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Author : Spike Milligan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1986-12
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0140092919
Author : Edwin Banks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 0722307527
Author : Spike Milligan
Publisher : Sidgwick & Jackson
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036427412
Author : David Pybus
Publisher : Global Oriental
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9789004213449
This book is a celebration through verse of man’s extraordinary sensory world of smell, connecting East and West. Here is a fascinating and delightful anthology, drawn from around the world and across the millennia, capturing a kaleidoscope of emotions, moods and memories, all of which are energized and enhanced by smells of every kind.
Author : Jonathan Richmond
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114279974
Transport of Delight is a true interdisciplinary work, and includes a thorough analytical assessment of the Los Angeles rail program, with a focus on the Long Beach Blue Line light rail-the first of the new projects to go ahead. En route, it shows that ridership forecasting for this project was not only biased and statistically invalid, but in fact done to justify decisions made on other grounds. This unusual book develops a novel theory of myth to explain the construction of rail passenger transit in Los Angeles when it had little to offer the needs of a dispersed autopolis, whose urgent but dispersed public transportation needs could have been better served by developing the regional bus system. The author conducted interviews and performed the detective work necessary to reveal an unlikely logic that held together a network of symbols, images, and metaphors that together present powerful mythical beliefs in the guise of truth. A political analysis shows how consensus was reached to proceed with the light rail to Long Beach, but political explanations are ultimately found lacking, because they cannot explain why decision-makers would want to put the rail in place. It is only when provocative metaphors-of the need to connect communities and to restore a mythical balance to a dysfunctional transportation system-and symbols-of escape from the pressure cooker of poverty, of urban success, power and, indeed sexual acumen-are surfaced, that we realize that Los Angeles' Transport of Delight is the result of the very human need to transcend complexity by providing mythical creations that appear to offer easy answers to society's deepest problems.
Author : Colin Divall,Andrew Scott
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001-12-20
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780718501068
This book is the first in 30 years to take transport museums seriously as vehicles for the making of public histories. Drawing upon many years' experience of visiting and working in transport museums around the world, the authors argue that the sector's historical roots are more complex than is usually thought. Written from a multidisciplinary perspective but firmly rooted in the practice of making public histories, this book brings the study of transport museums firmly into the mainstream of academic and professional debate.>
Author : Spike Milligan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Transportation
ISBN : OCLC:1259655914
Author : Michael Greenhalgh
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004405479
Providing extensive documentation, the book examines the mechanics, trials and tribulations of plundering the Ottoman East for private and public collections in Europe. It helps document the continuing debate about the ethics of museum collections.
Author : Hanjo Berressem
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0810113090
This is an original analysis of the novels of Gombrowicz, a fascinating figure of the 20th-century European avante-garde. Berressem examines the novels in light of both contemporary literary theory and Lacanian psychoanalysis.
Author : Witold Gombrowicz
Publisher : Random House (NY)
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015008521307
Author : Peter Hancock
Publisher : Springer
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319552484
This inspiring book shows how the spiritual side of life, with its thoughts, feelings, and aspirations, is intimately bound up with our material technologies. From the wonder of Gothic Cathedrals, to the quiet majesty of lighter than air flight, to the ultimate in luxury of the north Atlantic steamers, Peter Hancock explores how these sequential heights of technology have enabled our dreams of being transported to new and uncharted realms to become reality. Sometimes literally, sometimes figuratively, technology has always been there to make material the visions of our imagination. This book shows how this has essentially been true for all technologies from Stonehenge to space station.But technology is far from perfect. Indeed, the author argues here that some of the most public and tragic of its failures still remain instructive, emblematic, and even inspiring. He reports on examples such as a Cathedral of the Earth (Beauvais), a Cathedral of the Seas (Titanic), and a Cathedral of the Air (Hindenburg) and tells their stories from the viewpoint of material transcendence. By interweaving their stories he reveals how technologies can succeed in elevating human beings and, in taking them to whole new realms of being, he explores and explains why these experiences are ‘Transports of Delight.’
Author : Ron Brown
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781445630373
The fascinating history of Portsmouth's transport, illustrated by a unique collection of pictures.
Author : John Boag
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 854 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : English language
ISBN : UOM:39015039333706
Author : Geoff Holder
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752492964
The Little Book of Edinburgh is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic or simply strange information which no-one will want to be without. Here we find out about the most unusual crimes and punishments, eccentric inhabitants, famous sons and daughters and literally hundreds of wacky facts. Geoff Holder's new book contains historic and contemporary trivia on Edinburgh. There are lots of factual chapters but also plenty of frivolous details which will amuse and surprise. A reference book and a quirky guide, this can be dipped in to time and time again to reveal something you never knew. Discover the real story of Greyfriars Bobby (he was a publicity stunt), meet the nineteenth-century counterparts of our favourite modern detectives, from Jackson Brodie to John Rebus, seek out historical sites from the distant past to the Second World War, and tangle with the Tattoo and freak out with the Festival. A remarkably engaging little book, this is essential reading for visitors and locals alike.
Author : Geoff Holder
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750956864
The Little Book of Scotland is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic or simply strange information which no-one will want to be without. Discover the most unusual crimes and punishments, eccentric inhabitants, famous sons and daughters and literally hundreds of wacky facts. Geoff Holder’s latest book contains historic and contemporary trivia including such gems as the real story of William ‘Braveheart’ Wallace, which king was murdered in a barn, and where the Second World War Commandos were formed. From Sir Walter Scott to Sir Sean Connery and Queen Victoria to Mary Queens of Scots, this is a remarkably engaging little book, essential reading for visitors and Scots alike.