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In some parts of South Africa, more than one in three people are
HIV positive. Love in the Time of AIDS explores transformations in
notions of gender and intimacy to try to understand the roots of
this virulent epidemic. By living in an informal settlement and
collecting love letters, cell phone text messages, oral histories,
and archival materials, Mark Hunter details the everyday social
inequalities that have resulted in untimely deaths. Hunter shows
how first apartheid and then chronic unemployment have become
entangled with ideas about femininity, masculinity, love, and sex
and have created an economy of exchange that perpetuates the
transmission of HIV/AIDS. This sobering ethnography challenges
conventional understandings of HIV/AIDS in South Africa.
This book teaches salespeople to rethink their approach to sales
goals--so they not only sell a greater quantity but sell with the
bottom line in mind. In the high-pressure quest to make a sale,
acquire a contract, and beat out other bidders, sales professionals
frequently resort to short-term strategies like cutting prices,
offering discounts, or making other concessions. By explaining how
short-term strategies are destructive to the long-term
sustainability of a business, High-Profit Selling helps salespeople
instead focus their energy on "profit sales" that successfully
execute product price increases while maintaining and strengthening
current customer relationships. In this invaluable resource, you'll
learn: how to avoid negotiating, actively listen to customers,
match the benefits of products or services with customers' needs
and pains, confidently communicate value, and ensure prospects are
serious and not shopping for price. Too many salespeople believe
that a sale at any price is better than no sale at all. High-Profit
Selling teaches them to do away with this logic and instead make
sales that satisfy and add value to both the client and company.
In our time of rampant inequality, imperial-capitalist plunder, violence and ecocide, when radical concepts from the past seem inadequate, how do researchers and students of ethnographic work decide what concepts to work with or renew?
Gillian Hart is a key thinker in radical political economy, geography, development studies, agrarian studies and Gramscian critique of postcolonial capitalism. In Ethnographies of Power each contributor engages her work and applies it to their own field of study.
A major contribution of this collection is the merging of theory with praxis, resulting in invaluable research tools for postgraduate students. These include applying 'gendered labour' practices among workers in South Africa, reading 'racial capitalism' through agrarian debates, using 'relational comparison' in an ethnography of schooling across Durban, reworking 'multiple socio-spatial trajectories' in Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve, critiquing the notion of South Africa's 'second economy', revisiting 'development' processes and 'Development' discourses in US military contracting, reconsidering Gramsci's 'conjunctures' geographically, finding divergent 'articulations' in Cape Town land occupations, and exploring 'nationalism' as central to revaluing recyclables at a Soweto landfill.
Together, the chapters show how important the ongoing reworking of radical concepts is to ethnographic critiques of power.
Ethnographies of Power offers an invaluable toolkit for activists and scholars engaged in sharpening their critical concepts for social and environmental change towards a collective future.
Search engines and social media have changed how prospecting
pipelines for salespeople are built today, but the vitality of the
pipeline itself has not. The key to success for every salesperson
is his pipeline of prospects. In High-Profit Prospecting, sales
expert Mark Hunter shatters costly prospecting myths and eliminates
confusion about what works today. Merging new strategies with
proven practices that unfortunately many have given up (much to
their demise), this must-have resource for salespeople in every
industry will help you: Find better leads and qualify them quickly
Trade cold calling for informed calling Tailor your timing and
message Leave a great voicemail and craft a compelling email Use
social media effectively Leverage referrals Get past gatekeepers
and open new doors Top producers are still prospecting. However,
buyers have evolved, therefore your prospecting needs to as well.
For the salesperson, prospecting is still king. Take back control
of your pipeline for success!
Following the end of apartheid in 1994, the ANC government placed
education at the centre of its plans to build a nonracial and more
equitable society. Yet, by the 2010s a wave of student protests
voiced demands for decolonised and affordable education. By
following families and schools in Durban for nearly a decade, Mark
Hunter sheds new light on South Africa's political transition and
the global phenomenon of education marketisation. He rejects simple
descriptions of the country's move from 'race to class apartheid'
and reveals how 'white' phenotypic traits like skin colour retain
value in the schooling system even as the multiracial middle class
embraces prestigious linguistic and embodied practices the book
calls 'white tone'. By illuminating the actions and choices of both
white and black parents, Hunter provides a unique view on race,
class and gender in a country emerging from a notorious system of
institutionalised racism.
