A lasting contribution to the study of Japanese textiles and to the cultural history of the Inland Sea region, this volume presents a historical ethnography of the fishing villages that produced the sashiko no donza, or fishermanÕs coat. It provides as well an in-depth analysis of regional textile production, the sashiko tradition in the village of Hokudan, and the iconography of the eloquently stitched designs that appear on the coats. Sharon Sadako Takeda is senior curator and head of the Department of Costume and Textiles at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Luke Roberts is an associate professor of Japanese history at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Japanese Fishermen's Coats from Awaji Island (Textile Series, 5)

Arts & Photography

Roberts, Luke

History & Criticism

Fowler Museum at UCLA

Leading Schools and Sustaining Innovation

How can school leaders analyse and meaningfully engage in the complex process of change? Offering an innovative introduction to the challenges of school leadership from the perspective of systems, this essential staff-room companion shows why school leaders now need to think and engage as system leaders more than ever before. 
Luke Roberts explores what types of systems can be most effectively implemented and provides cutting-edge ideas on what school leaders can do to embed and genuinely sustain innovation. He also presents a framework based on understanding different stakeholder views and shows how to facilitate process to gain new perspectives and enthuse the whole school community. This accessible resource focuses on the application, to enable readers to use their understanding of creativity and innovation to transform systems. He provides examples from research successfully conducted in schools as well as the lived experiences of working to change schools. He also helpfully provides a simple route to engaging with system thinking, asking what this means for the reader and the specific challenges they face. 
Leading Schools and Sustaining Innovation will appeal to educationalists across the whole educational sector, including head teachers, policy leaders as well as staff working towards and passionate about school improvement and transformation.

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Routledge

Living in History: Poetry in Britain, 1945–1979 (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Avant-Garde Writing)

Literature & Fiction

Edinburgh University Press

Home Radio (The87press)

Poetry

the87press

Barry MacSweeney and the Politics of Post-War British Poetry: Seditious Things (Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics)

British & Irish

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

This book examines the literary impact of famed British poet, Barry MacSweeney, who worked at the forefront of poetic discovery in post-war Britain.  Agitated equally by politics and the possibilities of artistic experimentation, Barry MacSweeney was ridiculed in the press, his literary reputation only recovering towards the end of his life which was cut short by alcoholism. With close readings of MacSweeney alongside his contemporaries, precursors, and influences, including J.H. Prynne, Shelley, Jack Spicer, and Sylvia Plath, Luke Roberts offers a fresh introduction to the field of modern poetry. Richly detailed with archival and bibliographic research, this book recovers the social and political context of MacSweeney’s exciting, challenging, and controversial impact on modern and contemporary poetry.

Metafriction

Literary

Generational Copy LLC

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