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With 1300 UCAT practice questions (including a full mock exam),
in-depth explanations, and comprehensive tips and techniques
spanning over 800 pages, this book constitutes an ideal preparation
tool for the UCAT exam, helping candidates save time, retain focus
and optimise their score. Fully compliant with the new-style UCAT
exam, the book shows how to approach each type of question
(abstract, verbal and quantitative reasoning, decision making and
situational judgement) and helps candidates familiarise themselves
with all the potential traps that can be laid by the examiners. The
overwhelming range of exercises that it contains will enable all
UCAT candidates to refine and optimise their technique to answer
questions under strict time constraints. This book replicates the
breadth and depth of the different types of questions that can be
asked in the live UCAT test and the spectrum of difficulties that
it covers (from normal to stretching), which makes it an ideal
preparation tool for all those who want to achieve a high score and
maximise their chances of getting into the medical school of their
choice. (Previously UKCAT)
This is a classic study of Philadelphia's business aristocracy
of colonial stock with Protestant affiliations. It is also an
analysis of how fabulously wealthy nineteenth-century family
founders produced a national upper-class way of life. But as that
way of life came to an end, the upper-class outlived its function;
this, argues E. Digby Baltzell, is precisely what took place in the
Philadelphia class system. For sociologists, historians, and those
concerned with issues of culture and the economy, this is indeed a
classic of modern social science.
As "animal factories" go, the Ohio Penitentiary was one of the
worst. For 150 years, it housed some of the most dangerous
criminals in the United States, including murderers, madmen and
mobsters. Peer in on America's first vampire, accused of sucking
his victims' blood five years before Bram Stoker's fictional
villain was even born; peek into the cage of the original Prison
Demon; and witness the daring escape of John Hunt Morgan's band of
Confederate prisoners. Uncover the full extent of mayhem and
madness locked away in one of history's most notorious
maximum-security prisons.
'If you only read one diet or nutrition book in your life, make it
this one' Bee Wilson 'A devastating, witty and scholarly
destruction of the shit food we eat and why' Adam Rutherford --- An
eye-opening investigation into the science, economics, history and
production of ultra-processed food. It's not you, it's the food. We
have entered a new 'age of eating' where most of our calories come
from an entirely novel set of substances called Ultra-Processed
Food, food which is industrially processed and designed and
marketed to be addictive. But do we really know what it's doing to
our bodies? Join Chris in his travels through the world of food
science and a UPF diet to discover what's really going on. Find out
why exercise and willpower can't save us, and what UPF is really
doing to our bodies, our health, our weight, and the planet (hint:
nothing good). For too long we've been told we just need to make
different choices, when really we're living in a food environment
that makes it nigh-on impossible. So this is a book about our
rights. The right to know what we eat and what it does to our
bodies and the right to good, affordable food.
Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful
introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and
law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to
be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of
the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject
areas. This insightful Advanced Introduction provides a road map
for building and maintaining a sustainable career. Delving into the
meaning of a 'sustainable career', the book examines the factors
that threaten a career's sustainability, such as economic
turbulence, changes in organizational practices, and advances in
technology, offering actions that can be taken to overcome these
threats and strengthen the sustainability of careers. Key Features:
Identifies the role of gender in building a sustainable career
Introduces a new model of career sustainability, emphasizing the
relevance of employees' home life in building a sustainable career
Demonstrates how building a sustainable career is the shared
responsibility of employees and their families, employers, and
society Establishes that some groups in society are substantially
more vulnerable than others and require additional or different
resources to build and maintain a sustainable career This Advanced
Introduction will be a valuable guide for scholars and advanced
students of sustainable careers, human resource management, and
organizational behavior. It will also be useful for practitioners
and policy makers in these fields as well as individuals who want
to build a more sustainable career.
