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Brand: Jay Scherer;david Mills;linda Sloan Mcculloch
EAN: 9781772124934
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When the Rogers Place arena opened in downtown Edmonton in September 2016, no amount of buzz could drown out the rumours of manipulation, secret deals, and corporate greed undergirding the project. Working with documentary evidence and original interviews, the authors present an absorbing account of the machinations that got the arena and the adjacent Ice District built, with a price tag of more than $600 million. The arena deal, they argue, established a costly public financing precedent that people across North America should watch closely, as many cities consider building sports facilities for professional teams or international competitions. Their analysis brings clarity and nuance to a case shrouded in secrecy and understood by few besides political and business insiders. Power Play tells a dramatic story about clashing priorities where sports, money, and municipal power meet.

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Brand: Mills David
EAN: 9781781422007
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Brand: David Kilcullen;greg Mills
EAN: 9781787386952
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'These things happened. They were glorious and they changed the world,' said Charlie Wilson, of America's role backing the anti-Soviet mujahideen. 'And then we fucked up the endgame.' With no support for Afghanistan after that war, the vacuum was filled by the Taliban and bin Laden. 'The Ledger' assesses the West's similarly failed approach to Afghanistan after 9/11--in military, diplomatic, political and developmental terms.\n\nDr David Kilcullen and Dr Greg Mills are uniquely placed to reflect backwards and forwards on the Afghan conflict: they worked with the international mission both as advisers and within the Arg, and they have considerable experience of counterinsurgency and stabilisation operations elsewhere in the world. Here these two experts show that there is plenty of blame to go around when explaining the failure to bring peace to Afghanistan after 9/11. \n\nThe signs of collapse were conveniently ignored, in favour of political narratives of progress and success. Yet for Afghans, the war and its geopolitical effects are not over because NATO is gone--Afghanistan remains globally connected through digital communications and networks. This vital book explains why and where failings in Afghanistan happened, warning against exceptionalist approaches to future peacebuilding missions around the globe.

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Brand: Wright Mills Charles;david Matza;gresham Sykes
EAN: 9788899565992
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«Di tanto in tanto, i sociologi potrebbero sottrarsi dalle occupazioni correnti per indagare se i loro interessi di ricerca contribuiscano in qualche misura alla domanda fondamentale della sociologia, ovvero alla questione hobbesiana: com’è possibile la società? Le risposte a tale domanda potrebbero ben contribuire a unificare una disciplina che forse non s’è ancora dimenticata dei suoi fondatori, ma che nondimeno ha dimenticato il perché è stata fondata.»

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Brand: David Ross
EAN: 9781782749844
Categoria: Libri e riviste

The decaying remnants of obselete industries and defunct commerce - whether coal mines, shipyards, factories, shopping centres, power plants, warehouses or mills - lie scattered in desolate locations throughout the world. These left-over structures still hold memories of the life that was once there. Transience was built in from the start. When a mine was worked out, it was abandoned; sometimes its machinery was removed to another mine, but often it was easier to equip the new place with more up-to-date equipment. \nAbandoned Industrial Places explores the discarded detritus of our modern mechanized age. Discover the grand Ore Dock in Marquette, USA, squatting isolated in the waters of Lake Superior; or the abandoned Caspian Sea oil rigs and drilling gear in Azerbaijan; or the enormous, gaping pit of the 1200m (3900ft) wide Mirny diamond mine in Sakha Republic, Russia; or the 700m (765yd) high wall of latticed steel towers of the Duga radar in Chernobyl, Ukraine; or the Domino Sugar Refinery, Brooklyn, New York - formerly the world's largest sugar refinery when built in 1882; or the still contaminated Fisher Body Plant 21 in Detroit, USA, a place where General Motors created some of their great marques for almost a hundred years. \nFilled with more than 200 memorable photographs from every part of the planet, Abandoned Industrial Places provides a strange and often spooky insight into the life and workings of industries long since ceased.

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Brand: David Goodyear
EAN: 9781399046961
Categoria: Libri e riviste

This book endeavours to capture the very essence of the railways in the northern UK, exploring in photographs their imprint upon the landscape. Railways are illustrated as they traverse the bleak fells, pass by traditional cotton mills and industrial heritage, stride over iconic viaducts crossing vast windswept valleys and coastal estuaries, and as they share the grandeur of iconic cathedrals of both religious and railway station designs, whilst not forgetting the intricate network of canals intertwining with the rails that eventually carried the very traffic that kept these waterways in use. Here is a personal selection which I trust helps explore all that characterises and reveals the moods and atmosphere which conjure the heart and “Spirit” of railways traversing our northern climes.\n\nLocomotives, train designs and liveries past and present will help recall the rails of the 1980’s and 90’s and offer an interesting contrast to the more modern images of the present millennium. With a mix of traction and train fleets, both in use on passenger and freight consists, this selection of images reveals their participation in capturing the heart of railways in the north. Readers are invited to share this fascinating adventure and indeed the inherent “Northern Spirit” which permeates throughout such a journey.

