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LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2016 Charles Foster wanted
to know what it was like to be a beast: a badger, an otter, a deer,
a fox, a swift. What it was really like. And through knowing what
it was like he wanted to get down and grapple with the beast in us
all. So he tried it out; he lived life as a badger for six weeks,
sleeping in a dirt hole and eating earthworms, he came face to face
with shrimps as he lived like an otter and he spent hours curled up
in a back garden in East London and rooting in bins like an urban
fox. A passionate naturalist, Foster realises that every creature
creates a different world in its brain and lives in that world. As
humans, we share sensory outputs, lights, smells and sound, but
trying to explore what it is actually like to live in another of
these worlds, belonging to another species, is a fascinating and
unique neuro-scientific challenge. For Foster it is also a literary
challenge. Looking at what science can tell us about what happens
in a fox's or badger's brain when it picks up a scent, he then uses
this to imagine their world for us, to write it through their eyes
or rather through the eyes of Charles the beast. An intimate look
at the life of animals, neuroscience, psychology, nature writing,
memoir and more, it is a journey of extraordinary thrills and
surprises, containing wonderful moments of humour and joy, but also
providing important lessons for all of us who share life on this
precious planet.
This book examines the idea of a fundamental entitlement to health
and healthcare from a human rights perspective. The volume is based
on a particular conceptual reasoning that balances critical
thinking and pragmatism in the context of a universal right to
health. Thus, the primary focus of the book is the relationship or
contrast between rights-based discourse/jurisprudential arguments
and real-life healthcare contexts. The work sets out the
constraints that are imposed on a universal right to health by
practical realities such as economic hardship in countries, lack of
appropriate governance, and lack of support for the implementation
of this right through appropriate resource allocation. It queries
the degree to which the existence of this legally enshrined right
and its application in instruments such as the International
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) and the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) can be more than an
ephemeral aspiration but can, actually, sustain, promote, and
instil good practice. It further asks if social reality and the
inequalities that present themselves therein impede the
implementation of laudable human rights, particularly within
marginalised communities and cadres of people. It deliberates on
what states and global bodies do, or could do, in practical terms
to ensure that such rights are moved beyond the aspirational and
become attainable and implementable. Divided into three parts, the
first analyses the notion of a universal inalienable right to
health(care) from jurisprudential, anthropological, legal, and
ethical perspectives. The second part considers the translation of
international human rights norms into specific jurisdictional
healthcare contexts. With a global perspective it includes
countries with very different legal, economic, and social contexts.
Finally, the third part summarises the lessons learnt and provides
a pathway for future action. The book will be an invaluable
resource for students, academics, and policymakers working in the
areas of health law and policy, and international human rights law.
First published in 2007. This classic work explores the seminal
early periods of Jewish history. The destruction of Jerusalem in
586 B.C. by the army of Nebuchadnezzar marks a radical turning
point in the life of the people of Jehovah, for then the history of
the Hebrew state and monarchy ends, and the Jewish history, the
records of experiences, not of a nation but of the scattered,
oppressed remnants of the Jewish people, begins.
This book examines the idea of a fundamental entitlement to health
and healthcare from a human rights perspective. The volume is based
on a particular conceptual reasoning that balances critical
thinking and pragmatism in the context of a universal right to
health. Thus, the primary focus of the book is the relationship or
contrast between rights-based discourse/jurisprudential arguments
and real-life healthcare contexts. The work sets out the
constraints that are imposed on a universal right to health by
practical realities such as economic hardship in countries, lack of
appropriate governance, and lack of support for the implementation
of this right through appropriate resource allocation. It queries
the degree to which the existence of this legally enshrined right
and its application in instruments such as the International
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) and the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) can be more than an
ephemeral aspiration but can, actually, sustain, promote, and
instil good practice. It further asks if social reality and the
inequalities that present themselves therein impede the
implementation of laudable human rights, particularly within
marginalised communities and cadres of people. It deliberates on
what states and global bodies do, or could do, in practical terms
to ensure that such rights are moved beyond the aspirational and
become attainable and implementable. Divided into three parts, the
first analyses the notion of a universal inalienable right to
health(care) from jurisprudential, anthropological, legal, and
ethical perspectives. The second part considers the translation of
international human rights norms into specific jurisdictional
healthcare contexts. With a global perspective it includes
countries with very different legal, economic, and social contexts.
