The face of Durham has changed in so many ways over the years. Photographs of the life on Durham’s streets in yesteryear are a vivid reminder of a world that has passed today. Shops and buildings come and go, modes of transport evolve, fashions change, new food and drink establishments cater to different tastes of the age, working patterns are modified, the public find fresh entertainment venues, and so on, and yet many aspects of the roads and streets of Durham remain recognisable too thr...

Step back into the smoke-filled, tape-hissing world of the mid-1970s North East music scene. In Eight Years in Arch Seven, Raymond "Ray" Hedworth delivers a dryly hilarious, beautifully bittersweet memoir of Tyne Bridge Recording Studios—an ambitious independent venture housed in a former Felling veterinary surgery. Operating on a budget stretched to its absolute limit, Ray (the cynical partner and legendary tea-maker) and Norman Gask (the technically brilliant but domestically hopeless ge...

The world is different now…A thousand years into the future, the human race is divided and united like never before. They are not defined by race, culture, or even politics, but by their faith.Humans who choose the righteous path follow the teachings of Constantine. But the ones embracing the darkness are ruled by Mabus. They differ at the genetic level, and both groups are incapable of deciding their destiny. Neither party can suffer the existence of the other. Only Christ...

The Indian Ocean region has rapidly emerged as a hinge point in the changing global balance of power and the geographic nexus of economic and security issues with vital global consequences. The security of energy supplies, persistent poverty and its contribution to political extremism, piracy, and related threats to seaborne trade, competing nuclear powers, and possibly the scene of future clashes between rising great powers India and China—all are dangers in the waters or in the littoral ...

Today's protracted asymmetrical conflicts confuse efforts to measure progress, often inviting politics and wishful thinking to replace objective evaluation.In Assessing War, military historians, social scientists, and military officers explore how observers have analyzed the trajectory of war in American conflicts from the Seven Years’ War through the war in Afghanistan. Drawing on decades of acquired expertise, the contributors examine wartime assessment in both theory an...

Bringing together many Surrealist texts that have never previously been available in English, this collection is an essential guide for anyone who wishes to understand the Surrealist movement.It traces its development in the words of the Surrealists themselves, offering a definitive expression of Surrealism as a collective movement. It shows the extent of Surrealist positions and interests and shows how, having become a major cultural phenomenon of the twentieth century, the issues...

What if I told you that the second coming had already happened? What if I told you something had gone wrong? Would you believe me? Could you?Christian is faced with these very questions, a man who has never understood his place in the world. A former priest, soldier and now a government agent specializing in the occult must face his own uncertainties when he becomes entangled in an investigation that appears to lend itself to the supernatural.Now this man who has only ever ...

In Nonhuman Witnessing Michael Richardson argues that a radical rethinking of what counts as witnessing is central to building frameworks for justice in an era of endless war, ecological catastrophe, and technological capture. Dismantling the primacy and notion of traditional human-based forms of witnessing, Richardson shows how ecological, machinic, and algorithmic forms of witnessing can help us better understand contemporary crises. He examines the media-specificity of nonhuman...

Logan Redman has returned for another calculating episode. His nemesis, Bennie Heathen has shown up at Logan's doorstep with some disturbing news about his father and his shrewd criminal past. Additionally, Bennie reveals news about what truly happened to Logan and Laura's mother. The news that Bennie reveals stirs up intense emotions for Logan and his sister Laura. They implement plans to address what has transpired as they initiate a massive hunt for their father.What actions wil...

Georges Bataille was a philosopher, writer, librarian, pornographer and a founder of the influential journals Critique and Ac�phale. He has had an enormous impact on contemporary thought, influencing such writers as Barthes, Baudrillard, Derrida, Foucault and Sontag. Many of his books, including the notorious Story of the Eye and the fascinating The Accursed Share, are modern classics.In this acclaimed intellectual biography, Michel Surya gives a detailed ...

For Bataille, the absence of myth had itself become the myth of the modern age. In a world that had lost the secret of its cohesion, Bataille saw surrealism as both a symptom and a beginning of an attempt to address this loss. His writings on this theme are the result of a profound reflection in the wake of World War Two.The Absence of Myth is the most incisive study yet made of surrealism, insisting on its importance as a cultural and social phenomenon with far-reaching c...

This volume asks poignant questions about what it means to be alive and inhabit the present.Living holds us between two places. It expresses what is most elementary—to be alive—and the absoluteness of our aspiration—finally living! But could we desire anything other than to live? In The Philosophy of Living, François Jullien meditates on Far Eastern thought and philosophy to analyze concepts that can be folded into a complete philosophy of living, includin...