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Annotated, scholarly edition of the original landmark anthology,
Voices of Ghana, containing poetry, plays, stories and essays first
broadcast on radio in the years leading up to Ghana's independence.
Ghana's first radio programme of original literature, The Singing
Net, began in 1955 as part of the development of a national radio
station in the years leading to independence in 1957. Its central
aim was to bring Ghanaianwriters to the forefront of cultural
programming as part of the Africanisation of radio in Ghana. It was
a critical cultural expression of the radical changes that were
unfolding across the colonial world. The programme successfully
introduced listeners to a series of pioneering Ghanaian authors who
would go on to become significant figures of Anglophone West
African literature in the early postcolonial decades: Efua
Sutherland, Frank Parkes, Amu Djoleto,Geormbeeyi Adali-Mortty,
Albert Kayper-Mensah, Kwesi Brew, Cameron Duodu, J.H. Nketia and
many others. The anthology, Voices of Ghana (1958) is a collection
of the poetry, short stories, play scripts and critical discussions
that were aired on the Gold Coast Broadcasting Service (later the
Ghana Broadcasting System) (1954-1958). Both The Singing Net and
Voices of Ghana were edited by the BBC producer, Henry Swanzy. The
context of Ghana's independence, the singularity of the anthology's
history, and the significance of many of the writers all contribute
to the importance of this text. This second edition is a timely
intervention into recent debateswithin postcolonial studies and
world literature on the importance of broadcast culture in the
dissemination of "new literatures" from the colonial world. It
includes an unabridged version of the 1958 text, a new introduction
andfootnoted annotations, which draw on extensive research
undertaken in Ghana and Britain. It will appeal to a general
readership with an interest in Ghanaian literature, 1950s broadcast
culture, the figure of Dr Kwame Nkrumah and the making of a
national literature in the era of decolonisation, as well as
engaging scholars. The new edition presents a deeply insightful and
engaging history of Voices of Ghana and reintroduces the original
works on theoccasion of the anthology's 60th anniversary. Victoria
Ellen Smith is a Lecturer in the Department of History, University
of Ghana, Legon Ghana & Nigeria: Sub-Saharan Publishers
This monograph is not only the first comprehensive grammar of
Papapana (a previously undocumented and under-described endangered
language) but the first full reference grammar of any Oceanic
language of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, despite this region
displaying considerable linguistic innovation and language contact
phenomena with numerous typologically significant features. This
book describes Papapana on various levels, including phonology,
morphology and syntax in noun phrases and the verb complex, and
syntax at the clause- and sentence-level. Throughout the grammar,
the described phenomena are related to the current research on
typological and Oceanic linguistics. Typologically unusual features
of Papapana include multiple reduplication, inverse-number marking
in the noun phrase and postverbal subject-indexing. The book also
describes the sociolinguistic and historical context within which
Papapana is spoken and highlights linguistic changes resulting from
language contact. The monograph fills an important gap in terms of
grammatical descriptions of Bougainville Oceanic languages, and
makes a significant contribution to the field of Oceanic
linguistics, and to future comparative linguistic and typological
research.
