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It's a grim fact that the world isn't as nice as it used to be.
People are ruder, more greedy, more selfish, and more violent. And
even though those hardback retro books with flock covers and
embossed titles look nice, they won't help turn back the clock.
Making a pin-hole camera, skimming stones, and whittling wood isn't
going to bring world peace. In fact, the world is only made more
dangerous by people making their own bunsen burners and careering
down hills in soap-box carts. Well, here's an alternative book for
boys--although it won't just mock the things that Dad did. Though
if you can build a tree house along the lines suggested by certain
authors, you're better off starting a loft extension business. The
book will also have useful suggestions for skills to acquire that
will actually help you as you grow up, namely: how to tell decent
jokes, three essential chords on the guitar, how to drill a hole
and put a rawlplug in it, how to play pool, and how to learn the
half-volley in any sport.
Animated comedy adventure featuring the voice talents of Michael
Caine, James McAvoy, Emily Blunt and Patrick Stewart. Shakespeare's
timeless story of doomed love is transposed to the surprisingly
hazardous world of the suburban front lawn as lovestruck garden
gnomes Gnomeo (voiced by McAvoy) and Juliet (Blunt) find themselves
caught up in a feud between the next-door neighbours to whom they
belong. Can they find a way to be together despite the many
everyday garden obstacles that seem to stand in their way?
New Historicism has been one of the major developments in literary
theory over the last decade, both in the USA and Europe. In this
book, Wilson and Dutton examine the theories behind New Historicism
and its celebrated impact in practice on Renaissance Drama,
providing an important collection both for students of the genre
and of literary theory.
At a time when the relevance of literary theory itself is
frequently being questioned, Richard Wilson makes a compelling case
for French Theory in Shakespeare Studies. Written in two parts, the
first half looks at how French theorists such as Bourdieu, Cixous,
Deleuze, Derrida and Foucault were themselves shaped by reading
Shakespeare; while the second part applies their theories to the
plays, highlighting the importance of both for current debates
about borders, terrorism, toleration and a multi-cultural Europe.
Contrasting French and Anglo-Saxon attitudes, Wilson shows how in
France, Shakespeare has been seen not as a man for the monarchy,
but a man of the mob. French Theory thus helps us understand why
Shakepeare's plays swing between violence and hope. Highlighting
the recent religious turn in theory, Wilson encourages a reading of
plays like Hamlet, Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night's Dream and
Twelth Night as models for a future peace. Examining both the
violent history and promising future of the plays, Shakespeare in
French Theory is a timely reminder of the relevance of Shakespeare
and the lasting value of French thinking for the democracy to come.
Christopher Marlowe has provoked some of the most radical criticism
of recent years. There is an elective affinity, it seems, between
this pre-modern dramatist and the post-modern critics whose best
work has been inspired by his plays. The reason suggested by this
collection of essays is that Marlowe shares the post-modern
preoccupation with the language of power - and the power of
language itself. As Richard Wilson shows in his introduction, it is
no accident that the founding essays of New Historicism were on
Marlowe; nor that current Queer Theorists focus so much on his
images of gender and homosexuality. Marlowe staged both the birth
of the modern author and the origin of modern sexual desire, and it
is this unique conjunction that makes his drama a key to
contemporary debates about the state and the self: from pornography
to gays in the military. Gay Studies, Cultural Materialism, New
Historicism and Reader Response Criticism are all represented in
this selection, which the introduction places in the light not only
of theorists like Althusser, Bataille and Bakhtin, but also of
artists and writers such as Jean Genet and Robert Mapplethorpe.
Many of the essays take off from Marlowe's extreme dramatisations
of arson, cruelty and aggression, suggesting why it is that the
thinker who has been most convincingly applied to his theatre is
the philosopher of punishment and pain, Michel Foucault. Others
explore the exclusiveness of this all-male universe, and reveal why
it remains so offensive and impenetrable to feminism. For what they
all make disturbingly clear is Marlowe's violent, untamed
difference from the cliches and correctness of normative society.
Christopher Marlowe has provoked some of the most radical criticism
of recent years. There is an elective affinity, it seems, between
this pre-modern dramatist and the post-modern critics whose best
work has been inspired by his plays. The reason suggested by this
collection of essays is that Marlowe shares the post-modern
preoccupation with the language of power - and the power of
language itself. As Richard Wilson shows in his introduction, it is
no accident that the founding essays of New Historicism were on
Marlowe; nor that current Queer Theorists focus so much on his
images of gender and homosexuality. Marlowe staged both the birth
of the modern author and the origin of modern sexual desire, and it
is this unique conjunction that makes his drama a key to
contemporary debates about the state and the self: from pornography
to gays in the military. Gay Studies, Cultural Materialism, New
Historicism and Reader Response Criticism are all represented in
this selection, which the introduction places in the light not only
of theorists like Althusser, Bataille and Bakhtin, but also of
artists and writers such as Jean Genet and Robert Mapplethorpe.
