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Examines how temporality manifests in and impacts tourism in
different parts of the world looking at climate, culture and/or
structural conditions of the tourism operation. It looks at the
reasons and causes for temporality within tourism and how this
effects both the industry, the consumer and the environment.
Divided into four parts, Tourism: A temporal analysis looks at: *
The dimensions and relationships between time and tourism: the
causal reasons for seasonality in tourism, links between seasonal
variations and visitation and why people travel when they do. * The
operational dimensions of temporality: the challenges of 'peak
season' and 'low season', pricing, planning, managing the labour
demands and yield systems. * Strategic responses to temporal
variation: the role of temporality/seasonal variation as a policy
issue, the role of festivals and events in combatting temporality
and the effect of social media. * The End of Temporality?: the rise
of 'year-round ' tourism, its enablers and its’ resulting effects
both positive nad negative in the industry, the environments and
the economy. With contributions from international experts from
academia and industry, this text uses case students and vignettes
throughout to contextualise the theory and enabling students to
have a better understanding in order to critique and question the
issues discussed.
Since the death of her trawlerman husband 30 years ago, Margaret
Harvey has lived with her daughter Rebecca in a small cottage in a
coastal town. Rebecca is moving out to live with her boyfriend, so
when she meets Milton Farnsworth, an American visiting the area to
paint the landscape, she invites him to lodge with Margaret during
his stay. Margaret has become increasingly set in her ways over the
years, dependent on ritual and superstition, but with patience,
humour, and cheap wine, Milton gradually encourages her to
relinquish her hold on control. Warm, funny and moving, A Fine
Bright Day Today explores love in later life. It was performed at
the Oldham Coliseum in June 2011 and the New Vic,
Newcastle-Under-Lyme, in July 2012.
Writing the Rebellion presents a cultural history of loyalist
writing in early America. There has been a spate of related works
recently, but Philip Gould's narrative offers a completely
different view of the loyalist/patriot contentions than appears in
any of these accounts. By focusing on the literary projections of
the loyalist cause, Gould dissolves the old legend that loyalists
were more British than American, and patriots the embodiment of a
new sensibility drawn from their American situation and upbringing.
He shows that both sides claimed to be heritors of British civil
discourse, Old World learning, and the genius of English culture.
The first half of Writing Rebellion deals with the ways "political
disputation spilled into arguments about style, form, and
aesthetics, as though these subjects could secure (or ruin) the
very status of political authorship." Chapters in this section
illustrate how loyalists attack patriot rhetoric by invoking
British satires of an inflated Whig style by Alexander Pope and
Jonathan Swift. Another chapter turns to Loyalist critiques of
Congressional language and especially the Continental Association,
which was responsible for radical and increasingly violent measures
against the Loyalists. The second half of Gould's book looks at
satiric adaptations of the ancient ballad tradition to see what
happens when patriots and loyalists interpret and adapt the same
text (or texts) for distinctive yet related purposes. The last two
chapters look at the Loyalist response to Thomas Paine's Common
Sense and the ways the concept of the author became defined in
early America. Throughout the manuscript, Gould acknowledges the
purchase English literary culture continued to have in
revolutionary America, even among revolutionaries.
Examines how temporality manifests in and impacts tourism in
different parts of the world looking at climate, culture and/or
structural conditions of the tourism operation. It looks at the
reasons and causes for temporality within tourism and how this
effects both the industry, the consumer and the environment.
Divided into four parts, Tourism: A temporal analysis looks at: *
The dimensions and relationships between time and tourism: the
causal reasons for seasonality in tourism, links between seasonal
variations and visitation and why people travel when they do. * The
operational dimensions of temporality: the challenges of 'peak
season' and 'low season', pricing, planning, managing the labour
demands and yield systems. * Strategic responses to temporal
variation: the role of temporality/seasonal variation as a policy
issue, the role of festivals and events in combatting temporality
and the effect of social media. * The End of Temporality?: the rise
of 'year-round ' tourism, its enablers and its’ resulting effects
both positive nad negative in the industry, the environments and
the economy. With contributions from international experts from
academia and industry, this text uses case students and vignettes
throughout to contextualise the theory and enabling students to
have a better understanding in order to critique and question the
issues discussed.
This play is adapted by Philip Goulding from the classic "1953
Ealing" comedy film about a group of villagers who, finding that
their branch railway line is about to be axed, decide to buy and
run the railway themselves. As well as convincing the railway
authorities that they are competent to work the line, they have to
face problems from Vernon Crump who is set on providing a
competitive bus service. The large cast can be doubled and the
special effects required - steam engines, a bus and a steam roller
to name but three! - can be achieved in several suggested ways.
