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Whispers from the depths is more than just the story of the
building of the Kariba Dam in the mid-1950s. Built in just five
years against overwhelming odds, the dam is a monument to
engineering excellence. Shrouded in political undertones, the
construction of the dam was vital for the hydro-electric power it
would provide for Zambia’s burgeoning copper industry. Little
thought, however, appears to have been given to the future of the
human and animal populations who lived in the valley that would be
inundated when the dam was completed. The question has to be asked:
Was this awe-inspiring man-made creation achieved at too high a
cost in terms of the human suffering and environmental devastation
it caused? Central to the story of Kariba was the fate of the Tonga
people who had for centuries lived in the Gwembe valley, due to be
flooded when the sluice gates were finally closed to halt the flow
of the mighty Zambezi River. Approximately 57 000 people were
forced to move from their ancestral homes, abandoning family graves
and spiritual sites to the depths of Kariba's water. They became a
dispersed people who have never been able to reunite as a cohesive
society, never again been able to live peacefully on the banks of
the river which gave them life. Animals, too, perished in their
thousands despite the gallant efforts of wildlife personnel who
mounted a hastily planned rescue mission known as Operation Noah.
Whispers from the depths gives a voice to the all but forgotten
BaTonga. It celebrates their unique culture but deplores the price
they paid for progress – a price from which they themselves derived
no benefit whatsoever.
In 2016, Sandy Winterbottom embarked on an epic six-week tall-ship
voyage from Uruguay to Antarctica. At the mid-way stop in South
Georgia, her pristine image of the Antarctic was shattered when she
discovered the dark legacy of twentieth century industrial-scale
whaling. Enraged by what she found, she was quick to blame the men
who undertook this wholescale slaughter, but then she stumbled upon
the grave of an eighteen-year-old whaler from Edinburgh who she
could not allow to bear the brunt of blame. There are two sides to
every story. The Two-Headed Whale vividly brings to life the
spectacular scenery and wildlife of the vast Southern Oceans, set
alongside the true-life story of Anthony Ford, the boy in the
grave, as he sailed the same seas and toiled in an industry where
profits outranked human life. In this compelling account, Sandy
challenges our preconceptions of the Antarctic, weaving in themes
of colonialism, capitalism and its link to both environmental and
human exploitation. Drawing together threads of nature and travel
writing with an unflinching narrative of life onboard a whaling
factory ship and the legacy it left behind, The Two-Headed Whale
leaves us questioning our troubled relationship with the
extraordinary abundance of this planet.
The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better
Future for Everyone Microsoft's CEO tells the inside story of the
company's continuing transformation, while tracing his own journey
from a childhood in India to leading some of the most significant
changes of the digital era. LONGLISTED FOR THE FT & MCKINSEY
BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD Satya Nadella grew up in India,
studied in the US and went on to become Microsoft's third CEO after
Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. In Hit Refresh he offers a unique
view of the transformation happening inside one of the world's most
iconic tech companies, and the arrival of the most exciting and
disruptive wave of technology humankind has experienced - including
artificial intelligence, mixed reality, and quantum computing.
Nadella examines how people, organisations and societies can and
must transform - 'hit refresh' - in their persistent quest for new
energy, new ideas, and continued relevance and renewal. Yet at its
core, this book is about humans, and how one of our essential
qualities - empathy - will become ever more valuable in a world
where technological advancement will alter the status quo as never
before.
This four-volume collection presents a range of documents related
to aspects of the constitutional history of the United Kingdom
(UK), covering the ‘long’ nineteenth century. It examines
material dating from the period of the American and French
revolutions through to the advent of an equal franchise for men and
women. During the long nineteenth century, the country passed
through immense socio-economic changes. It underwent internal
strains involving its multinational composition. It became the
dominant global power, then saw that position become subject to
various challenges. These tendencies helped generate sustained and
wide-ranging controversy about how the country should govern
itself. They also helped produce a series of important changes in
the nature of the constitution. At the outset of the long
nineteenth century, only a tiny proportion of the population were
allowed to vote; and an hereditary monarch remained an active
political figure. By the end, democratic ideas and practices had
achieved ascendancy. Yet in other ways, the constitution retained
some long-established characteristics. The purpose of these volumes
is to support research into and understanding of these tendencies.