Following the end of apartheid in 1994, the ANC government placed
education at the centre of its plans to build a nonracial and more
equitable society. Yet, by the 2010s a wave of student protests
voiced demands for decolonised and affordable education. By
following families and schools in Durban for nearly a decade, Mark
Hunter sheds new light on South Africa's political transition and
the global phenomenon of education marketisation. He rejects simple
descriptions of the country's move from 'race to class apartheid'
and reveals how 'white' phenotypic traits like skin colour retain
value in the schooling system even as the multiracial middle class
embraces prestigious linguistic and embodied practices the book
calls 'white tone'. By illuminating the actions and choices of both
white and black parents, Hunter provides a unique view on race,
class and gender in a country emerging from a notorious system of
institutionalised racism.
Under the moniker the Cobrasnake, the photographer Mark Hunter
captured the party scenes of Los Angeles and New York during the
hipster-glam heyday of the 2000s and in doing so defined the look
of a generation. Armed with just a Polaroid and a primitive
website, Cobrasnake captured pioneers of youth culture from Kanye
West and Steve Aoki to Jeremy Scott, Katy Perry, and Lindsay Lohan
icons of the indie pop world in the making. Intimately connected
with the people around him and keyed-in to the edgier fringes of
the fashion, music, and art worlds, Hunter photographed influencers
before they were influencers, in the wild and at play from the
streets of LA to NYC and beyond. Collected here for the first time
are more than three hundred of Cobrasnake s favourite images
alongside ephemera, from concert tickets and backstage passes to
outtakes and unseen photographs from his many adventures. These
photographs are records of the last generation of partiers to
predate the livestreaming of culture afforded by today s social
media capturing the energy and vibrancy of a time before Instagram.
For salespeople feeling stressed and disappointed that their
customers don't want to hear from them, this guide is the key to
developing the mindset and habits required to reach a new level of
sales success. The world of sales can be tough, so it's easy to get
discouraged when the rejections start piling up and your customers
stop answering the phone. This allows the wrong thought patterns to
start developing, soon you aren't making quotas and then you begin
looking at job listings waiting for your next downfall. Sales
expert Mark Hunter can relate as his start to sales was
discouraging. The lessons he's learned throughout his career are
revealed in A Mind for Sales. He discovered that sales can be
incredibly rewarding, such as customers calling you for advice,
thanking you for improving their business, and referring you to
colleagues. The difference is simply developing mindset and
momentum habits. In A Mind for Sales, you'll learn how to: Feel
energized by renewed purpose and success in your sales role by
following the success cycle approach. Receive practical strategies
on how to change your mindset and succeed in sales. Learn the daily
habits needed to maximize productivity and make hitting the ground
running strategy #1. Gain real-world insights from Hunter's vast
experience as a successful sales professional and sales coach. Let
this book inspire and prepare you to form the new habits you need
to succeed and to realize the incredible rewards that a successful
life in sales makes possible.
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Ways to Wander (Paperback)
Clare Qualmann, Claire Hind; Contributions by Tobias Grice, Phil Smith, Isabel Moseley, …
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R332
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'Ways to Wander' is your invitation to experiment with a whole
range of different ways to 'go for a walk'. Rather than picking up
a map and following a footpath, the book offers 54 intriguingly
different suggestions, tactics and recollections, all submitted by
artists (most of them involved with the Walking Artists Network).
There are plenty of ideas you can just go out and try, but others
are more performative or explore the psychological, cultural and
philosophical aspects of walking Pop the book in your back pocket,
leave it in your rucksack, share it with friends and take them on a
walk, use it in creative workshops, read it as if each instruction
were poetry, engage with each page as visual art or as a
performance activity, let it remind you of places you've been or
walks you'd like to do. When the moment takes you, be inspired by
the variety of inventive and reflective ideas mapped out here and
then simply... wander.
