"The paperback edition of Discoveries - Mammals.The author hopes this book will help readers to understand the wonderful variety of mammals and the need to protect the forests in which many of them live."
Senseless Acts of Beauty(1st Edition) Cultures of Resistence Since the Sixties by GeorgeMckay 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 ..."
Senseless Acts of Beauty Cultures of Resistance since the Sixties by GeorgeMckay Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 1996 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-85984-908-8, ISBN: 1-85984-908-3
"... of travellers' vehicles allowed to park up on a piece of land. It was precisely the
inclusive breadth of the government's proposals that enabled the Labour
opposition to abstain in Parliament, rather than organize against them (this was
left to the unelected chamber of the House of Lords). Labour effectively
overlooked the Act's blatantly repressive aspects, sidestepping the awkward
issue of standing up for people's rights. Mic ..."
Cultural Studies Bloomsbury Academic Collections Yankee Go Home (And Take Me with U) : Americanization and Popular Culture (1997, UK-Paperback) by GeorgeMckay, 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 ..."
"Invite readers to investigate the captivating world of the animal kingdom with thistwo-book series."
DIY Culture Party and Protest in Nineties' Britain by GeorgeMckay Hardcover, 310 Pages, Published 1998 by Verso Books ISBN-13: 978-1-85984-878-4, ISBN: 1-85984-878-8
"For putting me on to other sources and documents, thanks to Mike Waite, Sylvia
Ayling, Alan Rice, Godfrey Featherstone, Tom Cahill, John Moore, Tim Jordan,
Anne Beech, Fabiana Forni, Chris Atton, Alan Dearling, Nina Taylor, Jo Norcup.
Thanks to Mum and Jim, for arguments about New Labour, and much else
besides, and Ran, too. Finally, at Verso thanks to Jane Hindle, Sophie Arditti,
Amelia la Fuente, Robin Blackburn, Sebastian Budgen ..."
"Mammals are our closest relatives in the animal kingdom; most are beautiful, and many are highly intelligent and have intricate social systems. They are found in all kinds of habitats; they may have fur, scales, or spines; they move by hopping, swimming, running, or flying. What all mammals share, apart from certain anatomical similarities, is the unique ability to nourish their young with milk from mammary glands.Many species of mammal ..."
DiY Culture Party and Protest in Nineties' Britain by GeorgeMckay 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 ..."
"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 GeorgeMckay, 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 ..."