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Kariba (Paperback)
Daniel Clarke, James Clarke; Illustrated by Daniel Snaddon
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R334
Discovery Miles 3 340
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An African fantasy-adventure graphic novel inspired by the mythology of the Zambezi River and the history of the Kariba Dam, one of the largest dams ever constructed.
Siku has always called the Zambezi River her home. She understands the water – and strangely enough, it seems to understand her, too, bending to her will and coming to her aid in times of need. But things are changing on the river – a great dam is being built, displacing thousands of Shonga people – and things are changing in Siku, too, as her ability to manipulate water grows out of control, and visions of a great serpent pull her further from reality and her loving father, Tongai.
When Tongai ventures to the Kariba Dam to find a cure for Siku and never returns, she sets off to find him with the help of Amedeo, the young son of Kariba’s chief engineer. Together, they traverse elephant graveyards, rugged jungles, and ancient ruins, outrunning pirates, bootleggers, and shape-shifting prophets ready to use Siku to their own advantage. But she soon discovers that her father has been shielding a terrible secret: Siku is actually the daughter of Nyaminyami, the Great River Spirit, and the only way to bring about the necessary rumuko – a ritual which has brought balance to the Zambezi for centuries – is for Siku to give up the only life she’s ever known.
With the future of the Shonga resting on her shoulders, Siku must journey to the source of the river to understand the ancient power hidden within her.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Have you ever had to deal with a screaming child, an obnoxious
teenager or a class of 30 exuberant eight year olds? The Little
Book Of Behaviour is amusing and informative, full of tried and
tested strategies, suggestions and entertaining anecdotes. With
jargon kept to a minimum, this insightful pocket guide has been
written by a diagnosed dyslexic, who is passionate about
understanding the causes and consequences of human behaviour. The
author has a very real understanding of behaviour born from
firsthand experience, having found traditional learning difficult
and being completely misunderstood at school. "You see it was easy
for me to help others who were feeling massively overwhelmed
because I had been there." During his following years working with
people from a whole range of backgrounds including learning
difficulties, emotional and behavioural problems and mainstream
school children, he has analysed and refined his behaviour
management skills. The Little Book Of Behaviour, trying to save the
world one brain at a time!
"When the pre-eminent portrait photographer of the day met the
Cockney kid dominating the London film scene, magic was made." -
Australian Women's Weekly Icons "Caine, the timeless gentleman." -
Diego Armes, GQ Portugal "I had to be an actor," Michael Caine once
said. "[...] And of course, you have to remember with me, the
alternative was a factory." A working-class actor who broke through
to stardom, Caine's screen-time involves standout performances
across multiple genres. To this day, he is synonymous with a
certain kind of urbane cool. No camera has captured this quality
over the decades better than that of his collaborator and long-time
friend, Terry O'Neill. Michael Caine: Photographed by Terry O'Neill
offers an immersive visual journey through Michael Caine's career,
immortalising Caine's charm both in and out of character. Caine
occupies a landmark position in cinema and O'Neill was there from
the early days of his stellar career. From the comedy of Dirty
Rotten Scoundrels to the European drama of Seven Times A Woman;
from the miasma of The Magus to the British cult classic Get
Carter, this book combines black and white and colour images and
includes never-before-seen contact sheets. Featuring the following
films: Mona Lisa, Midnight in Saint Petersburg / Bullet to Beijing,
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Blue Ice, Without a Clue, Get Carter,
Deadfall, Magus, Woman Times Seven, Funeral in Berlin.
"Who doesn't know Paul Newman? The man with the beautiful blue
eyes, the chiselled face and body, the 50-plus years of memorable
acting and directing roles, the awards, the movie-star marriage.
Well, it turns out, there is lots more to know." - Parade Magazine
"Newman's preternaturally piercing baby blue eyes shine through in
every picture, and he was well aware of how his fame rested on the
colour of his irises." - Peter Sheridan, Daily Express "Hollywood
Hunk Paul Newman as you've never seen him before." - Yahoo! News
"Paired with raw and unvarnished commentary from the photographers
themselves, Newman's incomparable authenticity and appealing
persona bleed through each page." - Newsweek Once, when asked how
he'd like to be remembered, Paul Newman replied: "I'd like to be
remembered as a guy who tried. Tried to be part of his times, tried
to help people communicate with one another, tried to find some
decency in his own life, tried to extend himself as a human being."
As an actor who became a film star, Newman repeatedly tapped into
his times and in doing so redefined what movie stardom could be.
