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Counterpoint A Woven World
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£18.74
Rowman & Littlefield Crime in the United States 2020
Book SynopsisCrime in the United States contains findings from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the offenses known to law enforcement. This reference is the most comprehensive official compilation of crime statistics in the United States and is an important addition to your library's collection. Since the FBI no longer prints these findings, Bernan Press continues to provide this practical information in convenient book form. In this intricately detailed source, legal and law enforcement professionals, researchers, and those who are just curious will find violent and property crime statistics for the nation as well as for regions, states, counties, cities, towns, and even college and university campuses. Crime in the United States includes statistics for: ·Offenses known to police ·Violent crime offenses: murder, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault ·Property crime offenses: burglary, larcency-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson ·Clearance data: crimes solved by police or cleared by exceptional means ·Persons arrested ·Police employees: sworn officers and civilian law enforcement personnel ·Hate crimes with data by offense type, location, bias motivation, victim type, number of victims, and race of offender
£78.75
Encounter Books,USA Promised Land
Book SynopsisA personal, journalistic ethnography of the modern American working class, based on the travels and interactions of the author through the American heartland."Second Class is the most important book you will read all year. A political realignment is coming, and it’s my hope that the end result will work in favor of our all-too-neglected American working class. When that realignment comes, Batya and her book will help lead the way."—Greg Lukianoff, CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, and co-author of The Coddling of the American MindWho is the American working class? Do they still have a fair shot at the American Dream? What do they think about their chances to secure the hallmarks of a middle-class life? While writing this book, Batya Ungar-Sargon visited states across the na
£21.24
Mereo Books Afro-Saxon: Homecoming Memories of a Black Boy at
Book SynopsisDillibe Onyeama was the first black boy to complete his education at Eton in 1968. Written at just twenty-one, it was a deeply personal, revelatory account of the racism he endured during his time as a student at the prestigious institution. He tells in vivid detail of his own background as the son of a Nigerian judge at the International Court of Justice at The Hague, of his arrival at the school, of the curriculum, of his reception by other boys (and masters), and of his punishments. He tells, too, of the cruel racial prejudice he suffered and his reactions to it, and of the alienation and stereotyping he faced at such a young age. ‘A Black Boy at Eton’ was a searing, ground-breaking book displaying the deep psychological effects of colonialism and racism, and the follow-up ‘Afro-Saxon’ talks more about his story.
£9.50
Hardie Grant Books Chopsticks or Fork
Book SynopsisChopsticks or Fork? is a collection of stories and recipes from Chinese restaurants in regional Australia, based on the six-part ABC series created by Lin Jie Kong and Jennifer Wong. The book lovingly captures the stories of ten very different families who run Chinese restaurants, from Queensland's Hervey Bay to Western Australia's Dunsborough, and features 32 classic Australian Chinese recipes. As well as revealing the secrets behind everything from sizzling Mongolian lamb to deep fried ice cream, Chopsticks or Fork? includes trivia on the lazy Susan, encounters with the country's biggest Chinese restaurant fans, a game of Chinese restaurant bingo just waiting to be played on your next night out, and more Chinese restaurant 'takeaways' than you can poke a (chop)stick at. This is a unique celebration of an integral part of Australian cultural and culinary history.
£22.10
Arcler Education Inc Crime Against Women and Children
Book SynopsisCrime Against Women and Children examines various crimes that happen with women and children including an extensive overview of types of incidents and related issues. It includes definitions of violence, domestic violence and abuse of children. Provides the reader with insights into the development of its history, so as to understand the reasons behind crimes and criminal’s mind, motivations, arguments, backgrounds and why women and children are more exposed to different to crimes.
£115.50
Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd Making Space for Indigenous Feminism
Book SynopsisThe third edition of this iconic collection features Indigenous feminist voices from across generations and locations, including many exciting new contributors.
£22.46
Gibson Square Books Ltd The Diversity Illusion
Book SynopsisOne of the most acclaimed books on diversity and its problems in a new updated edition.
£10.99
Icon Books Five Rules for Rebellion: Let's Change the World
Book Synopsis'Rousing, hopeful and important reading' - Caroline Criado Perez, author of Invisible WomenHad enough? Feeling hopeless? Don't give up - join the rebellion.Activist, journalist, founding leader of the Women's Equality Party and 'modern-day suffragette' (Evening Standard) Sophie Walker presents an inspiring, five-step journey to incorporating activism into our lives.Featuring stories of new and seasoned activists - including Amika George and Jack Monroe - campaigning on a range of issues from reproductive rights and poverty to the environment and access to education - the book shows us how to see activism not as a series of pitched battles but as a positive, lifelong learning experience.Escape the numbing effects of despair, learn to channel anger, arm yourself with hope, practise perseverance and connect with others compassionately.Five Rules for Rebellion explains how we can convert our confusion and impatience into a powerful force for change.'Thoroughly engaging, empowering and inspiring ... blows invigorating air into the weary world of politics and makes you want to get out there NOW and do something about it' - Ailbhe Smyth, co-director of Together For Yes and convenor of Coalition to Repeal the 8th AmendmentTrade ReviewRousing, hopeful and important reading -- Caroline Criado Perez, author of Invisible WomenThe book is a manifesto, a call to arms, and a reminder at a time of increasing tribalism that activism and leadership doesn't have to be a series of pitched battles; it can be a collaborative, enriching experience. Less a polemic than a pep talk, it is an antidote to the rising tide of despair. -- The HeraldSophie Walker will pick you up, dust you off and put the fire in your belly to change the world. Whether you're a new activist or have been in the arena for a while, this book offers sustenance for everyone -- Nimko Ali, CEO and co-founder of The Five Foundation and author of What We're Told Not To Talk AboutAs it becomes depressingly clear that those presently in power are not taking the urgent action required on climate change, poverty and inequality, we must ourselves take action wherever and whenever we can. This book - by one of the most visionary women I have ever met - will tell you how. -- Emma Thompson, actor, screenwriter and activistSophie is an extraordinary communicator. I've seen her inspire thousands to activism. This book will inspire many more -- Catherine Mayer, co-founder of the Women’s Equality Party and author of Attack of the 50 Ft. WomenThoroughly engaging, empowering and inspiring ... blows invigorating air into the weary world of politics and makes you want to get out there NOW and do something about it -- Ailbhe Smyth, co-director of Together For Yes and convenor of Coalition to Repeal the 8th AmendmentShort, clear and practical -- Courier Mail
£11.04
Icon Books Five Rules for Rebellion: Let's Change the World
