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Ridley Scott's Blade Runner is widely regarded as a "masterpiece of
modern cinema" and is regularly ranked as one of the great films of
all time. Set in a dystopian future where the line between human
beings and 'replicants' is blurred, the film raises a host of
philosophical questions about what it is to be human, the
possibility of moral agency and freedom in 'created' life forms,
and the capacity of cinema to make a genuine contribution to our
engagement with these kinds of questions. This volume of specially
commissioned chapters systematically explores and addresses these
issues from a philosophical point of view. Beginning with a helpful
introduction, the seven chapters examine the following questions:
How is the theme of death explored in Blade Runner and with what
implications for our understanding of the human condition? What can
we learn about the relationship between emotion and reason from the
depiction of the 'replicants' in Blade Runner? How are memory,
empathy, and moral agency related in Blade Runner? How does the
style and 'mood' of Blade Runner bear upon its thematic and
philosophical significance? Is Blade Runner a meditation on the
nature of film itself? Including a brief biography of the director
and a detailed list of references to other writings on the film,
Blade Runner is essential reading for students - indeed anyone -
interested in philosophy and film studies. Contributors: Colin
Allen, Peter Atterton, Amy Coplan, David Davies, Berys Gaut,
Stephen Mulhall, C. D. C. Reeve.
Ridley Scott's Blade Runner is widely regarded as a "masterpiece of
modern cinema" and is regularly ranked as one of the great films of
all time. Set in a dystopian future where the line between human
beings and 'replicants' is blurred, the film raises a host of
philosophical questions about what it is to be human, the
possibility of moral agency and freedom in 'created' life forms,
and the capacity of cinema to make a genuine contribution to our
engagement with these kinds of questions. This volume of specially
commissioned chapters systematically explores and addresses these
issues from a philosophical point of view. Beginning with a helpful
introduction, the seven chapters examine the following questions:
How is the theme of death explored in Blade Runner and with what
implications for our understanding of the human condition? What can
we learn about the relationship between emotion and reason from the
depiction of the 'replicants' in Blade Runner? How are memory,
empathy, and moral agency related in Blade Runner? How does the
style and 'mood' of Blade Runner bear upon its thematic and
philosophical significance? Is Blade Runner a meditation on the
nature of film itself? Including a brief biography of the director
and a detailed list of references to other writings on the film,
Blade Runner is essential reading for students - indeed anyone -
interested in philosophy and film studies. Contributors: Colin
Allen, Peter Atterton, Amy Coplan, David Davies, Berys Gaut,
Stephen Mulhall, C. D. C. Reeve.
Calling all telephone enthusiasts! Here is a guide to more than two
hundred novelty telephones, as well as miniature and toy
telephones. Novelty telephones are one of the hottest and most
affordable collectibles to hit the collecting scene in recent
years. Character telephones, telephone advertising products, and
figural-type phones are all in demand. Starting in the '70s, these
telephones were produced to promote company products, television
shows, comic strips, comic books, cartoons, movies, recording
artists, and sports. Miniature and toy telephones are highly
desired by many antique telephone collectors and both are included
in this enjoyable book. Descriptive captions list each phone's
specific features. A guide to current prices is also included.
This Open Access book aims to find out how and why states in
various regions and of diverse cultural backgrounds fail in their
gender equality laws and policies. In doing this, the book maps out
states' failures in their legal systems and unpacks the clashes
between different levels and forms of law-namely domestic laws,
local regulations, or the implementation of international law,
individually or in combination. By taking off from the confirmation
that the concept of law that is to be used in achieving gender
equality is a multidimensional, multi-layered, and to an extent,
contradictory phenomenon, this book aims to find out how different
layers of laws interact and how they impact gender equality.
Further to that, by including different states and jurisdictions
into its analysis, this book unravels whether there are any
similarities/patterns in how these states define and utilise
policies and laws that harm gender equality. In this way, the book
contributes to the efforts to devise holistic and universal
policies to address various forms of gender inequalities across the
world. This volume will be of interest to scholars and students in
Gender Studies, Sociology, Law, and Criminology.
WHEELS OF COURAGE reveals the never-before-told story of the
world's first wheelchair athletes: U.S. soldiers, sailors, and
Marines who were paralysed on the battlefield during World War II.
They organised the first-ever wheelchair basketball teams within
V.A. hospitals after the war, which quickly spread across the
nation and changed the perception and treatment of disabled people.
The book tells this story through the lens of three of these vets,
describing their time in the military, their injuries, their
recovery, and their role in creating wheelchair basketball. These
men changed the narrative of disability, from pity for people whose
lives were over to seeing them as capable people who happened to
have a disability. Their doctors changed the way the medical
community looked at and treated disabled patients by treating the
whole patient instead of just trying to make the patient as
comfortable as possible in a hopeless situation. And laws started
changing to make the world more accessible to the disabled --
things we take for granted today, like sidewalk ramps. For the
disabled, for sports fans, for veterans, for history buffs -- this
is a narrative of hope, perseverance, and acceptance.
