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The Colour Line
Igiaba Scego; Translated by Gregory Conti, John Cullen
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It was the middle of the nineteenth century when Lafanu Brown
audaciously decided to become an artist. In the wake of the
American Civil War, life was especially tough for Black women, but
she didn't let that stop her. The daughter of a Native American
woman and an African-Haitian man, Lafanu had the rare opportunity
to study, travel, and follow her dreams, thanks to her indomitable
spirit, but not without facing intolerance and violence. Now, in
1887, living in Rome as one of the city's most established
painters, she is ready to tell her fiance about her difficult life,
which began in a poor family forty years earlier. In 2019, an
Italian art curator of Somali origin is desperately trying to bring
to Europe her younger cousin, who is only sixteen and has already
tried to reach Italy on a long, treacherous journey. While
organizing an art exhibition that will combine the paintings of
Lafanu Brown with the artworks of young migrants, the curator
becomes more and more obsessed with the life and secrets of the
nineteenth-century painter.Weaving together these two vibrant
voices, Igiaba Scego has crafted a powerful exploration of what it
means to be "other," to be a woman, and particularly a Black woman,
in a foreign country, yesterday and today.
"This book claims to be 'like no other' and that is so true. The
editors and authors each add quality guidance around distributed
leadership to readers, providing evidence-based examples, useful
websites and key reading material to support and supplement the
ideas being presented." Bridie Kent, Professor in Leadership in
Nursing, University of Plymouth, UK "This book, thankfully, isn't
about self-defined heroic organizational leaders or power-hungry
political leaders - it tells the stories of the people doing
leadership every day in their work to make healthcare happen."
Scott Taylor, Business School Director of Admissions, University of
Birmingham, UK This innovative book brings together experts from
health sciences, nursing, business and management backgrounds to
provide a broad analysis of the growing field of distributed
leadership. The book offers health professionals practical guidance
on applying distributed leadership, resulting in more effective
forms of collaborative clinical teamwork and lasting improvements
in care. The text: *Offers a comprehensive collection of
perspectives, featuring chapters by expert clinical, nursing and
management studies contributors *Synthesizes and explores recent
developments in the leadership and distributed leadership research
literature *Supports research and theory with examples of cases of
effective distributed leadership in clinical practice, service
quality, patient safety, leadership development, general nursing,
midwifery education, oncology services, intellectual disability,
evidence-based practice and organizational change and development
*Provides an international focus, to encourage reflection on
learning from experiences across Europe and beyond Distributed
Leadership in Nursing and Healthcare is essential reading for
health professionals, undergraduate and postgraduate students, and
researchers working in the field of leadership. Edited by:
Elizabeth A. Curtis, Assistant Professor, Trinity College Dublin,
Ireland Martin Beirne, Emeritus Professor of Management and
Organisational Behaviour at the University of Glasgow, UK John G.
Cullen, Associate Professor, Maynooth University, Ireland Ruth
Northway, Professor of Learning Disability Nursing, University of
South Wales, UK Siobhan M. Corrigan, Assistant Professor, Trinity
College Dublin, Ireland
Two boys venture from their village to hunt in a nearby forest,
where they shoot down bats with glee, and cook their prey over an
open fire. Within a month, they are dead, bodies ravaged by an
insidious disease that neither the local healer's potions nor the
medical team's treatments could cure. Compounding the family's
grief, experts warn against touching the sick. But this caution
comes too late: the virus spreads rapidly, and the boys' father is
barely able to send his eldest daughter away for a chance at
survival.
Ways in which poverty can be reduced in both countries and regions
through business, entrepreneurship and government has been a hot
issue for researchers and policymakers in recent years. Governments
can play an important role in helping the poor people by non-profit
organizations and others that help to seed business among the poor.
