The face of cultural devastation
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Radical hope ethics in the face of cultural devastation by jonathan lear (paperback, ) delivery uk delivery is usually within 8 to 10 working daysinternational delivery varies by country, please see the wordery store help page for details
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This book will be useful for students, academics and policymakers in the fields of international development, international relations, international political economy, cultural policy and cultural theoryparticular attention is paid to the formation of the unesco convention on the protection and the promotion of the diversity of cultural expressions, a landmark instrument in debates about culture and developmentthis development has generally been welcomed, but also raises a number of questions: what are the implications in policy and practice? who are the most influential voices in promoting a global agenda for culture and development, and to what extent has the creation of new international policy instruments reflected a consensus? more fundamentally, what is meant by "culture" in these discussions and who has the power to give particular definitions political and legal authority? the politics of cultural development seeks to provide a theoretically and historically informed response to such questions, illustrated by reference to case studies (including the european union, the caribbean and china)note: has dedication to inner leaf, otherwise as newthe book goes on to explore some of the practical implications that this international treaty is beginning to have for the ways that culture is (and is not) being integrated into contemporary development policy and practiceoxfam shop nether edge there is a growing recognition of the role that culture can play in sustainable development strategiessee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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The episodes are: 'the face of power', 'faces of the people' and 'the face of fame'throughout the series, schama examines renowned images from the world of british art and looks at how they were used as statements of power, declarations of love and promotions of famesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop colne road historian simon schama presents this three-part bbc series in which he turns his focus to the history of british portraiture
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Laughing in the face of the blues 5oxfam books & music nottingham laughing in the face of the blues by jack williams (segue - hey, flat!7a sucker for love 6lay down by the water 12segue - smoke (kern and harback) 14tell old bill (traditional) 10buckets of rain (bob dylan) 15the unseen hand 13daddys heaven see oxfam website for delivery information read moresegue - the laughing place 4segue - randy greens blues 11life is sweet 16
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The spirit of early christian thought seeking the face of god by robert louis wilken (paperback, ) delivery uk delivery is usually within 8 to 10 working daysinternational delivery varies by country, please see the wordery store help page for details
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Oxfam shop billericay the author of works on subjects as wide-ranging as alfred hitchcock, 9/11, opera, christianity, lenin and david lynch, slovenian philosopher slavoj zizek is one of the most important and outrageous cultural theorists working todaythis documentary explores the eccentric personality and esoteric work of the incomparable academic and writer, trailing the eminent and intrepid thinker as he crisscrosses the globe and obsessively reveals the invisible workings of ideology through a unique blend of lacanian psychoanalysis, marxism and pop culture critiquesee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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This book offers fresh insights in the field of cultural and film studies from a multi-focal perspectiveit shows how the empire cinema constructed the colonial world, its rationale for doing so, and the manner in which such constructions were received by the colonized peoplealthough empire cinema has been examined by western scholars, such studies have located the films almost wholly within the colonizing country rather that exploring their reception among the colonizedby shifting the emphasis to historical reception of imperial popular culture this book seeks to fill out a certain terrain between the current indian writing on national cinema and non-indian writing on empire cinemasee oxfam website for delivery information read morecombining wide-ranging scholarship based on original documents, film, stuides and historical and political analyses, the book aims to give the reader a sense of how ideologies, images and identites are constructed, promoted, contested and resisted in relation to key film representations of empirean empirico-historical inquiry into the empire cinema in hollywood and britain during the turbulent s and s
