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Wales
(Hardcover)
Alison Jenkins
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Discovery Miles 2 280
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Amazing and Extraordinary Facts: Wales takes you on an absorbing
journey around Wales to unearth the adventures, inventions,
legends, firsts and birthplaces that have shaped the unique history
of Wales. From the ancient mines of the Great Orme to the Severn
crossing, the tsunami of the 1600s to the Turlough Lake, from bog
snorkelling to Tom Jones' phone box, this intriguing compendium of
facts and stories will give you a captivating insight into the Land
of Song and the ideas and events that have shaped the individual
identity of this remarkable country. Brief, accessible and
entertaining pieces on a wide variety of subjects makes it the
perfect book to dip in to. The amazing and extraordinary facts
series presents interesting, surprising and little-known facts and
stories about a wide range of topics which are guaranteed to
inform, absorb and entertain in equal measure.
This is fundamentally a text about race and antiblack racism and their subsequent production of the problem of alienation (separation) of human beings from one another, from their bodies, and from themselves, globally, but with distinct and conscious focus on the historical context of apartheid and “post”-apartheid South Africa through the psychological lens of one of the country’s first and distinguished clinical psychologists, Noel Chabani Manganyi.
The book is a philosophically critical engagement with his work, and it constitutes, as it were, part of the author’s overarching project of attempting to reclaim and retrieve hitherto overlooked, ignored and invisibilised Black thinkers of the past and present. Although Manganyi has written over 10 books, the most important and popular being Being-Black-in-the-World (1973) and Alienation and the Body in Racist Society (1977), his ideas and work have, for one reason or another, been disregarded by mainstream South African psychology, let alone philosophy. The author foregrounds philosophy as also a culprit because Manganyi himself describes his work as that of “a psychologist who thinks and conceptualises psychological reality in a phenomenological way”.
Manganyi has the distinction of being the first Black clinical psychologist trained in South Africa as the title of his latest book, Apartheid and the Making of a Black Psychologist (2016) indicates. His body of published work reveals that from the beginning he has been involved in an attempt to contextualise his discipline, psychology, to the lived realities of his country, that is, apartheid racism and the alienation it produced on Black people. In other words, his main concern has been to utilise psychological discourse to address issues relevant to what can broadly be called “the Black lived-experience” in an antiblack racist society and their experience of the condition of alienation. As such he stood as a solitary figure whose voice was pushed to the margins of the psychological establishment, which was either silent about or complicit in the oppression of Blacks by the apartheid regime.
By exploring Manganyi’s serious concerns about apartheid racism and its attendant devastating production of alienation among Black people, the author argues that the problem of alienation produced by continuing rampant antiblack racism (even from the hands of a Black government) constitutes itself as a lingering problem of “post”-apartheid South Africa.
The author demonstrates that apartheid and alienation are not only conceptually synonymous but experientially related because what connects antiblack racism (apartheid) and alienation is the fact of our embodied existence in the world and that Black alienation manifests itself through the body. After all, antiblack racism is predicated on bodily appearance and body differences among human beings. Manganyi himself places a high premium on the body precisely because, in his view, the Black subjects have inherited a negative sociological schema of their black bodies as a result of which most of them experience themselves as somethings or objects outside of themselves, that is.
The value of revisiting Manganyi’s contribution can be underlined by reference to imperatives posed in recent incidents of antiblack racism and contemporary approaches to race and embodiment in disciplines such as philosophy (Black existentialism), psychology, sociology, cultural studies and identity politics.
This book's focus spans a wide variety of disciplines, including psychology, philosophy, political philosophy, critical race studies and post-colonialism, and therefore will be of interest to a broad cross-section of undergraduate and graduate students, scholars and activists.
The Spitfire a " there have been many hundreds, maybe even
thousands, of books written about this beautiful R.J Mitchell
designed, elliptically winged areoplane. But there has yet to be a
book published, which has focused solely on the lesser-known
two-seat variant of graceful Spitfirea |Until now! In two-seater
spitfires, Greg Davis, John Sanderson and Peter Arnold trace the
history of this iconic aircraft a " from its initial design through
to those still taking to the skies today.
The Jewish community of Washington, D.C., located in the political
nexus of the United States, has often enjoyed attention from people
of every level of influence, including the president of the United
States. On May 3, 1925, Calvin Coolidge attended the cornerstone
laying ceremony of the Washington Jewish Community Center. Herbert
Hoover, as a former president, was vocal in his denunciation of
Nazi Germany's treatment of the Jews. His voice garnered the
support of many United States senators in 1943, including two from
Maryland and one from Virginia. Ronald Reagan sent his personal
regards to the Ohev Shalom Talmud Torah Congregation on their 100th
anniversary celebration on April 10, 1986.
In the summer of 1943, at the height of World War II, battles were
exploding all throughout the Pacific theater. In mid-November of
that year, the United States waged a bloody campaign on Betio
Island in the Tarawa Atoll, the most heavily fortified Japanese
territory in the entire Pacific. They were fighting to wrest
control of the island to stage the next big push toward Japan--and
one journalist was there to chronicle the horror.
Dive into war correspondent Robert Sherrod's battlefield account as
he goes ashore with the assault troops of the U.S. Marines 2nd
Marine Division in Tarawa. Follow the story of the U.S. Army 27th
Infantry Division as nearly 35,000 troops take on less than 5,000
Japanese defenders in one of the most savage engagements of the
war. By the end of the battle, only seventeen Japanese soldiers
were still alive.
This story, a must for any history buff, tells the ins and outs of
life alongside the U.S. Marines in this lesser-known battle of
World War II. The battle itself carried on for three days, but
Sherrod, a dedicated journalist, remained in Tarawa until the very
end, and through his writing, shares every detail.
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