Businesses increasingly also see the large number of people in
severe poverty not only as an issue for social concern, but also as
a potentially large untapped market of consumers for goods and
services. Some scholars have called for poverty reduction through
entrepreneurship owing to the fact that it can be an efficient path
to also change the poor's attitudes and behaviours from a passive
mode, to a more active mode towards poverty reduction economically
and socially. In addition, the sharing economy brings opportunities
where everyone is a micro-entrepreneur. There is a recognition that
these types of entrepreneurship above could offer the greatest
single potential means to move individuals out of poverty in the
nations and regions in the next 5-10 years. This book provides new
and valuable analyses of poverty and business, entrepreneurship and
innovation in current nations and regions including developing and
developed countries. As business, entrepreneurship and innovation
can help to generate greater business activity in settings of
severe poverty, they will help to solve poverty, as individuals in
severe poverty are able to both generate greater incomes and
accumulate greater assets as they participate with large firms in
those activities. The chapters in this book were originally
published as a special issue of the Entrepreneurship & Regional
Development.
Ways in which poverty can be reduced in both countries and regions
through business, entrepreneurship and government has been a hot
issue for researchers and policymakers in recent years. Governments
can play an important role in helping the poor people by non-profit
organizations and others that help to seed business among the poor.
Businesses increasingly also see the large number of people in
severe poverty not only as an issue for social concern, but also as
a potentially large untapped market of consumers for goods and
services. Some scholars have called for poverty reduction through
entrepreneurship owing to the fact that it can be an efficient path
to also change the poor's attitudes and behaviours from a passive
mode, to a more active mode towards poverty reduction economically
and socially. In addition, the sharing economy brings opportunities
where everyone is a micro-entrepreneur. There is a recognition that
these types of entrepreneurship above could offer the greatest
single potential means to move individuals out of poverty in the
nations and regions in the next 5-10 years. This book provides new
and valuable analyses of poverty and business, entrepreneurship and
innovation in current nations and regions including developing and
developed countries. As business, entrepreneurship and innovation
can help to generate greater business activity in settings of
severe poverty, they will help to solve poverty, as individuals in
severe poverty are able to both generate greater incomes and
accumulate greater assets as they participate with large firms in
those activities. The chapters in this book were originally
published as a special issue of the Entrepreneurship & Regional
Development.
Shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt Winner of the Goncourt du Premier
Roman Winner of the Prix des Cinq Continents Winner of the Prix
Francois Mauriac THE NOVEL THAT HAS TAKEN THE INTERNATIONAL
LITERARY WORLD BY STORM He was the brother of 'the Arab' killed by
the infamous Meursault, the antihero of Camus's classic novel.
Angry at the world and his own unending solitude, he resolves to
bring his brother out of obscurity by giving him a name - Musa -
and a voice, and by describing the events that led to his senseless
murder on a dazzling Algerian beach. A worthy complement to its
great predecessor, The Meursault Investigation is not only a
profound meditation on Arab identity and the disastrous effects of
colonialism in Algeria, but also a stunning work of literature in
its own right, told in a unique and affecting voice.
Managing Financial Resources addresses the complicated issues of
financial planning and control. These include performance measures
and cost analysis, methods of improving profitability and
techniques of financial monitoring and control. Real examples and
case studies are used throughout to illustrate points in a
practical context. All chapters have been updated and new material
has been added to extend the original text in areas such as public
sector management issues, audit commission, capital investment
decisions, stakeholder analysis for published reports and accounts,
performance measurement, outsourcing, new developments in the
public sector and transfer pricing. This book is based on the
Management Charter Initiative's Occupational Standards for
Management NVQs and SVQs at level 4. It is particularly suitable
for managers on the Diploma in Management or part 1 of the
Postgraduate Diploma, especially those accredited by the Chartered
Management Institute and Edexcel but this also a useful text for
practicing managers and those individuals studying for a MBA.
For all those who love novels like Fatherland by Robert Harris, The
Phoenix - a brilliant thriller based on the inside story of the
airship disaster - is a great find. Airships were the Concordes of
their era - elegant, exciting, luxurious - and the Hindenburg was
Germany's pride. When it mysteriously exploded on arrival in the US
in 1936 Goering pronounced the disaster an 'accident'. However,
whispers soon circulated that it was sabotage. But by whom and why?
