Kevin Jackson

Putting the accomplishments of Joyce and Eliot in the context of the world in which their works first appeared, this energetic chronicle of 1922 is told through the diaries of the anthropologists, actors, artists, designers, filmmakers, and others whose lives and works collided over 12 months.

1922: Modernism Year One

Constellation of Genius

Hunt Emerson, the dazzlingly talented cartoonist, tackles the biggest literary name of them all: Dante. Emerson's Inferno delights on many levels: as an ingenious translation of classic verse; an effortlessly readable introduction to a complex poem; a delicious crib for anxious Dante students; and as a warm tribute from the master of one art form to the grand master of another. Hunt's cartoon is followed by Kevin Jackson's essay on Dante. Wildly clever and witty, but essentially reverent, it is a wonderful treat for anyone who already loves Dante.

Dante's Inferno

When Paul Dombey asks `what's money?' in Charles Dickens's novel, his father is hard put to find an answer. The Oxford Book of Money sets out to explore the question with the help of writers, poets, artists, philosophers, economists, financiers and politicians, and to determine not only whatit is, but more importantly, what it can do.More than just `gold, and silver, and copper', more, even, than banknotes (or cowrie shells or cocoa beans), money represents power and status, the lack of it misery and ignominy. True to the decimal system, the ten sections that make up this anthology look at the rich and the poor and thecountless ways in which money can be made and lost. From ancient Greece to modern America trade, speculation, inheritance, debt, and ruin have been the themes of literature and the sources of philosophical and psychological conjecture on money, happiness, and evil. And the hardest question of allreveals a centuries-old ambivalence: how much is it worth? Some things are beyond value, but we all work for hire.Money is a subject that few writers have ignored: Dante, Milton, Nietzche, Baudelaire, Beckett, Propertius, Whitman, Wolfe and Eco - there is an inexhaustible wealth of material that is here tapped to the full. Kevin Jackson has compiled a gem of an anthology on the richest topic of themall.

The Oxford Book of Money

Mayflower: The Voyage from Hell

Kevin Jackson recounts that experience in addition to giving a full account of the film's production. But chiefly he analyses the mood and magic of the film, its aesthetics and sensibility, seeking to show, without ever detracting from the film's comic brilliance, just how much more there is to Withnail & I than drunkenness and swearing. 'It is an outstandingly touching yet witheringly unsentimental drama of male friendship,' Jackson writes, 'a bleak up-ending of the English pastoral dream, a piece of ferocious verbal inventiveness' - and, without question, one of the greatest of all British films.

Withnail and I

The Language of Cinema (The Book of Words)

Paul Schrader

Schrader on Schrader is an essential set of dialogues with one of the most genuinely fascinating and uncompromising writer-directors in American film.Raised as a Calvinist and hence forbidden to partake of 'worldly pleasures' such as movies, Paul Schrader nevertheless defied his upbringing to become first a leading film critic, then a star pupil among the US 'movie brat' generation of the 1970s: writing the coruscating screenplays for Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver and Raging Bull and directing such provocative pictures as Blue Collar, Hardcore and American Gigolo. Maturity has never sated his appetite for attacking 'difficult' material, from adapting Kazantzakis' The Last Temptation for Scorsese, to filming the singular lives of Mishima and Patty Hearst.Schrader on Schrader is a tour through this formidable body of work, including some of Schrader's finest critical essays.

Schrader on Schrader

Iain Sinclair

In The Verbals, a long conversation mingling confession, memories and self-criticism, Sinclair lays bare the origins of these works, from the myths of Freemasonry surrounding his ancestry to his encounters with the likes of Allen Ginsberg, from his adventures in the film world to his bohemian life in Dublin, from casual labouring in the East End to esoteric studies of earth mysteries and psychothearpy.

