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Anna de Jager het in KwaZulu Natal grootgeword. Dit was nog altyd vir haar ʼn passie en selfopgelegde uitdaging om oomblikke vas te vang deur te skryf en te skets. Sy is in 1990 met Gert de Jager getroud en woon in Centurion. Hulle het twee dogters, Anita en Gerda en ‘n skoonseun, Marco. Daar het al verskeie vakpublikasies uit haar pen verskyn, maar hierdie is haar eerste memoires.
Kort nadat sy haar PhD voltooi het, is sy met borskanker gediagnoseer.
Chemo, koekies en tee is ’n openhartige deel van ʼn eiesoortige perspektief, baie genade en dankbaarheid.
The impact of mobility and superdiversity in recent sociolinguistic
research is well-established, yet very few studies deal with issues
related to immobility. The chapters in this book focus on the
sociolinguistic investigation of the dynamics between mobility and
immobility as experienced by migrants, asylum seekers and members
of minority or exploited groups. Central to the book is an
exploration of how mobilities are affected by and in turn affect
power relations and of the kinds of resources used by people to
deal with (im)mobility processes. The book brings to light a new
critical sociolinguistic imagination that is responsive to 21st
century processes of (im)mobilities as socially, discursively and
emotionally constructed and negotiated.
The impact of mobility and superdiversity in recent sociolinguistic
research is well-established, yet very few studies deal with issues
related to immobility. The chapters in this book focus on the
sociolinguistic investigation of the dynamics between mobility and
immobility as experienced by migrants, asylum seekers and members
of minority or exploited groups. Central to the book is an
exploration of how mobilities are affected by and in turn affect
power relations and of the kinds of resources used by people to
deal with (im)mobility processes. The book brings to light a new
critical sociolinguistic imagination that is responsive to 21st
century processes of (im)mobilities as socially, discursively and
emotionally constructed and negotiated.
Narratives are fundamental to our lives: we dream, plan,
complain, endorse, entertain, teach, learn, and reminisce through
telling stories. They provide hopes, enhance or mitigate
disappointments, challenge or support moral order and test out
theories of the world at both personal and communal levels. It is
because of this deep embedding of narrative in everyday life that
its study has become a wide research field including disciplines as
diverse as linguistics, literary theory, folklore, clinical
psychology, cognitive and developmental psychology, anthropology,
sociology, and history.
In "Telling Stories" leading scholars illustrate how narratives
build bridges among language, identity, interaction, society, and
culture; and they investigate various settings such as therapeutic
and medical encounters, educational environments, politics, media,
marketing, and public relations. They analyze a variety of topics
from the narrative construction of self and identity to the telling
of stories in different media and the roles that small and big life
stories play in everyday social interactions and institutions.
These new reflections on the theory and analysis of narrative offer
the latest tools to researchers in the fields of discourse analysis
and sociolinguistics.
The centrality of narrative analysis in the investigation of social
processes and practices has become an established fact in the human
sciences. The focus on narrative and displacement in this volume
provides a starting point for a reflection on current issues in
narrative theory as well as a timely interrogation of the role of
narrative in illuminating social phenomena that are central to
modernity such as migration and displacement. At the centre of the
analyses presented in the book are stories that are ignored,
silenced and othered by contemporary public discourses on
displacement, migration and settlement. Drawing on insights from
narrative theory, linguistic ethnography, sociolinguistics and
cultural studies, contributors to the volume examine both how
migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and marginalized minorities
position themselves through narrative practices and how they are
positioned in institutional and official narratives.
The centrality of narrative analysis in the investigation of social
processes and practices has become an established fact in the human
sciences. The focus on narrative and displacement in this volume
provides a starting point for a reflection on current issues in
narrative theory as well as a timely interrogation of the role of
narrative in illuminating social phenomena that are central to
modernity such as migration and displacement. At the centre of the
analyses presented in the book are stories that are ignored,
silenced and othered by contemporary public discourses on
displacement, migration and settlement. Drawing on insights from
narrative theory, linguistic ethnography, sociolinguistics and
cultural studies, contributors to the volume examine both how
migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and marginalized minorities
position themselves through narrative practices and how they are
positioned in institutional and official narratives.
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In this volume a theory for models of transport in the presence of
a free boundary is developed.Macroscopic laws of transport are
described by PDE's. When the system is open, there are several
mechanisms to couple the system with the external forces. Here a
class of systems where the interaction with the exterior takes
place in correspondence of a free boundary is considered. Both
continuous and discrete models sharing the same structure are
analysed. In Part I a free boundary problem related to the Stefan
Problem is worked out in all details. For this model a new notion
of relaxed solution is proposed for which global existence and
uniqueness is proven. It is also shown that this is the
hydrodynamic limit of the empirical mass density of the associated
particle system. In Part II several other models are discussed. The
expectation is that the results proved for the basic model extend
to these other cases.All the models discussed in this volume have
an interest in problems arising in several research fields such as
heat conduction, queuing theory, propagation of fire, interface
dynamics, population dynamics, evolution of biological systems with
selection mechanisms.In general researchers interested in the
relations between PDE's and stochastic processes can find in this
volume an extension of this correspondence to modern mathematical
physics.