PAPERBACK FOR SALE IN AFRICA ONLY Annotated, scholarly edition of
the original landmark anthology, Voices of Ghana, containing
poetry, plays, stories and essays first broadcast on radio in the
years leading up to Ghana's independence. Ghana's first radio
programme of original literature, The Singing Net, began in 1955 as
part of the development of a national radio station in the years
leading to independence in 1957. Its central aim was to bring
Ghanaianwriters to the forefront of cultural programming as part of
the Africanisation of radio in Ghana. It was a critical cultural
expression of the radical changes that were unfolding across the
colonial world. The programme successfully introduced listeners to
a series of pioneering Ghanaian authors who would go on to become
significant figures of Anglophone West African literature in the
early postcolonial decades: Efua Sutherland, Frank Parkes, Amu
Djoleto,Geormbeeyi Adali-Mortty, Albert Kayper-Mensah, Kwesi Brew,
Cameron Duodu, J.H. Nketia and many others. The anthology, Voices
of Ghana (1958) is a collection of the poetry, short stories, play
scripts and critical discussions that were aired on the Gold Coast
Broadcasting Service (later the Ghana Broadcasting System)
(1954-1958). Both The Singing Net and Voices of Ghana were edited
by the BBC producer, Henry Swanzy. The context of Ghana's
independence, the singularity of the anthology's history, and the
significance of many of the writers all contribute to the
importance of this text. This second edition is a timely
intervention into recent debateswithin postcolonial studies and
world literature on the importance of broadcast culture in the
dissemination of "new literatures" from the colonial world. It
includes an unabridged version of the 1958 text, a new introduction
andfootnoted annotations, which draw on extensive research
undertaken in Ghana and Britain. It will appeal to a general
readership with an interest in Ghanaian literature, 1950s broadcast
culture, the figure of Dr Kwame Nkrumah and the making of a
national literature in the era of decolonisation, as well as
engaging scholars. The new edition presents a deeply insightful and
engaging history of Voices of Ghana and reintroduces the original
works on theoccasion of the anthology's 60th anniversary. Victoria
Ellen Smith is a Lecturer in the Department of History, University
of Ghana, Legon Ghana & Nigeria: Sub-Saharan Publishers
This monograph is not only the first comprehensive grammar of
Papapana (a previously undocumented and under-described endangered
language) but the first full reference grammar of any Oceanic
language of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, despite this region
displaying considerable linguistic innovation and language contact
phenomena with numerous typologically significant features. This
book describes Papapana on various levels, including phonology,
morphology and syntax in noun phrases and the verb complex, and
syntax at the clause- and sentence-level. Throughout the grammar,
the described phenomena are related to the current research on
typological and Oceanic linguistics. Typologically unusual features
of Papapana include multiple reduplication, inverse-number marking
in the noun phrase and postverbal subject-indexing. The book also
describes the sociolinguistic and historical context within which
Papapana is spoken and highlights linguistic changes resulting from
language contact. The monograph fills an important gap in terms of
grammatical descriptions of Bougainville Oceanic languages, and
makes a significant contribution to the field of Oceanic
linguistics, and to future comparative linguistic and typological
research.
*Practical and contemporary work on the evidence-based Community
Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT) model for addictions.
*Loved ones can have an outsized impact on a person's decision to
get treatment; CRAFT shows therapists how to work effectively with
family and friends. *User-friendly features include checklists,
boxes, downloadable forms, and illustrative clinical dialogues. *An
ideal graduate text or clinical reference for therapists and
counselors, regardless of expertise in addictions.
Employment and production in the Appalachian coal industry have
plummeted over recent decades. But the lethal black lung disease,
once thought to be near-eliminated, affects miners at rates never
before recorded. Digging Our Own Graves sets this epidemic in the
context of the brutal assault, begun in the 1980s and continued
since, on the United Mine Workers of America and the collective
power of rank-and-file coal miners in the heart of the Appalachian
coalfields. This destruction of militancy and working class power
reveals the unacknowledged social and political roots of a health
crisis that is still barely acknowledged by the state and coal
industry. Barbara Ellen Smith 's essential study, now with an
updated introduction and conclusion, charts the struggles of miners
and their families from the birth of the Black Lung Movement in
1968 to the present-day importance of demands for environmental
justice through proposals like the Green New Deal. Through
extensive interviews with participants and her own experiences as
an activist, the author provides a vivid portrait of communities
struggling for survival against the corporate extraction of labor,
mineral wealth, and the very breath of those it sends to dig their
own graves.
These essays reexamine European forts in West Africa as hubs where
different peoples interacted, negotiated and transformed each other
socially, politically, culturally, and economically. This
collection brings together scholars of history, archaeology,
cultural studies, and others to present a nuanced image of
fortifications, showing that over time the functions and impacts of
the buildings changed as the motives, missions, allegiances, and
power dynamics in the region also changed. Focusing on the
fortifications of Ghana, the authors discuss how these structures
may be interpreted as connecting Ghanaian and West African
histories to a multitude of global histories. They also enable
greater understanding of the fortifications' contemporary use as
heritage sites, where the Afro-European experience is narrated
through guided tours and museums.
