Narrated and produced by Rochelle Anne Swanson.With additional image descriptions read by Natasha Raskin Sharp, highly-prized presenter of Bargain Hunt, Antiques Road Trip and Flog It!, and a much-loved and respected presenter of late-night music shows for BBC Radio Scotland.Editorial notes read by Adele Allen.To keep up to date with Manifesto Press, visit our socials @manifestopress.coopFollowing our publication of Volume One – Art in the Nineteenth Century...

Narrated and produced by Rochelle Anne Swanson.With additional image descriptions read by Natasha Raskin Sharp, highly-prized presenter of Bargain Hunt, Antiques Road Trip and Flog It!, and a much-loved and respected presenter of late-night music shows for BBC Radio Scotland.Editor’s notes and citations read by Adele Allen.Find us @manifestopresscoopHess wrote in the 1960s and used ‘man’ throughout this volume to mean ‘people’, you and me. But today’s use of...

Purchase and listen to a pathbreaking exploration of art's relationship with power and ideology set out in Art and Ideology – the third volume of writings by emigre Marxist art critic Hans Hess.Hess's penetrating analysis reveals how 'what now replaces the function of art is advertising ' in our contemporary world, where 'the goods have become the gods'.It traces the transformation from art's earliest social purposes – like the cave paintings of A...

Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities for all.While much progress in race relations has been made in recent years-including the election of Barack Obama as President of the United State-it's clear that our journey t...

Leonie Howie and Adele Robertson live and work on remote Great Barrier Island-so called because it faces the full brunt of the wild Pacific weather and acts as a barrier for the mainland about 100 kilometres away. With a population of about 1000, no reticulated electricity, no ATM machine, no street lights and one pub, this is a wildly beautiful place. It has a long history of farming, whaling and fishing, and the people who live here are a resilient lot, proud of their community.M...

Families are undergoing dramatic changes in our society. Our tradi tional views are being challenged by new family arrangements. These new family arrangements are forcing redefinitions of what consti tutes a family and raising significant issues regarding the potential developmental consequences for children in these families, if such exist. Moreover, the ramifications of redefined families and their bear ing on children's development extend into the legal, political, and societal arenas. ...

Rob Stone comes back from the horrors of the First World War with a ruined face and a broken heart. Lonely, unable to forget the things he has seen, and haunted by the ghost of his dead Captain, all that Rob has left is a picture of the Captain's family. Rob sets out to find them, hoping that by bringing them the picture, he can bring peace to the Captain's ghost - and to his own troubled heart.