Philip Gold, an accomplished writer, journalist, scholar, wandered
forty years before returning to the Judaism he'd left behind. But
he didn't return so much as bring back the seeds of a new kind of
Judaism with him. YOM KIPPUR PARTY GOODS is much more than a
personal tale, a memoir of pain and seeking told with humor and
grace. It's also for everyone who's tired of going hungry in the
supermarket of modern spirituality, who finds (over) organized
religion irrelevant or distasteful, and who is looking to find - or
create - something personal that might also speak to others. You
don't have to be Jewish to read this or need this. Just be a human
being who wants something more. For yourself For your world. For
your God.
It's 1955 and the Pallas Players, an all-female theatre company,
are putting on a play: Whisky Galore. They transport us back to
1943 on the Scottish islands of Great and Little Todday, where the
whisky supply has dried up because of the war, leaving tensions
running high. Relief seems to be at hand when a ship carrying
50,000 bottles of whisky is wrecked just offshore. Then it's every
thirsty man for himself as the islanders try to rescue as many
bottles as possible before stuffy Captain Waggett of the Home Guard
can put a stop to their fun. Philip Goulding's stage adaptation of
Compton Mackenzie's comedy classic is a tribute to the feisty
all-female touring theatre companies of the post-war years. First
performed in a touring production by Oldham Coliseum Theatre, Hull
Truck Theatre and New Vic Theatre, Whisky Galore combines
rollicking physical theatre, panto and farce, with an array of
hilarious characters for any female-led theatre company. This
edition includes an introduction by Philip Goulding, notes on the
characters, and the original music by Alan Edward Williams that
accompanied the premiere production.
Writing the Rebellion presents a cultural history of loyalist
writing in early America. There has been a spate of related works,
but Philip Gould's narrative offers a completely different view of
the loyalist/patriot contentions than appears in any of these
accounts. By focusing on the literary projections of the loyalist
cause, Gould dissolves the old legend that loyalists were more
British than American, and patriots the embodiment of a new
sensibility drawn from their American situation and upbringing. He
shows that both sides claimed to be heritors of British civil
discourse, Old World learning, and the genius of English culture.
The first half of Writing the Rebellion deals with the ways
"political disputation spilled into arguments about style, form,
and aesthetics, as though these subjects could secure (or ruin) the
very status of political authorship." Chapters in this section
illustrate how loyalists attack patriot rhetoric by invoking
British satires of an inflated Whig style by Alexander Pope and
Jonathan Swift. Another chapter turns to Loyalist critiques of
Congressional language and especially the Continental Association,
which was responsible for radical and increasingly violent measures
against the Loyalists. The second half of Gould's book looks at
satiric adaptations of the ancient ballad tradition to see what
happens when patriots and loyalists interpret and adapt the same
text (or texts) for distinctive yet related purposes. The last two
chapters look at the Loyalist response to Thomas Paine's Common
Sense and the ways the concept of the author became defined in
early America. Throughout the manuscript, Gould acknowledges the
purchase English literary culture continued to have in
revolutionary America, even among revolutionaries.
An eye-opening exploration of the latest scientific discoveries
about depressive illness, from one of the leading researchers in
the field We are often told that depression is 'all in the mind'.
So why are so many of its symptoms felt in our bodies? Why can
depression have such a profound impact on physical as well as
mental health - from coronary disease to stroke? Philip Gold, a
world-renowned expert on this devastating illness, shows how
depression is a stress response gone awry, affecting the whole
body, not just the brain. Drawing on both neuroscience and
endocrinology, Breaking Through Depression reveals the latest
research on how depression influences every aspect of our health,
from the chemical messengers that control appetite to the brain's
structure and functionality. Packed with startling insights - such
as how depression disrupts the twenty-four-hour sleep-wake cycle,
interacting with the stress system differently depending on whether
someone experiences melancholic or atypical symptoms - this book
gives us the fullest picture yet of the disease. Gold transforms
our understanding of different forms of depression, including
related conditions such as bipolar and seasonal affective
disorders, and its huge impact on global health. Timely, urgent and
important, Breaking Through Depression articulates the workings of
this misunderstood illness in compelling and often surprising
detail, introducing the newest innovations in treatment - from low
energy lasers to genetic solutions and rapidly acting
antidepressants which restore damaged brain cells - that offer hope
for healing. 'Masterful . . . distils extensive clinical
experience, personal insights, and the scientific achievements of a
professional lifetime, to offer a lucid analysis of what it will
take to understand, treat, and ultimately defeat what is todays
"cancer of the self"' Peter Whybrow, Founding Member and Fellow of
the Royal College of Psychiatrists
On 29 January 2008 Philip Gould was told he had cancer. He was
stoical, and set about his treatment, determined to fight his
illness. In the face of difficult decisions he sought always to
understand the disease and the various medical options open to him,
supported by his wife Gail and their two daughters, Georgia and
Grace. In 2010, after two hard years of chemotherapy and surgery,
the tests came up clear - Philip appeared to have won the battle.
But his work as a key strategist for the Labour party took its
toll, and feeling ill six months later, he insisted on one extra,
precautionary test, which told him that the cancer had returned.
