Most Popular Books by David Byrne

In today’s world, there are interwoven crises affecting us at every level. This book explores the impact of these crises on applied social research. It shows how using a complexity framework in research is key to tackling global challenges effectively. By featuring illustrative examples from the UK, China, Brazil, South Africa and the US, the authors demonstrate how an action research programme based around the use of existing social research methods embedded in processes of co-production and participation can drive real-time social change. In doing so, the book highlights the transformative role of action-oriented research in addressing today''s complex global challenges.

"Vandekeybus brought into focus a whole new genre of modern dance... Combat rolls, breakneck sprints and savagely wrestled duets became the defining vocabulary of a new generation." The Guardian In 2016, Wim Vandekeybus'' company Ultima Vez celebrates its 30th birthday. Never before has his oeuvre been recorded in a book. Until now. This extraordinary book is a visual trip through the most powerful images from his repertoire, a quest for the ideas and themes that inspire him. It also contains unpublished texts, notes and scripts from his shows and films. A number of compagnons de route, such as David Byrne, Mauro Pawlowski, and Peter Verhelst, offer a personal textual contribution. Choreographer, filmmaker and photographer Wim Vandekeybus and his company Ultima Vez are at the top of the dance industry in Belgium - and around the world. After a cooperation with Jan Fabre, Vandekeybus founded his very own company Ultima Vez in 1986. His first performance, What the Body Does Not Remember (1987), was an international success and was awarded a Bessie Award (New York Dance and Performance Award), a prize awarded for pioneering work. SELLING POINTS: * First book ever on this international choreographer and his company Ultima Vez

This book examines the impact of the Famine on Sir William Palmer''s Mayo estates, one of the largest in the county. It describes the estates'' social and economic structures, and its tenants'' living conditions and experiences before, during and after the Famine. It explores the relationship Lord Palmer, an absentee landlord, had with his tenants and the influence and control he had on the locality, its politics and the lives of the community on his estates.

Amid urgent debates around the function of welfare in the post-industrial 21st Century, and how we pay for it, David Byrne and Sally Ruane deploy the concepts and analytical tools of Marxist political economy to better understand recent developments, and the possibilities they present for social change

From November 2012, for eleven months I was employed as the CEO by a new company called Euro Forex Investment Ltd (EFIL). It was the UK subsidiary of a private Asian business whose official name was Euro Fx. Being quite a mouthful to say, the name, "Euro Forex Investments Limited" was often shortened to "Euro Fx" by the Asian executives, both verbally and on literature. It was this seemingly innocuous, but deliberate, abbreviation that was to have dire consequences later. After leaving the company it was revealed that the whole set up had been a scam, fleecing billions of dollars from unsuspecting victims, and I had been set up as the "fall guy". Whilst visiting Shanghai in 2016, I was arrested; accused of being one of the orchestrators, and placed under arrest. Facing a possible death penalty or many years in jail, a mission of discovery to prove my innocence began.

Discussions of time are central to many questions in the social sciences and to official announcements of policy. Despite the growing popularity of applying Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to social science research questions, before now there have been few attempts to measure expressions of time. This paper provides a methodology to measure the "third T of Text": the Time dimension. We also survey the techniques used to measure the other Ts, namely Topic and Tone. We document key stylised facts relating to temporal information in a corpus of policymaker speeches.

Are you a democrat? Do you love the freedoms that are granted to you that people all over the world can only dream of having? Well then you should hate referendums! Forget everything you''ve been told about them. Brexit was not the ''Biggest Democratic Exercise'' in the history of the UK. Nor does it have to be a ''Once in a generation'' vote. You''re not taking power out of the hands of politicians - you''re simply doing their bidding. You may think that by voting in referendums you are making history, but the only history you are making is providing yet another example in a long list of why referendums are a bad idea.