The two parts of this volume feature seventeen and six extended
conference abstracts corresponding to selected talks given by
participants at "Joint CRM-Imperial College Workshop in Complex
Systems" and "Emergence, Spread and Control of Infectious Diseases"
respectively, both held at the Centre de Recerca Matematica in
Barcelona in spring 2013. Most of them are short articles giving
preliminary presentations of new results not yet published in
regular research journals. The articles are the result from a
direct collaboration among active researchers in the area after
working in a dynamic and productive atmosphere.Almost everything
that is interesting and important for society is complex; here,
examples scattered across science are presented in order to
illustrate the cross-disciplinary richness of state-of-the-art
complex systems research: fracture avalanches and rain showers that
mimic earthquakes; highly organized graphs that account for
processes in neural networks, metabolic networks, food webs, or
language; models for DNA dynamics; or statistical methods to test
complexity in the form of structure along many different scales.
The mathematics is put to work for the modeling of the real system,
and the models are kept at a minimum level to allow the
understanding of the essentials of the real system. The book is
intended for established researchers, as well as for PhD and
postdoc students who wish to learn more about the latest advances
in these active areas of research."
Entropy inequalities, correlation functions, couplings between
stochastic processes are powerful techniques which have been
extensively used to give arigorous foundation to the theory of
complex, many component systems and to its many applications in a
variety of fields as physics, biology, population dynamics,
economics, ... The purpose of the book is to make theseand other
mathematical methods accessible to readers with a limited
background in probability and physics by examining in detail a few
models where the techniques emerge clearly, while extra
difficulties arekept to a minimum. Lanford's method and its
extension to the hierarchy of equations for the truncated
correlation functions, the v-functions, are presented and applied
to prove the validity of macroscopic equations forstochastic
particle systems which are perturbations of the independent and of
the symmetric simple exclusion processes. Entropy inequalities are
discussed in the frame of the Guo-Papanicolaou-Varadhan technique
and of theKipnis-Olla-Varadhan super exponential estimates, with
reference to zero-range models. Discrete velocity Boltzmann
equations, reaction diffusion equations and non linear parabolic
equations are considered, as limits of particles models. Phase
separation phenomena are discussed in the context of
Glauber+Kawasaki evolutions and reaction diffusion equations.
Although the emphasis is onthe mathematical aspects, the physical
motivations are explained through theanalysis of the single models,
without attempting, however to survey the entire subject of
hydrodynamical limits.
Easy, well-illustrated manual which describes how to mend clothes.
This manual provides all necessary knowledge for anyone who wants
to acquire the basic skills for mending, altering and fixing
clothes. The publication explains in an easy to understand and
simple language the most usual clothing repairs, like shortening
pants, a seam to be redone, darning a hole, shortening the sleeves
of a shirt, etc. From learning to do stitches by hand to using the
sewing machine, the author guides the reader throughout the process
by simple texts and useful photographs proving that mending is
easy. The book also includes a glossary of technical terms. With
this DIY guide, the reader will be able to perform some alterations
and mendings without the need of going to the professional tailor.
It's a basic manual, but also contains some more complicated
mendings that people with advanced skills can tackle. AUTHOR: Anna
De Leo was born in Cosenza in 1987. In 2014 she graduated at the
Euromode School Italia, in Bormio in Valtellina. In 2015 she moved
to Udine, where she attended a course of tailoring repair at the
Ires (Institute of Economic and Social Research Friuli Venezia
Giulia). She later enrolled in the Fashion Design course at Milan
Fashion Campus in Milan, and an online Personal Shopper and Image
consultant course. From 2015 to 2017 she worked in different
fashion companies, refining knowledge and skills that allow her to
experiment also with the packaging of the clothes and the study of
new modeling techniques. She is an author of fashion-related books.
SELLING POINTS: . An essential resource for any household. . Fixing
clothes explained in a simple and clear way. . The reader will
learn how to perform the most simple and common alterations and
mendings to their clothes. 300 colour illustrations
Sociocultural linguistics has long conceived of languages as
well-bounded, separate codes. But the increasing diversity of
languages encountered by most people in their daily lives
challenges this conception. Because globalization has accelerated
population flows, cities are now sites of encounter for groups that
are highly diverse in terms of origins, cultural practices, and
languages. Further, new media technologies invent communicative
genres, foster hybrid semiotic practices, and spread diversity as
they intensify contact and exchange between peoples who often are
spatially removed and culturally different from each other.
