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Conceived in the Gilded Age, the Ferry Building opened in 1898 as
San Francisco’s portal to the world—the terminus of the
transcontinental railway and a showcase of civic ambition. In
silent films and World’s Fair postcards, nothing said “San
Francisco” more than its soaring clocktower. But as acclaimed
architectural critic John King recounts, the rise of cars and
double-deck roads severed the city from its beloved structure.
King’s narrative spans the rise and fall and rebirth of the Ferry
Building, introducing colourful figures who fought to preserve its
character (and the city’s soul)—from architect Arthur Page
Brown and legendary columnist Herb Caen to poet Lawrence
Ferlinghetti and Senator Dianne Feinstein. A microcosm of the
changing American waterfront, the saga of the Ferry Building
explores the tensions of tourism and development—and the threat
that sea level rise poses to a landmark that in the twenty-first
century remains as vital as ever.
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The Seal Club (Paperback)
Alan Warner, Irvine Welsh, John King
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R348
R285
Discovery Miles 2 850
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'The most approachable and exhilarating Latin American writer of
our times.' Robert McCrum, Observer In the past, culture was a kind
of vital consciousness that constantly rejuvenated and revivified
everyday reality. Now it is largely a mechanism of distraction and
entertainment. From one of the world's great literary
intelligences, Notes on the Death of Culture is an examination and
indictment of this transformation - an impassioned and essential
critique of our time, with essays on the disappearance of
eroticism, on culture politics and power, and the frivolity and
banality of entertainment in Western culture.
“Tribal Leadership gives amazingly insightful perspective on how people interact and succeed. I learned about myself and learned lessons I will carry with me and reflect on for the rest of my life.”
—John W. Fanning, Founding Chairman and CEO napster Inc.
“An unusually nuanced view of high-performance cultures.”
—Inc.
Within each corporation are anywhere from a few to hundreds of separate tribes. In Tribal Leadership, Dave Logan, John King, and Halee Fischer-Wright demonstrate how these tribes develop—and show you how to assess them and lead them to maximize productivity and growth. A business management book like no other, Tribal Leadership is an essential tool to help managers and business leaders take better control of their organizations by utilizing the unique characteristics of the tribes that exist within.
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The Working Man's Ballet (Paperback)
Alan Hudson; Introduction by John King; Afterword by Martin Knight
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R411
R339
Discovery Miles 3 390
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America s top China watcher, the renowned "pandit" of modern
Chinese history, here provides an unrivaled overview of
revolutionary China and Chinese American relations. His reviews and
critical commentary scrutinize our always fascinated, often puzzled
attitude toward this newly emergent superpower.
John Fairbank distinguishes two major motifs in recent Chinese
American connections: the American expectation of highly profitable
trade and investment, which so far have not materialized, and the
deep rooted missionary impulse to give the Chinese the best of our
culture, which includes our efforts to promote human rights. The
possibility of grafting our ideas of individual endeavor and God
given prerogatives onto two thousand years of Confucianism with its
emphasis on duty and collective harmony seems remote. In contrast,
the outlook for mutually enriching economic dealings is much
brighter. Yet Fairbank cautions that we are dealing with a huge and
disoriented nation struggling to enter the modern world with its
own cultural identity intact, and (at least in the current period)
with its Communist Party in power. Confucian tenets still prevail:
theory and practice are a unity policies are a form of conduct
manifesting one s character, and attacks on policy equal attacks on
the ruling party.
These writings concern China in the mind s eye of America as it
is interpreted though the works of American merchants, diplomats,
missionaries, and reporters observing China s travail of
revolution. For generalist, scholar, and sage alike, "China Watch"
offers many insights.
