Based on the true story of Alwyn Peter, a Queensland Aboriginal charged with murder in 1979; his case created legal precedent when he was released on parole after his lawyers argued that men, like Peter, were shaped & destroyed by their artificially created environments on Queensland reserves (2 acts, 3 men, 2 women). ...

Offers information in three distinct sections: Diagnostics, Planning/ Imaging, & Therapeutics. This title covers such topics as applications of nanotechnology in the imaging & therapy of brain tumors; molecular Tools (Biology, Prognosis & Therapeutic Triage in Gliomas); &, surgical planning & intra-operative MR in brain tumor surgery. ...

Looks at post-war Britain from a theatrical perspective. This book examines the constant interplay between theatre & society from the resurgent optimism of the Attlee years to the satire boom of the Sixties & the growth of political theatre under Tony Blair in the post-Iraq period. ...

Over three programmes David Attenborough travels from Kenya to California, investigating the contesting claims about the current state of our planet. In the first programme he examines the extinction crisis, measuring the disappearance of some species against the mass of life that still remains undiscovered; in the second, he explores this crisis further, examining its causes; & finally, in the third, he looks at the possible courses of action open to us in the coming century. ...

Looks at the different ways in which 'realism' & reality have been understood in art history, with a focus on debates about the real within photography. Emphasising the role of art in shaping, as well as reflecting, notions of the real, this book features contributions from a number of contemporary artists. ...

Hannah Buchan thinks herself ordinary. She is not the revolutionary child that her painter mother & famous radical father had hoped for. Raised in the creative chaos of 1960s America, Hannah vows to reject her parents' liberal lifestyle, & settles instead for typical family life in a nondescript corner of Maine. ...

Frank Capra directs Spender Tracy & Katharine Hepburn in this classic satirical comedy. Tracy plays Grant Matthews, a prospective candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, backed by his mistress, newspaper mogul Kay Thorndyke (Angela Lansbury). In order to present a more wholesome image, Matthews convinces his estranged wife Mary (Hepburn) to pose as his devoted spouse. Mary agrees because she thinks he might make a good president, but when Matthews corrupts his principles for votes, Mary realises she has made a mistake. Only when Matthews publicly admits his dishonesty does he prove himself worthy of Mary's respect
- & her love.
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Examines how trade unionism has waxed & waned in the nation's political & moral imagination, among both devoted partisans & intransigent foes. This book argues that labor's important function, in theory if not always in practice, has been the vitalization of a democratic ethos, at work & in the larger society. ...