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Collection of shorts from experimental writer and director B.S.
Johnson. The films comprise: 'You're Human Like the Rest of Them'
(1967), 'Paradigm' (1968), 'The Unfortunates' (1969), 'Up Yours Too
Guillaume Apollinaire!' (1969), 'Unfair!' (1970), 'March!' (1970),
'Poem' (1971), 'B.S. Johnson On Dr. Samuel Johnson' (1972), 'Not
Counting the Savages' (1972) and 'Fat Man On a Beach' (1974).
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Flowerheart
Catherine Bakewell
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R392
R231
Discovery Miles 2 310
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"Flowerheart is like a garden in full bloom: vibrant and sweet,
whimsical and wondrous." --Allison Saft, New York Times bestselling
author of A Far Wilder Magic Perfect for fans of Margaret Rogerson
and Tamora Pierce, this standalone YA debut is a stunning
cottagecore fantasy romance about a girl with powerful and violent
magic which she must learn to control--or lose everything she
loves. Clara's magic has always been wild. But it's never been
dangerous. Then a simple touch causes poisonous flowers to bloom in
her father's chest. The only way to heal him is to cast an
extremely difficult spell that requires perfect control. And the
only person willing to help is her former best friend, Xavier,
who's grown from a sweet, shy child into someone distant and
mysterious. Xavier asks a terrible price in return, knowing Clara
will give anything to save her father. As she struggles to
reconcile the new Xavier with the boy she once loved, she discovers
how many secrets he's hiding. And as she hunts for the truth, she
instead finds the root of a terrible darkness that's taken hold in
the queendom--a darkness only Clara's magic is powerful enough to
stop.
To what extent does development influence migration? How does
migration affect development? In recent years, there has been a
huge amount of research into such questions about what has come to
be known as the migration-development nexus. In this important
collection, Oliver Bakewell draws together key articles by leading
scholars which investigate past and current thinking on the complex
linkages between migration and development. The volume studies the
impacts of levels of development on both internal and international
migration and the impacts of migration on economic and social
change in both origin and destination areas. Further topics covered
include the influence of transnationalism and diasporas. It
presents the reasons for the rise of the migration-development
nexus and concludes by offering some critical perspectives on it.
With an original introductory chapter by the editor, this volume
will be of great interest and value to scholars and policymakers
alike.
Gathering poems from Shakespeare to the present, Don't Bring Me No
Rocking Chair addresses ageing through the several ages of poetry.
Now more than ever, as more of us live for longer, the idea of what
it means to age or to grow old engages and concerns people of all
ages. One of the problems of ageing is the language we use to
define it and the list of pejoratives associated with it, with
attitudes to ageing ranging from 'fatalism, denial, negative
stereotyping and tunnel vision to fantasy' (Professor Tom Kirkwood,
Newcastle University). Poetry can help to give us a fresh language
to think about ageing and these poems are chosen to fortify,
celebrate, lament, grieve, rage and ridicule. There is not one way
to age but neither can any of us truly stop our bodies from ageing.
Ageing is not a single phenomenon but complex, multiple,
perplexing: experienced historically as well as individually. This
anthology may not console but it can widen our perspectives,
helping us to change what we can change: our attitudes. This
anthology was prepared for the Newcastle Centre for the Literary
Arts as part of the Societal Challenge Theme on Ageing at Newcastle
University with support from the Institute of Ageing and Health,
Newcastle University, and has a foreword by Joan Bakewell.
Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize Paris, near the turn
of 1932-3. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the
Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are Jean-Paul Sartre,
Simone de Beauvoir and their friend Raymond Aron, who opens their
eyes to a radical new way of thinking... 'It's not often that you
miss your bus stop because you're so engrossed in reading a book
about existentialism, but I did exactly that... The story of
Sartre, Beauvoir, Camus, Heidegger et al is strange, fun and
compelling reading. If it doesn't win awards, I will eat my copy'
Independent on Sunday 'Bakewell shows how fascinating were some of
the existentialists' ideas and how fascinating, often frightful,
were their lives. Vivid, humorous anecdotes are interwoven with a
lucid and unpatronising exposition of their complex philosophy...
Tender, incisive and fair' Daily Telegraph 'Quirky, funny, clear
and passionate... Few writers are as good as Bakewell at explaining
complicated ideas in a way that makes them easy to understand' Mail
on Sunday
This volume focuses on Latin America, since it was mainly there
that Europeans (or their colonial descendants) actually engaged in
mining in the 16th-19th centuries; elsewhere they traded metals
mined by others. The principal metals produced, and in prodigious
quantities, were silver, in the Spanish colonies, and gold, mainly
in Brazil in the 18th century. These articles analyse the volume
and pattern of production and the forms of labour found in mining.
