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On June 16, 1976, Hector Pieterson, an ordinary boy, lost his life after getting caught up in what was supposed to be a peaceful protest. Black South African students were marching against a new law requiring that they be taught half of their subjects in Afrikaans, the language of the white government. The story’s events unfold from the perspectives of Hector, his sister, and the photographer who captured their photo in the chaos.
This book can serve as a pertinent tool for adults discussing global history and race relations with children. Its graphic novel style and mixed media art portray the vibrancy and grit of Hector’s daily life and untimely death.
With powerful sequential art, debut author-illustrator Adrienne Wright tells Hector Pieterson’s story and recounts the heartbreaking events that woke up the world and helped lead to the end of South Africa’s apartheid.
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One Piece: Shokugeki no Sanji
Eiichiro Oda; Yuto Tsukuda; Illustrated by Shun Saeki; Contributions by Yuki Morisaki; Translated by Adrienne Beck
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The Food Wars! creative team cooks up a special One Piece one-shot!
See what Straw Hat chef Sanji dishes up in his battle to win over
the bellies and hearts of all he feeds, man or woman, friend
or foe. This one-shot spinoff rolls all six original story chapters
into one collection, concocted and served up to you by the creators
of Food Wars!
Bryan Bertino co-writes and directs this found footage thriller
starring Todd Stashwick, Alexandra Lydon and Barak Hardley. The
film follows three separate people who receive a video camera on
their doorstep with instructions to begin filming and be entered
into a mysterious competition. However, as the reality of their
situation slowly becomes apparent, they find there is something
much more sinister going on behind the scenes.
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Eruption (Paperback)
Adrienne Quintana
bundle available
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R497
R424
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This Handbook is a critical resource for carefully considering the
possibilities and challenges of strategically integrating
participatory action research (PAR) and community development (CD).
Utilizing practical examples from diverse contexts across five
continents, it looks at how communities are empowering themselves
and bringing about systemic change. Chapters provide models for
sustainably integrating the two practices and explore the
transformative potential of decolonizing innovations and
incorporating community organizing. With contributions by leading
scholars and practitioners from the global south and north, the
Handbook explores ways to build infrastructure to bring PAR and CD
together, how to use PAR and CD to build people's power and
capacity, and how to integrate PAR and CD in relation to community
and organizational capacity building. It further gives practical
advice and academic analysis on youth PAR, how to use PAR and CD in
crisis situations such as earthquakes and pandemics, and envisions
radically alternative PAR and CD approaches. This is a timely
resource for social science scholars looking to better understand
PAR as an important research method. It rethinks the theories
underpinning both PAR and CD, offering important lessons for
community development practitioners and non-profit professionals,
as well as higher education professors interested in community
engagement.
With The Unmaking of June Farrow, Adrienne Young delivers a
brilliant story with romance, mystery, and a touch of the
impossible: a story you will never forget. In the small mountain
town of Jasper, North Carolina, June Farrow is waiting for fate to
find her. The Farrow women are known for their thriving flower farm
- and the mysterious curse that has haunted them for generations.
The madness that led to Susanna Farrow's disappearance left her
daughter, June, to be raised by her grandmother. Everyone in Jasper
is certain it's only a matter of time before she finds the same
end, but June has kept secret that her unravelling has already
begun. After her grandmother's death, June follows a series of
clues that link her mother's disappearance to the town's dark
history, leading finally to a mysterious door. Behind it may lay
the answer to the mysteries that have always lingered like a dark
shadow. Upon crossing the threshold, June embarks on a journey that
will not only change both the past and the future, but entangle her
fate and her heart in a star-crossed love. HEAR WHAT EVERYONE'S
SAYING ABOUT ADRIENNE YOUNG 'Spellbinding' JODI PICOULT
'Delightful' 5* READER REVIEW 'Bewitching' REBECCA ROSS 'Addictive'
5* READER REVIEW 'Thrilling' STEPHANIE GARBER 'Captivating' 5*
READER REVIEW 'Immersive' SUE LYNN TAN
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
This timely book presents an in-depth investigation of who benefits
from European financial market regulatory measures and how
decision-makers and stakeholders are held politically and
administratively accountable. The extensive study illustrates the
full range of the actors involved in key regulatory processes such
as the regulation of high-frequency trading and the activities of
central-clearing counterparties. Chapters outline how politicians,
regulators and market players are linked in various political and
administrative accountability mechanisms. Providing analysis of how
the accountability channels are linked to policy content,
contributors ask whether specific regulatory objectives and results
give rise to the mobilising of accountability mechanisms.
