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A New Yorker Best Book of 2022 A Globe & Mail Book of the Year
"A stimulating work on the politics of language." LA Review of
Books As globalisation continues languages are disappearing faster
than ever, leaving our planet's linguistic diversity leaping
towards extinction. The science of how languages are acquired is
becoming more advanced and the internet is bringing us new ways of
teaching the next generation, however it is increasingly
challenging for minority languages to survive in the face of a
handful of hegemonic 'super-tongues'. In Speak Not, James Griffiths
reports from the frontlines of the battle to preserve minority
languages, from his native Wales, Hawaii and indigenous American
nations, to southern China and Hong Kong. He explores the revival
of the Welsh language as a blueprint for how to ensure new
generations are not robbed of their linguistic heritage, outlines
how loss of indigenous languages is the direct result of
colonialism and globalisation and examines how technology is both
hindering and aiding the fight to prevent linguistic extinction.
Introducing readers to compelling characters and examining how
indigenous communities are fighting for their languages, Griffiths
ultimately explores how languages hang on, what happens when they
don't, and how indigenous tongues can be preserved and brought back
from the brink.
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Cuban Fury (Blu-ray disc)
Ian McShane, Rashida Jones, Chris O'Dowd, Nick Frost, Wendi McLendon-Covey, …
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Nick Frost stars as a former salsa dancer desperate to regain his
mojo in this comedy directed by James Griffiths. 22 years after a
bullying incident robbed him of his shot at glory in the UK Junior
Salsa Championships, overweight and self-loathing office worker
Bruce Garrett (Frost) falls for the charms of his new, seemingly
out-of-reach American boss Julia (Rashida Jones). Bruce's hopes
rise, however, when he discovers that Julia also shares a passion
for the dance floor, inspiring him to try to turn back the clock
and win the girl of his dreams. Unfortunately, there's a problem -
Bruce's testosterone-fuelled colleague Drew (Chris O'Dowd) has made
it quite obvious that he's got his own carnal designs on Julia. Can
Bruce regain his confidence, unleash his dormant Latin fire and
snatch the ultimate prize?
A New Yorker Best Book of 2022 A Globe & Mail Book of the Year
"A stimulating work on the politics of language." LA Review of
Books As globalisation continues languages are disappearing faster
than ever, leaving our planet's linguistic diversity leaping
towards extinction. The science of how languages are acquired is
becoming more advanced and the internet is bringing us new ways of
teaching the next generation, however it is increasingly
challenging for minority languages to survive in the face of a
handful of hegemonic 'super-tongues'. In Speak Not, James Griffiths
reports from the frontlines of the battle to preserve minority
languages, from his native Wales, Hawaii and indigenous American
nations, to southern China and Hong Kong. He explores the revival
of the Welsh language as a blueprint for how to ensure new
generations are not robbed of their linguistic heritage, outlines
how loss of indigenous languages is the direct result of
colonialism and globalisation and examines how technology is both
hindering and aiding the fight to prevent linguistic extinction.
Introducing readers to compelling characters and examining how
indigenous communities are fighting for their languages, Griffiths
ultimately explores how languages hang on, what happens when they
don't, and how indigenous tongues can be preserved and brought back
from the brink.
Geomorphological Mapping: a professional handbook of techniques and
applications is a new book targeted at academics and practitioners
who use, or wish to utilise, geomorphological mapping within their
work. Synthesising for the first time an historical perspective to
geomorphological mapping, field based and digital tools and
techniques for mapping and an extensive array of case studies from
academics and professionals active in the area. Those active in
geomorphology, engineering geology, reinsurance, Environmental
Impact Assessors, and allied areas, will find the text of immense
value.