Particular attention is given to the technologies of extraction and
refining, notably the adoption of the mercury amalgamation process:
this had a major impact, driving down silver production costs;
because the mercury mines were a royal monopoly, it also handed
control to the Spanish crown.
Brilliant, original, funny and moving -- a vivid portrait of
Montaigne, showing how his ideas gave birth to our modern sense of
our inner selves, from Shakespeare's plays to the dilemmas we face
today.
How to get on well with people, how to deal with violence, how to
adjust to losing someone you love -- such questions arise in most
people's lives. They are all versions of a bigger question: how do
you live? How do you do the good or honourable thing, while
flourishing and feeling happy?
This question obsessed Renaissance writers, none more than Michel
Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-92), perhaps the first truly modern
individual. A nobleman, public official and wine-grower, he wrote
free-roaming explorations of his thought and experience, unlike
anything written before. He called them 'essays', meaning
'attempts' or 'tries'. Into them he put whatever was in his head:
his tastes in wine and food, his childhood memories, the way his
dog's ears twitched when it was dreaming, as well as the appalling
events of the religious civil wars raging around him. The Essays
was an instant bestseller, and over four hundred years later,
Montaigne's honesty and charm still draw people to him. Readers
come to him in search of companionship, wisdom and entertainment --
and in search of themselves.
This book, a spirited and singular biography (and the first full
life of Montaigne in English for nearly fifty years), relates the
story of his life by way of the questions he posed and the answers
he explored. It traces his bizarre upbringing (made to speak only
Latin), youthful career and sexual adventures, his travels, and his
friendships with the scholar and poet Etienne de La Boetie and with
his adopted 'daughter', Marie de Gournay. And as we read, we also
meet his readers -- who for centuries have found in Montaigne an
inexhaustible source of answers to the haunting question, 'how to
live?'
"From the Hardcover edition."
'An inspiration to anyone who still finds old age too distressing a
prospect to take seriously' The Times Old age is no longer a blip
in the calendar, just a few declining years before the end. Old age
is now a major and important part of life: It should command as
much thought - even anxiety - as teenagers give to exam results and
young marrieds how many children to have . . . I am in my 80s and
moving towards the end of my life. But in a more actual sense, I
have moved from my dear home of 50 odd years into another . . . the
home where I will be until the end. Writing here of how it has
happened is in a sense a reconciliation with what cannot be
avoided, but which can be confronted When Joan Bakewell, Labour
Peer, author and famous champion of the older people's right to a
good and fruitful life, decided that she could no longer remain in
her old home, she had to confront what she calls 'the next segment
of life.' Disposing of things accumulated during a long life,
saying goodbye to her home and the memories of more than fifty
years, thinking about what is needed for downsizing - all suddenly
became urgent and emotional tasks. And then there was managing
family expectations. Some new projects such as planning the colours
and layout of a new, smaller flat, were exciting and some things -
the ridding herself of books, paintings, memento - took courage. So
much of the world is on the move- voluntarily or not - and so many
people are living to a great old age. In using the tale of her own
life , Joan Bakewell tells us a story of our times and how she is
learning to live to the sound and tune of The Tick of Two Clocks:
the old and the new.
How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to
adjust to losing someone you love--such questions arise in most
people's lives. They are all versions of a bigger question: How do
you live? This question obsessed Renaissance writers, none more
than Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, considered by many to be the first
truly modern individual. He wrote free-roaming explorations of his
thoughts and experience, unlike anything written before. More than
four hundred years later, Montaigne's honesty and charm still draw
people to him. Readers come to him in search of companionship,
wisdom, and entertainment --and in search of themselves. Just as
they will to this spirited and singular biography.
This book draws renewed attention to migration into and within
Africa, and to the socio-political consequences of these movements.
In doing so, it complements vibrant scholarly and political
discussions of migrant integration globally with innovative,
interdisciplinary perspectives focused on migration within Africa.
It sheds new light on how human mobility redefines the meaning of
home, community, citizenship and belonging. The authors ask how
people's movements within the continent are forging novel forms of
membership while catalysing social change within the communities
and countries to which they move and which they have left behind.
Original case studies from across Africa question the concepts,
actors, and social trajectories dominant in the contemporary
literature. Moreover, it speaks to and challenges sociological
debates over the nature of migrant integration, debates largely
shaped by research in the world's wealthy regions. The text, in
part or as a whole, will appeal to students and scholars of
migration, development, urban and rural transformation, African
studies and displacement.
