Author: Ann Evans
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781849931502
Category : Coventry (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
When was the first penny-farthing built? Who was Boudicca? What was the 'gyrus' used for? This title will uncover the important and exciting things that happened in your town.
Children's History of Coventry
Author: Ann Evans
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781849931502
Category : Coventry (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
When was the first penny-farthing built? Who was Boudicca? What was the 'gyrus' used for? This title will uncover the important and exciting things that happened in your town.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781849931502
Category : Coventry (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
When was the first penny-farthing built? Who was Boudicca? What was the 'gyrus' used for? This title will uncover the important and exciting things that happened in your town.
Coventry
Author: Rachel Cusk
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374717435
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
NPR's Favorite Books of 2019 Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction with the Outline Trilogy, three “literary masterpieces” (The Washington Post) whose narrator, Faye, perceives the world with a glinting, unsparing intelligence while remaining opaque to the reader. Lauded for the precision of her prose and the quality of her insight, Cusk is a writer of uncommon brilliance. Now, in Coventry, she gathers a selection of her nonfiction writings that both offers new insights on the themes at the heart of her fiction and forges a startling critical voice on some of our most urgent personal, social, and artistic questions. Coventry encompasses memoir, cultural criticism, and writing about literature, with pieces on family life, gender, and politics, and on D. H. Lawrence, Françoise Sagan, and Kazuo Ishiguro. Named for an essay Cusk published in Granta (“Every so often, for offences actual or hypothetical, my mother and father stop speaking to me. There’s a funny phrase for this phenomenon in England: it’s called being sent to Coventry”), this collection is pure Cusk and essential reading for our age: fearless, unrepentantly erudite, and dazzling to behold.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374717435
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
NPR's Favorite Books of 2019 Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction with the Outline Trilogy, three “literary masterpieces” (The Washington Post) whose narrator, Faye, perceives the world with a glinting, unsparing intelligence while remaining opaque to the reader. Lauded for the precision of her prose and the quality of her insight, Cusk is a writer of uncommon brilliance. Now, in Coventry, she gathers a selection of her nonfiction writings that both offers new insights on the themes at the heart of her fiction and forges a startling critical voice on some of our most urgent personal, social, and artistic questions. Coventry encompasses memoir, cultural criticism, and writing about literature, with pieces on family life, gender, and politics, and on D. H. Lawrence, Françoise Sagan, and Kazuo Ishiguro. Named for an essay Cusk published in Granta (“Every so often, for offences actual or hypothetical, my mother and father stop speaking to me. There’s a funny phrase for this phenomenon in England: it’s called being sent to Coventry”), this collection is pure Cusk and essential reading for our age: fearless, unrepentantly erudite, and dazzling to behold.
Coventry: A Novel
Author: Helen Humphreys
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039307353X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
“Elegant . . . illuminates the impact of war on ordinary people . . . an elegy and a celebration.”—Ann Hood, author of The Knitting Circle On the evening of November 14, 1940, Harriet Marsh stands on the roof of the historic Coventry cathedral and marvels at the frost glittering beneath a full moon. But it is a bomber’s moon, and the Luftwaffe is coming to unleash destruction on the city. For Harriet; for the young fire watcher, Jeremy, standing beside her; and for his artist mother, Maeve, hiding in a cellar, this single night of horror will resonate for the rest of their lives. Coventry is a testament to the power of the human spirit, an honest and ultimately uplifting account of heartache transformed into compassion and love.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039307353X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
“Elegant . . . illuminates the impact of war on ordinary people . . . an elegy and a celebration.”—Ann Hood, author of The Knitting Circle On the evening of November 14, 1940, Harriet Marsh stands on the roof of the historic Coventry cathedral and marvels at the frost glittering beneath a full moon. But it is a bomber’s moon, and the Luftwaffe is coming to unleash destruction on the city. For Harriet; for the young fire watcher, Jeremy, standing beside her; and for his artist mother, Maeve, hiding in a cellar, this single night of horror will resonate for the rest of their lives. Coventry is a testament to the power of the human spirit, an honest and ultimately uplifting account of heartache transformed into compassion and love.