Growth of interest in geomorphological mapping and currently no
texts comprehensively cover this topicExtensive case studies that
will appeal to professionals, academics and students (with
extensive use of diagrams, potentially colour plates)Brings
together material on digital mapping (GIS and remote sensing),
cartography and data sources with a focus on modern technologies
(including GIS, remote sensing and digital terrain
analysis)Provides readers with summaries of current advances in
methodological/technical aspectsAccompanied by electronic resources
for digital mapping
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Prevenge (DVD)
Kate Dickie, Gemma Whelan, Alice Lowe, Joe Hartley, Kayvan Novak, …
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Alice Lowe writes, directs and stars in this drama about a pregnant
woman seeking revenge. Seven months pregnant and recently widowed,
Ruth (Lowe) believes that she is being guided by her unborn child
as she begins a murderous rampage through the streets of Cardiff.
As she seeks revenge on anyone who was remotely connected to her
husband's death, her baby becomes more and more demanding of her
special skills, making sure that no potential witness is left
alive. The cast also includes Gemma Whelan, Eileen Davies and Kate
Dickie.
When Freddie Bulsara arrived in England in 1964, fleeing with his
family from a bloody revolution on the streets of his homeland
Zanzibar, he already knew that he wanted to be a rock'n'roll star.
But before that dream could become a reality, there were three
specific people he needed to meet. Brian May, Roger Taylor and John
Deacon were the other three components in what became Queen, a band
whose name is now writ large in rock legend, but whose members
spent their early career mired in legal troubles, critical
hostility and financial hardship. In the early 1970s, with their
preening singer and arch conceptualiser now renamed Freddie
Mercury, the group projected an image that was at once regal,
mystical and exotic. Yet behind the black eyeliner and billows of
dry ice, Queen were four sharply contrasting individuals whose
dogged struggle to win success was every bit as dramatic as the
ogre battles and fairy king fantasias that populated their music.
Queen in the Seventies is an up-close examination of the band's now
critically adored first ten years, the decade when they forged
their unique vision, beat off the critics and became, after many
epic tantrums and much violent throwing of crockery, champions of
the world.
This collection is the first of its kind, bringing together
Holocaust educational researchers as well as school and museum
educators from across the globe, to discuss the potentials of
Holocaust education in relation to primary school children. Its
contributors are from countries that have a unique relationship
with the Holocaust, such as Germany, Israel, neutral Switzerland,
and Allied countries outside the UK. Their research provides new
insight into the diverse ways in which primary aged students engage
with Holocaust education. Chapters explore the impact of teaching
the Holocaust to this age group, school and museum teaching
pedagogies, and primary students' perspectives of the Holocaust.
This book will appeal to school and museum educators of primary
aged students whose work requires them to teach the Holocaust,
Citizenship (or Civics) or Human Rights Education. Since the turn
of the twenty-first century there has been a transformation in
school and museum-based Holocaust education. This book clearly
demonstrates that primary education has been included in this
transformation.
What role do fables play in Cartesian method and psychology? By
looking at Descartes' use of fables, James Griffith suggests there
is a fabular logic that runs to the heart of Descartes' philosophy.
First focusing on The World and the Discourse on Method, this
volume shows that by writing in fable form, Descartes allowed his
readers to break from Scholastic methods of philosophizing. With
this fable-structure or -logic in mind, the book reexamines the
relationship between analysis, synthesis, and inexact sciences;
between metaphysics and ethico-political life; and between the
imagination, the will, and the passions.
Mac is an ordinary boy, that falls into a well in his grandmothers
garden. He arrives in another world, where he becomes a super hero,
fighting against the evil Lord Houk
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This collection is the first of its kind, bringing together
Holocaust educational researchers as well as school and museum
educators from across the globe, to discuss the potentials of
Holocaust education in relation to primary school children. Its
contributors are from countries that have a unique relationship
with the Holocaust, such as Germany, Israel, neutral Switzerland,
and Allied countries outside the UK. Their research provides new
insight into the diverse ways in which primary aged students engage
with Holocaust education. Chapters explore the impact of teaching
the Holocaust to this age group, school and museum teaching
pedagogies, and primary students' perspectives of the Holocaust.
