Peter Hamilton

Taggie and Jemima are summer holidaying on their dad's farm, when they see a white squirrel wearing glasses . . . and soon after their father is captured and trapped in a faerie world that's fallen to Darkness. But why would anybody want to kidnap boring old Dad, especially the dreaded King of Night? Could it be that their family isn't quite as ordinary as they believed?

The Queen of Dreams

Critical Assessments 1

Max Weber

Max Weber : critical assessments. 2,3

The use of visual evidence in social and cultural research is an exciting and stimulating area of growing interest bridging the social sciences and humanities. This collection brings together the contributions of key writers within both the symbolic and empirical research traditions, presenting the most influential statements on visual research methods and the central debates about visual culture in a diversity of fields.

Visual Research Methods

The premise of this book is simple: the best way to become better at drawing is to draw, a lot. Through tracing, guides, repetition and incrementally increasing the difficulty, you will begin to learn and remember the basics. Begin by tracing the drawings and then using the guidelines to harness your own creations. As long as you fill out every page, it doesn't matter if you follow the guidelines exactly. Instead, you will build an understanding of how the human body is constructed and how three dimensional objects can be represented with lines. Try using various methods such as construction, contour drawing or your own technique. Once you've completed the thousands of drawings, you will have a record of your progress and have a much better understanding of the basics of the human form. This is meant to be a workbook, so go ahead, start drawing!

Draw This Book Legs & Feet

Emile Durkheim

Talcott Parsons (1904-79) is widely regarded as one of the most important sociologists of the twentieth century. These four volumes provide an essential guide to the thought and work of this major sociologist.

Critical Assessments

Talcott Parsons

An ice auger; cigarette smoke; mayonnaise; a broken toaster; a charmingly decorated gift; some sharp knives: these are just a few of Peter Hamilton's favorite things. They will become yours also. Each story in “The Devil Hates a Coward” contains a thing; a figurative object, its actual representation not at its entire connotation; the obvious, perhaps not so? Peter Hamilton writes Interrogative Fiction. Resolving not, “who done it?”; but asking “why they didn't?” In this collection of stories, the reader will laugh, shed a tear, have an “ah, ha!” moment, and yearn for what the character have. Or, what they don't. There are no cowards in this book, and you shouldn't be one either.

A Collection of Stories

The Devil Hates a Coward

Max Weber : critical assessments. 2,4

Max Weber, Critical Assessments 2

Roger Hargreaves

The Beautiful and the Damned looks for the first time at the broad social and cultural context for the development of portrait photography in the nineteenth century, showing how social and celebrity portraiture on the one hand, and scientific photography on the other, were different facets of the nineteenth-century fascination with classification and ordering. Between 1860 and 1900, editions of celebrity portraits, as well as the vogue for the carte de visite, fuelled the fashion for collecting and classifying photographs of the face. In an age of rapid industrialisation and the growth of the middle classes, the carte de visite became a means of conferring social status, and family albums - which often incorporated photographs of royalty and public figures - were used to position family members within society at large.

The Creation of Identity in Nineteenth Century Photography

The Beautiful and the Damned

Critical Assessments 2

Robert Doisneau

The first authorized biography available, Robert Doisneau provides an intimate rich account of the life of the French photographer who captured the streets and elusive spaces of Paris as the city entered the modern era. Drawing not only upon Doisneau's previously unpublished archives but also on conversations with the photographer in his final years, this book examines every aspect of Doisneau's work, including the techniques he used. Emphasized are his periods of engagement with the birth of photojournalism in the 1930s; with humanist social realism in the 1940s and 1950s; and with montage and art brut in the 1960s. The photographs, made by Doisneau on his own and while working for Vogue, Life, and other well-known magazines, reveal how the familiar is swept away, a theme germane to city-dwellers everywhere.

A Photographer's Life

Hans-Michael Koetzle

Gabriel Bauret

Anton Holzer

Alejandro Castellote

Ulf Richter

Christoph Schaden

Michael Ebert

Emilia Tavares

Bernd Weise

Thomas Wiegand

Franziska Mecklenburg

Thomas Honickel

Rebecca Reuter

100 Jahre Leica

Augen Auf!

George Herbert Mead

Detective Chief Inspector Lucy Spires has a successful career of almost 30 years in the local North East Police Service. She is currently working on a case of multiple murders of prostitutes where the attacker is taking trophies from his victims. She is also tracking a drug lord and as she nears bringing him to justice, she is blinded in a near-fatal road accident meant to end her life. Two months after the devastating news of losing her sight, her determination and strong will give her the strength to start and re-build her shattered life. She realises that she has been given a second chance, having to adapt to a whole new way of living. Following this awful attempt on her life, she is invited by the police force to go back to work for them in an advisory role, as they have so far not been able to apprehend the serial murderer. Coming back to work, Lucy goes on to solve this complicated case using her other senses. Using her razor-sharp mind to solve further puzzling cases, losing her sight unlocks a new way of working and bringing criminals to justice.

Lucy Spires - The Blind Detective

Peter Hamilton

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