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Including ten extended interviews with key political players such as Charles Kennedy, Norman Lamont and Tony Wright, the book combines the theoretical discussion with select case studies producing a series of narrow pieces of contemporary history. The book is a study of contemporary British politics, producing a strategic history of the period. This ranges from the ascension of Thatcherism, to the rise of New Labour, the leadership decline of ...

Including ten extended interviews with key political players such as Charles Kennedy, Norman Lamont and Tony Wright, the book combines the theoretical discussion with select case studies producing a series of narrow pieces of contemporary history. The book is a study of contemporary British politics, producing a strategic history of the period. This ranges from the ascension of Thatcherism, to the rise of New Labour, the leadership decline of ...

This is a concise history of the Royal Navy's air arm during World War II (1939-1945), from the Arctic convoys, to the battle for Malta, to the last raids on Japan. The contribution of British Naval aviation to the ultimate Allied victory cannot be underestimated. Amazingly the Admiralty only had 406 operational pilots and 8 carriers when war broke out, but a mere 6 years later there were over 3, 000 operational pilots and 53 aircraft carriers...

Berlin's unique history of conflict, violence, and transformation has created an arena of extraordinary urban surfaces, from which the this day city and its layered, wounded past are projected simultaneously. This title explores the intimate connections between those surfaces and the works of art and film.

From the narrow alleyways of the Golden Gai to the flashing ads and jumbotrons of Shibuya street crossings to the skyscrapers of Shinjuku and the cartoon billboards of the Akiba, Tokyo is an intensely visual and mesmerizing city. This work gives an account of Tokyo's urban sensations.

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In this illuminating and provocative survey, Stephen Barber examines the historical relationship between film and the urban landscape. "Projected Cities" looks with particular focus at the cinema of Europe and Japan, two closely linked cinematic cultures which have been foremost in the use of urban imagery, to reveal elements of culture, architecture and history. By examining this imagery, especially at moments of turmoil and experimentation, ...

Examines the profound transformation taking place in the way we experience film, from the abandonment of traditional venues, to the rise of digital media.

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Stephen Barber takes the reader on an extraordinary journey from LA to Tokyo via Europe. He carries only a crumpled map in his pocket, a map that plots a horrifying past, a disappearing present and a future collapsing into banality. A virtual reality flight across this territory reveals the surfaces of things, a landscape made by war and technological advances. Coming back to earth and to his own body, Stephen Barber follows the map from city ...

Desde sus orígenes hace más de un siglo, el cine ha empleado una enorme variedad de medios para revelar elementos de cultura, arquitectura, corporalidad e historia en la descripción de las ciudades. Las imágenes urbanas que nos han transmitido los cineastas han influido y determinado nuestra percepción de la ciudad -tanto de sus diferentes momentos históricos como de la relación de sus habitantes con ella- siendo el cine en gran medida respons...

Explores the newly-revealed set of 406 notebooks which Artaud used in the final years of his life in Paris.

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Provides for a selection of texts, together with scholarly introductions, from one of the world's great private libraries, covering a period from Elizabeth I to the Church's involvement in homosexual law reform.

The drastically changed climate in which research universities and other institutions of higher education now function has led to grave doubts about how these institutions will operate in the future. In "The Research University In A Time Of Discontent", distinguished scholars address this concern, drawing examples and making recommendations based on their own experiences as academic administrators and faculty members. (Education)

Extreme Europe" explores the urban extremes of Europe in their cultural, physical, geographical and mythical dimensions, considering the history and visual culture of Europe in the decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Barber's purpose is to examine Europe's cities and their surrounding areas as sites of a conflict between the mesmerizing, all-engulfing power of visual media and the barely surviving traces of tenacious historical culture, ...