Book Synopsis'Rousing, hopeful and important reading' - Caroline Criado Perez, author of Invisible WomenHad enough? Feeling hopeless? Don't give up - join the rebellion.Activist, journalist, founding leader of the Women's Equality Party and 'modern-day suffragette' (Evening Standard) Sophie Walker presents an inspiring, five-step journey to incorporating activism into our lives.Featuring stories of new and seasoned activists - including Amika George and Jack Monroe - campaigning on a range of issues from reproductive rights and poverty to the environment and access to education - the book shows us how to see activism not as a series of pitched battles but as a positive, lifelong learning experience.Escape the numbing effects of despair, learn to channel anger, arm yourself with hope, practise perseverance and connect with others compassionately.Five Rules for Rebellion explains how we can convert our confusion and impatience into a powerful force for change.'Thoroughly engaging, empowering and inspiring ... blows invigorating air into the weary world of politics and makes you want to get out there NOW and do something about it' - Ailbhe Smyth, co-director of Together For Yes and convenor of Coalition to Repeal the 8th AmendmentTrade ReviewRousing, hopeful and important reading -- Caroline Criado Perez, author of Invisible WomenThe book is a manifesto, a call to arms, and a reminder at a time of increasing tribalism that activism and leadership doesn't have to be a series of pitched battles; it can be a collaborative, enriching experience. Less a polemic than a pep talk, it is an antidote to the rising tide of despair. -- The HeraldSophie Walker will pick you up, dust you off and put the fire in your belly to change the world. Whether you're a new activist or have been in the arena for a while, this book offers sustenance for everyone -- Nimko Ali, CEO and co-founder of The Five Foundation and author of What We're Told Not To Talk AboutAs it becomes depressingly clear that those presently in power are not taking the urgent action required on climate change, poverty and inequality, we must ourselves take action wherever and whenever we can. This book - by one of the most visionary women I have ever met - will tell you how. -- Emma Thompson, actor, screenwriter and activistSophie is an extraordinary communicator. I've seen her inspire thousands to activism. This book will inspire many more -- Catherine Mayer, co-founder of the Women’s Equality Party and author of Attack of the 50 Ft. WomenThoroughly engaging, empowering and inspiring ... blows invigorating air into the weary world of politics and makes you want to get out there NOW and do something about it -- Ailbhe Smyth, co-director of Together For Yes and convenor of Coalition to Repeal the 8th AmendmentShort, clear and practical -- Courier Mail
£7.59
Biteback Publishing The Social Superpower: The Big Truth About Little
Book Synopsis"There are a few secrets," he tells me. "A few discoveries that I've never published. Some of the most powerful ones. I wouldn't betray them under torture." In a time of deep fakes, alternative truths and leaked secrets, it would be easy to think that we are surrounded by lies. While most people are shaking their heads and muttering dark things about the new levels of deceit, former Times journalist Kathleen Wyatt is busy marvelling at how society manages it. How do we do this extraordinary thing, often under the most ordinary of circumstances? When do we first do it, why do we do it and do we really tell more lies today? Wyatt goes deep into disinformation to find out - but given her own lies, can she even be trusted on this subject? In this brilliant, wide-ranging study of lies and lying, Wyatt introduces us to a cast of professionals and professional liars - from scientists to investigators, from double agents to toddler specialists, from a fallen titan of industry to a Nobel Peace Prize-winning journalist. Together, they all help her prove a remarkable thesis: lies hold us together as much as they push us apart and they play a vital role in a healthy society.Trade Review"This might sound like a back-handed compliment, but it is not meant to be: I cannot think of a better, more elegant or more articulate guide to mistruth than Kathleen." - Sathnam Sanghera, author of Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain
£17.09
Verso Books Against Creativity
Book SynopsisFrom line managers, corporate CEOs, urban designers, teachers, politicians, mayors, advertisers and even our friends and family, the message is 'be creative'. Creativity is heralded as the driving force of our contemporary society; celebrated as agile, progressive and liberating. It is the spring of the knowledge economy and shapes the cities we inhabit. It even defines our politics. What could possibly be wrong with this?In this brilliant, counter intuitive blast Oli Mould demands that we rethink the story we are being sold. Behind the novelty, he shows that creativity is a barely hidden form of neoliberal appropriation. It is a regime that prioritizes individual success over collective flourishing. It refuses to recognise anything - job, place, person - that is not profitable. And it impacts on everything around us: the places where we work, the way we are managed, how we spend our leisure time.Trade ReviewProvocative and often brilliant book. -- Steve Poole * Guardian *For the past 20 years, creativity has been ubiquitous, an essential part of designs for office interiors, inner-city makeovers, and boosterish attempts by governments to redescribe precarious parts of their economies. It needs to be taken seriously--but it also, arguably, needs to be taken down. In this provocative, and often funny book, Oli Mould points up the absurdities of the creative economy, and some ways we might think beyond creativity. -- Richard J Williams, author of Sex and BuildingThere are few personal and collective traits that are prized more highly in neoliberal societies than 'creativity.' In this powerful and well-aimed critique, Oli Mould lifts the veil on this ideology, to reveal a set of economic and political forces, pushing all of us to bend to the needs of capital. -- Will Davies, author of Nervous StatesMixes personal experience and sharp sociological analysis in a highly entertaining takedown of one of today's most important ideological tropes: creativity. Oli Mould takes the reader on a rather intimate tour behind the flashy scene of creative work, creative people, creative politics, creative technology and, of course, the creative city. Fortunately, he doesn't leave us in the real dystopia we discover along the way but shows us that a truly creative world is possible. -- Sebastian Olma, author of In Defence of SerendipitySuperb, thought-provoking. Mould turns the notion of the 'creative worker' on its head. * Pop Matters *Inherently fascinating, impressively thoughtful and thought-provoking, Against Creativity is a unique, extraordinary, iconoclastic, and unreservedly recommended addition to both community and academic library Humanist Philosophy, Political Science, and Contemporary Psychology collections and supplemental studies lists -- Jack Mason * Midwest Book Review *
£9.49
Profile Books Ltd Figuring Out The Past: A History of the World in
Book SynopsisThe numbers that tell the story of humanity 'Vital ... If you're thinking about setting up a giant land empire in Asia, you cannot do so without this book ... If only the last Song emperor had had this book by his side, he might have avoided his appalling fate' Dan Snow What was history's biggest empire? Or the tallest building of the ancient world? What was the average life expectancy in medieval Byzantium? The average wage in Old Kingdom Egypt? Where did scientific writing first emerge? What was the bloodiest ritual human sacrifice ever? We are used to thinking about history in terms of stories. Yet we understand our own world through data: vast arrays of statistics that reveal the workings of our societies. So, join the radical historians Peter Turchin and Dan Hoyer for a dive into the numbers that reveal the true shape of the past. Drawing on their own Seshat project, a staggeringly ambitious attempt to log each piece of demographic and econometric information that can be reliably estimated for every society that has ever existed, Figuring Out The Past does more than tell the story of the past: it shows you the large-scale patterns.Trade ReviewVital ... If you're thinking about setting up a giant land empire in Asia, you cannot do so without this book ... If only the last Song emperor had had this book by his side, he might have avoided his appalling fate -- Dan Snow
£10.44
Profile Books Ltd The Good Drinker: How I Learned to Love Drinking
