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Revised, updated and expanded, Operative Orthopaedics: The Stanmore
Guide, Second Edition, is a definitive and comprehensive guide to
elective orthopaedic surgery. It is suitable for junior trainees
during their various orthopaedic rotations and senior trainees
preparing for the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS
Tr and Orth) examination. With the emphasis on surgical techniques
employed, and the reasoning and evidence base behind them, this
book is both a practical instruction manual and a revision tool for
the examination. The procedures identified by the Specialist
Advisory Committee, including areas such as tumour surgery,
paediatrics and limb reconstruction, are included. Each chapter
follows a simple and consistent format explaining the surgery from
preoperative planning and consent, through to approaches,
techniques and postoperative care. The chapters also include key
references and sample Viva Questions to extend and reinforce
learning. Key Features New updated surgical techniques Highly
illustrated to help explain surgical concepts easily Key point
boxes to facilitate learning Recommended references for FRCS (Tr
and Orth) examination success Editors Timothy WR Briggs MD MBBS
(Hons), MCH (Orth), FRCS (Eng), FRCS (Ed), MD (Res) Royal National
Orthopaedic Hospital Trust, Stanmore, United Kingdom Jonathan Miles
MBChB, FRCS (Tr & Orth) Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital
Trust, Stanmore, United Kingdom William Aston BSc, MBBS, FRCS (Tr
& Orth) (Edinb) Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital Trust,
Stanmore, United Kingdom Heledd Havard BSc, MBBCh, MSc, FRCS (Tr
& Orth) Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital Trust, Stanmore,
United Kingdom Daud Chou MBBS, BSc, MSc, FRCS (Tr & Orth)
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge,
United Kingdom
In 1835, Lord Brougham founded Cannes, introducing bathing and the
manicured lawn to the wilds of the Mediterranean coast. Today, much
of that shore has become a concrete mass from which escape is an
exclusive dream. In the 185 years between, the stretch of seaboard
from the red mountains of the Esterel to the Italian border hosted
a cultural phenomenon well in excess of its tiny size. A mere
handful of towns and resorts created by foreign visitors - notably
English, Russian and American - attracted the talented, rich and
famous as well as those who wanted to be. For nearly two centuries
of creativity, luxury, excess, scandal, war and corruption, the
dark and sparkling world of the Riviera was a temptation for
everybody who was anybody. Often frivolous, it was also a potent
cultural matrix that inspired the likes of Picasso, Matisse, Coco
Chanel, Scott Fitzgerald, Cole Porter, James Baldwin, Catherine
Mansfield, Sartre and Stravinsky. In Once Upon a Time World,
Jonathan Miles presents the remarkable story of the small strip of
French coast that lured the world to its shores. It is a wild and
unforgettable tale that follows the Riviera's transformation from
paradise and wilderness to a pollution imperilled concrete jungle.
This volume breaks new ground in the study of landscapes, both
rural and urban. The innovative notion of this landscape collection
is rupture. The book explores the ways in which societal, economic
and cultural changes are transforming the meanings and
understandings of landscapes. The text explores both how landscapes
are contesting changes in society and changing society. The volume
combines empirically fine-grained accounts of landscape rupture,
from different parts of the world, with a sustained effort to
explore, rethink and analytically extend the concept of rupture
itself. The book therefore combines fresh empirical data with
innovative theoretical approaches to open understanding of
landscape as a dynamic, living entity subject to abrupt change and
unpredictable disruptions. Through this dual reflection the volume
is able to provide a powerful demonstration of the possibilities
that are available for human action, social change and material
landscape to combine.
