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Faces of Mallorca features fifty-nine locals from the island and
authentically captures people's hopes, dreams and aspirations. It
showcases the diverse culture and the rich heritage of the past and
shows how its people adapt to a bright new future. Whether you love
beautiful photography, moving stories or just love Mallorca, Faces
of Mallorca transports you into the lives of people in this sunny,
warm climate. * Big book format * Full color photography * Foreword
by Toni Nadal * Texts by Mark Julian Edwards and Stephanie Schulz *
Photography by Mark Julian Edwards
This authentic account is a tribute to the courage and resolve with
which soldiers and their loved ones confront uncertainty, fear,
hardship and the loss of their comrades. Subjected to continual
changes of affiliation as the Falklands campaign unfolds, 2 Troop
has to create its own identity and sense of belonging drawing on
its professional belief, strength of leadership, and intrinsic
camaraderie. This is the story of how they did it, and the
contribution they made, in one of the toughest campaigns since
World War 2. A 'must read' for aspiring junior commanders and
students of the realities of war. -- General Sir Peter Wall GCB,
CBE, DL, FREng
Let us rewrite our history; A history that speaks of Africa as
experienced by Africans. Let us rewrite our history that speaks of
ubuntu traditions, isintu practices and umuntu/abantu as central
pillars of society. Let us rewrite a narrative that speaks isintu
sethu - setso sa rona, isintu - setso sa rona as a 'Set of Rules'
for all practices in society. Twenty-five years after the delivery
of political democracy, the Edenic projects of nonracialism and the
Rainbow Nation have failed because there was no fuller appreciation
of what is meant by ubuntu. Ubuntu consists of three integral
parts: first, amasiko, which consists of traditions, norms and
customs; isintu: rituals, performances and practices that help with
the embodiment of ubuntu; and umuntu, the performer and
practitioner of isintu and bearer of the ubuntu value system as a
state of being and identity. The version of ubuntu that was used
and applied immediately after 1994 for engendering nationbuilding
should have initially been focused on rebuilding the Black social
groups before there were attempts at rebuilding all races, through
the defunct Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), and forging
social cohesion through short-term sporting codes such as the 1995
Rugby World Cup, the 1996 Africa Cup of Nations and the 2010 Fifa
World Cup. Such an understanding of ubuntu, exemplified above, came
across as sanitised and a quick fix that could not undo centuries
of dehumanisation, as characterised by apartheid. By definition and
practice, that is anathema to ubuntu since it depreciated the value
systems and performances of isintu of the majority population and
defiled the humanity of both the Black people and their white
counterparts. Isintu ought to be regarded as a tool of inculcation
of rules, norms and traditions that structure limits and help with
the embodiment of ubuntu. This book regards it as well suited for
solving the impasse currently witnessed in South Africa. It is only
with the inclusion of the analysis and discussion of isintu that
ubuntu may be understood and reveal its performative prowess in the
production of identities and a variety of capitals meant to sustain
the societies of sub-Saharan Africa. Needless to say, some aspects
of ubuntu may well be suitable for export as representative of
humanism or critical humanism. However, the system of ubuntu needs
to be properly rationalised before it can be chopped down and
paraded as a universal tool. The tendency of parading ubuntu as a
universal tool of humanism has tended to weaken it along with
individuals whose bodies and geographies are a locus for
cultivation identities and diverse forms of capital that help enact
and sustain local value systems. This book presents the true
meaning of ubuntu, which has its roots in communitarian societies
and their value systems. As part of an international benchmark on
the viability of local value systems as a conceptual framework for
performances of production aimed at a fulfilled citizenry, the book
compares ubuntu to its counterpart value systems of Confucianism in
China and Jantelagen in Sweden.
‘Brave, compassionate and inspiring – it left me in floods of tears’ Adam Kay, author of This Is Going to Hurt
For more than twenty-five years, David Nott has taken unpaid leave from his job as a general and vascular surgeon with the NHS to volunteer in some of the world’s most dangerous war zones. From Sarajevo under siege in 1993, to clandestine hospitals in rebel-held eastern Aleppo, he has carried out life-saving operations and field surgery in the most challenging conditions, and with none of the resources of a major London teaching hospital.
The conflicts he has worked in form a chronology of twenty-first-century combat: Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Darfur, Congo, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Gaza and Syria. But he has also volunteered in areas blighted by natural disasters, such as the earthquakes in Haiti and Nepal.
Driven both by compassion and passion, the desire to help others and the thrill of extreme personal danger, he is now widely acknowledged to be the most experienced trauma surgeon in the world. But as time went on, David Nott began to realize that flying into a catastrophe – whether war or natural disaster – was not enough. Doctors on the ground needed to learn how to treat the appalling injuries that war inflicts upon its victims. Since 2015, the foundation he set up with his wife, Elly, has disseminated the knowledge he has gained, training other doctors in the art of saving lives threatened by bombs and bullets.
War Doctor is his extraordinary story
Bessie Quinn was an early 20th century New Woman, a mother living
her love story in the enchanted world of the Garden City. When she
died in the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918-19, her shattered husband
abandoned her memory, belongings and life history. Her
disappearance reverberated down generations. Starting with only an
Arts and Crafts kettle, one photo and a linen smock, Ursula has
restored her grandmother to life. After long searches she found
Bessie in the Scottish Borders, eighth child of working-class Irish
parents who'd fled hunger after the Great Famine of the 1840s. This
biography of a poor family unearths hard journeys of love, luck and
loss, weaving historical fact with memory and imagination into a
compelling story.
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