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South African classrooms reflect our diverse cultures and rich
languages. This is a practical tool to help teachers and teachers
in training understand the importance of South Africa's linguistic
heritage in our schools today. This guide will empower educators to
reach out to learners and parents from different linguistic
backgrounds and to harness the power of diversity in their
classrooms.
Dubai International Airport (DXB), Emirates Airlines, and the Burj
al-Arab. Changi International Airport (SIN), Singapore Airlines,
and Marina Bay Sands. Chek Lap Kok (HGK), Cathay Pacific, and The
Peninsula Hotel. Kingsford Smith (SYD), Qantas Airlines, and the
Wentworth Hotel. What do these collective entities have in common?
Not only do they link global air hubs with city-centric long-haul
airlines and destination-worthy hotels, but they are the product of
a distinct strategy to boost tourism development through the
synergies created by aviation development. This volume explores the
evolution of tourism development through synergies created by
airline, airport, and hotel development in the Persian Gulf (namely
Dubai); Southeast Asia (primarily Singapore); and East Asia (mainly
Hong Kong) during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. These
"hubs" included, but went beyond traditional models of hotel
development as models for economically viable tourism programs,
particularly after World War II. The book also examines how such
systems integrated travelers, airlines, and airports in Australasia
and Europe, while at the same time competing with imperial systems
of airport and airline development. This book illuminates the
strategies behind and competition between cities during the current
century for air traffic, tourists, and airlines transiting between
Europe, Southeast Asia, and Australasia.
This volume presents an innovative look at early modern medicine
and natural philosophy as historically interrelated developments.
The individual chapters chart this interrelation in a variety of
contexts, from the Humanists who drew on Hippocrates, Galen, and
Aristotle to answer philosophical and medical questions, to medical
debates on the limits and power of mechanism, and on to
eighteenth-century controversies over medical materialism and
'atheism.' The work presented here broadens our understanding of
both philosophy and medicine in this period by illustrating the
ways these disciplines were in deep theoretical and methodological
dialogue and by demonstrating the importance of this dialogue for
understanding their history. Taken together, these papers argue
that to overlook the medical context of natural philosophy and the
philosophical context of medicine is to overlook fundamentally
important aspects of these intellectual endeavors.
Wassily Kandinsky, Max Ernst, Jackson Pollock, and Joseph Beuys
were the leading artists of their generations to recognize the rich
possibilities that animism and shamanism offered. While each of
these artists' connection with shamanism has been written about
separately, Evan Firestone brings the four together in order to
compare their individual approaches to anthropological materials
and to define similarities and differences between them. The
author's close readings of their works and examination of the
relevant texts available to them reveal fresh insights and new
perspectives.The importance of indigenous beliefs in animism for
Kandinsky's philosophy of art and practice, especially the animism
of inanimate objects, is analyzed for the first time in conjunction
with his well-known enthusiasms for Symbolism and Theosophy.
Ernst's collage novel, La femme 100 tetes (1929), previously found
to have significant alchemical content, also is shown to
extensively utilize shamanism, thereby merging different branches
of the occult that prove to have remarkable similarities. The
in-depth examination of Pollock's works, both known and overlooked
for shamanic content, identifies textual sources that heretofore
have escaped notice. Firestone also demonstrates how shamanism was
employed by this artist to express his desire for healing and
transformation. The author further argues that the German edition
of Mircea Eliade's Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy (1957)
helped to revitalize Beuys's life and art, and that his ecological
campaigns reflected a new consciousness later termed ecoanimism.
Wassily Kandinsky, Max Ernst, Jackson Pollock, and Joseph Beuys
were the leading artists of their generations to recognize the rich
possibilities that animism and shamanism offered. While each of
these artists' connection with shamanism has been written about
separately, Evan Firestone brings the four together in order to
compare their individual approaches to anthropological materials
and to define similarities and differences between them. The
author's close readings of their works and examination of the
relevant texts available to them reveal fresh insights and new
perspectives.The importance of indigenous beliefs in animism for
Kandinsky's philosophy of art and practice, especially the animism
of inanimate objects, is analyzed for the first time in conjunction
with his well-known enthusiasms for Symbolism and Theosophy.
Ernst's collage novel, La femme 100 tetes (1929), previously found
to have significant alchemical content, also is shown to
extensively utilize shamanism, thereby merging different branches
of the occult that prove to have remarkable similarities. The
in-depth examination of Pollock's works, both known and overlooked
for shamanic content, identifies textual sources that heretofore
have escaped notice. Firestone also demonstrates how shamanism was
employed by this artist to express his desire for healing and
transformation. The author further argues that the German edition
of Mircea Eliade's Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy (1957)
helped to revitalize Beuys's life and art, and that his ecological
campaigns reflected a new consciousness later termed ecoanimism.