The history of sexuality has progressed from its earlier marginal
status to a central place in historiography. Not only are its foci
of research intriguing, but the field has initiated important
theoretical advances for the discipline as a whole, especially
through the work of Michel Foucault. The editors of this new
four-volume Routledge collection define sexuality in a broader
sense than sexual identity, to include sexual emotions, desires,
acts, representations, and relationships. And while the history of
sexuality began in the American and European spheres, the volumes
also integrate studies of Asian, African, and other sexual
cultures. Similarly, the collection integrates studies from early
periods (such as classical Greece and Rome and the medieval era)
with modern histories of sexuality. The editors of this new
four-volume Routledge collection define sexuality in a broader
sense than sexual identity, to include sexual emotions, desires,
acts, representations, and relationships. And while the history of
sexuality began in the American and European spheres, the volumes
also integrate studies of Asian, African, and other sexual
cultures. Similarly, the collection integrates studies from early
periods (such as classical Greece and Rome and the medieval era)
with modern histories of sexuality.
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.
Out of the 2015/16 nationwide student protest action has come the
long-overdue challenge for academia to assess and reconsider
critically the role academics play in maintaining and perpetuating
exclusive social structures and discourse in schools and faculties
in the higher education landscape in South Africa. Decolonisation
and Africanisation of Legal Education in South Africa proposes
possible starting points on the subject, and the roles, challenges
and questions that legal academia face in the quest to decolonise
and Africanise legal education in South Africa. It explores the
potential role of the Constitution in decolonising and Africanising
legal education. Furthermore, the book discusses important
contextual factors in relation to decolonising clinical legal
education. Decolonisation and Africanisation form a much more
nuanced project in the continuous process of development and
reflection to be undertaken by all law academics together with
their relevant institutions and students. The book ultimately
highlights the importance of decolonising the law itself. This
timely and important work lays a foundation that will hopefully
inspire many more publications and debates aimed at transforming
our legal education.
In Necropolitics Achille Mbembe—a leader in the new wave of
Francophone critical theory—theorizes the genealogy of the
contemporary world—a world plagued by ever-increasing inequality,
militarization, enmity, and terror, as well as by a resurgence of
racist, fascist, and nationalist forces determined to exclude and
kill.
He outlines how democracy has begun to embrace its dark side, or
what he calls its “nocturnal body,” which is based on the desires,
fears, affects, relations, and violence that drove colonialism.
This shift has hollowed out democracy, thereby eroding the very
values, rights, and freedoms liberal democracy routinely
celebrates.
As a result, war has become the sacrament of our times, in a
conception of sovereignty that operates by annihilating all those
considered to be enemies of the state. Despite his dire diagnosis,
Mbembe draws on post-Foucault debates on biopolitics, war, and
race, as well as Fanon’s notion of care as a shared vulnerability,
to explore how new conceptions of the human that transcend humanism
might come to pass. These new conceptions would allow us to
encounter the Other not as a thing to exclude, but as a person with
whom to build a more just world.
About 50km outside of Cape Town lies the beautiful town of Stellenbosch, nestled against vineyards and blue mountains that stretch to the sky. Here reside some of South Africa’s wealthiest individuals: all male, all Afrikaans – and all stinking rich. Johann Rupert, Jannie Mouton, Markus Jooste and Christo Weise, to name a few.
Julius Malema refers to them scathingly as ‘The Stellenbosch Mafia’, the very worst example of white monopoly capital. But who really are these mega-wealthy individuals, and what influence do they exert not only on Stellenbosch but more broadly on South African society?
Author Pieter du Toit begins by exploring the roots of Stellenbosch, one of the wealthiest towns in South Africa and arguably the cradle of Afrikanerdom. This is the birthplace of apartheid leaders, intellectuals, newspaper empires and more. He then closely examines this ‘club’ of billionaires. Who are they and, crucially, how are they connected? What network of boardroom membership, alliances and family connections exist? Who are the ‘old guard’ and who are the ‘inkommers’, and what about the youngsters desperate to make their mark? He looks at the collapse of Steinhoff: what went wrong, and whether there are other companies at risk of a similar fate. He examines the control these men have over cultural life, including pulling the strings in South Africa rugby.