Newman was a new kind of movie star, bringing a particular
authenticity, intensity and sensitivity to his performances.
Throughout his career, Newman was extensively photographed: these
images enriched film audiences' connection to him as a cool and
graceful presence both on and off-screen. Milton Greene, Douglas
Kirkland, Lawrence Fried, Terry O'Neill, Al Satterwhite and Eva
Sereny are amongst the photographers who worked with Newman on and
off-set across his career. From early stage work with his wife,
Joanne Woodward, to his love of racing cars, to the essential 1980s
drama Absence of Malice to the great success of the new western
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and the cult favourites, Pocket
Money and The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, Newman's movies
were an essential part of American culture. With comment and
contributions from the photographers, Paul Newman: Blue Eyed Cool,
gathers together portraits, stage, racing and on-set photography -
including never before seen images - in a celebration of an actor
who was always... cool. Paul Newman: Blue Eyed Cool is a must-have
for fans who see in Newman's work and in his life a true hero.
Out walking Ada Robinson's dog while his wife drinks herself into a
forgetful fug, Harry Maiden discovers an intricate system of caves
beneath the wind turbines. Over at the Woolpack one night, Rosco
re-encounters friendships he thought he'd left behind at the
Stubbins paper mill. Mad old Gos leads a mysterious treasure hunt
to the Bronze Age burial site at Whitelow Cairn. This is the Hollow
in the Land: a corner of England teeming with mystery and intrigue
and filled with real, flesh-and-blood characters, each of them at a
different point along life's journey through childhood hopefulness,
faded first love and middle-aged disillusionment. Hollow in the
Land uncovers the small everyday mysteries of their lives - and
ours.
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The Politics of Twin Peaks (Paperback)
Amanda DiPaolo, James Clark Gillies; Contributions by Shai Biderman, Amanda DiPaolo, Darci Doll, …
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R1,022
Discovery Miles 10 220
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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The strange and wonderful place of Twin Peaks captivated audiences
for more than two decades before its long-awaited return to
television in 2017. David Lynch and Mark Frost created a land that
embodies the politics of American culture. With its focus on
small-town America and life outside urban centers, rural and
suburban values play a big part in the overall Twin Peaks
narrative. More than just a soapy murder investigation or a
mysterious puzzle to be solved, Twin Peaks and Twin Peaks: The
Return are metaphors for the political years in which they are set.
The Politics of Twin Peaks investigates the show's engagement with
American politics and identity. With a close relationship between
the two, Twin Peaks is the rare cultural landmark in both film and
television whose timelessness is defined by the fact that it can
constantly be reinterpreted. Within that sometimes dreamlike
Lynchian narrative, Twin Peaks hints at, sometimes explicitly and
sometimes subtly, the political fault lines in the United States.
In this edited collection, the politics inherent in Twin Peaks is
approached from numerous points of view.
The Science and Technology of Particle Accelerators provides an
accessible introduction to the field, and is suitable for advanced
undergraduates, graduate students, and academics, as well as
professionals in national laboratories and facilities, industry,
and medicine who are designing or using particle accelerators.
Providing integrated coverage of accelerator science and
technology, this book presents the fundamental concepts alongside
detailed engineering discussions and extensive practical guidance,
including many numerical examples. For each topic, the authors
provide a description of the physical principles, a guide to the
practical application of those principles, and a discussion of how
to design the components that allow the application to be realised.
Features: Written by an interdisciplinary and highly respected team
of physicists and engineers from the Cockcroft Institute of
Accelerator Science and Technology in the UK Accessible style, with
many numerical examples Contains an extensive set of problems, with
fully worked solutions available Rob Appleby is an academic member
of staff at the University of Manchester, and Chief Examiner in the
Department of Physics and Astronomy. Graeme Burt is an academic
member of staff at the University of Lancaster, and previous
Director of Education at the Cockcroft Institute. James Clarke is
head of Science Division in the Accelerator Science and Technology
Centre at STFC Daresbury Laboratory. Hywel Owen is an academic
member of staff at the University of Manchester, and Director of
Education at the Cockcroft Institute. All authors are researchers
within the Cockcroft Institute of Accelerator Science and
Technology and have extensive experience in the design and
construction of particle accelerators, including particle
colliders, synchrotron radiation sources, free electron lasers, and
medical and industrial accelerator systems.
The Science and Technology of Particle Accelerators provides an
accessible introduction to the field, and is suitable for advanced
undergraduates, graduate students, and academics, as well as
professionals in national laboratories and facilities, industry,
and medicine who are designing or using particle accelerators.
