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All 24 episodes from the first three series of the TV drama
starring Matthew Macfadyen as a detective trying to maintain the
law on the streets of Whitechapel in the wake of the Jack the
Ripper murders. Following the notorious killings, H Division's
Detective Inspector Edmund Reid (Macfadyen), aided by the
hard-boiled Sergeant Bennett Drake (Jerome Flynn) and American
forensics expert Captain Homer Jackson (Adam Rothenberg), has his
hands full trying to keep the streets safe from others only too
willing to fill the void. Series 1 episodes are: 'I Need Light',
'In My Protection', 'The King Came Calling', 'The Good of This
City', 'The Weight of One Man's Heart', 'Tournament of Shadows', 'A
Man of My Company' and 'What Use Our Work?'. Series 2 episodes are:
'Pure As the Driven', 'Am I Not Monstrous?', 'Become Man',
'Dynamite and a Woman', 'Threads of Silk and Gold', 'A Stronger
Loving World', 'Our Betrayal: Part One' and 'Our Betrayal: Part
Two'. Series 3 episodes are: 'Whitechapel Terminus', 'The Beating
of Her Wings', 'Ashes and Diamonds', 'Your Father, My Friend',
'Heavy Boots', 'The Incontrovertible Truth', 'Live Free, Live True'
and 'The Peace of Edmund Reid'.
In 1964 Lucian Freud set his students at the Norwich College of Art
an assignment: to paint naked self-portraits and to make them
'revealing, telling, believable... really shameless'. It was advice
that the artist was often to follow himself. Visceral, unflinching
and often nude, Freud's self-portraits give us an insight into the
development of his style as a painter. The works provide the viewer
with a constant reminder of the artist's overwhelming presence,
whether he is confronting the viewer directly or only present as a
shadow or in a reflection. Essays by leading authorities -
including those who knew him well - explore Freud's life and work,
and analyse the importance of self-portraiture in his practice and
the intensity that he maintained when studying his own.
During the last forty years, South-West England has been the focus
of some of the most significant work on the early modern house and
household in Britain. Its remarkable wealth of vernacular buildings
has been the object of much attention, while the area has also seen
productive excavations of early modern household goods, shedding
new light on domestic history. This collection of papers, written
by many of the leading specialists in these fields, presents a
number of essays summarizing the overall understanding of
particular themes and places, alongside case studies which publish
some of the most remarkable discoveries. They include the
extraordinary survival of wall-hangings in a South Devon farm, the
discovery of painted rooms in an Elizabethan town house, and a
study of a table-setting mirrored on its ceiling. Also considered
are forms of decoration which seem specific to particular areas of
the West Country houses. Taken together, the papers offer a
holistic view of the household in the early modern period. John
Allan is Consultant Archaeologist to the Dean & Chapter of
Exeter Cathedral; Nat Alcock is Emeritus Reader in the Department
of Chemistry, University of Warwick; David Dawson is an independent
archaeologist and museum and heritage consultant. Contributors: Ann
Adams, Nat Alcock, John Allan, James Ayres, Stuart Blaylock, Peter
Brears, Tania Manuel Casimiro, Cynthia Cramp, Christopher Green,
Oliver Kent, Kate Osborne, Richard Parker, Isabel Richardson, John
Schofield, Eddie Sinclair, John R.L. Thorp, Hugh Wilmott,
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Ripper Street: Series 1-3 (DVD)
Myanna Buring, Jonathan Barnwell, David Wilmot, Adam Rothenberg, Amanda Hale, …
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All 24 episodes from the first three series of the TV drama
starring Matthew Macfadyen as a detective trying to maintain the
law on the streets of Whitechapel in the wake of the Jack the
Ripper murders. Following the notorious killings, H Division's
Detective Inspector Edmund Reid (Macfadyen), aided by the
hard-boiled Sergeant Bennett Drake (Jerome Flynn) and American
forensics expert Captain Homer Jackson (Adam Rothenberg), has his
hands full trying to keep the streets safe from others only too
willing to fill the void. Series 1 episodes are: 'I Need Light',
'In My Protection', 'The King Came Calling', 'The Good of This
City', 'The Weight of One Man's Heart', 'Tournament of Shadows', 'A
Man of My Company' and 'What Use Our Work?'. Series 2 episodes are:
'Pure As the Driven', 'Am I Not Monstrous?', 'Become Man',
'Dynamite and a Woman', 'Threads of Silk and Gold', 'A Stronger
Loving World', 'Our Betrayal: Part One' and 'Our Betrayal: Part
Two'. Series 3 episodes are: 'Whitechapel Terminus', 'The Beating
of Her Wings', 'Ashes and Diamonds', 'Your Father, My Friend',
'Heavy Boots', 'The Incontrovertible Truth', 'Live Free, Live True'
and 'The Peace of Edmund Reid'.