Revised, updated and expanded, Operative Orthopaedics: The Stanmore
Guide, Second Edition, is a definitive and comprehensive guide to
elective orthopaedic surgery. It is suitable for junior trainees
during their various orthopaedic rotations and senior trainees
preparing for the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS
Tr and Orth) examination. With the emphasis on surgical techniques
employed, and the reasoning and evidence base behind them, this
book is both a practical instruction manual and a revision tool for
the examination. The procedures identified by the Specialist
Advisory Committee, including areas such as tumour surgery,
paediatrics and limb reconstruction, are included. Each chapter
follows a simple and consistent format explaining the surgery from
preoperative planning and consent, through to approaches,
techniques and postoperative care. The chapters also include key
references and sample Viva Questions to extend and reinforce
learning. Key Features New updated surgical techniques Highly
illustrated to help explain surgical concepts easily Key point
boxes to facilitate learning Recommended references for FRCS (Tr
and Orth) examination success Editors Timothy WR Briggs MD MBBS
(Hons), MCH (Orth), FRCS (Eng), FRCS (Ed), MD (Res) Royal National
Orthopaedic Hospital Trust, Stanmore, United Kingdom Jonathan Miles
MBChB, FRCS (Tr & Orth) Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital
Trust, Stanmore, United Kingdom William Aston BSc, MBBS, FRCS (Tr
& Orth) (Edinb) Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital Trust,
Stanmore, United Kingdom Heledd Havard BSc, MBBCh, MSc, FRCS (Tr
& Orth) Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital Trust, Stanmore,
United Kingdom Daud Chou MBBS, BSc, MSc, FRCS (Tr & Orth)
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge,
United Kingdom
This volume breaks new ground in the study of landscapes, both
rural and urban. The innovative notion of this landscape collection
is rupture. The book explores the ways in which societal, economic
and cultural changes are transforming the meanings and
understandings of landscapes. The text explores both how landscapes
are contesting changes in society and changing society. The volume
combines empirically fine-grained accounts of landscape rupture,
from different parts of the world, with a sustained effort to
explore, rethink and analytically extend the concept of rupture
itself. The book therefore combines fresh empirical data with
innovative theoretical approaches to open understanding of
landscape as a dynamic, living entity subject to abrupt change and
unpredictable disruptions. Through this dual reflection the volume
is able to provide a powerful demonstration of the possibilities
that are available for human action, social change and material
landscape to combine.
"Larry Brown wrote the way the best singers sing: with honesty,
grit, and the kind of raw emotion that stabs you right in the
heart. He was a singular American treasure." --Tim McGraw A
career-spanning collection, Tiny Love brings together for the first
time the stories of Larry Brown's previous collections along with
those never before gathered. The self-taught Brown has long had a
cult following, and this collection comes with an intimate and
heartfelt appreciation by novelist Jonathan Miles. We see Brown's
early forays into genre fiction and the horror story, then develop
his fictional gaze closer to home, on the people and landscapes of
Lafayette County, Mississippi. And what's astonishing here is the
odyssey these stories chart: Brown's self-education as a writer and
the incredible artistic journey he navigated from "Plant Growin'
Problems" to "A Roadside Resurrection." This is the whole of Larry
Brown, the arc laid bare, both an amazing story collection and the
fullest portrait we'll see of one of the South's most singular
artists.
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Malachi (Hardcover)
Aaron Schart; Contributions by Jonathan Miles Robker; Translated by Linda M. Maloney
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In 1835, Lord Brougham founded Cannes, introducing bathing and the
manicured lawn to the wilds of the Mediterranean coast. Today, much
of that shore has become a concrete mass from which escape is an
exclusive dream. In the 185 years between, the stretch of seaboard
from the red mountains of the Esterel to the Italian border hosted
a cultural phenomenon well in excess of its tiny size. A mere
handful of towns and resorts created by foreign visitors - notably
English, Russian and American - attracted the talented, rich and
famous as well as those who wanted to be. For nearly two centuries
of creativity, luxury, excess, scandal, war and corruption, the
dark and sparkling world of the Riviera was a temptation for
everybody who was anybody. Often frivolous, it was also a potent
cultural matrix that inspired the likes of Picasso, Matisse, Coco
Chanel, Scott Fitzgerald, Cole Porter, James Baldwin, Catherine
Mansfield, Sartre and Stravinsky. In Once Upon a Time World,
Jonathan Miles presents the remarkable story of the small strip of
French coast that lured the world to its shores. It is a wild and
unforgettable tale that follows the Riviera's transformation from
paradise and wilderness to a pollution imperilled concrete jungle.
This book explores the material religion of contemporary Shimla, a
vibrant postcolonial city, famed for its colonial heritage, set
against the backdrop of the North-Western Himalayas. Jonathan
Miles-Watson demonstrates that this landscape is able to peacefully
reconcile the apparent tensions of faith, heritage and identity in
a way that unseats traditional theories of religion, politics and
heritage. It presents a mystery that is written in space through
time; the key to unlocking this mystery lies in clear view, at the
city's heart, in the contemporary material religion that surrounds
nominally Christian sacred sites. Although the material religion
centres on landscapes that are identifiable as Christian, the book
demonstrates that Hindus, atheists and Sikhs all have a role to
play in the mutually constitutive relations that lie at the centre
of these knots of sacred entanglement. This book builds upon over a
decade of research to present an ethnographic account of devotional
practices that speaks to contemporary developments in both the
anthropology of Christianity and material religion. Through this
exploration the book answers the mystery of Shimla's postcolonial
harmony, while complicating established theories in the
anthropology of religion, postcolonial studies, mythography,
heritage studies and material culture.
Created as a tutorial, this book is designed to educate individuals
in the basics of wine and spirits.
