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Quarry Land
A book of stunning and evocative black-and-white photographs of abandoned post-industrial landscapes in Britain, which reflect Britain's changing countryside, the passage of time and the impermanence of human endeavour. The book is related to a major travelling exhibition, funded by the Arts Council of England, which will be seen at various venues across Britain in 2005. The images were made on the Clee Hills in Shropshire, once heavily industrialised but now abandoned to telecoms stations, forestry and marginal hill farming. The book, printed to the highest art-book standards in rich duotone, also contains interviews and portraits of people who live on the hills, and an extended introduction by the author. In his Foreword to the book, the celebrated British landscape photographer Paul Hill writes: 'Simon Denison's metaphoric vision of the Clees is one that is full of industrial remnants and abandoned objects. The impression is of a harsh and unforgiving landscape - a place forgotten, overlooked and apart. The work is beautifully elegiac.'
The Human Landscape
This is a book of fine-art black and white landscape photographs, related to a travelling exhibition seen by hundreds of people at art galleries across the UK during 2001 and 2002. These photographs look at human elements in the rural landscape, both ancient and modern, including standing stones and ruined churches, tracks and lanes, quarries, huts and signs, all showing the weathering effects of time. The images are in turn haunting, contemplative, satirical and uplifting.
The Ekphrastic Encounter in Contemporary British Poetry and Elsewhere
Examining a wide range of ekphrastic poems, David Kennedy argues that contemporary British poets writing out of both mainstream and avant-garde traditions challenge established critical models of ekphrasis with work that is more complex than representational or counter-representational responses to paintings in museums and galleries. Even when the poem appears to be straightforwardly representational, it is often selectively so, producing a 'virtual' work that doesn't exist in actuality. Poets such as Kelvin Corcoran, Peter Hughes, and Gillian Clarke, Kennedy suggests, relish the ekphrastic encounter as one in which word and image become mutually destabilizing. Similarly, other poets engage ...
Twisted Wing
Cambridge is home to 18,000 students, 1,500 academics - and one serial killer. The discovery of the headless, mutilated body of a female undergraduate in her bloodsoaked college room heralds the start of a series of bizarre and extremely violent murders. For the students of Ariel College, a siege mentality has developed following weeks of media interest in the 'Cambridge Butcher'. University life has become not about surviving their exams, but surviving full stop. Forensic psychiatrist Matthew Denison is sure that his traumatised patient, student Olivia Coscadden, has the killer's identity locked up in her memory. That within the little clique she belonged to lurks someone with a grudge. Someone who has yet to finish settling their score. In order to get to the truth, Denison must delve into the secrets hidden within Olivia's subconscious. Secrets that are about to lead him into a nightmare beyond imagining.
The Coming Tsunami
In The Coming Tsunami, pastor and cultural scholar Dr. Jim Denison addresses the gravest threat Christians in America have ever faced—four cultural tidal waves threatening to submerge Christians in America and the biblical morality they proclaim. Through proactive, biblical steps, he helps us redeem these challenges so that we can live the way Jesus calls us to live. This book is a warning sign. The coming cultural tsunami is the gravest threat Christians in America have ever faced. Caused by four cultural “earthquakes,” the cultural acceptance of four specific ideologies has seismically shifted our world. With the rise of a “post-truth” culture, the expansion of the sexual revolut...
Cosmos & Culture
From GPO Bookstore's Website: Authors with diverse backgrounds in science, history, anthropology, and more, consider culture in the context of the cosmos. How does our knowledge of cosmic evolution affect terrestrial culture? Conversely, how does our knowledge of cultural evolution affect our thinking about possible cultures in the cosmos? Are life, mind, and culture of fundamental significance to the grand story of the cosmos that has generated its own self-understanding through science, rational reasoning, and mathematics? Book includes bibliographical references and an index.
The Complete Guide to Extensions
This guide provides guidance for those looking to extend their home including how to get started, avoiding common pitfalls & much more.
Wonderful Power
This work examines the archaeological record of copper mining in the Lake Superior area.
Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction
If you want to know what anthropology is, look at what anthropologists do. This Very Short Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology combines an accessible account of some of the disciplines guiding principles and methodology with abundant examples and illustrations of anthropologists at work. Peter Just and John Monaghan begin by discussing anthropologys most important contributions to modern thought: its investigation of culture as a distinctively human characteristic, its doctrine of cultural relativism, and its methodology of fieldwork and ethnography. They then examine specific ways in which social and cultural anthropology have advanced our understanding of human society and cul...
