Download or read book Haircuts of Hackney written by Daniel Frost and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-14 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Striking Out written by Musa Okwonga and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first children's book from superstar England striker, Ian Wright. Striking Out follows the journey of 13-year-old Jerome, who has a dream of becoming a world-class footballer. But with a difficult home life, Jerome can’t see how he’ll ever make this dream come true ... until he meets a mentor figure who can hopefully put him on the right track. From the winning writing team of Musa Okwonga and Ian Wright. Musa Okwonga is an author, poet, journalist and musician; he is a co-host of the Stadio football podcast. Ian Wright is one of the UK’s all-time leading goal scorers. He’s lifted the Premier League title, The FA Cup, the European Cup Winners’ Cup and won the Premier League golden boot.
Download or read book Not for Rent written by Stacy Wakefield and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resistence is more important than ever. Living in a country with a president we did not elect, who is waging a war without popular support, vast numbers of Americans are feeling disempowered, alienated from our government leaders, and frightened. What can we do? The British activists from the 1990s documented in Not For Rent have some ideas to share with us. In 1995 the British Parliament passed a draconian new law which curtailed civil liberties to a shocking extent. The Criminal Justice Act essentially turned squatting, underground parties and raves, a nomadic lifestyle, and protesting into criminal acts. Travelling through England and Scotland the summer after this law went into effect, Stacy and Grrrt discovered that not only were squatting, protesting and parties still happening, the law had politicized an entire generation. More and more young people felt compelled to resist -- both to show their disregard for a government which did not represent them, and to create exciting, creative alternatives to the mainstream culture. The activist underground was thriving. The way Bush's government has used the events of September 11th to pick away at our civil liberties is reminiscent of this time. The numbers of frustrated people who have taken to the streets to protest his war show how widespread the disillusionment with his government is. But Not for Rent is not a book about unjust laws. It is a vibrant celebration of creative resistence, political alternatives, and social engagment. It is about what is possible when smart, socially conscious people get together and create communties on their own terms. Use it for inspiration!
Download or read book The Hackney Crucible written by Morris Beckman and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Biggest Lie written by Luke Brown and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'There was a time not long ago when I thought that lying was the most natural thing in the world. It was fun. It was addictive. And I forgot, temporarily, what was true and what was false. Or it was simply that I preferred the false. It was then that I was found out.' Liam has it all. In front of him glitters a superb career and a life with the woman he loved from the moment he saw her. But on a feverish night out he loses his job, his home and his girlfriend. He is lucky to escape with his life. Trying to leave his shame behind in London he flees to Argentina to live honestly, and to write the world's longest and truest love letter. But Buenos Aires is the most sensual, most duplicitous, city in the world. How will Liam prevent his lies from running away with him? My Biggest Lie is a wickedly entertaining novel about father figures, second chances and deciding when it's time to tell the truth.
Download or read book A Portrait of Hackney written by Zed Nelson and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-16 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third in the East London Photo Stories series by Hoxton Mini Press. Each title in this series will be the same size and numbered, forming a collectable set. This is a photo documentary project that looks at the changing face of East London. Hackney, though crime-ridden, poor and dilapidated, is also now London's trendiest neighbourhood, and was home to the 2012 Olympics. Zed Nelson, a renowned photojournalist who both resides and grew up in the area, looks at some of the bizarre, often painful, contradictions caused by this rapid gentrification.
Download or read book Slow Burn City written by Rowan Moore and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a new introduction for the paperback. London is a supreme achievement of civilization. It offers fulfilments of body and soul, encourages discovery and invention. It is a place of freedom, multiplicity and co-existence. It is a Liberal city, which means it stands for values now in peril. London has also become its own worst enemy, testing to destruction the idea that the free market alone can build a city, a fantastical wealth machine that denies too many of its citizens a decent home or living. In this thought-provoking, fearless, funny and subversive book, Rowan Moore shows how London’s strength depends on the creative and mutual interplay of three forces: people, business and state. To find responses to the challenges of the twenty-first century, London must rediscover its genius for popular action and bold public intervention. The global city above all others, London is the best place to understand the way the world’s cities are changing. It could also be, in the shape of a living, churning city of more than eight million people, the most powerful counter-argument to the extremist politics of the present.
