Bøger af John Jackson

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An examination of the role and contributions of the four Welland Canals to the development of Niagara Peninsula communities.

An important examination of the new reality of race in American culture

A Treatise on Wood Engraving, Historical and Practical (1839), combines the practical knowledge of an engraver with the critical inquiry of an historian. Compiled and edited by William Andrew Chatto, an established author with an interest in woodcuts, the book was originally conceived by the wood-engraver John Jackson, who provided the book's more than three hundred engravings. Roughly three quarters of the Treatise is concerned with the historical evolution of engraving, from the Egyptian hieroglyph stamps held at the British Museum through the masterful works of Albrecht Durer to the decline and reinvigoration of the art in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Practical analysis permeates the text as a whole, with the final section explaining more fully how a block is chosen, cut, and even repaired. The book is therefore of interest to art historians, historians of the book, and even artist practitioners interested in nineteenth-century methods.

A newly discovered account of life in the trenches that challenges our perception of how British troops viewed the First World War. Conditioned by Wilfred Owen's poetry and dulled by the notions of waste and futility, British readers have become used to the idea that this was a war without purpose fought by 'lions led by donkeys'.

Store forandringer begynder ofte med små handlinger, der i situationen kan synes udsigtsløse. Fordi det er en kamp mod overmagten, mod alle odds. “I den virkelige verden vil det aldrig ske,” lyder det fra skeptikere. Men som denne bog viser, har skeptikerne gentagne gange taget fejl.De 80 beretninger i ”Det stille oprør” vidner om, hvor stor en rolle almindelige mennesker har spillet i at fremkalde enestående forandringer. Det er historier om stille modstand, om modig trods, om udspekuleret ulydighed, samlet ind fra hele verden, fra Serbien til Sudan, fra Afghanistan til Zimbabwe.Mange af beretningerne er ikke så kendte eller næsten glemt – nogle fornøjelige, andre forbløffende, de fleste inspirerende. Bogen hylder de mange mennesker, som gennem historien har rejst sig og kæmpet mod undertrykkelse, ofte med fare for deres eget liv. Og som på den måde har gjort verden til et bedre sted at leve.”Det stille oprør” indeholder blandt andet historierne om: – hvordan barnevogne, toiletpapir og illegal ketchup var med til at sætte en stopper for 40 års kommunistisk styre, – hvordan hunde (og det, de bar rundt på) medvirkede til at ydmyge et undertrykkende regime, – hvordan fodboldtilskuere fandt en måde at synge nationalsangen på, der trodsede en brutal militærjunta.Den nu afdøde tjekkiske præsident Václav Havel skrev forord til bogens første udgave i 2010, et forord, som også er med i den danske udgave.