Book SynopsisAs heard on BBC Radio 4 'Likeable and highly readable ... comic and insightful' Observer 'An easy read mixture of wit and wisdom ... should be read by all who drink more than the limit' Prof David Nutt, author of Drink? The New Science of Alcohol and Your Health The popular broadcaster and columnist sets out to discover the unsung pleasures of drinking in moderation. The recommended alcohol limit is 14 units a week. Adrian Chiles used to put away almost 100. Ever since he was a teenager, drinking was his idea of a good time - and not just his, but seemingly the whole nation's. Still, it wasn't very good for him: the doctor made that clear. If you lined them up, Adrian must have knocked back three miles of drinks. How many of them had he genuinely wanted? A mile? There's an awful lot of advice out there on how to quit booze completely. If you just want to drink a bit less, the pickings are slim. Yet while the alcohol industry depends on a minority of problem drinkers, the majority really do enjoy in moderation. What's their secret? Join the inimitable Chiles as he sets out around Britain and plumbs his only slightly fuzzy memories of a lifetime in pubs in a quest to find the good drinker within.Trade ReviewA WATERSTONES BEST FOOD AND DRINK BOOK OF 2022 * : *Likeable and highly readable ... comic and insightful * Observer *Honest, funny and full of strategies on how to moderate your drinking, Chiles is genuinely passionate about his pints and the need to enjoy them without ever coming across as preachy - a fine line many have failed to tread ... sage ... funny and touching * Independent *A fascinating read * Irish Times *An easy read mixture of wit and wisdom ... should be read by all who drink more than the limit -- Prof David Nutt, author * Drink? The New Science of Alcohol and Your Health *A humorous and heartfelt exploration of the pleasures of drinking in moderation -- Waterstones Best Food and Drink Books of 2022A great read -- Miriam O'Callaghan * RTE *Chiles's self-deprecation may be stage-managed, but the underlying modesty is real. Sitting alongside his propensity to admit his ignorance is an attractive willingness to listen to anyone, of any age or social station, who might tell him something meaningful ... This is why Adrian Chiles is beautiful * Gawker *
£9.49
Imprint Academic Identity Politics and Tribalism: The New Culture
Book Synopsis''Has the world gone mad?''this is a question that we've heard time and again during the last years. Everyone is convinced that something is wrong with politics, the culture, and our society, but what exactly is the problem and how can we overcome it?This book will guide the reader through a journey that will connect the dots on the various fronts of the culture wars. There is a thread that links together the various expressions of group and identity conflicts in today's West: from Left to Right, from Social Justice Warriors to Trumpites, from feminism to the manosphere, and from critical race theorists to white nationalists.By the end of this book, readers will understand not only the root problem poisoning our culture and society, but also how to rise above it both in our private lives and as citizens.
£14.20
Bonnier Books Ltd The Perennials: Unleashing the Power of our
Book Synopsis'Will open your mind to your own future and show you a new world of adventure.' - ARTHUR C. BROOKSFor the first time in human history, eight defined generations live together side by side, from Alphas to the Greatest Generation by way of Boomers, Xennials, Millennials and more. However, these definitions have so often been used to pigeonhole us into rigid categories, all underpinned by the restrictive 'four stages of life' model - of play, study, work, retirement. This means that potential is left untapped on a societal level; also individuals are tied into a trajectory that minimises opportunity and fulfilment.In The Perennials, Mauro Guillén unpacks the megatrends - such as increasing longevity and the explosion of technology, among others - that are transforming life as we know it. How, within this milieu, a new group of 'perennials' must emerge: individuals who cannot be so easily defined by the pervasive metrics of age and experience or by simple inter-generational conflict. These post-generational perennials offer the promise of liberating us from the constraints of the accepted four stages of life model, therefore allowing everyone the chance of living a much more rewarding and fulfilling life. Guillén proceeds to unveil how this revolution will impact young people just entering the world of work, as well as those who are living and working longer.This multigenerational revolution is already happening and Mauro Guillén identifies how we can usher in a new era of innovation in almost every facet of life and work - powered by the perennials.Trade Review'Leading sociologist Mauro Guillén challenges sequential models of living and invites us to rethink our careers, our families, and our future plans.' -- Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Think Again'Forget about Millennials. It's time to focus on Perennials. This insightful and deeply researched book shows the limits of thinking in terms of generations. A must read.' -- Richard Florida, bestselling author of The Rise of the Creative Class'As life expectancy, technology, and policy change, the possibilities for our lives and careers are changing just as quickly. The Perennials will open your mind to your own future and show you a new world of adventure.' -- Arthur C. Brooks, New York Times bestselling author of From Strength to Strength'Well-written and refreshing ... A must read for those seeking greater fulfilment, impact and success.' -- Mohamed A. El-Erian, New York Times bestselling author of The Only Game in Town'The Perennials offers an invaluable guide to navigating demographic and technological shifts. A deeply researched, sharply relevant and necessary read.' -- William P. Lauder, Executive Chairman, The Estèe Lauder Companies
£17.00
Reaktion Books Frantz Fanon
Book SynopsisDoctor, militant, political essayist, ambassador, teacher, journalist, pan-Africanist: Frantz Fanon represented a new model of engaged intellectual who sought to decolonize mid-twentieth-century thought, society and culture and move beyond the ideology of race. Born Black in colonial Martinique, he fought for France during the Second World War but later renounced his native land and aspired to be Algerian during the Algerian War of Independence. Emphasizing Fanon’s gift for self-invention and performance, Frantz Fanon charts the key turning points in his short, extraordinary life and explores how his pioneering work in psychiatry influenced his revolutionary philosophy. It is essential reading for those who wish to know more about this unique, visionary figure.Table of ContentsAbbreviations Introduction: Fanon: Doctor, Writer, Revolutionary 1 More French than French: Boyhood on a Colonial Island 2 Fighting for the Republic: From Dissidence to Combat 3 Return to the Native Land: With and Against Césaire 4 The Voyage In: Love and Loathing in Lyon 5 Getting Under the Colonial Skin, Leaping Out of History 6 Socialtherapy: The Breakthrough of Saint-Alban 7 Blida: Where Medicine Meets War 8 Public Acts of Provocation: Fanon in Performance 9 My Name is Ibrahim: Exile in Tunis 10 Lifting the Veil/Preaching Revolution 11 Accra, Pan-Africanism and the Southern Front 12 Down to the Wire: The Damned Reborn 13 The Final Crossing 14 Fanon’s After-Lives References Select Bibliography Acknowledgements Photo Acknowledgements
£12.34
Swift Press The Counterweight Handbook
Book SynopsisDiversity, equity and inclusion programmes have the admirable goal of creating a welcoming environment for everyone. Increasingly, however, people are realising that the way they are commonly practised isn't simply an extension of past civil rights movements. Instead, they're often intertwined with Critical Social Justice ideology, which imposes its principles and punishes any disagreement.Mild questions about Critical Social Justice claims like all white people being racists or all minorities being oppressed, or sex differences having no biological basis are met with curt commands by DEI trainers and HR officers: Educate yourself,' Do the work,' Listen and learn.' Advancements at work and school often depend on agreeing with these beliefs. Critical Social Justice ideology poses a real threat to rights and democracy, yet speaking out risks social backlash. When choosing between compliance and ethical opposition, what's the right path?Based on the author's years of ex
£17.09
Penguin Books Ltd The Canceling of the American Mind
Book SynopsisWhy bother refuting your opponents, when you can just take away their platform or career?First Amendment rights lawyer Greg Lukianoff teams up with Rikki Schlott to show how a trend of intolerance on university campuses in America has spread to a wide range of workplaces and cultural spaces, which are giving up on a culture of free speech in favour of cancel culture. Drawing on original research and data, along with hundreds of new examples from publishing to psychotherapy, comedy, science and medicine, this book shows how the left and the right both work to silence their enemies in different ways. It''s not simply a matter of Twitter spats; people are losing their jobs, livelihoods and sometimes their lives over it.Eye-opening, urgent and transformative, The Canceling of the American Mind argues that cancel culture is not merely a moral panic, but a dysfunctional way in which people battle for power, status and dominance: moving us away from being able to argue productively, listen generously and ultimately be civil when we disagree. This book offers concrete steps towards reclaiming a culture of free speech, with materials specifically tailored for parents, teachers, business leaders and all those who use social media. It shows how we can all harness intellectual humility to become more resilient and open minded.
