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In The Meat Puppets and the Lyrics of Curt Kirkwood from Meat
Puppets II to No Joke!, Matthew Smith-Lahrman sheds light on the
words of Curt Kirkwood, founding member and songwriter of the Meat
Puppets, a pioneering rock 'n' roll band of the last forty years.
Smith-Lahrman covers Kirkwood's lyrics on nine albums, from 1983 to
1995, when he wrote virtually every lyric for the band. A lyricist
whom Rolling Stone writer Kurt Loder once rated alongside Bob
Dylan, Kirkwood remains an important, yet overlooked songwriter.
The original Meat Puppets spent their early career releasing albums
on the seminal indie rock label SST Records, moving on to the major
label London Records in the early 1990s. Along the way they forged
a unique blend of punk, country, psychedelic, and hard rock that
paved the way for the grunge and alternative movements. As a
lyricist, Kirkwood commonly addresses the individual psyche and
behavioral expectations, drug use, mental illness, and
Christianity. As the original Meat Puppets began to dissolve,
Kirkwood turned to writing about personal issues: his frustrations
with the major label industry, the death of his mother, the
addictions of his brother, and the demise of the band itself. The
Meat Puppets and the Lyrics of Curt Kirkwood from Meat Puppets II
to No Joke! is the perfect work for Meat Puppets fans worldwide.
The book relates the history of post-war psychiatry, focusing on
deinstitutionalisation, namely the shift from asylum to community
in the second part of the twentieth century. After the Second World
War, psychiatry and mental health care were reshaped by
deinstitutionalisation. But what exactly was involved in this
process? What were the origins of deinstitutionalisation and what
did it mean to those who experienced it? What were the
ramifications, both positive and negative, of such a fundamental
shift in psychiatric care? Post-War Psychiatry in the Western
World: Deinstitutionalisation and After seeks to answer these
questions by exploring this momentous change in mental health care
from 1945 to the present in a wide range of geographical settings.
The book articulates a nuanced account of the history of
deinstitutionalisation, highlighting the constraints and
inconsistencies inherent in treating the mentally ill outside of
the asylum, while seeking to inform current debates about how to
help the most vulnerable members of society.
A comprehensive guide to growing tulips from bulbs, with expert
advice on the most rewarding varieties. A Gardener’s Guide to
Tulips is a practical guide helping growers understand the
tulip’s lifecycle and ensure success in its cultivation.
Alongside practical advice, the book also includes wider
information for interested growers and admirers of tulips. With
over 300 photos, a wealth of varieties and planting situations are
considered, as well as case studies of gardens where tulips have
been used to great effect. It will interest experienced gardeners
and inspire those who may not have attempted to grow these
beautiful plants before. Readers will find information on: Taxonomy
and types, Cultivating and caring for tulips, Propagation and
breeding, Designing with tulips in the garden, Tulip varieties,
both current and past selections, Gardens and places of interest
for tulips, What can be learnt from commercial growing, The
fascinating history of tulips.
This book argues that over the twentieth and twenty-first
centuries, the cinema in Britain became the site on which childhood
was projected, examined, and understood. Through an analysis of
these projections; via case studies that encompass early cinema,
pre and post-war film, and contemporary cinema; this book
interprets the child in British cinema as a device through which to
reflect upon issues of national culture, race, empire, class, and
gender. Beginning with a discussion of early cinematic depictions
of the child in Britain, this book examines cultural expressions of
nationhood produced via non-commercial cinemas for children. It
considers the way cinema encroaches on the moral edification of the
child and the ostensible vibrancy and vitality of the British boy
in post-war cinema. The author explores the representational and
instrumental differences between depictions of boys and girls
before extending this discussion to investigate the treatment of
migrant, refugee, and immigrant children in British cinema. It ends
by recapitulating these arguments through a discussion of
internationally successful British blockbuster cinema. The child in
this study is a mobile figure, deployed across generic boundaries,
throughout the history of British cinema and embodying a range of
discourses regarding the health and wellbeing of the nation.
