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This book examines comparative performance and best practice in National Tourism Organisations/ Administrations from extensive research carried out in 2003 and 2004. It compares qualitative and quantitative data in order to ascertain best performance.Analysis is contained in detail for eight National Tourism Organisations based in four Continents, comprising: Australia, Canada, France, Ireland, The Netherlands, South Africa and Spain. Each country is examined and analysed in the following key areas: Travel and Tourism Performance, Organisation of Tourism, The National Tourism Organisation, structure, Role, Staffing and Offices, Resources and Funding as well as providing case studies of good practice. The book includes methodology of the research and provides discussion and comment of the main roles and success formula in comparable National Tourism Organisations.• Useful, practical guide to government's involvement in tourism over the past decade or more• Brings insight from both the academic and practitioner markets• International Case Studies

This title includes an introduction by Sir Paul McCartney. First published in 1964 and 1965, "In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works" are a brilliantly inventive and offbeat collection of John Lennon's stories, drawings and poems.

WITH AN AFTERWORD BY YOKO ONO AND ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE AUTHORJohn Lennon wrote the material collected in Skywriting by Word of Mouth during Yoko Ono's pregnancy with Sean Lennon. After John's assassination in 1980, his manuscript was stolen from the Lennon's home. Skywriting was finally published in 1986, and it displays all of Lennon's extraordinary creativity and inventiveness with language. It includes Lennon's only piece of autobiography, 'The Ballad of John and Yoko' as well as short works of fiction, accounts of falling in love, marriage, the break-up of the Beatles and life in America.

This study examines the waves of graffiti that occur before, during, and after a conflict—important tools of political resistance that make protest visible and material.  Graffiti makes for messy politics. In film and television, it is often used to create a sense of danger or lawlessness. In bathroom stalls, it is the disembodied expression of gossip, lewdness, or confession. But it is also a resistive tool of protest, making visible the disparate voices and interests that come together to make a movement.In Conflict Graffiti, John Lennon dives into the many permutations of graffiti in conflict zones—ranging from the protest graffiti of the Black Lives Matter movement in Ferguson and the Tahrir Square demonstrations in Egypt, to the tourist-attraction murals on the Israeli Separation Wall and the street art that has rebranded Detroit and post-Katrina New Orleans. Graffiti has played a crucial role in the revolutionary movements of these locales, but as the conflict subsides a new graffiti and street art scene emerges—often one that ushers in postconflict consumerism, gentrification, militarization, and anesthetized forgetting.Graffiti has an unstable afterlife, fated to be added to, transformed, overlaid, photographed, reinterpreted, or painted over. But as Lennon concludes, when protest movements change and adapt, graffiti is also uniquely suited to shapeshift with them.

Personally compiled and curated by Yoko Ono, Imagine John Yoko is the definitive inside story – told in revelatory detail – of the making of the legendary album and all that surrounded it: the locations, the creative team, the artworks and the films, in the words of John & Yoko and the people who were there.Features 80% exclusive, hitherto-unpublished archive photos and footage sequences of all the key players in situ, together with lyric sheets, Yoko’s art installations, and exclusive new insights and personal testimonies from Yoko and over forty of the musicians, engineers, staff, celebrities, artists and photographers who were there – including Julian Lennon, Klaus Voormann, Alan White, Jim Keltner, David Bailey, Dick Cavett and Sir Michael Parkinson.‘A lot has been written about the creation of the song, the album and the film of Imagine, mainly by people who weren’t there, so I’m very pleased and grateful that now, for the first time, so many of the participants have kindly given their time to “gimme some truth” in their own words and pictures’ Yoko Ono Lennon, 2018In 1971, John Lennon & Yoko Ono conceived and recorded the critically acclaimed album Imagine at their Georgian country home, Tittenhurst Park, in Berkshire, England, in the state-of-the-art studio they built in the grounds, and at the Record Plant in New York. The lyrics of the title track were inspired by Yoko Ono’s ‘event scores’ in her 1964 book Grapefruit, and she was officially co-credited as writer in June 2017.Imagine John Yoko tells the story of John & Yoko’s life, work and relationship during this intensely creative period. It transports readers to home and working environments showcasing Yoko’s closely guarded archive of photos and artefacts, using artfully compiled narrative film stills, and featuring digitally rendered maps, floorplans and panoramas that recreate the interiors in evocative detail. John & Yoko introduce each chapter and song; Yoko also provides invaluable additional commentary and a preface. All the minutiae is examined: the locations, the key players, the music and lyrics, the production techniques and the artworks – including the creative process behind the double exposure polaroids used on the album cover. With a message as universal and pertinent today as it was when the album was created, this landmark publication is a fitting tribute to John & Yoko and their place in cultural history.

