Jin è una studentessa coreana che studia in una prestigiosa scuola d'arte a Londra. Edward, orfano di madre, è un senza fissa dimora che pratica la magia, anarchico e molto critico del sistema. Il loro è un incontro tra due outsider che soffrono una perdita - la madre annegata di Edward, la madre lontana di Jin -, a disagio con se stessi e incapaci di integrarsi nel proprio ambiente. Esponente post punk del fumetto inglese Harvey usa l'amicizia tra i due per criticare apertamente le politiche conservatrici degli ultimi governi britannici, l'isolazionismo e la sistematica limitazione delle libertà dei cittadini in cambio di un effimero senso di sicurezza. Con stile ironico e feroce Harvey racconta Londra, in vitro, come la forma di una società della sorveglianza, grigia del suo cemento e illuminata di pochi colori primari che sono essi stessi strumenti di controllo - istruzioni semplici per menti semplici, che ormai hanno rinunciato alla ricchezza dello spettro cromatico. In questa città-mondo, non c'è spazio per la creatività, quella del mago e quella del giovane artista-fumettista che, all'inizio del racconto, si butta sotto l'autobus 25 diretto ad Algate. La sua richiesta d'aiuto - centinaia di pagine di storie che si concludono tutte con un suicidio - avrebbe trovato ascolto? Oltre 'UK in a Bad Way', il volume include 'Mouth Baby', uno sguardo surreale sulla famiglia contemporanea. È una strana gravidanza quella che dopo qualche esitazione, Bernard e Leonard decidono di portare avanti. La creatura venuta al mondo diventa adulta nell'arco di una settimana e inizia a contr

An intimate, thought-provoking exploration of the mysteries of "star presence" in cinema

"'One does not go to see them act,' wrote James Baldwin about the great iconicmovie stars Wayne and Davis and Bogart, 'one goes to watch them be' . . . Of course. It seems obvious . . . Where else besides the movies do you get to see other persons so intimately, so pressingly, so largely even? Where else such intense and close, such sustained and searching looks as you have of these strangers on the screen, whoever they really are? In life you try not to stare; but at the movies that's exactly what you get to do, two hours or more--safely, raptly, even blissfully."

It's this sort of amplified, heightened, sometimes transcendent "seeing" that James Harvey explores inWatching Them Be. Marvelously vivid and perceptive, and impressively erudite, this is his take on how aura is communicated in movies. Beginning where Roland Barthes left off with the face of Greta Garbo and ending with Robert Bresson'sAu hasard Balthazar, Harvey moves nimbly and expertly through film history, celebrating actors and directors who have particularly conveyed a feeling of transcendence.
From Marlene Dietrich to John Wayne to Robert De Niro, from Nashville to Jackie Brown to Masculine Feminine and the implicitly or explicitly religious films of Roberto Rossellini and Carl Theodor Dreyer, this is one man's personal, deeply felt account of the films that have changed his life. They will also, Harvey suggests, change yours.

From the author of the bestselling and universally praised Machine Shop Trade Secrets comes a new manual that does for CNC machining what the first book did for conventional machining. With this guide to proven CNC machine shop practices, you will be producing machine parts faster, with fewer errors, and with less labor. You'll discover that you don't have to know “everything there is to know” to make parts on CNC machines - just as, for example, you don't have to know everything about Microsoft Word to write a letter. Whether you are a shop owner, machinist, designer, or hobbyist, you will find yourself referring to this manual again and again.

FEATURES YOU'LL FIND

• Includes over 100 four-color photos throughout.
• Easy-to-read steps for going from print to part using CAD/CAM equipment
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• Ways to unravel the mysteries of using G-code
• Ways to avoid "Crashing"
• 3D CNC milling basics
• What CNC machines can and cannot do
• Solidworks® challenges to improve your modeling skills
• Ideas for how engineers and designers can help machinists get the job done
• A potpourri of practical and proven machining tips and tricks

Breast cancer affects 1 in 10 women and the majority of UK women will attend a breast clinic at least once during their lives. The patient's journey through assessment and management is one that involves a huge range of healthcare professionals, in which the truly multidisciplinary management style required has previously been only sparsely addressed. This book provides a practical guide on how to investigate and manage common breast problems for all members of the breast disease team, whether surgeons, nurses, pathologists or support workers. Its focus is on providing easy access to the most up-to-date evidence, allowing healthcare workers to make the best decisions possible and encouraging a team approach to patient support.