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In Search of Chopin (DVD)
David Dawson, Frédéric Chopin, Daniel Barenboim, Leif Ove Andsnes, Ronald Brautigam, …
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R337
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Phil Grabsky directs this documentary offering insight into
Chopin's life and career with performances of his works and
interviews with experts. Narrated by Juliet Stevenson, the film
features contributions from, among others, Daniel Barenboim, Lars
Vogt, Ronald Brautigam and Leif Ove Andsnes, while the composer's
letters are read by David Dawson.
Mechatronics as a discipline has an ever growing impact on
engineering and engineering education as a defining approach to the
design, development, and operation of an increasingly wide range of
engineering systems. The increasing scope and complexity of
mechatronic systems means that their design and development now
involve not only the technical aspects of its core disciplines, but
also aspects of organization, training, and management.
Mechatronics and the Design of Intelligent Machines and Systems
reflects the significant areas of development in mechatronics and
focuses on the higher-level approaches needed to support the design
and implementation of mechatronic systems. Throughout the book, the
authors emphasize the importance of systems integration. Each
chapter deals with a particular aspect of the design and
development process, from the specification of the system to
software design and from the human-machine interface to the
requirements for safe operation and effective manufacture. Notable
among this text's many features is the use of a running case
study-the autonomous and robotic excavator LUCIE-to illustrate
points made in various chapters. This, combined with the authors'
clear prose, systematic organization, and generous use of examples
and illustrations provides students with a firm understanding of
mechatronics as a discipline, some of the problems encountered in
its various areas, and the developing techniques used to solve
those problems.
Intimate portraits from one of the most innovative figurative
artists of the twentieth century and the master of painted flesh.
Curated by the artist's longtime studio assistant and friend, David
Dawson, this important volume features twenty major and rarely seen
paintings by Lucian Freud (1922-2011). The book begins with works
from 1990, when Freud began painting the performance artist Leigh
Bowery: these large-scale portraits of Bowery ushered in a new
sense of monumentality in the artist's oeuvre. Inspired by Bowery's
impressive physique, Freud began working on a larger scale, which
emphasized the physical presence of his subjects. Despite their
grand scale, Freud's subjects are still depicted with a sense of
intimacy, penetrating honesty, and psychological depth. The naked
body is a subject that has special significance in Freud's oeuvre.
Nakedness was a way for Freud to get a more truthful portrait.
Freud's probing oils get fresh consideration in this monograph and
Dawson provides insights and stories about Freud working on these
portraits, giving an intriguing behind-the-scenes look at the life
of a contemporary master of representational art.
A breathtaking visual biography of Freud, told through his own
words, unpublished private photographs, and painted portraits This
unprecedented look at the private life of Lucian Freud begins with
childhood snapshots and ends with rarely seen photographs made in
his studio in the last weeks of his life. In between, the life of
one of the most important artists of the twentieth and twenty-first
centuries is vividly documented - through family photos, in images
of the painter in his studio with some of his most celebrated
sitters, and in portraits by his peers, first among them Francis
Bacon.
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