And why were 28 of the survivors declared dead by the Nazi
authorities? Birger Lund is one of them. Horrifically burnt in the
flames, he is unrecognisable even to himself, but like the phoenix
from the ashes, he arises from the dead with a new face and a new
identity. However he realises he cannot embrace his future without
confronting his past. So, briefly reunited with the girl he fell in
love with ten years before on the Hindenburg's last voyage, he
treks across post-war Germany in search of the truth about the
crash. His journey leads him to a remote island off the north coast
of Germany - to the home of the last pilot on the Hindenburg.
However, the islanders appear to have not accepted the end of the
war, and are determined to protect - with violence, if necessary -
any secrets the pilot may have... The author is himself the son of
one of the officers on the Hindenburg.
On the 2nd of August 1947 a young man gets off a train in a small
Swedish town. He has survived the Lodz ghetto, Auschwitz, and the
harrowing slave camps and transports during the final months of
Nazi Germany. Now he has to learn to live with his memories. In
this intelligent and deeply moving book, Goeran Rosenberg returns
to his own childhood in order to tell his father's story. It is
also the story of the chasm that soon opens between the world of
the child, suffused with the optimism, progress and collective
oblivion of post-war Sweden, and the world of the father, haunted
by the long shadows of the past.
Leadership and Change for the Health Professional will provide
health professionals with the latest thinking on leadership theory
and research. It highlights the issues that can block successful
healthcare leadership initiatives, and explores ways of
constructively engaging with the opportunities provided by change.
Each chapter draws out practical lessons for effective and
efficient leadership of care that is compassionate and safe.
Leaders and students at all levels will be able to use this book to
expand their leadership repertoire in a text that engages with many
themes, including: * The basics of leadership and the idea of
leadership as a "calling" * Motivating employees * Implicit
leadership theory * Developing trust * Building learning
organisations * Gender and equality * Planning and organising
change in healthcare * Leading change The links between the theory
and practice of healthcare leadership are skilfully explored with
examples of research implemented in practice, and the textbook
further equips your study with helpful summaries and suggestions
for further reading. This is essential reading for all healthcare
professionals in clinical practice as well as students studying or
engaged in research on health care management and leadership. With
a foreword by Thomas Garavan, Edinburgh Napier Business School, UK.
"Amongst the vast number of leadership texts published every year
this book stands out. It has been edited with considerable care by
two highly respected scholars in the field to make it accessible to
all those interested in, and practising, leadership, whether
healthcare professionals or students. It is well organised and
moves seamlessly to address many important questions about the
nature of leadership, including important questions of ethics,
gender, trust, motivation, innovation, teams, and distributed
leadership. The final section focuses on leading change in
healthcare, a critical element of leadership practice in today's
world. Too many leadership books ignore context. This book,
however, is firmly rooted in the healthcare context, and aspires to
help professionals in this sector to reflect deeply on the
complexities of leading through uncertain times. Whilst each
chapter stands alone, the book's merit is in offering multiple
perspectives. Curtis and Cullen have encouraged the book's
contributors to address the big debates and themes in healthcare
leadership today, whilst keeping in sharp focus the practice of
leadership." Sharon Turnbull, Visiting Professor, Lancaster
University Management School, UK "In Leadership and Change for the
Health Professional, Elizabeth Curtis and John Cullen have crafted
an exceptionally timely collection of practically-based research
insights. As global healthcare systems face disruptive and often
uncomfortable forces for change, this book tackles complex topics
that health leaders must understand. While oriented toward
generative practice and creative leadership skills, Curtis and
Cullen do not shy away from engaging with controversial aspects of
leadership development, such as bias, gendered practice, or even
clinical failure, making it a valuable resource for educators and
practitioners alike. Accessible and lively, Leadership and Change
for the Health Professional is a successful blend of current issues
with a visionary future." Kathy Lund Dean, Board of Trustees
Distinguished Professor of Leadership & Ethics, Gustavus
Adolphus College, USA "Curtis and Cullen bring together a
comprehensive overview of leadership, from its historical
development up to its role within the current healthcare context,
presented by a variety of scholars. The particular challenges and
demands faced by leaders and those who aspire to lead are discussed
within and it addresses the many facets of leadership approaches.