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Brand: David Elder
EAN: 9781398119178
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Stroud has been an important market town in the Cotswolds for centuries. At the heart of the five valleys, its prosperity was founded on the wool trade in the Middle Ages. During the Industrial Revolution, the town became a textile centre with numerous mills built along its streams. The canal network facilitated trade and industry in the town, as did the arrival of Brunel’s Great Western Railway. The town is renowned today for its historic buildings and steep streets and has become an independent cultural centre with a strong environmental community, which even boasted its own currency for a while in recent years. Through the centuries Stroud’s unusual history has encompassed the country’s oldest anti-slavery memorial, Huguenot and Jewish communities, a Victorian Communist colony, the last pistol duel in England, food riots, suffragettes, suffragists and much more.\n\nWith tales of remarkable characters, unusual events and tucked-away or disappeared historical buildings and locations, Secret Stroud will appeal to all those with an interest in the history of this Gloucestershire town.

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Brand: Richard Dyer
EAN: 9781839027437
Categoria: Libri e riviste

David Fincher's Seven (1995) follows two detectives, David Mills (Brad Pitt) and William Somerset (Morgan Freeman), as they investigate a series of gruesome murders. One of the most acclaimed films of the 1990s, it explores themes of moral decay, human darkness, and the blurred lines between good and evil. \n\nRichard Dyer's study of the film, unpacks how its cinematography, sound, and plot combine to create a harrowing account of a world beset by an all-encompassing, irremediable wickedness. He explores the film in terms of sin, story, structure, seriality, sound, sight and salvation, analyzing how Seven both epitomizes and modifies the serial killer genre, which is such a feature of recent cinema.\n\nThis new edition includes a new afterword by the author, re-assessing the film's lasting impact and influence over contemporary filmmaking aesthetics.

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Brand: Roy Jacobsen
EAN: 9780857058898
Categoria: Libri e riviste

The third novel in a historical trilogy that began with the International Booker shortlisted The Unseen\n\n\n \"Taken together, Jacobsen has given us an epic of Norway's experience of the first half of the 20th century that is subtle and moving\" David Mills, Sunday Times\n\n\n\"Jacobsen can make almost anything catch the light . . . One of Norway's greatest writers on the working class\" Times Literary Supplement\n\nThe journey had taken on its own momentum, it had become an autonomous, independent entity, she was searching for love, and was still happily unaware that truth is the first casualty of peace. \n\nThe long war is over, and Ingrid Barroy leaves the island that bears her name to search for the father of her child.\n\nAlexander, the Russian captive who survived the sinking of prisoner ship the Rigel and found himself in Ingrid's arms, made an attempt to cross the mountains to Sweden. Ingrid will follow in his footsteps, carrying her babe in arms, the child's dark eyes the only proof that she ever knew him.\n\nAlong the way, Ingrid's will encounter collaborators, partisans, refugees, deserters, slaves and sinners, in a country that still bears the scars of defeat and occupation. \n\nAnd before her journey's end she will be forced to ask herself how well she knows the man she is risking everything to find.\n\nTranslated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw\n\nDon Bartlett is the acclaimed translator of books by Karl Ove Knausgard, Jo Nesbo and Per Petterson.\n\nDon Shaw, co-translator, is a teacher of Danish and author of the standard Danish-Thai/Thai-Danish dictionaries.\n\nWith the support of the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union

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Brand: Javier Cercas
EAN: 9780857058324
Categoria: Libri e riviste

\"A remarkable act of personal history: brave, revelatory and unflinchingly honest\" WILLIAM BOYD\n\n\"There is no-one writing in English like this: engaged humanity achieving a hard-won wisdom\" DAVID MILLS, The Times\n\nLord of All the Dead is a courageous journey into Javier Cercas' family history and that of a country collapsing from a fratricidal war. The author revisits Ibahernando, his parents' village in southern Spain, to research the life of Manuel Mena. This ancestor, dearly loved by Cercas' mother, died in combat at the age of nineteen during the battle of the Ebro, the bloodiest episode in Spain's history. \n\nWho was Manuel Mena? A fascist hero whose memory is an embarrassment to the author, or a young idealist who happened to fight on the wrong side? And how should we judge him, as grandchildren and great-grandchildren of that generation, interpreting history from our supposed omniscience and the misleading\nperspective of a present full of automatic answers, that fails to consider the particularities of each personal and family drama?\n\nWartime epics, heroism and death are some of the underlying themes of this unclassifiable novel that combines road trips, personal confessions, war stories and historical scholarship, finally becoming an incomparable tribute to the author's mother and the incurable scars of an entire generation.

