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This newly revised eighth edition of Southeast Asia in the New
International Era provides readers with contemporary coverage of a
vibrant region home to more than 650 million people, vast cultural
diversity, and dynamic globalized markets. Sensitive to historical
legacies and paying special attention to developments since the end
of the Cold War, this book highlights the events, players, and
institutions that shape the region. Employing a country-by-country
format, the analysis engages in context-specific treatment of the
region's eleven countries: Thailand, Myanmar (Burma), Vietnam,
Cambodia, Laos, the Philippines, Indonesia, Timor-Leste, Malaysia,
Singapore, and Brunei. Fully updated, the book's revised content
includes Rodrigo Duterte's drug war in the Philippines, Malaysia's
historic 2018 election ending four decades of UMNO rule, Hun Sen's
latest power grab in Cambodia, and a consequential monarchical
transition in post-coup Thailand. It also analyzes recent
developments in the South China Sea dispute, the Rohingya tragedy
in Myanmar, China's expanding Belt and Road Initiative, as well as
the effects of the Trump Administration's tariffs and trade war. An
excellent resource for students, this textbook makes sense of the
region's coups, elections, policy debates, protests, and alliances,
leaving readers with a solid foundation for further study.
Visual Branding pulls together analyses of logos, typeface, color,
and spokes-characters to give a comprehensive account of the visual
devices used in branding and advertising. The book places each
avenue for visual branding within a rhetorical framework that
explains what that device can accomplish for the brand. It lays out
the available possibilities for constructing logos and
distinguishes basic types along with examples of their use and
evolution over time. Authors Edward McQuarrie and Barbara Phillips
place visual branding within its historical context, covering the
120-year period since brand advertising first took modern form in
the United States. Using copious real-life examples to illustrate
how branding has evolved with the introduction of new technologies
and opportunities, the book also critiques purely psychological
perspectives on branding and explains how historical and rhetorical
analyses can contribute new insights. This exploration of rhetoric
as an alternative to economic and psychological perspectives in
marketing, advertising, and consumer scholarship will be essential
reading for students and scholars in graduate programs in
marketing, advertising, and consumer psychology.
'Jackie Higgins's lyrical, literate style will charm you while her
book stuns your imagination with strange, other-worldly truths'
Richard Dawkins Sentient assembles a menagerie of zoological
creatures - from land, air, sea and all four corners of the globe -
to understand what it means to be human. Through their eyes, ears,
skins, tongues and noses, the furred, finned and feathered reveal
how we sense and make sense of the world, as well as the untold
scientific revolution stirring in the field of human perception.
The harlequin mantis shrimp can throw a punch that can fracture
aquarium walls but, more importantly, it has the ability to see a
vast range of colours. The ears of the great grey owl have such
unparalleled range and sensitivity that they can hear twenty
decibels lower than the human ear. The star-nosed mole barely fills
a human hand, seldom ventures above ground and poses little threat
unless you are an earthworm, but its miraculous nose allows it to
catch those worms at astonishing speed - as little as one hundred
and twenty milliseconds. Here, too, we meet the four-eyed spookfish
and its dark vision; the vampire bat and its remarkable powers of
touch; the bloodhound and its hundreds of millions of scent
receptors, as well as the bar-tailed godwit, the common octopus,
giant peacocks, cheetahs and golden orb-weaving spiders. Each of
these extraordinary creatures illustrates the sensory powers that
lie dormant within us. In this captivating book, Jackie Higgins
explores this evolutionary heritage and, in doing so, enables us to
subconsciously engage with the world in ways we never knew
possible.
Perhaps the most explosive issue in South Africa today is the question of land ownership. The central theme in this country’s colonial history is the dispossession of indigenous African societies by white settlers, and current calls for land restitution are based on this loss. Yet popular knowledge of the actual process by which Africans were deprived of their land is remarkably sketchy.
This book recounts an important part of this history, describing how the Khoisan and Xhosa people were dispossessed and subjugated from the time that Europeans first arrived until the end of the Cape Frontier Wars (1779–1878).
The Land Wars traces the unfolding hostilities involving Dutch and British colonial authorities, trekboers and settlers, and the San, Khoikhoin, Xhosa, Mfengu and Thembu people – as well as conflicts within these groups. In the process it describes the loss of land by Africans to successive waves of white settlers as the colonial frontier inexorably advanced. The book does not shy away from controversial issues such as war atrocities on both sides, or the expedient decision of some of the indigenous peoples to fight alongside the colonisers rather than against them.