For salespeople feeling stressed and disappointed that their
customers don't want to hear from them, this guide is the key to
developing the mindset and habits required to reach a new level of
sales success. The world of sales can be tough, so it's easy to get
discouraged when the rejections start piling up and your customers
stop answering the phone. This allows the wrong thought patterns to
start developing, soon you aren't making quotas and then you begin
looking at job listings waiting for your next downfall. Sales
expert Mark Hunter can relate as his start to sales was
discouraging. The lessons he's learned throughout his career are
revealed in A Mind for Sales. He discovered that sales can be
incredibly rewarding, such as customers calling you for advice,
thanking you for improving their business, and referring you to
colleagues. The difference is simply developing mindset and
momentum habits. In A Mind for Sales, you'll learn how to: Feel
energized by renewed purpose and success in your sales role by
following the success cycle approach. Receive practical strategies
on how to change your mindset and succeed in sales. Learn the daily
habits needed to maximize productivity and make hitting the ground
running strategy #1. Gain real-world insights from Hunter's vast
experience as a successful sales professional and sales coach. Let
this book inspire and prepare you to form the new habits you need
to succeed and to realize the incredible rewards that a successful
life in sales makes possible.
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2020 Sampler (Paperback)
Luke & Wood; Contributions by Matthew Mark Hunter; CL Williams
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R174
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This book is full of inspiring poems and essays for those days you
need a pick me up or a reality check. They come from my own
personal experiences.
A Society of Gentlemen is a social history of US naval officer
education at Annapolis, Maryland from 1845 to 1861. By combing
statistical and scholarly analysis based on original research, it
reveals that through the Naval Academy, the US Navy exhibited signs
of a professional organization during the antebellum era. The Naval
Academy, founded in 1845, indoctrinated potential officers into the
navy through a more structured form of education than used
previously as the navy assessed students on academic and practical
seamanship skills, their conformity to naval law and discipline. By
1850, the Academy also showed great concern for officer recruits
taken directly from civilian life, who needed a longer period of
nurturing before going to sea, and established summer cruises and
school ships to introduce them to naval life. Henceforth, Annapolis
midshipmen went to sea under the supervision of Academy officials
who taught them practical seamanship, navigation, and the command
skills required of professional naval officers, to complement their
shore-based training. The Civil War interrupted this process of
educating officers, a large number of students failed to graduate,
and a significant number of graduates actually spent little time in
the navy. But those who remained were the professional officers who
contributed to the navy's exploits after the Civil War: men like
Stephen Luce, George Dewey and Alfred Thayer Mahan. It is no
surprise that such men later established more fully the dynamics of
a naval officer profession later in the century. This history is
based on letters to Academy officials from students and the
autobiographies of famous naval officers, to expand upon
statistical data dealing with wider student backgrounds.
Three women a day were killed by their intimate partners in the
U.S. in 2007. So many times, people turn to their church for advice
regarding an abusing spouse. Oftentimes, church members and many
church leaders do not know how to address the issue and lack the
ability to intervene. Till Death Do Us Part explains the dynamics
of abuse, the effects of abuse, and gives practical, Biblical
advice on how to make a difference and hold the abuser accountable.
Church leaders are, according to the Bible, shepherds and the
congregation the flock. Shepherds go to great lengths to protect
their sheep. Through understanding of domestic violence, and having
an awareness of the dangers that victims face, this book strives to
help the church make meaningful interventions in domestic violence
cases.
In some parts of South Africa, more than one in three people are
HIV positive. Love in the Time of AIDS explores transformations in
notions of gender and intimacy to try to understand the roots of
this virulent epidemic. By living in an informal settlement and
collecting love letters, cell phone text messages, oral histories,
and archival materials, Mark Hunter details the everyday social
inequalities that have resulted in untimely deaths. Hunter shows
how first apartheid and then chronic unemployment have become
entangled with ideas about femininity, masculinity, love, and sex
and have created an economy of exchange that perpetuates the
transmission of HIV/AIDS. This sobering ethnography challenges
conventional understandings of HIV/AIDS in South Africa.
Now in its third edition, In the News is the standard Canadian
textbook on media relations, used across the country. The authors
provide an introduction to media relations, grounded in both
communications theory and hands-on, day-to-day experience. Whether
you need to promote your issues to the nation or reach small,
targeted groups, this book is your step-by-step guide. In the News
is perfect for communications students; media relations
practitioners in the private, public and voluntary sectors; and
anyone who wants to break a story.
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