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A very special new edition of this beautiful and award-winning
official coffee table book which celebrates one of sport's most
historic and iconic venues as it celebrates its 100th birthday. The
Centre Court at Wimbledon is known throughout the world and is
famous for the legends who have graced its hallowed grass and the
wonderful matches that have been played out in front of awed
sold-out crowds. It truly is a fantastic theatre where players meet
with 'triumph or disaster'. As it reaches its centenary year,
Centre Court's place in the pantheon of sporting theatres is
assured - and this book is a fitting tribute to its rich history.
For two glorious weeks every summer, Wimbledon sparkles at the
centre of the sporting universe. This is the complete history, over
more than 150 years, of The All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet
Club and the world's most prestigious tennis Championships. The
story goes that in 1877 the All England Croquet Club needed funds
to repair a broken pony roller at their ground in Wimbledon so it
decided to hold a tournament dedicated to the increasingly popular
new pastime of lawn tennis. This beautifully-presented and fully
revised and updated edition of popular former BBC commentator John
Barrett's seminal history of The Championships tells the story of
how a small croquet club in rural Surrey has grown to become the
world's most famous tennis club and home to one of the great
international sporting events. With additional text bringing the
text right up to date and over more than 500 lavishly illustrated
pages packed with archive photography and memorabilia from the
Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum, the rich history of Wimbledon and its
unique atmosphere - where the highest level of international sport
meets an afternoon in an English garden - is magnificently captured
in this essential volume.
`Archaeology is a diverse discipline, it operates through a number
of institutional arrangements, each of which has a particular
agenda and set of agreed working practices. Diversity might be
regarded as a strength, reflecting the dynamism with which
archaeological concerns have become a widely used currency in our
modern world. But if we accept that diversity exists in a single
discipline we might also wonder what defines the common ground;
what is it that, at the end of the day, continues to make us all
archaeologists?' The second `Oxbow Lecture' presents the text of a
lecture delivered in 1995 at the Institute of Field Archaeologist's
annual Archaeology in Britain Conference , and explores the current
state and priorities of British archaeology.
A guide to the practice of stem cell transplantation, its status in
the treatment of various disorders and the problems that arise
after transplantation, aimed at the whole transplant team. An up to
date guide to best practice in the use of stem cell
transplantation, covering current status in the treatment of
malignant and non-malignant conditions, practical aspects and
problems such as infection and graft versus host disease. Has a
practical, accessible approach with free use of algorithms, list
tables. Aimed at the whole transplant team - this is an
interdisciplinary field. International contributor team with
editors in the UK and USA. Illustrated in colour throughout.
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Kazuo Ohno's World (Paperback)
Yoshito Ohno, Kazuo Ohno; Contributions by Toshio Mizohata; Translated by John Barrett
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Kazuo Ohno is one of the founders of the Japanese modern dance
form, Butoh, which had a large influence on contemporary American
modern and postmodern dance. Now for the first time, Ohno's words
and insights are available in English. This book brings together
two distinct but related works: the first, Food for the Soul, is an
interview with Yoshito Ohno about his father and his father's
dances. With the help of some 100 photographs, he reveals a
compelling and complex figure. The second, Workshop Words, is a
collection of talks given by Kazuo Ohno to his students during
workshops, complemented by photographs of Ohno in intimate
settings. Lavishly illustrated and beautifully designed, this book
is a finely nuanced portrait of one of the most distinctive
contemporary performers to emerge from Japan in the 20th century.
It is an indispensable manual for the aspiring performer in any
field.
This book reconsiders how we can understand archaeology on a grand
scale by abandoning the claims that material remains stand for the
people and institutions that produced them, or that genetic change
somehow caused cultural change. Our challenge is to understand the
worlds that made great projects like the building of Stonehenge or
Mycenae possible. The radiocarbon revolution made the old view that
the architecture of Mycenae influenced the building of Stonehenge
untenable. But the recent use of 'big data' and of genetic
histories have led archaeology back to a worldview where 'big
problems' are assumed to require 'big solutions'. Making an
animated plea for bottom-up rather than top-down solutions, the
authors consider how life was made possible by living in the local
and materially distinct worlds of the period. By considering how
people once built connections between each other through their
production and use of things, their movement between and occupancy
of places, and their treatment of the dead, we learn about the
kinds of identities that people constructed for themselves.
Stonehenge did not require an architect from Mycenae for it to be
built, but the builders of Stonehenge and Mycenae would have shared
a mutual recognition of the kinds of humans that they were, and the
kinds of practices these monuments were once host to.
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