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Etty Hillesum (1914-43) lived in Amsterdam, like Anne Frank, and
like her she kept a diary. 'All the writings she left behind,'
writes Eva Hoffman in her Preface to this edition of her diaries
and letters, 'were composed in the shadow of the Holocaust, but
they resist being read primarily in its dark light. Rather, their
abiding interest lies in the light-filled mind that pervades them
and in the astonishing internal journey they chart. Etty's
pilgrimage grew out of the intimate experience of an intellectual
young woman - it was idiosyncratic, individual, and recognisably
modern...The private person who revealed herself in her diary was
impassioned, erotically volatile, restless...Yet she had the kind
of genius for introspection that converts symptoms into
significance and joins self-examination to philosophical
investigation...In the last stages of her amazing and moving
journey, Etty seemed to attain that peace which passeth
understanding...Finally, however, the violence and brutality she
saw all around her overwhelmed even her capacity to
understand...But by knowing and feeling so deeply and fully, an
unknown young woman became one of the most exceptional and truest
witnesses of the devastation through which she lived. '
Playing Hard at Life brings contemporary relational thinking to
bear on the psychodynamic treatment of a notably difficult group of
young patients. Working with New York City teenagers who have
survived the wars of inner-city life and Israeli teenage soldiers
who have survived the wars of the Middle East, author Etty Cohen
documents the extraordinary challenges of forming a treatment
alliance with these shattered youngsters, of engaging them
psychodynamically, and of working toward a viable termination. The
result is not only a poignant record of courage and committment (on
the part of patient and therapist alike), but also a valuable
extension of modern trauma theory to adolescence as a developmental
stage with its own challenges and requirements.
The heart and strength of Cohen's book is her vivid documentation
of hands-on encounters with her adolescent patients, seen both
individually and in group. Cohen makes plain that, with young
people so horrendously traumatized, treatment assures a necessarily
improvisational character. And yet, she argues, even in the type of
pragmatic encounters dictated by massive and repeated trauma,
contemporary relational theory provides a compass with which to
navigate through the rocky shoals of the clinical work.
Again and again, the reader is shocked by just how much happened
to these adolescents, astonished at how resilient they proved to
be, and, finally, moved by how much Cohen was able to accomplish
with them. Her relational approaches to these treatments, teamed
with her realization that work with multiply traumatized
adolescents cannot be structured in the manner of conventioanl
therapy, makes this book an invaluable, timely, and deeply sobering
contribution to the literature.
Cambridge IGCSE (R) and O Level History Second edition for Option
B: the 20th Century of the syllabus (0470,2147), updated for the
revised syllabus for first examination from 2020 and now supporting
O Level as well. Help your students take an enquiry-led approach to
historical learning with Cambridge IGCSE (R) and O Level History.
Full of activities and primary and secondary sources, this resource
encourages the application of historical skills and enables
investigative questioning of cause and consequence. Endorsed by
Cambridge Assessment International Education for Option B, the
coursebook is written by a team of experienced teachers and
provides comprehensive coverage of all of the Key Questions and
four of the Depth Studies for syllabus Option B: the 20th Century.
Sample answers to a selection of the exam-style questions can be
found in the teacher's resource.
'Maori Symbolism' is a story of a great race as told in their own
Sacred Legends. And it is even more than this. It is an accurate
record of the inner meaning of Life Symbolism on which the
civilization of the Dark-Whites all over the world is founded. That
symbolism stands for Cultivation - of the race, of the body and of
the land. The numerous illustrations are to be regarded as
documents supporting the evidence reported in the text. Some of
this is of startling interest, as for insurance that concerning the
casting of ancient statues and megaliths from molten lava. The
Sacred Legends concerning the origin and migration of the New
Zealand Maori are reported at some length, and the evidence given
throws fresh light on the important 'Diffusion' controversy. Maori
land cultivation is shown to have been far in advance of European.
Maori cultivation of the body, expressed in native dances, is
demonstrated to be an ordered system of physical education,
designed to improve and preserve the fittest.
'Maori Symbolism' is a story of a great race as told in their own
Sacred Legends. And it is even more than this. It is an accurate
record of the inner meaning of Life Symbolism on which the
civilization of the Dark-Whites all over the world is founded. That
symbolism stands for Cultivation - of the race, of the body and of
the land. The numerous illustrations are to be regarded as
documents supporting the evidence reported in the text. Some of
this is of startling interest, as for insurance that concerning the
casting of ancient statues and megaliths from molten lava. The
Sacred Legends concerning the origin and migration of the New
Zealand Maori are reported at some length, and the evidence given
throws fresh light on the important 'Diffusion' controversy. Maori
land cultivation is shown to have been far in advance of European.
Maori cultivation of the body, expressed in native dances, is
demonstrated to be an ordered system of physical education,
designed to improve and preserve the fittest. Maori race culture is
exhibited as based on a lofty code of social and sexual ethics.
Maori religion and philosophy, as expressed in symbolic decoration
and writing, are for the first time truthfully explained and
interpreted.