This book will appeal to school and museum educators of primary
aged students whose work requires them to teach the Holocaust,
Citizenship (or Civics) or Human Rights Education. Since the turn
of the twenty-first century there has been a transformation in
school and museum-based Holocaust education. This book clearly
demonstrates that primary education has been included in this
transformation.
China's 'Great Firewall' has evolved into the most sophisticated
system of online censorship in the world. As the Chinese internet
grows and online businesses thrive, speech is controlled, dissent
quashed, and attempts to organise outside the official Communist
Party are quickly stamped out. Updated throughout and available in
paperback for the first time, The Great Firewall of China draws on
James Griffiths' unprecedented access to the Great Firewall and the
politicians, tech leaders, dissidents and hackers whose lives
revolve around it. New chapters cover the suppression of
information about the first outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan,
disinformation campaigns in response to the exposure of the
persecution of Uyghur communities in Xinjiang and the crackdown
against the Umbrella movement in Hong Kong.
'Readers will come away startled at just how fragile the online
infrastructure we all depend on is and how much influence China
wields - both technically and politically' - Jason Q. Ng, author of
Blocked on Weibo 'An urgent and much needed reminder about how
China's quest for cyber sovereignty is undermining global Internet
freedom' - Kristie Lu Stout, CNN 'An important and incisive history
of the Chinese internet that introduces us to the government
officials, business leaders, and technology activists struggling
over access to information within the Great Firewall' - Adam M.
Segal, author of The Hacked World Order Once little more than a
glorified porn filter, China's 'Great Firewall' has evolved into
the most sophisticated system of online censorship in the world. As
the Chinese internet grows and online businesses thrive, speech is
controlled, dissent quashed, and attempts to organise outside the
official Communist Party are quickly stamped out. But the effects
of the Great Firewall are not confined to China itself. Through
years of investigation James Griffiths gained unprecedented access
to the Great Firewall and the politicians, tech leaders, dissidents
and hackers whose lives revolve around it. As distortion,
post-truth and fake news become old news James Griffiths shows just
how far the Great Firewall has spread. Now is the time for a
radical new vision of online liberty.
Reveals the Hobbesian origins of contemporary political concerns,
especially the relationships between state, individual and lawYves
Charles Zarka shows you how Hobbes established the framework for
modern political thought. Discover the origin of liberalism in the
Hobbesian theory of negative liberty; that Hobbesian interest and
contract are essential to contemporary discussions of the
comportment of economic actors; and how state sovereignty returns
anew in the form of the servility of the state. At the same time,
Zarka controversially argues against received readings claiming
that Hobbes is a thinker of a state monopoly on legitimate
violence.
The region once known as Pimeria Alta now southern Arizona and
northern Sonora has for more than three centuries been a melting
pot for the beliefs of native Tohono O'odham and immigrant Yaquis
and those of colonizing Spaniards and Mexicans. One need look no
further than the roadside crosses along desert highways or the
diversity of local celebrations to sense the richness of this
cultural commingling. Folklorist Jim Griffith has lived in the
Pimeria Alta for more than thirty years, visiting its holy places
and attending its fiestas, and has uncovered a background of
belief, tradition, and history lying beneath the surface of these
cultural expressions. In Beliefs and Holy Places, he reveals some
of the supernaturally sanctioned relationships that tie people to
places within that region, describing the cultural and religious
meanings of locations and showing how bonds between people and
places have in turn created relationships between places, a
spiritual geography undetectable on physical maps. Throughout the
book, Griffith shows how culture moves from legend to art to belief
to practice, all the while serving as a dynamic link between past
and future. Now as the desert gives way to newcomers, Griffith's
book offers visitors and residents alike a rare opportunity to
share in these rich traditions.
China's 'Great Firewall' has evolved into the most sophisticated
system of online censorship in the world. As the Chinese internet
grows and online businesses thrive, speech is controlled, dissent
quashed, and attempts to organise outside the official Communist
Party are quickly stamped out. Updated throughout and available in
paperback for the first time, The Great Firewall of China draws on
James Griffiths' unprecedented access to the Great Firewall and the
politicians, tech leaders, dissidents and hackers whose lives
revolve around it. New chapters cover the suppression of
information about the first outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan,
disinformation campaigns in response to the exposure of the
persecution of Uyghur communities in Xinjiang and the crackdown
against the Umbrella movement in Hong Kong.