Providing integrated coverage of accelerator science and
technology, this book presents the fundamental concepts alongside
detailed engineering discussions and extensive practical guidance,
including many numerical examples. For each topic, the authors
provide a description of the physical principles, a guide to the
practical application of those principles, and a discussion of how
to design the components that allow the application to be realised.
Features: Written by an interdisciplinary and highly respected team
of physicists and engineers from the Cockcroft Institute of
Accelerator Science and Technology in the UK Accessible style, with
many numerical examples Contains an extensive set of problems, with
fully worked solutions available Rob Appleby is an academic member
of staff at the University of Manchester, and Chief Examiner in the
Department of Physics and Astronomy. Graeme Burt is an academic
member of staff at the University of Lancaster, and previous
Director of Education at the Cockcroft Institute. James Clarke is
head of Science Division in the Accelerator Science and Technology
Centre at STFC Daresbury Laboratory. Hywel Owen is an academic
member of staff at the University of Manchester, and Director of
Education at the Cockcroft Institute. All authors are researchers
within the Cockcroft Institute of Accelerator Science and
Technology and have extensive experience in the design and
construction of particle accelerators, including particle
colliders, synchrotron radiation sources, free electron lasers, and
medical and industrial accelerator systems.
Bring together a French explorer, a Scottish engineer, a New
Zealand-born TV presenter, a murderer, a medical writer, an
international tennis star, a professor, a judge, an Australian-born
farmer, an Afrikaans playwright, a Jewish diamond prospector, a
frantic mother, two famous African writers, a variety of white and
black novelists, editors and journalists, not forgetting a
San/Bushman mother - and something amusing should result. These men
and women of different races, different centuries, different
cultures (ranging from American-Irish to Zulu), have one
distinction in common - each has been identified as among the most
entertaining writers of English-language humour in South Africa in
the last 200 years.
Welfare reform was a spectacular success in New York under Mayor
Giuliani despite the city's history of liberal social programs and
its huge, entrenched welfare system. The city reduced the numbers
on welfare from 1,120,000 to 460,000 by changing the organizational
culture, protecting against fraud, insisting on 'work first,'
adapting information technology, and contracting for job placement.
The organizational culture was transformed by bold leadership that
changed the welfare agency's mission and goals, overcame internal
resistance, and prevailed over politicians who had a vested
interest in the status quo and the media that were opposed to
welfare reform. Welfare fraud was largely eliminated by dropping
from the rolls those who were working and could not appear for
in-person interviews, by fingerprinting recipients to catch those
enrolled under multiple identities and those receiving welfare
checks from other jurisdictions, by uncovering hidden income, by
enrolling new applicants only after thorough investigation, and by
tightening controls to prevent fraud by corrupt employees. JobStat,
a computer-based system modeled after the Police Department's
system used to track precinct activity, was developed to track the
status of welfare recipients and to monitor the performance of the
'Job Centers,' which were formerly called welfare offices. JobStat
focused the attention of department personnel on performance
indicators rather than on minutely specified rules. The Giuliani
administration's major contribution to national welfare reform was
the creation of the only system in the country with large-scale,
alternative work arrangements that was able to acculturate large
numbers of the never-employed to the world of work.
The term hospitality describes a state of generosity,
accommodation, and consideration towards others. The Shalom Church,
which views hospitality as a gift, seeks not to control the gift,
but to share and celebrate it in practice. When the practice is
intentional it will become embedded in one's lifestyle. This
adherence is reached when one considers hospitality as a biblical
and moral obligation, where every encounter with the other will be
viewed through the lens of hospitableness. Fortunately, humanity
always moves from host/stranger to stranger/host. In Christian
theology, the giver and receiver are one of equal regard. Since
there are no permanent positions in life, persons are always moving
in and out of situations where they sometimes experience being the
host, and other times the stranger. Hospitality becomes the means
by which equal regard and moral obligation are exercised.
Proclamation is the tool that shapes the practice and develops a
committed relationship with hospitality.
This book is a current, comprehensive and holistic assessment of
the challenges facing a developing African state within the global
context and is an up-to-the-minute review of the state of the South
African environment. From bio-diversity to GM crops, from policies
to attitudes, this insightful view is presented in James Clarke's
accessible and entertaining manner. He looks at air, water (incl.
marine), soil, nature conservation, urban environment, population
dynamics (incl. AIDS) and solid waste management. The 'soil'
chapters examine forestry and natural forests, erosion, pesticides
including South Africa's return to using DDT, and battles with
locusts. The urban chapter looks optimistically at urbanisation
both globally and locally.
