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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.
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.
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.
The sophisticated methods used in recent high-profile cyber
incidents have driven many to need to understand how such security
issues work. Demystifying the complexity often associated with
information assurance, Cyber Security Essentials provides a clear
understanding of the concepts behind prevalent threats, tactics,
and procedures.To accomplish this, the team of security
professionals from VeriSign's iDefense Security Intelligence
Services supply an extensive review of the computer security
landscape. Although the text is accessible to those new to cyber
security, its comprehensive nature makes it ideal for experts who
need to explain how computer security works to non-technical staff.
Providing a fundamental understanding of the theory behind the key
issues impacting cyber security, the book: Covers attacker methods
and motivations, exploitation trends, malicious code techniques,
and the latest threat vectors Addresses more than 75 key security
concepts in a series of concise, well-illustrated summaries
designed for most levels of technical understanding Supplies
actionable advice for the mitigation of threats Breaks down the
code used to write exploits into understandable diagrams This book
is not about the latest attack trends or botnets. It's about the
reasons why these problems continue to plague us. By better
understanding the logic presented in these pages, readers will be
prepared to transition to a career in the growing field of cyber
security and enable proactive responses to the threats and attacks
on the horizon.
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This House (Paperback)
James Graham; Edited by Nicholas Holden
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R382
Discovery Miles 3 820
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For the first time, this play - first performed in 2012 at the
National Theatre - is published in the Methuen Drama Student
Edition series. It features commentary & notes by Nicholas
Holden, Lecturer in Drama at the University of Greenwich, UK, that
help the student unpack the play's social, political and cultural
context, as well as its themes, language, structure and production
history. In tough times, the British do what we have always done.
We muddle through. This House is a razor-sharp political comedy
exploring Westminster and the 1974 British hung parliament, which
provides a timely historical correlative to the current political
climate. It's the play that secured the then-30-year-old James
Graham's reputation as one of the UK's most important and revered
dramatists, gaining critical acclaim, enjoying a sell-out run at
the National Theatre's Olivier in 2013 and being revived in the
West End in 2017, when it was Olivier-nominated. With well-paced,
witty and waspish dialogue, it explores the childish digs and
chauvinistic attitudes that have riddled political life both then
and continue to do so now.
In this book contributions by archaeologists and numismatists from
six countries address different aspects of how silver was used in
both Scandinavia and the wider Viking world during the 8th to 11th
centuries AD. The volume brings together a combination of recent
summaries and new work on silver and gold coinage, rings and
bullion, which allow a better appreciation of the broader
socioeconomic conditions of the Viking world. This is an
indispensable source for all archaeologists, historians and
numismatists involved in Viking Studies.
The election and inauguration of Donald J. Trump as the president
of the United States of America have provoked an unprecedented
intensity of reflection in virtually all academic disciplines. The
professions of architecture and planning, faced with the phenomenon
of a self-proclaimed "builder-in-chief," have found themselves
facing a series of fundamental questions, both old and new. How
should we think, teach, and practice under a developer presidency?
What sort of walls will we and won't we choose to build? What are
our commitments of critical thought, and what obligations should we
turn our energies toward? The essays gathered in And Now explore
the nature of architecture's many long-standing complicities.
Architecture coordinates colossal expenditures (of material, of
energy); it scripts forms of labor (in its construction, in its
operation, and in the programs it houses); and it is both a
repository and generator of capital. Architecture participates,
centrally, in defining modes of life, whether for the privileged or
the dispossessed-designing and building the boundaries between the
"haves" and the "have-nots." This fundamental reality of
architectural practice need not inspire either nihilism or
defensiveness but should rather be understood, quite simply, as the
terrain we navigate. Naming these complicities and the injustices
they perpetuate is a first step toward addressing them.
In this volume, Graham investigates the relation between land and
nationalism in South African and Zimbabwean fiction from the 1960s
to the present. This comparative study, the first of its kind,
discusses a wide range of writing against a backdrop of regional
decolonization, including novels by the prize-winning authors J.M
Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head, Chenjerai Hove, and Yvonne
Vera. By employing a range of critical perspectives-cultural
materialist, feminist and ecocritical-this book offers new ways of
thinking about the relationship between literature, politics and
the environment in Southern Africa. The return of land has been
central to the material and cultural struggles for decolonization
in Southern Africa, yet between the advent of democracy in Zimbabwe
(1980) and South Africa (1994) and Zimbabwe's decision to
fast-track land redistribution in 2000, it has been limited land
reform rather than widespread land redistribution that has
prevailed. During this period nationalist discourses of
reconciliation and economic development replaced those of
revolution and decolonization. This book develops a critique of
both forms of nationalistic narrative by focusing on how different
and often opposing idea of land and nation are reflected, refracted
and even refused in the fictions.
You could argue that Dennis Amiss' seven-decade cricket career
started the day he was born, when his parents named him after not
one but two celebrated cricketers. Or maybe it started when he was
7, sneaking into the Birmingham Cooperative Society to play a few
matches with his friends - as long as they avoided the
groundskeeper! Or perhaps it was on 7 April 1958; not only his
fifteenth birthday, but also his first day as a professional
cricketer. Whatever day you start on, there's no denying that Amiss
has had an extraordinary career. He is one of England's cricketing
greats, with 100 first-class hundreds to his name and a place as
one of Wisden's Cricketers of the Year. Hugely well-respected on
and off the pitch, he didn't shy away from controversy, taking part
in the 1982 'Rebel Tour' of Apartheid South Africa, and somehow
ending up in the midst of the battle between World Series Cricket
and the England Cricket Board. Not Out at Close of Play is the
story of how passion, commitment and practice - and no small amount
of stubbornness! - took a boy from the backstreets of Birmingham to
worldwide cricket stardom.