Sexual images saturate today's culture--and children will learn
about sex somewhere. But research shows that they want to learn
from the parents they trust.
Talking about sex doesn't have to be a fear-filled challenge. The
"Focus on the Family(R) Guide to Talking with Your Kids about Sex
"shows parents how to talk with confidence to their kids about sex
and sexuality. This candid resource is full of the latest
information, practical insights, and age-appropriate answers to the
questions parents and children ask about sex. Focus on the Family's
Physicians Resource Council, along with research from The Medical
Institute for Sexual Health provides parents with the tools and
empowering encouragement they need in order to communicate more
effectively and biblically about sex, self-control, and
self-respect at every stage of a child's development.
Structural biology is undergoing a revolution in both the
sophistication of new biophysical methods and the complexity of
problems in biomolecular structure and organization opened up for
study. These changes are directly attributable to major advances in
computer technology, computational methods, development of high
intensity synchrotron radiation sources, new magnetic resonance
methods, laser optical techniques, etc. Structure-function problems
previously considered intractable may now be solved. As this area
of specialisation continues to expand, there is a need to review
the various physical methods currently being used and developed in
struc tural molecular biology. At the same time that individual
techniques and their applications become more specialized, the need
for effect ive communication between investigators gains in
imperative. It is vital to forge links among sub-disciplines and to
emphasise the complementary nature of results observed by different
biophysical methods. This publication contains the review lectures
given at a meeting on "Current Methods in Structural Molecular
Biology" spon sored by NATO as an Advanced Study Institute and by
FEBS s Advanced Course No. 78. The aim of the meeting was to bring
together, in a teaching environment, students and specialists in
diverse biophysical methodologies with the specific purpose of
exploring, questioning and critically assessing the present and
future state of biological structure research. The scientific
content of the interdisciplinary Study Institute centred around
three interrelated aspects; biophysical methods and
instrumentation, their application to biological structure
problems, and derivation of structural information and insights."
The Thin Red Line is the third feature-length film from acclaimed
director Terrence Malick, set during the struggle between American
and Japanese forces for Guadalcanal in the South Pacific during
World War Two. It is a powerful, enigmatic and complex film that
raises important philosophical questions, ranging from the
existential and phenomenological to the artistic and technical.
This is the first collection dedicated to exploring the
philosophical aspects of Malick's film. Opening with a helpful
introduction that places the film in context, five essays, four of
which were specially commissioned for this collection, go on to
examine the following: the exploration of Heideggerian themes -
such as being-towards-death and the vulnerability of Dasein's world
- in The Thin Red Line how Malick's film explores and cinematically
expresses the embodied nature of our experience of, and agency in,
the world Malick's use of cinematic techniques, and how the style
of his images shapes our affective, emotional, and cognitive
responses to the film the role that images of nature play in
Malick's cinema, and his 'Nietzschean' conception of human nature.
The Thin Red Line is essential reading for students interested in
philosophy and film or phenomenology and existentialism. It also
provides an accessible and informative insight into philosophy for
those in related disciplines such as film studies, literature and
religion. Contributors: Simon Critchley, Hubert Dreyfus and Camilo
Prince, David Davies, Amy Coplan, Iain Macdonald.
This Open Access book aims to find out how and why states in
various regions and of diverse cultural backgrounds fail in their
gender equality laws and policies. In doing this, the book maps out
states' failures in their legal systems and unpacks the clashes
between different levels and forms of law-namely domestic laws,
local regulations, or the implementation of international law,
individually or in combination. By taking off from the confirmation
that the concept of law that is to be used in achieving gender
equality is a multidimensional, multi-layered, and to an extent,
contradictory phenomenon, this book aims to find out how different
layers of laws interact and how they impact gender equality.
Further to that, by including different states and jurisdictions
into its analysis, this book unravels whether there are any
similarities/patterns in how these states define and utilise
policies and laws that harm gender equality. In this way, the book
contributes to the efforts to devise holistic and universal
policies to address various forms of gender inequalities across the
world. This volume will be of interest to scholars and students in
Gender Studies, Sociology, Law, and Criminology.
This book develops a progressive program of engagement with issues,
problems and critical thinking which helps universities and
students understand and engage with some of the key issues of our
time. It focuses on curriculum concerns, and presents a sustained
and critical analysis and dialogue about knowledge, culture and
ways of seeing important issues. This book provides critical and
analytical insights into the importance of the emergence of mass
higher education into public awareness. It explores what is termed
'contested knowledge' as part of modern students' experiences and
expectations. By broadcasting some of the future prospects for a
democratic university, especially in relation to its communities,
it highlights the need to grasp the significance of global change
and instability in teaching and learning, and how an adequate
curriculum in higher education can be constructed to address the
issues that arise.