Image, Power and Space
Author: Alan Tomlinson
Publisher: Meyer & Meyer Verlag
ISBN: 1841262447
Category : Consumption (Economics)
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
A collection of studies by scholars working at the Chelsea School Research Centre and the University of Brighton
Publisher: Meyer & Meyer Verlag
ISBN: 1841262447
Category : Consumption (Economics)
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
A collection of studies by scholars working at the Chelsea School Research Centre and the University of Brighton
Just a Country Kid
Author: Roy Goodwin
Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN: 1839755962
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Join me growing up in the wilds of Warwickshire, at Eathorpe between 1936 & 1959. We had very little but enjoyed every bit of it. We learnt about life "The Country Way" with all the fun, scrapes, lumps, bumps, hard graft, a "few" mistakes and love along the way. Meet Jumbo, Boxer, Lady & Drummer, the genuine workhorses and those who loved them.
Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN: 1839755962
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Join me growing up in the wilds of Warwickshire, at Eathorpe between 1936 & 1959. We had very little but enjoyed every bit of it. We learnt about life "The Country Way" with all the fun, scrapes, lumps, bumps, hard graft, a "few" mistakes and love along the way. Meet Jumbo, Boxer, Lady & Drummer, the genuine workhorses and those who loved them.
Out of Space
Author: Jim Ottewill
Publisher: Velocity Press
ISBN: 191323164X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Jim Ottewill’s exploration of UK club culture and the urban landscapes that have housed it returns in a newly remixed form. Out of Space plots a course through the different UK towns and cities where club culture has found a home. From Glasgow to Margate via Manchester, Sheffield and unlikely dance music meccas such as Coalville and Todmorden, this book maps where electronic music has thrived, and where it might be headed next. This extended version features a new chapter exploring hidden histories and untold stories within Birmingham’s nocturnal scene to provide more insights into the past, present and future of electronic music culture.
Publisher: Velocity Press
ISBN: 191323164X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Jim Ottewill’s exploration of UK club culture and the urban landscapes that have housed it returns in a newly remixed form. Out of Space plots a course through the different UK towns and cities where club culture has found a home. From Glasgow to Margate via Manchester, Sheffield and unlikely dance music meccas such as Coalville and Todmorden, this book maps where electronic music has thrived, and where it might be headed next. This extended version features a new chapter exploring hidden histories and untold stories within Birmingham’s nocturnal scene to provide more insights into the past, present and future of electronic music culture.
The Duke of Cleveland
Author: Les Roberts
Publisher: Gray & Company, Publishers
ISBN: 1598510061
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Hired by a young heiress to find her middle-aged lover--a potter who owes her money--Milan Jacovich is thrust among the artists who frequent the Coventry section of Cleveland Heights. Milan learns the man is a con man and a deal maker who has surprising contacts among collectors--one of them being Milan's nemesis, suave Victor Gaimari, one of the new breed of mobsters. Martin's Press. (August)
Publisher: Gray & Company, Publishers
ISBN: 1598510061
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Hired by a young heiress to find her middle-aged lover--a potter who owes her money--Milan Jacovich is thrust among the artists who frequent the Coventry section of Cleveland Heights. Milan learns the man is a con man and a deal maker who has surprising contacts among collectors--one of them being Milan's nemesis, suave Victor Gaimari, one of the new breed of mobsters. Martin's Press. (August)
Hawkwind: Days of the Underground
Author: Joe Banks
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 1913689123
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
An account of the English rock band Hawkwind shows them to be one of the most innovative and culturally significant bands of the 1970s. Fifty years on from when it first formed, the English rock band Hawkwind continues to inspire devotion from fans around the world. Its influence reaches across the spectrum of alternative music, from psychedelia, prog, and punk, through industrial, electronica, and stoner rock. Hawkwind has been variously, if erroneously, positioned as the heir to both Pink Floyd and the Velvet Underground, and as Britain's answer to the Grateful Dead and Krautrock. It has defined a genre—space rock—while operating on a frequency that's uniquely its own. Hawkwind offered a form of radical escapism and an alternative account of a strange new world for a generation of young people growing up on a planet that seemed to be teetering on the brink of destruction, under threat from economic meltdown, industrial unrest, and political polarization. While other commentators confidently asserted that the countercultural experiment of the 1960s was over, Hawkwind took the underground to the provinces and beyond. In Days of the Underground, Joe Banks repositions Hawkwind as one of the most innovative and culturally significant bands of the 1970s. It's not an easy task. As with many bands of this era, a lazy narrative has built up around Hawkwind that doesn't do justice to the breadth of its ambition and achievements. Banks gives the lie to the popular perception of Hawkwind as one long lysergic soap opera; with Days of the Underground, he shows us just how revolutionary Hawkwind was.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 1913689123
