Fiona Robinson Livres

A guide to Scotland's gin scene - the history, the distillers and their gins.

"Tim Robinson’s Stones of Aran is one of the most striking and original literary undertakings of our time. Robinson’s ambition is to find out both what it is to know a landscape, know it as extensively and intimately as possible, and what it takes to make that knowledge, the sense of the landscape itself, come alive in writing. It is a project that draws on the legacies of Thoreau and Joyce, to which Robinson brings his own polymathic gifts as cartographer, mathematician, historian, and, above all, shaper of words. In Pilgrimage Robinson walked the entire coast of Airann, largest of the Aran islands. In Labyrinth he turns in to the island’s interior. These two books—parts of an inseparable whole that can, for all that, be read quite separately from each other—constitute a vast polyphonic composition, at once encyclopedic and lyrical, scientific and surprisingly personal. Exploring the illimitable complexity and bounty contained in the seemingly limited confines of a single island, Robinson invites us to look without and within and to see the wonder of the world." Back cover comments.

Focusing on ethics in global social relations, the book critiques established traditions in international ethics and introduces feminist moral philosophy as a potential alternative perspective. It encourages readers to rethink ethical frameworks in the context of international relations, highlighting the importance of diverse viewpoints in understanding global interactions.

Out of the Shadows is an innovative picture book biography about an unsung hero of early animation.Lotte Reiniger (1899–1981) was a German film director and animator best known for The Adventures of Prince Achmed , which was released in 1926 and is the oldest surviving animated movie. (It came out a full 11 years before Disney’s Snow White !) As a little kid, Reiniger loved reading fairy tales and fell in love with puppetry. At school, she learned about Scherenschnitte , or papercuts, which helped her create her signature style of silhouettes. She grew up to make more than 40 films throughout her long career, most of which were fairy tales that used her stop-film animation technique of hand-cut silhouettes. Reiniger is now seen as the foremost pioneer of silhouette animation and the inventor of an early form of the multiplane camera.With art inspired by Reiniger’s cut-paper style and a text that uses a fairy-tale motif that mimics her movies, author-illustrator Fiona Robinson’s Out of the Shadows is a sweeping tribute to one of most important figures of animation, whose influence still resonates today.“Every spread offers an exceptional visual experience, regularly amplifying aspects of the narrative.”— Horn Book Magazine (Starred Review)

Applying feminist ethics to a comprehensive reworking of the theory of human security, addressing such issues as poverty, health, environment, conflict and peace building

Butler's 1990 work shook the foundations of feminist theory and changed the conversation about gender. While many thinkers already accepted that gender was a category constructed by society defined by one's genitalia, Butler went further and argued that gender is performative-it exists only in the acts that express it.

Jacques Derrida's Structure, Sign, and Play is one of the most controversial and influential philosophical texts of the 20th century. Delivered at a conference on structuralism at Johns Hopkins, the lecture took aim at the critical and philosophical fashions of the time and radically proposing a world in which meaning cannot be pinned down or traced to an origin, but instead is continuously shifting, fleeting, and open to play. Hailed by many as a watershed in philosophy and literary theory, Derrida's lecture has shaped both disciplines. At once dense, brilliant, and humorous, it is a crucial read for anyone interested in questioning our natural assumptions about meaning in the world.

Focusing on feminist ethics, this work offers a thorough reimagining of human security theory. It delves into critical issues such as poverty, health, environmental concerns, and the dynamics of conflict and peacebuilding. By integrating a feminist perspective, the author challenges traditional approaches and emphasizes the importance of gender in understanding and addressing global security challenges. This innovative framework aims to create a more inclusive and effective response to pressing societal issues.

Deals with the people, places and history of south Connemara - one of Ireland's last Gaelic-speaking enclaves - with the encyclopaedic knowledge of a cartographer and the grace of a born writer.

Long recognised as perhaps the greatest non-fiction writer at work in Ireland for his vast, polymathic accounts of nature and culture in the Aran Islands and Connermara, Tim Robinson is also an essayist of genius whose fascinations range across the globe. In 'Experiments on Reality', he shines the light on his own life, and on some of the most fascinating questions in science and culture