This issue of Nursing Clinics of North America, Guest Edited by
Mary Ellen Smith Glasgow, PhD, RN, ACNS-BC, will focus on New
Developments in Nursing Education: A Focus on Contemporary Content,
Pedagogies, Deans, Trends, with article topics including:
Game-based E-Learning; Incorporating Evidence-Based Care of
Individuals with Developmental/Cognitive Disabilities into the
Curriculum; Doctor of Nursing Practice Graduate as Faculty Members;
Clinical Nursing Education Evaluation and Re-Design;
Transdisciplinary Simulation; New Dean of Nursing: Lessons Learned;
Promoting a Healthy Workplace for Nursing Faculty; Nursing
Education Trends; Learning from Business; Focusing Curricula on
Primary Care, Health Promotion, and Public Health in Light of
Health Care Reform; Genetics in the Nursing Curriculum; and A
National Study of Doctoral Nursing Faculty.
Understand the legal framework that provides the structure of
Nursing!This is the only current text to critically examine the
vast array of legal and ethical matters confronting nursing faculty
in classroom and clinical settings. Designed to assist students
preparing to be nurse educators, academic nursing administrators,
and novice and seasoned faculty in making real-life decisions about
academic issues within a legal and ethical framework. Replete with
practical advice from experts in the fields of nursing, law, and
ethics, this text guides the reader through legal and ethical
principles, analyses of relevant case-based scenarios, and
practical recommendations for handling problems in accordance with
existing laws and institutional policy. Clearly and concisely
written and organized, this text provides a comprehensive
description of the legal process, including higher education law,
the courts, case law, the role of a university attorney, and how to
read and cite judicial decisions. Real-world case scenarios and
detailed analyses of pertinent issues, including coverage of
incivility, discrimination, harassment, academic dishonesty, and
freedom of speech, are examined from the perspective of students,
faculty, and administrators. Key Features: An entire section of
legal and ethical cases, featuring a unique philosophical and
ethical perspective Delivers best practices for nursing faculty
Provides tips on when to consult the university attorney, critical
elements to consider, actions to take when law and ethics conflict,
helpful resources, and a glossary of legal terms An Instructor's
Manual and discussion questions facilitate teaching.
This book is to encourage those out there who have Dreams We want
you to know that no matter what your believing God for if you put
your trust in Him He will bring to pass the plans for your future.
Because He is the one who puts the Dreams in our hearts, everything
good comes from God This book is about the tests and trials that we
have endured for the past 9 years while standing in Faith and
trusting God for our Christian Trail riding Business and Western
Town Ministry The road has not been easy and the hills have been
hard to climb it seemed as if we were always standing in the valley
but we knew God would bring us to the top of the mountain any day,
God is Faithful and will be with you every step of the way, because
He always does what He says He will do He will open doors that
would normally be shut, bring people across your path to encourage
you along the way, He will give you His favor at every turn. So if
you are wanting to open up your own business, start a ministry, buy
a house or have a child know this; that no matter what you have in
your heart to do, you can accomplish your Dreams with the help from
the Lord He will make crooked places straight and bring you those
divine connections and appointments to thrust you into your God
given Dream So as you read through the pages of this book put
yourself in them and compare where you are at the beginning and
then compare yourself again at the end, I am sure it will
strengthen your Faith and help you to take on any obstacle that is
standing in your way We pray that you will have a wonderful journey
through our book and we pray that it will help you to accomplish
your God given Dreams If you acknowledge God in what He wants to do
through you and in your life, it's in these testing times that He
will make you stronger and strengthen your faith when you trust in
Him through it all, when you receive the Victory he receives the
Glory
The human resources crisis in the health sector has been gathering
attention on the global stage. To date, however, most of this
attention has focused on shortages of health human resources (HRH)
at the national level. At least as important are problems at the
sub-national level. Massive geographic and skill mix imbalances are
reflected in the perilous undersupply of HRH in most rural areas.