This book discusses the role of capital markets and investment
banking in Nigeria, the largest frontier market economy in the
world by both population size and gross domestic product. Offering
a systematic framework combining conceptual principles with real
practice, the book enables the reader to gain useful insight into
how capital markets and investment banking work in the real world
of a frontier market. The book provides a synopsis of the economic
attractiveness, financial systems intermediation and capital
markets, as well as the regulatory framework within a frontier
market. It explores capital raising through equity and underwriting
and private equity, paying particular attention to putting capital
to work on mergers and acquisitions, project and infrastructure
finance and real estate finance. Furthermore, it analyses asset
management, pension industry and securities trading in a frontier
market. The authors use detailed case studies from Nigeria to
illustrate the operations of investment banking in frontier
markets. The cases, tables and charts serve as useful illustrations
of the topics under discussion. With the authors' combined
experience of more than 50 years as economists, finance and
investment professionals and in executive leadership positions in
the financial services industry, this book will interest the
academic community, professionals in the financial industry, retail
and institutional investors interested in frontier markets,
development practitioners in international organizations and policy
makers including securities and capital market regulators.
I still play to their chords. Livin' within conventions. Livin'
within restrictions. Livin' within a structure. Lettin' someone
write my story. Toye is preparing for his piano exam to get into a
prestigious music school. He's doing it for the contacts, the
opportunity, the love of art. But when he notices the lack of Black
British history in his school's curriculum, he begins to question
himself and the world around him. Toye wants to follow his dream.
but he can't let these institutions write his story. He decides to
teach his classmates about Black cultural icons himself, but
quickly discovers that not everyone wants Black historv to be
celebrated. Dipo Baruwa-Etti's inspiring new play about the
pressures of being young, gifted and ready to change the world
premiered at Roundabout in Kingston, in a Paines Plough and Rose
Theatre production, in July 2022.
This book discusses the role of capital markets and investment
banking in Nigeria, the largest frontier market economy in the
world by both population size and gross domestic product. Offering
a systematic framework combining conceptual principles with real
practice, the book enables the reader to gain useful insight into
how capital markets and investment banking work in the real world
of a frontier market. The book provides a synopsis of the economic
attractiveness, financial systems intermediation and capital
markets, as well as the regulatory framework within a frontier
market. It explores capital raising through equity and underwriting
and private equity, paying particular attention to putting capital
to work on mergers and acquisitions, project and infrastructure
finance and real estate finance. Furthermore, it analyses asset
management, pension industry and securities trading in a frontier
market. The authors use detailed case studies from Nigeria to
illustrate the operations of investment banking in frontier
markets. The cases, tables and charts serve as useful illustrations
of the topics under discussion. With the authors' combined
experience of more than 50 years as economists, finance and
investment professionals and in executive leadership positions in
the financial services industry, this book will interest the
academic community, professionals in the financial industry, retail
and institutional investors interested in frontier markets,
development practitioners in international organizations and policy
makers including securities and capital market regulators.
Playing Hard at Life brings contemporary relational thinking to
bear on the psychodynamic treatment of a notably difficult group of
young patients. Working with New York City teenagers who have
survived the wars of inner-city life and Israeli teenage soldiers
who have survived the wars of the Middle East, author Etty Cohen
documents the extraordinary challenges of forming a treatment
alliance with these shattered youngsters, of engaging them
psychodynamically, and of working toward a viable termination. The
result is not only a poignant record of courage and committment (on
the part of patient and therapist alike), but also a valuable
extension of modern trauma theory to adolescence as a developmental
stage with its own challenges and requirements. The heart and
strength of Cohen's book is her vivid documentation of hands-on
encounters with her adolescent patients, seen both individually and
in group. Cohen makes plain that, with young people so horrendously
traumatized, treatment assures a necessarily improvisational
character. And yet, she argues, even in the type of pragmatic
encounters dictated by massive and repeated trauma, contemporary
relational theory provides a compass with which to navigate through
the rocky shoals of the clinical work. Again and again, the reader
is shocked by just how much happened to these adolescents,
astonished at how resilient they proved to be, and, finally, moved
by how much Cohen was able to accomplish with them. Her relational
approaches to these treatments, teamed with her realization that
work with multiply traumatized adolescents cannot be structured in
the manner of conventioanl therapy, makes this book an invaluable,
timely, and deeply sobering contribution to the literature.
Grapevine is a crop of major economical interest, and wine
represents a multicultural heritage which has been growing since
several milleniums. Yet, modern viticulture must face several
challenges. Global climate has increased berry sugar content (and
alcohol in the wine) whereas phenolic and aromatic ripeness are not
always achieved. Water supply is becoming shorter. New varieties
better adapted to new climatic conditions might have to be planted,
which may affect wine typicity. Phytochemical treatments are more
controlled, and the consumer pays increasing attention to
environmentally safe practices. New methods reducing pesticide use,
but maintaining yield and typicity, must be designed. The present
book illustrates the recent progress made in ecophysiology,
molecular and cell biology, and pathology of grapevine, as well as
in precision viticulture and berry composition. Combination of
these new tools with field observations will undoubtly make it
easier to face the challenges described above. These
multidisciplinary contributions will be of interest to anyone
involved in grapevine and wine activities.
