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Another year, another set of exams and another round of
well-meaning students to provide us with our textbook mix of wisdom
and wisecracks. Bursting with yet more crazy and creative thinking,
this book showcases an all-new selection of test paper answers,
from hilarious misunderstandings to breathtaking ingenuity.
When your precious offspring have hijacked the car and there's a
hole in your wallet the size of the Grand Canyon, kick back and
relax with this hilarious book, crammed full of quips and quotes to
remind you why being a dad is the best job in the world.
Former Dean of the Yale School of Art, Richard Benson has been a
photographer for more than four decades, but until now his art
often took a back seat to his prodigious achievements as a printer
and a teacher. When he devoted himself to overseeing the production
of his own pictures a few years ago, everything fell into place.
From direct digital capture through inkjet output, Benson's
renowned technical wizardry yields unusually vibrant and beguiling
color prints that are at once ultra-vivid and utterly natural, like
our everyday visual experience. This volume presents nearly 100
photographs by Benson that highlight not only the unique properties
of his prints, but also his fresh techniques for reproducing them
on a printing press, as exemplified in this book. The uncanny
lushness and clarity of the photographs gives voice to Benson's
generous, inquisitive eye. As he crisscrossed the continent, Benson
observed the creations of nature as well as man in pictures that
are at once cheerful and patiently attentive to the forces that
shape and soon enough change everything under the sun. An essay by
Peter Galassi, Chief Curator of Photography at MoMA, surveys the
work and a text by Benson explains how it was made.
The close-knit villages of the Dearne Valley were home to four
generations of the Hollingworth family. Spanning Richard Benson's
great-grandmother Winnie's ninety-two years in the valley, and
drawing on years of historical research, interviews and anecdotes,
The Valley lets us into generations of carousing and banter as the
family's attempts to build a better and fairer world for themselves
meet sometimes with triumph, sometimes with bitter defeat. Against
a backdrop of underground explosions, strikes and pit closures,
these are unflinching, deeply personal stories of battles between
the sexes in a man's world sustained by strong women; of growing
up, and the power of love and imagination to transform lives.
When the little angels are driving you crazy and you're one minivan
away from being a personal taxi service, these wonderful quips and
quotes will help to remind you that being a mum is the best job in
the world.
'... you won't know whether to laugh or cry' DAILY MAIL Getting up
at the crack of dawn, wearing school uniform, squabbles in the
schoolyard, endless homework... those were the best days of your
life! It's time to relive them with this new collection of
side-splitting jokes and ridiculous exam answers, showcasing the
very best (and worst) in school humour.
This transformative collection advances new approaches to Black
intellectual history by foregrounding the experiences and ideas of
people who lacked access to more privileged mechanisms of public
discourse and power. While the anthology highlights renowned
intellectuals such as W. E. B. Du Bois, it also spotlights thinkers
such as enslaved people in the antebellum United States, US Black
expatriates in Guyana, and Black internationals in Liberia. The
knowledge production of these men, women, and children has
typically been situated outside the disciplinary and conceptual
boundaries of intellectual history. The volume centers on the
themes of slavery and sexuality; abolitionism; Black
internationalism; Black protest, politics, and power; and the
intersections of the digital humanities and Black intellectual
history. The essays draw from diverse methodologies and fields to
examine the ideas and actions of Black thinkers from the eighteenth
century to the present, offering fresh insights while creating
space for even more creative approaches within the field. Timely
and incisive, Ideas in Unexpected Places encourages scholars to ask
new questions through innovative interpretive lenses-and invites
students, scholars, and other practitioners to push the boundaries
of Black intellectual history even further.
In Fighting for Our Place in the Sun, Richard D. Benson II examines
the life of Malcolm X as not only a radical political figure, but
also as a teacher and mentor. The book illuminates the untold
tenets of Malcolm X's educational philosophy, and also traces a
historical trajectory of Black activists that sought to create
spaces of liberation and learning that are free from cultural and
racial oppression. It explains a side of the Black student movement
and shift in black power that develops as a result of the student
protests in North Carolina and Duke University. From these acts of
radicalism, Malcolm X Liberation University (MXLU), the Student
Organization for Black Unity (SOBU/YOBU), and African Liberation
Day (ALD) were produced to serve as catalysts to extend the
tradition of Black activism in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Scholars, researchers, community organizers, and students of
African-American studies, American studies, history of education,
political science, Pan-African studies, and more will benefit from
this provocative and enlightening text.
Based on the bestselling F in Exams series, this calendar presents
a full year's worth of jaw-droppingly wrong but hilariously real
student test answers, plus all kinds of things everyone should have
learned in school but didn't.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
When Richard Benson was growing up he felt like 'the village idiot
with O'levels' - glowing school reports aren't much help when
you're trying to help a sow give birth, or drive a power harrow in
a straight line without getting half the hedgerow stuck in the
tines. He left Yorkshire to work as a journalist in London, but
returned when his dad called with the news that they were going to
have to sell the family farm, and, in so doing, leave the home and
livelihood that the Bensons had worked for generations. This is not
only a moving personal account, but also one that reflects a
profound change in rural life.
In Fighting for Our Place in the Sun, Richard D. Benson II examines
the life of Malcolm X as not only a radical political figure, but
also as a teacher and mentor. The book illuminates the untold
tenets of Malcolm X's educational philosophy, and also traces a
historical trajectory of Black activists that sought to create
spaces of liberation and learning that are free from cultural and
racial oppression. It explains a side of the Black student movement
and shift in black power that develops as a result of the student
protests in North Carolina and Duke University. From these acts of
radicalism, Malcolm X Liberation University (MXLU), the Student
Organization for Black Unity (SOBU/YOBU), and African Liberation
Day (ALD) were produced to serve as catalysts to extend the
tradition of Black activism in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Scholars, researchers, community organizers, and students of
African-American studies, American studies, history of education,
political science, Pan-African studies, and more will benefit from
this provocative and enlightening text.
In response to the tragic events of September 11, photographer
Nathan Lyons-known for his honest and often questioning depictions
of American culture-has created a poignant portfolio of images.
Photographing in small towns and large cities, Lyons has captured
the extreme and often confusing variety of responses-from deep
reverence to blatant commercialization-manifested by ordinary
Americans. One will marvel, for instance, at the myriad uses of the
American flag. This provocative sequence of images with multiple
messages is powerfully coherent and strangely disturbing. In the
tradition of Robert Frank's The Americans, these photographs will
engage audiences to question the responses to this horrific event
in the context of our complicated society, along with memorializing
the tragic loss of so many innocent lives. Distributed for the Yale
University Art Gallery
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