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Shakin' All Over
Popular Music and Disability (Corporealities: Discourses of Disability)
by George Mckay
Paperback, 242 Pages, Published 2013 by University Of Michigan Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-472-05209-7, ISBN: 0-472-05209-8

"Given the explosion in recent years of scholarship exploring the ways in which disability is manifested and performed in numerous cultural spaces, it’s surprising that until now there has never been a single monograph study covering the important intersection of popular music and disability. George McKay’s Shakin’ All Over is a cross-disciplinary examination of the ways in which popular music performers have addressed disability: in the ..."






Radical Gardening
Politics, Idealism and Rebellion in the Garden
by George Mckay
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2013 by Frances Lincoln
ISBN-13: 978-0-7112-3538-0, ISBN: 0-7112-3538-4

"War is the natural occupation of man . war-and gardening. Winston Churchill to Siegfried Sassoon, 1918 In the common public perception, contemporary gardening is understood as suburban, as leisure activity, as television makeover opportunity. Its origins are seen as religious or spiritual (Garden of Eden), military (the clipped lawn, the ha-ha and defensive ditches), aristocratic or monarchical (the stately home, the Royal Horticultur ..."






Cultural Studies Bloomsbury Academic Collections
Yankee Go Home (And Take Me with U) : Americanization and Popular Culture (1997, UK-Paperback)
by George Mckay, Alex Cheung
Paperback, 170 Pages, Published 1997 by Sheffield Academic Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-85075-811-2, ISBN: 1-85075-811-5

"From Yeah to Yo! our language bears traces of American influence. We can do little to escape the experience of America through many media: TV, pop music, youth culture, Hollywood, fast food. How do these traces and images affect us? Do we internalize them, want to be American? Do we (can we?) resist them, see America as still at cultural Cold War? Is our desire for them a symptom of European pop culture's crisis? From blackface minstrel ..."






Scottish Names
(Waverley Scottish Classics)
by George Mckay, Waverley Books Staff
Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2009 by Waverley Books Ltd
ISBN-13: 978-1-902407-79-1, ISBN: 1-902407-79-2

"This is a guide to names used in Scotland - Scots, Gaelic, international, ancient, modern, and timeless - and their origins and meanings. These names are either popular in modern Scotland, or are chosen because they have some special significance or historical link to the country. With Gaelic pronunciations, and historical and geographical references to the origin of first names and surnames, this book both helps parents choose a name f ..."






Incredible creatures
(The Nature Company discoveries library)
by Allen E. Greer, Susan Lumpkin, George Mckay, John Else Seidensticker, George Else, Time-Life Books, Greer Else
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2001 by Time-Life Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-7370-1005-3, ISBN: 0-7370-1005-3

"An illustrated introduction to animals, both common and fantastic, including what they eat, how they move, where they live, and how they defend themselves from predators."






Senseless Acts of Beauty(1st Edition)
Cultures of Resistence Since the Sixties
by George Mckay
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 1996 by Verso
ISBN-13: 978-1-85984-028-3, ISBN: 1-85984-028-0

"Welcome to the social and environmental devastation that is Britain in 1996. Welcome to interchangeable political parties and their chattering media jesters pulling together to make Johnny Rotten's dream come true: no future. But despite their best efforts, fear, cynicism and the National Lottery aren't the whole story. Protest hasn't disappeared during the last twenty years, and nor have solidarity and imagination. They have simply tak ..."






Encyclopedia of Discovery
Animals
by George Else, Susan Lumpkin, George Mckay, John Seidensticker, Allen E. Greer, Various Consulting Editors, Weldon Owen Pty
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2005 by Wendel Owen, Inc.
ISBN-13: 978-1-74089-326-8, ISBN: 1-74089-326-3

"Book by None"






Issues in Americanisation and Culture(1st Edition)
by Neil Campbell, George Mckay, Jude Davies
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2004 by Edinburgh University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7486-1943-6, ISBN: 0-7486-1943-7

"Americanisation--the cultural, political and economic influence of the USA--has played an important role in the shaping of modern Europe. This has been the case from the 19th century, when new and old worlds were negotiating fundamental issues such as race and empire, to the 20th century, when mass media communications intensified and reconfigured the transatlantic relationship. Developments since the Cold War, including the September 1 ..."