Finally, the third part summarises the lessons learnt and provides
a pathway for future action. The book will be an invaluable
resource for students, academics, and policymakers working in the
areas of health law and policy, and international human rights law.
On 16 May 1943, nineteen Lancaster aircraft from the RAF's 617
Squadron set off to attack the great dams in the industrial heart
of Germany. Flying at a height of 60ft, they dropped a series of
bombs which bounced across the water and destroyed two of their
targets, thereby creating a legend. The one-off operation combined
an audacious method of attack, technically brilliant flying and
visually spectacular results. But while the story of Operation
Chastise is well known, most of the 133 'Dambusters' who took part
in the Dams Raid have until now been just names on a list. They
came from all parts of the UK and the Commonwealth and beyond, and
each of them was someone's son or brother, someone's husband or
father. This is the first book to present their individual stories
and celebrate their skill, heroism and, for many, sacrifice.
A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 'A thrilling deep-dive through
our evolutionary past, and a witty and learned commentary on why we
are the way we are - and what wisdom we've lost along the way' Cal
Flynn, author of Islands of Abandonment 'A wild ride: brave,
outrageous, hilarious, helpful and urgent ... essential reading'
Merlin Sheldrake, author of Entangled Lives What kind of creature
is a human? If we don't know what we are, how can we know how to
act? Charles Foster sets out to understand what a human is,
inhabiting the sensory worlds of humans at three pivotal moments in
our history. Foster begins his quest with his son in a Derbyshire
wood, trying to find a way of experiencing the world that
recognises the deep expanse of time when we understood ourselves as
hunter-gatherers, and when modern consciousness was first ignited.
From there he travels to the Neolithic, a way of being defined by
fences, farms, sky gods and slaughterhouses, and finally to the
Enlightenment, when we decided that the universe was a machine and
we were soulless cogs within it.
'Charles Foster is the most original voice in nature writing today
- funny, urgent, poetic, philosophical and deeply moving' Patrick
Barkham 'Utterly exhilarating... This book demands we change our
ways' Lee Schofield 'There aren't many writers like Charles
around... a deeply thought-provoking book' James Aldred 'Reading
this book feels like being made suddenly omniscient. In other
words, you really have to' Tom Moorhouse 'Astonishingly playful,
humorous, immensely varied and outrageously intelligent... The most
inventive British writer presently at work on the theme of nature'
Mark Cocker A fox, grown strong on pepperoni pizza from the
dustbins of the East End, dances along a railway track towards
Essex, the territory of wild foxes and wilder huntsmen. An orca,
mourning the loss of her mother in a valley west of Skye, knows
that she must now lead the pod as matriarch. She swims again
through her childhood, thinking about the old ways, the old roads,
laid down thousands of years ago. But the old roads aren't so easy
now. At moonrise in a West Country river, an otter floats slowly
downstream. The tide, though it pushes him landwards when it
exhales, seems to pull him out when it inhales. He turns on his
back. He can see the stars clearly for the first time and wonders
if he can swim to them. The wild has never stopped waiting. It has
only ever been in exile, right under our noses, waiting to
confound, outrage and re-enchant.
First published in 2007. This classic work explores the seminal
early periods of Jewish history. The destruction of Jerusalem in
586 B.C. by the army of Nebuchadnezzar marks a radical turning
point in the life of the people of Jehovah, for then the history of
the Hebrew state and monarchy ends, and the Jewish history, the
records of experiences, not of a nation but of the scattered,
oppressed remnants of the Jewish people, begins.