Virtually all Sub-Saharan African countries suffer from significant
geographic imbalances. Very little substantive information or
documentation exists on the problem. Even less is known about the
lessons from policies aimed at addressing urban-rural human
resource imbalances, let alone experiences of Sub-Saharan Africa
countries, with such policies. There also appears to be a
disconnect between the objectives and efforts of policymakers on
the one hand and the functioning of national health labor markets
and labor market behavior on the other hand. This disconnect
hinders policy effectiveness and the efficient utilization of
resources intended to narrow urban-rural inequities. In Sub-Saharan
Africa government policies, often limited to the management of
public sector vacancies, appear to be elaborated, prescribed, and
implemented independently of labor market considerations. Partly as
a result, they are unable to effectively address urban-rural
imbalances, which are an outcome of labor market dynamics. This
report discusses and analyzes labor market dynamics and outcomes
(including unemployment, worker shortages, and urban-rural
imbalances of categories of health workers) from a labor economics
perspective. It then use insights from this perspective as a basis
for elaborating policy options that incorporate the underlying
labor market forces. The goal of the study is to address
undesirable outcomes (including urban-rural HRH imbalances) more
effectively. The book is thus suitable for researchers, policy
analysts and policy makers with an interest in understanding and
improving the allocation of human resources for health in the
developing world.
In an increasingly globalized world, place matters more than ever.
This concept especially holds true in Appalachian studies -- a
field that brings scholars, activists, artists, and citizens
together around the region to contest misappropriations of
resources and power and to combat stereotypes of isolation and
intolerance. In Appalachia in Regional Context: Place Matters,
Dwight B. Billings and Ann E. Kingsolver assemble scholars and
artists from a variety of disciplines to broaden the conversation
and challenge the binary opposition between regionalism and
globalism. In addition to theoretical explorations of place, some
of the case studies examine foodways, depictions of gendered and
racialized Appalachian identity in popular culture, the experiences
of rural LGBTQ youth, and the pitfalls and promises of teaching
regional studies. Drawing on ideas from cultural anthropology,
sociology, and a variety of other fields, and interleaved with
poems by bell hooks, this volume furthers the examination of new
perspectives on one of America's most compelling and misunderstood
regions.
This book is the first complete guide to implementing the Community
Reinforcement Approach (CRA), an empirically based, highly
effective cognitive-behavioral program for treating alcohol
problems. An ideal program for any practitioner trying to reconcile
the needs of their clients with mandates of HMOs and insurance
providers, this approach has been deemed one of the most
cost-effective treatments available by recent research. CRA
acknowledges the powerful role of environmental contingencies in
encouraging or discouraging drinking, and attempts to rearrange
these contingencies so that a non-drinking lifestyle is more
rewarding than a drinking one. Unique in its breadth, the approach
utilizes social, recreational, familial, and vocational strategies
to aid clients in the recovery process. This authoritative manual
is a hands-on guide to applying these therapeutic procedures.
Opening with an account of the history of CRA and the empirical
support for its efficacy, the book addresses the clinical concerns
of those treating substance abusing clients. Specific instructions
are provided for conducting detailed assessments of the client and
interviewing concerned others. Sobriety sampling and disulfiram use
within CRA are discussed in chapters of their own. The authors then
present a step-by-step guide to each component of the treatment
plan, many of which have been shown to be effective forms of
treatment in themselves. Topics include * behavioral skills
training * social and recreational counseling * marital therapy *
motivational enhancement * job counseling * relapse prevention Each
chapter provides detailed instructions for conducting a procedure,
describes what difficulties to expect, and presents strategies for
overcoming them. Sample dialogues between clients and therapists,
annotated by the authors, further illuminate the treatment process.
The book concludes with a chapter that both addresses the common
mistakes made when implementing CRA, and emphasizes the flexibility
and benefits of this total treatment plan. An accessible and
practical program, CRA can be implemented by all clinicians who
treat alcohol abusing clients, regardless of orientation. Providing
a cost-effective approach that is highly efficacious, Clinical
Guide to Alcohol Treatment is an invaluable resource for the wide
range of practitioners working in today's managed-care environment,
including psychologists, psychiatrists, substance abuse counselors,
and social workers.