WINNER OF THE BETTY TRASK PRIZE 2019 March, 1984. Britain's miners
face political opposition. Soon, the State will confront them,
violent forces will be unleashed and the country will change
forever. The Newmans have enough on their plate without a strike to
contend with. Arthur hates working at the pit, his unhappy wife,
Shell, doesn't know what she wants and their lonely son Lawrence
has no say in anything - especially a late night mission to
Threndle House, home of disgraced politician Clive Swarsby and his
two mysterious children. When Lawrence and Arthur take an abandoned
rug from the house, their family is plunged into crisis. Then there
is the small matter of the pickets . . . Taking in controversial
events such as the Battle of Orgreave, The Litten Path is an
exceptional debut set against the sunless landscapes of a country
now lost in time. Grimly honest and tender, tough and lyrical,
comic and painful, it is about class friction, the clash between
the urban and the rural. It is about what happens when a decision
is made, when one cannot turn back.
1969. Thomas Speake comes to London to look for his father but
finds Sanderson instead, a larger-than-life TV presenter who hosts
'midweek madness' parties where the punch is spiked with acid.
There Speake meets Marnie and promises to help her find her
adoptive child, who has been taken by her birth mother to live
off-grid in a hippie commune in the Lake District. Forced to lie
low after a violent accident, Speake joins Sanderson on a tour of
the Lake District, where he's researching a book to accompany his
popular TV series, Sanderson's Isle. Fascinated by local rumours
about the hippies, Sanderson joins the search for their
whereabouts. Amid the fierce beauty of the mountains, the cult is
forming the kind of community that Speake - a drifter who belongs
nowhere - is desperate to find but has been sent to betray. This is
the follow up to James Clarke's Betty Trask Prize-winning debut
novel. It is filled with gorgeous nature writing of the urban and
the rural, and its portrayal of the moment when British society was
unsettled and transformed by the counterculture of the 1960s is
visionary and electrifying.
"Newman’s preternaturally piercing baby blue eyes shine through
in every picture, and he was well aware of how his fame rested on
the colour of his irises." — Peter Sheridan, Daily Express
Once, when asked how he’d like to be remembered, Paul Newman
replied: "I’d like to be remembered as a guy who tried. Tried to
be part of his times, tried to help people communicate with one
another, tried to find some decency in his own life, tried to
extend himself as a human being."Â As an actor who became a
film star, Newman repeatedly tapped into his times and in doing so
redefined what movie stardom could be. Newman was a new kind of
movie star, bringing a particular authenticity, intensity and
sensitivity to his performances. Throughout his career,
Newman was extensively photographed: these images enriched film
audiences’ connection to him as a cool and graceful presence both
on and off-screen. Milton Greene, Douglas Kirkland, Lawrence
Fried, Terry O’Neill, Al Satterwhite and Eva Sereny are amongst
the photographers who worked with Newman on and off-set across his
career. From early stage work with his wife, Joanne Woodward, to
his love of racing cars, to the essential 1980s drama Absence of
Malice to the great success of the new western Butch Cassidy and
the Sundance Kid and the cult favourites, Pocket Money and The Life
and Times of Judge Roy Bean, Newman’s movies were an essential
part of American culture. With comment and contributions
from the photographers, Paul Newman: Blue-Eyed Cool, gathers
together portraits, stage, racing and on-set photography —
including never before seen images — in a celebration of an actor
who was always… cool.
The first account of the dissolution of the monasteries for fifty
years-exploring its profound impact on the people of Tudor England
"This is a book about people, though, not ideas, and as a detailed
account of an extraordinary human drama with a cast of thousands,
it is an exceptional piece of historical writing."-Lucy Wooding,
Times Literary Supplement Shortly before Easter, 1540 saw the end
of almost a millennium of monastic life in England. Until then
religious houses had acted as a focus for education, literary, and
artistic expression and even the creation of regional and national
identity. Their closure, carried out in just four years between
1536 and 1540, caused a dislocation of people and a disruption of
life not seen in England since the Norman Conquest. Drawing on the
records of national and regional archives as well as archaeological
remains, James Clark explores the little-known lives of the last
men and women who lived in England's monasteries before the
Reformation. Clark challenges received wisdom, showing that
buildings were not immediately demolished and Henry VIII's subjects
were so attached to the religious houses that they kept fixtures
and fittings as souvenirs. This rich, vivid history brings back
into focus the prominent place of abbeys, priories, and friaries in
the lives of the English people.
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