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Fourteenth Century England VIII (Hardcover)
Jeffrey S. J.S. Hamilton; Contributions by Beth Allison Barr, Charlotte Whatley, Katherine Harvey, Lisa Benz St John, …
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R2,038
Discovery Miles 20 380
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Fourteenth Century England has quickly established for itself a
deserved reputation for its scope and scholarship and for admirably
filling a gap in the publication of medieval studies. HISTORY
Drawing on a diverse range of documentary, literary and material
evidence, the contributors to this volume examine several
inter-related topics on political, social and cultural matters in
late medieval England. Aspects of both arms production and
armigerous society are explored, from the emergence of royal
armourers in the early fourteenth century to the social
implications of later armour and armorial bearings. Another major
focus is the church and religion more broadly. The nature and
significance of the ceremonial entry, the adventus, of bishops is
explored, as well as the legal impact of provisions in shaping
church-state relations in mid-century. Religious constructsof women
are considered in a comparative analysis of orthodox and Lollard
texts. Finally, a group of papers looks at aspects of politics at
the centre, with an examination of the queenship of Isabella of
France and the issue of the Mortimer inheritance in the early years
of Richard II. J.S. Hamilton is Professor and Chair, Department of
History, Baylor University. Contributors: Beth Allison Barr, Philip
Caudrey, Katherine Harvey, Mark King, Malcolm Mercer, Shelagh
Mitchell, Lisa Benz St John, Charlotte Whatley
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Reflecting the variety of modern Spanish literature, these stories range from the sharp insights of Gabriel García Marquez's "María dos Prazeres" to Isabel Allende's powerful evocation of the oral traditions of the Amerindian "Walimai," the deceptive simplicity of Javier Marías's "On the Honeymoon," and the philosophical speculation of Laura Freixas's "Absurd Ending."
For more than a century missionaries were the main contact
points between the Chinese and American peoples. Often frustrated
in saving Chinese souls, they nevertheless founded hospitals and
colleges, and meanwhile on the American scene they helped form the
image of China.
This volume offers views of missionary roles in the United
States and in China. Early American Protestant missions moved on
from the Near East to the Far East. The second great surge of
American missionary expansion in the 1880s was signaled by the
formation of more business-like mission boards, by the Student
Volunteer Movement to recruit liberal arts college graduates for
evangelism abroad, and by the Layman's Movement to back them up.
During the same period in China, missionary journalism was reaching
a new Chinese-Christian community, and missionary educational and
medical work was building modern institutions of social value for
Chinese communities. A few "Christian reformers" emerged in China's
treaty ports, and by the end of the century there was a missionary
contribution to the reform movement in general.
By the 1920s missionary and Chinese Christian educators were
collaborating in Christian colleges like Yenching University, only
to meet eventual disaster as the Nationalist revolution and Japan's
invasion precipitated the great Chinese Communist-led revolution of
the 1940s and after. American missions contributed fundamentally
both to the revolutionary changes in China and to the American
public response to them, although their impact on American policy s
less clear.
Fourteen contributors studying both sides of the missionary
effort, in China and in America, present case studies that suggest
conclusions and themes for research.
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
When a human skeleton is discovered on Ernest Hemingway's home in
Havana, police inspector Mario Conde is called up out of retirement
to unearth the truth. In the course of his investigations, Conde
gradually reconstructs the mysterious goings-on of the night of 3rd
October 1958 and in doing so is forced to come to terms with a very
different side to the character of his former literary hero. Padura
Fuentes cleverly cuts between Conde's world and that of Hemingway's
Cuba four decades earlier. In the heat and rum haze, the two seem
slowly to merge as the reader is taken on an extraordinary journey
into the past and into the personality of one of the twentieth
century's most enigmatic and interesting writers. It's a masterful
and totally convincing portrait that emerges, as well as a riveting
mystery that keeps the reader on tenterhooks until the very final
pages.
John King Fairbank was the West's doyen on China, and this book
is the full and final expression of his lifelong engagement with
this vast ancient civilization. It remains a masterwork without
parallel. The distinguished historian Merle Goldman brings the book
up to date, covering reforms in the post-Mao period through the
early years of the twenty-first century, including the leadership
of Hu Jintao. She also provides an epilogue discussing the changes
in contemporary China that will shape the nation in the years to
come.