£10.44
Ethics International Press Ltd The Foundations of Flourishing and Our
Book SynopsisNeuroscientific evidence reveals that childcare centres are high stress environments which can disrupt the brain s emotional developmental circuitry during critical phases, impacting a child s later ability to flourish. At the same time evidence also reveals that some parenting practices are sub-optimal. Exploring what it is infants really need to grow emotionally well, represents a largely unexplored issue. If the state wants to be populated by flourishing individuals, then this topic must be addressed. Using an ethical framework to tease out the wide ranging, complex, and sometimes controversial issues that this dilemma presents, The Foundations of Flourishing and Our Responsibility to Infants follows a cross-disciplinary journey. The author pieces together pertinent issues in a synthesised critique of political, feminist, and moral philosophy, as well as psychological and neuroscientific findings, and offers some possible solutions. It will be of interest to researchers and teachers in areas including philosophy, psychology, education, social care, as well as educators and policy-makers in early childhood development.
£59.49
Olympia Publishers The North is Another Country
£13.49
Emerald Publishing Limited Intercultural Autoethnographies
Book SynopsisSouth Africa's Gen Z is currently navigating a dynamic landscape of social, cultural, and political change, balancing issues of identity, belonging, and connecting in a diverse world. Their intercultural experiences are shaped by their personal journeys, anchored in their socio-cultural backgrounds, influenced by a society that is rapidly evolving.Intercultural Autoethnographies brings together 20 personal narratives, each offering a deep exploration into the intercultural voyages of young South Africans. These positive autoethnographies delve into individual ways to traverse diversity and cultural differences and show the complexities of the transforming Post-Apartheid society. The stories offer a snapshot of Gen Z forging connections and negotiating cultural boundaries with hope and resilience.Offering novel perspectives, Intercultural Autoethnographies provides a window into contemporary South Africa and is essential for scholars, students, and practitioners interested in intercultural communication, positive autoethnography, narrative approaches, African studies, and youth culture. Readers will be thrilled by engaging with these future voices and develop a new understanding of cultural diversity through the eyes of Gen Z in the complex South African society.
£67.50
Emerald Publishing Technology vs. Government
Book SynopsisTechnology vs. Government examines why government fails at technology acquisitions, innovation, and implementation, the impact on people, and the future opportunities and implications for government service, administration and policy.
£63.75
Amber Books Ltd The History of Russia: From the Rus' people to
Book SynopsisFrom monarchy to the world’s first socialist state, from Communism to Capitalism, from mass poverty to Europe’s new super rich, Russia has seen immense revolutions in just the past century, including purges, poisonings, famines, assassinations and massacres. In that time, it has also endured civil war, world war and the Cold War. But the extremes of Russian history are not restricted to the past 100 years. When Napoleon invaded in 1812, the Russians retreated, slashing and burning their own country and Moscow itself, rather than conceding defeat to Napoleon. They were victorious, but at immense cost. Russia’s history is also spiked with mystery. Did Stalin shoot his wife? Who ordered the killing of Rasputin? Or the shooting of Anna Politkovskaya and the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko or the Skripals in Salisbury, England? What involvement and influence did Russian intelligence have on the 2016 US Election? In addition, it is a history of appalling disasters, such as at the Chernobyl nuclear power station, the sinking of the Kursk submarine, and the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Ranging from medieval Kievan Rus' to Vladimir Putin, The History of Russia explores the murder, brutality, genocide, insanity and skulduggery in the efforts to seize, and then maintain, power in the Slav heartland. Illustrated with 180 photographs and artworks, the book is a fascinating, lively and wide-ranging history from the Mongol invasions to the present day.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. ‘The Expanses are so Great...’: Kievan Rus 2. Life, Death and Tyranny 3. ‘I Write on Human Skin...’ 4. Time and Patience 5. Something Better? 6. Tempering the Steel 7. ‘A War of Extermination’ 8. Drowning in Falsehood 9. ‘We Will Bury You’ 10. Opening Up and Closing Down 11. The Bear is Back Bibliography Index
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ACA Publishing Limited China in Five Cities: From Hohhot to Hong Kong
Book SynopsisKerry Brown began his life in nineties China almost by chance, cutting his teeth in its northern backwaters. He went on to become a British diplomat in Beijing and then one of the world's foremost sinologists. Since then, the Middle Kingdom has transformed from 'backwater' to 'emergent superpower' to fanfare, scrutiny and a tidal wave of thinkpieces. Offering a light alternative to the bluster, the Kentish academic draws on wit, allusion and anecdotes of adventure to render the People's Republic 'knowable' to Western readers, and in so doing, humanise its monumental ascent.