Regulating Finance in Europe critically examines the implementation
of major EU legislative packages in financial regulation (MiFID II
and CMU), offering a unique empirical insight into how different
modes of accountability in financial market regulation are linked
with different policy effects. This comprehensive yet accessible
book will be an invaluable read for politicians and practitioners
working in finance as well as academics in EU politics and
policies. It will also provide a useful resource for undergraduate
and postgraduate students of political science, law and economics.
It’s a noisy world out there. Almost eight billion people are
saying hello, asking for directions, buying food, singing
lullabies, paying compliments, and all in their own languages –
of which there are six or seven thousand! And that’s just
humans… animals have millions of languages! Insects, birds,
reptiles, mammals and amphibians are all talking to each other too,
with grunts, squeaks and tweets, as part of the natural orchestra
that is Life on Earth. Some of those noises can sound scary, others
sweet… wouldn’t it be nice to be able to understand what they
were all trying to say? Author Dr Nick Crumpton acts as our
translator and guide through the animal kingdom in this fun, and
funny, book. He teaches us what our pet dog’s bark means and how
an orangutan says ‘Hello!’ (Whuuu-whuuu-whuuu just in case you
ever need it!). Each sound has been researched using recordings and
information from scientists in the field. This book will teach you
not just how to chat chicken but also gossip with gorillas, mumble
with meerkats and warble with whales. You’ll be ready for any
adventure into the animal kingdom.
'Gorgeous, gripping, I couldn't put it down' RUTH OZEKI 'Beautiful,
lyrical and unvarnished, Adrienne Brodeur's Little Monsters
delivers its powerful emotional punches so subtly that they sneak
up on you and leave you floored' MIRANDA COWLEY HELLER, author of
THE PAPER PALACE A riveting novel about Cape Cod, complicated
families and long-buried secrets Ken and Abby Gardner were raised
in a remote home on Cape Cod. As adults, their relationship is
strained, but their lives are still deeply intertwined. Ken is a
successful businessman with political ambitions and a
picture-perfect family, but when his wife walks in on him in an
internet chatroom, she demands they go to therapy. Abby is a
talented artist who depends on her brother's goodwill, in part
because he owns the studio where she lives and works. Their father,
Adam, a brilliant oceanographer, raised them as a single parent. As
his seventieth birthday approaches and he begins to stare down his
mortality, he comes off his bipolar disorder medication in order to
make one last scienti?c breakthrough; he has secretly stopped
taking his pills, which he knows will infuriate his children.
Meanwhile, Abby and Ken are both harbouring secrets of their own,
and there is a new person on the periphery of the family - Steph,
who doesn't make her connection known. Set over one fraught summer,
Little Monsters is an absorbing, sharply observed family story by a
writer who knows Cape Cod inside and out - its Edenic lushness and
its snakes.
This edited collection explores the malleability and influence of
body image, focusing particularly on how media representation and
popular culture's focus on the body exacerbates the crucial social
influence these representations can have on audiences' perceptions
of themselves and others. Contributors investigate the cultural
context and lived experiences of individuals' relationships with
their bodies, going beyond examination of the thin, ideal body type
to explore the emerging representations and portrayals of a diverse
set of body types across the media spectrum, paving the way for
future research on this topic. Scholars of media studies, popular
culture, and health communication will find this book particularly
useful.
How do regulatory structures evolve in EU financial governance?
Incorporating insights from a variety of disciplines, Governing
Finance in Europe provides a comprehensive framework to investigate
the dynamics leading to centralisation, decentralisation and
fragmentation in EU financial regulation. Offering a comprehensive
and generalizable theoretical account of regulatory centralisation,
this book combines theoretical approaches from political science,
law, sociology and economics to trace centralisation in EU
financial governance. Contributors build on a rich political
science and legal literature and offer empirical analyses of major
EU legislative packages in financial regulation, including the
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) and
Capital Markets Union (CMU). This book systematically identifies
and examines the forces and counter-forces on regulatory
centralisation. It also offers conjectures as to who benefits from
the regulation and how decision-makers are held politically and
legally accountable. Featuring contributions from internationally
renowned scholars, this book is key reading for academics working
in finance and financial policies, particularly those investigating
European politics, regulation and regional integration. It will
also be of interest to practitioners and policymakers, as chapters
provide unique insights into the real-world implications of
financial regulation. Contributors include: F. Bulfone, J.
