The Situationist International in Britain: Modernism, Surrealism, and the Avant-Garde (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature)

This book tells, for the first time, the story of the Situationist International's influence and afterlives in Britain, where its radical ideas have been rapturously welcomed and fiercely resisted. The Situationist International presented itself as the culmination of the twentieth century avant-garde tradition -- as the true successor of Dada and Surrealism. Its grand ambition was not unfounded. Though it dissolved in 1972, generations of artists and writers, theorists and provocateurs, punks and psychogeographers have continued its effort to confront and contest the 'society of the spectacle.' This book constructs a long cultural history, beginning in the interwar period with the arrival of Surrealism to Britain, moving through the countercultures of the 1950s and 1960s, and finally surveying the directions in which Situationist theory and practice are being taken today. It combines agile historicism with close readings of a vast range of archival and newly excavated materials, including newspaper reports, underground pamphlets, Psychogeographical films, and experimental novels. It brings to light an overlooked but ferociously productive period of British avant-garde practice, and demonstrates how this subterranean activity helps us to understand postwar culture, late modernism, and the complex internationalization of the avant-garde. As popular and academic interest in the Situationists grows, this book offers an important contribution to the international history of the avant-garde and Surrealism. It will prove a valuable resource for researchers and students of English and Comparative Literature, Modernism and the Avant-Gardes, Twentieth Century and Contemporary History, Cultural Studies, Art History, and Political Aesthetics.

Arts & Photography

Cooper, Sam

History & Criticism

Routledge

The Fermentation Kitchen: Recipes and Techniques for Kimchi, Kombucha, Koji, and More.

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Canning & Preserving

DK RED

Eat homegrown food all year round and save money on your weekly shop by following a simple plan for self-sufficiency. Huw Richards and Sam Cooper have spent the past two years planning and trialing their self-sufficiency garden in a 10x13m plot, and now they've worked out the perfect formula. Grow six portions of nutritious veg a day per person following their month-by-month growing plan, which is realistic and flexible with cost, space, and time in mind. Follow this carefully curated year-round growing plan to yield six portions of veg per person per day, plus batching and preserving recipes!&nbsp; Whether you are looking for cost-effective ways to put food on the table and feed your family, a fan of Huw's YouTube videos and would like to try out the recipes for yourself or a gardener who would like some guidance on how to grow your own food, this book will be great for you. With this gardening book, you will be able to: -Learn about Huw's self-sufficiency ethos, goals, and approaches to growing food -Create your garden and learn how to build all the growing spaces you will need, such as hotbeds and polytunnels -Follow month-by-month planting plans with guidance on key tasks throughout the year and different seasons -Perfect your growing skills with sowing, weeding, watering, and composting. -Discover useful kitchen tips for meal prep, storage, and preserving ideas along with base recipes so you can make the most of your crops.&nbsp; -Find recipes for delicious dishes including soup, curry, tray bakes and salads + dressings Follow Huw Richards and SamCooper's tried-and-tested methods and save money while enjoying homegrown food all year. If you are interested in learning more or want more books by Huw Richards, check out these titles: Veg in One Bed, Grow Food For Free, and The Vegetable Grower's Handbook.

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Richards, Huw

Parenting & Relationships

Wilful Blindness, How a network of narcos, tycoons and CCP agents Infiltrated the West

