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Could you leave behind the bustle of modern life and spend a
lifetime immersed in nature? In The Way of the Hermit, Ken Smith
recounts a life he has chosen to spend alone with the wilderness.
Seventy-four-year-old Ken Smith has spent the past four decades in
the Scottish Highlands. He lives alone, with no electricity or
running water. His home is a log cabin nestled near Loch Treig,
known as 'the lonely loch', where he lives off the land: he fishes
for his supper, chops his own wood, and even brews his own tipple.
He is, in the truest sense of the word, a hermit. For the first
time, Ken shares the story of his life. From his working-class
origins in Derbyshire, to the formative years he spent travelling
in the Yukon and finally how he came to be the Hermit of Loch
Treig. Looking back through decades of diary entries, Ken reflects
upon the reasons he turned his back on society, the vulnerability
of old age and the awe and wonder of a life lived in nature. The
Way of the Hermit is a humourous, transcendant and life-affirming
memoir.
This Handbook of Visual Communication explores the key theoretical
areas and research methods of visual communication. With chapters
contributed by many of the best-known and respected scholars in
visual communication, this volume brings together significant and
influential work in the discipline. The second edition of this
already-classic text has been completely revised to reflect the
metamorphosis of communication in the last 15 years and the
ubiquity of visual communication in our modern mediated lifestyle.
Thriteen major theories of communication are defined by the top
experts in their fields: perception, cognition, aesthetics, visual
rhetoric, semiotics, cultural studies, ethnography, narrative,
media aesthetics, digital media, intertextuality, ethics, and
visual literacy. Each of these theory chapters is followed by an
exemplar study or two in the area, demonstrating the various
methods used in visual communication research as well as the
research approaches applicable for specific media types. The
Handbook of Visual Communication is a theoretical and
methodological handbook for visual communication researchers and a
compilation for much of the theoretical background necessary to
understand visual communication. It is required reading for
scholars, researchers, and advanced students in visual
communication, and it will be influential in other disciplines such
as advertising, persuasion, and media studies. The volume will also
be essential to media practitioners seeking to understand the
visual aspects of how audiences use media to contribute to more
effective use of each specific medium.
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Tropical Deforestation (Paperback)
Sharon Spray, Matt Moran; Contributions by Mark A. Cochrane, Deborah McGrath, Ken Smith, …
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Tropical Deforestation introduces readers to the important concepts
for understanding the environmental challenges and consequences of
the deforestation. Contributions from scientists and academics in
the social sciences and humanities provide readers with an initial
'tool kit' for understanding the concepts central to their
disciplinary perspective and the multi-dimensional aspects of
deforestation.
Ken Smith (1938-2003) was a major voice in world poetry, his work
and example inspiring a whole generation of younger British poets.
His politically edgy, cuttingly colloquial, muscular poetry poetry
shifted territory with time, from rural Yorkshire, America and
London to the war-ravaged Balkans and Eastern Europe (before and
after Communism). His early books span a transition from a
preoccupation with land and myth to his later engagement with urban
Britain and the politics of radical disaffection. The pivotal work
marking this shift was his long poem Fox Running (1980), brought to
recent attention when an archive recording of him reading it was
broadcast by BBC Radio 4's Poetry Please in 2016. His Collected
Poems brings together poetry from four decades, including all the
work from two earlier retrospectives, The Poet Reclining: Selected
Poems 1962-1980 (1982) and Shed: Poems 1980-2001 (2002), together
with the posthumously published You Again: last poems & other
words (2004). The book is introduced with essays by Roger Garfitt
and Jon Glover. Publication coincides with his 80th birthday and
with the 40th anniversary of the publication of Bloodaxe's first
title, Ken Smith's Tristan Crazy (1978).
The North East Coast presents a selection of true-life accounts
from the region's fascinating maritime and seafaring history.
Including some of the best stories from his previous books,
Newcastle author Ken Smith throws the spotlight on such exciting
episodes as Grace Darling and the rescue of survivors from the
Forfarshire, the birth of the first purpose-built lifeboat and the
career of the illustrious Tyne-built liner Mauretania.
The miners of the North-East, working in the most dangerous of
conditions, supplied the coal which fuelled the engines of the
Industrial Revolution and provided heating and lighting to millions
of homes. Throughout much of County Durham and Northumberland pit
communities sprang up because of the need for coal. Mining was
fundamental to the development of the region. Illustrated with
numerous colour photographs, Echoes of the North-East Miners throws
the spotlight on the physical heritage left by the pitmen and their
communities, including the numerous memorials and banners which
speak so eloquently of their struggles in the face of adversity,
their compassion and their enduring spirit of friendship.
This Handbook of Visual Communication explores the key theoretical
areas and research methods of visual communication. With chapters
contributed by many of the best-known and respected scholars in
visual communication, this volume brings together significant and
influential work in the discipline. The second edition of this
already-classic text has been completely revised to reflect the
metamorphosis of communication in the last 15 years and the
ubiquity of visual communication in our modern mediated lifestyle.
Thriteen major theories of communication are defined by the top
experts in their fields: perception, cognition, aesthetics, visual
rhetoric, semiotics, cultural studies, ethnography, narrative,
media aesthetics, digital media, intertextuality, ethics, and
visual literacy. Each of these theory chapters is followed by an
exemplar study or two in the area, demonstrating the various
methods used in visual communication research as well as the
research approaches applicable for specific media types. The
Handbook of Visual Communication is a theoretical and
methodological handbook for visual communication researchers and a
compilation for much of the theoretical background necessary to
understand visual communication. It is required reading for
scholars, researchers, and advanced students in visual
communication, and it will be influential in other disciplines such
as advertising, persuasion, and media studies. The volume will also
be essential to media practitioners seeking to understand the
visual aspects of how audiences use media to contribute to more
effective use of each specific medium.
From railway engineering to shipbuilding, from iron and steel to
rope making, and from pottery to glassworks, for many centuries the
banks of the River Tyne steamed, smoked, clanged, banged and
bustled with industry of all kinds. Most industries depended on
coal, the black diamonds of North East England, for the import of
raw material, and the export of goods. With an introduction by
industrial archaeologist Professor Stafford Linsley, the authors of
Lost Industries of the Tyne explore some of these vanished trades,
and working lives that have gone forever. Nostalgia for such
dangerous, dirty and often poisonous occupations might be
misplaced, but there is much to be proud of in the story of
enterprise, ingenuity, invention, and sheer dogged hard labour that
made the North East the workshop of the world.
An annual favourite, The Herald Diary takes a selection of the
funniest stories of the year that appear in The Herald's `Diary'
column. From the political trials and tribulations of the year,
sports and celebrity scandals and triumphs, and hilarious stories
overheard on the street, The Herald Diary has it all, and is a
perfect summary of the year.
You can have a lot of laughs in ten years, which is why we have
collected the very best of the amusing stories encountered by the
readers of The Herald Diary column over the past decade. There was
even a Scottish Labour Prime Minister all those years ago, Celtic
fans could only dream that their team would begin its quest for 10
titles in a row, and the word Covid was simply a typing error for
David or cove. So as everyone could really do with a smile just
now, we have combed well over two thousand Diary columns to bring
the best of what made Scots laugh over the last ten years, whether
it is the sharpest humour from pubs, the daft things children say
or the humour from all sides of Scottish courts, the very best are
here.
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