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British Furniture 1820 to 1920 is the first book on the subject for
several decades and the only book ever published to span the
century from 1820 through to 1920. It creates a continuum to
underline the importance of the late Recency style favoured by
George IV, moving through to the first two decades of the 20th
century, with a host of ever-changing styles and fashions. Payne
illustrates the importance of the revival styles and copies: a
fundamental part of the furniture trade that has often previously
been ignored. Many of the makers' names are familiar to furniture
collectors, such as Gillows, Hollands, Collinson & Lock, Morris
& Co. and Maples. However, the importance of others, such as
Baldock, Blake, Trollope, Hindley & Wilkinson, Hamptons or
Lenygon & Morant - as well as a host of provincial makers - is
explained. British Furniture 1820 to 1920 - The Luxury
Market is a landmark publication and arguably the first book to
properly assess British furniture design through the whole of the
Victorian era. It goes further than any book has attempted before
by filling in important research particular for the latter half of
the century. It shows that what is often termed simply, and
once pejoratively, as ‘Victorian’ is often of an earlier date,
commencing in the revered Regency period of the 1820s. Christopher
Payne considers each decade, adding important new research and
building a huge archive of text and images. The book contains in
excess of 1000 colour photographs and also an important compendium
of makers names and details.Â
This book is an investigation into the economic policy
formulation and practice of neoliberalism in Britain from the 1950s
through to the financial crisis and economic downturn that began in
2007-8. It demonstrates that influential economists, such as F.A.
Hayek and Milton Friedman, authors at key British think tanks such
as the Institute of Economic Affairs and the Centre for Policy
Studies, and important political figures of the Thatcher and New
Labour governments shared a similar conception of the consumer.
For neoliberals, the idea that consumers were weak in the face
of businesses and large corporations was almost offensive. Instead,
consumers were imagined to be sovereign agents in the economy,
whose consumption decisions played a central role in the
construction of their human capital and in the enabling of their
aspirations. Consumption, just like production, came to be viewed
as an enterprising and entrepreneurial activity. Consequently, from
the early 1980s until the present day, it was felt necessary that
banks should have the freedom to meet the borrowing needs of
consumers. Credit rationing would be a thing of the past. Just like
businesses, consumers and households could use debt to expand their
stock of personal assets.
By utilizing the method of French philosopher Michel Foucault
this book provides an original analysis of the policy ideas and
political speeches of key figures in the New Right, in government
and at the Bank of England. And it addresses the key question as to
why policy-makers both in Britain and the United States did little
or nothing to stem rising consumer and household indebtedness,
instead always choosing to see increasing house prices and
homeownership as a positive to be encouraged.
A Beginner's Guide to Special Makeup Effects: Monsters, Maniacs and
More is an introduction to special effects makeup using
cost-effective tools and materials that can be found in local
stores. The book is divided into three sections - Simple Makeup,
Advanced Materials and Techniques and Advanced Makeup - and
features tutorials to create characters such as a pirate, vampire,
ghost, robot, burn victim, witch, zombie and goblin. Each character
is introduced with a full-page photograph of the finished makeup
and illustrated with full-color, step-by-step photographs. The book
also includes instructions on how to make fake teeth, apply bald
caps, create gory wounds and injuries and make simple prosthetics.
Each makeup tutorial is designed to progressively build on the
techniques outlined in the preceding tutorial, guiding readers from
the basics of foundation, highlight and shadow to creating advanced
creature makeups. This is a beginner makeup book suited for
students of Stage Makeup courses, as well as for the theatre
technician working and training on their own.
This book is an investigation into the economic policy formulation
and practice of neoliberalism in Britain from the 1950s through to
the financial crisis and economic downturn that began in 2007-8. It
demonstrates that influential economists, such as F.A. Hayek and
Milton Friedman, authors at key British think tanks such as the
Institute of Economic Affairs and the Centre for Policy Studies,
and important political figures of the Thatcher and New Labour
governments shared a similar conception of the consumer. For
neoliberals, the idea that consumers were weak in the face of
businesses and large corporations was almost offensive. Instead,
consumers were imagined to be sovereign agents in the economy,
whose consumption decisions played a central role in the
construction of their human capital and in the enabling of their
aspirations. Consumption, just like production, came to be viewed
as an enterprising and entrepreneurial activity. Consequently, from
the early 1980s until the present day, it was felt necessary that
banks should have the freedom to meet the borrowing needs of
consumers. Credit rationing would be a thing of the past. Just like
businesses, consumers and households could use debt to expand their
stock of personal assets. By utilizing the method of French
philosopher Michel Foucault this book provides an original analysis
of the policy ideas and political speeches of key figures in the
New Right, in government and at the Bank of England. And it
addresses the key question as to why policy-makers both in Britain
and the United States did little or nothing to stem rising consumer
and household indebtedness, instead always choosing to see
increasing house prices and homeownership as a positive to be
encouraged.