£13.49
Brown Dog Books Sense, Sensibility & Social Stratification:
Book SynopsisDive into the captivating world of Jane Austen’s novels from a fresh and innovative perspective in ‘Sense, Sensibility, and Social Stratification’. This work explores the intricate connections between wealth, power, and social status through Austen’s keen observations of human behaviour. Unveiling the hidden economic dimensions of Austen’s narratives, this groundbreaking book uncovers the complex interplay between economic transactions, social hierarchies and personal agency. From the constraints faced by women in a patriarchal society to the impact of materialism and consumer culture, this engaging analysis connects Austen’s timeless works to contemporary economic anthropology. Discover a new understanding of Austen’s world and its relevance to our own in this captivating exploration. ‘Sense, Sensibility and, Social Stratification’ embarks on a captivating exploration of Jane Austen’s timeless novels from an innovative perspective – through the lens of economic anthropology. This groundbreaking non-fiction work unveils a hidden layer of Austen’s narratives, revealing how her keen observations of social dynamics and economic interactions provide profound insights into the complexities of human behaviour and the shaping of societies. Drawing on extensive research and meticulous analysis, this work weaves together Austen’s rich tapestry of characters, societal structures, and economic systems to unravel the intricate connections between wealth, power, and social status. Through a series of captivating case studies, the book delves into the economic forces that underpin Austen’s world, shedding light on the unspoken rules, hidden motivations, and intricate social hierarchies that govern her characters’ lives. This engaging exploration goes beyond a mere literary analysis by connecting Austen’s insights to contemporary economic anthropology. Drawing parallels between Austen’s era and present-day economic systems, the book explores the enduring relevance of Austen’s observations for understanding the complexities of our own economic world. From the constraints faced by women in a patriarchal society to the impact of materialism and consumer culture, this book uncovers the profound economic themes woven throughout Austen’s narratives. Whether you are a Jane Austen enthusiast, a student of economic anthropology, or simply a curious reader seeking a fresh perspective on Austen's works, ‘Sense, Sensibility, and Social Stratification’ offers a captivating and enlightening journey into the intricate web of economic relationships and social dynamics that shaped Austen’s world – and continue to resonate with our own.
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Anthem Press Transpacific Connections: Literary and Cultural
Book SynopsisTranspacific Connections: Literary and Cultural Production by and about Latin American Nikkeijin is a cross-cultural work combining Latin American and Japanese studies. It contains original research on social and cultural relations between Japan and Latin America, ranging from Japanese inspirations in one of the Mexican most renowned poets, Brazilian dekasegi (temporary workers in Japan) described in a variety of testimonials, Japanese community in Brazil and its literary production, and a Mexican telenovela, inspired by the Japanese culture to European inspirations in a Nikkei Peruvian writer, Higa Oshiro.Trade Review“This important volume offers a deeper understanding of the literary and cultural production by and about Nikkeijin. The chapters not only explore novels, short stories, poems and art but also a telenovela and are written by a group of intergenerational scholars. An essential book to those who want to understand the historical, literary, cultural, and social relations between Latin America and Japan in a way that is striking, unique, and academically robust.” — Araceli Tinajero, The City College of New York and the Graduate Center, USA.“The collection of essays compiled in this book addresses the unique perspective of Nikkei communities without succumbing to orientalist notions of Japaneseness’, offering fresh insight into the diversity of Nikkei cultural representations, often exoticized in Western academic circles. The multidisciplinary nature of the book makes it an important reference for scholars and researchers in a variety of academic fields.” — Randy Muth, Kio University, Nara, Japan.“These essays are themselves ukiyo-e, or ‘pictures of a floating world’: together they constitute a signal contribution to the emerging field of ‘Trans-Pacific Studies’. Presented by some of the field’s outstanding researchers, these perceptive analyses — foregrounding complex relations between Japan on the one hand and Mexico, Peru and Brazil on the other — offer virtual case studies in the manner in which transnational flows and intercultural identities have materialized in today’s global modernity.” — Eugenio Matibag, Iowa State University, lowa, USA. "Transpacific Connections: Literary and Cultural Production by and about Latin American, Nikkeijin makes an important and timely contribution to the emerging field of Transpacific Studies. The collection offers insightful comparative analysis, a critically astute introductory essay, and original, wide-ranging, and erudite contributions. Written with meticulous research and deep expertise on cultural connections between Latin America and Asia, it represents a significant contribution to the field because of its sustained focus on the Japanese - Latin American cultural production through not only aesthetic form but also social phenomena such as immigration. It is a necessary book that allows readers to see in detail how the complex cultural identity of the Latin American Nikkeijin is constructed. This rigorous and sophisticated volume will be an invaluable resource for scholars in Latin American Studies, Comparative Literature, and Transpacific Studies." — Gorica Majstorovic, Ph.D., Professor of Spanish, Stockton University, Galloway, USA.Table of ContentsCONTENTS Notes on Contributors Introduction Chapter 1. The “Japanese Community” in Brazil and its Literary Production: The Functioning of “Death” in Matsui Tarô’s Literary Fiction Nora Juurmaa Chapter 2. Contested Modernities: Representations of the Brazilian Dekasegi and the Nipponization of Brazil in Nikkei Cultural Production Ignacio López-Calvo Chapter 3. When Gustave Flaubert Meets Ryūnosuke Akutagawa: “Corazón Sencillo” by Augusto Higa Oshiro. The Short Story of a Peruvian Nikkei Writer Barbara Mauthes Chapter 4. Japanese Prints in Tablada’s Writings: Cultural and Media Transposition in ‘El poema de Okusai’ Luyue Wang Chapter 5. The Telenovela Oyuki’s Sin (El Pecado De Oyuki): Las Realidades Del Otro or Mexico through A Japanized Lens Maja Zawierzeniec Index
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Anthem Press Classical Edinburgh: A City Divided
Book SynopsisThis work is both a family history and a social history of Scotland seen against a city, Edinburgh, acity that to this day is soured by class divisions. In tracing the family back several centuries, the book embeds their lives into the larger forces shaping the Scottish culture, climaxing in the creation of the New Town of Edinburgh – one of the eighteenth and nineteenth century’s extravagant romantic fantasies. The New Town produced a reality, shaped by the leaders of the Scottish Enlightenment, which gave identity to a capital of a nation in name only, after the closing of the Scottish parliament with the Union of the Crowns in 1707.Trade Review"Balfour has an impressive record of writing architectural history; his book on Berlin is magnificent, and he does not disappoint here. Here is an architectural history, written by an expert, writing about ‘his’ city, the one which formed him. He takes an orthodoxy, telling Edinburgh’s architectural story and threads it through his family narrative. Hard to do; but he succeeds" — David McCrone, The University of Edinburgh."There is a popular misconception that Edinburgh’s New Town is a homogeneous social model. In this painstakingly researched and beautifully illustrated book Alan Balfour reveals a different reality tracing the extreme hardship and poverty endured by his family during the construction of the New Town, the decline of the Old Town and beyond" — Mick Duncan, Scottish architect.Table of ContentsPrologue; I Poverty, Filth and Bondage; II Ambition; III The New Town of Edinburgh.; IV The New Society; V Building Status; VI The Other New Town; VII Into The Twentieth Century; VIII Reflections; VIII Methods and Sources; Bibliography
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Anthem Press The Rise and Fall of the National Atlas in the
Book SynopsisBetween 1900 and 2000, more than seventy countries produced a national atlas, an official or quasi-official rendering of the nation-state in maps and accompanying text. This book considers the reasons behind and characteristics of this state-sponsored cartographic explosion. These national atlases mirror and embody some of the important themes of this turbulent century, including the complex connections between nation, state and territory, the rise of state-sponsored science; the growth of nation-states; colonialism and postcolonialism; and the geography of biopolitics.