A Globe and Mail and Amazon #1 bestseller If you want to understand war in the 21rst century. Read this to get part of the story" Robert Spalding, US Brigadier General(retired) "A Gripping read that you won''t want to put down" Benedict Rogers, Hong Kong Watch "This is a must-read book for concerned citizens who want to keep their democratic societies free" Solomon Yue, Vice-Chair and CEO, Republicans Overseas and the National Committee of the Republican Party of Oregon In 1982 three of the most powerful men in Asia met in Hong Kong. They would decide how Hong Kong would be handed over to the People''s Republic of China and how Chinese business tycoons Henry Fok and Li Ka-Shing would help Deng Xiaoping realize the Chinese Communist Party''s domestic and global ambitions. That meeting would not only change Vancouver but the world. Billions of dollars in Chinese investment would soon reach the shores of North America''s Pacific coast. B.C. government casinos became a tool for global criminals to import deadly narcotics into Canada and launder billions of drug cash into Vancouver real estate. And it didn''t happen by accident. A cast of accomplices - governments hungry for revenue, casino and real estate companies with ties to shady offshore wealth, professional facilitators including lawyers and bankers, an aimless RCMP that gave organized crime room to grow - all combined to cause this tragedy. There was greed, folly, corruption, conspiracy, and wilful blindness. Decades of bad policy allowed drug cartels, first and foremost the Big Circle Boys - powerful transnational narco-kingpins with ties to corrupt Chinese officials, real estate tycoons, and industrialists - to gain influence over significant portions of Canada''s economy. Many looked the other way while B.C.''s primary industry, real estate, ballooned with dirty cash. But the unintended social consequences are now clear: a fentanyl overdose crisis raging in major cities throughout North America and life spans falling for the first time in modern Canada, and a runaway housing market that has devastated middle-class income earners. This story isn''t just about real estate and fentanyl overdoses, though. Sam Cooper has uncovered evidence that shows the primary actors in so-called "Vancouver Model" money laundering have effectively made Canada''s west coast a headquarters for corporate and industrial espionage by the CCP. And these ruthless entrepreneurs have used Vancouver and Canada to export their criminal model to other countries around the world including Australia and New Zealand. Meanwhile, Cooper finds that the RCMP''s 2019 arrest of its top intelligence official, Cameron Ortis, raises many frightening questions. Could Chinese transnational criminals and state actors targeting Canada''s industrial and technological crown jewels have gained protection from the Mounties? Could China and Iran have insight into Canada''s deepest national security secrets and influence on investigations? According to the evidence Cooper has found, Ortis had oversight of many investigations into transnational money laundering networks and insight into sensitive probes of suspects seeking to undermine Canada''s democracy and infiltrate the United States. Wilful Blindness is a powerful narrative that follows the investigators who refused to go along with institutionalized negligence and corruption that enabled the Vancouver Model, with Cooper drawing on extensive interviews with the whistle-blowers; thousands of pages of government and court documents obtained through legal applications; and large caches of confidential material available exclusively to Cooper. The book culminates with a shocking revelation showing how deeply Canada has been compromised and what needs to happen to get the nation back on track with its "Five Eyes" allies. "I''m astonished that some Hollywood production company hasn''t already signed him for a big-screen treatment of this story. It''s a huge story." - Terry Glavin, National Post

Biographies & Memoirs

True Crime

Optimum Publishing International

Globe and Mail, CBC, and Amazon Best Seller #1 for 32 weeks International Government Relations & Government Intelligence ''If you want to understand war in the 21rst century. Read this to get the story" Robert Spalding, US Brigadier General(retired) "This book reads like a thriller and is stranger than fiction. Gripping, racy and exciting, it is difficult to put down. A tale of gambling, narcotics, tycoons, criminal gangs and Communists. And the shocking part is that it''s not a novel, it is all true. Benedict Rogers, CEO Hong Kong Watch "This is a must-read book for concerned citizens who want to keep their democratic societies free." Solomon Yue, Vice-Chair and CEO of the Republicans Overseas Committee "I''m astonished that some Hollywood production company hasn''t already signed him for a big-screen treatment of this story. It''s a huge story." - Terry Glavin, National Post In 1982 three of the most powerful men in Asia met in Hong Kong. They would decide how Hong Kong would be handed over to the People''s Republic of China and how Chinese business tycoons Henry Fok and Li Ka-Shing would help Deng Xiaoping realize the Chinese Communist Party''s domestic and global ambitions. That meeting would not only change Vancouver but the world. Billions of dollars in Chinese investment would soon reach the shores of North America''s Pacific coast. B.C. government casinos became a tool for global criminals to import deadly narcotics into Canada and launder billions of drug cash into Vancouver real estate. And it didn''t happen by accident. A cast of accomplices - governments hungry for revenue, casino, and real estate companies with ties to shady offshore wealth, professional facilitators including lawyers and bankers, an aimless RCMP that gave organized crime room to grow - all combined to cause this tragedy. There was greed, folly, corruption, conspiracy, and wilful blindness. Decades of bad policy allowed drug cartels, first and foremost the Big Circle Boys - powerful transnational narco-kingpins with ties to corrupt Chinese officials, real estate tycoons, and industrialists - to gain influence over significant portions of Canada''s economy. Many looked the other way while B.C.''s primary industry, real estate, ballooned with dirty cash. But the unintended social consequences are now clear: a fentanyl overdose crisis raging in major cities throughout North America and life spans falling for the first time in modern Canada, and a runaway housing market that has devastated middle-class income earners. This story isn''t just about real estate and fentanyl overdoses, though. Sam Cooper has uncovered evidence that shows the primary actors in so-called "Vancouver Model" money laundering have effectively made Canada''s west coast a headquarters for corporate and industrial espionage by the CCP. And these ruthless entrepreneurs have used Vancouver and Canada to export their criminal model to other countries around the world including Australia and New Zealand. Meanwhile, Cooper finds that the RCMP''s 2019 arrest of its top intelligence official, Cameron Ortis, raises many frightening questions. Could Chinese transnational criminals and state actors targeting Canada''s industrial and technological crown jewels have gained protection from the Mounties? Could China and Iran have insight into Canada''s deepest national security secrets and influence on investigations? According to the evidence Cooper has found, Ortis had oversight of many investigations into transnational money laundering networks and insight into sensitive probes of suspects seeking to undermine Canada''s democracy and infiltrate the United States. Wilful Blindness is a powerful narrative that follows the investigators who refused to go along with institutionalized negligence and corruption that enabled the Vancouver Model, with Cooper drawing on extensive interviews with the whistle-blowers; thousands of pages of government and court documents obtained through legal applications; and large caches of confidential material available exclusively to Cooper. The book culminates with a shocking revelation showing how deeply Canada has been compromised, and what needs to happen, to get the nation back on track with its "Five Eyes" allies. "I''m astonished that some Hollywood production company hasn''t already signed him for a big-screen treatment of this story. It''s a huge story." - Terry Glavin, National Post