Robinson Crusoe is one of the most famous literary characters in
history, and his story has spawned hundreds of retellings. Inspired
by the life of Alexander Selkirk, a sailor who lived for several
years on a Pacific island, the novel tells the story of Crusoe's
survival after shipwreck on an island, interaction with the
mainland's native inhabitants, and eventual rescue. Read variously
as economic fable, religious allegory, or imperialist fantasy,
Crusoe has never lost its appeal as one of the most compelling
adventure stories of all time. In addition to an introduction and
helpful notes, this Broadview Edition includes a wide range of
appendices that situate Defoe's 1719 novel amidst castaway
narratives, economic treatises, reports of cannibalism,
explorations of solitude, and Defoe's own writings on slavery and
the African trade. A final appendix presents images of Crusoe's
rescue of Friday from a dozen of the most significant illustrated
editions of the novel published between 1719 and 1920.
Written by experts in the field, this book addresses the serious
and increasingly public concern over the mental health of veterans
after military deployment. It examines the intersection of criminal
and civil legal issues with mental problems in the veteran
population and describes various effective programs that have been
developed to address these issues. It includes a wide range of
useful topics examining the particular criminal justice problems
faced by vets, such as sexual abuse and violence as well as the
legal institutions that have been established to handle these
problems, such as veterans courts, family courts, and the Veterans
Justice Outreach program. The book also provides coverage of
special groups such as women and homeless veterans. It is a concise
but comprehensive view of this salient topic that is useful for
students, practitioners, and policy makers.
This volume presents an innovative look at early modern medicine
and natural philosophy as historically interrelated developments.
The individual chapters chart this interrelation in a variety of
contexts, from the Humanists who drew on Hippocrates, Galen, and
Aristotle to answer philosophical and medical questions, to medical
debates on the limits and power of mechanism, and on to
eighteenth-century controversies over medical materialism and
'atheism.' The work presented here broadens our understanding of
both philosophy and medicine in this period by illustrating the
ways these disciplines were in deep theoretical and methodological
dialogue and by demonstrating the importance of this dialogue for
understanding their history. Taken together, these papers argue
that to overlook the medical context of natural philosophy and the
philosophical context of medicine is to overlook fundamentally
important aspects of these intellectual endeavors.
Obesity is a risk factor for breast cancer in older women. A number
of adipose-derived and obesity-related factors have been shown to
affect tumour cell growth. These include adipokines, insulin, IGF-1
and oestrogens. The majority of obesity-related postmenopausal
breast cancers are oestrogen-dependent. Since the ovaries no longer
produce oestrogens after menopause, and that circulating levels are
negligible, it is evident that it is the oestrogens produced
locally within the breast adipose that are responsible for the
increased growth of breast cancer cells. Aromatase is the enzyme
that converts androgens into oestrogens and its regulation is
dependent on the activity of a number of tissue-specific promoters.
Targeting oestrogen biosynthesis in obesity may be useful for the
prevention of breast cancer. Aromatase inhibitors are efficacious
at treating postmenopausal breast cancer and recent studies suggest
that they may also be useful in the prevention setting. However,
these compounds inhibit the catalytic activity of aromatase and as
a consequence lead to a number of undesirable side-effects,
including arthralgia and possible cognitive defects due to
inhibition of aromatase in the bone and brain, respectively. Novel
therapies, such as those employed to treat obesity-associated
disease, including anti-diabetics, may prove successful at
inhibiting aromatase specifically within the breast. This
SpringerBrief will explore all of these issues in depth and the
authors are in a unique position to write about this topic, having
extensive experience in the field of aromatase research.
Systematic Methods for Analyzing Culture is a practical manual that
provides step-by-step instruction for collecting and analyzing
cultural data. This compact guide explains complex topics in
straightforward and practical terms, via research examples, textual
and visual software guides, and hands-on exercises. Through each
chapter's introductory examples, the manual illustrates how
socially learned knowledge provides group members with shared
understandings of the world, which allow for mutually intelligible
interactions. The authors then carefully walk readers through the
process of eliciting those socially learned, shared, and thus
cultural representations of reality, which structure the thinking
and practice of individuals inhabiting social groups. Specifically,
the book shows how researchers can elicit such thought and behavior
via methods such as free lists, pile sorts, cultural consensus and
consonance analysis, textual analysis, and personal network
research. The book will help both undergraduate and graduate
students identify ways to unpack the "black box" of culture, which
may be absent or given only cursory attention within their training
and respective fields. The book's clear and systematic step-by-step
walkthroughs of each method will also encourage more established
researchers, educators, and practitioners-from diverse fields and
with varying levels of experience-to integrate techniques for
assessing cultural processes into their research, teaching, and
practice.
