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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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PROTOTYPE 1 (Paperback)
Astrid Alben; Rachael Allen; Theis Anderson; Rowland Bagnall; Tara Bergin; Emily Berry; Crispin Best; Paul Buck; Jen Calleja; Thomas A Clark; Laurie Clark; Esme Creed-Miles; Emily Critchley; Jake Elliott; Laura Elliott; SJ Fowler; Amy Key, Michael Kindellan; Caleb Klaces; Gareth Damian Martin; Robert Herbert McClean; Wayne Holloway-Smith; Kirstie Millar; Catrin Morgan; Richard Price; Leonie Rushforth; Rachel Snowdon; Rebecca Tama s; Ollie Tong; Kandace Siobhan Walker; Ahren Warner; Stephen Watts; Ralf Webb; Eley Williams; Alison Honey Woods; Madeleine Wurzburger; Edited by Jess Chandler; Designed by Theo Inglis; Cover design or artwork by Catrin Morgan
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R308
Discovery Miles 3 080
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
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Child 44 (DVD)
Tom Hardy, Joel Kinnaman, Vincent Cassel, Sam Spruell, Noomi Rapace, …
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R55
Discovery Miles 550
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Ships in 10 - 20 working days
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Crime thriller set in Stalin-era Soviet Russia. In a state where
crime isn't supposed to exist, pro-Stalin security officer Leo
Demidov (Tom Hardy) begins to investigate a series of child
murders. For his ignorance and betrayal of state policy, Leo finds
himself demoted and exiled from the country he believed he was
perfecting. Nevertheless, the persistent war hero pursues the case
with only his wife Raisa (Noomi Rapace) for help. With his loyalty
and beliefs shattered, Leo must try to find a killer who supposedly
doesn't exist before his victim count rises further. But having
been denounced, Leo may be in danger from a force far bigger than
the free-roaming killer.
Indigeneity is inseparable from empire, and the way empire responds
to the Indigenous presence is a key historical factor in shaping
the flow of imperial history. This book is about the consequences
of the encounter in the early nineteenth century between the
British imperial presence and the First Peoples of what were to
become Australia and New Zealand. However, the shape of social
relations between Indigenous peoples and the forces of empire does
not remain constant over time. The book tracks how the creation of
empire in this part of the world possessed long-lasting legacies
both for the settler colonies that emerged and for the wider
history of British imperial culture.
Indigeneity is inseparable from empire, and the way empire responds
to the Indigenous presence is a key historical factor in shaping
the flow of imperial history. This book is about the consequences
of the encounter in the early nineteenth century between the
British imperial presence and the First Peoples of what were to
become Australia and New Zealand. However, the shape of social
relations between Indigenous peoples and the forces of empire does
not remain constant over time. The book tracks how the creation of
empire in this part of the world possessed long-lasting legacies
both for the settler colonies that emerged and for the wider
history of British imperial culture.
A postmodern romp through the rain forest, "Equatoria" is both
travelog and cultural critique. On the right-hand pages, the Prices
chronicle their 1990 artefact-collecting expedition up the rivers
of French Guiana, and on the left, they feature extracts from the
works of Jonathan Swift, Joseph Conrad, Gabriel Garcia-Marquez,
Alex Haley, James Clifford, Eric Hobsbawm, Germaine Greer and even
the noted anthropologist James Goodfellow (who asks for more sex).
Also included are quotes from the nurses, doctors, tourists,
convicts and countless others who live in the French penal
colony-turned-space center in tropical South America. Charged with
acquiring objects for a new museum, the Prices kept a log of their
day-to-day adventures and misadventures, constantly confronting
their ambivalence about the act of collecting, the very possibility
of exhibiting cultures and the future of anthropology.
'A masterpiece' MARTIN AMIS 'The best book about homicide
detectives by an American writer' NORMAN MAILER Based on a year on
the killing streets of Baltimore, David Simon's true crime
masterpiece reveals a city few will ever experience. Day in day out
citizens are shot, stabbed, or bludgeoned to death. At the centre
of this hurricane of crime is the city's homicide unit, a small
brotherhood of men who fight for whatever justice is possible in a
deadly world.
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Late Gifts
Richard Price
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R397
R322
Discovery Miles 3 220
Save R75 (19%)
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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Late Gifts is a joyful and anxious book. The eponymous late gift,
this book's occasion, is a son, born to a middle-aged father. How
does this change his sense of present and future, of time itself?
The poet focuses on this demanding and joyful relationship in terms
that are funny and re-energising, his world renewed. The child’s
future makes more urgent environmental and politics themes that
have long been a concern for the poet. Price, a versatile and
experimental writer, develops new forms for his subject matter. The
lyric investigates the visual disposition of the poem – the use
of white spaces – and the possibilities of the prose poem. This,
Price's first collection in six years, is direct and idiomatic in
style.
