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  • Once Upon a Time

    by Ian Bell ...
    Half a century ago a youth appeared from the American hinterland and began a cultural revolution. The world is still coming to terms with what he did. How he did it—and why—has never fully been explored. In Once Upon a Time, award-winning writer Ian Bell draws together the tangled strands of the many lives of Bob Dylan in all their contradictory brilliance. For the first time, the laureate of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Dreams of Exile

    Robert Louis Stevenson: A Biography

    by Ian Bell ...
    The renowned nineteenth-century author of Treasure Island gets his due in "an admirable biography, full of intelligence and scruple . . . beautifully written" ( The Independent).Many biographies have been written of Robert Louis Stevenson, portraying different versions of the famous author—from the Bohemian dandy outraging Victorian Edinburgh to a writer of stories beloved by children and familiar ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Time out of Mind

    by Ian Bell ...
    By the middle of the 1970s, Bob Dylan’s position as the pre-eminent artist of his generation was assured. The 1975 album Blood on the Tracks seemed to prove, finally, that an uncertain age had found its poet.Then Dylan faltered. His instincts, formerly unerring, deserted him. in the 1980s, what had once appeared unthinkable came to pass: the “voice of a generation” began to sound irrelevant, a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Maths for the Building Trades

    by Jim Kidd, Ian Bell ...
    Maths for the Building Trades provides students of all ages with an easy-to-understand guide to the fundamental mathematics that is required in their area of study and beyond. It can be used as a learning programme on its own or in conjunction with the textbooks associated with their chosen trade.The book assumes only a minimum level of mathematical knowledge and thoroughly covers the basic rules. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Agency, Structure and the NEET Policy Problem

    The Experiences of Young People

    by Professor Leslie Bell, Dr Ian Thurlby-Campbell ...
    For many years, government policy has associated young people 'being NEET' (Not in Education, Employment or Training) with educational underachievement, worklessness, generational poverty, poor health, antisocial behaviour, and reduced life expectancies. Researchers and policymakers continue to debate whether young people become NEET as a result of their own choices (i.e. their personal agency), ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Critic as Scientist

    The modernist poetics of Ezra Pound

    by Ian F. A. Bell ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1981, Critic as Scientist provides a detailed and scholarly account both of the scientific background and of contemporary artistic issues in its analysis of Ezra Pound’s poetics. During the crucial period of his years in London, Ezra Pound was striving to formulate not only a new system of poetics but also a new language through which he could both define the critic’s procedure ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10

    by Nick Montfort, Patsy Baudoin, John Bell, Ian Bogost, Jeremy Douglass ...
    Series series Software Studies
    A single line of code offers a way to understand the cultural context of computing.This book takes a single line of code—the extremely concise BASIC program for the Commodore 64 inscribed in the title—and uses it as a lens through which to consider the phenomenon of creative computing and the way computer programs exist in culture. The authors of this collaboratively written book treat code not as ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Defoe's Fiction

    by Ian A. Bell ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1985, Defoe’s Fiction explores Defoe’s work by considering it in the context of its genre.The book highlights the difficulty of placing Defoe’s fiction in the most appropriate context due to it being aimed primarily at a popular market, in contrast to the more literary productions of Pope, Swift, or Addison. It also comments on the trend of focusing on Defoe’s irony or ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Beauty and the Blood

    by Ian R Bell ...
    No wonder American anthropologist, Samantha Russell is nervous on her PhD research visit to London! She's flat-sharing with a glamorous lesbian vampire called Sterling, who's deeply involved in the London gangland culture of the anarchic 1980s.When both women find themselves in possession of a mysterious ancient artifact, they soon become the objects of unwanted attention - notably from the London ... Read more

    $6.81 USD

  • London Underground

    by Ian R Bell ...
    The year is 1977, and as England goes to the dogs, university student, Julie Kent, reinvents herself as Sterling - an outrageous thieving Goth with a dodgy sex life and an appalling attitude. Over the next two decades she cuts a bloody swathe through London's criminal underworld until she finally ends up on a mortuary slab...but is she really dead?The social disintegration of the late Twentieth ... Read more

    $6.81 USD

  • Literature and Crime in Augustan England

    by Ian A. Bell ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: 18th Century Literature
    Eighteenth-century England saw an explosion of writings about deviance. In literature, in the law, and in the press, writers returned again and again to the question of crime and criminals.While the extension of the legal system formalised the power of the state to categorise and punish ‘deviance’, writers repeatedly confronted the problematic nature of legal authority and the unstable idea of ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Lure of Amsterdam

    A Lex Spijker Novel

    by Jean Weso ...
    Narrated by Ian Bell ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 18 min

    Hungover after spending a boozy Saturday night watching a brilliant Dutch football team win its first game in the 1974 FIFA World Cup, private detective Lex Spijker is loafing on the couch. A voluptuous goddess with long, dark hair and full, red lips rings his doorbell, then lures him into some nasty business that threatens to wreak havoc on his mental and physical well-being. ... Read more

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