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Vintage Publishing Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive
Book Synopsis**NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX FILM**Stamped from the Beginning is a redefining history of anti-Black racist ideas that dramatically changes our understanding of the causes and extent of racist thinking itself.Its deeply researched and fast-moving narrative chronicles the journey of racist ideas from fifteenth-century Europe to present-day America through the lives of five major intellectuals - Puritan minister Cotton Mather, President Thomas Jefferson, fiery abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, brilliant scholar W.E.B. Du Bois, and legendary anti-prison activist Angela Davis - showing how these ideas were developed, disseminated and eventually enshrined in American society.Contrary to popular conception, it reveals that racist ideas did not arise from ignorance or hatred. Instead, they were devised and honed by some of the most brilliant minds of each era, including anti-slavery and pro-civil rights advocates, who used their gifts and intelligence wittingly or otherwise to rationalize and justify existing racial disparities in everything from wealth to health.Seen in this piercing new light, racist ideas are shown to be the result, not the cause, of inequalities that stretch back over centuries, brought about ultimately through economic, political, and cultural self-interest.In forcing us to reconsider our most basic assumptions about racism and also about ourselves, Stamped from the Beginning leads us to a true understanding on which to build a real foundation for change.**INCLUDED IN BARACK OBAMA'S BLACK HISTORY MONTH READING LIST**Trade ReviewA staggering intellectual history * New Republic *Unusually original and groundbreaking ... Ibram X Kendi's brilliant book ... has disturbed some readers because of the author's fearless reappraisal of the words, actions and philosophies of some of the more revered heroes of American abolitionism and civil rights -- including African American heroes ... Kendi remains awake to nuance and complexity [yet] this is not a historian fearful of upsetting orthodoxies or questioning fixed reputations. He goes where the evidence takes him, which is not to where we or we might want it to go ... a compelling if discomfiting thesis ... persuasive and powerful -- David Olusoga * Observer *Absorbing… This is a powerful, thought-provoking book that features a dizzying array of characters, deftly navigates complex intellectual terrain and draws on a wealth of evidence -- Simon Hall * Literary Review *A deep (and often disturbing) chronicling of how anti-black thinking has entrenched itself in the fabric of American society * Atlantic *Upends many commonly held beliefs about how racism works * Boston Globe *
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Bodleian Library Curious History of Weights & Measures, The
Book SynopsisHow long is an ell? What is the largest size of champagne bottle? How do you measure the heat of a chilli pepper? Why is the depth of water measured in fathoms? And what is a cubit? The Curious History of Weights & Measures tells the story of how we have come to quantify the world around us. Looking at everything from carats, pecks and pennyweights to firkins and baker’s dozens through to modern science-based standards such as kilograms and kilometres, this book considers both what sparked the creation of myriad measures and why there were so many efforts to usher in standardisation. Full of handy conversion charts and beautiful illustrations The Curious History of Weights & Measures is a treasure trove of fun facts and intriguing stories about the calculations we use every day.Trade ReviewEye opening facts on almost every page...A joy of a book. -- Wynn Wheldon * The Spectator *Table of ContentsContents Introduction Weights Length and Area Volume Culinary and Informal Measures Scales and Scores Appendix: Conversion Tables Further Reading Index Picture Credits
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Rudolf Steiner Press Towards Social Renewal: Basic Issues of the
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Taylor & Francis Ltd New Ethnicities And Urban Culture: Social
Book SynopsisEngaging exploration of race and youth culture which examines the development of new identities, ethnicities and forms of racism. This text analyzes the relationship between racism, community and adolescent social identities in the African and South Asian diasporas.; This book is intended for undergraduate and postgraduate students on courses in race and ethnicity, urban sociology, cultural studies and social anthropology. It will also have some appeal within social policy and social work.Table of ContentsPart 1 Racism, community and youth culture: white flight - locality, nostalgia and the preservation of privilege; neighbourhood nationalism - youth, race, nation and identity; social context and racist practice. Part 2 Transculturism and the politics of dialogue: our area - community, resistance and multiculture; not something we're new to, it's something we grew to... - youth, identification and alliance; experiencing and parodying racism. Part 3 Black music, youth culture and syncretism: Inglan, nice up - black music, autonomy and the cultural intermezzo; future reality - racisms, new ethnicity and the millennium.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd An Introduction To The Philosophy Of Social
Book SynopsisThis is an accessible introduction to the philosophy of social research which relates philosophical ideas to actual research practice. The book makes effective use of illustrations from the UK, US and Europe to examine specific problems and broader issues. The book is intended for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in social research methods within sociology, social policy, politics, social psychology, human geography; philosophy of social science and social theory courses; and as a personal reference for professional researchers.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 What is science?; Chapter 3 Philosophy, social science and method; Chapter 4 Knowing the social world; Chapter 5 Objectivity and values in social research; Chapter 6 Philosophical issues in the process of social research; Chapter 7 Poststructuralism, postmodernism and social research; Chapter 8 Conclusion;
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Human Givens Publishing Ltd Just Looking: upstream and downstream
Book SynopsisEach topic is a gem of brilliant writing from a master storyteller. By turns delightful, thought provoking, funny and packed with stories and observations about life's vagaries.
