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This book offers an overview of iconographic methods and their
application to archaeological analysis. It offers a truly
interdisciplinary approach that draws equally from art history and
anthropology. Vernon James Knight, Jr begins with an
historiographical overview, addressing the methodologies and
theories that underpin both archaeology and art history. He then
demonstrates how iconographic methods can be integrated with the
scientific methods that are at the core of much archaeological
inquiry. Focusing on artifacts from the pre-Columbian civilizations
of North and Meso-American sites, Knight shows how the use of
iconographic analysis yields new insights into these objects and
civilizations.
This new, thoroughly updated third edition of Bradt's Sierra Leone
remains the only English-language guide dedicated to this unique
West African destination, one of only three countries where the
uber-elusive pygmy hippo can be found and where coastal mountains
and sheltered beaches are the stuff of daydreams and postcards.
With Bradt's Sierra Leone you can explore the infamous diamond
mines and rainforest-covered mountains; go in search of pygmy
hippos or relax on the country's beaches and islands. Offering
significantly more coverage than any other guide, it is an ideal
companion for tourists, volunteers and international workers alike,
and also covers newly declared eco-tourist sites as well as the
trans-boundary 'peace park' of Gola Forest National Park, shared
with neighbouring Liberia. This new edition also covers Freetown's
new beach music festival, as well as details of everything from
where to visit rescued chimpanzees to touring the traditional
wooden-board homes of the Krio people, descendants of repatriated
slaves from the Americas and Europe. Sierra Leone continues to be
one of the best beach destinations in West Africa, and also one of
the region's best trekking destinations, given the varied
topography and the presence of Mount Bintumani, West Africa's
highest peak. The country has seen a heartening recovery since
emerging from civil war a decade ago and the Bradt guide is the
first to take stock of the country's post-Ebola travel situation.
Sierra Leone is proudly back on the tourism map for the
adventurous, beach-loving, jungle-exploring, mountain-scaling and
curious of heart traveller.
As a kid, Bernie Shakeshaft's mischievous and reckless behaviour
led him to became known as the wild one of his devout Catholic
family. It isn't surprising that his path led him to the Northern
Territory, a place where people often go to either lose themselves
or find themselves. Bernie, a searcher for his purpose in life,
found himself. He had many jobs, firstly as a ringer on a cattle
station owned by the Packer family, and later as a dingo trapper
for the Parks and Wildlife Service. Throughout it all, he drank, he
swore, he fought, and took chances with his own well-being. But,
crucially, he also developed deep connections with the Indigenous
people, and it was these connections that helped lay the
foundations for what was to come. He worked for youth welfare
organisations, and all the while he built up his knowledge about
helping wayward youths, particularly those from Indigenous
communities. Years later, Bernie was living in Armidale. He'd been
visiting too many kids in prison and going to too many funerals.
The usual methods weren't working so that reckless, mischievous kid
inside him decided he could do better. He started a youth program
called BackTrack, with three aims: To keep them alive, out of jail
and chasing their hopes and dreams. For most, this was their last
chance. Combining life skills, education, job preparedness with
rural work, Bernie threw in one other factor: dogs! And it works.
With the help of these working dogs, the lost boys (and girls) find
their way back on track. These days, Backtrack youth tour the
country competing in dog-jumping trials. Bernie and the BackTrack
team are now supporting other communities in Lake Cargelligo,
Broken Hill, Dubbo and Grafton, and have forged a new beginning for
over 1000 young people. This one man is making a huge difference.
In BACK ON TRACK, bestselling author James Knight tells Bernie's
story and the stories of those whose lives he has saved. It is a
powerful reminder that we should never give up on our kids. 'This
fella Bernie, he's a good fella, a bit of a genius really. What a
great story.' - Russell Crowe
"The mannequins are here again. I can feel them throbbing in my
ears. They're standing around in the kitchen, impassive as stone.
But inside they're laughing. I'm not getting out of bed for them,
not this time." In the Dark Room is a surreal novella written and
illustrated by James Knight, author of Head Traumas. The story is
narrated by a bedridden man who finds himself besieged by memories,
fantasies and the mannequins at the bottom of the stairs. Knight's
combination of words and pictures invites us into a strange yet
familiar world, governed by the logic of a dream. This special
edition includes 40 full colour "oneirographs", Knight's trademark
dream pictures.
Void Voices is a descent into the Hell that is our contemporary
culture. Inevitably, Trump and Brexit feature. Dante's guide was
Virgil; Knight's is an undead T S Eliot. Along the way, the reader
is assailed by a cacophony of heterogeneous material, including
song lyrics, doctored news stories, lines from old poems,
transcriptions of nonsense texts generated by Google Translate. The
Hell is that of our culture; it is also that of the poem itself:
poem as voice-filled void.
"Sometimes the mannequins get behind my eyes I feel them tugging
the strings of my nerves playing with my mechanisms They make
themselves at home in the lumber room of my skull.." James Knight's
latest collection of poems and prose poems takes the reader to the
other side of the mirror, where the Bird King reigns and mannequins
are more real than people.
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