Bøger af Steve Jones

There are many people who enjoy the pastime "people watching".For the writer the study of the human condition is one of many tools which help form a story, a plot, a character, situations and outcome. When analysing human behaviour we are more often wrong than right regarding our judgement of others. We only surf a page of the whole story. It is this page that we must cherish the most, it is the foundation stone on which our imaginations can build the narrarive.In this book I have mixed fact and fiction. "Oh yes!" and some of my own Out Rage.Enjoy!Steve

This little book is a product of self therapy.Writing is very therapeutic, a whistling pressure relief valve on a neglected pressure cooker.There are no vegetables in my vessel only a mixture of anger, love, disappointment, unrequited love and passion...all rendered down to a nice anxious broth - mop it up!Enjoy!Steve.

A short albeit somewhat distorted section of dark-semi autobiography covering the authors life thus far. It is heavy going and underlines the naivety of the writer in his early adult life, and the consequences of taking things too seriously: Oh! and there are frequent references to his adoration of blues music and its musicians.

Without the Sex Pistols there would be no punk. And without Steve Jones there would be no Sex Pistols. It was Steve who, with his schoolmate Paul Cook, formed the band that eventually went on to become the Sex Pistols and who was its original leader. As the world celebrates the 40th anniversary of punk--the influence and cultural significance of which is felt in music, fashion, and the visual arts to this day--Steve tells his story for the very first time.Steve Jones's modern Dickensian tale began in the street of Hammersmith and Shepherd's Bush, West London, where as a lonely, neglected boy living off his wits and petty thievery he was given purpose by the glam art rock of David Bowie and Roxy Music. He became one of the first generation of ragamuffin punks taken under the wings of Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood.In Lonely Boy, Steve describes the sadness of never having known his real dad, the abuse he suffered at the hands of his stepfather, and how his interest in music and fashion saved him from a potential life of crime spent in remand centers and prisons. He takes readers on his journey from the Kings Road of the early '70s through the years of the Sex Pistols, punk rock, and the recording of "e;Anarchy in the UK"e; and Never Mind the Bollocks. He recounts his infamous confrontation on Bill Grundy's Today program--the interview that ushered in the "e;Filth and the Fury"e; headlines that catapulted punk into the national consciousness. And he delves into the details of his self-imposed exile in New York and Los Angeles, where he battled alcohol, heroin, and sex addiction but eventually emerged to gain fresh acclaim as an actor and radio host.Lonely Boy is the story of an unlikely guitar hero who, with the Sex Pistols, transformed twentieth-century culture and kick-started a social revolution.

This book draws on scholarship that in theoretical and practical terms focuses on the centrality of communication as a scholarly pursuit, as an intellectual enterprise and as a pervasive element of everyday life. The authors examine the history and present contours of the field, bringing new insight and clarity into the role communication plays in academic and scholarship.

The first monograph to critically engage with the controversial horror film subgenre known as 'torture porn', this book dissects press responses to popular horror and analyses key torture porn films, mapping out the broader conceptual and contextual concerns that shape the meanings of both 'torture' and 'porn'.

A re-examination of the history of food studies from the semiotics of Barthes and the anthropology of Levi-Strauss to Elias' historical analysis and Bourdieu's work on the relationship between food, consumption and cultural identity.

Steve Jones's highly acclaimed, double prize-winning, bestselling first book is now fully revised to cover all the new genetic breakthroughs from GM food to Dolly the sheep. 'An essential sightseer's guide to our own genetic terrain.' Peter Tallack, Sunday Telegraph'Superb and stimulating...an exhilarating trip around the double spiral of DNA, a rush of gravity-defying concepts and wild swerves of the scientific imagination.' J.G. Ballard, Daily Telegraph'Not so much divination as demystification... An attempt to bring genetics and evolution more into the public domain. If, for instance, you ever wondered just what genetic engineering is about, here is as good a place as any to discover. Few have Jones's ability to communicate a difficult idea with such humour, clarity, precision and ease.' Laurence Hurst, Times Higher'Sensitive to the social issues raised by genetics... yet Jones's interest reaches beyond contemporary social issues to the human past, to what genetics can and cannot tell us about our evolution and patterns of social development. He interleaves a broad knowledge of biology with considerations of cultural, demographic and - as his title indicates - linguistic history. At once instructive and captivating.' Daniel J.Kevles, London Review of Books

Is your profits tap dry? Why is it some businesses are magnets to their clients whilst other businesses struggle? Do your potential clients call you or is it the other way round? There are seven key factors that separate those perpetually chasing business, and those whose business, money and success chases them. In this book, Steve Jones, an expert in the field, outlines these seven factors and teaches the 'supermarket' approach of how to become a client magnet. Ten phone calls, ten appointments, ten sales - and they'll be calling you.Learn the secret strategies to becoming so strong in a sales meeting that you have to lose the business, not win it; learn how to make your business more relevant than ever to today's markets; and learn how to define a clear vision that sets you apart.Turning on Your Profits Tap is an essential text for any existing or budding entrepreneur, brave business-owner, thinker, or creative looking to transform their business growth.

A field guide to cheese-and-drink combinations that go beyond Parmigiano and Prosecco.

Sees pop music journalism as a form of cultural criticism.

In his new book, Steve Jones takes on the challenge of going back to the book of the millennium, Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species.