"Well-researched . . . tells the story of the military bodyguard known as the 'Coats Mission' led initially by Major Jimmy Coats, Coldstream Guards." — The Guards MagazineFollowing the surrender of France in June 1940 Britain prepared to defend itself against a potential German invasion. In great secrecy a decision was taken to establish an elite bodyguard to protect the British Royal Family. Led initially by Major Jimmy Coats, a Coldstream Guards officer a...

What was Hellenistic art, and what were its contexts, aims, achievements, and impact? This textbook introduces students to these questions and offers a series of answers to them. Its twelve chapters and two 'focus' sections examine Hellenistic sculpture, painting, luxury arts, and architecture. Thematically organized, spanning the three centuries from Alexander to Augustus, and ranging geographically from Italy to India and the Black Sea to Nubia, the book examines key monuments of Helleni...

Surprisingly neglected in accounts of Allied wartime triumphs, in 1941 British and Commonwealth forces completed a stunning and important victory in East Africa against an overwhelmingly superior Italian opponent. A hastily formed British-led force, never larger than 70,000 strong, advanced along two fronts to defeat nearly 300,000 Italian and colonial troops. This compelling book draws on an array of previously unseen documents to provide both a detailed campaign history and a fresh appre...

After living six months in New Jersey in 2019, I decided to return to New York at the beginning of 2020 to the despise of my family, who believed I was taking a bold step since I've only moved to the USA two years prior. I just wanted to follow my dream. What it was at that time, I wasn't certain, but New Jersey wasn't cutting it for me. I decided to move to Canarsie with my wife and two daughters, and from there on, I started my journey toward my business. It was not a walk in the park, a...

Performing New Orleans examines the value of arts and culture in managing complex urban challenges, offering new perspectives on how artistic and everyday performances can be pivotal modes of practicing resilience. Through an exploration of understudied forms of performance in New Orleans, Stuart Andrews and Patrick Duggan highlight the centrality of the city’s arts ecosystems as a vital aspect of its ability to “perform” resiliency.Performing New Orleans resists ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.A Practical and Guide for Today’s Executive Leaders.Become a better business leader and transform your business with this practical guide on how to orchestrate transformational change!Are you in a business leadership position?Have you been charged with the task of creating change in your organization?Leaders today face complex challenges and must adapt n...

Performing Home is the first sustained study of the ways in which artists create artworks in, and in response to, domestic dwellings.In the context of growing interest in ideas and practices that cross between architecture, arts practice and performance, it is valuable to understand what happens when artists make work in and about specific buildings. This is particularly important with domestic dwellings, which can be bound up with experiences, issues, practices and unders...

The Dramaturgy of the Door examines the door as a critical but under-explored feature of theatre and performance, asking how doors function on stage, in site-specific practice and in performances of place.This first book-length study on the topic argues that doors engage in and help to shape broad phenomena of performance across key areas of critical enquiry in the field. Doors open up questions of theatrical space(s) and artistic encounters with place(s), design and archi...

Falconry was a major part of historical culture and lifestyle across the world and throughout history. The origins of falconry are set in the Far and Middle East, as early nations developed and the flying and training of birds of prey began to be seen as an art form, as well as a method of hunting. As east met west, during the expansion of the Roman Empire, we see the first archaeological evidence for Western European individuals practicing this most ancient art. Thus our first known evide...

A Canticle for Leibowitz meets The Hunt for Red October in We Shall Sing a Song into the Deep, a lyrical and page-turning coming-of-age exploration of duty, belief, and the post-apocalypse from breakout newcomer Andrew Kelly Stewart.Remy is a Chorister, rescued from the surface world and raised to sing in a choir of young boys. Remy is part of a strange crew who control the Leviathan, an aging nuclear submarine, that bears a sacr...

Cosmetic Guillotine is a poetic anatomy of contemporary civilisation and its hidden interiors.Across five interconnected movements, Veneer, Contagion, Apparatus, Fracture and Residue, the collection traverses glamour, ideology, empire, desire, cultural illness, psychological dislocation and the search for meaning beyond systems that appear increasingly exhausted.These poems move be...

Inaudible Crushed Shells of Sense (Casuistry) is a visionary sequence of poems exploring beauty, memory, childhood, civilisation, desire, myth and consciousness through a rich symbolic landscape of vessels, ruins, thresholds and forgotten architectures of meaning.Across eight interconnected sections, the collection journeys from the first intimations of beauty and selfhood through institutions, childhood, inheritance, love, transmission and cultural exhaustion before arriv...