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When the networks called the 2020 presidential election for Joe
Biden on Saturday, November 7, 2020, people from coast to coast
exhaled--and danced in the streets. This quick-turnaround volume, a
collection of 38 personal essays from writers all over the
country--"many of America's most thoughtful voices," as Jon Meacham
puts it--captures the week Trump was voted out, a unique juncture
in American life, and helps point toward a way forward to a nation
less divided. An eclectic lineup of contributors--from Rosanna
Arquette, Susan Bro and General Wesley Clark to Keith Olbermann,
Stewart O'Nan and Anthony Scaramucci--puts a year of transition
into perspective, and summons the anxieties and hopes so many have
for better times ahead. As award-winning columnist Mary C. Curtis
writes in the lead essay, "Saying you're not interested in politics
is dangerous because, like it or not, politics is interested in
you." Novelist Christopher Buckley, a former speechwriter for Vice
President George H.W. Bush, laments, "The Republican Senate, with
one exception, has become a stay of ovine, lickspittle quislings,
degenerate descendants of such giants as Everett Dirksen, Barry
Goldwater, Howard Baker and John McCain." Nero Award-winning
mystery novelist Stephen Mack Jones writes, to Donald Trump,
"Remember: You live in my house. 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is my
house. My ancestors built it at a cost of blood, soul and labor. I
pay my taxes every year to feed you, clothe you and your family and
staff and fly you around the country and the world in my
tricked-out private jet. If you violate any aspect of your
four-year lease--any aspect--Lord Jesus so help me, I will do
everything in my power to kick yo narrow ass to the curb." As
Publisher Steve Kettmann writes in the Introduction: "The hope is
that in putting out these glimpses so quickly, giving them an
immediacy unusual in book publishing, we can help in the mourning
for all that has been lost, help in the healing (of ourselves and
of our country), and help in the pained effort, like moving limbs
that have gone numb from inactivity, to give new life to our
democracy. We stared into the abyss, tottered on the edge, and a
record-setting surge of voting and activism delivered us from the
very real threat of plunging into autocracy."
Critical Religious Education in Practice serves as an accessible
handbook to help teachers put Critical Religious Education (CRE)
into practice. The book offers straightforward guidance, unpicking
some of the key difficulties that teachers encounter when
implementing this high-profile pedagogical approach. In-depth
explanations of CRE pedagogy, accompanied by detailed lesson plans
and activities, will give teachers the confidence they need to
inspire debate in the classroom, tackling issues as controversial
as the authority of the Qur'an and the relationship between science
and religion. The lesson plans and schemes of work exemplify CRE in
practice and are aimed at empowering teachers to implement CRE
pedagogy across their curriculum. Additional chapters cover
essential issues such as differentiation, assessment, the
importance of subject knowledge and tips for tackling tricky
topics. The accompanying resources, including PowerPoint
presentations and worksheets, are available via the book's
companion website. Key to developing a positive classroom culture
and promoting constructive attitudes towards Religious Education,
this text is essential reading for all practising and future
teachers of Religious Education in secondary schools.
How to write the history of a cultural mode that, for all its
abiding fascination with the past, has challenged and complicated
received notions of history from the very start? The Cambridge
History of the Gothic rises to this challenge, charting the history
of the Gothic even as it reflects continuously upon the mode's
tendency to question, subvert and render incomplete all linear
historical narratives. Taken together, the three chronologically
sequenced volumes in the series provide a rigorous account of the
origins, efflorescence and proliferation of the Gothic imagination,
from its earliest manifestations in European history through to the
present day. Written by an international cast of contributors, the
chapters bring fresh scholarly attention to bear upon established
Gothic themes while also drawing attention to new critical
concerns. As such, they are of relevance to the general reader, the
student and the established scholar alike.
In describing his proto-Gothic fiction, The Castle of Otranto
(1764), as a translation, Horace Walpole was deliberately playing
on national anxieties concerning the importation of war, fashion
and literature from France in the aftermath of the Seven Years'
War. In the last decade of the eighteenth century, as Britain went
to war again with France, this time in the wake of revolution, the
continuing connections between Gothic literature and France through
the realms of translation, adaptation and unacknowledged borrowing
led to strong suspicions of Gothic literature taking on a
subversive role in diminishing British patriotism. Angela Wright
explores the development of Gothic literature in Britain in the
context of the fraught relationship between Britain and France,
offering fresh perspectives on the works of Walpole, Radcliffe,
'Monk' Lewis and their contemporaries.
This text will cater specifically for the `Employee Reward' module
on the CIPD PDS qualification, as well as for Reward modules in a
wider HR and business degree market. This book is one of only a few
titles specifically focusing on Reward in the market place. It is
designed to offer an analytical approach to Reward within a
balanced look at theory and practice. It seeks to avoid a
prescriptive view of Reward and instead offer a questioning
approach to the subject area.