Anyone interested in the development of leadership and change will
find this particularly stimulating and a valuable text for academic
and students alike." Alison H James, School of Healthcare Sciences,
Cardiff University, UK "This book covers many aspects of
leadership, which are timely in nature and directly relevant to
health professionals. The contributors are highly respected and
offer different perspectives on this complex issue. We need to
encourage practitioners to see themselves as leaders - this
evidence-based text will serve to guide them in this quest.
De-emphasising the individual leadership qualities and including
those of teams makes this book stand out from others. The NHS
features prominently but despite this, readers from other countries
should be able to easily transfer the content to their own health
services. The useful websites at the end of each chapter provide
further direction for readers. This is a text that is written with
a very positive stance, even though the difficulties of being a
leader are not ignored. It ends with a discussion on the vision for
leadership - at individual, team and organisational levels. Lots to
read, absorb and you can do this a chapter at a time which is
great." Professor Bridie Kent, Head of School of Nursing and
Midwifery, Plymouth University, UK "This book addresses an
important topic, where there is huge scope to add value. This is
partly due to the scale of the NHS. The language makes the text
accessible to professionals as well as academics. It is also good
to see that the issue of learning organisations is addressed, as
well as impact of leadership on patients." Professor John G
Burgoyne, Lancaster University Management School, UK "Leadership
and Change for the Health Professional is a timely and
authoritative academic and professional exposition of the
challenges for clinicians and healthcare managers in carrying out
their management roles in our modern medical and healthcare
systems. Its focus on change is both apt and relevant in the
context of the dynamic development of our healthcare structures."
Niamh Brennan, Michael MacCormac Professor of Management,
University College Dublin
Managing Financial Resources addresses the complicated issues of
financial planning and control. These include performance measures
and cost analysis, methods of improving profitability and
techniques of financial monitoring and control. Real examples and
case studies are used throughout to illustrate points in a
practical context. All chapters have been updated and new material
has been added to extend the original text in areas such as public
sector management issues, audit commission, capital investment
decisions, stakeholder analysis for published reports and accounts,
performance measurement, outsourcing, new developments in the
public sector and transfer pricing. This book is based on the
Management Charter Initiative's Occupational Standards for
Management NVQs and SVQs at level 4. It is particularly suitable
for managers on the Diploma in Management or part 1 of the
Postgraduate Diploma, especially those accredited by the Chartered
Management Institute and Edexcel but this also a useful text for
practicing managers and those individuals studying for a MBA. Fully
revised and updated and includes new material on areas such as
public sector management issues, audit commission, shareholder
value analysis and intellectual property Focuses on finance for the
non-financial manager Follows the learning outcomes of the syllabus
for the Chartered Management Institute
The much-anticipated follow-up to the Radio 2 Book Club-favourite
The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman Twenty-two-year-old Tania has
moved to Montreal to study, fine-tune her French and fall in love.
Finding work as a waitress in an unpretentious down-town
restaurant, she meets Bilodo, a shy postman who spends his days
perfecting his calligraphy and writing haiku. The two hit it off.
But then one stormy day their lives take a dramatic turn, and as
their destinies become entwined Tania and Bilodo are led into a
world where nothing is as it seems. A charming standalone work that
reunites readers with the touching and much-loved characters first
found in The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman, The Postman's
Fiancee is an enchanting, poignant and bittersweet love story that
will move readers, young and old alike.