They will enable readers to approach concepts such as democracy and
constitutional change from a critical standpoint, evaluating
existing interpretations and encouraging the consideration of
possible different conclusions. The collection will encourage
consideration of matters such as paths that were not taken, what
resistance there was to change, how particular outcomes came about,
and the compromises involved. It will also facilitate comparison
between constitutional ideals and realities.
For fans of Radium Girls and history and WWII buffs, The Girls Who
Stepped Out of Line takes you inside the lives and experiences of
15 unknown women heroes from the Greatest Generation, the women who
served, fought, struggled, and made things happen during WWII-in
and out of uniform, for theirs is a legacy destined to embolden
generations of women to come. The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line are
the heroes of the Greatest Generation that you hardly ever hear
about. These women who did extraordinary things didn't expect
thanks and shied away from medals and recognition. Despite their
amazing accomplishments, they've gone mostly unheralded and
unrewarded. No longer. These are the women of World War II who
served, fought, struggled, and made things happen-in and out of
uniform. Young Hilda Eisen was captured twice by the Nazis and
twice escaped, going on to fight with the Resistance in Poland.
Determined to survive, she and her husband later emigrated to the
U.S. where they became entrepreneurs and successful business
leaders. Ola Mildred Rexroat was the only Native American woman
pilot to serve with the Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) in
World War II. She persisted against all odds-to earn her silver
wings and fly, helping train other pilots and gunners. Ida and
Louise Cook were British sisters and opera buffs who smuggled Jews
out of Germany, often wearing their jewelry and furs, to help with
their finances. They served as sponsors for refugees, and
established temporary housing for immigrant families in London.
Alice Marble was a grand-slam winning tennis star who found her own
path to serve during the war-she was an editor with Wonder Woman
comics, played tennis exhibitions for the troops, and undertook a
dangerous undercover mission to expose Nazi theft. After the war
she was instrumental in desegregating women's professional tennis.
Others also stepped out of line-as cartographers, spies, combat
nurses, and troop commanders. Retired U.S. Army Major General Mari
K. Eder wrote this book because she knew their stories needed to be
told-and the sooner the better. For theirs is a legacy destined to
embolden generations of women to come.
Book of Branding is a creative guide for new businesses, start-ups
and individuals, which puts visual identity at the heart of brand
strategy. The conversational, jargon free, tone of the book helps
the reader to understand essential elements of the brand identity
process. Offering first hand experience, insights and tips
throughout, the book uses real life case studies to show how great
collaborative work can be achieved. Book of Branding is an
essential addition to the start-up toolkit, designed for
entrepreneurs, founders, graphic designers, brand creators and
anyone seeking to decode the complicated world of brand identity.
'Utterly brilliant . . . Authoritative, lively and profoundly
human, it is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand
post-World War II Europe' Julia Boyd 'One of the best young
historians writing in English today. . . Well-researched,
well-written and profoundly insightful, Beyond the Wall explodes
many of the lazy Western cliches about East Germany' Andrew Roberts
In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East
Germany simply ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin of
the Second World War to the cusp of a new millennium, the GDR
presented a radically different German identity to anything that
had come before, and anything that exists today. Socialist
solidarity, secret police, central planning, barbed wire: this was
a Germany forged on the fault lines of ideology and geopolitics. In
Beyond the Wall, acclaimed historian Katja Hoyer offers a
kaleidoscopic new vision of this vanished country. Beginning with
the bitter experience of German Marxists exiled by Hitler, she
traces the arc of the state they would go on to create, first under
the watchful eye of Stalin, and then in an increasingly distinctive
German fashion. From the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961, to
the relative prosperity of the 1970s, and on to the creaking
foundations of socialism in the mid-1980s, Hoyer argues that amid
oppression and frequent hardship, East Germany was yet home to a
rich political, social and cultural landscape, a place far more
dynamic than the Cold War caricature often painted in the West.