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'on the face of it,' writes lyn macdonald, 'no one could have been less equipped for the job than these gently nurtured girls who walked straight out of edwardian drawing rooms into the manifest horrors of the first world warall this is superbly captured in the roses of no man's land, a panorama of hardship, disillusion and despair, yet also of endurance and supreme courageit was here that young doctors frantically forged new medical techniques - of blood transfusion, dentistry, psychiatry and plastic surgery - in the attempt to save soldiers shattered in body or spiritand it was here that women achieved a quiet but permanent revolution, by proving beyond question they could do anything'lyn macdonald wrirtes splendidly and touchingly of the work of the nurses and doctors who fought their humanitarian battle on the western front' sunday telegraph over the past twenty years lyn macdonald has established a popular reputation as an author and historian of the first world waroxfam bookshop cheltenham lyn macdonald's the roses of no man's land is a compelling look at the women who risked their lives on the western frontsee oxfam website for delivery information read more' yet the volunteer nurses rose magnificently to the occasionher books are based on the accounts of eyewitnesses and survivors, told in their own words, and cast a unique light on the first world warmost are published by penguinin leaking tents and draughty huts they fought another war, a war against agony and death, as men lay suffering from the pain of unimaginable wounds or diseases we can now cure almost instantly
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In the face of this difficult life, chris has the desperate inspiration to try for a stockbroker internship where one in twenty has a chance of a lucrative full time careerset in early '80s san francisco, the film charts the hard times and eventual comeback of chris gardner (smith), a suddenly single salesman who has custody of his son, but finds that providing for the two of them is a challenge in the increasingly unstable economic climatedisc and case in very good conditionoxfam bookshop carlisle drama starring will smithsee oxfam website for delivery information read moretogether, father and son struggle through homelessness, jail time, tax seizure and the overall punishing despair in a quest that would make gardner a respected millionaire
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Yet they find courage in the face of extreme danger and become the friends they never were beforeused to tending the sick as they are, nothing could have prepared them for what they confront, first in the dardanelles, then on the western frontand eventually they meet the kind of men worth giving up their precious independence for - if only they all surviveat once epic in scope and extraordinarily intimate, the daughters of mars brings the first world war to vivid life from an unusual perspectivesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham in , two spirited australian sisters join the war effort as nurses, escaping the confines of their father's dairy farm and carrying a guilty secret with themprofoundly moving, it pays tribute to the men and women who voluntarily risked their lives for peace
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Scholars have traditionally thought that revelation was written in order to encourage believers to stand fast in the face of the roman persecutation of the early churchmore recently, however, it has been argued that no such crisis existed at the time the book was writtenoxfam bookshop glossop road very good condition, no real marks or wear the book of revelation presents the reader with a frightening narrative world in which the people of god are tormented, threatened, and sometimes killed by various agents of satanin this study, paul duff offers a different viewpoint on the origin of the book of revelation is a rhetorically sophisticated response to an internal leadership crisis within the churchesin support of this argument duff marshals evidence from the social and economic context of the time, and from literary and rhetorical analyses of the textsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe result is a work that substantially advances the implication of the current consensus and sheds new light on this influential yet enigmatic textthroughout the work, the apocalyse points to rome as the predominant demonic agent
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Yet the two young women share a complex and evolving bond that is central to their emotional lives and is a source of strength in the face of life's challengesyet in doing so she has created a world in which readers will recognize themselves and has drawn a marvellously nuanced portrait of friendshipin these neapolitan novels, elena ferrante, the acclaimed author of the days of abandonment, gives readers a poignant and universal story about friendship and belongingoxfam bookshop ealing in , elena ferrante's my brilliant friend introduced readers to the unforgettable elena and lila, whose lifelong friendship provides the backbone for the neapolitan novelsthe story of a new name is the second book in this serieswith these books, which the new yorker's james wood described as "large, captivating, amiably peopledshe writes vividly about a specific neighborhood of naples from the late-s through to the current day and about two remarkable young women who are very much the products of that place and timesee oxfam website for delivery information read morelove, jealousy, family, freedom, commitment, and above all friendship: these are signs under which both women live out this phase in their storiesmarriage appears to have imprisoned lila, and the pressure to excel is at times too much for elenaa beautiful and delicate tale of confluence and reversal," ferrante proves herself to be one of italy's most accomplished storytellersin the story of a new name, lila has recently married and made her entrée into the family business; elena, meanwhile, continues her studies and her exploration of the world beyond the neighbourhood that she so often finds stifling