26 chapters cover the whole of the patient journey from assessment through to surgery and adjuvant treatments, giving a practical overview of the whole process of care. The coverage guides the reader from clinical examination and investigation of the breast patient to pre-operative workup and post-operative complication guidance. To enable swift and effective decision-making, clear management plans are provided for common breast problems. The book also includes the latest evidence, guidance and references on breast disease, together with discussions on current controversies in the field including the management of margins, management of the axilla and the evidence surrounding the NHS Breast Screening Programme. To give practical advice on the realities of being part of a breast care team, the book also has several chapters devoted to leadership and management including MDT requirements, audit and research, avoiding complaints and the organisation of a breast unit.

Enabling every healthcare professional to respond to patients' needs accurately and knowledgeably, Breast Disease Management is a practical guide for the whole team in providing truly patient-centred, effective care.

The most comprehensive handbook for the superintendency!

Written for urban, rural, and suburban superintendents, this practitioner-friendly book helps district leaders improve their effectiveness, learn from best practices, and fully understand current education mandates. The authors draw on five years of research on 100 members of the National Superintendents Roundtable, focusing on:

• Public engagement in this new economic environment
• Models of public leadership amidst change
• Issues of race and class in schools
• The changing nature of work
• Schools of the future
• Teacher quality and value-added assessment
• Essential elements of successful reform

Get the essential tools you need to make an accurate diagnosis with Nuclear Medicine: The Requisites! The newest edition of his bestselling volume by Drs. Harvey Ziessman, Janis O'Malley, and James Thrall delivers the conceptual, factual, and interpretive information you need for effective clinical practice in nuclear medicine imaging, as well as for certification and recertification review.

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What southerners do, where they go, and what they expect to accomplish in their spare time, their "leisure," reveals much about their cultural values, class and racial similarities and differences, and historical perspectives. This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture offers an authoritative and readable reference to the culture of sports and recreation in the American South, surveying the various activities in which southerners engage in their nonwork hours, as well as attitudes surrounding those activities.

Seventy-four thematic essays explore activities from the familiar (porch sitting and fairs) to the essential (football and stock car racing) to the unusual (pool checkers and a sport called "fireballing"). In seventy-seven topical entries, contributors profile major sites associated with recreational activities (such as Dollywood, drive-ins, and the Appalachian Trail) and prominent sports figures (including Althea Gibson, Michael Jordan, Mia Hamm, and Hank Aaron). Taken together, the entries provide an engaging look at the ways southerners relax, pass time, celebrate, let loose, and have fun.

"Like its companions, this volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture is a pure delight, with exhaustive coverage, a sense of humor, and a sharp eye for detail. From gardening to NASCAR, the South's favorite pastimes are all here, and as entertaining in print as they are in practice."---Harry Watson, director of the Center for the Study of the American South, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

"A dizzying testament to the vagaries and varieties of southern life, with a place for subjects as diverse as the passions of high school football, the ever-changing pageant of Latina quinceaneras, and the enduring ritual of `passing the time' by talking about nothing and everything all at once. As with the other volumes, there is no way to summarize. You need to read it for yourself."---Pamela Grundy, author of Learning to win: Sports, Education, and Social Change in Twentieth-Century North Carolina

Chronicles the life and accomplishments of the German aircraft designer, discussing the evolution of his aircraft designs with an emphasis on the Me-109 and the Me-262 fighters.

Part of the Ritual Studies Monograph Series, this book examines longstanding debates in the anthropology of religion concerning the connections between ritual and meaning, belief, politics, emotion, development, and gender. But it examines these 'old' topics from a radically new perspective: that of the cognitive science of religion. As such the volume identifies potential solutions to established problems but it also sets out a program for future research in the field. The volume includes a substantial introduction from Harvey Whitehouse and James Laidlaw who highlight the connections between key issues in the history of religious anthropology and the latest findings of scientific psychology. This volume, they argue, presents us with potential solutions to old problems but also with a series of new and exciting challenges.

Ethnographers of religion have created a vast record of religious behavior from small-scale non-literate societies to globally distributed religions in urban settings. So a theory that claims to explain prominent features of ritual, myth, and belief in all contexts everywhere causes ethnographers a skeptical pause. In Ritual and Memory, however, a wide range of ethnographers grapple critically with Harvey Whitehouse's theory of two divergent modes of religiosity. Although these contributors differ in their methods, their areas of fieldwork, and their predisposition towards Whitehouse's cognitively-based approach, they all help evaluate and refine Whitehouse's theory and so contribute to a new comparative approach in the anthropology of religion.