This book is a practical guide to practice and procedure in
courts and tribunals. It is aimed at the recently qualified
practitioner, pupil barristers, trainee solicitors, or lawyers
unversed in advocacy and procedure.
It provides a guide to applications in most areas of the law,
with brief discussions of the relevant law, rules of procedure and
practical tips. The applications covered are those which
practitioners are likely to encounter in their first years of
practice. In addition, each chapter attempts to anticipate likely
pitfalls, with suggested solutions. The court system and techniques
of advocacy are also covered.
This is not a legal textbook, and provides no substitute for
legal research. It is designed to be starting point for advocates
faced with an unfamiliar task.
This book is a practical guide to practice and procedure in courts
and tribunals. It is aimed at the recently qualified
practitioner,pupil barristers, trainee solicitors, or lawyers
unversed in advocacy and procedure. It provides a guide to
applications in most areas of the law, with brief discussions of
the relevant law, rules of procedure and practical tips. The
applications covered are those which practitioners are likely to
encounter in their first years of practice. In addition, each
chapter attempts to anticipate likely pitfalls, with suggested
solutions. The court system and techniques of advocacy are also
covered. This is not a legal textbook, and provides no substitute
for legal research. It is designed to be starting point for
advocates faced with an unfamiliar task.
The idea of the Good Life - of what constitutes human thriving, is,
implicitly, the foundation and justification of the law. The law
exists to hold societies together; to hold in tension the rights of
individuals as against individuals, the rights of individuals as
against various types of non-humans such as corporations (and vice
versa), and the rights of individuals individuals as against the
state (and vice versa). In democratic states, laws inhibit some
freedoms in the name of greater, or more desirable freedoms. The
only justification for law is surely that it tends to promote human
thriving. But what is the Good Life? What does it mean to live a
thriving life? There has been no want of discussion, at least since
the great Athenians. But surprisingly, since human thriving is its
sole raison d'etre, the law has been slow to contribute to the
conversation. This book aims to start and facilitate this
conversation. It aims to: -make lawyers ask: 'What is the law
for?', and conclude that it is to maximise human thriving -make
lawyers ask: 'But what does human thriving mean?' -make judges and
advocates ask: 'How can a judgment about the best interests of a
patient be satisfactory unless its basis is made clear?'
This book is an examination of how the law understands human
identity and the whole notion of 'human being'. On these two
notions the law, usually unconsciously, builds the superstructure
of 'human rights'. It explores how the law understands the concept
of a human being, and hence a person who is entitled to human
rights. This involves a discussion of the legal treatment of those
of so-called "marginal personhood" (e.g. high functioning non-human
animals; humans of limited intellectual capacity, and fetuses). It
also considers how we understand our identity as people, and hence
how we fall into different legal categories: such as gender,
religion and so on.The law makes a number of huge assumptions about
some fundamental issues of human identity and authenticity - for
instance that we can talk meaningfully about the entity that we
call 'our self'. Until now it has rarely, if ever, identified those
assumptions, let alone interrogated them. This failure has led to
the law being philosophically dubious and sometimes demonstrably
unfit for purpose. Its failure is increasingly hard to cover up.
What should happen legally, for instance, when a disease such as
dementia eliminates or radically transforms all the characteristics
that most people regard as foundational to the 'self'? This book
seeks to plug these gaps in the literature.
This book is an assault on the notion that it is empirically
accurate and legally and philosophically satisfactory to see humans
as atomistic entities. It contends that our welfare is inextricably
entangled with that of others, and accordingly law and ethics, in
determining our best interests, should recognise the central
importance of relationality, the performance of obligations, and
(even apparently injurious) altruism.
The Dams Raid is the RAF’s most famous bombing operation of the
Second World War, and Guy Gibson, who was in command, its most
famous bomber pilot. Of the six men who made up his crew — two
Canadians, an Australian and three Englishmen – only one had
previously flown with him, but altogether they had amassed more
than 180 operations. Drawing on rare and unpublished sources and
family archives, this new study, written by the author of the
acclaimed 2018 title, The Complete Dambusters, is the first book to
fully detail their stories. It explores the previous connections
between the seven men who would fly on just one operation together
and examines how their relationships developed in the few months
they spent in each other’s company.