Thus began Philip's long, painful but ultimately optimistic journey
towards death, during which time he began to appreciate and make
sense of his life, his work and his relationships in a way he had
never thought possible. He realized something that he had never
heard articulated before: death need not be only negative or
painful, it can be life-affirming and revelatory. Written during
the last few months of his life, When I Die describes the journey
Philip took with his illness, leaving to us what he called his
lessons from the death zone. This courageous, profoundly moving and
inspiring work is as valuable a legacy to the world as anyone could
wish to bestow - hugely uplifting, beautifully written with
extraordinary insight.
The Unfinished Revolution is the definitive story of New Labour
from its genesis to its election defeat 2010 - covering over 25
years and six general elections of strategy, rebuilding and
reinvention. In this extraordinary book, Philip Gould, one of the
world's leading political strategists and a key adviser to Tony
Blair during the period, brilliantly describes how New Labour came
to dominate, falter and fall, assessing how successful it was in
government, and where it should go from here. Drawing on his years
of experience at the heart of New Labour he gives us his unique
perspective on how best to understand the electorate, how to
communicate policy and how to adapt in a rapidly changing world.
An Examination Of Various Ways By Which Profits Are Lost, With An
Explanation Of Modern Methods Of Preventing Such Losses.
A curved ball smacked me in the kisser; Parkinsons disease had left
its calling card. Welcome to my poems that beam you up and boldly
go where no Parkinsons poetry has gone before. Whether you are able
bodied or disabled these verses will provoke an array of emotions
and mix them all up then place it in a pocket of your heart. How
could I help others understand how a disabled person feels, who
lives life to the max, and has the same right to access all levels
in this society? How could I put back some of the benefits that I
have gratefully received? That is when I wrote my first poem The
Taming of the Fork, one sleepless night on holiday with friends in
Ilfracoombe. My Parkinsons has been enabling rather than disabling,
which surprised me. I have been down to the depths of despair and
come back laughing. Somehow my condition has made me a richer
person despite the changes that will inevitably come. JOIN ME
BETWIX THE SHEETS WHILST MY WORDS PAINT PICTURES
An Examination Of Various Ways By Which Profits Are Lost, With An
Explanation Of Modern Methods Of Preventing Such Losses.
Philip Gould investigates the cultural politics of historical
memory in the early American republic, specifically the historical
literature of Puritanism. By situating historical writing about
Puritanism in the context of the cultural forces of Republicanism
and liberalism, his study reconsiders the emergence of the
historical romance in the 1820s, before the work of Nathaniel
Hawthorne. This 1997 book not only aids the Americanist recovery of
this literary period, but also brings together literary studies of
historical fiction and historical scholarship of early Republican
political culture; in doing so, it offers a persuasive account of
just what is at stake when one reads literature of and about the
past.
Providing an overview of the history of writing by women in the period, this companion examines contextually the work of a variety of women writers, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rebecca Harding Davis and Louisa May Alcott. The volume provides several valuable tools for students, including a chronology of works and suggestions for further reading.
Providing an overview of the history of writing by women in the period, this companion examines contextually the work of a variety of women writers, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rebecca Harding Davis and Louisa May Alcott. The volume provides several valuable tools for students, including a chronology of works and suggestions for further reading.
Philip Gould investigates the cultural politics of historical
memory in the early American republic, specifically the historical
literature of Puritanism. By situating historical writing about
Puritanism in the context of the cultural forces of Republicanism
and liberalism, his study reconsiders the emergence of the
historical romance in the 1820s, before the work of Nathaniel
Hawthorne. This 1997 book not only aids the Americanist recovery of
this literary period, but also brings together literary studies of
historical fiction and historical scholarship of early Republican
political culture; in doing so, it offers a persuasive account of
just what is at stake when one reads literature of and about the
past.
Eighteenth-century antislavery writers attacked the slave trade as
"barbaric traffic"--a practice that would corrupt the mien and
manners of Anglo-American culture to its core. Less concerned with
slavery than with the slave trade in and of itself, these writings
expressed a moral uncertainty about the nature of commercial
capitalism. This is the argument Philip Gould advances in "Barbaric
Traffic," A major work of cultural criticism, the book constitutes
a rethinking of the fundamental agenda of antislavery writing from
pre-revolutionary America to the end of the British and American
slave trades in 1808.
Studying the rhetoric of various antislavery genres--from
pamphlets, poetry, and novels to slave narratives and the
literature of disease--Gould exposes the close relation between
antislavery writings and commercial capitalism. By distinguishing
between good commerce, or the importing of commodities that refined
manners, and bad commerce, like the slave trade, the literature
offered both a critique and an outline of acceptable forms of
commercial capitalism. A challenge to the premise that objections
to the slave trade were rooted in modern laissez-faire capitalism,
Gould's work revises--and expands--our understanding of antislavery
literature as a form of cultural criticism in its own right.
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