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Brand: Roy Jacobsen
EAN: 9781529417425
Categoria: Libri e riviste

The fourth novel in a historical series that began with the International Booker-shortlisted The Unseen\n\n \"Taken together, Jacobsen has given us an epic of Norway's experience of the first half of the 20th century that is subtle and moving\" David Mills, Sunday Times\n\n\"Jacobsen can make almost anything catch the light . . . One of Norway's greatest writers on the working class\" Times Literary Supplement\n\nA childless island is no island at all.\n\nIngrid Marie Barroy has returned to the island that bears her name, bringing up her daughter with the other children that came with the war, who will someday raise their own children until an island that was empty is singing once more with life.\n\nAnd soon another will arrive, a child of the war and an orphan of the peace, whom Ingrid will fight to make her own, and whose interests may, in time, collide with those of certain others on the island, forcing her to make a choice she will long regret.\n\nThe sea brings the island all it has - herring for salting, eider ducks for down - but Ingrid knows, has always\nknown, that one day it may wish to take something back. But until that day, she continues to live by one simple truth:\n\nThere is no limit to what you can do with an island, the imagination sets the only limits, as with the sea.\n\nTranslated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw\n\nReviews for The Unseen\n\n\"Even by his high standards, his magnificent new novel The Unseen is Jacobsen's finest to date, as blunt as it is subtle and is easily among the best books I have ever read\" Eileen Battersby, Irish Times\n\n\"A beautifully crafted novel . . . Quite simply a brilliant piece of work . . . Rendered beautifully into English by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw, The Unseen is a towering achievement that would be a deserved Booker International winner\" Charlie Connelly, New European.\n\n\"A profound interrogation of freedom and fate, as well as a fascinating portrait of a vanished time, written in prose as clear and washed clean as the world after a storm\" Justine Jordan, Guardian\n\n\"The subtle translation, with its invented dialect, conveys a timeless, provincial voice . . . The Unseen is a blunt, brilliant book\" Tom Graham, Financial Times.

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Brand: Roy Jacobsen
EAN: 9781529417449
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The fourth novel in a historical series that began with the International Booker-shortlisted The Unseen\n\n \"Taken together, Jacobsen has given us an epic of Norway's experience of the first half of the 20th century that is subtle and moving\" David Mills, Sunday Times\n\n\"Jacobsen can make almost anything catch the light . . . One of Norway's greatest writers on the working class\" Times Literary Supplement\n\nA childless island is no island at all.\n\nIngrid Marie Barrøy has returned to the island that bears her name, bringing up her daughter with the other children that came with the war, who will someday raise their own children until an island that was empty is singing once more with life.\n\nAnd soon another will arrive, a child of the war and an orphan of the peace, whom Ingrid will fight to make her own, and whose interests may, in time, collide with those of certain others on the island, forcing her to make a choice she will long regret.\n\nThe sea brings the island all it has - herring for salting, eider ducks for down - but Ingrid knows, has always\nknown, that one day it may wish to take something back. But until that day, she continues to live by one simple truth:\n\nThere is no limit to what you can do with an island, the imagination sets the only limits, as with the sea.\n\nTranslated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw\n\nReviews for The Unseen\n\n\"Even by his high standards, his magnificent new novel The Unseen is Jacobsen's finest to date, as blunt as it is subtle and is easily among the best books I have ever read\" Eileen Battersby, Irish Times\n\n\"A beautifully crafted novel . . . Quite simply a brilliant piece of work . . . Rendered beautifully into English by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw, The Unseen is a towering achievement that would be a deserved Booker International winner\" Charlie Connelly, New European.\n\n\"A profound interrogation of freedom and fate, as well as a fascinating portrait of a vanished time, written in prose as clear and washed clean as the world after a storm\" Justine Jordan, Guardian\n\n\"The subtle translation, with its invented dialect, conveys a timeless, provincial voice . . . The Unseen is a blunt, brilliant book\" Tom Graham, Financial Times.

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Brand: Pierre Lemaitre
EAN: 9781848665798
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Now a major French film Au revoir là-haut - Prix Goncourt-winning masterpiece by the writer who brought you Alex, Irène and Camille.\n\n\"One of the most pleasurable reading experiences of recent years\" - David Mills, The Sunday Times\n\nOctober 1918: the war on the Western Front is all but over. Desperate for one last chance of promotion, the ambitious Lieutenant Henri d'Aulnay Pradelle sends two scouts over the top, and secretly shoots them in the back to incite his men to heroic action once more.\n\nAnd so is set in motion a series of devastating events that will inextricably bind together the fates and fortunes of Pradelle and the two soldiers who witness his crime: Albert Maillard and Édouard Péricourt.\n\nBack in civilian life, Albert and Édouard struggle to adjust to a society whose reverence for its dead cannot quite match its resentment for those who survived. But the two soldiers conspire to enact an audacious form of revenge against the country that abandoned them to penury and despair, with a scheme to swindle the whole of France on an epic scale.\n\nMeanwhile, believing her brother killed in action, Édouard's sister Madeleine has married Pradelle, who is running a little scam of his own...\n\nTranslated from the French by Frank Wynne

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