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This is a book of photographs about the people who use and work the English countryside and it is about people and their relationship to animals: ferrets, dogs, pigs, birds horses and more, memorably recorded with visual wit, and a constant eye for the extraordinary.
Chris Steele-Perkins presents a sweeping, unique record of what he thinks makes England truly English.
Full set of Dungeons & Dragons character sheets for use in any Eberron or other D & D campaign. Each character sheet features a folio-style layout, with room to keep track of everything that makes your character unique.
Whilst the appearance of Teds can be traced back a couple of years earlier, 1956 was the true 'Year of The Ted' the year in which they became central to youth culture in the UK and could no longer be ignored. Originally published in 1979 The Teds looks at this phenomenon. A classic of British documentary photography, it is a vivid and absorbing book combining image and text to tell a fascinating story that spans some three decades.
WINNER OF THE CANTEMIR PRIZE 2012 awarded by the Berendel Foundation The Map Reader brings together, for the first time, classic and hard-to-find articles on mapping. This book provides a wide-ranging and coherent edited compendium of key scholarly writing about the changing nature of cartography over the last half century. The editorial selection of fifty-four theoretical and thought provoking texts demonstrates how cartography works as a powerful representational form and explores how different mapping practices have been conceptualised in particular scholarly contexts. Themes covered include paradigms, politics, people, aesthetics and technology. Original interpretative essays set the lit...
This book investigates how films made about the URA since the 1990s have engaged with, reproduced and contested cultural memories of the organisation, discussing how directors have addressed questions of narrativization, trauma, intergenerational connection, and political subjectivity as they engage in the politics of cultural memory on screen.
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A dazzling and idiosyncratic collection of photographs of contemporary Japan, celebrating extremes of beauty, the handprint of techno-culture and the irony of documentary, by noted British photographer Chris Steele-Perkins, member of Magnum and winner of numerous awards including the Tom Hopkinson Prize for British Photojournalism and a 2000 World Press Award. A meditation on modern Japan and Japanese life, these exquisite images offer a fresh and surprising view of the wealth of culture flourishing below Japan's iconic mountain.
'Harry Perkins was buried on the day that America declared war on China.' The definitive post-Brexit novel, and long-awaited sequel to the bestselling A Very British Coup. 'Terrific...measured, heart-stopping, moving, clear-eyed'. Stephen Frears 'Brilliant, chilling and all too plausible.' Alastair Campbell 'A very knowledgeable and pleasurable political thriller.' Mark Lawson, The Guardian ‘Readable and very entertaining, and should appeal to both sides of the divide. A book that seeks your X in the ballot box.’ – The Spectator 'Brexit Britain was a gloomy place. True, the Armageddon that some had prophesied had not occurred, but neither had economic miracle promised by the Brexiteers...
Rethinking Maps brings together leading researchers to explore how maps are being rethought, made and used, and what these changes mean.