This second edition continues to focus specifically on doctoral
level advanced nursing practice. This revision encompasses both the
historical advanced nursing practice role and the evolution of the
new doctoral level roles, and delineates and highlights the variety
of roles the new DNP graduates have assumed and will assume, along
with coverage of actual skills that will advance the role of the
doctoral level APRN. The core competencies for DNP practice (AACN)
govern the organisation and content of the text. Because the role
of the DNP graduate continues to evolve, the text reflects the
diverse range of current views on the DNP role and the diverse
'ideals' of what the role of the doctorally prepared APRN should
be. Only text that places singular emphasis on the DNP role
development with extensive contributions by practicing DNP Scholars
Text highlights the evolution of the DNP practice role as it is
currently unfolding 'Translates' the AACN core competency 'skills'
that are requisite for all DNP graduates into real-life practical
applications of the DNP practice Role Experienced authors teach the
APN/DNP Role Development Course and expertly communicate how the
roles and competencies translate into practice New sets of
Reflective Responses from leading clinical and academic nursing and
health profession scholars Chapter features, include Reflective
Response to stimulate class discussion; Critical Thinking
Exercises, Examples of DNP Skills Set Implementation, and
Discussion Questions New and revised critical thinking exercises
intended to expand the boundaries of ordinary classroom discourse
are included for each chapter .
*Practical and contemporary work on the evidence-based Community
Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT) model for addictions.
*Loved ones can have an outsized impact on a person's decision to
get treatment; CRAFT shows therapists how to work effectively with
family and friends. *User-friendly features include checklists,
boxes, downloadable forms, and illustrative clinical dialogues. *An
ideal graduate text or clinical reference for therapists and
counselors, regardless of expertise in addictions.
Employment and production in the Appalachian coal industry have
plummeted over recent decades. But the lethal black lung disease,
once thought to be near-eliminated, affects miners at rates never
before recorded. Digging Our Own Graves sets this epidemic in the
context of the brutal assault, begun in the 1980s and continued
since, on the United Mine Workers of America and the collective
power of rank-and-file coal miners in the heart of the Appalachian
coalfields. This destruction of militancy and working class power
reveals the unacknowledged social and political roots of a health
crisis that is still barely acknowledged by the state and coal
industry. Barbara Ellen Smith's essential study, now with an
updated introduction and conclusion, charts the struggles of miners
and their families from the birth of the Black Lung Movement in
1968 to the present-day importance of demands for environmental
justice through proposals like the Green New Deal. Through
extensive interviews with participants and her own experiences as
an activist, the author provides a vivid portrait of communities
struggling for survival against the corporate extraction of labor,
mineral wealth, and the very breath of those it sends to dig their
own graves.
Recent debates about globalism have usefully transformed the
positioning and the cultural geography of studies of the American
South. Once marked by tensions between the national and the
regional, southern studies is now increasingly characterized by
tensions between the local and the global. This special issue of
American Literature features interdisciplinary and comparative work
that focuses on the U.S. South in global contexts and attempts to
reconceptualize the South from various theoretical, literary, and
cultural perspectives. The new southern studies promises to be less
preoccupied with patriarchal whiteness and rural idyll and more
concerned with understanding the U.S. South as a construction of
border crossings of every sort. Featured essays examine the
political, economic, and social effects of globalization on the
geopolitical locale and literary productions of the region. Each
seeks to redefine the geographic and epistemological boundaries of
the U.S. South by linking it to other "Souths" globally. The issue
opens with a collection of manifestos given at the recent
conference "The U.S. South in Global Context." These unique pieces
offer variant perspectives on a common theme. Touching on history,
community, migration, globalizing modernization, and even Wal-Mart,
these sixteen briefs remind the reader that the American South is
somewhere between the modern cosmopolitan and the historical rural
spheres. One contributor examines how modernization has spread
unevenly throughout the region and how it has affected recent
immigrants to southern hybrid culture. Another engages in a
comparative exercise between the U.S. South and Latin America,
addressing questions of postcolonialism. Other contributors reflect
on southern distinctiveness, southern literature, and southern
colonial life. Included in the issue is a collection of original
and review essays focused geographically on still lower latitudes:
investigations of the Deep South and certain Caribbean cultures,
and comparisons of the U.S. South to the underprivileged global
South.
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