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'Nobody believes what they see on TV, so they want to look for
something else, an alternate reality, or a conspiracy theory, and
it's interesting to explore it, Twitter is fucking full of it,
especially now. It's no wonder people round here are into it, but
you don't have to read all that shit, just have some mushrooms and
wander round Lidl off your tits.' In these fourteen northern tales,
Campbell takes us from the edgelands of Manchester to the
cloistered villages of The Peak District, Northumberland and
Scotland, and illuminates the lives of outsiders, misfits, loners
and malcontents with an eye for the darkly comic. A wild-eyed man
disturbs the banter in a genial bookshop. A fraught woman seeks to
flee a collapsing reservoir. A failed academic finds solace in a
crime writer's favourite pub. A transit van killer stalks a railway
footpath. A poet accused of plagiarism finds his life falling
apart.
Energy security, rising energy prices (oil, gas, electricity),
'peak oil', environmental pollution, nuclear energy, climate change
and sustainable living are hot topics across the globe. Meanwhile,
abundant and perpetual wind resources offer opportunities, via
recent technological developments, to provide part of the solution
to address these key issues. The rapid growth of large-scale wind
farm installations has now led to the generation of clean
electricity for tens of millions of homes around the world.
However, despite the potential to reduce the losses and costs
associated with transmission and to use local wind acceleration
techniques to improve energy yields, the potential for urban wind
energy has yet to be realised. Although there is increasing public
interest, the uptake of urban wind energy in suitable areas has
been slow. This is in part due to a lack of understanding of key
issues such as: available wind resources; technology integration;
planning processes (include assessment of environmental impacts and
public safety due to close proximity to people and property);
energy consumption in buildings versus energy production from
turbines; economics (including grants, subsidies, maintenance); and
the effect of complex urban windscapes on performance. Urban Wind
Energy attempts to illuminate these areas, addressing common
concerns highlighting pitfalls, offering real world examples and
providing a framework to assess viability in energy, environmental
and economic terms. It is a comprehensive guide to urban wind
energy for architects, engineers, planners, developers, investors,
policy-makers, manufacturers and students as well as community
organisations and home-owners interested in generating their own
clean electricity.
Get a true understanding of the essential concepts in Biology with
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Exploring the central themes in modern American cultural studies
and discussing how these themes can be interpreted, American
Cultural Studies offers a wide-ranging overview of different
aspects of American cultural life such as religion, gender and
sexuality, regionalism, and ethnicity and immigration. The fourth
edition has been revised throughout to take into account the
developments of the last four years. Updates and revisions include:
discussion of Barack Obama's time in the White House consideration
of 'Hemispheric American Studies' and the increasing debates about
globalisation and the international role of the USA long-form
television and American Studies up-to-date case studies, such as
Girls, The Wire and Orange is the New Black more material on
Detroit, the Mexican border, same-sex relationships and Islam in
America updated further reading lists and new follow-up work.
Illustrated throughout, containing follow-up questions and further
reading at the end of each chapter, and accompanied by a companion
website (www.routledge.com/cw/campbell) providing further study
resources, American Cultural Studies is a core text and an
accessible guide to the interdisciplinary study of American
culture.
In this, the second volume of a projected Manchester trilogy, the
young writer takes a zero-hours job in a mail-sorting depot but
struggles to cope with the demands of menial work and the attitudes
of his colleagues. Only after rescuing and acquiring a pet tortoise
does he realise what is most lacking in his life: intimacy.
Embarking on a handful of sexual misadventures, he continues to
struggle as a writer. He sees the city in which he was born and
brought up changing all around him and, when he gets sacked from
the sorting office, some hard choices lie ahead. A powerful
indictment of austerity politics and Brexit Britain, the novel
never loses sight of its working-class characters' dignity and
humanity, and Campbell's mordantly witty dialogue ensures that the
next laugh is never far away. Gripping in its fascination with the
everyday, Zero Hours is keenly observed, blackly funny and
ultimately uplifting.
The third part of Neil Campbell's Manchester Trilogy, in which our
struggling young writer finds love with a girl called Cho. Where a
love song to Manchester becomes a love song to Cho. Lanyards
explores how the jobs we wear around our necks dictate the ways we
are identified. Building on the previous novel in the trilogy, Zero
Hours, our protagonist finds himself on universal credit, taking
agency jobs, moving from learning support work in schools and
colleges to call centre jobs and back again, via a failed attempt
at getting a job as a driver on the Metrolink tram network.
Lanyards portrays the comic and poignant moments of working life.
All the time reflecting back on the football career the narrator
might have had were he not injured, his life as a writer, his
experiences of being in a mixed race couple with the Hong Kong born
Cho, the Manchester Arena bombing, the continuing success of his
beloved Manchester City, the child sex abuse scandals in football,
the disparities of wealth in contemporary Britain, and the death of
a childhood friend that continues to haunt him.