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
An account of the English rock band Hawkwind shows them to be one of the most innovative and culturally significant bands of the 1970s. Fifty years on from when it first formed, the English rock band Hawkwind continues to inspire devotion from fans around the world. Its influence reaches across the spectrum of alternative music, from psychedelia, prog, and punk, through industrial, electronica, and stoner rock. Hawkwind has been variously, if erroneously, positioned as the heir to both Pink Floyd and the Velvet Underground, and as Britain's answer to the Grateful Dead and Krautrock. It has defined a genre—space rock—while operating on a frequency that's uniquely its own. Hawkwind offered a form of radical escapism and an alternative account of a strange new world for a generation of young people growing up on a planet that seemed to be teetering on the brink of destruction, under threat from economic meltdown, industrial unrest, and political polarization. While other commentators confidently asserted that the countercultural experiment of the 1960s was over, Hawkwind took the underground to the provinces and beyond. In Days of the Underground, Joe Banks repositions Hawkwind as one of the most innovative and culturally significant bands of the 1970s. It's not an easy task. As with many bands of this era, a lazy narrative has built up around Hawkwind that doesn't do justice to the breadth of its ambition and achievements. Banks gives the lie to the popular perception of Hawkwind as one long lysergic soap opera; with Days of the Underground, he shows us just how revolutionary Hawkwind was.
Working to be Someone
Author: Beatrice Hungerland
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN: 1843105233
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Presents an overview of worldwide research on working children that takes the children's own points of view of their work into account. This book aims to highlight and discuss children's employment from a point of view that amplifies their concern rather than disengaging them from adult constructed arguments.
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN: 1843105233
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Presents an overview of worldwide research on working children that takes the children's own points of view of their work into account. This book aims to highlight and discuss children's employment from a point of view that amplifies their concern rather than disengaging them from adult constructed arguments.
The Child's World, Third Edition
Author: Jan Horwath
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN: 1784503827
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
This definitive textbook provides accessible information on best practice for assessing the needs and strengths of vulnerable children and their families. It explores the challenges that practitioners face routinely - with suggestions as to how to address them - as well as the established areas for assessment, of children's developmental needs, parenting ability and motivation, and socio-economic factors. This new edition has been extended substantially to include recent practice, policy and theoretical developments, such as understanding the lived experience of children, young people, and family members. It also considers children's neurological development, assessing parental capacity to change, early help assessments, emerging areas of practice such as child sexual exploitation, and working with asylum-seeking and trafficked children. Crucially, this updated edition takes a broader approach in offering relevant information to a range of professionals working with vulnerable children. The importance of inter-professional working is emphasised throughout.
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN: 1784503827
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
This definitive textbook provides accessible information on best practice for assessing the needs and strengths of vulnerable children and their families. It explores the challenges that practitioners face routinely - with suggestions as to how to address them - as well as the established areas for assessment, of children's developmental needs, parenting ability and motivation, and socio-economic factors. This new edition has been extended substantially to include recent practice, policy and theoretical developments, such as understanding the lived experience of children, young people, and family members. It also considers children's neurological development, assessing parental capacity to change, early help assessments, emerging areas of practice such as child sexual exploitation, and working with asylum-seeking and trafficked children. Crucially, this updated edition takes a broader approach in offering relevant information to a range of professionals working with vulnerable children. The importance of inter-professional working is emphasised throughout.