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All eight episodes from the sixth series of the ITV comedy drama.
Taking place 13 years on from the end of the last series, Adam (James
Nesbitt) returns to Manchester having travelled the world and settled
in Singapore after his wife's death. He returns with his young
girlfriend to fix his relationship with his rebellious, teenage son
Matt (Ceallach Spellman), much to the delight of his best friend Pete
(John Thomson) who is struggling with depression and financial troubles
with his wife Jenny (Fay Ripley) and their two children.
Elsewhere, Karen and David (Hermione Norris and Robert Bathurst) are
building new lives following their divorce whilst trying to raise their
teenage twins.
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Peoples and Places (Hardcover)
Matthew Hirt; Foreword by Daniel L Akin
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In the past decade, the emerging narratives about philanthropy in
Africa are the capacities to give not only to help, but also to
address the root causes of injustice, want, ignorance, and disease.
The narratives are also about the questioning of the role and place
of Africans in the world's philanthropic traditions, and what
constitutes African specificities, as well as African differences
and varieties. Giving to Help, Helping to Give deftly explores
African philanthropic experiences - the varieties, the challenges,
and the opportunities - while also documenting, investigating,
analyzing, and reflecting on philanthropy in multifaceted Africa.
This ground-breaking book rightly tackles the varied modes, forms,
vehicles, and means in which philanthropy is expressed. It is a
pioneering and ambitious effort in a field and community of
practice that is new, both in terms of scholarship and in
professional practice. Many of the chapters boldly engage the
burden of reflections, questions, ambivalences, and ambiguities
that one often finds in an emerging field, innovatively positing
the outlines, concepts, frameworks, and theories of scholarship and
practice for a field critical to development on the continent. ***
"Overall this volume effectively represents the vibrancy and
diversity of emerging institutions of philanthropy on the African
continent. The contributions are clearly located in an emerging
community of practice and scholarship and provide a wealth of new
data on a rapidly changing philanthropic landscape." -- Nonprofit
and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, August 2016 [Subject: African
Studies, Development Studies, Sociology]A?A?
An in-depth archaeological report featuring graffiti found during a
recent excavation at the Ancient Greek city of Smyrna. The graffiti
published in this richly-illustrated volume were discovered during
an excavation of the Roman basilica in the Ancient Greek city of
Smyrna, known today as Izmir, which is situated on the Aegean coast
of modern Turkey. The project, which began in 2003, has unearthed a
multitude of graffiti and drawings encompassing a wide range of
subjects and interests, including local politics, nautical vessels,
sex, and wordplay. Each graffito artifact holds the potential for
vast historical and cultural data, rescued in this volume from the
passage of time and razing ambitions of urban development. Given
the city's history, the potential wealth of knowledge to be gleamed
from these discoveries is substantial: Smyrna has an uninterrupted
history of settlement since the Neolithic-Copper ages, and remains
today a major city and Mediterranean seaport at the crossroads of
key trade routes. The present volume provides comprehensive
editions of the texts, descriptions of the drawings, and an
extensive introduction to the subjects of the graffiti, how they
were produced, and who was responsible for them. A complete set of
color photographs is included.
In his highly anticipated English translation of the ancient Irish
text known as the Lebor Feasa Rnda (Book of Secret Knowledge),
Celtic scholar and historian, Steven L. Akins, has at last made
available to readers the wealth of pre-Christian teachings espoused
by the Druids in this seminal work of pagan religious literature.
Basing his translation on the only extant transcription of the now
lost Black Book of Loughcrew, the actual doctrines of the Celtic
priesthood are finally brought to light in this timeless rendering
of these sacred scriptures. Of the 180 Druidic texts mentioned in
the historic Yellow Book of Lecan as being destroyed by St. Patrick
in his attempt to convert the pagan inhabitants of Ireland to
Christianity, the Lebor Feasa Rnda alone survived as testimony to
the spiritual beliefs and practices of the Celts in their original,
uncompromised form. First transcribed by the Druid Mogh Ruith from
a series of ogham staves long ago discovered in the tomb of Ollamh
Fodhla, one of Ireland's greatest early kings, the Lebor Feasa
Runda records the dispensation of a vast store of esoteric
knowledge received by Ollamh Fodhla from a messenger of the Celtic
gods known as the Tuatha D Danann. Perhaps the most remarkable of
all ancient Celtic texts, the Lebor Feasa Rnda contains not only an
account of the earliest history of Ireland and the relationship of
its inhabitants to the Celtic gods, but it also comprises a full
discourse on the Druidic religion, providing a complete account of
the sacred rites and ceremonies at the heart of this mysterious
faith. Since it was first recorded in the Black Book of Loughcrew,
the Lebor Feasa Rnda miraculously survived for centuries,
travelingacross Europe and passing through the hands of numerous
individuals until it was ultimately acquired by the Ahnenerbe
Forschungs-und Lehrgemeinschaf, who commissioned its translation
into German in the days leading up to the Second World War. The
original volume was found missing on May 10, 1941, the date Rudolf
Hess, made his ill-fated flight to Great Britain, lending support
to allegations that Hitler's deputy Fhrer had taken the ancient
manuscript with the intention of presenting it as a gift to the
Duke of Hamilton and Brandon, who Hess planned to meet for the
purpose of secretly discussing peace negotiations between Germany
and Britain. In the years since its disappearance, the only known
transcription of the Lebor Feasa Rnda, the German translation
prepared by Henry Thorenson for the Ahnenerbe, fell into obscurity
until 2001 when it was discovered by Akins, who was granted access
to Thorenson's private records, enabling him to complete and
publish the first English edition of this remarkable and historic
work.
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