Diversity-even super-diversity-is now the norm. In response, recent
scholarship complicates traditional associations between languages
and social identities, emphasizing the connectedness of
communicative events and practices at different scales and the
embedding of languages within new physical landscapes and mediated
practices. This volume takes stock of the increasing diversity of
linguistic phenomena and faces the theoretical-methodological
challenges that accounting for such phenomena pose to
socio-cultural linguistics. This book stages the debate on
super-diversity that will be sure to interest societal linguists
and serves as an invaluable reference for academic libraries
specializing in the linguistics field.
First full-length study of the role and duties of the medieval
cantor. Cantors made unparalleled contributions to the way time was
understood and history was remembered in the medieval Latin West.
The men and women who held this office in cathedrals and
monasteries were responsible for calculating the date of Easter and
the feasts dependent on it, for formulating liturgical celebrations
season by season, managing the library and preparing manuscripts
and other sources necessary to sustain the liturgical framework of
time, andpromoting the cults of saints. Crucially, their duties
also often included committing the past to writing, from simple
annals and chronicles to more fulsome histories, necrologies, and
cartularies, thereby ensuring that towns, churches, families, and
individuals could be commemorated for generations to come. This
volume seeks to address the fundamental question of how the range
of cantors' activities can help us to understand the many different
waysin which the past was written and, in the liturgy, celebrated
across the Middle Ages. Its essays are studies of constructions,
both of the building blocks of time and of the people who made and
performed them, in acts of ritual remembrance and in written
records; cantors, as this book makes clear, shaped the communal
experience of the past in the Middle Ages. Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis
is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at St. Martin's
University; Margot Fassler is Kenough-Hesburgh Professor of Music
History and Liturgy at the University of Notre Dame and Robert
Tangeman Professor Emerita of Music History at Yale University;
A.B. Kraebel is Assistant Professor of English at Trinity
University. Contributors: Cara Aspesi, Anna de Bakker, Alison I.
Beach, Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis, Margot E. Fassler, David Ganz, James
Grier, Paul Antony Hayward, Peter Jeffery, Claire Taylor Jones,
A.B.Kraebel, Lori Kruckenberg, Rosamond McKitterick, Henry Parkes,
Susan Rankin, C.C. Rozier, Sigbjorn Olsen Sonnesyn, Teresa Webber,
Lauren Whitnah
First full-length study of the role and duties of the medieval
cantor. Cantors made unparalleled contributions to the way time was
understood and history was remembered in the medieval Latin West.
The men and women who held this office in cathedrals and
monasteries were responsible for calculating the date of Easter and
the feasts dependent on it, for formulating liturgical celebrations
season by season, managing the library and preparing manuscripts
and other sources necessary to sustain the liturgical framework of
time, andpromoting the cults of saints. Crucially, their duties
also often included committing the past to writing, from simple
annals and chronicles to fuller histories, necrologies, and
cartularies, thereby ensuring that towns, churches, families, and
individuals could be commemorated for generations to come. This
volume seeks to address the fundamental question of how the range
of cantors' activities can help us to understand the many different
ways in which the past was written and, in the liturgy, celebrated
across the Middle Ages. Its essays are studies of constructions,
both of the building blocks of time and of the people who made and
performed them, in acts of ritual remembrance and in written
records; cantors, as this book makes clear, shaped the communal
experience of the past in the Middle Ages. KATIE ANN-MARIE BUGYIS
is Assistant Professor in the Program of Liberal Studies at the
University of Notre Dame; A.B. KRAEBEL is Assistant Professor of
English at Trinity University; MARGOT FASSLER is Kenough-Hesburgh
Professor of Music History and Liturgy at the University of Notre
Dame and Robert Tangeman Professor Emerita of Music History at Yale
University. Contributors: Cara Aspesi, Anna de Bakker, Alison I.
Beach, Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis, Margot E. Fassler, David Ganz, James
Grier, Paul Antony Hayward, Peter Jeffery, Claire TaylorJones, A.B.
Kraebel, Lori Kruckenberg, Rosamond McKitterick, Henry Parkes,
Susan Rankin, C.C. Rozier, Sigbjorn Olsen Sonnesyn, Teresa Webber,
Lauren Whitnah
Sociocultural linguistics has long conceived of languages as
well-bounded, separate codes. But the increasing diversity of
languages encountered by most people in their daily lives
challenges this conception. Because globalization has accelerated
population flows, cities are now sites of encounter for groups that
are highly diverse in terms of origins, cultural practices, and
languages. Further, new media technologies invent communicative
genres, foster hybrid semiotic practices, and spread diversity as
they intensify contact and exchange between peoples who often are
spatially removed and culturally different from each other.