This extensive second edition provides readers with a whole new Chapter titles Intelligence March 2022(17,500 +) The new and compelling insights focust on the nexus of infiltration operations of not only China but that of Russia and Iran. Agents whose goal is to undermine the very democracy we hold dear. Politicians and business elite including former Ambassador to Canada, Dominic Barton facilitated and helped the criminal enterprises get a secure hold in the West. 
Cooper has exposed the close ties between Chinese nationals who are dedicated to Beijing and have bought influence with all political parties in Canada. It's about time that former PM's cut their lucrative arrangements with the PRC and Cooper makes a compelling case as to how money through these networks has undermined our political process and policy engagement with the Peoples Republic of China . 
Sam's vigorous journalism on tracking and exposing money laundering has been crucial in the national push to reform and update Canada's laws. This book pulls his work, and indeed the work of many professionals, into one explosive narrative. Canadian lore often pitches our country as a well-meaning good partner in the world. But as Sam's report has shown, we are a node in global systems of corruption and crime, with the infiltration and implications only becoming worse over time. 
James Cohen, President of Transparency International Canada 
"A Gripping read that you won't want to put down" 
Benedict Rogers, Hong Kong Watch\n"This is a must-read book for concerned citizens who want to keep their democratic societies free" 
Solomon Yue, Vice-Chair and CEO, Republicans Overseas\nA cast of accomplices - governments hungry for revenue, casino and real estate companies with ties to shady offshore wealth, professional facilitators including lawyers and bankers, an aimless RCMP that gave organized crime room to grow - all combined to cause this tragedy. There was greed, folly, corruption, conspiracy, and wilful blindness. 
Decades of bad policy allowed drug cartels, first and foremost the Big Circle Boys - powerful transnational narco-kingpins with ties to corrupt Chinese officials, real estate tycoons, and industrialists - to gain influence over significant portions of Canada's economy. Many looked the other way while B.C.'s primary industry, real estate, ballooned with dirty cash. But the unintended social consequences are now clear: a fentanyl overdose crisis raging in major cities throughout North America and life spans falling for the first time in modern Canada, and a runaway housing market that has devastated middle-class income earners.\nCould China and Iran have insight into Canada's deepest national security secrets and influence on investigations? According to the evidence Cooper has found, Ortis had oversight of many investigations into transnational money laundering networks and insight into sensitive probes of suspects seeking to undermine Canada's democracy and infiltrate the United States. 
Wilful Blindness is a powerful narrative that follows the investigators who refused to go along with institutionalized negligence and corruption that enabled the Vancouver Model, with Cooper drawing on extensive interviews with the whistle-blowers; thousands of pages of government and court documents obtained through legal applications; and large caches of confidential material available exclusively to Cooper.

