mario Vargas Llosa; Translated by John King; Edited by John King
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Spanning thirty years of writing, "Making Waves "traces the
development of the Nobel Prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa's
thinking on politics and culture, and shows the breadth of his
interests and passions. Featured here are astute meditations on the
Cuban Revolution, Latin American independence, and the terrorism of
Peru's Shining Path; brilliant engagements with towering figures of
literature such as Joyce, Faulkner, and Sartre; and observations
about the dog cemetery where Rin Tin Tin is buried, Lorena
Bobbitt's knife, and the failures of the English public-school
system.
Still the most comprehensive analysis of the subject to have
appeared in English, Magical Reels charts the development of Latin
American film industries in a world increasingly dominated by the
advanced technology and massive distribution budgets of the North
American mainstream. John King sets up a historical framework to
unfold the overlapping histories of cinema in the continent: the
itinerant film-makers of the silent era who projected their films
in cafes and village halls, the inventive use of vernacular music
and local comedy in early sound pictures, the "golden age" of 1940s
Mexican cinema, and the "new cinema"-oppositional cinema made "with
an idea in the head and a camera in the hand"-of the late 1950s and
beyond. A country-by-country account of this new wave allows
detailed discussion of, for instance, Peronist cinema in Argentina,
1960s' revolutionary film-making in Cuba, state-sponsored cinema in
1970s' Brazil and Venezuela, and the struggle for democratization
in Chile in the 1980s. A new chapter written for this edition
examines Latin American cinema of the 1990s, raising issues such as
globalization, new cinema audiences, film funding and distribution.
Very few diaries of directors and senior managers of the Big Four
railways have survived to enter the public domain. There are,
however, two notable Southern Railway diarists whose records have
been available in archives for some years, but have been largely
ignored by historians; Southern Railway General Manager Gilbert
Szlumper and Director Leopold Amery. Their remarkable diaries are
addressed in this insightful book, which gives a slightly different
view of the company in contrast to the almost sanitised histories
by some writers. The surviving diaries of Szlumper are far from
complete. They begin in 1936 and continue into the war years, but
there are several gaps. Throughout, Szlumper comments on
individuals and developments, revealing little-known facts and the
circumstances that meant he could never truly achieve his
potential. Formally retiring in 1942, he died in 1969, after which
his diaries entered the public domain. Leopold Amery was director
of the Southern Railway from 1932. A Birmingham Member of
Parliament for many years, he was a statesman of some stature, his
high offices including Secretary of State for the Colonies in the
1920s. In his autobiography, Amery writes very little on the
railway, although he does comment on its family atmosphere. His
diaries, which are in the public domain in a Cambridge University
archive, have been published in two volumes but Amerys fascinating
business activities were omitted by the publisher, and like
Szlumper he comments on individuals and developments. The diary
information of these two exceptional men has been supplemented by
information from the railway, state archives and other sources, and
many of the photographs have never been published before.
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