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The radical response to conservative heritage tours and banal
day-tripper guides, Rebel Footprints brings to life the history of
social movements in the capital. Transporting readers from
well-known landmarks to history-making hidden corners, David
Rosenberg tells the story of protest and struggle in London from
the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. From the
suffragettes to the socialists, from the Chartists to the trade
unionists, the book invites us to step into the footprints of a
diverse cast of dedicated fighters for social justice.
Self-directed walks pair with narratives that seamlessly blend
history, politics and geography, and beautifully illustrated maps
immerse the reader in the story of the city. Whether you are
visiting it for the first time, or born and raised in it, Rosenberg
invites you to see London as you never have before: the nation's
capital as its radical centre.
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Pascal Haudressy
David Rosenberg
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R874
Discovery Miles 8 740
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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This book documents how Israel emerged as one of the world's
leading centers of high technology over the last three decades and
the impact that it has had, or failed to have, on the wider economy
and politics. Based on the study of start-up companies, the project
attributes the rise of Israel's tech economy to its unique history,
political system, and culture, and shows how those same factors
have failed it in the quest to diversify its economy to make it
more inclusive and equitable. This work will interest economists,
political scientists, Israeli studies academics, investors, policy
makers, journalists, and business readers.
This book documents how Israel emerged as one of the world's
leading centers of high technology over the last three decades and
the impact that it has had, or failed to have, on the wider economy
and politics. Based on the study of start-up companies, the project
attributes the rise of Israel's tech economy to its unique history,
political system, and culture, and shows how those same factors
have failed it in the quest to diversify its economy to make it
more inclusive and equitable. This work will interest economists,
political scientists, Israeli studies academics, investors, policy
makers, journalists, and business readers.
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Danhôo - Paintings (Hardcover)
Robert Combas; David Rosenberg, Tatiana Phuong, Evia Production Contributor
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R788
Discovery Miles 7 880
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Young-se Lee (Hardcover)
David Rosenberg, Sabine Vazieux, Mael Bellec, Lydia Harambourg
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R766
Discovery Miles 7 660
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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This volume is dedicated to the international artist Kata Legrady's
graphic work, through a selection of drawings, sketches and
preparatory studies published on the occasion of the exhibition at
Fondazione Mudima in Milan. Through the graphic work gathered in
this volume, we discover her creative praxis which, according to
Arturo Schwarz, "is determined, to a great extent, by her
unconscious; the work has a playful dimension; she observes the
world with a gaze that has conserved the innocence, curiosity and
inventiveness of childhood". Finally, an essay by Bazon Brock
brings a deep insight on the importance of drawing in the practice
of contemporary art.
The radical response to conservative heritage tours and banal
day-tripper guides, Rebel Footprints brings to life the history of
social movements in the capital. Transporting readers from
well-known landmarks to history-making hidden corners, David
Rosenberg tells the story of protest and struggle in London from
the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. From the
suffragettes to the socialists, from the Chartists to the trade
unionists, the book invites us to step into the footprints of a
diverse cast of dedicated fighters for social justice.
Self-directed walks pair with narratives that seamlessly blend
history, politics and geography, and beautifully illustrated maps
immerse the reader in the story of the city. Whether you are
visiting it for the first time, or born and raised in it, Rosenberg
invites you to see London as you never have before: the nation's
capital as its radical centre.
These composite landscapes are recreated places from an estranged
homeland. Visible and obscured parts of the landscape suggest the
interplay of effects between man and nature, as well as the
imperfections of memory. The discontinuity induces the viewer to
draw on their own experiences to complete the work. The textures of
human fingerprints in the work evokes the uniqueness of our
connection with nature and our impressions upon it.
In 1990, the international bestseller, The Book of J (1990),
co-authored by David Rosenberg and Harold Bloom (Grove; Faber in
the U.K.) was followed by several books of poetry and prose (A
Poet's Bible is the first biblical translation to win a major
literary award), and then, in 2013, A Life in a Poem began as a
Guggenheim Fellowship project. Now, in this trailblazing narrative
about where we are going as a species, Rosenberg shows us how he
became a writer both ancient and contemporary. The crucial Jewish
poet of his time, rooted in the Hebrew of the Bible and the
existential sublime of the New York School, Rosenberg has been read
so far, by Jews and non-Jews, mainly for his experimental vision.
Donald Hall described him as "an ancient Hebrew biblical poet as if
writing today in the rhythms of the United States". Among critics,
Harold Bloom states that "the play of languages emerges in
Rosenberg as it does not in King James," while Frank Kermode wrote
in the New York Times Book Review, "he must somehow be modern as
well as faithful to the past, reproducing an ancient, strange,
uncanny vigor, bearing in mind American poetry's struggle with
natural speech". More recently, Adam Kirsch writes that Rosenberg
is "replacing the doubtful miracle of divine inspiration with the
genuine miracle of poetic inspiration", and Oxford's John Barton
describes his work in the New York Review of Books as "neither epic
nor romance nor tragedy nor comedy yet all these at once". These
words may now apply as well to Rosenberg's innovative new memoir, A
Life in a Poem.