Iain Sinclair in Conversation with Kevin Jackson

The Verbals

"Ezra Pound referred to 1922 as Year One of a new era. It was the year in which a shabby Irishman and a natty American entered the cultural landscape, hell-bent on exploding everything that realistic fiction and Georgian poetry held dear. James Joyce's Ulysses and The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot remain the twin towers at the beginning of modern literature; some would say, of modernity itself. ... [This book] puts the accomplishments of Eliot and Joyce in the context of the world in which their works appeared. The Ottoman Empire collapsed, British Liberalism came to an end, Marcus Garvey's dreams for a new Africa were thwarted. Dada was put to rest, [Marcel] Proust died, and Hollywood transformed the nature of fame. [Alfred] Hitchcock directed his first feature, [Wassily] Kandinsky and [Paul] Klee joined the Bauhaus, and Louis Armstrong took the train from New Orleans to Chicago ... [This] is a biography of a year, a journey through the diaries of the actors, anthropologists, artists, dancers, designers, film-makers, philosophers, playwrights, politicians and scientists whose lives and works collided over twelve months, creating a frenzy of innovation which broke the world in two."--Book jacket.

1922 : Modernism Year One

F.W. Murnau's 1922 Nosferatu, the first (albeit unofficial) screen adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, starring Max Schreck as the hollow-eyed, cadaverous vampire, remains a potent and disturbing horror film. Kevin Jackson's study traces Nosferatu's eventful production and reception history, including attempts by Stoker's widow to suppress it.

eine Symphonie des Grauens

Nosferatu (1922)

Full of facts, stories, lists and trivia, this is a companion to the world of vampires. Learn about the best places around the world for vampire tourism, rock songs with vampire allusions, the top ten vampire clubs, video games and films, vampire brides, plus how to kill a vampire.

A Vampire Handbook

Bite

Darren Bloke is an ordinary, hard-working stiff until a lottery win changes--and ruins--his life. He squanders his windfall and loses everything but his beloved dog, Skittle. Then he is visited by the spirit of John Ruskin--a sharp-eyed art critic and reknowned "holistic" thinker from the 1800s. Ruskin shows Darren the true meaning of Wealth--not how to acquire it, but what is the right way for an honest human to deal with it. Further visits from Ruskin's spirit take him on a journey into Perception--how to look at the world through a more creative filter, and finally, he learns from Ruskin the true value of Work, and how it can enrich his life above and beyond a pay-packet. Darren discovers the meaning of Ruskin's favourite saying, "There is no wealth but Life." This strange comic book is part satire, part economic and philosophical treatise, part love story, part political argument, part psychedelic craziness, and always funny. And, in Skittle, Bloke's Progress has one of the most loveable dogs in comics!

An Introduction to the World of John Ruskin

Bloke's Progress

Tony Campbell

Alok Shrivastwa

Sunil Sarat

Cody Bunch

Egle Sigler

Learn how you can put the features of OpenStack to work in the real world in this comprehensive path About This Book Harness the abilities of experienced OpenStack administrators and architects, and run your own private cloud successfully Learn how to install, configure, and manage all of the OpenStack core projects including topics on Object Storage, Block Storage, and Neutron Networking services such as LBaaS and FWaaS Get better equipped to troubleshoot and solve common problems in performance, availability, and automation that confront production-ready OpenStack environments Who This Book Is For This course is for those who are new to OpenStack who want to learn the cloud networking fundamentals and get started with OpenStack networking. Basic understanding of Linux Operating System, Virtualization, and Networking, and Storage principles will come in handy. What You Will Learn Get an introduction to OpenStack and its components Store and retrieve data and images using storage components, such as Cinder, Swift, and Glance Install and configure Swift, the OpenStack Object Storage service, including configuring Container Replication between datacenters Gain hands on experience and familiarity with Horizon, the OpenStack Dashboard user interface Learn how to automate OpenStack installations using Ansible and Foreman Follow practical advice and examples for running OpenStack in production Fix common issues with images served through Glance and master the art of troubleshooting Neutron networking In Detail OpenStack is a collection of software projects that work together to provide a cloud fabric. Learning OpenStack Cloud Computing course is an exquisite guide that you will need to build cloud environments proficiently. This course will help you gain a clearer understanding of OpenStack's components and their interaction with each other to build a cloud environment. The first module, Learning OpenStack, starts with a brief look into the need for authentication and authorization, the different aspects of dashboards, cloud computing fabric controllers, along with 'Networking as a Service' and 'Software defined Networking'. Then, you will focus on installing, configuring, and troubleshooting different architectures such as Keystone, Horizon, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, and Glance. After getting familiar with the fundamentals and application of OpenStack, let's move deeper into the realm of OpenStack. In the second module, OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook, preview how to build and operate OpenStack cloud computing, storage, networking, and automation. Dive into Neutron, the OpenStack Networking service, and get your hands dirty with configuring ML2, networks, routers, and distributed virtual routers. Further, you'll learn practical examples of Block Storage, LBaaS, and FBaaS. The final module, Troubleshooting OpenStack, will help you quickly diagnose, troubleshoot, and correct problems in your OpenStack. We will diagnose and remediate issues in Keystone, Glance, Neutron networking, Nova, Cinder block storage, Swift object storage, and issues caused by Heat orchestration. This Learning Path combines some of the best that Packt has to offer in one complete, curated package. It includes content from the following Packt products: Learning OpenStack by Alok Shrivastwa, Sunil Sarat OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook - Third Edition by Kevin Jackson , Cody Bunch, Egle Sigler Troubleshooting OpenStack by Tony Campbell Style and approach This course aims to create a smooth learning path that will teach you how to get started with setting up private and public clouds using a free and open source cloud computing platform—OpenStack. Through this comprehensive course, you'll learn OpenStack Cloud computing from scratch to finish and more!