A case study about the formation of American pluralism and
religious liberty, The Spires Still Point to Heaven explores
why-and more importantly how-the early growth of Cincinnati
influenced the changing face of the United States. Matthew Smith
deftly chronicles the urban history of this thriving metropolis in
the mid-nineteenth century. As Protestants and Catholics competed,
building rival domestic missionary enterprises, increased religious
reform and expression shaped the city. In addition, the different
ethnic and religious beliefs informed debates on race, slavery, and
immigration, as well as disease, temperance reform, and education.
Specifically, Smith explores the Ohio Valley's religious landscape
from 1788 through the nineteenth century, examining its appeal to
evangelical preachers, abolitionists, social critics, and rabbis.
He traces how Cincinnati became a battleground for newly energized
social reforms following a cholera epidemic, and how grassroots
political organizing was often tied to religious issues. He also
illustrates the anti-immigrant sentiments and anti-Catholic
nativism pervasive in this era. The first monograph on Cincinnati's
religious landscape before the Civil War, The Spires Still Point to
Heaven highlights Cincinnati's unique circumstances and how they
are key to understanding the cultural and religious development of
the nation.
Rookie Year's Over Mega-City One, 2081. Judge Joe Dredd's been on
the beat for a year. He's made tough calls, tackled hardbitten
perps, and seen the consequences of his choices come back to bite
him. But he's not done learning yet. Dredd's second year on the
sked will see him back out in the Cursed Earth, where right and
wrong are questions that go beyond the easy answers of the Law;
he'll tackle an apparent serial killer-or more than one?-targeting
journalists; and he'll take his first real beat down, leaving him
bent and broken with only his badge and his conviction to protect
him... Including stories by Matt Smith, Michael Carroll and Cavan
Scott, Judge Dredd: Year Two puts the city's greatest lawman to the
test.
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2000 AD Regened Volume 2 (Paperback)
Matthew Smith; Illustrated by Nicolo Assirelli; John Reppion; Illustrated by Davide Tinto; Cavan Scott; Illustrated by …
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2000 AD Regened is a thrill-powered collection for earthlets of all
ages, featuring your favourite 2000 AD characters! Reimagined
versions of classic characters like Dredd, Judge Anderson and
Johnny Alpha star in action packed adventures alongside brand new
characters, specially created for a younger audience. It's a race
against time as Cadet Dredd and his clone brother Rico have to
defuse a hostage situation in 'Bad Seeds'. When Judge Anderson
encounters a malevolent force trying to turn the kids of Mega-City
One into swots she has to RESTORE mayhem to the streets. Other
characters include Pandora Perfect: futuristic criminal, terrible
babysitter and all round bad 'un, teenage mutant bounty hunter
Johnny Alpha and the return of ghostbusting duo Finder and Keeper.
All this and more in the second volume of 2000 AD's celebrated
series of all-ages science fiction stories!
Originally published in 1949, Matthew Smith writes with the
brilliance of an Arlen and the sophistication of a Maugham in this
vintage tale of high-fashioned passion that bares the souls and
appetites of mid-century old money. Nestled in rolling fields on
the eastern Connecticut shore stands Cragie, the sumptuous estate
of George Ridgley. Passersby admire its sprawling luxury and envy
its owner his many acres with their tenant farms, luxurious
buildings, and natural beauty. Here Eros launches five arrows that
find their mark at once, filling five cultivated and refined people
with passions that even the expansive rooms of Cragie can t
contain. First George Ridgley falls in love with Lesley, a
beautiful guest much his junior. Then Reggie, the playboy forgets
his selfishness to lose his heart to Audrey, a wealthy and sensuous
vixen. When Peter Drake, our tale s hero, flies back from Europe
and enters the scene, scandal erupts. These people woo in the same
sophisticated, pleasure guided way they live. They play at passion
as they play at backgammon to win."