Download or read book Shaping Up Culture written by Mark Maciver and published by . This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Perry Boys written by Ian Hough and published by Milo Books Ltd. This book was released on 2007-04-22 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1970s, a small body of violent young trend-setters exploded out of England's north-west to bewilder, terrify, and eventually enlighten the rest of the country. Their novel hooligan style came to be known as the "casual" movement, with its wedge haircut and obsession with expensive designer clothing and training shoes, but the story of how its original perpetrators emerged from disparate beginnings has never yet been completely detailed. Ian Hough came of age at the epicentre of the explosion, in 1979 in north Manchester, where outsiders branded these unlikely-looking pretenders "Perry Boys", due to the Fred Perry polo shirts they wore with their narrow cords, "effeminate" hairstyles and Adidas Stan Smith trainers. Hough witnessed the sudden ramping up of an age-old rivalry between Manchester and Liverpool's Scallies, as the two cities' football hooligans realised each was a carbon copy of the other, and how they all in turn were embracing a form of organised violence, thievery, and thinking that was yet to see the light of day elsewhere in the UK. As the enlightened tribes of the north-west dug in for the long war, slashing each other with craft knives and engaging in battles involving thousands, the rest of Britain began to pick up the styles for themselves. He describes, in vivid and often humorous prose, how the Perry Boys waged a style-war on their lesser-evolved peers within Manchester, kick-starting a national fashion eruption whose tremors are still being felt today. The book moves confidently through the 80s underground, as the psychedelic fragments of what came to be termed the Rave scene gravitate from the council estates and football stadia of Manchester, into the nightclubs, where the jaded Perry Boys were waiting all along. Manchester's subsequent descent into rampant mayhem, in the form of gangsters, drug dealers, and music, now bathed in the strange purple glow of hallucinogenic drugs like Ecstasy, spawned the "Madchester" scene of modern urban legend. The sense of unreality and optimism which accompanied Manchester United's domestic and European successes later became inextricably dovetailed to the scene in the city, and Hough takes the reader on an intense trip through those heady times. Rounding the book off with the story of how this unlikely new style had proved contagious across the UK, and how its perpetrators proceeded to travel the globe in search of greener pastures, Hough describes the mass exodus of young people, many of whom exported the philosophy of the Perry mindset, grafting and simply travelling for its own sake, around the globe. This book is for anyone who is interested in how things began, whether it was football hooligan culture or the Rave mentality, as the world grew smaller. It is a testament to those who lead, and a mesmerising read for those who have followed.
Download or read book What s That written by John A. Pheby and published by Cameron House. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Those learning English for the first time will find this book immensely useful. With 'What's that?', readers can easily find out what a 'xylophone' or a 'three-door hatchback' looks like without wading through complicated definitions. For word buffs, the dictionary offers illustrated definitions to words like 'wort', 'mopboard', and 'leech pocket'. The book features a complete table of contents and index for easy reference, along with clearly labeled and easily identifiable illustrations." - book jacket.
Download or read book About Time written by Vahram Muratyan and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the author of Paris Versus New York, an illustrated exploration of time and memory. Take it, make it, lose it, have it, kill it, spend it, save it, forget it, break it, set it, repeat it, keep it: time flies and time crawls. This might be your first time, your last time, or you may be stuck in your routine. How we experience time shapes our relationships, memories, dreams, and nightmares. And only with time can possibility become reality. From the acclaimed illustrator and author of PARIS VERSUS NEW YORK comes a visual memoir inspired by Muratyan's travels across four continents and multiple time zones. Warm, funny, chic, throught-provoking, and as graphically pleasing as its predecessor, ABOUT TIME is a meditation and celebration of how we spend our lives.
Download or read book Work from Shed written by Hoxton Mini Press and published by . This book was released on 2022-04-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remote working is here to stay. More people than ever before are finding it's not just possible to work from home but much more productive, affordable and - as this book will show you - inspiring. For of all the places to create a workspace in your home, the garden offers a unique opportunity for architects to innovate. From visually arresting structures that transform the experience of working to plant-covered studios built in harmony with nature, the exquisite photography and informative text will show you just what can be built in a backyard. Why commute to an office when you can Work from Shed?
Download or read book The American and English Annotated Cases written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Hedonist s Guide to London written by Fleur Britten and published by A Hedonist's guide to.... This book was released on 2008 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Hedonist's Guide to London brings one of the world’s most exciting cities to life. Visiting the UK’s capital is not just about big red buses and Piccadilly Circus, but gourmet cooking, chic bars, underground clubs and some of the best shopping in Europe. London’s prominence on the fashion, food and design scene in recent years looks set to continue and this is just the guide to help the outsider become an insider.
Download or read book Annotated Cases American and English written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Barber Shop Chronicles written by Inua Ellams and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-12 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newsroom, political platform, local hot spot, confession box, preacher-pulpit and football stadium. For generations, African men have gathered in barber shops to discuss the world. These are places where the banter can be barbed and the truth is always telling. Barber Shop Chronicles, which was partly inspired by verbatim recordings, is a heart-warming, hilarious and insightful play that leaps from a barber shop in Peckham to Johannesburg, Harare, Kampala, Lagos and Accra over the course of a single day. It was first produced by the National Theatre, Fuel and Leeds Playhouse in 2017 and is here publishedas a Methuen Drama Student Edition with commentary and notes by Oladipo Agboluaje.
Download or read book Drivers in the 1980s written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chris Dorley-Brown has documented more than 40 drivers stuck in traffic jams in East London during 1986 and 1987. The images, showing faces in various states of boredom, frustration or relaxation are as fascinating as they are humorous and subtly capture the mood and fashion of a very distinct era. Chris Dorley-Brown is a British photographer who has lived and worked in the East End for the last 30 years. During his career as a photographer he has documented many aspects of life in Hackney and its diverse community.
