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"I was 19 years old when I came face to face with Nelson Mandela. He was 60. Until that day I had never heard of him, or his African National Congress. I was his prison warder on Robben Island and he changed my life forever." - Christo Brand
The two of them – one a young white warder, the other serving a life sentence - should have become bitter enemies. Instead they formed an extraordinary friendship through small acts of human kindness. Christo, a gentle young man who valued ordinary decency and courtesy, struck a chord with the wise and resilient freedom fighter.
This bond of trust endured between the two men long after Mandela was freed.
In this book Christo tells, for the first time, the incredible and moving story of their unlikely friendship. He provides rare and personal insights into Mandela’s life during his years on Robben Island.
With devastating clarity and gentle humour, Mabel Hewitt relives
her extraordinary childhood in the shadow of two world wars. Born
in the thirties when the threat of the poorhouse hung over working
families, 92-year-old Mabel remembers a chaotic home life dominated
by a father traumatised after years in the trenches at Ypres. She
was just 10 when war clouds gathered again, as sirens wailed and
Mabel took shelter underground with her mother and sisters. Mabel's
riveting account of the years that followed, and particularly
Coventry's terrible Blitz, bombs whistling down and the cries of
pain and fury all around her, mixes with her memories of every-day
experiences of a child in wartime. Mabel was growing up fast and,
by the end of the war, she was a young woman falling in love. This
extraordinary account is an inspiring story of love and hope,
following Mabel's journey right up to the present day.
This book unites discussions of the philosophical and scientific
basis of tacit knowledge.
The authors give an overview of the theories of tacit knowledge
and explain how these relate to a background of philosophical,
neurological and pedagogic literature. The importance of tacit
knowledge for evolutionary models of innovation is analyzed raising
questions of how its new role in the processes of economic and
social change is accelerated by market and technological
pressures.
This book is an invaluable resource for postgraduate students
and professionals working in and studying the fields of political
economy, organizational theory and behaviour, organizational
analysis and new technology management.
Series Information: Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
As an essential and emerging practice, Pediatric palliative care
seeks to prevent and relieve suffering for children with
life-threatening conditions. Palliative care teams are composed of
providers of various disciplines, including social workers, who
collaborate to address the medical, social-emotional, and spiritual
needs of the child, and their families. Social workers are
especially accustomed to interdisciplinary care and may counsel,
provide resources, facilitate communication, and promote person-
and family-centered practices that are the basis of effective
pediatric palliative care. This book presents practice strategies,
experiential knowledge, and research related to practicing in
collaborative teams, ICU settings, and hospice. It also presents
research that is informed by the perceptions and perspectives of
bereaved parents, parents who have suffered a stillbirth, and
parent caregivers of children with life-limiting illness. This book
highlights the unique role social workers play, within care teams
and in relationship with children who have life-limiting illness,
and their families. This book was originally published as a special
issue of the Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life & Palliative
Care.
This book explains in straightforward terms the principles of
straw-bale building for self-builders, architects and construction
industry professionals. Straw-bale buildings are cost-effective,
easy to build and are highly energy efficient, enabling you to
design and build beautiful, environmentally friendly buildings.
Written with non-experts in mind, this practical book takes you
through everything you need to know in an easy, accessible way: The
benefits of building with straw bales Design principles Building
with straw bales Finishes: lime and clay plasters Planning and
permission Building regulations This revised and expanded third
edition brings the book up to date and includes lots of stunning
full-colour photographs throughout to illustrate the design and
build process. In this full colour edition of the book Grand
Designs described as "the essential guide to straw-bale building",
Barbara Jones uses her years of experience in natural building
methods to guide self-builders and architects using straw as a
sustainable material for a diverse range of comfortable and
environmentally friendly buildings.
This book evolved from the editors strong belief that the
information and new developments that were evolving from the
rapidly growing field of genomics and that are happening primarily
in the developed world have not happened at a parallel rate in the
developing world. One would have hoped that by now the technologies
and approaches would have been adapted on a far greater scale. In
addition to this, the associated information is not always easily
accessible, and is not disseminated in a format that can become a
useful reference for scientists, students and others who reside in
developing countries.