In The Meat Puppets and the Lyrics of Curt Kirkwood from Meat
Puppets II to No Joke!, Matthew Smith-Lahrman interprets the words
of Curt Kirkwood, founding member and songwriter of the Meat
Puppets, a pioneering rock 'n' roll band of the last thirty years.
Smith-Lahrman's analysis covers Kirkwood's lyrics on nine albums,
from 1983 to 1995, when he wrote virtually every lyric for the
band. A lyricist whom Rolling Stone writer Kurt Loder once rated
alongside Bob Dylan, Kirkwood remains an important, yet overlooked
songwriter. His often oblique "cut-up" style not only recalls Dylan
but also other great lyricists, such as Brian Eno, Jimi Hendrix,
and Robert Hunter, as well as poets and authors like John Milton,
Arthur Rimbaud, Lewis Carroll, and William Burroughs. The original
Meat Puppets spent their early career releasing albums on the
seminal indie rock label SST Records, moving on to the major label
London Records in the early 1990s. Along the way they forged a
unique blend of punk, country, psychedelic, and hard rock that
paved the way for the grunge and alternative movements. As a
lyricist, Kirkwood commonly addresses the dichotomy between
individual psyche and behavioral expectations, and the problems
this creates for personal agency; drug use, mental illness, and
Christianity have important parts to play in Kirkwood's early
lyrical visions. As the original Meat Puppets began to dissolve,
Kirkwood turned to writing about personal issues: his frustrations
with the major label industry, the death of his mother, the
addictions of his brother, and the demise of the band itself. The
Meat Puppets and the Lyrics of Curt Kirkwood from Meat Puppets II
to No Joke! is the perfect work for Meat Puppets fans worldwide.
Proteins, Pathologies and Politics presents an international and
historical approach to dietary change and health, contrasting
current concerns with how issues such as diabetes, cancer,
vitamins, sugar and fat, and food allergies were perceived in the
19th and 20th centuries. Though what we eat and what we shouldn't
eat has become a topic of increased scrutiny in the current
century, the link between dietary innovation and health/disease is
not a new one. From new fads in foodstuffs, through developments in
manufacturing and production processes, to the inclusion of
additives and evolving agricultural practices changing diet,
changes often promised better health only to become associated with
the opposite. With contributors including Peter Scholliers,
Francesco Buscemi, Clare Gordon Bettencourt, and Kirsten Gardner,
this collection comprises the best scholarship on how we have
perceived diet to affect health. The chapters consider: - the
politics and economics of dietary change - the historical actors
involved in dietary innovation and the responses to it - the extent
that our dietary health itself a cultural construct, or even a
product of history This is a fascinating and varied study of how
our diets have been shaped and influenced by perceptions of health
and will be of great value to students of history, food history,
nutrition science, politics and sociology.
In The Secret Origins of Comics Studies, today's leading comics
scholars turn back a page to reveal the founding figures dedicated
to understanding comics art. Edited by comics scholars Matthew J.
Smith and Randy Duncan, this collection provides an in-depth study
of the individuals and institutions that have created and shaped
the field of Comics Studies over the past 75 years. From Coulton
Waugh to Wolfgang Fuchs, these influential historians, educators,
and theorists produced the foundational work and built the
institutions that inspired the recent surge in scholarly work in
this dynamic, interdisciplinary field. Sometimes scorned, often
underappreciated, these visionaries established a path followed by
subsequent generations of scholars in literary studies,
communication, art history, the social sciences, and more. Giving
not only credit where credit is due, this volume both offers an
authoritative account of the history of Comics Studies and also
helps move the field forward by being a valuable resource for
creating graduate student reading lists and the first stop for
anyone writing a comics-related literature review.