Many of the essays take off from Marlowe's extreme dramatisations
of arson, cruelty and aggression, suggesting why it is that the
thinker who has been most convincingly applied to his theatre is
the philosopher of punishment and pain, Michel Foucault. Others
explore the exclusiveness of this all-male universe, and reveal why
it remains so offensive and impenetrable to feminism. For what they
all make disturbingly clear is Marlowe's violent, untamed
difference from the cliches and correctness of normative society.
New Historicism has been one of the major developments in literary
theory over the last decade, both in the USA and Europe. In this
book, Wilson and Dutton examine the theories behind New Historicism
and its celebrated impact in practice on Renaissance Drama,
providing an important collection both for students of the genre
and of literary theory.
At a time when the relevance of literary theory itself is
frequently being questioned, Richard Wilson makes a compelling case
for French Theory in Shakespeare Studies. Written in two parts, the
first half looks at how French theorists such as Bourdieu, Cixous,
Deleuze, Derrida and Foucault were themselves shaped by reading
Shakespeare; while the second part applies their theories to the
plays, highlighting the importance of both for current debates
about borders, terrorism, toleration and a multi-cultural Europe.
Contrasting French and Anglo-Saxon attitudes, Wilson shows how in
France, Shakespeare has been seen not as a man for the monarchy,
but a man of the mob. French Theory thus helps us understand why
Shakepeare's plays swing between violence and hope. Highlighting
the recent religious turn in theory, Wilson encourages a reading of
plays like Hamlet, Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night's Dream and
Twelth Night as models for a future peace. Examining both the
violent history and promising future of the plays, Shakespeare in
French Theory is a timely reminder of the relevance of Shakespeare
and the lasting value of French thinking for the democracy to come.
All 13 episodes from the first series of the relaunched sci-fi
adventure drama, written by Russell T. Davies and starring
Christopher Eccleston as the legendary Time Lord. In this series,
the Doctor meets new companion Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) while
saving her from the living-plastic Nestene Consciousness, before
taking her on adventures through time and space, where she meets
Charles Dickens (Simon Callow), tries to save her father from dying
when she was a child, and helps the Doctor and Captain Jack
Harkness (John Barrowman) battle the evil Daleks and save the
world. The episodes are: 'Rose', 'The End of the World', 'The
Unquiet Dead', 'Aliens of London', 'World War Three', 'Dalek', 'The
Long Game', 'Father's Day', 'The Empty Child', 'The Doctor Dances',
'Boom Town', 'Bad Wolf' and 'The Parting of the Ways'.
This sumptuously illustrated history presents, in an updated new
edition, an in-depth account of Britain's most important buildings,
from castles, royal palaces and stately homes to fortified manors
and the great country houses, and provides a wealth of stories and
information on this glorious architectural past and heritage.
Detailed coverage is given of the World Heritage Sites of Edward
I's castles at Beaumaris, Harlech, Caenarvon and Conwy, plus other
spectacular buildings such as Blenheim Palace, The Tower of London,
Burghley House and Windsor Castle. Special features focus on
important art and architectural movements and on the great
architects including Wren, Adam, Wyatt and Lutyens.