The Land Wars is an epic story, featuring well-known figures such as Ngqika, Lord Charles Somerset and his son, Henry, Andries Stockenström, Hintsa, Harry Smith, Sandile, Maqoma, Bartle Frere and Sarhili, and events such as the arrival of the 1820 Settlers and the Xhosa cattlekilling. It is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand South Africa’s past and present.
When Jane Elliott was four years old, the nightmare began. She
became the helpless victim of a sociopath--bullied, dominated, and
sexually abused by a man only fourteen years her senior: her
stepfather. For nearly two decades she was held prisoner, both
physically and emotionally. But at the age of twenty-one she
escaped . . . and then she fought back.
The Little Prisoner is the shocking, astonishing, and ultimately
uplifting true story of one woman's shattering twenty-year
ordeal--and how she triumphed against an evil and violent human
monster when honesty and bravery were her only weapons.
In Running the Room: The Teacher's Guide to Behaviour, Tom Bennett
rewrote the book on behaviour management, and outlined the
psychology and dynamics underpinning student habits. In this
companion, he goes into more detail about how to apply those
principles to the classroom. Addressing a wide range of
circumstances, he explores popular teacher dilemmas such as: How to
deal with students who are late? What are the best ways to work
with parents? Managing cover lessons successfully How to tame
smartphones The best way to design a seating plan How to start the
lesson for the first time Dealing with low-level disruption Getting
the class quiet when you - and they - need it the most And many
more. Using practical examples and evidence-informed techniques,
Tom demystifies the puzzles that complex behaviour often presents,
and guides teachers new and old carefully to a better understanding
of how to run the room they way everyone deserves.
Urban Change and Citizenship in Times of Crisis addresses the fact
that in the beginning of the twenty-first century the majority of
the world's population is urbanized, a social fact that has turned
cities more than ever into focal sites of social change. Multiple
economic and political strategies, employed by a variety of
individual and collective actors, on a number of scales, constitute
cities as contested spaces that hold opportunities as well as
restrictions for their inhabitants. While cities and urban spaces
have long been of central concern for the social sciences, today,
classical sociological questions about the city acquire new
meaning: Can cities be spaces of emancipation, or does life in the
modern city entail a corrosion of citizenship rights? Is the city
the focus of societal transformation processes, or do urban
environments lose importance in shaping social reality and economic
relationships? Furthermore, new questions urgently need to be
asked: What is the impact of different historical phenomena such as
neo-liberal restructuring, financial and economic crises, or
migration flows, as well as their respective counter-movements, on
the structure of contemporary cities and on the citizenship rights
of city inhabitants? The three volumes address such crucial
questions thereby opening up new spaces of debate on both the city
and new developments of urbanism.
In 1993, aged twenty, Carmel Mc Mahon left Ireland for New York,
carrying $500, two suitcases and a ton of unseen baggage. It took
years, and a bitter struggle with alcohol addiction, to unpick the
intricate traumas of her past and present. Candid yet lyrical, In
Ordinary Time mines the ways that trauma reverberates through time
and through individual lives, drawing connections to the events and
rhythms of Ireland's long Celtic, early Christian and Catholic
history. From tragically lost siblings to the broader social scars
of the Famine and the Magdalene Laundries, Mc Mahon sketches the
evolution of a consciousness from her conservative 1970s upbringing
to 1990s New York, and back to the much-changed Ireland of today.
London, 1716. Revenge is a dish best served ice-cold...The city is
caught in the vice-like grip of a savage winter. Even the Thames
has frozen over. But for Jonas Flynt - thief, gambler, killer - the
chilling elements are the least of his worries... Justice Geoffrey
Dumont has been found dead at the base of St Paul's cathedral, and
a young male sex-worker, Sam Yates, has been taken into custody for
the murder. Yates denies all charges, claiming he had received a
message to meet the judge at the exact time of death. The young man
is a friend of courtesan Belle St Clair, and she asks Flynt to
investigate. As Sam endures the horrors of Newgate prison, they
must do everything in their power to uncover the truth and save an
innocent life, before the bodies begin to pile up. But time is
running out. And the gallows are beckoning... A totally enrapturing
portrayal of eighteenth-century London, and a rapier-like crime
thriller, perfect for fans of Laura Shepherd-Robinson, Antonia
Hodgson and Ambrose Parry.
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