Critical Religious Education in Practice serves as an accessible
handbook to help teachers put Critical Religious Education (CRE)
into practice. The book offers straightforward guidance, unpicking
some of the key difficulties that teachers encounter when
implementing this high-profile pedagogical approach. In-depth
explanations of CRE pedagogy, accompanied by detailed lesson plans
and activities, will give teachers the confidence they need to
inspire debate in the classroom, tackling issues as controversial
as the authority of the Qur'an and the relationship between science
and religion. The lesson plans and schemes of work exemplify CRE in
practice and are aimed at empowering teachers to implement CRE
pedagogy across their curriculum. Additional chapters cover
essential issues such as differentiation, assessment, the
importance of subject knowledge and tips for tackling tricky
topics. The accompanying resources, including PowerPoint
presentations and worksheets, are available via the book's
companion website. Key to developing a positive classroom culture
and promoting constructive attitudes towards Religious Education,
this text is essential reading for all practising and future
teachers of Religious Education in secondary schools.
This is a true story of a child born into a Middle Class (albeit
dysfunctional) family in Middle Class Home Counties England in the
Middle of the last century who came to be anything but 'Middling'.
As the Child attempts to understand her Sado/Masochistic fantasies
from the age of four she soon realises her lack of fear of
punishment empowers her. Gradually she comes to terms with how to
relish this ability and to control even those who she would wish to
dominate her. Her journey, often involving Headline Stories and Old
Bailey Trials gave her many names. The Countess, The Whore, The
Sadistic Pervert, Lesbian Mother, Freedom Fighter, HumanRight's
Campaigner, Peace Tree Planter. They are all parts of a unique
whole, encompassing four decades. Her story could have ended at
sixteen after planning her expulsion from Grammar School and
devirginising herself with her first female lover. It could have
ended in a Parisian Sexual Fantasy Brothel a few months later with
the sudden disappearance of a Body, it could have ended when she
was raped by a client in a Notorious English Whorehouse or under a
car when a Pimp tried to kill her for stealing his Girls. She
survived to fight Court Cases brought by corrupt Police and Win, to
see the Gangs controlling the London of the sixties imprisoned
knowing and indeed living with part of their legal team. She
understood intimately the need for Mafia money to control the
Gambling Dens in Wilson's London and the Honey traps used by the
USA in Europe to 'fight' the Cold War paranoia of that decade of so
called Free Love. There were few Pop Stars or Media Wheeler Dealers
of that era who did not use premises in which she was involved.
Many sharing a bed or a body previously occupied by a Sheik,
Princeling or King. Or just some faded aristocrat with odd tastes
in instruments of Torture. Come in and share this tale. See how it
unexpectantly leads to love, childbirth by insemination and a
Secret Cell of Resistance during the First Gulf War. How the Art of
Brothel keeping helped release a kidnapped prisoner in Arafat's
compound in Gaza, but mostly be excited by the graphic details of a
life with it's own Rules.
This second volume of The Cambridge History of the Gothic provides
a rigorous account of the Gothic in British, American and
Continental European culture, from the Romantic period through to
the Victorian fin de siecle. Here, leading scholars in the fields
of literature, theatre, architecture and the history of science and
popular entertainment explore the Gothic in its numerous
interdisciplinary forms and guises, as well as across a range of
different international contexts. As much a cultural history of the
Gothic in this period as an account of the ways in which the Gothic
mode has participated in the formative historical events of
modernity, the volume offers fresh perspectives on familiar themes
while also drawing new critical attention to a range of hitherto
overlooked concerns. From Romanticism, to Penny Bloods, Dickens and
even the railway system, the volume provides a compelling and
comprehensive study of nineteenth-century Gothic culture.
This first volume of The Cambridge History of the Gothic provides a
rigorous account of the Gothic in Western civilisation, from the
Goths' sacking of Rome in 410 AD through to its manifestations in
British and European culture of the long eighteenth century.
Written by international cast of leading scholars, the chapters
explore the interdisciplinary nature of the Gothic in the fields of
history, literature, architecture and fine art. As much a cultural
history of Gothic as an account of the ways in which the Gothic has
participated within a number of formative historical events across
time, the volume offers fresh perspectives on familiar themes while
also drawing new critical attention to a range of hitherto
overlooked concerns. From writers such as Horace Walpole and Ann
Radcliffe to eighteenth-century politics and theatre, the volume
provides a thorough and engaging overview of early Gothic culture
in Britain and beyond.
