murphy nigel (15 résultats)

DVD. Etat : Fair. scratches to disc, Ex-Library: text is readable but suffers cosmetic damage from library marking and withrawing procedures.

Etat : New. pp. 576.

Etat : New. pp. 576.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 144 pages. Romesh Gunesekera "The Green Line" (story) / Richard Murphy "Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes: an Irish visit in 1962" / Ciaran Folan "Details" (story) / Nigel Jones "Th Dymock Poets" / Alan Mahar "Spoken Urdu" (story) / Dafna Allon "Losing Altitude".

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. How can design processes assist in understanding the underlying and hybrid nature of water systems in our urban environments so that we can better prepare for the densification of cities and the impact of climate change? This book captures propositions and speculations around this question through design studies undertaken in three Australian cities: Melbourne's low-lying swampy areas, Brisbane's flooding river valley and Perth's deep groundwater network. Each of these cities has its own set of challenges around water, based on their particular natural environmental conditions and the radical modifications over 200 years that have fundamentally changed the way that water moves. The ambitious schemes of the past - dams, drains, canals, sewers, reservoirs, lakes, aqueducts - made room for the 'progress' of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Now in the twenty-first century we need new ambitions where urban environments can adapt to the unpredictability of water through its extremes of dry and wet conditions. The design responses in this book contribute to such an aim by understanding the past, present and possible future conditions of local sites, and using this knowledge to create multi-purposed, alternative design scenarios towards a water-sensitive city.There is a confluence between available contemporary development land and problematic water sites. Many of the places in which contemporary development is occurring were not part of the originally planned city, and were leftover places that were never really suitable for development because of their water issues; these include high groundwater areas in Perth, low-lying flood-prone post-industrial lands in Melbourne, and urbanised flooding zones of Brisbane. These areas, now in central focus to accommodate large-scale city development for growing urban populations, demand new ways of thinking and building. How can design processes assist in understanding the underlying and hybrid nature of water systems in our urban environments so that we can better prepare for the densification of cities and the impact of climate change? Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Quarto softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Paper Covers. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Advance copy with review sticker inside front cover. Cover has minor creasing and a couple of spots. Contents clean and tight with no inscriptions. 168pp. This book sets out to provoke a radical rethinking of some of the deep-seated and subconscious attitudes towards 'Asians' and Asia held by many New Zealanders, as reflected in cartoons of the past 140 years. Cartoons are powerful visual images which have an immediacy greater than that of words. Many New Zealanders are now grappling with understanding the issues behind 'bad Asian drivers', 'rising property prices', 'student criminals'. These issues go back 150 years to the arrival of the first Chinese, towards the end of the Gold Rushes. Our attitude to Asians as the essential outsider has undergone little change since then. New Asian immigrants cannot understand our prejudice, or where it comes from. Using political cartoons, this book examines New Zealanders' attitudes to Asians from the 1850s until the present day. The cartoons are arranged thematically and chronologically, accompanied by explanatory text. Each chapter has an introductory preface, with a major preface.

Soft Cover. Etat : Very Good. Paperback. 24cm x 20cm. 60pp. Numerous colour illustrations. Slightest wear with small previous price label to rear cover. A very decent copy. (q7).

Soft cover. Etat : Near Fine. This copy feels unread. The only book that comprehensively covers the fortunes of Chinese immigrants in New Zealand from the earliest encounters in the mid-1800s, to the present day (including transnationalism) offering valuable data and expert viewpoints for international study and comparision. A timely book that will strike chords with the Chinese communiities in Australia, Canada and the United states, because of the strikingly similar expieriences of members of those communities at the hands of colonial governments and sometimes xenophobic societies.