The Stations of the Cross etch a story of pain and humiliation in
the life of Jesus. There are parallels closer to home as well as
across our world, be it in Ukraine, Nicaragua, Iraq or Pakistan
that are ‘twinned’ with Gethsemane and Golgotha. This book
invites us on a journey as we discern and dialogue for new horizons
of gospel service as a church on a Synod path. Â We are part
of a body that is greater than our own individual bodies. We have
hearts and souls. Through Baptism, the Eucharist, the shared
commitment of our resources, the living out of radical forgiveness,
the inclusive service of compassion to all and the willingness to
make sacrifices with the lowest, the least and the lost will lead
us to be called the ‘body of Christ.’ This book invites you to
consider, if as a church, we are part of the un-noticed, the
un-recognised and the forgotten that makes us feel their pain and
humiliation. This book helps us to discover the paschal (‘pass
over’) significance of the cross as a response to the suffering
that sears many lives today. Here we can embody the words of Jesus:
‘This is my body given for you.’   Â
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proclamation, we can call ourselves the Church. This book sees
Jesus as the guardian of the wounded and the tortured. It invites
us, like Simon of Cyrene and Veronica to embrace and caress the
open wounds that scar innocent lives. The Stations of the Cross
lead us, like the Centurion who pierces the side of Christ, to
recognise divinity at the heart of humanity.
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Blitz - A Novel (Paperback)
David Trueba; Translated by John Cullen
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Writing, publishing, and marketing five politically engaged novels
that appeared between 1899 and 1908, Sutton E. Griggs (1872-1933)
was among the most prolific African American authors at the turn of
the twentieth century. In contrast to his Northern contemporaries
Paul Laurence Dunbar and Charles Chesnutt, Griggs, as W. E. B. Du
Bois remarked, "spoke primarily to the Negro race," using his own
Nashville-based publishing company to produce four of his novels.
Griggs pastored Baptist churches in three Southern states and
played a leading role in the influential but understudied National
Baptist Convention. Until recently, little was known about the
personal and professional life of this religious and community
leader. Thus, critics could only contextualize his literary texts
to a limited degree and were forced to speculate about how he
published them. This literary biography, the first written about
the author, draws extensively on primary sources and late
nineteenth- and early twentieth-century periodicals, local and
national, African American and white. A very different Sutton
Griggs emerges from these materials-a dynamic figure who devoted
himself to literature for a longer period and to a more profound
extent than has ever been previously imagined but also someone who
frequently found himself embroiled in controversy because of what
he said in his writings and the means he used to publish them. The
book challenges currently held notions about the audience for, and
the content, production, and dissemination of politically engaged
US black fiction, altering the perception of the African American
literature and print culture of the period.
" Black on Black provides the first comprehensive analysis of
the modern African American literary response to Africa, from
W.E.B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk to Alice Walker's The
Color Purple. Combining cutting-edge theory, extensive historical
and archival research, and close readings of individual texts,
Gruesser reveals the diversity of the African American response to
Countee Cullen's question, ""What is Africa to Me?"" John Gruesser
uses the concept of Ethiopianism--the biblically inspired belief
that black Americans would someday lead Africans and people of the
diaspora to a bright future--to provide a framework for his study.
Originating in the eighteenth century and inspiring religious and
political movements throughout the 1800s, Ethiopianism dominated
African American depictions of Africa in the first two decades of
the twentieth century, particularly in the writings of Du Bois,
Sutton Griggs, and Pauline Hopkins. Beginning with the Harlem
Renaissance and continuing through the Italian invasion and
occupation of Ethiopia, however, its influence on the portrayal of
the continent slowly diminished. Ethiopianism's decline can first
be seen in the work of writers closely associated with the New
Negro Movement, including Alain Locke and Langston Hughes, and
continued in the dramatic work of Shirley Graham, the novels of
George Schuyler, and the poetry and prose of Melvin Tolson. The
final rejection of Ethiopianism came after the dawning of the Cold
War and roughly coincided with the advent of postcolonial Africa in
works by authors such as Richard Wright, Lorraine Hansberry, and
Alice Walker.
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