Diversity-even super-diversity-is now the norm. In response, recent
scholarship complicates traditional associations between languages
and social identities, emphasizing the connectedness of
communicative events and practices at different scales and the
embedding of languages within new physical landscapes and mediated
practices. This volume takes stock of the increasing diversity of
linguistic phenomena and faces the theoretical-methodological
challenges that accounting for such phenomena pose to
socio-cultural linguistics. This book stages the debate on
super-diversity that will be sure to interest societal linguists
and serves as an invaluable reference for academic libraries
specializing in the linguistics field.
Brutus fÃœhrt ein einsames Leben in einer Welt, in der Magie nichts
UngewÖhnliches ist. Er ist Über zwei Meter groß, hÄsslich, und
stammt aus einer Familie von schlechtem Ruf. Niemand, er selbst
eingeschlossen, hÄlt ihn fÜr gut genug, mehr als nur
Knochenarbeit zu verrichten. Aber Heldentum kommt in allen Formen
und GrÖßen. Als er bei der Rettung eines Prinzen schwer verletzt
wird, Ändert sich sein Leben schlagartig. Er wird in den Palast
von Tellomer gerufen, um als WÄrter fÜr einen Gefangenen zu
dienen. Das hÖrt sich recht einfach an, stellt sich aber als die
grÖßte BewÄhrungsprobe seines bisherigen Lebens heraus. Wenn man
den GerÃœchten Glauben schenken darf, ist Gray Leynham ein Hexer
und VerrÄter. Sicher ist nur, dass er Jahre im Elend verbracht
hat: blind, in Ketten gelegt und nahezu stumm durch sein
fÜrchterliches Stottern. Und er trÄumt vom Tod anderer Menschen.
TrÄume, die sich bewahrheiten. Brutus gewÖhnt sich an das Leben
im Palast und lernt Gray kennen. Er entdeckt dabei seinen eigenen
Wert – erst als Freund, dann als Mann, und schließlich als
Geliebter. Brutus lernt auch, dass Helden manchmal vor schwierige
Entscheidungen gestellt werden und dass es nicht ungefÄhrlich ist,
die richtige Entscheidung zu treffen.
This is the story of Jose Bove, the radical French farmer who led a
protest into the town of Millau and dismantled, to cheering crowds,
the new McDonalds. Now a national hero in France, he has become a
leading figure in the global anti-capitalist protests, famed not
only for his passion for politics but also for his Roquefort
cheese. For Bove the struggle against multinational and corporate
industry, which he has been involved in since 1968, is also a
struggle against what he calls malbuffe, horrible nosh. In France
good food and good politics have proved an irresistible mixture.
What is witchcraft, the Old Way? A profound respect for your own
self and an understanding of the many secret passageways of your
mind. A profound respect for others, and their sometimes
inexplicable behaviour. A profound respect for nature. The scents,
sounds, sights and changing rhythms of the natural world.
Reconnecting with the Spirit World within and without in ways
understood by our ancestors. This is a sound introduction to simple
magical practices that have become increasingly popular as new
generations rediscover the truth of the Old Ways. You will be
helped along the first steps of the magical path until you are
ready to write your own first Book of Shadows. 'A superb
introduction to witchcraft. Simple, straightforward and with a
touch of magic' Tyna Redpath, The Goddess and The Green Man,
Glastonbury www.goddessand greenman.co.uk
Es passt einfach alles zusammen: als Ted die Liebe seines
Lebens kennenlernt, ist er von oben bis unten mit dem Blut eines
Mordopfers bedeckt. Ted Sturm arbeitet fÃœr ein
Bestattungsunternehmen. Er hat ein loses Mundwerk, ein großes Herz
und die zweifelhafte Gabe, mit Toten kommunizieren zu kÖnnen.
UnglÃœcklicherweise sind Tote keine guten Freunde, und sein
einziger lebender Freund, mit dem er auch die Wohnung teilt, hat
gerade eine streunende Katze aufgenommen, die Ted das Leben zur
HÖlle macht. Und diese Katze - eigentlich ein Kater - hat es in
sich. So kommt es, dass Ted sich plÖtzlich in einer anderen
Dimension wiederfindet. Auf einer Leiche. Ted wird des Mordes
angeklagt und sein einziger VerbÃœndeter in dieser merkwÃœrdigen
Welt voller magischer Wesen und Unwesen ist KÖnig Grell, ein
sarkastischer, geiler, katzenartiger Unsterblicher mit
beeindruckenden FÄhigkeiten. Und einer beeindruckenden Anatomie.
Die beiden werden in eine kosmische VerschwÖrung verwickelt,
umgeben von gefÄhrlichen Feinden. Mit Teds spezieller Begabung und
Grells Magie mÃœssen sie versuchen, der Sache auf den Grund zu
gehen, um Teds Leben zu retten. Es gibt da nur ein Problem: Ted
muss Grells unzweideutigen Avancen widerstehen. Und er ist sich
nicht sicher, ob er das Ãœberhaupt will.
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