Ganderson, A. Heritier, J. Karremans, H. Marjosola, M.G. Schoeller,
A. Smolenska, M. Strand
Public understanding of, and outcry over, the dire state of the
climate and environment is greater than ever before. Parties across
the political spectrum claim to be climate leaders, and overt
denial is on the way out. Yet when it comes to slowing the course
of the climate and nature crises, despite a growing number of
pledges, policies and summits, little ever seems to change. Nature
is being destroyed at an unprecedented rate. We remain on course
for a catastrophic 3 DegreesC of warming. What's holding us back?
In this searing and insightful critique, Adrienne Buller examines
the fatal biases that have shaped the response of our governing
institutions to climate and environmental breakdown, and asks: are
the 'solutions' being proposed really solutions? Tracing the
intricate connections between financial power, economic injustice
and ecological crisis, she exposes the myopic economism and
market-centric thinking presently undermining a future where all
life can flourish. The book examines what is wrong with mainstream
climate and environmental governance, from carbon pricing and
offset markets to 'green growth', the commodification of nature and
the growing influence of the finance industry on environmental
policy. In doing so, it exposes the self-defeating logic of a
response to these challenges based on creating new opportunities
for profit, and a refusal to grapple with the inequalities and
injustices that have created them. Both honest and optimistic, The
Value of a Whale asks us - in the face of crisis - what we really
value. This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable
Development Goal 11, Sustainable cities and communities -- .
The co-author of The Celestine Prophecy Experiential Guide helps readers uncover the unsuspected, untapped power of synchronicity and intuition that will bring success, satisfaction, and serenity. Everyone really has a purpose in life, says Carol Adrienne in her new guide to harnessing the power inside yourself. The question is: How do you learn to go with the flow and let your true nature guide you? Chapter by chapter, The Purpose of Your Life explains how to locate the source of your innate energy and focus it, how to align yourself with the natural forces that swirl around us always, and how to develop the intuition that fosters synchronicity. The book is packed with illuminating anecdotes and profiles of fascinating people -- from artists to urban planners to Zen masters -- who describe how they found their own purposes. There are practical exercises throughout, along with charts, self-questionnaires, and other tools that help you understand yourself and your deepest aspirations. As you learn to recognize and trust the voice of intuition, you'll find new doors opening and new possibilities everywhere. You'll feel invigorated by the potential you've unleashed, a power that will only grow with each new accomplishment. And you'll discover the serenity and satisfaction that come only to those who are living life to the fullest. The Force is with you -- all you have to do is reach out and start to use it.
Groundhog Day meets Ling Ma's Severance in this "brilliant"
(PopSugar) and "exhilarating" (The Millions) comedic novel about
two young women trying to save their friendship as the world
collapses around them. Bertie and Kate have been best friends since
high school. Bertie is a semi-failed cartoonist, working for a
prominent Silicon Valley tech firm. Her job depresses her, but not
as much as the fact that Kate has recently decided to move from San
Francisco to Los Angeles. When Bertie's attempts to make Kate stay
fail, she suggests the next best thing: a trip to Paris that will
hopefully distract the duo from their upcoming separation. The
vacation is also a sort of last hurrah, coming during the ceasefire
in a series of escalating world conflicts. One night in Paris, they
meet a strange man in a bar who offers them a private tour of the
Louvre. The women find themselves alone in the museum, where
nothing is quite as it seems. Caught up in a day that keeps
repeating itself, Bertie and Kate are eventually separated, and
Bertie is faced with a mystery that threatens to derail everything.
In order to make her way back to Kate, Bertie has to figure out how
much control she has over her future--and her past--and how to
survive in an apocalypse when the world keeps refusing to end.
Regulation is on the rise across the world as the state steps back
from public ownership. However, as the authors highlight, the style
of political delegation to regulatory authorities has not followed
a uniform trajectory but rather institutional endowments,
administrative traditions, market structure and business culture
have all influenced the creation of regulatory authorities and
implementation styles. Noting these variances, the focus of this
book is to consider the impact of liberalisation and the
introduction of new regulatory structures on three utility sectors
- telecommunications, energy and the railways - using Germany and
the UK as case studies. With regulation seeking to foster
competition at the same time as also having to protect essential
services, the authors investigate regulatory styles, costs of new
regulatory functions and how firms in the new regulatory landscape
access and influence regulatory authorities. The authors consider
how EU pressures may hinder or help the functioning of new
regulatory markets and the establishment of business-regulator
relationships, as well as the broader policy implications for these
new regulatory environments. The book also determines how
regulatory authorities emerge and evolve under different state
traditions and assesses, over time, the degree to which there is
potential for convergence, divergence and continued differences as
regulatory functions mature. This book will be warmly welcomed by
researchers and academics of comparative public policy, politics
and regulation. It will also appeal to policy makers and the
business community in Europe.
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