Powerfully told, and drawing on a vast array of never-before-seen
interviews, letters and records, this is the definitive history of
the other Germany, the one beyond the Wall.
THE LONG-AWAITED, MOVING MEMOIR OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR HANNAH
PICK-GOSLAR, WHO SHARES AN INTIMATE LOOK INTO HER LIFE AND
FRIENDSHIP WITH ANNE FRANK. 'As a girl I witnessed the world I
loved crumble and vanish, destroyed by senseless hatred, and with
it, my best friend Anne' Two best friends' lives were about to
change for ever, neither would ever be forgotten... When Hannah's
family flee from the Nazi to Amsterdam, she soon strikes up a
friendship with a girl just like her freshly arrived from Germany.
Precocious and outspoken, the girl's name is Anne Frank and for
seven blissful years the inseparable pair navigate school, boys and
coming of age. Then one day in 1942, as the Nazi occupation
intensifies, they are separated without warning. Hannah calls on
Anne and can't find a trace of her, breakfast dishes still in the
sink, beds unmade. Anne and her family have seemingly vanished.
They are told the Franks have fled to Switzerland. As Hannah is
tormented by the fate of her friend, hoping she is alive and well
elsewhere, her own family's fate unfolds. After attempts to flee
themselves, the SS finally come for them and they are taken to the
transit camp Westerbork. Eventually Hannah, her father and younger
sister Gabi are transported to Bergen-Belsen. Amid horrific
conditions with death all around, it is during Hannah's darkest
point at the concentration camp that she hears astonishing of news
of Anne. Desperate to save her friend who is weak and struggling to
survive, Hannah risks her life to help her. In an incredible memoir
of hope, strength and defiance, Hannah shares the intimate, loving
portrait of her friendship with the young diarist who would go on
to capture the hearts of millions around the world.
Die bewindsoorname van 'n oorwegend swart regerende party in 1994
het 'n nuwe beleid ten opsigte van grondbesit in Suid-Afrika
ingelui. Hierdie beleid is daarop ingestel om die wanbalans wat
grondbesit betref reg te stel, dus om van die blanke grondeienaars,
wat by verre die grootste deel van die landbougrond besit, grond
weg te neem en dit aan die swart bevolkingsgroep, wat tussen 75% en
80% van die totale landsbevolking uitmaak, beskikbaar te stel. Die
veronderstelling is dat die meeste blanke grondeienaars (of hulle
voorsate) die grond wat hulle besit wederregtelik bekom het en dit
daarom nou aan die 'regmatige' eienaars moet teruggee. Daar bestaan
ook 'n persepsie dat alle grond aan swart mense oorgedra moet word
– dat die klok teruggedraai moet word na die tyd toe Afrika swart
was en wit mense slegs in Europa eiendom besit het. Die skrywers
vra die vraag of grondhervorming in Suid-Afrika wel enigsins
haalbaar of nodig is? Kan die ander bevolkingsgroepe van die land,
die wittes en gekleurdes, daarop aanspraak maak dat die land ook
aan hulle behoort. Kan hulle dus se: 'Dit is ons land ook'?