Incredible Creatures
(Nature Company Discoveries Library, Vol. 30)
by Owen Inc Weldon, George Else, Aleen E. Greer, Susan Lumpkin, George Mckay, John Seidensticker
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2001 by Time Life Medical
ISBN-13: 978-0-7370-1009-1, ISBN: 0-7370-1009-6

"Book by"






Glastonbury(1st Edition)
A Very English Fair */1st print**
by George Mckay
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2000 by Orion
ISBN-13: 978-0-575-06807-0, ISBN: 0-575-06807-8

"From its origins as what its organiser Michael Eavis called a "mini-rock festival", fittingly headlined by the diminutive Marc Bolan in 1970, Glastonbury Festival has become a musical and cultural fixture in the English summer. Famed not only for its fine (and not so fine) musical performances, but also for its surrounding "attractions" of comedy, dance, theatre, and, for those unfortunate enough to visit in "a muddy year", trench-foot, ..."






DiY Culture
Party and Protest in Nineties' Britain
by George Mckay
Paperback, 318 Pages, Published 1998 by Verso
ISBN-13: 978-1-85984-260-7, ISBN: 1-85984-260-7

"Collective youth up trees or down tunnels, protest camps and all-night raves across the land—these are the spectacular features of the politics and culture of nineties youth in Britain. DiY Culture lays to rest the myth of “Thatcher’s children,” for the flags are flying again—green, red and black.Editor George McKay claims that popular protest today is characterized by a culture of immediacy and direct action. Gathered together here for ..."






Sonata
(for Trombone and Piano): Part(s)
by George Frederick Mckay, Professor George Mckay, George Mckay
Paperback, 28 Pages, Published 1987 by Alfred Music
ISBN-13: 978-0-7692-5973-4, ISBN: 0-7692-5973-1

"س٢اا لمرهث«٠يم لماحعس» ؛ققاعهث لمااالما؛ح ه»ةروساانه لمفر؛ماا» به لمكق٧ت س٢اا لاجونا». ٧تح؛هئ٠ ا»ع جا» حعساا»ةطا يعنى لاللطة»ا لم»اهابهسهو قعم لمما»ةا ..."






The Pop Festival
History, Music, Media, Culture
by George Mckay
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2015 by Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN-13: 978-1-62356-959-4, ISBN: 1-62356-959-1

"'I'm going to camp out on the land ...try and get my soul free'. So sang Joni Mitchell in 1970 on 'Woodstock'. But Woodstock is only the tip of the iceberg. Popular music festivals are one of the strikingly successful and enduring features of seasonal popular cultural consumption for young people and older generations of enthusiasts. From pop and rock to folk, jazz and techno, under stars and canvas, dancing in the streets and in the mu ..."






The Encyclopedia of Mammals, a Complete Visual Guide
by Mckay-George-Consultant
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2007 by Fog City Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-74089-668-9, ISBN: 1-74089-668-8

"... Laurence Administrator International Sales Kristine Ravn Project Editors Stephanie Goodwin, Angela Handley, Jennifer Losco Designers Clare Forte, Heather Menzies, Jacqueline Richards, Karen Robertson Picture Research Annette Crueger, Jennifer Losco, Heather Menzies Text Jenni Bruce, Karen McGhee Species Gallery Illustrations MagicGroup s.r.o. (Czech Republic) — www.magicgroup.cz Feature Illustrations Guy Troughton Maps Andrew P ..."






How Things Work
by Alison Porter, Ian Graham, Eryl Davies, George Mckay
Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 1996 by Allen & Unwin
ISBN-13: 978-1-86448-879-1, ISBN: 1-86448-879-4

"The paperback edition of Discoveries - How Things Work . The authors hope that readers will be inspired to discover the science behind the objects around them and to question how familiar everyday things actually work."






Mammals
(Little Guides)
by George Mckay, Carson Creagh
Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 1999 by Weldon Owen
ISBN-13: 978-1-875137-59-6, ISBN: 1-875137-59-9

"... David Kirshner , Frank Knight , John Mac , James McKinnon , Tony Pyrzakowski , John Richards , Oliver Rennert , Barbara Rodanska , Trevor Ruth , Claudia Saraceni , Peter Schouten , Rod Scott , Ray Sim , Kevin Stead , Genevieve Wallace ..."






Atti insensati di bellezza. Le culture di resistenza hippy, punk, rave, ecoazione diretta e altre taz
(Paperback)
by George. Mckay, G. Carlotti
Paperback, 190 Pages, Published 2008 by Shake
ISBN-13: 978-88-88865-56-0, ISBN: 88-88865-56-X






ANIMALES PELIGROSOS -PEQUEÑAS GUIAS
by George Mckay
Paperback, Published 1900 by Libreria Universitaria
ISBN-13: 978-84-96445-97-0, ISBN: 84-96445-97-6






Grozne zwierzeta Maly przewodnik
by George Mckay
Paperback
ISBN-13: 978-83-213-4475-1, ISBN: 83-213-4475-5






Animales Peligrosos(1st Edition)
by George Mckay
Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2013 by Océano Travesía
ISBN-13: 978-970-777-295-3, ISBN: 970-777-295-6



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