Bringing together a diverse group of scholars representing the
fields of cultural and literary studies, cultural politics and
history, creative writing and photography, this collection examines
the different ways in which human beings respond to, debate and
interact with landscape. How do we feel, sense, know, cherish,
memorise, imagine, dream, desire or even fear landscape? What are
the specific qualities of experience that we can locate in the
spaces in and through which we live? While the essays most often
begin with the broadly literary - the memoir, the travelogue, the
novel, poetry - the contributors approach the topic in diverse and
innovative ways. The collection is divided into five sections:
'Peripheral Cultures', dealing with dislocation and imagined
landscapes'; 'Memory and Mobility', concerning the road as the
scene of trauma and movement; 'Suburbs and Estates', contrasting
American and English spaces; 'Literature and Place', foregrounding
the fluidity of the fictional and the real and the human and
nonhuman; and finally, 'Sensescapes', tracing the sensory response
to landscape. Taken together, the essays interrogate important
issues about how we live now and might live in the future.
A young warehouseman, his promising football career cut short by
injury, counts flanges, valves and couplings for a living. He longs
for the warmth and women of the office, but the prostitutes who
hang around the high-rise are easier to deal with. Drink provides
relief, if not escape, and probably the last thing he should dream
of becoming is a writer, but then he buys himself a note pad and
pen. This debut novel by Neil Campbell, author of the short story
collections Broken Doll and Pictures From Hopper, is a moving and
darkly comic meditation on the challenge of trying to realise
dreams in a harsh and unfair world.
Bringing together a diverse group of scholars representing the
fields of cultural and literary studies, cultural politics and
history, creative writing and photography, this collection examines
the different ways in which human beings respond to, debate and
interact with landscape. How do we feel, sense, know, cherish,
memorise, imagine, dream, desire or even fear landscape? What are
the specific qualities of experience that we can locate in the
spaces in and through which we live? While the essays most often
begin with the broadly literary - the memoir, the travelogue, the
novel, poetry - the contributors approach the topic in diverse and
innovative ways. The collection is divided into five sections:
'Peripheral Cultures', dealing with dislocation and imagined
landscapes'; 'Memory and Mobility', concerning the road as the
scene of trauma and movement; 'Suburbs and Estates', contrasting
American and English spaces; 'Literature and Place', foregrounding
the fluidity of the fictional and the real and the human and
nonhuman; and finally, 'Sensescapes', tracing the sensory response
to landscape. Taken together, the essays interrogate important
issues about how we live now and might live in the future.
The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its
twelfth year. Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a
book by its cover - or, more accurately, by its title. This
critically acclaimed series aims to reprint the best short stories
published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether
based in the UK or elsewhere. The editor's brief is wide ranging,
covering anthologies, collections, magazines, newspapers and web
sites, looking for the best of the bunch to reprint all in one
volume.
Exploring the central themes in modern American cultural studies
and discussing how these themes can be interpreted, American
Cultural Studies offers a wide-ranging overview of different
aspects of American cultural life such as religion, gender and
sexuality, regionalism, and ethnicity and immigration. The fourth
edition has been revised throughout to take into account the
developments of the last four years. Updates and revisions include:
discussion of Barack Obama's time in the White House consideration
of 'Hemispheric American Studies' and the increasing debates about
globalisation and the international role of the USA long-form
television and American Studies up-to-date case studies, such as
Girls, The Wire and Orange is the New Black more material on
Detroit, the Mexican border, same-sex relationships and Islam in
America updated further reading lists and new follow-up work.
Illustrated throughout, containing follow-up questions and further
reading at the end of each chapter, and accompanied by a companion
website (www.routledge.com/cw/campbell) providing further study
resources, American Cultural Studies is a core text and an
accessible guide to the interdisciplinary study of American
culture.
This original collection of essays by experts in the field weave
together the first comprehensive examination of Nevada-born Willy
Vlautin's novels and songs, as well as featuring 11 works of art
that accompany his albums and books. Brutally honest, raw, gritty,
down to earth, compassionate and affecting, Willy Vlautin's writing
evokes a power in not only theme, but in methodology. Vlautin's
novels, The Motel Life, Northline, Lean on Pete and The Free
(2006-2014) chart the dispossessed lives of young people struggling
to survive in difficult economic times and in regions of the U.S.
West and Pacific Northwest traditionally viewed as affluent and
abundant. Yet as his work shows, are actually highly stratified and
deprived. Likewise, Vlauntin's songs, penned as lead singer of the
Americana band Richmond Fontaine chart a related territory of
blue-collar landscapes of the American West and Northwest with a
strong emphasis on narrative and affective soundscapes evocative of
the similar worlds defined in his novels. Featuring an interview
with Vlautin himself, this edited collection aims to develop the
first serious, critical consideration of the important novels and
songs of Willy Vlautin by exploring relations between region,
music, and writing through the lens of critical regionality and
other interdisciplinary, cultural, and theoretical methodologies.
In so doing, it will situate his work within its regional frame of
the American New West, and particularly the city of Reno, Nevada
and the Pacific Northwest, whilst showing how he addresses wider
cultural and global issues such as economic change, immigration
shifts, gender inequality, and the loss of traditional mythic
identities. The essays take different positions in relation to
considerations of both novels and music, looking for links and
relations across genres, always mindful of their specificity. Under
the Western Sky shows how although apparently rooted in place,
Vlautin's work traces diverse lines of contemporary cultural
enquiry, engaging in an effective and troubling examination of
regional haunting.
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