A Beginner's Guide to Special Makeup Effects: Monsters, Maniacs and
More is an introduction to special effects makeup using
cost-effective tools and materials that can be found in local
stores. The book is divided into three sections - Simple Makeup,
Advanced Materials and Techniques and Advanced Makeup - and
features tutorials to create characters such as a pirate, vampire,
ghost, robot, burn victim, witch, zombie and goblin. Each character
is introduced with a full-page photograph of the finished makeup
and illustrated with full-color, step-by-step photographs. The book
also includes instructions on how to make fake teeth, apply bald
caps, create gory wounds and injuries and make simple prosthetics.
Each makeup tutorial is designed to progressively build on the
techniques outlined in the preceding tutorial, guiding readers from
the basics of foundation, highlight and shadow to creating advanced
creature makeups. This is a beginner makeup book suited for
students of Stage Makeup courses, as well as for the theatre
technician working and training on their own.
At first encounter, North Brother Island is among the most
unexpected of places: an uninhabited island of ruins in New York
City that hardly anyone knows, existing today almost in secret. But
in some fundamental sense it is also quite ordinary, for just as
they have in other parts of the city, people have lived, worked,
studied, healed, and died here for centuries. The island has been
bought and sold, used and re-used many times over. For a while,
though, it was famous: In 1885, it became the home of the Riverside
Hospital, which had been established to isolate and treat people
with infectious diseases. By 1895, the hospital had grown to such
an extent that the social reformer Jacob Riis wrote that there was
nothing like it in the world. Later, the island's reputation grew
mostly in infamy: In 1904, the passenger steamship General Slocum
caught fire in the East River, leaving more than a thousand souls
dead on the shores of North Brother Island, the single greatest
loss of life in New York City to that time; in 1908, the hospital
received as a patient Mary Mallon, better known as Typhoid Mary,
who would die on North Brother in 1938.
North Brother Island is both part of the City of New York and a
world apart from it. Its twenty acres sit low in the East River,
just north of Hell Gate, with twenty-five or so buildings in
various states of decay. As there is no public access, it's most
easily seen as you lift off the tarmac at LaGuardia. Look to the
west for a brown smudge stuck in the blue-gray East River, close up
against Rikers Island and not far from the Bronx shoreline. That's
NBI.
Photographer Christopher Payne, renowned for his work at abandoned
state mental hospitals, received permission to visit and photograph
the island over a period of years, and this book, North Brother
Island, is the result of that work. His collaborator and co-author
is Randall F. Mason, Chair of the Graduate Program in Historic
Preservation at the University of Pennsylvania, who has studied the
island and its history as a unique example in the annals of urban
planning and policy.
North Brother Island features an essay and more than 80 large-scale
color images by Christopher Payne and a highly illustrated study by
Professor Mason, including images from throughout the island's
history, official documents, and other supporting graphics.