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Oxfam bookshop ashbourne the book of ruth is a triumphant love story in the face of adversityleaving her homeland, ruth follows her mother in law to israel after the death of her husband to meet a man who will change her lifecondition:Â used see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Yet, in the face of this unthinkable loss, life must somehow continuesoon yui makes her own pilgrimage to the phone box, toobut once there she cannot bring herself to speak into the receiverthen one day she hears about a man who has an old disused telephone box in his gardenthen she finds takeshi, a bereaved husband whose own daughter has stopped talking in the wake of their loss? see oxfam website for delivery information read morewhat happens next will warm your heart, even when it feels as though it is breakingoxfam shop ringwood when yui loses her mother and daughter in the tsunami, she wonders how she will ever carry onwhen you've lost everything, what can you findas news of the phone box spreads, people travel to it from miles aroundthere, those who have lost loved ones find the strength to speak to them and begin to come to terms with their grief
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He knows that the killer is the man the police have named the butcher - the slayer of nine young womenlearning of the psychic identification, the butcher begins to stalk this 'witness' to his crime, and traps harris and his girlfriend at night in a vast forty-two-storey business building, hunting them relentlessly from floor to floorplease check shipping costs before ordering synopsis graham harris is a gifted clairvoyant, and during a television interview, he 'sees' a murder being committed
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Looking at the changed face of his country, hitchens finds a "politically correct zeal for the new" whose impact on daily life has been "as devastating in effect, if not in violence, as mao tse tung's cultural revolution in chinaif there is a term that summarizes everything that has gone wrong in britain, it is "tony blairism," which hitchens sees as having rewritten england's history, trivialized its journalism, subverted its educational system and cultural standards, and overthrown accepted notions of patriotism, faith, and morality"writing with passion and flair, hitchens targets the pernicious effects of tv culture, the "corruption and decay" of the english language, the loss of politeness, and the "syrupy confessional mood" brought on by the death of diana, which hitchens contrasts with the somber national response to the death of winston churchill" see oxfam website for delivery information read morethe new britain is government by focus group in which people are told what to feel as a way of preventing them from asking how they want to be governedone english critic called the abolition of britain "an elegant jeremiad" in which peter hitchens identifies everything that has gone wrong with britain since world war ii and makes the case for "those many millions who feel that they have become foreigners in their own land and wish with each succeeding day that they could turn the clock backoxfam bookshop cheltenham a surprise best seller in england, the abolition of britain is bitingly witty and fiercely argued, yet also filled with somber appreciation for what "the idea of england" has always meant to the west and to the world at large
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Oxfam bookshop raeburn place ever since neolithic times greek lands lay open to cultural imports from western asia: agriculture, metal-working, writing, religious institutions, artistic fashions, musical instruments, and much morevery good conditionhe believes that an age has dawned in which hellenists will no more be able to ignore the near eastern literature than latinists can ignore greekprevious owner's inscriptionhis survey embraces hesiod, the homeric epics, the lyric poets, and aeschylus, and concludes with an illuminating discussion of possible avenues of transmission between the orient and greecemartin west's new book far surpasses previous studies in comprehensiveness, demonstrating these links with massive and detailed documentation and showing that they are much more fundamental and pervasive than has hitherto been acknowledgedsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreover the last sixty years scholars have increasingly become aware of links connecting early greek poetry with the literatures of mesopotamia, anatolia, canaan, and israel
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By using a novel comparative perspective it gives a fresh view of the relationship between cultural regionalism, political regionalism and nationalismthis book offers new perspectives to specialists of regionalism and nationalism, but will also be of interest to students of the cultural history of france, germany and spain and to specialists from the fields of politics, ethnology, art history, cultural studies and architectural historyduring the s painters began to apply the regionalist ideology by producing images of a presumably harmonious and authentic rural societystorm further illuminates how during the first decades of the twentieth century the culture of regionalism slowly lost the battle against its main rival: the avant-gardethey all appropriated, and in some cases perverted, the regionalist message showing that strong regional identities would ultimately reinforce national unityartists, architects and international exhibitions played a highly influential role in this processlater on regionalism was used at international exhibitions by widely differing regimes, such as the primo de rivera dictatorship in spain, the popular front government in france, and the hitler-regime in germanyoxfam bookshop kingston upon thames this pioneering book studies the rise, heyday and demise of regionalism from the belle aepoque until the eve of the second world warregional identities, like national identities, were created and sometimes even invented; and this was equally the case in france, germany and spainsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreshortly afterwards they were followed by architects, who constructed villas and garden cities inspired by vernacular cottages