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. How can design processes assist in understanding the underlying and hybrid nature of water systems in our urban environments so that we can better prepare for the densification of cities and the impact of climate change? This book captures propositions and speculations around this question through design studies undertaken in three Australian cities: Melbourne's low-lying swampy areas, Brisbane's flooding river valley and Perth's deep groundwater network. Each of these cities has its own set of challenges around water, based on their particular natural environmental conditions and the radical modifications over 200 years that have fundamentally changed the way that water moves. The ambitious schemes of the past - dams, drains, canals, sewers, reservoirs, lakes, aqueducts - made room for the 'progress' of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Now in the twenty-first century we need new ambitions where urban environments can adapt to the unpredictability of water through its extremes of dry and wet conditions. The design responses in this book contribute to such an aim by understanding the past, present and possible future conditions of local sites, and using this knowledge to create multi-purposed, alternative design scenarios towards a water-sensitive city.There is a confluence between available contemporary development land and problematic water sites. Many of the places in which contemporary development is occurring were not part of the originally planned city, and were leftover places that were never really suitable for development because of their water issues; these include high groundwater areas in Perth, low-lying flood-prone post-industrial lands in Melbourne, and urbanised flooding zones of Brisbane. These areas, now in central focus to accommodate large-scale city development for growing urban populations, demand new ways of thinking and building. How can design processes assist in understanding the underlying and hybrid nature of water systems in our urban environments so that we can better prepare for the densification of cities and the impact of climate change? Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

Soft Covers. Etat : VG. No Jacket. Cartoon Reproduxtions, Document Reproductions (illustrateur). 1st. In 1886 the first organised group of Chinese immigrants arirved in NZ, not from China directly, but from the Australian gold fields -- miners joining the Otago gold rush. Initially immigrants from China were well received, but by the early 1870s calls for restricted entry were made and in 1881 legislation was passed with limitations imposed. These included a poll-tax of 100 pounds on every Chinese immjigrant. In 1934 payment of the tax was waived, but not repealed until 1944. Nigel Murphy's introduction to the research paper states:: "This poll-tax was unique. No other ethnic group was required to pay such a tax to enter the country." He said the rax raised questionas highly pertinant to the histoy of New Zealand and its identity. "When the poll-tax was imposed the Chinese were viewed as a threat to New Zealand, a threart to the supposed purity of the whiite race in this country. and a threat to the image of the country that white New Zeaklanders wished to build." The paper illustrates many other challenges that Chinese faced settling ijn NZ and discloses tnstances of state and un-official strictures they faced, thus providing insights to NZ's immigration policies and prejudices not found in most conventional studies. However, NZ was not alone in applying a poll-tax ro Chinese immigrants with all Australian states and Canada adopting similar legislation. They discontinued the tax earlier than NZ. Sectiions of the paper cover the history of Chinese immigration to NZ, the intoduction of relevant legislation and attitudes through the Brtish Empire. It also records the for and against arguments that persisted through the tenure of the tax. Official NZ records relative to the tax were thoroughly researched for the paper, contributing much to its publicatioon with reproductions of these iinluded. Although probably little-known outside the NZ Chinese community the findings of the paper include reminders of practices relating to immigration problems of the past --- an issue which can still create controversy in NZ. First edition, publlished in 1994 , probably in Wellington, by the NZ Chinese Association, 83 numbered pages followed by an unpaginated section (approx 80 pages) containing cstoon reproductions, legislation copies, public accounts, and poll-tax listings of Chineses arrivals at Wellington 1888-1930. This little used copy from a college library. Red card covers are VG with clear plastic protection, light fadeing to spine and top front left corner, library labels at spine base, plastic covering tape secured to reverse of both covers, Crossed out college stamp top corner contents page also tape marks both corners, apart from a librarty stamp top corner introduction page and few light/unobtrusive pencil markings the book is internally VG+.

Soft cover. Etat : Near Fine. 168p Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine With illustrations, a history of the Dominion Federation of New Zealand Chinese Commercial Growers, including biographies.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. 138pp A4. Profusely illustrated. Extremely small nick to foot of psine (no loss).

Etat : New. pp. 576 This item is printed on demand.

Vintage borderless compilation photograph of six Saul Bass title designs and portrait of Saul Bass to promote the 1974 Bass directed film. Bass' title designs shown are "The Man with the Golden Arm," "Carmen Jones," "Anatomy of a Murder," "Bonjour, Tristesse," "Exodus," and "Seconds." Mimeo snipe affixed to verso and folded over recto. Bass' first and only directorial effort, now a cult favorite which was featured on Season 1, Episode 9 of "Mystery Science Theater 3000," which aired on January 15, 1989. Ants suddenly begin building strange towers and geometric designs in the Arizona desert, and begin to exhibit greater intelligence, threatening the scientists studying them, and ultimately all of humanity. Set in the Arizona desert, shot on location in Rift Valley, Kenya, and Eloy and Yuma, Arizona. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Olive Films 1116.