This book provides an overview of a diverse array of preventive
strategies relating to mental illness, and identifies their
achievements and shortcomings. The chapters in this collection
illustrate how researchers, clinicians and policy makers drew
inspiration from divergent fields of knowledge and practice: from
eugenics, genetics and medication to mental hygiene, child
guidance, social welfare, public health and education; from risk
management to radical and social psychiatry, architectural design
and environmental psychology. It highlights the shifting patterns
of biological, social and psychodynamic models, while adopting a
gender perspective and considering professional developments as
well as changing social and legal contexts, including
deinstitutionalisation and social movements. Through vigorous
research, the contributors demonstrate that preventive approaches
to mental health have a long history, and point to the conclusion
that it might well be possible to learn from such historical
attempts. The book also explores which of these approaches are
worth considering in future and which are best confined to the
past. Within this context, the book aims at stoking and informing
debate and conversation about how to prevent mental illness and
improve mental health in the years to come. Chapters 3, 10, and 12
of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at
link.springer.com
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2000 AD Encyclopedia (Hardcover)
Scott Montgomery; Foreword by Matthew Smith; Cover design or artwork by Stewart K. Moore
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Wondering what the essential Judge Dredd stories are? Need to find
out how long The Ballad of Halo Jones ran? Well look no further,
Earthlets - the 2000 AD Encyclopedia is here! Timed to concide with
2000 AD's landmark 45th anniversary, this 336-page hardcover with
dustjacket and explosive brand new cover by artist Stewart K. Moore
is a must have for comic book fans. For the first time, the 2000 AD
Encyclopedia celebrates 45 years of cutting edge sci-fi, biting
dystopian satire and glorious fantasy by giving readers chapter and
verse on this enthralling universe of thrills, detailing the
characters and stories that have helped make 2000 AD a
groundbreaking comic book and major cultural force. With
jaw-dropping illustrations by some of the world's top artists
alongside detailed profiles on the stories and characters from the
pages of this legendary comic, from the luckless Aaron A. Aardvark
of Judge Dredd to the weaponised (but very polite) undead crusader
Zombo. Discover fascinating facts about the acclaimed art and
script droids behind 2000 AD's success, including industry legends
such as John Wagner, Alan Grant, Alan Moore, Mark Millar, Grant
Morrison, Jock, Brian Bolland, Mick McMahon, Carlos Ezquerra and
many more. With a foreword by 2000 AD's longest-serving editor Matt
Smith, this hardcover collection is indispensable for all dedicated
Squaxx Dek Thargo and an essential addition to any comic fan's
bookshelf.
This study provides a comprehensive account and reconsideration
of the contribution to political economy of Thomas Tooke
(1774-1858). It clarifies Tooke s monetary thought and its legacy
to modern economics. The study shows Tooke possessed a rich and
extensive political economy, covering many aspects of economic
activity relevant to key policy issues. Tooke s political economy
is shown to be a unified and coherent body of intellectual thought
in the classical tradition which, like most of his
nineteenth-century contemporaries, was much influenced by Adam
Smith s economics. More particularly, Tooke s monetary thought,
especially his novel banking school theory, is shown to be
theoretically coherent from the standpoint of nineteenth-century
classical economics. It is also shown that besides contributing
toward a better understanding of the behaviour of monetary systems
in general, key elements of Tooke s banking school theory make an
important contribution to explaining distribution, growth and price
inflation in modern economics.
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To some, food allergies seem like fabricated cries for attention.
To others, they pose a dangerous health threat. Food allergies are
bound up with so many personal and ideological concerns that it is
difficult to determine what is medical and what is myth. Another
Person's Poison parses the political, economic, cultural, and
genuine health factors of a phenomenon that dominates our
interactions with others and our understanding of ourselves. For
most of the twentieth century, food allergies were considered a fad
or junk science. While many physicians and clinicians argued that
certain foods could cause a range of chronic problems, from asthma
and eczema to migraines and hyperactivity, others believed that
allergies were psychosomatic. 'This book traces the trajectory of
this debate and its effect on public-health policy and the
production, manufacture, and consumption of food. Are rising
allergy rates purely the result of effective lobbying and a booming
industry built on self-diagnosis and expensive remedies? Or should
physicians become more flexible in their approach to food allergies
and more careful in their diagnoses? Exploring the issue from
scientific, political, economic, social, and patient-centered
perspectives, this book is the first to engage fully with the
history of a major modern affliction, illuminating society's
troubled relationship with food, disease, nature, and the creation
of medical knowledge.