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Underhill seeks to situate these key cultural concepts within four languages (english, french, czech and german)the book explores issues such as how far meaning is politically and culturally influenced, how far language shapes the thought of ethnic groups and how far their thought shapes language, and the role of individuals in the consolidation of cultural conceptsit offers a clear and thought-provoking account of how concepts are understood and will be welcomed by those working in the fields of sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, discourse analysis, semantics and pragmaticsnot only do these concepts differ from language to language, but they go on changing over timesee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis book offers an original approach to ethnolinguistics, discussing how abstract concepts such as truth, love, hate and war are expressed across cultures and ethnicitiesoxfam bookshop preston 'ethnolinguistics' is the study of how language relates to culture and ethnicity
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Rather, by using a comparative, multidisciplinary framework, the book situates fear in more global terms, breaks new ground in the historical and cultural analysis of emotions, and sets out a new agenda for further researchoxfam bookshop glossop road very good condition, only slight shelf wear to cover fear is ubiquitous but slipperyin these times of institutionalized insecurity and global terror, facing fear sheds light on the meaning, diversity, and dynamism of fear in multiple world-historical contexts, and demonstrates how fear universally binds us to particular presents but also to a broad spectrum of memories, stories, and states in the pastthe volume contributes to the thriving literature on the history of emotions and destabilizes narratives that have often understood fear in very specific linguistic, cultural, and geographical settingsfrom the eighteenth-century peruvian highlands and the california borderlands to the urban cityscapes of contemporary russia and india, this book collectively explores the wide range of causes, experiences, and explanations of this protean emotionsee oxfam website for delivery information read morein addition to the editors, the contributors are alexander etkind, lisbeth haas, andreas killen, david lederer, melani mcalister, ronald schechter, marla stone, ravi sundaram, and charles walkerit has been defined as a purely biological reality, derided as an excuse for cowardice, attacked as a force for social control, and even denigrated as an unnatural condition that has no place in the disenchanted world of enlightened modernity
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Haynes adds a conceptual and textual shift to these debates by utilizing world music as a lens for examining cultural imaginaries of race and analytical nuances of racializationthis book presents a sociological analysis of this enduring relationship and asks: how are ideas of race critical to the understanding of music genres and preferences? what does the 'love of difference' via music contribute to contemporary perspectives of racism? previous studies of world music have situated it within the dynamics of local/global musical production, the representation of nations and ethnic groups, theories of globalization, hybridization and cultural appropriationthese interviews provide unique insights into the discursive repertoires that underpin contemporary culture, and will make a significant contribution to the mainly theoretical debates about world musicoxfam bookshop hove minor shelf wear to hardcover, contents in very good, clean condition throughoutsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe text offers a view of world music from 'within,' building on original, qualitative, interview-based research with people from the british world music scenerace and music seem fatally entwined in a way that involves both creative ethnic hybridity and ongoing problems of racism
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Emphasizing the importance of cultural theory for film history, this book guides readers on a series of
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The title is the sea: a cultural historythe item format is a book paperbackbelow is a more detailed summary of this specific item for sale the sleeve condition is newfor example: idz
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Batman two face face the face deluxe edition hctitle: batman two face face the face deluxe edition hcdust cover is intact with no nicks of tearslike new/excellent - an apparently unread copy in perfect condition