On December 28th 2000, Charlotte Wilson, a 27-year-old VSO worker,
was killed when her bus, the inauspiciously named Titanic Express,
was ambushed in war-torn Burundi. The attackers were members of the
Hutu-extremist FNL, a faction linked to those responsible for the
Rwandan genocide. Twenty others died with Charlotte, including her
Burundian fiance. One of the few survivors was given a chilling
message for the Burundian government: "We're going to kill them all
and there's nothing you can do". In "Titanic Express", Charlotte's
brother Richard charts his painful struggle to unravel what
happened that day, to understand the complex and brutal history
that lay behind it. Cutting through the obfuscations of the
authorities, he uncovers a story of violence, fanaticism and
neglect that exposes the self-interest and double standards at the
heart of our supposed commitment to human rights and the fight
against terror. As the facts begin to emerge, the family's deep
personal grief is compounded by the realisation that this murder is
just one among thousands, in a war fuelled as much by western
cynicism and African greed as by ethnic divisions. "Titanic
Express" is a political detective story, a memoir of grief and a
moving portrait of an extraordinary woman who died at the very
moment she had found fulfilment. In gripping detail it shows the
human reality of lives torn apart by the machinations of war and
diplomatic expediency, where competing versions of the truth can be
as deadly as bullets and machetes. "I have watched in growing
admiration how, with dogged persistence, Richard Wilson has
conducted a singular crusade, not just to bring his sister's
murderers to justice, but to understand who they were and why they
killed her." Jon Swain, Sunday Times
This book includes essays by leading authors on Shakespeare drawing
on contemporary and early continental philosophy. This collection
of 15 essays by celebrated authors in Shakespeare studies and in
continental philosophy develops different aspects of the interface
between continental thinking and Shakespeare's plays. The authors
draw from current continental philosophy (e.g. Lacan, Foucault,
Derrida) as well as from the 19th-century continental tradition
(e.g. Hegel, Kierkegaard) and from the early roots of continental
tradition (e.g. Aristotle, Ibn Sina). The chapters address the span
of the tragedies, comedies and history plays in the light of
thinkers as diverse as Aristotle, Ibn Sina and Jean-Luc Marion,
Hegel, Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, Schmitt, Arendt, Lacan, Levinas,
Foucault and Derrida. The blend of new work and classic position
papers provides a thorough overview of Shakespeare and continental
thought. It sheds new light on Shakespeare and on continental
philosophy. Authors in the collection are leaders in each
discipline in the US and UK / Europe and include: Edward S. Casey,
Howard Caygill, Paul A Kottman, Julia Reinhard Lupton, Christopher
Norris, Nicholas Royle, and, Catherine Belsey.
International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law: Treaties, Cases,
and Analysis introduces the reader to the international legal
instruments and case law governing the substantive and procedural
dimensions of international human rights and humanitarian law,
including economic, social, and cultural rights. The book, which
was originally published in 2006, also discusses the history and
organisational structure of human rights and humanitarian law
enforcement mechanisms. A chapter is devoted a chapter to the
issues surrounding the incorporation of international law into U.S.
law, including principles of constitutional and statutory
interpretation, conflict rules, and the self-execution doctrine.
Questions and comments sections provide critical analyses of issues
raised in the materials. The last chapter addresses theoretical
issues facing contemporary international human rights and
humanitarian law and its enforcement.
International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law: Treaties, Cases,
and Analysis introduces the reader to the international legal
instruments and case law governing the substantive and procedural
dimensions of international human rights and humanitarian law,
including economic, social, and cultural rights. The book, which
was originally published in 2006, also discusses the history and
organisational structure of human rights and humanitarian law
enforcement mechanisms. A chapter is devoted a chapter to the
issues surrounding the incorporation of international law into U.S.
law, including principles of constitutional and statutory
interpretation, conflict rules, and the self-execution doctrine.
Questions and comments sections provide critical analyses of issues
raised in the materials. The last chapter addresses theoretical
issues facing contemporary international human rights and
humanitarian law and its enforcement.
IIncludes: "Hound "by Maria Oshodi, "Soft Vengeance "by April de
Angelis, "Sympathy for the Devil "by Roy Winston, "Fittings: The
Last Freakshow "by Mike Kenny, "Into the Mystic "by Peter Wolf, and
"Peeling "by Katie O'Reilly. Introduced by Jenny Sealey, Artistic
Director of Graeae Theatre Company, the U.K.'s leading theatre
company working with disabled artists.
The quintessential explosive pensioner Victor Meldew (Richard Wilson) features in a collection of Christmas specials. Good will to all men be damned, it's a day like any other for Meldrew and, as such, as good as any other to moan eternally and get everything off your chest.
Contains the Christmas Special Starbound, first aired in 1996, and the 1997 episode Endgame. With classic Meldrew moments such as The Man In The Shed, the Identity Parade and many more.
Since 1888, Rangers and Celtic football clubs have been locked into
an intense and frequently explosive rivalry: Rangers the product of
West Scotland's Protestant establishment, Celtic the team founded
to raise money for the Catholic underclass of Glasgow. On 2 January
2010 the two teams met in the Old Firm's New Year Derby, a fixture
that had been banned for ten years because of the trouble it
brought with it. Richard Wilson puts that game at the centre of a
book which delves into the history and widens out to the cultural
resonance of the fixture within Scotland. It is a potent mix of
close-up observation and big-picture thinking, with insight,
understanding and depth.
Over the centuries, mankind has slowly reduced the risks and
hazards that even as recently as a century ago kept life expectancy
to a mere 45 years. Our average lifespan has improved to 77 years
by remarkable progress in public health and safety. But with this
improvement has come a demand for greater efforts to improve both
life expectancy and the quality of life. The first edition of this
book, published in 1982, was a pioneer in the development of
logical, yet simple, analytic tools for discussion of the risks
which we all face. This new edition, revised, expanded, and
illustrated in detail, should be of value both to professionals in
the field and to those who wish to understand these vital
issues.
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