A Collector's Edition of Imagine John Yoko - the definitive inside story of the making of the legendary album and all that surrounded it - personally compiled and curated by Yoko Ono.In 1971, John Lennon & Yoko Ono conceived and recorded the critically acclaimed album Imagine at their Georgian country home, Tittenhurst Park, in Berkshire, England, in the state-of-the-art studio they built in the grounds, and at the Record Plant in New York. The lyrics of the title track were inspired by Yoko Ono's `event scores' in her 1964 book Grapefruit, and she was officially co-credited as writer in June 2017.Imagine John Yoko tells the story of John & Yoko's life, work and relationship during this intensely creative period. It transports readers to home and working environments showcasing Yoko's closely guarded archive of photos and artefacts, using artfully compiled narrative film stills, and featuring digitally rendered maps, floorplans and panoramas that recreate the interiors in evocative detail. John & Yoko introduce each chapter and song; Yoko also provides invaluable additional commentary and a preface.All the minutiae is examined: the locations, the key players, the music and lyrics, the production techniques and the artworks - including the creative process behind the double exposure polaroids used on the album cover.With a message as universal and pertinent today as it was when the album was created, this landmark publication is a fitting tribute to John & Yoko and their place in cultural history.

Described by Lennon as ‘the best thing I’ve ever done’, and widely regarded by critics as his best solo album, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band was released alongside the remarkable Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band on 11 December 1970. With first-hand commentary by John & Yoko, members of the Plastic Ono Band and other key figures in their lives, and packed with evocative and revealing letters, artworks and photographs, this incisive volume offers new insights into the raw emotions and open mindset of Lennon after marriage to Ono and the break-up of the Beatles. Following their wedding in March 1969, Lennon and Ono decided that their future musical endeavours should be credited to a conceptual vehicle, the Plastic Ono Band. The band featured an ever-changing line-up of musicians, including Eric Clapton, Klaus Voormann, Ringo Starr, Alan White, George Harrison, Billy Preston and Jim Keltner, all of whom played live with Lennon and Ono, and contributed to their recordings. The fearless honesty that John & Yoko inspired in one another in their search for truth, meaning and peace had a huge impact on Lennon’s song writing, resulting in the creation of tracks that are intensely personal and unlike anything previously heard in popular music, including ‘Mother’, ‘Working Class Hero’ and ‘God’. This book takes those lyrics as a starting point and explores Lennon’s life, relationships and world view during this transformative period.

Told in revelatory detail, this is the definitive exploration of the writing, recording and release of John Lennon’s celebrated fourth solo album Mind Games. Described by Yoko Ono as ‘ahead of its time’, Mind Games is a breakthrough album from John Lennon in which he employs a Plastic Ono Band comprising the cream of the crop of New York session musicians – a fan favourite that remains a cult classic ever since its first release on 29 October 1973. This insightful and beautiful book presents handwritten lyrics, letters and artworks by Lennon and Ono, and previously unseen photography alongside their firsthand commentary about the lyrics, songs and album artwork, as well as contributions from the musicians, friends, engineers and key figures involved in the making of this landmark album. Mind Games was the product of an exceptionally turbulent time for the Lennons. While Nixon and Hoover were attempting to have Lennon deported, John and Yoko endured endless litigations, and as the popular press turned on them once again, they bravely rose above it all, continuing their campaigns for non-violent peaceful protest to end the war in Vietnam and for equal rights for women. It was also an exciting time, when they both re-embraced mysticism and magical thinking. In this sumptuous volume, text and images from the key players are woven together to reveal not only the details behind the creation, recording and release of this groundbreaking commercial and skilfully crafted recording, but also to shed new light on a period of transformation and experimentation for Lennon and Ono. Publication of this volume will coincide with extensive publicity surrounding the release of an exceptional, completely remixed and reissued 6 x CD / 2 x BluRay digital edition of Mind Games, together with two deluxe Mind Games boxsets, bringing the album to a new generation of listeners.

The description for this book, Lennon-isms, will be forthcoming.

