David Simpson Boeken

Sapphire & Steel charted the efforts of two mysterious ‘agents’, named Sapphire (Joanna Lumley) and Steel (David McCallum), as they were given a number of ‘assignments’. featuring everything from a faceless man and a vengeful soldier, to living nursery rhymes and a time-trapped motorway cafe.The series was innovative, intelligent and terrifying, and it has stayed in the memories of all who saw it.In this guide, Richard Callaghan delves into the six televised ‘assignments’ and finds out what made them tick. He explores the continuity and background to the show, and gives all the facts and figures as well as a critical commentary. The show’s spin-off books and audio adventures are also discussed and reviewed.This edition of the book has been fully revised and updated including new interviews with key cast and crew, and new and updated facts and figures relating to the show.

David Simpson's exploration delves into Wordsworth's responses to the transformative shifts of the modern world at the turn of the century. The analysis highlights the poet's reflections on societal changes and their impact on his work, offering insights into the interplay between nature, industry, and human experience during a pivotal time in history.

David Simpson's analysis delves into Wordsworth's responses to the transformative shifts occurring at the turn of the century. It explores how the poet's work reflects his engagement with the evolving modern landscape, highlighting the interplay between nature and industrialization. Through this lens, the book offers insight into Wordsworth's enduring relevance and the complexities of his literary legacy in a time of significant societal change.

Focusing on the modernization process, this book delves into agricultural economics and various growth theories related to economic development. It critically examines the challenges and issues associated with growth, offering insights into the complexities of modernizing economies. Through a thorough analysis, it seeks to illuminate the intricate relationship between agricultural practices and economic progress.

Recent thinking has resuscitated civility as an important paradigm for engaging with a violence that must be deemed endemic to our lives. But, while it is widely acknowledged that civility works against violence, and that literature generates or accompanies civility and engenders tolerance, civility has also been understood as violence in disguise, and literature, which has only rarely sought to claim the power of violence, has often been accused of inciting it. This book sets out to describe the ways in which these words—violence, literature and civility—and the concepts they evoke are mutually entangled, and the uses to which these entanglements have been put. Simpson's argument follows a broadly historical trajectory through the long modern period from the Renaissance to the present, drawing on the work of historians, political scientists, literary scholars and philosophers. The result is a distinctly new argument about the complex and often mystified entanglements between literature, civility and violence in the anglophone Atlantic sphere. What now are our expectations of civility and literature, separately and together? How do these long-familiar but residually imprecise concepts stand up to the demands of the modern world? Simpson's argument is that, despite and perhaps because of their imperfect conceptualization, both persist as important protocols for the critique of violence.