OpenStack: Building a Cloud Environment

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For Only You

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Richard Coles

On Easter, 2014, Britain's best-loved vicar, the Rev. Richard Coles, led a pilgrimage to all the major historic sites of the Holy Land: from Nazareth and the Sea of Galilee in the North, via Jericho and the Jordan River, to Bethlehem and, finally, Jerusalem. All of the pilgrims in his care were practicing Christians, except one: the writer Kevin Jackson, a diffident and sympathetic atheist intrigued by the chance to take part in this modern-day version of an ancient act of piety, and to learn some more about his old friend, the media clergyman. Coles to Jerusalem is Kevin Jackson's light-hearted diary of that pilgrimage, and a close-up portrait of Richard Coles both as priest and as man. As the journey proceeds, Coles reminisces at length about his past life as a rock star and radical gay agitator, his new life as a spiritual leader and a popular broadcaster on BBC radio and television, and the strange, unpredictable path that led him from self-destructive debauchery to faith and vocation. With a lively supporting cast of fellow pilgrims, Coles to Jerusalem ranges among the magnificence of ancient monuments and the banalities of the guided tour, the grim political background of contemporary Israel, and the comedy of a group of idiosyncratic English folk abroad, the intensity of worship, and the lightness of banter. It will be irresistible to all admirers of Richard Coles, who has contributed a foreword, and it will be a revelation to those who have never encountered his wisdom and warmth.

A Pilgrimage to the Holy Land with Reverend Richard Coles

Coles to Jerusalem

An literary anthology of writing about time, organised by time of day.

The Book of Hours

Mark Smith

Simon Hughes

Simon Burton

Sean Doyle

Chris Barez Brown

Debs Armstrong

Mark Cochrane

Nick de Bois

Tracy Halliwell

Chris Hornbuckle

Brian Ludwig

Jason Megson

Nigel Rushman

Jason Allan Scott

Bonny Shapira

Peter Wardell

Bjorn Wigforss

THE EVENT PROFESSIONAL'S HANDBOOK aims to inspire, encourage and guide anyone working in - or thinking about working in - the events industry. Its contributors represent some of the most interesting thinkers and practitioners in the industry today. But the handbook is not a 'how to' or an instruction manual. It's more like a smorgasbord of event professionals’ thoughts and ideas, designed to whet the appetite, provide a moment of insight or a way of navigating a challenge in a new way.

The secrets of successful events

The Event Professional's Handbook

Few things occupy as central a place in our lives as money, and few provoke such intense and varied response. Now in an entertaining book, Jackson brings together reflections on money by some of the most brilliant minds who have ever lived. Shakespeare, Milton, Mark Twain, Jane Austen and others help readers to rexamine what money means to them and rethink its value in their lives.

Here are the hours, from dawn to Eliot's uncertain hour before dawn by way of elevenses and the lunch hour, the hours for siesta and for vespers until the witching hour. From the moment the first rays of light creep over the horizon through to the darkest hours of the night, The Book of Hours collects the greatest literary moments that define the twenty-four hours of our day.

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