Culture Chanel interprets Mademoiselle Chaners universe through her designs her iconic pieces & her literary & artistic inspirations. Throughout her life Chanel was close to the greatest artists of her time including poets Jean Cocteau & Pierre Revert:ly painters Pablo Picasso & Salvador Dali & composer Igor Stravinsky. The creative heritage of the House of Chanel continued through the decades from Mademoiselle Chanel to Karl Lagerfeld in the form of a dialogue established between artists's & authors. The impact of these individuals & others on Chanel's designs is explored in detail throughout the book; examining this tradition of collaboration & inspiration. The book is organised around five themes central to this history of Chanel; Origin Abstraction Invisibility Liberty & Imaginary. For example the Origin section examines how traces of the orphanage in Aubazine where Chanel was abandoned by her father. The Cistercian abbey there can be identified in both her designs & her contemplative almost spiritual approach to her work. The stained glass windows of the church had a pattern that inspired the double C the iconic symbol of Chanel. Designs artworks letters documents & rare archival photographs come together to illustrate the creative dialogue between different eras & inspirations. Culture Chanel demonstrates the bold path of a brand that has always known how to express the essence of its times a fashion house that continues to be an enduring symbol of modernity. ...

The Culture of Control charts the dramatic changes in crime control & criminal justice that have occurred in Britain & America over the last 25 years. It then explains these transformations by showing how the social organization of late modern society has prompted a series of political & cultural adaptations that alter how governments & citizens think & act in relation to crime. The book presents an original & in-depth analysis of contemporary crime control revealing its underlying logics & rationalities & identifying the social relations & cultural sensibilities that have produced this new culture of control. In developing a history of the present" in the field of crime control David Garland presents an intertwined history of the welfare state & the criminal justice state a theory of social & penal change & an account of how social order is constructed in late modern societies. Drawing on extensive research in the UK & the USA he shows in detail how the social economic & cultural forces of the late 20th century have reshaped criminological thought public policy & the cultural meaning of crime & criminals. The Culture of Control explains how our responses to crime & our sense of criminal justice came to be so dramatically reconfigured at the end of the 20th century. The shifting policies of crime & punishment welfare & security
- & the changing class race & gender relations that underpin them
- are viewed as aspects of the problem of governing late modern society & creating social order in a rapidly changing social world. Its theoretical scope empirical range & interpretative insight make this book an indispensable guide to one of the central issues of our time."

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Once considered a mere caretaker for collections the curator is now widely viewed as a globally connected auteur. Over the last twenty-five years as international group exhibitions & biennials have become the dominant mode of presenting contemporary art to the public curatorship has begun to be perceived as a constellation of creative activities not unlike artistic praxis. The curator has gone from being a behind-the-scenes organizer & selector to a visible centrally important cultural producer. In The Culture of Curating & the Curating of Culture (s) Paul ONeill examines the emergence of independent curatorship & the discourse that helped to establish it. ONeill describes how by the 1980s curated group exhibitions--large-scale temporary projects with artworks cast as illustrative fragments--came to be understood as the creative work of curator-auteurs. The proliferation of new biennials & other large international exhibitions in the 1990s created a cohort of high-profile globally mobile curators moving from Venice to Paris to Kassel. In the 1990s curatorial & artistic practice converged blurring the distinction between artist & curator. ONeill argues that this change in the understanding of curatorship was shaped by a curator-centered discourse that effectively advocated--and authorized--the new independent curatorial practice. Drawing on the extensive curatorial literature & his own interviews with leading curators critics art historians & artists ONeill traces the development of the curator-as-artist model & the ways it has been contested. The Culture of Curating & the Curating of Culture (s) documents the many ways in which our perception of art has been transformed by curating & the discourses surrounding it. ...

