Simon Carter – författare

A dramatic collection of photographs revealing the world’s most beautiful climbing locations, from Tsaranoro in Madagascar and Teplicke in the Czech Republic to Mount Huashan in China. The popularity of rock climbing is burgeoning across the globe, with dedicated communities practising everything from bouldering to sport climbing, top-roping to free soloing, in beautiful locations around the world. This stunning collection of climbing photography reveals the beauty of the sport from behind the lens, where patterned rock faces, vertical spires, honeycomb holds and sweeping landscapes of ochre, slate and snow all provide breath-taking visual drama. Capturing the beauty, theatre and emotions of a climb in a single shuttered moment invites the viewer to reflect, and meditative texts, written by the world’s premier climbers and focusing on themes from intensity to environment, lines to roofs, trace the experience of being out on the rock face. A reference section includes practical details such as a glossary, grading table and list of selected routes. From the beauty of movement to the bounds of human endeavour, the splendour of landscapes and the allure of otherworldly formations, the art of rock climbing is shown in all its glories.

Pandemics, epidemics and food borne diseases are a major global challenge. Focusing on the food and farming sector, and mobilising social theory as well as empirical enquiry, Pathological Lives investigates current approaches to biosecurity and ask how pathological lives can be successfully ‘regulated’ without making life more dangerous as a result.   Uses empirical and social theoretical resources developed in the course of a 40-month research project entitled ‘Biosecurity borderlands’Focuses on the food and farming sector, where the generation and subsequent transmission of disease has the ability to reach pandemic proportionsDemonstrates the importance of a geographical and spatial analysis, drawing together social, material and biological approaches, as well as national and international examplesThe book makes three main conceptual contributions, reconceptualising disease as situated matters, the spatial or topological analysis of situations and a reformulation of biopoliticsUniquely brings together conceptual development with empirically and politically informed work on infectious and zoonotic disease, to produce a timely and important contribution to both social science and to policy debate

Pandemics, epidemics and food borne diseases are a major global challenge. Focusing on the food and farming sector, and mobilising social theory as well as empirical enquiry, Pathological Lives investigates current approaches to biosecurity and ask how pathological lives can be successfully ‘regulated’ without making life more dangerous as a result.   Uses empirical and social theoretical resources developed in the course of a 40-month research project entitled ‘Biosecurity borderlands’Focuses on the food and farming sector, where the generation and subsequent transmission of disease has the ability to reach pandemic proportionsDemonstrates the importance of a geographical and spatial analysis, drawing together social, material and biological approaches, as well as national and international examplesThe book makes three main conceptual contributions, reconceptualising disease as situated matters, the spatial or topological analysis of situations and a reformulation of biopoliticsUniquely brings together conceptual development with empirically and politically informed work on infectious and zoonotic disease, to produce a timely and important contribution to both social science and to policy debate

Guiding the reader through the research design process, Qualitative Research Design is a clear and easy-to-use introduction to planning, designing and managing a research project practically, ethically and critically. The author covers critical questions such as:

-How should postgraduate students and novice researchers design and conduct `good quality', ethically sound qualitative research?

-When is it appropriate to use qualitative research methods?

-What are the practical problems of planning a research project for a dissertation; thesis or external funding body?

-How does one begin organising one's data for publication?

Numerous contemporary case studies are employed throughout to illustrate the practical applications of research design, making this the ideal companion for any student or researcher undertaking their own qualitative research project.

Understanding Digital Societies provides a framework for understanding our changing, technologically shaped society and how sociology can help us make sense of it. You will be introduced to core sociological ideas and texts along with exciting global examples that shed light on how we can use sociology to understand the world around us.This innovative, new textbook:Provides unique insights into using theory to help explain the prevalence of digital objects in everyday interactions.Explores crucial relationships between humans, machines and emerging AI technologies.Discusses thought-provoking contemporary issues such as the uses and abuses of technologies in local and global communities.

Understanding Digital Societies is a must-read for students of digital sociology, sociology of media, digital media and society, and other related fields.

Understanding Digital Societies provides a framework for understanding our changing, technologically shaped society and how sociology can help us make sense of it. You will be introduced to core sociological ideas and texts along with exciting global examples that shed light on how we can use sociology to understand the world around us.This innovative, new textbook:Provides unique insights into using theory to help explain the prevalence of digital objects in everyday interactions.Explores crucial relationships between humans, machines and emerging AI technologies.Discusses thought-provoking contemporary issues such as the uses and abuses of technologies in local and global communities.

Understanding Digital Societies is a must-read for students of digital sociology, sociology of media, digital media and society, and other related fields.

Artists’ Corner in St Paul’s Cathedral is the final resting place for some of the greatest artists working in the United Kingdom, including Turner, Leighton and Millais. British painters of the 19th century are shoulder to shoulder with artists from America and Continental Europe who made Britain their home and helped to shape national taste.Artists’ Corner reflects a golden age of artistic production, when the visual arts were central to British cultural pride and identity, when the funerals of the cultural figures were occasions of national mourning, and their achievements were marked with monuments and enduring plaques.All of the painters and sculptors memorialised in Artists’ Corner are brought together in this guide, with references to some of their master works which chart a trajectory from history painting to the arrival of impressionism and abstraction in the 20th century.

Sunshine plays an important role in all aspects of life but there has been little social analysis of the sun and its place in our world. Recently experts have warned us that the sun's rays are dangerous. Yet, a suntan can still be taken as a sign of health. How did we arrive at this ambivalent relationship to the sun and what does this say about our changing attitudes to the human body and environment? Rise and Shine takes as its starting point a view of sunlight as part of our material and social culture. How did the use of sunlight to treat tuberculosis and rickets in the early twentieth century alter our relationship with the sun? When was suntan lotion invented? By drawing on a range of archival and historical sources, Rise and Shine traces the network of social and medical forces that constitute our current, sometimes problematic, relationship with sun and sunlight.

Sunshine plays an important role in all aspects of life but there has been little social analysis of the sun and its place in our world. Recently experts have warned us that the sun's rays are dangerous. Yet, a suntan can still be taken as a sign of health. How did we arrive at this ambivalent relationship to the sun and what does this say about our changing attitudes to the human body and environment? Rise and Shine takes as its starting point a view of sunlight as part of our material and social culture. How did the use of sunlight to treat tuberculosis and rickets in the early twentieth century alter our relationship with the sun? When was suntan lotion invented? By drawing on a range of archival and historical sources, Rise and Shine traces the network of social and medical forces that constitute our current, sometimes problematic, relationship with sun and sunlight.