Labour MP David Lyons cares about modernisation and
"electability"... his constituency agent, Jean Whittaker cares
about principles and her community. Set away from the Westminster
bubble in the party's traditional northern heartlands, this is a
clash of philosophy, culture and class against the backdrop of the
Labour Party over 25 years, as it moves from Kinnock through Blair
into Corbyn... and beyond? This razor-sharp political comedy from
James Graham was produced by Michael Grandage Company and Headlong
and received its world Premiere at the Noel Coward Theatre in
September 2017.
This book distils a lifetime's study of Viking art. Written by a
leading authority, it introduces all the intricate and beautiful
art styles of the Viking age. It ranges in time from the first
major Viking expeditions overseas around AD 800 to the general
establishment of Christianity in Scandinavia some 300 years later.
The opening chapter introduces the geographical and historical
background to Viking culture; thematic chapters then describe and
illustrate the six main Viking art styles, showing how they emerged
from and interacted with one another. Delicate metalwork, elaborate
wood-carvings and the famous Gotland picture-stones are all
discussed. Viking art ranges in scale from ship burials to
decorated weapons and finely crafted jewelry; all feature here,
alongside Viking architecture and archaeological traces left by
Vikings across continental Europe and beyond. The final chapter
examines Viking art in relation to pagan mythology, the conversion
to Christianity, and the Viking legacy for later artistic
movements. First published in 2013 and now revised and updated
throughout, this volume is a modern classic that serves as a
definitive guide for all those interested in the vibrant artistic
culture of this fascinating period in European history. With 224
illustrations
Has architectural theory become a historical phenomenon to be
anthologized and studied as another passing phase in the history of
the discipline? Do the current commonplace watchwords of "practice"
and "research" mark the end of theory's place in architectural
discourse? This edited volume posits the contrary-that theory
remains urgent and even unavoidable, so ingrained in architectural
practice and pedagogy that it remains a vital if sometimes latent
influence. Architectural theory is not confined to its supposed
heyday in the decades leading up to the year 2000; it has persisted
and expanded as the stakes of theoretical discussions have
transformed. 2000+: The Urgencies of Architectural Theory collects
new essays from a range of the most compelling architectural
historians and theorists of the moment, including Lucia Allais,
Beatriz Colomina, Mark Cousins, Arindam Dutta, John Harwood,
Catherine Ingraham, Mark Jarzombek, Mari Lending, Spyros
Papapetros, Felicity Scott, Pelin Tan, Bernard Tschumi, Eyal
Weizman, Mark Wigley, and Mabel Wilson. Brought together for a
conference marking the end of Wigley's tenure as dean of Columbia
University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and
Preservation, these thinkers chart new directions and points of
critical importance for theory in architecture.
This book contains papers by archaeologists and numismatists from
six countries concerned with different aspects of how silver was
used in both Scandinavia and the wider Viking world during the 8th
to 11th centuries AD. The volume brings together a combination of
recent summaries and new work on silver and gold coinage, rings and
bullion, which allow a better appreciation of the broader
socioeconomic conditions of the Viking world. This is an
indispensable source for all archaeologists, historians and
numismatists involved in Viking Studies.
Throughout his presidency, Ronald Reagan sought "peace through
strength" during an era of historic change. In the decades since,
pundits and scholars have argued over the president's legacy: some
consider Reagan a charismatic and consummate leader who renewed
American strength and defeated communism. To others he was an
ambitious and dangerous warmonger whose presidency was plagued with
mismanagement, misconduct, and foreign policy failures. The recent
declassification of Reagan administration records and the
availability of new Soviet documents has created an opportunity for
more nuanced, complex, and compelling analyses of this pivotal
period in international affairs. In Reagan and the World, leading
scholars and national security professionals offer fresh
interpretations of the fortieth president's influence on American
foreign policy. This collection addresses Reagan's management of
the US national security establishment as well as the influence of
Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and others in the
administration and Congress. The contributors present in-depth
explorations of US-Soviet relations and American policy toward
Asia, Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East. This balanced and
sophisticated examination reveals the complexity of Reagan's
foreign policy, clarifies the importance of other international
actors of the period, and provides new perspectives on the final
decade of the Cold War.
January 2018, and a busy day at the offices of Hull 2017. Today is
the ceremonial handover to ambassadors from the next UK City of
Culture. Meanwhile, the monitoring and evaluation team have to
present The Audit - a measurement of the impact 'the culture' has
had on the city. Can their logic models, outcome evaluations and
statistical analyses really measure its impact on the people of
Hull? The visiting Minister from the Department of Culture, Media
and Sport certainly expect so. What could go wrong...? Only,
perhaps, Dennis, an average citizen who arrives into the offices of
Hull 2017 on lowgate to register a complaint but accidentally finds
himself at the centre of events that could bring the whole thing to
its knees The Culture is a satirical farce in two acts, examining
the 'culture' of culture, and the inner workings of the Hull 2017
project.
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