Praise for the first edition: Julier provides an important contemporary account of how design disciplines act & interact in the world!. an important resource for the student of design! perfection as a cultural studies text
- European Journal of Cultural Studies Aimed at students of design studies design history cultural studies & sociology The Culture of Design offers a unique overview of design practice in contemporary culture & society. Drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives Julier nevertheless foregrounds the everyday business & professional context in which designers work. The second edition of The Culture of Design has been thoroughly revised & updated & contains new case studies including one on the iPod. In addition the book now has a new introductory chapter that outlines academic approaches to design culture & an extended final chapter which looks at the links between design & management studies & how the creative industries function in the context of urban regeneration & social participation.
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A young Australian working girl from London struggles to adapt to diplomatic life among the royal courtiers of Swaziland in post-independence Zimbabwe & in Angola amid the gunfire of the civil war. She accompanies her husband the striding KJ on his African postings together with two English bull terriers & a large redoubtable African tabby cat. As each country unfolds its challenges & discoveries she shares her delight her wry humour & keen sense of the ridiculous. In a darker mood we follow KJ in Somalia during the famine & in Rwanda after the genocide. The book will appeal to travellers; to those who have worked overseas & coped with culture shock. The writer a psychologist delves into history & sociology revels in the bizarre &

Includes:: recipes collected along the way.

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In August 1745 Charles Edward Stuart the Young Pretender landed in Scotland & sparked the Second Jacobite Rising. The Jacobite forces seized Perth then Edinburgh where they proclaimed the Young Pretenders father King James VIII; they trounced their Hanoverian opponents at Prestonpans & crossed into England getting as far south as Derby before withdrawing into Scotl&. Far from universally popular north of the border the Jacobite army bested another Hanoverian army at Falkirk & besieged Stirling only to be routed by the duke of Cumberlands army at Culloden in April 1746 a crushing defeat that ended any prospect of a Stuart restoration. Featuring full-colour artwork depicting the distinctive uniforms of Cumberlands men this exhaustively researched study offers a wealth of detail of regimental strengths & casualties &

Includes:: an extended chronology that places individual units in specific places throughout the campaign that culminated at Culloden.

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These engaging folk tales from Cumbria were collected as fragments that the author has brought back to life. Shaped by the natural world local customs & generations of chattering these traditional tales reflect the unique Cumbrian wit & wisdom. Herein you will find intriguing accounts of Hunchback & the Swan the Screaming Skulls of Calgarth the Millom Hob Thross Hughie the Graeme Cumbrian Crack & Billy Peascods Harp. They will make you want to visit the places where they happened & meet some of the characters that feature in them. Including charming illustrations from the local artist Steven Gregg this captivating collection will be enjoyed by readers time & again. Taffy Thomas has lived in Grasmere for well over thirty years & is a highly experienced storyteller with a repertoire of more than 300 tales. In the 2001 New Year Honours List he was awarded the MBE for services to storytelling & charity & in 2010 was appointed as the first UK Storyteller Laureate. ...

Its been fourteen years since Jinxs mother was brutally stabbed to death in their home in East London. Fourteen years for Jinx to become accustomed to the huge weight of guilt & anger that has destroyed her life. Fourteen years to nurture an impossible shame. Out of nowhere Lemon arrives on her doorstep. An old friend of her mothers he wants to revisit the events leading to that terrible night & Jinx sees the opportunity to confess finally her hand in the violence. But Lemon has his own secrets to share & over the course of one weekend they strip away the layers of the past to lay bare a story full of jealousy & tragic betrayal. Narrated with a distinct & fiery spice Jinx & Lemon must find their own paths to redemption in this stunning debut novel. ...

Paul Mason's father was a policeman. He was also a member of a sadistic paedophile ring. He would keep Paul locked up & naked in a tiny cupboard under the stairs of their home before sexually abusing him. This cycle of abuse continued for several years & also affected his brother. The cupboard became a horrific prison where fear & terror filled his every moment. The Cupboard Under the Stairs is a story of abuse at the mercy of adults whom Paul should have been able to trust. There followed a life almost destroyed by their actions. It is the harrowing story of one man's fight for justice & an end to the horrific memories that still haunt him daily. ...

This CD Storage box is printed with tasty cupcakes & polka dots with a classic silver label holder on the front. Handy for storage of CDs or anything else you might want to keep safe secure & organized. Approximate dimensions: H 145 x W 140 x D 280mm ...