The most famous designs of the twentieth century are not those in museums but in the marketplace The Coca-Cola bottle & the Mc Donald&s logo are known all over the world & designs like the modernistic & Frankfurt Kitchen& of 1926 or the 1954 streamlined & tail-finned Oldsmobile or & Blow& the inflatable chair ubiquitous in the late sixties tell us more about our culture than a narrowly-defined canon of classics Drawing on the most up-to-date scholarship (not only in design history but also in social anthropology & women&s history) Jonathan Woodham takes a fresh look at the wider issues of design & industrial culture throughout Europe Scandinavia North America & the Far East He explores themes such as national identity the & Americanisation& of ideology & business methods the rise of the multi-nationals Pop & Postmodernism & contemporary ideas of nostalgia & heritage & sets the proliferation of everyday design against the writing of critics as different as Nikolaus Pevsner the champion of Modernism & Vance Packard author of The Hidden Persuaders In the history which emerges design is clearly seen for what it is the powerful & complex expression of aesthetic social economic political & technological forces ...

Jackson Pollock Georgia O& Keeffe Andy Warhol Julian Schnabel & Laurie Anderson are just some of the major American artists of the twentieth century From the 1893 Chicago World&s Fair to the 2000 Whitney Biennial a rapid succession of art movements & different styles reflected the extreme changes in American culture & society as well as America&s position within the international art world This exciting new look at twentieth century American art explores the relationships between American art museums & audiences in the century that came to be called the & American century& Extending beyond New York it covers the emergence of Feminist art in Los Angeles in the 1970s; the Black art movement; the expansion of galleries & art schools; & the highly political public controversies surrounding arts funding All the key movements are fully discussed including early American Modernism the New Negro movement Regionalism Abstract Expressionism Pop Art & Neo-Expressionism ...

First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain Kenneth Morgan's Very Short Introduction to Twentieth-Century Britain examines the forces of consensus & of conflict in twentieth-century Britain The account covers the trauma of the First World War & the social divisions of the twenties; fierce domestic & foreign policy debates in the thirties; the impact of the Second World War for domestic transformation popular culture & the loss of empire; the transition from the turmoil of the seventies to the aftermath of Thatcherism & the advent of New Labour Throughout cultural & artistic themes are woven into the analysis along with the distinct national experiences of Scotland Wales & Ireland The profound tension that shook the United Kingdom are juxtaposed against equally deep forces for stability cohesion & a sense of historic identity ABOUT THE SERIES The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly Our expert authors combine facts analysis perspective new ideas & enthusiasm to make interesting & challenging topics highly readable ...

The Chilean Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) was probably the greatest & certainly the most prolific of twentieth-century Latin American poets He brought out his first collection at the age of seventeen & quickly developed an assured & distinctive poetic voice His third book Veinte Poemas de Amor y una Cancion Desesperada
- Twenty Love Poems & a Song of Despair- was published in 1924 & attracted international acclaim It remains one of the most celebrated & admired books of erotic poetry published in the last hundred years with over a million copies sold worldwide Neruda was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1971
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Laurence Olivier plays young a Londoner Larry implicated in a brutal murder He is permitted 21 days of comparative freedom from the time of the first hearing to the time of trial -- provided he does not leave London As the three weeks pass Larry falls deeply in love with girlfriend Wanda (Vivien Leigh) who at first believes in his innocence But as the deadline approaches Larry's mood swings & erratic behaviour shakes Wanda's faith in him ...

Tracklist Heavydirtysoul Stressed Out Ride Fairly Local Tear In My Heart Lane Boy The Judge Doubt Polarize We Don't Believe What's On TVMessage Man Hometown Not Today Goner ...

Tracklist Jumpsuit Levitate Morph My Blood Chlorine Smithereens Neon Gravestones The Hype Nico & The Niners Cut My Lip Bandito Pet Cheetah Legend Leave The City ...

Ode To Sleep Holding On To You Migraine House Of Gold Car Radio Semi-Automatic Screen The Run & Go Fake You Out Guns For Hands Trees Truce ...

The classic underwater adventure available in Puffin Classics A mission to rid the seas of a monstrous creature becomes a terrifying nightmare when Professor Aronnax Conseil & Ned Land are thrown overboard The huge marine animal which has haunted the water is no living beast but a spectacular man-made vessel & the three men find themselves the helpless prisoners of Captain Nemo Resigned to their fate they begin a miraculous journey on the submarine ship which can travel through waters never before explored For the Professor at least this voyage is one he would not have missed for the world ...

Three adventurers set out to kill a sea monster but all is not as it seems Out in the vast expanse of the Pacific they find not a beast but a submarine
- the Nautilus an advanced craft captained by the enigmatic Captain Nemo Captured & hauled aboard they accompany him through coral reefs shipwrecks & ancient ruins There they hunt sharks & battle giant squid not realising that the greatest danger is Nemo himself who will stop at nothing in his quest for vengeance Beautifully illustrated by the French painter Edouard Riou who worked with Jules Verne on six of his novels this Macmillan Collector's Library edition of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea also

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