This book sets out to explore ‘dark tourism’; that is, the representation of inhuman acts, and how these are interpreted for visitors at a number of places throughout the world, for example the sites of concentration camps in both Western and Eastern Europe. Many people wish to experience the reality behind the media images, or are prompted to find out more by a personal association with places or events. The phenomenon raises ethical issues over the status and nature of objects, the extent of their interpretation, the appropriate political and managerial response and the nature of the experience as perceived by the visitor, their residents and local residents. Events, sites, types of visit and ‘host’ reactions are considered in order to construct the parameters of the concept of ‘dark tourism’. Many acts of inhumanity are celebrated as heritage sites in Britain (for example, the Tower of London, Edinburgh Castle), and the Berlin Wall has become a significant attraction despite claiming many victims.

The last major interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, conducted by New York Times bestselling author David Sheff, featuring a new introduction that reflects on the fortieth anniversary of Lennon's death.Originally published in Playboy in 1981 just after John Lennon's assassination, All We Are Saying is a rich, vivid, complete interview with Lennon and Yoko Ono, covering art, creativity, the music business, childhood beginnings, privacy, how the Beatles broke up, how Lennon and McCartney collaborated (or didn't) on songs, parenthood, money, feminism, religion, and insecurity. Of course, at the heart of the conversation is the deep romantic and spiritual bond between Lennon and Ono.Sheff's insightful questions set the tone for Lennon's responses and his presence sets the scene, as he goes through the kitchen door of Lennon and Yoko's apartment in the Dakota and observes moments at Lennon's famous white piano and the rock star's work at the stove, making them grilled cheese sandwiches. Sheff's new introduction looks at his forty-year-old interview afresh, and examines how what he learned from Lennon has resonated with him as a man and a parent. This is a knockout interview: unguarded, wide-ranging, alternately frisky and intense.

A lifetime of letters, collected for the first time, from the legendary The Beatles musician and songwriter John LennonJohn Lennon is one of the world's greatest-ever song writers, creator of 'Help!', 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds', 'Imagine' and dozens more. Now, his letters have been collected and published, illuminating as never before the intimate side of a private genius.Hunter Davies, author of the only authorised biography of The Beatles, has tracked down almost three hundred of Lennon's letters and postcards - to relations, friends, fans, strangers, lovers and even to the laundry. Some of the letters are tender, informative, funny, angry and abusive, and some are simply heart-breaking - from his earliest surviving thank-you note, written when he was ten, to his last scribbled autograph given on 8 December 1980, the day he was shot, aged forty.

Introduced by Paul McCartneyABOUT THE AWFULI was bored on the 9th of Octover 1940 when, I believe, the Nasties were still booming us led by Madalf Heatlump (Who only had one). Anyway they didn't get me. I attended to varicous schools in Liddypol. And still didn't pass-much to my Aunties supplies. As a member of the most publified Beatles my and (P, G, and R's) records might seem funnier to some than this book, but as far as I'm conceived this correction of short writty is the most wonderfoul larf I've ever ready.In His Own Write is John Lennon's literary debut, a book of stories, drawings and poems that was first published in 1964 to great critical acclaim and became a phenomenon, selling over 600,000 copies in the UK alone and revealing a hitherto unseen side to Lennon's artistic output and talent.

Following the incredible success of his first book, In His Own Write, John Lennon's second collection of stories, drawings and poems is just as witty, whimsical and wonderful as his debut. First published in 1965 it is now back in print, looking just as it did when it first appeared half a century ago.CONTENTSA Spaniard in the WorksThe Fat BudgieSnore Wife and some Several DwartsThe Singularge Experience of Miss Anne DuffieldThe Faulty BagnoseWe must not forget the General ErectionBenjaman DistastefulThe Wumberlog (or The Magic Dog)Araminta DitchCassandleThe National Health CowReaders LettuceSilly NormanMr. Boris MorrisBernice's SheepLast Will and TesticleOur DadI Believe, Boot . . .

Boken är illustrerad med Lennons egna teckningar och är rejäl, 256 sidor, dubbelt så tjock som A Spaniard in the Works och mångfaldigt så innehållsrik. Lennonska redogörelser för det kreativa mysteriet: det är just ett mysterium, nyckeln till det kreativa finns i mystiken. Man måste tömma sig först, tömma sinnet. "Man kan inte måla en tavla på ett smutsigt ark, man måste ha ett rent." Dessutom kryddas anrättningen av ett antal Lennonska humoristiska noveller, t ex om den aparta levnadskonstnären Maurices olika trick i San Francisco, och om Lauras och Hans konvulsiviska kärlek i Rom. Och mycket mer. Med boken följer en 3-minuters bonus-cd med utdrag ur John Lennons allra sista intervju, som gjordes av RKO General Radio of New York, bara timmar innan Lennon sköts till döds av en galning utanför sitt hem i New York den 8 december 1980.