With the Practice of Lectio Divina we seek to deepen our
interpersonal relationship with God through reflection, prayer and
contemplation. We are called regularly to an "experience of desert"
to seek silence and solitude, as our Desert Fathers did in the
Early Church. It is here that we come to recognize more clearly and
truly who God is, who we are, who others are, what the world is,
and the reality of grace versus evil. We try to clarify God's view
of us - creatures with such a special destiny. We come to more
perfectly view ourselves as persons made in the image of God.
Through this discovery, we come to appreciate the extent to which
the likeness has been lost, but can be recovered in Jesus Christ.
We are ultimately called to respond in action to what has been
gained through our practice of Lectio Divina.
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The Book of J (Paperback)
Harold Bloom; Translated by David Rosenberg
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R511
R432
Discovery Miles 4 320
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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J is the title that scholars ascribe to the nameless writer they
believe is responsible for the text, written between 950 and 900
BCE, on which Genesis, Exodus and Numbers is based. In The Book of
J, Bloom and Rosenberg draw the J text out of the surrounding
material and present it as the seminal classic that it is. In
addition to Rosenberg's original translations, Bloom argues in
several essays that J was not a religious writer but a fierce
ironist and a woman living in the court of King Solomon. He also
argues that J is a writer on par with Homer, Shakespeare and
Tolstoy. Bloom also offers historical context, a discussion of the
theory of how the different texts came together to create the
Bible, and translation notes. Rosenberg's translations from the
Hebrew bring J's stories to life and reveal her towering
originality and grasp of humanity.
Piracy is a basic and fundamental concern for all navies. From
almost the beginning of state-sponsored navies, piracy suppression
has been one of their major responsibilities-when Julius Caesar was
captured by pirates in 76 BCE, the first thing he did after paying
the pirates' ransom and being released was to fit "out a squadron
of ships to take his revenge." Despite piracy's importance and the
continued frequency of piratical attacks, however, relatively few
scholarly works have been written analyzing cases of modern piracy
and piracy suppression in terms of varying strategic, policy, and
operational decisions. This edited collection of case studies
attempts to fill this gap. There have been a number of important
historical studies that have dealt with the subjects of piracy and
piracy suppression. Books written from the point of view of those
wishing to end piracy have tended to focus on legal issues,
including the rights of victims, the procedures and decisions of
Admiralty courts in punishing pirates, and the capture of piracy
ships as prizes. Others have looked at the existence of piracy in
terms of one particular place or time period, with the Barbary
Coast and the Caribbean Sea claiming disproportionate shares of
attention. At the turn of the eighteenth century, the Royal Navy
was primarily responsible for using force to suppress piracy.
British privateers continued to roam the seas, preying on Spanish
gold. However, several changes in British maritime legal practice
made a renewed fight against piracy possible. On 13 October 1696,
Sir Charles Hedges, judge of the High Court, revised Admiralty law
so that pirates could be punished anywhere: "Now piracy is only a
sea term for robbery, piracy being a robbery committed within the
jurisdiction of the Admiralty. If any man be assaulted within that
jurisdiction, and his ship or goods violently taken away without
legal authority, this is robbery and piracy." Antipiracy reforms
were not enacted rapidly, but by the 1720s the Royal Navy had made
it easier for its officers to prosecute pirates anywhere in the
world. During this period, Newport, R.I. (pictured on the front
cover), was used by Thomas Tew to trade in pirate cargo, with one
cargo alone valued at 100,000. The Royal Navy attacked pirates in
the Caribbean, along the coast of North America, and as far away as
the Indian Ocean.With the creation of new bases, such as at Antigua
in the West Indies, the Royal Navy gradually extended its range as
far as the northwest Pacific and Australia: "Naval stations and
cruising areas gradually covered the shipping zones of the world
and made possible the Pax Britannica." For many people, it appeared
that piracy had been destroyed for good. Even fairly recent books
focusing on the nineteenth century have included chapters entitled
"An End to Piracy." However, piracy never entirely disappeared
during the twentieth century, and during the last quarter of that
century events turned out far differently than even the most
pessimistic observer could have predicted. This monograph is
intended as a contribution to both scholarship and professional
naval thinking; it is an academic and comparative examination of
twelve selected case studies from maritime history used to
illuminate a range of concepts and uses of piracy suppression. The
twelve case studies provide the basis for the conclusions, an
approach that provides a more thorough understanding of the uses
and limitations of naval antipiracy operations in the context of
new maritime technologies and within a wider range of modern
national policy goals than might otherwise be achievable. Above
all, this collection provides a sound basis for comparative
analysis of varying historical experiences that can stimulate new
and original thinking about a basic but often overlooked naval
duty.
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