In Wedded Wife, feminist curator Rachael
Lennon provides an intimate history of modern marriage.
 Having married her wife just a few years after the
legalisation of same sex marriage in the United Kingdom, Lennon
reflects on being one of the small proportion of history’s
women with the choice to formally commit to someone they love and
not automatically sacrifice rights and opportunities. To marry as
they choose and to retain control over their bodies, their children
and their property; to preserve the ability to pursue their own
ambitions; to choose a spouse regardless of sex and to never
promise to obey them.  Marriage has a deep history of
oppressing women and people who expressed gender diversity and
same-sex attraction. It has long enshrined inequalities into law.
Lennon celebrates the work of activists who have transformed the
institution across recent centuries and asks, what compels us to
keep making this choice? Can we let go of the gendered baggage that
we have inherited? Can we hold true to feminist values as we
commit to our partners? And what does that look like? How can we
build on the past to continue to redefine marriage for the future?
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Hierdie publikasie gee ’n volledige beeld van die kunstenaar Frans
David Oerder (1867–1944) se oeuvre – sy Anglo-Boereoorlogtekeninge,
landskappe, genrestukke, portrette, blomstudies en stillewes,
interieurs, dierestudies en grafiese werk. Geen moeite is ontsien
om hierdie boek so volledig en betroubaar moontlik te maak nie.
Argivale bronne in die Kunsargief van die Universiteit van
Pretoria, die Argief van die Johannesburg Kunsmuseum en die
Nasionale Argief van Suid-Afrika in Pretoria het grootliks bygedra
tot die toevoeging van inligting oor hierdie kunstenaar wat nie
voorheen bekend was nie. Dieplakboek van Gerda Oerder en ’n lang
lesing met detailinligting oor Oerder se vroee lewe deur mev.
Lorimer in die Kunsargief van die Universiteit van Pretoria het
bygedra tot ’n nuwe vertolking van die lewe en werk van hierdie
belangrike Suid-Afrikaanse kunstenaar. Tydens die Anglo-Boereoorlog
was Oerder die enigste amptelike kunstenaar aan Boerekant, maar tot
dusver is nog geen volledige geskiedenis van sy deelname aan die
oorlog geskryf nie. In hierdie boek word Oerder se
Anglo-Boereoorlogtekeninge nou vir die eerste keer so volledig
moontlik afgedruk en beskryf.
180 Days of Science is a fun and effective daily practice workbook
designed to help students explore the three strands of science:
life, physical, and earth and space. This easy-to-use first grade
workbook is great for at-home learning or in the classroom. The
engaging standards-based activities cover grade-level skills with
easy to follow instructions and an answer key to quickly assess
student understanding. Students will explore a new topic each week
building content knowledge, analyzing data, developing questions,
planning solutions, and communicating results. Watch as students
are motivated to learn scientific practices with these quick
independent learning activities.Parents appreciate the
teacher-approved activity books that keep their child engaged and
learning. Great for homeschooling, to reinforce learning at school,
or prevent learning loss over summer.Teachers rely on the daily
practice workbooks to save them valuable time. The ready to
implement activities are perfect for daily morning review or
homework. The activities can also be used for intervention skill
building to address learning gaps. Aligns to Next Generation
Science Standards (NGSS).
In 1604, when Frenchmen landed on Saint Croix Island, they were far
from the first people to walk along its shores. For thousands of
years, Etchemins--whose descendants were members of the Wabanaki
Confederacy-- had lived, loved and labored in Down East Maine.
Bound together with neighboring people, all of whom relied heavily
on canoes for transportation, trade and survival, each group still
maintained its own unique cultures and customs. After the French
arrived, they faced unspeakable hardships, from "the Great Dying,"
when disease killed up to 90 percent of coastal populations, to
centuries of discrimination. They never abandoned Ketakamigwa,
their homeland. In this book, anthropologist William Haviland
relates the history of hardship and survival endured by the natives
of the Down East coast and how they have maintained their way of
life over the past four hundred years.
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