Engage, support and develop confident historians This Student Book
covers the key knowledge for Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History
Option 13 Migrants in Britain, c800-present and Notting Hill
c.1948-1970. Written by an experienced author team (Rosemary Rees,
Tony Warner, Joshua Garry and series editor Angela Leonard), with a
wealth of experience and knowledge, together, they bring this
fascinating journey through British history to life. Key features
for students include: clear and accessible language to appeal to
students of all abilities a wealth of contemporary images and
sources differentiated activities and checkpoint activities recap
pages to help with consolidating and retaining knowledge a
Preparing for the exam section, with exam advice and annotated
sample answers an Extend your knowledge section for students
wishing to conduct further research into this topic. The student
book also incorporates tried and tested teaching approaches:
Thinking Historically activities throughout tackle some of the key
misconceptions that can hold student thinking back. Writing
Historically spreads, based on the Grammar for Writing approach
used by many English departments, explain how students can improve
their writing, making their answers more sophisticated, clear and
concise. About the series editor: Angela Leonard taught history in
secondary schools for over 20 years and was also a teacher trainer
at the University of London Institute of Education for over a
decade. She has extensive experience as a senior GCSE examiner and
as an author and series editor of history textbooks. About the
authors: Rosemary Rees taught history in primary and secondary
schools for many years and has been involved in teacher training at
St Martin's College, Lancaster as well as teaching for the Open
University. She has worked as a GCSE external assessor and has
extensive experience as a senior examiner at GCSE and GCE levels.
She has authored and series edited numerous history books for KS3,
GCSE and GCE. Tony Warner is the founder of Black History Walks
which leads tours in areas across London, including Notting Hill.
The walks are designed to uncover the 3500 years of black history
in London. He spent several years running workshops on
institutional racism and has created community partnerships with,
and lectured at, The Imperial War Museum, National Portrait
Gallery, Museum of Docklands and British Film Institute. He is
currently Activist in Residence and Honorary Research Fellow at
UCL's Sarah Parker Remond Centre. Joshua Garry, Joshua is a Deputy
Head of History at a school in London with a passion for creating a
more diverse and inclusive history curriculum. "I think first and
foremost you want your history curriculum to represent the
experiences of the people inside the classroom or the people inside
Britain. I always like to start in my classroom first. What does my
classroom look like? I want my students to be able to connect with
those stories. To see where they fit in." - Joshua Garry
A major new history of England's turbulent seventeenth century and
how it marked the birth of a new world 'The seventeenth century was
the most dramatic and consequential in British history, the period
during which the modern world was formed, and Jonathan Healey is as
assured a guide to its twists and turns, its tragedies and triumphs
as one could wish for. The Blazing World is a triumph of
scholarship and concision' Paul Lay The seventeenth century began
as the English suddenly found themselves ruled by a Scotsman, and
ended in the shadow of an invasion by the Dutch. Under James I, the
country suffered terrorism and witch panics. Under his son Charles,
state and society collapsed into civil war, to be followed by an
army coup and regicide. For a short time - for the only time in
history - England was a republic. There were bitter struggles over
faith and no boundaries to politics. In the coffee shops and
alehouses of plague-ridden London, new ideas were forged that were
angry, populist and almost impossible for monarchs to control.
Despite the radical changes that transformed England, few today
understand the story of this revolutionary age. Leaders like Oliver
Cromwell, Charles II, and William of Orange have been reduced to
caricatures, while major turning points like the Civil War and the
Glorious Revolution have become shrouded in myth and
misunderstanding. Yet the seventeenth century has never been more
relevant. The British constitution is once again being contested,
and we face a culture war reminiscent of when the Roundheads fought
the Cavaliers. From raw politics to religious divisions, civil wars
to witch trials, plague to press freedoms, The Blazing World is the
story of a strange but fascinating century, told in sparkling
detail. Drawing on vast archives, Jonathan Healey refreshes our
understanding of public figures while simultaneously taking us into
the lives of ordinary people to illuminate a revolutionary society
that forged a new world.
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Discover what the American flag means with this fun nonfiction
book! Ideal for young readers, this book includes a short fiction
piece related to the topic, discussion questions, a connected
activity, and other helpful features. This 20-page full-color book
explains what the flag represents and why it makes Americans proud.
It also challenges students to explore the meaning of the flag with
thought-provoking questions, and includes an extension activity for
kindergarten. Perfect for the classroom, at-home learning, or
homeschool to learn about U.S. History, symbols of freedom, and
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