This book examines the social, political, and cultural factors that
have and continue to influence the evolution of the urban
waterfront as seen through production created from art and design
practices. Reaching beyond the disciplines of architecture and
urban design, Occupation:Boundary distills the dual roles art and
culture have played in relation to the urban waterfront, as mediums
that have recorded and instigated change at the threshold between
the city and the sea. At the moment in time that demands innovative
approaches to the transformation of urban waterfronts, and
strategies to foster resilient boundaries, architect Cathy Simon
recounts her career building at and around the water's edge and in
service of the public realm. In so doing, the work of contemporary
architects is presented, while the origins and principles of a
guiding design philosophy are located in meditations on art and
observations on coastal cities around the world. The port cities of
New York and San Francisco emerge as case studies that structure
the reflections and mediate a narrative that is at once a
professional and personal memoir, richly illustrated with images
and drawings. Comprising three parts, the first two corresponding
parts of Occupation:Boundary draw connections between the past and
present by tracing the rise and fall of urban, industrial ports and
providing context-in the forms of textual and visual media-for
their recent transformations. Such reinterpretations, achieved via
design, often serve the public through environmentally conscious
strategies realized through inventive approaches to cultural and
recreational programs. The work of visual artists, both historical
and contemporary, appears alongside architecture, poetry, and
literary references that illustrate and draw connections between
each of these sections. The third section features select
architectural work by the author, framed by critic John King and
the architect and urbanist Justine Shapiro-Kline. Introduced with a
foreword by the prominent landscape architect Laurie Olin,
Occupation:Boundary draws on artistic and cultural intuitions and
the experience of an architect whose practice negotiates the
boundary between urban contexts and the bodies of water that
sustain them. Together, the instincts, reflections, and
architectural production collected here evidence the role of art
and design in the creation of an equitable and inviting public
realm.
It was one of the most popular novels of the nineteenth century
and Tolstoy called it "the greatest of all novels." Yet today
Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables" is neglected by readers and
undervalued by critics. In "The Temptation of the Impossible," one
of the world's great novelists, Mario Vargas Llosa, helps us to
appreciate the incredible ambition, power, and beauty of Hugo's
masterpiece and, in the process, presents a humane vision of
fiction as an alternative reality that can help us imagine a
different and better world.
Hugo, Vargas Llosa says, had at least two goals in "Les
Miserables"--to create a complete fictional world and, through it,
to change the real world. Despite the impossibility of these aims,
Hugo makes them infectious, sweeping up the reader with his energy
and linguistic and narrative skill. "Les Miserables," Vargas Llosa
argues, embodies a utopian vision of literature--the idea that
literature can not only give us a supreme experience of beauty, but
also make us more virtuous citizens, and even grant us a glimpse of
the "afterlife, the immortal soul, God." If Hugo's aspiration to
transform individual and social life through literature now seems
innocent, Vargas Llosa says, it is still a powerful ideal that
great novels like "Les Miserables" can persuade us is true."
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Angel Star (Paperback)
John King; Illustrated by Emma Turley
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R425
Discovery Miles 4 250
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A poem, beautifully illustrated, of a child's inspirational
journey: a boy who finds a ladder to the stars.
On 14 July 1958, with the fall of the Hashemite monarchy in Iraq, a
chapter of Iraq's history ended. In the wake of this revolution - a
revolution that eventually brought to power the Ba'ath party of
Saddam Hussein - the ancien regime of Iraq found itself both
persecuted and imprisoned. Mohammed Fadhel Jamali, a former foreign
minister and prime minister of Iraq, was no exception. In this
remarkable firsthand account of his time in power he reveals the
diplomatic wrangling at the heart of the Iraqi monarchist regime,
and offers incisive analysis of Iraq's role at both regional and
international levels. The Middle East in the 1950s was a time when
Egyptian President Gamal Abdul Nasser's pan-Arab nationalism caught
the political and intellectual attention of policymakers,
politicians and 'the man on the street' alike. Here, Jamali
outlines how these ideas were put into practice. But despite the
intentions of the idea of pan-Arabism,this post-World War II era
was nonetheless beset with discord and diplomatic difficulties.
Inside the Arab Nationalist Struggle thus explores Iraq's relations
with other Arab states and the wider Middle East, as well as its
policies towards the nascent Israeli state and the newly created
Palestine 'problem'. As foreign minister in the years immediately
after the end of World War II, Jamali was uniquely placed to give
an insight into the formative years of the United Nations. He had
participated in the San Francisco Founding Conference of the United
Nations and signed the United Nations Charter in the name of Iraq.
He also lead the Iraqi delegation at the Asian-African Conference
at Bandung in April 1955, and was present at many of the
negotiations that culminated in the Baghdad Pact, an alliance in
which Iraq, Iran and Pakistan had pledged to collaborate with the
UK and the US in the Cold War confrontation with the Soviet Union.
His recollections and analysis thus function as a vital resource
for those trying to understand the roots and development of the
Cold War and the ways in which Cold War diplomacy affected the
Middle East.
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