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Want Not (Paperback)
Jonathan Miles
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A "New York Times" Notable Book
"A wonderful book, and there's no one I would not urge to read it
. . . This is the work of a fluid, confident and profoundly
talented writer who gets more fluid, more confident and seemingly
more talented even within the book itself." --Dave Eggers, "New
York Times Book Review"
A highly inventive and corrosively funny story of our times, Want
Not exposes three different worlds in various states of
disrepair--a young freegan couple living off the grid in New York
City; a once-prominent linguist, sacked at midlife by the
dissolution of his marriage and his father's losing battle with
Alzheimer's; and a self-made debt-collecting magnate, whose brute
talent for squeezing money out of unlikely places has yielded him a
royal existence, trophy wife included.
Want and desire propel these characters forward toward something,
anything, more, until their worlds collide, briefly, randomly, yet
irrevocably, in a shattering ending that will haunt readers long
after the last page is turned.
"Shrewd, funny, and sometimes devastating . . . What "Want Not"
does best, though, isn't plotting but portraits of humanity: the
small epiphanies and private hurts of every person whose life, like
the detritus they produce, is as beautifully mundane and unique as
a fingerprint." --"Entertainment Weekly"
"An impassioned work of fiction." --"Dallas Morning News"
I have been writing since early childhood, and have compiled a book
of some of my writings to further my journey and career as a
musician, to say "I love you" to Taylor Swift, and to express
myself with a pen. The book expresses the heartfelt trials and
tribulations of life as a writer, as a man, and as a lover. It is a
book to remind you to dream big, to tell you to puruse your dreams,
to remind you that laughter is medicine. I am a drummer of 10 or so
years and I think that will come across in the poems, in the
rhythmatic ways that I love and refuse to walk away from. It is a
book of prayers that I pray will reach my future lovers. Now enjoy
the book, enjoy the poems, enjoy the photography, and look forward
to more. We're not done yet people.
A little-known lecture by Levi-Strauss is the inspiration for this
work. In this lecture, he intuitively suggested that in medieval
Europe there once existed a set of myths, centred on the grail,
which are structurally the opposite of the goatsucker myths that he
famously analyzed in his mythologiques series. This work uses
Levi-Strauss' inspirational lecture as a launchpad for an
exploration of a group of related medieval Welsh myths, two of
which have been briefly considered previously by Levi-Strauss
himself. The root of the methodological approach this book employs
throughout is the Structuralism of Claude Levi-Strauss; however, it
has been modified to incorporate the suggestions of later
neo-Structuralists. This analysis tool is applied to a group of
myths, which have become conveniently--if somewhat
erroneously--known as the Mabinogion. The name Mabinogion appears
as part of a colophon at the end of one of the myth of Pwyll and it
was later adopted first by Pugh (1835), and then by Lady Charlotte
Guest (1838) as a title for their now famous translations of Welsh
mythology. Consequently, the title has stuck to describe the
material that is contained within their translations and, while it
is a somewhat inaccurate way to describe the myths, it has the
virtues of being both a succinct and widely recognised signifier.
The term has come to signify eight myths, or perhaps more
accurately eight groups of myths, which are all present in the late
fourteenth-century manuscript Llyfr Coch Hergest (The Red Book of
Hergest), and all but one of which can be found in the slightly
earlier Llyfr Gwyn Rhydderch (The White Book of Rhydderch). As
such, the Mabinogion is the key collection of medieval Welsh
mythology and an important source for early Arthurian material.
Although Structuralism and the Mabinogion have attracted a good
deal of attention from the academic world, there has been never
been a sustained attempt to follow Levi-Strauss' intuitive insights
with a methodical Structuralist analysis of this material. In the
year of Levi-Strauss' centenary celebrations, this work is the
first sustained attempt to follow his intuitive suggestions about
several Mabinogion myths with a detailed Structuralist analysis of
the Mabinogion. This work is therefore a unique anthropological
presentation and analysis of the Mabinogion, which argues for a
radical, new interpretation of these myths in light of the
existence of a central system of interlocking symbols that has the
Grail at its heart. Through the analysis, the book reveals a
logical organizational principle that underlies a body of material
that has previously been viewed as disparate and confusing. This
underlying structure is demonstrated to be, as Levi-Strauss
suggested it may, the opposite of that which Levi-Strauss himself
uncovered in the Americas. The revelation of this new form of
underlying structure leads to a rethinking of some important
aspects of Structuralism, including the Canonical formula, at the
same time as acting as a tribute to the farsightedness of
Levi-Strauss. This book makes important contributions to the fields
of Arthurian studies, anthropology, Celtic studies, cultural
studies, medieval studies, mythology and religious studies.
