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Much of the biology of oxidative stress and oxidative signalling
centres on the generation and handling of hydrogen peroxide. The
overall aim for this book would be to provide an insightful and
useful forum to assist with the understanding of the relevance of
hydrogen peroxide generation and how this is managed in human
biology. The target audience would be those who currently have an
interest in the generation of ROS, but who do not have expertise in
chemistry, as well as those experts in the chemistry of oxidative
stress, but without detailed understanding of the biologically
relevant setting. We would aim to bridge the gap in understanding
between chemistry and biology.
Through fourteen original essays by leading historians and media
scholars, "Anglo-American Media Interactions" reveals the
complicated ways in which British and American media have
influenced each other over the past two centuries. In doing so, it
adds an important transatlantic dimension to a media scholarship
that normally remains within strictly national contexts, while
demonstrating the crucial and varied ways in which media have
helped build an Anglo-American 'special relationship'.
What were the cultural factors that held the British world
together? How was Britishness understood at home, in the Empire,
and in areas of informal British influence? This book makes the
case for a 'cultural British world', and examines how it took shape
in a wide range of locations, ranging from India to Jamaica, from
Sierra Leone to Australia, and from south China to New Zealand.
Eleven original essays explore a wide range of topics, including
images of nakedness, humanitarianism, anti-slavery, literary
criticism, travel narratives, and household possessions. The book
argues that the debates around these issues, as well as the
consumer culture associated with them, helped give the British
world a sense of cohesion and identity. The cultural construction
of the British world will be essential reading for historians of
imperialism and globalisation, and includes contributions from some
of the most prominent historians of British imperial and cultural
history. -- .
Much of the biology of oxidative stress and oxidative signalling
centres on the generation and handling of hydrogen peroxide. The
overall aim for this book would be to provide an insightful and
useful forum to assist with the understanding of the relevance of
hydrogen peroxide generation and how this is managed in human
biology. The target audience would be those who currently have an
interest in the generation of ROS, but who do not have expertise in
chemistry, as well as those experts in the chemistry of oxidative
stress, but without detailed understanding of the biologically
relevant setting. We would aim to bridge the gap in understanding
between chemistry and biology.
This book examines the British cultural engagement with Hong Kong
in the second half of the twentieth century. It shows how the
territory fit unusually within Britain's decolonisation narratives
and served as an occasional foil for examining Britain's own
culture during a period of perceived stagnation and decline.
Drawing on a wide range of archival and published primary sources,
Hong Kong and British culture, 1945-97 investigates such themes as
Hong Kong as a site of unrestrained capitalism, modernisation, and
good government, as well as an arena of male social and sexual
opportunity. It also examines the ways in which Hong Kong Chinese
embraced British culture, and the competing predictions that
British observers made concerning the colony's return to Chinese
sovereignty. An epilogue considers the enduring legacy of British
colonialism. -- .
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The Middle Watch (DVD)
Leslie Fuller, Mark Hampton, Ronald Shiner, Greta Gynt, David Hutcheson, …
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R164
Discovery Miles 1 640
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British comedy starring Jack Buchanan and Greta Gynt. After
battleship Captain Mailtand (Buchanan) enjoys a large party in
honour of his next voyage, he finds two young women (Gynt and Kay
Walsh) still aboard the ship once it has set off. To protect the
trespassers as well as himself, he agrees to hide them in his
quarters but it proves difficult to keep them concealed with the
Admiral (Fred Emney) unexpectedly onboard, resulting in hilarious
consequences.
Historians recognize the cultural centrality of the newspaper press
in Britain, yet very little has been published regarding competing
historical understandings of the press and its proper role in
British society. In Visions of the Press in Britain, 1850-1950,
Mark Hampton argues that qualities expected of the contemporary
British press--lively writing, speed, impartiality, depth, and the
ability to topple corrupt governments by informing readers--are not
obvious attributes of journalism but derive from more than a
century of debate. He analyzes the various historical conceptions
of the British press that helped to create its modern role, and
demonstrates that these conceptions were intimately involved in the
emergence of mass democracy in the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries. Hampton surveys a diversity of
sources--Parliamentary speeches and commissions, books, pamphlets,
periodicals and select private correspondence--in order to identify
how governmental elites, the educated public, professional
journalists, and industry moguls characterized the political and
cultural function of the press. The resulting blend of cultural
history and media sociology demonstrates how once optimistic
visions of the press have given way to more pessimistic
contemporary views about the power of the mass media. With clarity
and panache, this book shows that many competing conceptions
continued to influence twentieth-century understandings of the
press but did not remain satisfactory in new political, cultural,
and media environments. Visions of the Press in Britain, 1850-1950
provides a rich tapestry against which to understand the
contemporary realities of journalism, democracy, and mass media.
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