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Fascinated by the shaded past of the cultural hub of our civilization there, field dug, dusted and studied to piece together his track of manillustrated with 28 b/w photographsgreen cloth boards protected by unclipped maroon pictorial dust jacketred top page endsthe inscription includes " with greeting henry field" and is dated but cannot verify its authenticityborn in chicago he spent his childhood in england and was educated at eton and oxfordboards clean with very slight fading around the titles on the spinepublished by peter daviesffep has a small section (4cm x 1cm) removed to take out surname of inscriptiongovernment- it was at kish that he did his main body of workfield went eagerly as a young student on his first trip to the excavation grounds at kishhis autobiography is a spirited account of the adventure of science itselfhis essays on the babylonian findings have their tribute in the scientific worldthough his work took him to the caves of altamira and the pyrenees with the abbe breuil, to america where he worked for years in the field museum and saw the construction of its marvellous hall of primitive man, into planning for the developmental exhibit at the chicago world's fair, and into wartime studies for the uoxfam shop darlington hardbackdj has some minor chipssee oxfam website for delivery information read morecontents are clean and binding is tighthenry field (december – january ) was an american anthropologist and archaeologistthere his heart remained for most of the rest of his life
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The work collected in this, the first monograph of his work, presents a range of his personal portrait projects which include many artists, writers and cultural commentatorshis images are beautiful because he draws us into the detail of each person and in so doing gives us the opportunity to glimpse something of their outward appearance and inner voicehe is able to bring his years of expertise to bear on the creative challenges he sets himself - a photographic exploration into the possibilities of portraiture and representation - how to be seen, recorded and rememberedsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham black british photographer franklyn rodgers has amassed a body of work both personal and commercial, which is breathtaking in its volume and level of accomplishmenthis work is a refreshing return to the black subject within a studio design genre, with a very unique personal style and visionhis aesthetic is one of beauty, but his definition of beauty goes way beyond what is pleasing to the eye
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This book is likely to interest those studying or teaching social history, jewish history or race relations in sociology, politics and cultural studiesthis hardback first edition is in a good, used condition overalltony kushner examines the impact of evacuation, the blitz, the black market and other aspects of the war on relations between gentile and jewthere are a few minor marks here and there on the dustjacket but otherwise it is free from chips or tearshe probes attitudes to anglo-jewry, from left to right of the political spectrumoxfam bookshop hexham the persistence of prejudice examines attitudes to jews at all levels of society during a war that many saw as a fight against fascismthe binding is soundthe jewish image in society, the response of the state to jews at home and abroad, and the effect of antisemitism on the jewish community itself receive particular attentionthe text block is yellowing slightly but appears to be free from inscriptions or annotationssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreas a contribution to the social history of wartime britain, it also reveals the strengths and weaknesses of a liberal democracythe blue cloth boards are gilt stamped on the spine and are a little spotted and stainedthis book suggests that, rather than being confined to extremists, antisemitism was part of the mainstream cultureit is complete with its dustjacket which has a small sticker mark on the inside front flap
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The new edition, now called history of humanity, is a radical new work providing an account of cultural and scientific achievements in the light of new facts and methods of historiographical investigationparticular attention is given to archeological aspectsthis major undertaking required an international commission and the co-operation of some 450 distinguished specialists, in a great number of disciplines, from all over the worldforty internationally renowned specialists from various countries provide a broad introduction to the study of the eve of civilizationsee oxfam website for delivery information read morea truly interdisciplinary work, the history of humanity sheds new light on many hitherto unknown features of our common paststarting from the origins of humankind to the first societies years ago, the events, chronologically charted, present a comprehensive picture of how civilization emerged and developed over this periodafter almost fifteen years of intensive work, unesco presents an entirely revised and updated edition of this major work in seven volumes
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Oxfam bookshop wallingford the reformation of the subject is a study of the cultural contradictions that gave birth to the english protestant epicthrough a series of detailed readings, gregerson examines the different strategies adopted by spenser and milton as they sought to distinguish their poems from idols yet preserve the shaping power that iconoclasts have long attributed to iconsin lucid and theoretically sophisticated language, linda gregerson examines the fraught ideological, political and gender conflicts that are woven into the texture of the faerie queene and paradise losttracing the transformation of the epic poem into an instrument for the reformation of the political subject, gregerson thus provides an illuminating contribution to our understanding of the ways in which subjectivities are historically producedsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreshe reminds us that reformation iconoclasts viewed verbal images with the same aversion as visual images, because they too were capable of waylaying the human imagination
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