En friskt blandad kompott av material från Johns och Yokos många uppfinningsrika projekt för freden. Teckningar, foton, tankeväckande utspel, kloka ord, humoristiska överraskningar, fräna provokationer. Med boken följer utan extra kostnad en bonus-DVD med två filmer, dels en film med dokumentärt material från John & Yokos Bed-In-projekt, dels en kortfilm om fred och kärlek som Yoko gjorde häromåret: Onochord. OBS! Boken är helt och hållet på engelska!

John Lennons bok På eget sätt i översättning av Peter Curman och Ingemar Lindahl. På eget sätt (originalets titel: In His Own Write) är en samling texter och teckningar Lennon skapade allt medan han befann sig i beatlesfeberns virvel av turné er och skivinspelningar. Det finns ett TV-inslag när beatlarna är i Sverige och intervjuas av Torsten Jungstedt. John ombeds läsa någon av sina noveller högt - men det blir svårt för George är genast där och rycker ut och kastar iväg hela knippen av sidor. En oemotståndligt rolig bok, fylld av bisarra berättelser om udda människoöden klädda i ett språk fullt av systematisk orddemolering och kreativa felstavningar. Nu utkommer Peter Curmans och Ingemar Lindahls kongeniala svenska översättning från 1965 i nyutgåva på Bakhåll. Läs om de fem på Dumkyrkokällaren, Skrattkammarmön, könhetsdrottningen och alla de andra. Och missa inte storviltgikten med den vitrige jägaren! Med denna sin första bok fullföljde Lennon något som han påbörjat redan som tonåring på Quarry Bank School. I sin egenhändigt framställda oregelbundet utkommande tidning The Daily Howl brukade han teckna och skriva fräna små stycken som parodierade händelser på skolan, ofta illustrerade med elaka teckningar föreställande skolans lärare. Och under de första åren på 60-talet försåg han under pseudonymen Beatcomber också den Liverpool­baserade musiktidningen Mersey Beat med material i denna stil. Tre av bokens texter, "Liddypool", "På storviltgikt med den vitrige jägaren" och "Jag minns Arnold" är för övrigt hämtade ur material som tidigare hade tryckts i Mersey Beat. In His Own Write publicerades 1964 av förlaget Jonathan Cape och blev en omedelbar succé . Boken hamnade direkt på bestsellerlistorna i både England och USA. Även litteraturkritikerna var förtjusta. Lennon hyllades som en ny litterär humorist. The Times Literary Supplement skrev att boken är ett måste för "envar som fruktat ett förflackande av det engelska språket och den brittiska fantasin". Flera kritiker var på kritikers vis måna om att peka ut Lennons förebilder - det skulle vara bland andra Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, James Thurber och - framför allt - James Joyce. "Inte endast den fasta beslutsamheten att enbart kommunicera via skämt och vitsar - även den lika fasta beslutsamheten att vidmakthålla en blasfemisk och subversiv ton utgör mycket tydliga joyceanska drag." Lennon själv erkände i intervjuerna endast två influenser: Lewis Carroll och Arthur Conan Doyle. James Joyce hade han aldrig läst, hävdade han. Men det viktigaste med Lennons "galna" prosastycken i In His Own Write är nog att de förebådar och kanske aktivt medverkar till hans omsvängning från de enkla poptexter han skrev för Beatles tidiga skivor till den stora nydanande rocklyrik han skapade i Beatles sena produktion och under sin efterföljande solokarriär. Första exemplet på en låt i "In His Own Write"-stil är nog "I am the Walrus" från 1967. På eget sätt av John Lennon i översättning av Peter Curman och Ingemar Lindahl. ISBN 978-91-7742-406-2. Högkvalitetspapper, sydda ark, klotband. 80 sidor. "En fantastisk bok som måste läsas! Helt underbar! En hyllning också till översättarna." Yukiko Duke, SVT Gomorron Sverige. "Smart, imponerande och exkluderande!" Henrik Högström, Expressen "Det bubblar av kreativitet!" Lisbeth Antonsson, Östgöta Correspondenten "En fantastisk bok!" Jögge Sundqvist, SVT Gokväll