The long-awaited follow-up to the groundbreaking Massacre at
Mountain Meadows Published in 2008, Massacre at Mountain Meadows
was a bombshell of a book, revealing the story of one of the
grimmest episodes in Latter-day Saint history, when settlers in
southwestern Utah slaughtered more than 100 members of a
California-bound wagon train in 1857. In this much-anticipated
sequel, Richard E. Turley Jr. and Barbara Jones Brown examine the
aftermath of this atrocity. Vengeance Is Mine documents southern
Utah leaders' attempts to cover up their crime by silencing
witnesses and spreading lies. Investigations by both governmental
and church bodies were stymied by stonewalling and political
wrangling. While nine men were eventually indicted, five were
captured and only one, John D. Lee, was executed. The book examines
the maneuvering of the defense and prosecution in Lee's two trials,
the second ending in Lee's conviction. Turley and Brown explore the
fraught relationship between Lee and church president Brigham
Young, and assess what role, if any, Young played in the cover-up.
And they trace the fates of the other perpetrators, including the
harrowing end of Nephi Johnson, who screamed "Blood! Blood! Blood!"
in his delirium as he was dying, more than sixty years after the
massacre. Turley and Brown also tell the story of the massacre's
few survivors: seventeen children who witnessed the slaughter and
eventually returned to Arkansas, where the ill-fated wagon train
originated. Vengeance Is Mine brings the hitherto untold story of
this shameful episode in Mormon and Utah history to its dramatic
conclusion.
This book evolved from the editors strong belief that the
information and new developments that were evolving from the
rapidly growing field of genomics and that are happening primarily
in the developed world have not happened at a parallel rate in the
developing world. One would have hoped that by now the technologies
and approaches would have been adapted on a far greater scale. In
addition to this, the associated information is not always easily
accessible, and is not disseminated in a format that can become a
useful reference for scientists, students and others who reside in
developing countries.
This book captures a day in the life of two five-year-olds. Though
they are many miles and years apart, they will find each other when
the time is right. Kacey’s Question... "Who Will I Marry?" by
Peggy Miracle Consolver and delightfully illustrated by Barbara
Jones, captures the whimsical nature of five-year-olds and their
zest for discovering, and explaining, the next big mystery in life.
Children ask the best questions. Having answers for their
thoughtful questions that can matter for a lifetime, is the hard
part. Mother's answer to Kacey's question is wisdom distilled from
years of the author's experience with her own daughter's and
grandson's questions—twenty-five years apart. questions like,
“Mommy, who will I marry?” or “How do starfish breathe?”
Christo Brand was a South African farm boy, born into the Afrikaans
culture which had created apartheid to persecute black people and
claim superiority for whites. Nelson Mandela, also raised in a
rural village, was the black son of a tribal chief. He trained as a
lawyer to take up the fight against apartheid on behalf of a whole
nation. Their opposing worlds collided when Christo, a raw recruit
from the country's prison service, was sent to Robben Island to
guard the notoriously dangerous terrorists there. Mandela was their
undisputed leader. The two of them, a boy of 18 and a
long-suffering freedom fighter then aged 60, could well have become
bitter enemies. Instead, they formed an extraordinary friendship
through small human kindnesses. Christo, a gentle young man who
valued ordinary decency and courtesy, struck a chord with the wise
and resilient old freedom fighter who was prepared to die to
liberate his people. The African tribesman in Mandela meant that
family was a priority for him, yet he had been sentenced to life
imprisonment. When his mother died, he was refused permission to go
to her funeral. Mandela, the oldest son whose responsibility was
written in blood, wept with shame and despair. Christo was to
witness that despair many times during his years as Mandela's
prison warder. When Winnie secretly brought their tiny
granddaughter to Robben Island it was Christo who risked his own
freedom to put the baby in Mandela's arms. Their friendship was
sealed by many such shared moments. And the bond of trust between
the two men extended beyond Mandela's prison years. As President of
South Africa, he called for Christo and gave him a job in the
archives department in Parliament. He invited Christo and his
family into his home and advised his two sons on their careers. A
few weeks before his death, Mandela made another call, to say
goodbye. This book tells the story of their friendship in Christo's
words for the first time.
"Hurry, Daddy, please come quick I really mean it, it's not a
trick," yells Claire. After Claire has been safely tucked into bed
for the night, her overactive imagination sees monsters in her
closet, under her bed and behind her curtains. Together, Claire and
Dad chase these "monsters" away. "Monster, monster, go away Claire
and I don't want to play." With a little help from Dad, Claire
learns that-sometimes things aren't what they appear to be.
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