Diego Velazquez (1599-1660), considered by many to be the greatest
of Spain's great painters, spent his crucial formative years in
Seville, learning his craft and producing many early masterpieces.
When he departed from his native city as a young man of 24,
Velazquez's accomplishments were already impressive: he left to
assume the position of Court Painter to Philip IV of Spain in
Madrid. In this beautifully illustrated book, an international team
of art scholars explores the importance of Seville for Velazquez.
Discussions range across many topics, including Velazquez's
education and training, Sevillian culture and Catholic theology,
picaresque literature, and Velazquez's subject matter-portraiture,
sacred subjects, and the bodegones (kitchen and tavern scenes with
prominent still life) in which Velazquez developed his distinctive
naturalistic style. The Seville of Velazquez's youth was the chief
Spanish port of trade with the New World and a major religious
center that witnessed the passionate controversy over the mystery
of the Immaculate Conception, a subject depicted in an early
Velazquez painting. Other surviving paintings from the artist's
Sevillian years include his first dated painting, Old Woman Cooking
Eggs (1618), and his famous masterpiece Water-seller of Seville.
This book serves as the catalogue for a major exhibition on
Velazquez's early work to be held at the National Gallery of
Scotland in Edinburgh, August 8 through October 20, 1996. The
exhibit also includes a selection of influential works by
Velazquez's important contemporaries, such as the sculptor Montanes
and painters Alonso Cano and Ribalta. Distributed by Yale
University Press for National Galleries of Scotland
This book is based on the unpublished journals of William Schaw
Lindsay (1815-1877) housed in the National Maritime Museum,
Greenwich. From rags to riches. Born in Scotland and orphaned by
the age of 10, Lindsay ran away to sea at the age of 16. The book
highlights his life at sea from cabin boy to captain, a sometimes
shocking insight into what life was like sailing across oceans in
the 1830s. He then became an agent selling coal for steam ships. He
would eventually own one of the largest shipping companies in the
world, with 22 ships, some of which were employed as troop
transporters in the Crimean War. He entered Parliament in 1854
where he focussed on shipping matters. He was vocal in his
criticism of the Admiralty during the Crimean War. He visited the
Northern states just prior to the American Civil War to discuss
shipping laws and met Abraham Lincoln. In fact, his story includes
meetings with an astonishing array of luminaries: Livingstone,
Buchanan, Garibaldi, Gladstone, Disraeli, Brunel, Nightingale,
Dickens, Paxton, Emperor Napoleon III and Queen Victoria. Lindsay
strove to improve the shipping laws, not only in England but
abroad, and he persistently advocated the removal of restrictions
on free trade. His magnum opus, entitled History of Merchant
Shipping and Ancient Commerce, became a standard reference on the
subject.
Cambridge IGCSE and O Level Geography has been written specifically
for Cambridge International syllabuses 0460 and 2217. From tourism
in Kenya to the summit of an active volcano in Japan, this revision
guide helps students understand the processes that affect physical
and human environments on a local, regional and global scale. The
narrative style of the revision guide, with detailed explanations,
complements the range of activities in the coursebook and
reinforces understanding. Exam-style questions, international case
studies and example maps give students practice with course content
and skills in preparation for assessment. Sample answers to all the
questions are in the back of the book.
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Saved (Paperback, New)
Edward Bond; Edited by David Davis
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R329
Discovery Miles 3 290
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Described by Edward Bond as 'almost irresponsibly optimistic',
"Saved "is a play set in London in the sixties and reflects a time
of social change. Its subject is the cultural poverty and
frustration of a generation of young people on the dole and living
on council estates. The play was first staged privately in November
1965 at the Royal Court Theatre for members of the English Stage
Society at a time when plays were still censored. With its scenes
of violence, including the stoning of a baby in its stroller, "
Saved "became a notorious play and a cause celebre. It has since
had a profound influence on a whole new generation of writers who
emerged in the 1990s.
Commentary and notes by David Davis.
Sleepy rustic Carmarthenshire was secretly a hotbed of debauchery,
violence and drunkenness according to Russell Davies in a new
edition of his very successful book, Secret Sins. Behind the facade
of idyllic rural life, there was a twilight world of mental
illness, suicide, crime, vicious assaults, infanticide, cruelty and
other assorted acts of depravity. This almost anecdotal historical
study is often funny, sometimes disturbing, always revealing.
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David Davies; Cover design or artwork by Emily Grace Brooker
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R482
Discovery Miles 4 820
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