"When Yahweh became a man, he was a homeless vagrant. He walked
through Palestine proclaiming that a mysterious kingdom had
arrived...He called people to follow him, and that meant
walking."
-- Charles Foster
Humans are built to wander. History is crisscrossed by their
tracks. Sometimes there are obvious reasons for it: to get better
food for themselves or their animals; to escape weather, wars, or
plague. But sometimes they go--at great expense and risk--in the
name of God, seeking a place that feels sacred, that speaks to the
heart.
God himself seems to have a bias toward the nomad. The road is a
favored place -- a place of epiphany.
That's all very well if you are fit and free. But what if you are
paralyzed by responsibility or disease? What if the only journey
you can make is to the office, the school, or the bathroom?
Best-selling English author and adventurer Charles Foster has
wandered quite a bit, and he knows what can be found (and lost) on
a sacred journey. He knows that pilgrimage involves doing something
with whatever faith you have. And faith, like muscle, likes being
worked.
Exploring the history of pilgrimage across cultures and religions,
Foster uses tales of his own travels to examine the idea of
approaching each day as a pilgrimage, and he offers encouragement
to anyone who wants to experience a sacred journey. The result is
an intoxicating, highly readable blend of robust theology and
lyrical anecdote -- an essential guidebook for every traveler in
search of the truth about God, himself, and the world.
When Jesus said "Follow me," he meant us to hit the road with him.
"The Sacred Journey" will show you how.
The Ancient Practices
There is a hunger in every human heart for connection, primitive
and raw, to God. To satisfy it, many are beginning to explore
traditional spiritual disciplines used for centuries . . .
everything from fixed-hour prayer to fasting to sincere observance
of the Sabbath. Compelling and readable, the ""Ancient Practices""
series is for every spiritual sojourner, for every Christian seeker
who wants more.
This book examines the controversial and repercussive contention
that an objective of the law should be to promote personal morality
- to make people ethically better. It surveys a number of domains,
including criminal law, tort law, contract law, family law, and
medical law (particularly the realm of moral enhancement
technologies) asking for each: (a) Does the existing law seek to
promote personal morality? (b) If so, what is the account of
morality promoted, and what is the substantive content? (c) Does it
work? and (d) Is this a legitimate objective?
Faiths Lost and Found probes the social, psychological and
theological dynamics of apostasy – the leaving or renunciation of
a religion, or the embracing of an opinion contrary to one’s
previous religious beliefs – and through personal, theological
and spiritual reflection, examines the conditions and causes that
prompt individuals to renounce one approach to faith and embrace
another. Martyn Percy and Charles Foster examine the stories of ten
people who have left one iteration of Christianity and found
themselves ostracised or banished by the community they have left,
and yet have found a new spiritual home that has nurtured and
nourished their life, love and faith. Combining biblical,
sociological, pastoral and cultural concerns, they explore the
journeys these people have taken, and what they have lost and found
in the course of these (often traumatic) transitions. This book
will aid understanding of apostasy and help inform the response of
individuals, faith communities, and the Church as an institution.
The key focus of this edited text is on the legal and professional
conflicts and issues that can arise from regulating health care
quality. Doctors and nurses all increasingly face a number of
dilemmas with regulating health quality issues such as increasing
levels of complaints and litigation, scarcity of resources,
under-staffing, professional discipline, clinical governance,
clinical risk management etc. This book spells out and discusses
these issues, taking an academic approach, though this will be
tempered with a practical focus on issues. Discusses ethical
approaches to regulating health care quality Examines health care
rights in the UK Looks at complaints procedures in the new NHS
Presents alternatives to the present clinical negligence system
Compares health care regulation in the US and UK
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