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Cambridge Media Group Sociology: An Introduction and Beyond
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Harbour Books (East) Ltd The Suburbanist: A Personal Account and
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Tangent Books The Women Who Built Bristol: Volume Two
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Lawrence & Wishart Ltd Selected Political Writings: The Great Moving
Book SynopsisIn one sense, of course, all of Stuart Hall's writing was political, but this collection focuses on the essays he wrote throughout his life that directly engaged with the political issues of the day. From the beginning, his analyses focused strongly on the central role of culture in politics, and his insights are evident across the whole selection, whether he is writing about Thatcher's authoritarianism or the double shuffles of Tony Blair. These essays come from three broad periods: the 1950s and 1960s, when Hall was involved in the New Left; the 1970s and 1980s, when he evolved his critique of Thatcherism; and from the 1990s until the end of his life, when he focused on the emergence of neoliberalism. The editors have brought together the best and most representative works of a writer with a unique and conjunctural approach to understanding politics, and have collected those works that have a general application to broader political questions. The collection is therefore valuable for readers interested in the politics of the past sixty years, in specific political questions, such as around political commitment, or the politics of empire, and specific political moments, such as the Cuban Crisis, or the actions of New Labour. But Hall's engaging writing and the connections here between his more obviously political writing and the other areas of his work-including identity politics and race-also make the collection an essential resource for those interested in politics more generally.Trade Review'Hall's capacity to remind us that it was no less possible to think Britain without its empire than it was the colonies without the metropolitan "motherland" was a product of the changing conjunctures in which he lived his life. It was the quickening pace of decolonization, together with the escalation of the commonplace racism and racial violence against people of color in Britain in the mid-1960s, that pushed the legacies of colonialism to the forefront of Hall's work. The last colonial could only slowly decolonize his own thought.' 'That the British left has yet to decolonize--to fully understand the entanglement of capitalism and colonialism or the intersections of class and race they have created--was painfully evident from its struggle to make sense of the resurgence of white nationalism unleashed by Brexit. It is, as Hall wrote of the left at the height of Thatcherism, a hard road to renewal. Let's hope it is not also a long one.' James Vernon, Public Books 'By gathering together these pieces in one place this volume shows just how eager and unremitting Hall was in tackling the changing political dynamics of the time. Unafraid and unreserved in his analysis, the writing is full-on in it's speaking of truth to power. The style varies over time, but the sparkle and urgency remain throughout. As well as being described as a cultural theorist, Hall is often seen to be a public intellectual. Here we see these characteristics mixing together in a volatile but controlled cocktail. The potency of the voice and its immersion in political debates and dialogue is striking -- it is perhaps so striking because it is so unusual in its tenor and almost unique in its power. In this regard this collection is a call to engage as well as a guide in how to question our pressing political concerns. It demands involvement. It demands thoughtful and considered interaction -- without the need to pacify our critical edges. Hall's edge was certainly never dulled, not by time or by what might have appeared to be a potentially futile and harsh political landscape.' David Beer, Medium 'Davison, Featherstone, Rustin and Schwarz have done a magnificent job of capturing his ideas in this nearly fifty year evolution. Hall was drawn intuitively to Freudianism (with much of the British New Left) and deconstruction, precisely because the old truisms of the British class struggle--the working class triumph over a collapsing capitalism--had run dry. [...] Hall captured the status of the underclass effectively as he posed the political and social reality of the 1980s.' Paul Buhle, Labour and Working Class History Association (LAWCHA) The centerpiece essay is "The Great Moving Right Show," his 1979 analysis of Margaret Thatcher's "authoritarian populism." Her rise was as much a cultural turning point as a political one, in Hall's view--an enmity toward the struggling masses, obscured by her platform's projected attitude of tough, Victorian moderation. Many of the pieces in this collection orbit the topic of "common sense," how culture and politics together reinforce an idea of what is acceptable at any given time.' Hua Hsu, the New YorkerTable of Contents1. The New Conservatism and the OldUniversities & Left Review, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring 1957)2. A Sense of Classlessness Universities & Left Review, No. 5 (Winter 1958)3. The Supply of DemandIn Out of Apathy, New Left Books/Stevens and Sons (1960)4. The Cuban Crisis: Trial-run or Steps towards Peace?War & Peace, Vol. 1, No. 1 (January-March 1963)5. Political Commitment In The Committed Church, Darton, Longman and Todd (1966)6. The First New Left: Life and Times In Out of Apathy (1990)7. A World at One with ItselfNew Society No. 403 (1970)8. Racism and Reaction In Five Views of Multi-Racial Britain, Commission for Racial Equality (1978)9. 1970: Selsdon Man: Birth of the Law and Order Society Written with C. Critcher, T. Jefferson, J. Clarke & B. Roberts From Chapter 9 of Policing the Crisis: 'Mugging', the State and Law and Order, Macmillan (1978)10. The Great Moving Right ShowMarxism Today, Vol. 23, No. 1 (January 1979)11. The 'Little Caesars' of Social DemocracyMarxism Today, Vol. 25, No. 4 (April 1981)12. The Empire Strikes Back New Socialist (July-August 1982)13. The Crisis of LabourismIn The Future of the Left, Polity Press/Basil Blackwell (1984) 14. The State: Socialism's Old CaretakerMarxism Today, Vol. 28, No. 11 (November 1984)15. Blue Election, Election BluesMarxism Today, Vol. 38, No. 7 (July 1987)16. The Meaning of New Times New Times, L&W (1989)15. And Not A Shot Fired: The End of Thatcherism?Marxism Today, Vol. 42, No. 12 (December 1991)17 Our Mongrel Selves New Statesman (1992)18. The Great Moving Nowhere Show Marxism Today, special issue (November-December 1998)19. New Labour's Double-ShuffleSoundings, No. 24 (Summer 2003)20. The Neoliberal Revolution Soundings, No. 48 (Summer 2011)
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University of Chester Press Becoming Urban Cyclists: From Socialization to
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Dewi Lewis Publishing Holding The Baby
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C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Lagos
Book SynopsisThis is a frantic, mystical journey through Africa''s biggest metropolis: Lagos. Going beyond the popular images of mad traffic or crowded slums, we learn of the incredible feats Lagosians pull off to survive their broken-down city, and the secret enabling them to cope with the chaos and precarity of Nigeria''s most populous centre: spirituality.A female street fighter in a male-dominated mafia extortion business. Two powerful chiefs locked in a deadly feud over billion-dollar real estate. An oil tycoon who gambles her fortune on televangelists'' prophecies. A rubbish scavenger dreaming of a reggae career. A fisherman''s son trying to save Makoko, the ''floating slum'', from demolition. A priestess to a river goddess selling sand to feed Lagos''s construction boom.Belief in unseen forces unites these figures, as does their commitment to worshipping them--at shrines, in mosques and in churches. In this extraordinary city, Tim Cocks uncovers something universal about human nature in the
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Macat International Limited An Analysis of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim
Book SynopsisMichelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is an unflinching dissection of the racial biases built into the American prison system. Named after the laws that enforced racial segregation in the southern United States until the mid-1960s, The New Jim Crow argues that while America is now legally a colorblind society – treating all races equally under the law – many factors combine to build profound racial weighting into the legal system. The US now has the world’s highest rate of incarceration, and a disproportionate percentage of the prison population is comprised of African-American men. Alexander’s argument is that different legal factors have combined to mean both that African-Americans are more likely to be targeted by police, and to receive long jail sentences for their crimes. While many of Alexander’s arguments and statistics are to be found in other books and authors’ work, The New Jim Crow is a masterful example of the reasoning skills that communicate arguments persuasively. Alexander’s skills are those fundamental to critical thinking reasoning: organizing evidence, examining other sides of the question, and synthesizing points to create an overall argument that is as watertight as it is persuasive.Table of ContentsWays in to the Text Who was Michelle Alexander? What does The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Say? Why does The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Matter? Section 1: Influences Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context Module 2: Academic Context Module 3: The Problem Module 4: The Author's Contribution Section 2: Ideas Module 5: Main Ideas Module 6: Secondary Ideas Module 7: Achievement Module 8: Place in the Author's Work Section 3: Impact Module 9: The First Responses Module 10: The Evolving Debate Module 11: Impact and Influence Today Module 12: Where Next? Glossary of Terms People Mentioned in the Text Works Cited
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Graffeg Limited Portraits of Tibet
Book SynopsisThis selection of 108 portrait images documents the many journeys made by Diane Barker to join in the everyday lives of the ancient nomadic people of Tibet. Taken over the course of thirty years, th e photographs share the timeless practices and traditions of the n omadic lifestyle as well as the shifts and changes which have beco me visible in more recent times, seeing them at work and leisure.
