Professor Astro Cat’s Solar System
Welcome to Our Solar System The Sun Mercury Venus Earth Mars Asteroids and comets Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Observing Space Glossary
2017
And Now, the Weather …
Foreword Carol Kirkwood The History of the Weather Forecast Amateur Hour Lost in Translation A Lore Unto Itself Since Records Began The Forecast Factory The Shipping Forecast A World of Weather Folklore Taking It to Extremes Under the Weather: The Life of a Weather Presenter
Women & Power
Preface The Public Voice of Women Women in Power Afterword A Note on the Cover
La Belle Sauvage
Part One: The Trout The Terrace Room The Acorn Lyra Uppsala The Scholar Glazing Sprigs Too Soon The League of St Alexander Anti-clockwise Lord Asriel Environmental Protected Alice Talks The Bologna Instrument Lady with Monkey The Potting Shed Part Two: The Flood The Pharmacy Pilgrim’s Tower Lord Murderer The Poacher The Sisters of Holy Obedience …
Crash
5 manuscript pages for Crash Crash (1973) ‘Jim’s Desk’ Chris Beckett Short Stories (1969-1970) Crash! Tolerances of the Human Face Coitus 80 Journey Across a Crater Princess Margaret’s Face Lift Mae West’s Reduction Mammoplasty Crash! BBC short film, directed by Harley Cokeliss (1971) ‘The Obsession of a Writer’: Initial treatment Letter: Ballard to Cokeliss Draft …
Worth Dying For
The Stars and the Stripes The Union and the Jack The Cross and the Crusades Colours of Arabia Flags of Fear East of Eden Flags of Freedom Flags of Revolution The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Critical Theory
Preface Introduction: what is critical theory? The Frankfurt School A matter of method Critical theory and modernism Alienation and reification Enlightened illusions The utopian laboratory The happy consciousness The great refusal From resignation to renewal Unfinished talks: solidarity, resistance and global society
Edexcel GCSE (9-1): English Language – Reading
Tackling an unseen text Get started How do I question the text before and while reading it? How do I question the text after reading it? How do I consider different readings of the text? Get back on track Analysing a text Get started How do I choose what to analyse? How do I structure …
Heart of Darkness
Introduction The Text of Heart of Darkness Heart of Darkness Textual Appendix Textual History and Editing Principles Emendations and Substantive Textual Variants Manuscript and Typescript Revisions Backgrounds and Contexts Imperialism and the Congo [Congo under Leopold II, 1885-1908] David Van Reybrouck [The Civilizing Mission] King Leopold II An Open Letter to His Serene …
Semiotics: The Basics
Introduction Definitions Relation to philosophy and linguistics Why study semiotics? Models of the sign The Saussurean model The relational system Arbitrariness The Peircean model Jakobson’s model Sign relations Symbolicity Iconicity Indexicality Mixed modes Types and tokens Rematerializing the sign Hjelmslev’s model Reflections Further reading Signs and things Naming things Referentiality Modality The word is not …
Riding the Tiger (1961-1963)
[rtoc] 00:00:00 Con Thien, South Vietnam, Fall 1967. John Musgrave: Listening Post assignment here was scariest thing he did. Story of signalling with keying on handset – enemy too close to communicate verbally. Still afraid of the dark. Kids found out Dad had been in war when they asked “Why do we need to outgrow …
Déjà Vu (1858-1961)
[rtoc] 00:00:55 Karl Marlantes: “Coming home from Vietnam was as close to traumatic as the war itself. For years noone talked about Vietnam … like living in a house with an alcoholic father (Shhh! we don’t talk about that) … It’s only been very recently that the baby boomers have started to say ‘What happened?’ …