When a society becomes more affluent does it lose other values? Are the skills that education & literacy gave millions wasted on consuming pop culture? Do the media coerce us into a world of the superficial & the material
- or can they be a force for good? When Richard Hoggart asked these questions in his 1957 book The Uses of Literacy Britain was undergoing huge social change yet his landmark work has lost none of its pertinence & power today Hoggart gives a fascinating insight into the close-knit values of Northern England's vanishing working-class communities & weaves this together with his views on the arrival of a new homogenous 'mass' US-influenced culture His headline-grabbing bestseller opened up a whole new area of cultural study & remains essential reading both as a historical document & as a commentary on class poverty & the media
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This expanded edition of John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism

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The UX Book Process & Guidelines for Ensuring a Quality User Experience aims to help readers learn how to create & refine interaction designs that ensure a quality user experience (UX) The book seeks to expand the concept of traditional usability to a broader notion of user experience; to provide a hands-on practical guide to best practices & established principles in a UX lifecycle; & to describe a pragmatic process for managing the overall development effort The book provides an iterative & evaluation-centered UX lifecycle template called the Wheel for interaction design Key concepts discussed include contextual inquiry & analysis; extracting interaction design requirements; constructing design-informing models; design production; UX goals metrics & targets; prototyping; UX evaluation; the interaction cycle & the user action framework; & UX design guidelines This book will be useful to anyone interested in learning more about creating interaction designs to ensure a quality user experience These include interaction designers graphic designers usability analysts software engineers programmers systems analysts software quality-assurance specialists human factors engineers cognitive psychologists cosmic psychics trainers technical writers documentation specialists marketing personnel & project managers ...

Selected as a Book of the Year 2017 in Sky at Night' Just the thing to captivate a bright child or anyone in fact who aspires to be the next Tim Peake' Daily Telegraph AN IMAGINATIVE EXPLORATION INTO THE 'WHAT IF' OF SPACE TRAVELImagine taking a hike along the windswept red plains of Mars to dig for signs of life or touring one of Jupiter's sixty-four moons where you can take photos of its swirling storms For a mini-break on a tight budget the Moon is quite majestic & very quiet if you can make it during the off-season Beautifully illustrated & packed with real-world science The Vacation Guide to the Solar System is the essential planning guide for the curious space adventurer covering all of the essentials for your next voyage how to get there & what to do when you arrive Written by an astronomer from the American Museum of Natural History & one of the creators of the Guerilla Science collective this tongue-in-cheek reference guide is an imaginative exploration into the what if' of space travel sharing fascinating facts about the planets in our solar system & even some moons!'SUPERB' BBC Sky at Night' The ultimate guide for any budding space tourist' BBC Focus ...

The epic & controversial story of a major breakthrough in cell biology that led to the creation of some of the world's most important vaccines Until the late 1960s tens of thousands of children suffered crippling birth defects if their mothers had been exposed to rubella popularly known as German measles while pregnant; there was no vaccine & little understanding of how the disease devastated foetuses In June 1962 a young biologist in Philadelphia using tissue extracted from an aborted foetus from Sweden produced safe clean cells that allowed the creation of vaccines against rubella & other common childhood diseases Two years later in the midst of a devastating German measles epidemic his colleague developed the vaccine that would one day wipe out homegrown rubella The rubella vaccine & others made with those foetal cells have protected more than 150 million people in the United States the vast majority of them preschool children The new cells & the method of making them also led to vaccines that have protected billions of people around the world from polio rabies chicken pox measles hepatitis A shingles & adenovirus Meredith Wadman's masterful account recovers not only the science of this urgent race but also the political roadblocks that nearly stopped the scientists She describes the terrible dilemmas of pregnant women exposed to German measles & recounts testing on infants prisoners orphans & the intellectually disabled which was common in the era These events take place at the dawn of the battle over using human foetal tissue in research during the arrival of big commerce in campus labs & as huge changes take place in the laws & practices governing who 'owns' research cells & the profits made from biological inventions It is also the story of yet one more unrecognized woman whose cells have been used to save countless lives With another frightening virus imperilling pregnant women on the rise today no medical story could have more human drama impact or urgency today than The Vaccine Race ...

Tracklist Wreckin' Bar (Ra Ra Ra) If You Wanna A Lack Of Understanding Blow It Up Wetsuit Norgaard Post Break-Up Sex Under Your Thumb All In White Wolf Pack Family Friend Untitled ...

Tracklist No Hope I Always Knew Teenage Icon All In Vain Ghost Town Aftershave Ocean Weirdo Bad Mood Change Of Heart pt 2 I Wish I Was A Girl Lonely World ...

1 Handsome 2 Dream Lover 3 Minimal Affection 4 2020 5 (All Afternoon) in Love 6 Denial 7 Want You So Bad 8 Radio Bikini 9 Maybe I Could Hold You 10 Give Me a Sign 11 Undercover ...

2018 marks the twentieth anniversary of V-Day the radical grassroots movement to end violence against women & girls inspired by Eve Ensler's international sensation The Vagina Monologues This special edition features six never-before-published monologues a new foreword by National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson a new introduction by the author & a new afterword by One Billion Rising director Monique Wilson on the stage phenomenon's global impact A landmark work in women's empowerment as relevant as ever after a year marked by unprecedented social & political protest in the face of unapologetic racism & misogyny The Vagina Monologues honours women's sexuality in all its complexity mystery & power Witty & irreverent compassionate & wise this award-winning masterpiece gives voice to real women's deepest fantasies fears anger & pleasure & calls for a world where all women are safe equal free & alive in their bodies' This play changed the world Seeing it changed my soul Performing in it changed my life' Kerry Washington ...

From South Park to Kathy Acker from Lars Von Trier to Sex & the City women's sexual organs are demonized In The Vagina A Literary & Cultural History Emma LE Rees investigates the evolution of this demonization she considers how writers artists & filmmakers contend with the dilemma of he vagina's puzzling 'covert visibility' & how the c-word' is an obscenity that both legitimates & perpetuates the fractured identities of women globally In our postmodern porn-obsessed culture vaginas appear to be everywhere literally or symbolically but crucially they are as silenced as they are objectified Even common slang terms for the vagina can be seen as an attempt to divert attention away from the reality of women's lived sexual experiences slang offers a convenient distraction from something taboo The Vagina A Literary & Cultural History is an important contribution to the ongoing debate in understanding the feminine identity ...