When Richard and Sally Price stepped out of the canoe to begin
their fieldwork with the Saamaka Maroons of Suriname in 1966, they
were met with a mixture of curiosity, suspicion, ambivalence,
hostility, and fascination. With their gradual acceptance into the
community they undertook the work that would shape their careers
and influence the study of African American societies throughout
the hemisphere for decades to come. In Saamaka Dreaming they look
back on the experience, reflecting on a discipline and a society
that are considerably different today. Drawing on thousands of
pages of field notes, as well as recordings, file cards, photos,
and sketches, the Prices retell and comment on the most intensive
fieldwork of their careers, evoke the joys and hardships of
building relationships and trust, and outline their personal
adaptation to this unfamiliar universe. The book is at once a
moving human story, a portrait of a remarkable society, and a
thought-provoking revelation about the development of anthropology
over the past half-century.
First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
In the 1970s, Frank Lucas was the king of the Harlem drug trade,
bringing in more than a million dollars a day. There were so many
heroin addicts buying from him on 116th Street that he claimed the
Transit Authority had to change the bus routes to avoid them. He
lived a glamorous life, hobnobbing with athletes, musicians, and
politicians, but Lucas was also a ruthless gangster. He was
notorious for using the coffins of dead GIs to smuggle heroin into
the United States and before his fall, when he was sentenced to
seventy years in prison, he played a major role in the near death
of New York City. In American Gangster, Mark Jacobson's captivating
account of the life of Frank Lucas (the basis for the forthcoming
major motion picture) joins other tales of New York City from the
past thirty years. The collection features a number of Jacobson's
most famous essays, as well as previous unpublished work and recent
articles on 9/11 conspiracy theorists, America's #1 escort, and
Harlem's own Charlie Rangel, the new chairman of the House Ways and
Means Committee. American Gangster is a vibrant, intoxicating,
many-layered portrait of one of the most fascinating cities in the
world, by one of the most acclaimed journalists of our time.
A The Scotsman Book of the Year 2021. In re-telling the Inuit
stories included here, Richard Price opens out remarkable northern
vistas and unfamiliar narratives, strange gods and unforgettable
characters. Carol Rumens described Price as a poet who is
'brilliant quietly: inventive, sometimes dazzling, but never merely
showy': precisely the talents for rendering, rather than
appropriating these great story-cycles of Inuit culture. Here we
learn of 'Sedna the Sea Goddess' and 'Kiviuq the Hunter', the
central protagonists of the book's remarkable stories. They are
rich in extraordinary incident. In Sedna's world women can marry
dogs and have half-puppy, half-human children; birds beat their
wings so hard they call down a storm on a fugitive kayak; walruses
originate from... well that would be telling. Each story-cycle
abounds in natural wonder, celebrating our creaturely relations
with our fellow inhabitants of land and sea. 'The Old Woman Who
Changed Herself into a Man', a short narrative, bridges the major
sequences, telling the story of an older woman and a younger one
who become lovers in the isolation of their remote home.
The First Council of Ephesus (431) was the climax of the so-called
Nestorian Controversy. Convoked by the emperor Theodosius II to
restore peace to the Church, it immediately divided into two rival
councils, both meeting at Ephesus. Attempts by the emperor's
representatives to get the bishops on both sides to meet together
had no success, and after four months the council was dissolved
without having ever properly met. But a number of decrees by the
larger of the two rival councils, in particular the condemnation of
Nestorius of Constantinople, were subsequently accepted as the
valid decrees of the 'ecumenical council of Ephesus'. The
documentation, consisting of conciliar proceedings, letters and
other documents, provides information not only about events in
Ephesus itself, but also about lobbying and public demonstrations
in Constantinople. There is no episode in late Roman history where
we are so well informed about how politics were conducted in the
imperial capital. This makes the Acts a document of first
importance for the history of the Later Roman Empire as well for
that of the Church.
For more than four centuries, communities of maroons (men and women
who escaped slavery) dotted the fringes of plantation America, from
Brazil through the Caribbean to the United States. Today their
descendants still form semi-independent enclaves- in Jamaica,
Brazil, Colombia, Belize, Suriname, Guyane, and elsewhere-remaining
proud of their maroon origins and, in some cases, faithful to
unique cultural traditions forged during the earliest days of
Afro-American history. In 1986, expelled by the military regime of
Suriname, anthropologists Richard and Sally Price turned to
neighboring Guyane (French Guiana), where thousands of Maroons were
taking refuge from the Suriname civil war. Over the next fifteen
years, their conversations with local people convinced them of the
need to replace the pervasive stereotypes about Maroons in Guyane
with accurate information. In 2003, Les Marrons became a local best
seller. In 2020, after a series of further visits, the Prices wrote
a new edition taking into account the many rapid changes. Available
for the first time in English, Maroons in Guyane reviews the
history of Maroon peoples in Guyane, explains how these groups
differ from one another, and analyzes their current situations in
the bustling, multicultural world of this far-flung outpost of the
French Republic. A gallery of the magnificent arts of the Maroons
completes the volume.
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