2 korte eventyr om Sji Sji Sjiraf og Vennene hans. Including the
English Version.
For decades, health care providers have worked as though there were
a monolithic wall dividing the ailments of the mind from those of
the body. Theorists on either side developed separate languages and
philosophies to explain symptoms. This distinction has left many
clinicians unable to treat successfully patients whose symptoms -
such as headaches, conversion paralysis, and seizures - arise from
the place where mind and body meet. In this book, the authors
describe a powerful narrative therapy, one that relies on the
wisdom and everyday language of patients' real-life stories instead
of the expert knowledge and professional language of the clinician.
This approach can be used across all categories of somatic
symptoms, from factitious ones to medical illnesses such as asthma
or migraine headaches. The authors show how somatic symptoms are
often related to unspeakable dilemmas, as in the case of a child
who, after discovering a parent's marital infidelity, is afraid to
disclose the secret and begins having blackout spells for which a
neurologist can find no physiological basis. These dilemmas can be
understood only if a clinician creates the kind of relationship in
which privately held stories of fear, shame, and threat can be told
safely. Detailed case studies and numerous brief examples vividly
illustrate techniques for helping patients escape the dilemmas that
bind their bodies by finding new language and stories that can free
them. In an innovative section, the authors rethink the current
ideas and practices of psychopharmacology. Rather than "treating" a
brain disease, a clinician uses medications to recalibrate brain
systems that register alarm, thereby opening new possibilitiesfor
therapeutic change through speaking, listening, reflecting, and
relating. This book offers all clinicians - psychiatrists, social
workers, psychologists, nurses, physicians, and family therapists -
a way to use language to help patients resolve bodily symptoms. It
avoids the stigmatization that patients and families so often
experience - and the frustration clinicians feel - when struggling
to find answers for mind-body problems.
What role do fables play in Cartesian method and psychology? By
looking at Descartes' use of fables, James Griffith suggests there
is a fabular logic that runs to the heart of Descartes' philosophy.
First focusing on The World and the Discourse on Method, this
volume shows that by writing in fable form, Descartes allowed his
readers to break from Scholastic methods of philosophizing. With
this fable-structure or -logic in mind, the book reexamines the
relationship between analysis, synthesis, and inexact sciences;
between metaphysics and ethico-political life; and between the
imagination, the will, and the passions.
Arts as intimate as a piece of needlework or a home altar. Arts
as visible as decorative iron, murals, and low riders. Through such
arts, members of Tucson's Mexican American community contribute
much of the cultural flavor that defines the city to its residents
and to the outside world. Now Tucson folklorist Jim Griffith
celebrates these public and private artistic expressions and
invites us to meet the people who create them.
- Josefina Lizarraga learned to make paper flowers as a girl in
her native state of Nayarit, Mexico, and ensures that this delicate
art is not lost.
- Ornamental blacksmith William Flores runs the oldest
blacksmithing business in town, a living link with an earlier
Tucson.
- Ramona Franco's family has maintained an elaborate altar to Our
Lady of Guadalupe for three generations.
- Signmaker Paul Lira, responsible for many of Tucson's most
interesting signs, brings to his work a thoroughly "mexicano" sense
of aesthetics and humor.
- Muralists David Tineo and Luis Mena proclaim Mexican cultural
identity in their work and carry on a tradition that has blossomed
in the last twenty years.
Featuring a foreword by Tucson author Patricia Preciado Martin
and a spectacular gallery of photographs, many by Pulitzer
prize-winning photographer Jose Galvez, this remarkable book offers
a close-up view of a community rich with tradition and diverse
artistic expression. "Hecho a Mano" is a pinata bursting with
unexpected treasures that will inspire and inform anyone with an
interest in folk art or Mexican American culture.
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