Wilful Blindness

This book tells, for the first time, the story of the Situationist International’s influence and afterlives in Britain, where its radical ideas have been rapturously welcomed and fiercely resisted. The Situationist International presented itself as the culmination of the twentieth century avant-garde tradition ― as the true successor of Dada and Surrealism. Its grand ambition was not unfounded. Though it dissolved in 1972, generations of artists and writers, theorists and provocateurs, punks and psychogeographers have continued its effort to confront and contest the ‘society of the spectacle.’ This book constructs a long cultural history, beginning in the interwar period with the arrival of Surrealism to Britain, moving through the countercultures of the 1950s and 1960s, and finally surveying the directions in which Situationist theory and practice are being taken today. It combines agile historicism with close readings of a vast range of archival and newly excavated materials, including newspaper reports, underground pamphlets, Psychogeographical films, and experimental novels. It brings to light an overlooked but ferociously productive period of British avant-garde practice, and demonstrates how this subterranean activity helps us to understand postwar culture, late modernism, and the complex internationalization of the avant-garde. As popular and academic interest in the Situationists grows, this book offers an important contribution to the international history of the avant-garde and Surrealism. It will prove a valuable resource for researchers and students of English and Comparative Literature, Modernism and the Avant-Gardes, Twentieth Century and Contemporary History, Cultural Studies, Art History, and Political Aesthetics.

Welcome to Salvation, the town where evil breeds and the will to survive runs deeper than the blood that soaks the ground. Where the Savages are the self-proclaimed kings, ruling with an iron fist and murdering anyone who dares to break the rules. 
Cara Jackson has long since lost any hope that the town she was born in will get better. The only chance of survival is to keep her head down and obey the rules. When a new rule is instated that directly involves her, she realises she has an important decision to make. 
With the Informants tracking every move and the Captives kept locked away, Cara must do everything she can to protect the people she cares about. 
But, how can you escape the Savages, when you don't know who they are? 
Sacrifices will be made. An evil government shall reign. And a gruesome discovery will shatter any hope left remaining in a forgotten town.

Songs Of The Savages

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Olympia Publishers

How to Cope When Everything's Gone to Sh*t: A Supportive Guide to Overcoming Life's Many Challenges

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Summersdale

Overcome anxiety, silence your inner critic, and regain control of your life with this book, the ultimate guide to easing anxiety and banishing overthinking. A supportive guide to help quieten racing thoughts, declutter your mind and embrace positive thinking Everyone worries sometimes, but if you find yourself constantly overthinking every moment, decision and interaction, this can stop you from being confidently you. If you're someone who regularly feels trapped in a negative thought loop, Overcome Don't Overthink can help you break this cycle of self-criticism so you can feel confident in everything you do. With the help of this friendly and calming guide, you'll learn techniques to ease anxious thoughts, boost self- confidence and quit overthinking for good. Inside you will find: · A breakdown of how our thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact and affect each other · CBT-based techniques for combatting negative thoughts and embracing positivity · Tips to help you declutter your mind · Advice on where to find further help if needed Overcome negative thought patterns with this essential guide to living a worry-free life. With the tips and advice inside, you'll learn to stop dwelling on the past and start living fully in the present.

Overcome Don't Overthink: How to Ease Anxiety and Stop Worry Taking Over Your Life

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The Situationist International in Britain: Modernism, Surrealism, and the Avant-Garde (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature)

The Fermentation Kitchen: Recipes and Techniques for Kimchi, Kombucha, Koji, and More.

The Self-Sufficiency Garden: Feed Your Family and Save Money: THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

Wilful Blindness, How a network of narcos, tycoons and CCP agents Infiltrated the West

Wilful Blindness, How a network of narcos, tycoons and CCP agents Infiltrated the West

Wilful Blindness

The Situationist International in Britain: Modernism, Surrealism, and the Avant-Garde (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature)

Songs Of The Savages

How to Cope When Everything's Gone to Sh*t: A Supportive Guide to Overcoming Life's Many Challenges

Overcome Don't Overthink: How to Ease Anxiety and Stop Worry Taking Over Your Life