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Temple Lodge Publishing Jerusalem: The Role of the Hebrew People in the
Book SynopsisBased on a remarkable series of lectures delivered in his native Israel, Dr Ben-Aharon presents his illuminating research on the meaning of Judaism and the spiritual mission of the Jewish people in the past, present and future. The Hebrew people have been a central root in the development not only of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, but of the universal human spirit itself. Thus, a new understanding of their development and contribution to the spiritual biography of humanity is essential to understanding ourselves as human beings. The Jews were chosen to reveal the deepest secret of ancient times: the existence of one God above all gods, being the Creator of all human beings - beyond race, nation and gender - in his divine image. The great historical and spiritual figures of the Hebrew people - Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Joseph, the Judges, Kings and Prophets - prepared humanity for individuation - the true `I AM' - through devotion to the divine foundation of the world. `The Lord our God is one', who is to be loved with all one's heart, soul and being. Each person could now fulfill the Word, which could be actualized on earth - in the human being. In Jerusalem Dr Ben-Aharon describes the evolution of the Hebrew people and its role in the development of the human race. The journey continues to the present day, where the universal human Self has the potential to become a free participator in the ongoing creation of the universe. `The better I understand the roots of the Hebrew people and its universal-human mission, the better I shall understand the nature of humanity and its mission; and the more human I become, in the most universal sense, anchored in a new spiritual knowledge and practice, the more fulfilled, active and creative I can be at the roots of my existence as a Jew and an Israeli.' - Yeshayahu Ben-AharonTable of ContentsForeword - Introduction - The Evolution of Human Consciousness and the Stages of Individuation in the History of the Hebrew People - The Death of the Earth and its Resurrection, the Cosmic Picture - Creative Evolution - The Initiation of Isaac - The Initiation of Moses - The Initiation of King David - The Essence of Hebrew Initiation
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Temple Lodge Publishing Shaping Globalization: Civil Society, Cultural
Book SynopsisCivil Society has become a major power in the world. The stunning defeat of the controversial and secretive Multilateral Agreement on Investments, the massive worldwide WTO protests and the yearly meetings of the World Social Forum are testimony to its coming of age. From these significant victories, civil society continued to catch world attention with the Arab Spring, the grassroots movement that helped elect former US President Barack Obama and the significant gains of the anti-fracking campaign. With tens of millions of citizens and over a trillion dollars involved in advancing its agenda, civil society now joins the state and the market as the third key institution shaping globalization. However, it cannot fully mobilize its resources and power as it currently lacks clear understanding of its identity. Shaping Globalization argues that global civil society is a cultural institution wielding cultural power, and shows how - through the use of this distinct power - it can advance its agenda in the political and economic realms of society without compromising its identity. Nicanor Perlas outlines the strategic implications for civil society, both locally and globally, and explains that civil society's key task is to inaugurate `threefolding': the forging of strategic partnerships between civil society, government and business. Such authentic tri-sector partnerships are essential for advancing new ways for nations to develop, and for charting a different, sustainable type of globalization. Using the model of the Philippine Agenda 21, we are shown how civil society and progressive individuals and agencies in government and business are demonstrating the effectiveness of this new understanding to ensure that globalization benefits the environment, the poor and society as a whole. This reprinted edition includes a new Afterword.Trade Review`Nicanor Perlas has written a brilliant exposition of a new viewpoint in social theory and practice, one that applies to all of us in our everyday lives.' - Paul H. Ray, author of The Cultural Creatives; `Nicanor Perlas lays out a framework that integrates the social, the ecological, and the spiritual in a simple and yet profound view of 21st century society.' - C. Otto Scharmer, author of Theory UTable of ContentsForeword by Paul H. Ray - Message by Dr Ernst Ulrich von Weizsacker - Threefolding, the language of the new tri-polar world - Whose word? Surveying the terrain of contention - The Battle of Seattle - The threats and opportunities of globalization - Elite globalization and the world power structure behind it - Civil society as a global countervailing force - Identity crisis - Co-optation, the ironic fruit of the Battle of Seattle? - the cultural nature of civil society - Testing the framework - Cultural power - Cultural creatives and the cultural revolution of the 21st century - Civil society and the threefolding of national and global social space - Example of Philippine Agenda 21 - Tri-sector partnerships at the United Nations, boon or bane? - The juggernaut of tri-sector partnerships - Civil Society and the beginning of history - Notes - Bibliography - About the author - About Cadi - About Globalnet3 - Afterword to the 2019 edition
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Istros Books Our Daily Bread
Book SynopsisOur Daily Bread charmingly weaves together the customs, rituals, anecdotes, legends and sayings that tell the story of bread, from Mesopotamia, through Egypt, to the Far East, ancient Greece, ancient Rome, and the New World. Matvejevic shows how bread is depicted in literature and art (with beautiful illustrations) and examines especially closely the role of bread in the major world religions, drawing from the Bible, Talmud and Quran, but also at various apocryphal texts. In his seventh and last chapter, his narrative moves to the personal, explaining what motivated him to write this book; the lean years of his childhood during World War II and his father's detention in a German concentration camp. Warning about the pending threat of hunger in the "developed world," the book fittingly ends with a quote from the Russian anarchist Pyotr Kropotkin: "The question of bread must take precedence over all other questions."
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Luath Press Ltd The Spirit of Malawi
Book SynopsisLiving your life against the odds. Through the voices of Malawians The Spirit of Malawi is a first-hand account of daily life in Malawi. It also examines the big issues that affect us all, but Malawians more than most: climate change, the global economic divide and digitalisation. It looks beyond the clichés to consider what life is really like for 18 million people born into a national economy less than a quarter of the size of Edinburgh’s.Trade Review'In her attempt to capture the spirit of the “warm heart of Africa,” Susan Dalgety makes the wise decision to tell its story through the voices of the people who live there' - The Scotsman 'Susan Dalgety was there in May 2005. She has been a driving force for the partnership ever since. Her love for Malawi and Malawians has driven her to write this book. Susan believes in the people, and her friends in Malawi believe in her. Enjoy the pictures she draws, the stories she tells and the lessons she draws. The Warm Heart of Africa is ready to welcome you too.' - Lord Jack McConnell of Glenscorrodale First Minister of Scotland, 2001–07 As you read this book, you will be exposed to the other side of Malawi not yet discovered, the real stories of real people… the spirit of Malawi. - Vera Kamtukule, Deputy Minister, Government of Malawi
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