Grapevine is a crop of major economical interest, and wine
represents a multicultural heritage which has been growing since
several milleniums. Yet, modern viticulture must face several
challenges. Global climate has increased berry sugar content (and
alcohol in the wine) whereas phenolic and aromatic ripeness are not
always achieved. Water supply is becoming shorter. New varieties
better adapted to new climatic conditions might have to be planted,
which may affect wine typicity. Phytochemical treatments are more
controlled, and the consumer pays increasing attention to
environmentally safe practices. New methods reducing pesticide use,
but maintaining yield and typicity, must be designed. The present
book illustrates the recent progress made in ecophysiology,
molecular and cell biology, and pathology of grapevine, as well as
in precision viticulture and berry composition. Combination of
these new tools with field observations will undoubtly make it
easier to face the challenges described above. These
multidisciplinary contributions will be of interest to anyone
involved in grapevine and wine activities.
Provides Insight into How Cytokine Action Impacts the Physiology
and Pathology of the CNS. As with the first edition of Cytokines
and the CNS, this completely updated and revised edition introduces
neurobiologists to cytokine biology and immunologists to the unique
functions of cytokines in CNS physiology. The dramatically
accelerating interest in cytokines and cytokine/chemokine signaling
over the past several years has encouraged an explosion of
literature on cytokines. The similarity between factors involved in
inflammation or immunity, and those implicated in neural
development, physiology, and repair has become so apparent that
familiarity with cytokines must now be considered an essential
element in the neurobiologist's cognitive tool-kit. Conversely, for
immunobiologists, the concepts elaborated by neurobiologists to
understand developmental patterning and networked organ function
continue to evolve in such a way that comprehension of cytokine
action in the CNS can only enhance a further understanding of
immune system function. Cytokines and the CNS, Second Edition is
patterned after the first edition; however, the wealth of knowledge
now available adds a tremendous amount of insight and new
implications. To guarantee a fresh perspective, the editors made a
conscious choice to utilize an entirely new set of contributors,
all experts in various aspects of cytokine research. Cytokines and
the CNS, Second Edition starts with a chapter on the CNS, focusing
on pathological reactions to insult. Next, come three chapters on
cytokine biology, followed by four chapters that integrate cytokine
biology into basic CNS processes (development; inflammation;
immunity; degeneration/repair), after which five chapters apply
this body of knowledge to disease or pathology. The book closes
with a look at the application of cytokine biology to the treatment
of disease, a brand new area of research.
Drie sexy, sensuele en romantiese verhale deur drie gewilde skrywers: Anderkant die volmaan deur Ettie Bierman, Bambi en die boef deur Anita du Preez en Victoriavalle van liefde deur Lizet Engelbrecht.
This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical
literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles
have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades.
The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to
promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a
TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the
amazing works of world literature from oblivion. With this series,
tredition intends to make thousands of international literature
classics available in printed format again - worldwide.
In 1910, al-Mahdi al-Wazzani, a prominent Moroccan Islamic scholar
completed his massive compilation of Maliki fatwas. An
eleven-volume set, it is the most extensive collection of fatwas
written and published in the Arab Middle East during the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Al-Wazzani's legal
opinions addressed practical concerns and questions: What are the
ethical and legal duties of Muslims residing under European rule?
Is emigration from non-Muslim territory an absolute duty? Is it
ethical for Muslim merchants to travel to Europe? Is it legal to
consume European-manufactured goods? It was his expectation that
these fatwas would help the Muslim community navigate the modern
world.
In considering al-Wazzani's work, this book explores the creative
process of transforming Islamic law to guarantee the survival of a
Muslim community in a changing world. It is the first study to
treat Islamic revival and reform from discourses informed by the
sociolegal concerns that shaped the daily lives of ordinary people.
Etty Terem challenges conventional scholarship that presents
Islamic tradition as inimical to modernity and, in so doing,
provides a new framework for conceptualizing modern Islamic reform.
Her innovative and insightful reorientation constructs the origins
of modern Islam as firmly rooted in the messy complexity of
everyday life.
On a stormy night in 1286, a man fell off his horse and broke his
neck, setting two kingdoms on a 300-year course of war. Edward I
seized the opportunity to pursue English claims to overlordship of
Scotland; William Wallace and Robert Bruce headed the 'patriotic'
resistance. Their collision shaped the history, politics and
nationhood of the two realms, and dragged in a third with the
formation of the Franco-Scottish Auld Alliance. It also created a
unique society on both sides of the Anglo-Scottish border. What
prevented peace from breaking out? And how, at the dawn of the
seventeenth century, could a Scottish king succeed, peacefully and
unopposed, to the Auld Enemy's throne? Andy King and Claire Etty
trace the fractious relationship between England and Scotland from
the death of Alexander III to the accession of James VI as James I
of England. Spanning medieval and early modern history, this book
is the ideal starting point for students studying Anglo-Scottish
relations up to the Union.
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