This edited volume explores migration movements to Norway, the
Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Portugal from Brazil, Morocco
and Ukraine, focusing on how the migration processes of yesterday
influence those of today. The central analytical tool for this
undertaking is the concept of feedback. This volume identifies
various feedback mechanisms that initiate, perpetuate and reverse
migration movements. It pays attention to the role of personal
networks, but it also moves beyond networks by analysing the role
of institutions, macro-level factors and forms of broadcast
feedback operating through impersonal channels. Based on extensive
surveys and in-depth interviews, it changes our understanding of
how and why patterns of international migration change over time.
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Flowerheart (Hardcover)
Catherine Bakewell
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R560
R434
Discovery Miles 4 340
Save R126 (22%)
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“Flowerheart is like a garden in full bloom: vibrant and sweet,
whimsical and wondrous.†—Allison Saft, New York Times
bestselling author of A Far Wilder Magic Perfect for fans of
Margaret Rogerson and Tamora Pierce, this standalone YA debut is a
stunning cottagecore fantasy romance about a girl with powerful and
violent magic which she must learn to control—or lose everything
she loves. Clara’s magic has always been wild. But it’s
never been dangerous. Then a simple touch causes poisonous flowers
to bloom in her father’s chest. The only way to heal him is to
cast an extremely difficult spell that requires perfect control.
And the only person willing to help is her former best friend,
Xavier, who’s grown from a sweet, shy child into someone distant
and mysterious. Xavier asks a terrible price in return,
knowing Clara will give anything to save her father. As she
struggles to reconcile the new Xavier with the boy she once loved,
she discovers how many secrets he’s hiding. And as she hunts for
the truth, she instead finds the root of a terrible darkness
that’s taken hold in the queendom—a darkness only Clara’s
magic is powerful enough to stop.Â
The updated and enhanced third edition of "A History of Latin
America to 1825" presents a comprehensive narrative survey of Latin
American history from the region's first human presence until the
majority of Iberian colonies in America emerged as sovereign states
c. 1825.This edition features new content on the history of women,
gender, Africans in the Iberian colonies, and pre-Columbian
peoplesIncludes more illustrations to aid learning: over 50 figures
and photographs, several accompanied by short essaysConcentrates on
the colonial period and earlier, expanding coverage of the period
and incorporating more social and cultural history with the
political narrative
In the pieces brought together in Writing Home, Polly Devlin OBE,
most bewitching of writers, covers subjects that range over her
whole life and thought. She writes about places: about her
childhood deep in the countryside of Northern Ireland (where, in
the late 1950s, the first electricity poles looked 'literally out
of place'); her sudden transition, at the age of twenty-one, to
Swinging Sixties London, where she worked for Vogue and became very
much part of the scene (although - 'it's like being a provincial at
Versailles'), on to New York, back to London, then to the English
countryside, and to Paris, Venice, the world over - and always back
to Ireland, London and New York. She writes about the people she
has known, among them Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Mick
Jagger, Peggy Guggenheim, Diana Vreeland ('as fantastical as a
unicorn'), Jean Shrimpton ('she looks as though she sleeps in
cathedral pews and sucks artichoke hearts for sustenance'),
Princess Margaret (who came to dinner and did the washing up,
'which I gabbled she didn't need to - she looked at me frostily and
the royal hands went back into the Fairy Liquid'). And she writes
about the issues that have preoccupied her: about emigration,
feminism ('I grew up in a society where men were fundamental and
women were secondary'), reading, writing, collecting, shopping,
houses, dogs, rooks, hares, dreams, friendship and the kindness of
strangers; about daughters and mothers; and about wishes . . .
'An inspiration to anyone who still finds old age too distressing a
prospect to take seriously' The Times Old age is no longer a blip
in the calendar, just a few declining years before the end. Old age
is now a major and important part of life: It should command as
much thought - even anxiety - as teenagers give to exam results and
young marrieds how many children to have . . . I am in my 80s and
moving towards the end of my life. But in a more actual sense, I
have moved from my dear home of 50 odd years into another . . . the
home where I will be until the end. Writing here of how it has
happened is in a sense a reconciliation with what cannot be
avoided, but which can be confronted When Joan Bakewell, Labour
Peer, author and famous champion of the older people's right to a
good and fruitful life, decided that she could no longer remain in
her old home, she had to confront what she calls 'the next segment
of life.' Disposing of things accumulated during a long life,
saying goodbye to her home and the memories of more than fifty
years, thinking about what is needed for downsizing - all suddenly
became urgent and emotional tasks. And then there was managing
family expectations. Some new projects such as planning the colours
and layout of a new, smaller flat, were exciting and some things -
the ridding herself of books, paintings, memento - took courage. So
much of the world is on the move- voluntarily or not - and so many
people are living to a great old age. In using the tale of her own
life , Joan Bakewell tells us a story of our times and how she is
learning to live to the sound and tune of The Tick of Two Clocks:
the old and the new.
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