This book examines the place and importance of the American tourist
within the Irish tourism industry. It explores in detail the many
facets of the relationship existing between this client sector and
the island of Ireland. The American tourist contributes more per
capita to the Irish tourism industry than any other tourist. The
essential importance of tourism to the economy of Ireland is proven
by exchequer returns, and it is evident from industry assessments
that the American tourist is a key contributor to this sector. In
order to understand the complexities that govern the motivating
factors underlying American tourist interest in Ireland, this book
examines the singular historical, psychological, emotional,
commercial, political, marketing, and logistical dimensions that
will afford industry practitioners, academics, business
professionals and tourism marketers the relevant knowledge from
which deductible theories, conclusions and recommendations can be
extracted.
Technological evolutions, principally developments social
technologies, have introduced new marketing paradigms, such as
viral marketing. Viral marketing offers marketing practitioners
significant opportunities to reach target audiences in a credible
and attention grabbing way. Reaching students in tertiary level
education has for marketers become a challenging undertaking.
Traditional on-campus marketing communication tools have become
fragmented and cluttered. Students frequently disregard these
media, or, fail to become aware of them as they filter out
marketing paraphernalia from their consciousness due to the
incessant proliferation of organisations targeting them. Students
have rapidly adopted social technologies, and they use these media
to enrich existing offline personal relationships that they have
with friends. Students have a predilection to forward messages to
friends, and value messages they receive from friends. The
quintessential viral marketing campaign will enable the on-campus
marketer to rapidly disseminate a marketing message through
electronic word-of-mouth or, 'word-of-mouse', and ultimately
generate product, or service, awareness among student bodies.
This book offers unique and fresh perspectives upon the literary
productions of one of the most highly remunerated and widely
admired authors of the Romantic period, Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823).
While drawing upon, consolidating and enriching the critical
impulses reflected in Radcliffe scholarship to date, this
collection of essays, composed by a range of renowned scholars of
the Romantic period, also foregrounds the hitherto neglected
aspects of the author's work. Radcliffe's relations to Romantic-era
travel writing; the complex political ideologies that lie behind
her historiographic endeavours; her poetry and its relation to
institutionalised forms of Romanticism; and her literary
connections to eighteenth-century women's writing are all examined
in this collection. Offering fresh considerations of the well-known
Gothic fictions and extending the appreciation of Radcliffe in new
critical directions, the collection reappraises Radcliffe's full
oeuvre within the wider literary and political contexts of her
time.
Romantic Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion provides a thorough
critical, textual and historical account of the Gothic aesthetic as
manifested across a wide-range of Romantic-era literary texts, from
the adumbrations of the Gothic mode in the proto-Romantic poetry of
the 1740s, through to the 'belated' Gothic fictions of the late
1820s. Self-consciously breaching, like Hume and Gamer before it,
the critical divide between what literary history has subsequently
differentiated as the 'Gothic' and the 'Romantic: this collection
of 17 newly commissioned chapters seeks to draw attention to what
G. R. Thompson in 1947 termed 'dark Romanticism: that is, that
prominent strain in late 18th and early 19th-century British,
American and European literature in which the distinction between
the popular, low-cultural reaches of the Gothic and the 'High'
Romantic aesthetics of more canonical figures is all but erased.
This book offers unique and fresh perspectives upon the literary
productions of one of the most highly remunerated and widely
admired authors of the Romantic period, Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823).
While drawing upon, consolidating and enriching the critical
impulses reflected in Radcliffe scholarship to date, this
collection of essays, composed by a range of renowned scholars of
the Romantic period, also foregrounds the hitherto neglected
aspects of the author's work. Radcliffe's relations to Romantic-era
travel writing; the complex political ideologies that lie behind
her historiographic endeavours; her poetry and its relation to
institutionalised forms of Romanticism; and her literary
connections to eighteenth-century women's writing are all examined
in this collection. Offering fresh considerations of the well-known
Gothic fictions and extending the appreciation of Radcliffe in new
critical directions, the collection reappraises Radcliffe's full
oeuvre within the wider literary and political contexts of her
time.
In describing his proto-Gothic fiction, The Castle of Otranto
(1764), as a translation, Horace Walpole was deliberately playing
on national anxieties concerning the importation of war, fashion
and literature from France in the aftermath of the Seven Years'
War. In the last decade of the eighteenth century, as Britain went
to war again with France, this time in the wake of revolution, the
continuing connections between Gothic literature and France through
the realms of translation, adaptation and unacknowledged borrowing
led to strong suspicions of Gothic literature taking on a
subversive role in diminishing British patriotism. Angela Wright
explores the development of Gothic literature in Britain in the
context of the fraught relationship between Britain and France,
offering fresh perspectives on the works of Walpole, Radcliffe,
'Monk' Lewis and their contemporaries.
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