This study provides a comprehensive account and reconsideration of
the contribution to political economy of Thomas Tooke (1774-1858).
It clarifies Tooke's monetary thought and its legacy to modern
economics. The study shows Tooke possessed a rich and extensive
political economy, covering many aspects of economic activity
relevant to key policy issues. Tooke's political economy is shown
to be a unified and coherent body of intellectual thought in the
classical tradition which, like most of his nineteenth-century
contemporaries, was much influenced by Adam Smith's economics. More
particularly, Tooke's monetary thought, especially his novel
banking school theory, is shown to be theoretically coherent from
the standpoint of nineteenth-century classical economics. It is
also shown that besides contributing toward a better understanding
of the behaviour of monetary systems in general, key elements of
Tooke's banking school theory make an important contribution to
explaining distribution, growth and price inflation in modern
economics.
Social psychiatry was a mid-twentieth-century approach to mental
health that stressed the prevention of mental illness rather than
its treatment. Its proponents developed environmental explanations
of mental health, arguing that socioeconomic problems such as
poverty, inequality, and social isolation were the underlying
causes of mental illness. The influence of social psychiatry
contributed to the closure of psychiatric hospitals and the
emergence of community mental health care during the 1960s. By the
1980s, however, social psychiatry was in decline, having lost
ground to biological psychiatry and its emphasis on genetics,
neurology, and psychopharmacology. The First Resort is a history of
the rise and fall of social psychiatry that also explores the
lessons this largely forgotten movement has to offer today. Matthew
Smith examines four ambitious projects that investigated the
relationship between socioeconomic factors and mental illness in
Chicago, New Haven, New York City, and Nova Scotia. He contends
that social psychiatry waned not because of flaws in its preventive
approach to mental health but rather because the economic and
political crises of the 1970s and the shift to the right during the
1980s foreclosed the social changes required to create a more
mentally healthy society. Smith also argues that social psychiatry
provides timely insights about how progressive social policies,
such as a universal basic income, can help stem rising rates of
mental illness in the present day.
World's Changing. Doesn't Mean Dredd Has To. Mega-City One, 2082.
In two short years, Judge Joseph Dredd has tackled hardened killers
and would-be revolutionaries; he's taken beat-downs and bounced
back; and he's even arrested his own brother. There's no such thing
as a "normal year" in the Big Meg. In his third year on the sked,
he'll become embroiled in the growing anti-robot movement; he'll
head back out to the Cursed Earth; and he'll fall afoul of the
secretive SJS - and not for the last time...
A case study about the formation of American pluralism and
religious liberty, The Spires Still Point to Heaven explores
why-and more importantly how-the early growth of Cincinnati
influenced the changing face of the United States. Matthew Smith
deftly chronicles the urban history of this thriving metropolis in
the mid-nineteenth century. As Protestants and Catholics competed,
building rival domestic missionary enterprises, increased religious
reform and expression shaped the city. In addition, the different
ethnic and religious beliefs informed debates on race, slavery, and
immigration, as well as disease, temperance reform, and education.
Specifically, Smith explores the Ohio Valley's religious landscape
from 1788 through the nineteenth century, examining its appeal to
evangelical preachers, abolitionists, social critics, and rabbis.
He traces how Cincinnati became a battleground for newly energized
social reforms following a cholera epidemic, and how grassroots
political organizing was often tied to religious issues. He also
illustrates the anti-immigrant sentiments and anti-Catholic
nativism pervasive in this era. The first monograph on Cincinnati's
religious landscape before the Civil War, The Spires Still Point to
Heaven highlights Cincinnati's unique circumstances and how they
are key to understanding the cultural and religious development of
the nation.
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