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In 1957 emigreer die negejarige Henk van Woerden vanaf Nederland met sy gesin na Kaapstad – leertas in die hand, mussie oor die ore, serp om die nek, glasoog in die oogkas. Eers veertig jaar later ontdek hy wat die rede was vir hierdie vertrek na Suid-Afrika: Sy pa was ’n kollaborateur in die Tweede Wêreldoorlog. Die emigrasie is die begin van ’n lewe as buitestaander en vorm later die goue draad in sy skilderye en literêre werk.
Koning Eenoog is ’n boeiende biografie van die ewig soekende emigrant Henk van Woerden (1947–2005), ’n skrywer wat nie net ’n bekroonde oeuvre agtergelaat het nie (Een mond vol glas – Alan Paton Award en die Frans Kellendonk-prys, Ultramarijn – Gouden Uil en Inktaap) maar ook die Nederlandse literatuur oor Suid-Afrika verander het.
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images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
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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.
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.
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.
In response to systemic racism and institutions’ implications in
histories of colonialism, nationalism, and exclusion, museum
curators have embraced new ways of storytelling to face entangled
memories and histories. Critical museum practices have consciously
sought to unsettle established forms of representation, break with
linear narratives of progress, and experiment with new modes of
multivocal, multimedia, and subjective storytelling. The volume
features analyses of narratives and narration in museums and
heritage institutions today, as well as visions for future museum
practices on a local, regional, national, transnational, and global
scale. It is divided into three sections: Narrative Theory and
Temporality, Ruptures and Repair, and Difficult Memories and
Histories. Essays from a variety of disciplines in the humanities
and social sciences examine museum practices in history, memorial,
anthropological, and art museums across six continents. They
develop narratological categories, reflect on immersive and virtual
narratives, challenge colonial violence and hegemonic forms of
representation, query the performance of heritage, parse exhibition
design, and unearth techniques to express narratives of social
justice.
Experts from around the world present changes in the global
marketplace and developments in research methodologies underpinning
new product development (NPD) in this essential collection. The
business and marketing aspects of NPD, sometimes neglected in books
of this type, are addressed alongside methods for product testing.
Trends, processes and perspectives in consumer-driven NPD in the
food and personal care product industries are addressed in the
opening chapters of the book. Specific topics include evolution in
food retailing and advances in concept research. Hedonic testing is
the focus of the next section. Different viewpoints on consumer
research methods and statistics for NPD are reviewed in later
chapters. The final part of the book looks towards the future of
innovation, covering the implications for NPD of topics such as
human genetic variation in taste perception and neuroimaging.
Several chapters are not standard scientific articles. Rather they
are written records of conversations between two people on a
particular topic related to consumer-driven innovation in foods and
personal care products. In them the interviewees speak freely about
their views and experiences in NPD, providing unique insights.
Consumer-driven innovation in food and personal care products will
broaden readers' understanding of the many approaches available to
NPD personnel and ways in which they can be used to support
innovation activities.
This latest volume of the Advances in Librarianship series presents
original research exploring the modern state of democracies and
social institutions, the contributions of libraries to the health
and progress of democracies, and the political problems currently
facing libraries as institutions. It details the best practices of
library programs that provide political literacy education and
promote civic engagement within communities. These practices
include ways in which libraries can help diffuse political
polarization, address significant policy issues of our day, promote
political information literacy, support civic engagement, and
facilitate participation in democratic processes. Libraries and the
Global Retreat of Democracy: Confronting Polarization,
Misinformation, and Suppression is structured in three sections -
questions of personal and state democracy, investigations of how
the information infrastructure shapes these democracies, and
explorations of the ways that libraries can and do contribute to
democracy. Situating libraries within political conversations,
highlighting their centrality to these discussions, Libraries and
the Global Retreat of Democracy focuses on how libraries coordinate
their work in political and information literacy and how these
efforts can be improved, he recommendations and examples within
which will serve as inspiration and motivation to its readers.
John Cage was among the first wave of post-war American artists and
intellectuals to be influenced by Zen Buddhism and it was an
influence that led him to become profoundly engaged with our
current ecological crisis. In John Cage and Buddhist Ecopoetics,
Peter Jaeger asks: what did Buddhism mean to Cage? And how did his
understanding of Buddhist philosophy impact on his representation
of nature? Following Cage's own creative innovations in the
poem-essay form and his use of the ancient Chinese text, the I
Ching to shape his music and writing, this book outlines a new
critical language that reconfigures writing and silence.
Interrogating Cage's 'green-Zen' in the light of contemporary
psychoanalysis and cultural critique as well as his own later turn
towards anarchist politics, John Cage and Buddhist Ecopoetics
provides readers with a critically performative site for the
Zen-inspired "nothing" which resides at the heart of Cage's
poetics, and which so clearly intersects with his ecological
writing.
At the heart of any discussion about the future of libraries is the
future of librarians-and how well our instructional programs,
especially the Master of Library Science (MLS) degree, prepare them
for their careers. Building on the Re-envisioning the MLS
initiative from the University of Maryland's iSchool and the
Information Policy & Access Center (iPAC), this book continues
the critical conversations around preparing future librarians.
Library and information science (LIS) programs are the foundation
of librarianship, and their design requires input from everyone in
the field-from academics designing programs and courses, to
practitioners reflecting on how prepared (or unprepared) they are
to serve their communities, to hiring authorities considering
qualifications of candidates. The second installment of this
two-part volume explores many of the challenges and opportunities
inherent in the future of the MLS degree, including the changing
nature of the communities that libraries serve and how LIS
education should address these changes, how archival training must
accommodate big data, the specialized skill sets librarians need on
the job, and how best to prepare librarians for their role as
educators. These conversations will never be fully resolved, as LIS
education must continue to evolve to ensure the efficacy of
libraries and the librarians at the heart of the work.
The rampant health injustices that occur daily throughout the world
are exacerbated by health information injustice - something which
libraries and librarians play an instrumental role in addressing.
This volume brings together librarians, LIS students, educators,
and researchers, to discuss the many ways that information
professionals and libraries serve as agents of securing health
information justice. Kicking off with an introductory chapter which
covers the central concepts of health information injustice, the
following chapters focus on the roles of libraries and librarians
in improving consumer health literacy and reducing health
disparities in their communities. In the final chapter, the editors
draw on the authors' work to highlight the ways in which libraries
and librarians are moving us closer to health justice, and they
also discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic is both illuminating and
intensifying health disparities, reinforcing the need for libraries
and librarians to continue their important roles as agents of
health information justice to ensure the physical and intellectual
accessibility of information for all.
Lively and deeply productive discussions have focused on the
topics of "magnificence" and "the sublime" in the art and
literature of antiquity, the Renaissance, and the ages following.
They have engaged major figures from Ernst Gombrich to Theodore
Adorno to Jean-Francois Lyotard. Yet, these discussions have
virtually bypassed the Middle Ages. The essays in "Magnificence and
the Sublime in Medieval Aesthetics" reclaim a position for the
medieval period in the theoretical discussion of art, architecture,
music, and literature. These analyses of an aesthetic of grandeur
show an artistic practice in the Middle Ages that strove for and
celebrated grand effects.
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