Written by experts in the field, this book addresses the serious
and increasingly public concern over the mental health of veterans
after military deployment. It examines the intersection of criminal
and civil legal issues with mental problems in the veteran
population and describes various effective programs that have been
developed to address these issues. It includes a wide range of
useful topics examining the particular criminal justice problems
faced by vets, such as sexual abuse and violence as well as the
legal institutions that have been established to handle these
problems, such as veterans courts, family courts, and the Veterans
Justice Outreach program. The book also provides coverage of
special groups such as women and homeless veterans. It is a concise
but comprehensive view of this salient topic that is useful for
students, practitioners, and policy makers.
Mist and fog engender fascination and mystery, enticing with their
wispy veils and vapourous moods, and they are the stuff of dreams
and visions. 'The mists of time' and 'in a fog' are common
expressions that substantiate the long association of mist and fog
with the passage of time, the vagaries of memory and feelings of
uncertainty. Mist and fog obscure, conceal and when they dissipate,
reveal. Vapourous atmosphere in art and life masks evil and can
elicit presentiments of death. It also has been used in art to
convey the splendours of the spiritual world and the terrors of the
supernatural. The metaphorical meanings that have accrued to mist
and fog, encouraged by their indeterminate and transitory nature,
and the emotions to which they give rise, are variously evident in
the work of major artists and their contemporaries. This book
focusses on mist and fog from the late eighteenth to the early
twentieth centuries in the places they most proliferated. Examples
of literature that employ mist and fog as metaphor and in allegory
from antiquity to Joseph Conrad serve to amplify many of the
paintings discussed.
An understanding of critical care is vital to the modern surgeon,
who is often responsible for patients requiring intensive care or
high-dependency support. Key Questions in Surgical Critical Care
has been designed as a companion to Surgical Critical Care, by
Robert Ashford and Neal Evans, and is split into two main sections,
multiple choice questions and viva topics. Based on the syllabus of
the Royal College of Surgeons, each of these two sections is
further subdivided into six sub-sections covering the
cardiovascular system, the respiratory system, other systems and
multisystem failure, problems in intensive care, principles of
intensive care and practical procedures. The MCQs and viva topics
provided are typical of those appearing in the MRCS examination,
and the authors provide detailed explanatory notes to accompany
each answer, almost all of which are cross-referenced directly to
the relevant pages of Surgical Critical Care, as well as other
sources of further reading.
This volume provides several perspectives that help practitioners,
advocates, and policymakers understand the impact of historical and
recent wars on U.S. Military veterans. The chapters address newly
recognized conditions, such as moral injury, military sexual
trauma, and remote combat trauma as precursors to more serious
diagnosable mental health disorders with the goal of addressing how
these conditions can be identified and mitigated in future combat
operations. The chapters also provide new insights on calculating
the costs of wars in terms of dollars spent on treating mental
health conditions, the intergenerational impact of combat trauma on
families and future generations, and involvement in the criminal
justice system of those who do not receive treatment due to
discharge characterizations from military misconduct.
Anxiety causing disorders are scary, confusing and beyond most
people's comprehension. The idea of this deliberately concise book
is to give you the information and understanding that you'll need
to begin your mental health healing journey as quickly as possible.
Most sufferers of anxiety-causing disorders have little idea why
their mind is seemingly working against them. They may understand
the mechanics of anxiety but not why they suffer from it and why it
won't just go away. Even those who have been in long term therapy
frustratingly find that instead of resolving their issues, they
just seem to be talking around in circles making very little
progress. Understating how the mind works, creating a mindset
conducive to change and having a plan of action are crucial in
overcoming any mental health challenge. This book explains the
mind's operation and the creation of belief systems. It explores
the origins of anxiety causing problems and the subconscious
drivers that maintain them. It touches on the influence of the mind
on the body and its involvement with chronic pain and illness. It
also includes some empowering ideas that will challenge the way you
think about yourself. Not only is the information in this book
suitable for sufferers, but for anyone helping a family member or
friend with an anxiety causing problem. Even health professionals
will benefit from reading this book as it endeavours to explain why
much of the good advice they give to their clients so often falls
on barren ground.
The Broadview Anthology of British Satire, 1660-1750 provides
instructors and students with a thorough introduction to the
highpoint of British literary satire. Reflecting current
pedagogical practice and scholarship, the anthology presents works
by thirty satirists, including eleven women. The contents are
expansive: they include canonical, frequently taught texts, less
anthologized works by major satirists, and works by writers who
have been traditionally excluded from anthologies. Biographical
headnotes, crisp footnotes, and carefully edited texts make the
book suitable for use in both undergraduate and graduate
classrooms. By turns raucous, piercing, acerbic, winking,
vexatious, and sly, the satires in the anthology will provoke
fresh, dynamic approaches to this crucial literary period.
Applied Psychology Panel, Report No. 2. Additional Contributor Is
J. Bradley Sonderman.
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