Bennie Ford, a fifty-three-year-old failed poet turned translator,
is traveling to his estranged daughter's wedding when his flight is
canceled. Stuck with thousands of fuming passengers in the
purgatory of O'Hare International Airport, he watches the clock
tick and realizes that he will miss the ceremony. Frustrated,
irate, and helpless, Bennie does the only thing he can: he starts
to write a letter. But what begins as a hilariously excoriating
demand for a refund soon becomes a lament for a life gone awry, for
years misspent, talent wasted, and happiness lost. Bennie's writing
is infused with a sense of remorse for the actions of a
lifetime--and made all the more urgent by the fading hope that if
he can just make it to the wedding, he might have a chance to do
something right.
A margarita blend of outrage, humor, vulnerability,
intelligence, and regret, "Dear American Airlines "gives new
meaning to the term "airport novel" and announces the emergence of
a major new talent in American fiction.
What is myth? Why do myths exist? What do myths do? Where are myths
going? This reader is organized into four parts which explore these
questions. Drawing on over 10 years of experience teaching myth in
religious studies and anthropology departments in the UK, USA and
Continental Europe, the editors have brought together seminal works
in the theory of myth. Key features include: - a general
introduction to the reader that outlines a comparative and
interpretative framework - an introduction contextualizing each
part and sub-section - an introduction to each reading by the
editors - supporting online resources that provide discussion
questions and further reading suggestions, including primary
sources. From functionalism to feminism, nationalism to
globalization, and psychoanalysis to spatial analysis, this reader
covers the classic and contemporary theories and approaches needed
to understand what myth is, why myths exist, what they do, and what
the future holds for them.
'This extraordinary book brings to life an astonishing place.
Beautiful prose renders brutality vivid' The Times - BOOK OF THE
WEEK From Peter the Great to Putin, this is the unforgettable story
of St Petersburg - one of the most magical, menacing and
influential cities in the world. St Petersburg has always felt like
an impossible metropolis, risen from the freezing mists and flooded
marshland of the River Neva on the western edge of Russia. It was a
new capital in an old country. Established in 1703 by the sheer
will of its charismatic founder, the homicidal megalomaniac
Peter-the-Great, its dazzling yet unhinged reputation was quickly
fashioned by the sadistic dominion of its early rulers. This city,
in its successive incarnations - St Petersburg; Petrograd;
Leningrad and, once again, St Petersburg - has always been a place
of perpetual contradiction. It was a window on to Europe and the
Enlightenment, but so much of the glory of Russia was created here:
its literature, music, dance and, for a time, its political vision.
It gave birth to the artistic genius of Pushkin and Dostoyevsky,
Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich, Pavlova and Nureyev. Yet, for all its
glittering palaces, fairytale balls and enchanting gardens, the
blood of thousands has been spilt on its snow-filled streets. It
has been a hotbed of war and revolution, a place of siege and
starvation, and the crucible for Lenin and Stalin's power-hungry
brutality. In St Petersburg, Jonathan Miles recreates the drama of
three hundred years in this absurd and brilliant city, bringing us
up to the present day, when - once more - its fate hangs in the
balance. This is an epic tale of murder, massacre and madness
played out against squalor and splendour. It is an unforgettable
portrait of a city and its people.
This book explores the material religion of contemporary Shimla, a
vibrant postcolonial city, famed for its colonial heritage, set
against the backdrop of the North-Western Himalayas. Jonathan
Miles-Watson demonstrates that this landscape is able to peacefully
reconcile the apparent tensions of faith, heritage and identity in
a way that unseats traditional theories of religion, politics and
heritage. It presents a mystery that is written in space through
time; the key to unlocking this mystery lies in clear view, at the
city’s heart, in the contemporary material religion that
surrounds nominally Christian sacred sites. Although the material
religion centres on landscapes that are identifiable as Christian,
the book demonstrates that Hindus, atheists and Sikhs all have a
role to play in the mutually constitutive relations that lie at the
centre of these knots of sacred entanglement. This book builds upon
over a decade of research to present an ethnographic account of
devotional practices that speaks to contemporary developments in
both the anthropology of Christianity and material religion.
Through this exploration the book answers the mystery of Shimla’s
postcolonial harmony, while complicating established theories in
the anthropology of religion, postcolonial studies, mythography,
heritage studies and material culture.
This massive and lavishly illustrated book is amajor critical study
of David Jones, the great painter and poet. It introduces Jones's
better known visual achievements and combines them with a vast
amount of previously unpublished material--sketches, watercolors,
carvings, engravings, inscriptions, and ephemera. The accompanying
text places Jones not only in the context of 20th century British
art but also in relation to continental movements. This
comprehensive study covers all aspects of his visual work in the
light of his experience as a soldier in the Great War, his
conversion to Catholicism, and his Classical and Celtic researches,
and places these against his growing cultural disaffection and the
submerged drama of his life.
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