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So Below (Paperback)
Lauren Ireland; Illustrated by Christopher Payne
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R430
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Joseph's Dream News (Paperback)
Jeffrey K. Bedrick, Joel Christopher Payne; Joseph Patrick Cosgrove
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R333
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Joseph's Dream News represents ancient stories in a modern
newspaper or popular magazine style of reporting for the modern
reader who may have little knowledge of ancient past, or of
epistemology, psychology, cosmology, theology, astronomy, science,
psycholinguistics, politics and religion. Presenting these ancient
stories using modern idioms and formats the author makes them come
alive in dealing with real life problems, challenges and
circumstances in the world today. In ancient characters we can
learn something about life and ourselves. Is it possible to see the
repeat of history as you read through these headlines? History will
show you the future if you understand and gain perspectives from
studying narratives of the past. Our story of Joseph's heroic
adventures is the timeless tale of a young person who faces many
challenges while growing up and how he responds and reacts to these
challenges. Core principles enabled Joseph to be a servant of God
and to follow his dreams. Tossed into a hole in the ground by his
own brothers and then later sold into slavery did not alter
Joseph's firm belief that God was with him. Joseph was a
possibility thinker, no matter what was happening in the
circumstances or changing events of the moment around him he stayed
true to his God and his beliefs. Often held in slavery or
captivity, Joseph served his fellow man confident that God was with
him as he hustled to make his dreams a reality. Joseph's faith in
God engendered his high ethical standards early in life and shaped
his passion to serve humanity to the best of his ability. He was
proactive and took responsibility for acquiring learned lessons
from his experiences and by always choosing a positive, life
affirming response to dire circumstances. Early in life, Joseph
learned time tested sound principles while working on his father's
farm. Joseph's principled thinking empowered his honesty, duty,
service and problem solving skills. Joseph believed his life
purpose was service to God. He believed that in serving others he
was serving God. His life of service to others helped to mold his
character and shape his choices and options in life. This humble
personality is what made him a great leader. However, this did not
necessarily mean he always made the right choices in what was best
for the people.
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Decoded (Paperback)
Mai Jia; Translated by Olivia Milburn, Christopher Payne
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R535
R443
Discovery Miles 4 430
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One of China's bestselling novels, an unusual literary thriller
that takes us deep into the world of code breaking
In his gripping debut novel, Mai Jia reveals the mysterious world
of Unit 701, a top-secret Chinese intelligence agency whose sole
purpose is counterespionage and code breaking.
Rong Jinzhen, an autistic math genius with a past shrouded in myth,
is forced to abandon his academic pursuits when he is recruited
into Unit 701. As China's greatest cryptographer, Rong discovers
that the mastermind behind the maddeningly difficult Purple Code is
his former teacher and best friend, who is now working for China's
enemy--but this is only the first of many betrayals.
Brilliantly combining the mystery and tension of a spy thriller
with the psychological nuance of an intimate character study and
the magical qualities of a Chinese fable, "Decoded" discovers in
cryptography the key to the human heart. Both a riveting mystery
and a metaphysical examination of the mind of an inspired genius,
it is the first novel to be published in English by one of China's
greatest and most popular contemporary writers.
Come along with Parker Preston on his exciting adventure across the
world -- from his South Pole home through new and different places
-- and join him as he makes friends and has fun times on his way to
the North Pole to finally meet the most generous man the world has
ever known: Santa Claus
Powerful photographs of the grand exteriors and crumbling interiors
of America's abandoned state mental hospitals. For more than half
the nation's history, vast mental hospitals were a prominent
feature of the American landscape. From the mid-nineteenth century
to the early twentieth, over 250 institutions for the insane were
built throughout the United States; by 1948, they housed more than
a half million patients. The blueprint for these hospitals was set
by Pennsylvania hospital superintendant Thomas Story Kirkbride: a
central administration building flanked symmetrically by pavilions
and surrounded by lavish grounds with pastoral vistas. Kirkbride
and others believed that well-designed buildings and grounds, a
peaceful environment, a regimen of fresh air, and places for work,
exercise, and cultural activities would heal mental illness. But in
the second half of the twentieth century, after the introduction of
psychotropic drugs and policy shifts toward community-based care,
patient populations declined dramatically, leaving many of these
beautiful, massive buildings-and the patients who lived in
them-neglected and abandoned. Architect and photographer
Christopher Payne spent six years documenting the decay of state
mental hospitals like these, visiting seventy institutions in
thirty states. Through his lens we see splendid, palatial exteriors
(some designed by such prominent architects as H. H. Richardson and
Samuel Sloan) and crumbling interiors-chairs stacked against walls
with peeling paint in a grand hallway; brightly colored
toothbrushes still hanging on a rack; stacks of suitcases, never
packed for the trip home. Accompanying Payne's striking and
powerful photographs is an essay by Oliver Sacks (who described his
own experience working at a state mental hospital in his book
Awakenings). Sacks pays tribute to Payne's photographs and to the
lives once lived in these places, "where one could be both mad and
safe."
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