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This study guide is meant to be used along with the reading of the
novel Brave new world by Aldous Huxley. The guide is user-friendly and
practical to support the teaching process of the novel as literary work
in the classroom.
Various literary aspects are discussed in the book, including:
• historical context;
• plot outlines;
• central concerns;
• character development.
The guide features discussions of the novel chapter by chapter with
plenty of questions for individual reflection and class discussions. It
is aimed at the grade 12 learner who needs to engage with a personal
and intellectual understanding of the text in order to produce an
essay. The text, written in 1932, remains relevant and controversial
and will allow learners to test and challenge their own thinking around
individual freedom and the role of society. The guide aims to support
and open discussion.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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Fire Dog (Hardcover)
Kristin S Everson; Illustrated by William G Bill Haynes
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R577
R486
Discovery Miles 4 860
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A Voyage to Arcturus (Hardcover)
David Lindsay; Illustrated by John O'Connor; Edited by Michael Everson
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R738
Discovery Miles 7 380
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This early manual is a fascinating read for any farming enthusiast
or historian, but also contains much information that is still
useful and practical today. An absorbing work that is thoroughly
recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of all farmers. Contents
Include: Sheep and Lambs - Poultry - Calves, Cows, Heifers - Swine
- Horses - Pasture - Gardens - Ants, Bugs, Insects and Pests -
Trees and Shrubs - Fruits and Berries - All Around the Farm -
Household Helps - In the Kitchen - Meats and Their Uses - Emergency
Information - Weights, Measures, Areas, Contents - Principal Postal
Rates - Business Helps - Hit and Miss - The Social Hour - Thinking
Planks in Character Building - Pigeons, Rabbits, Goats - Now You
Try It - Moon and Zodiac Signs - and the Constitution of the United
States. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back
to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly
expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable,
high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Liver Transplantation: Challenging Controversies and Topics grew
out of a need I perceived within the fields of transplant
hepatology and liver transplantation. Liver transplantation has
rightly gained recognition as an established therapy for end-stage
liver disease. Few would argue that liver transplantation is one of
the few truly lifesaving and life-altering treatments within
medicine and surgery. Not many realize that 20 years passed from
the time of the first human liver transplantation in 1963 to its
acceptance as therapy by the 1983 NIH Consensus Conference on Liver
Transplantation. In 2008, 25 years will have passed since the 1983
NIH conference-a mere 25 years for a field that has provided
patients hope, doctors options, and to some the "gift of life. "
Many issues in liver transplantation involve indications, patient
selection, and outcomes after transplantation-these are standard
topics, covered by textbooks of hepatology and transplantation. In
contrast, the field of liver tra- plantation is young, evolving,
dynamic, and issues and decisions are often controversial. Thus,
Dr. Trotter and I, as well as our colleagues at the University of
Colorado, felt that a text with a different focus was required, one
that highlighted controversy and challenged dogma. Out of this
perceived need emerged Liver Transplantation: Challenging
Controversies and Topics. To meet the transplant community's need
for emerging information about liver transplantation, Dr. Larry
Chan, Dr. Igal Kam, and I initiated the Controversies in
Transplantation Conference.
This new edition of Jenner's classic Handbook of the Cornish
Language appears more than a century after the book's first
publication. Now that the Cornish Revival has weathered many
storms, it is well worth making Jenner's ground-breaking work
available again, copies of the 1904 edition having become rare and
expensive.
This is a story about a country boy, born into poverty in a
community where almost every male of age worked in the coal mines,
The author's older brothers and father, almost all of his uncles
and cousins, and non-relatives in the community, nearly all worked
in the coal mines. The author, at a very young age, vowed to
himself that he would never go to work in the coal mines. Where
education was not rated very highly, since none was needed to work
underground in the dirty, dangerous mines. As this was quite a
difficult vow at this place and in that time, it proved to be a
real struggle to escape the environment and the culture of the
neighborhood. How he managed to do this proved to be a struggle and
a precarious journey for a shy country boy.
Uncertain Risks Regulated compares various models of risk
regulation in order to understand how these systems shape the
relationship between law and science, and how they attempt to
overcome public distrust in science-based decision-making. The book
contributes to the ongoing debate relating to uncertainty and risks
- and the difficulties faced by the European Union in particular -
in regulating theses issues, taking account of both national and
international constraints. The term 'uncertain risk' is comparable
with notions of hazard and indeterminate risk, as deployed within
the social sciences; but it also aims to capture the modern
regulatory reality that a non-quantifiable hazard must still be
addressed by society, law and its regulators. Decisions must be
taken in the face of uncertainty. And, whilst it is not possible to
provide clear cut models of risk regulation, in focusing on
regulatory practices at a national, EU and international level, the
contributors to this volume aim to use fact finding as a core
instrument of learning for risk regulation.
An indispensable guide for learners and teachers alike, The Theory of Flight Study Guide will enhance the experience of exploring Siphiwe Ndlovu's richly layered novel, a setwork for Grade 11 and 12 learners.
A powerful testament to the human spirit, the novel won the Sunday Times Fiction Prize in 2019. This study guide is clear and informative, and offers fascinating insight and in-depth analysis of themes, motifs and other symbolism found in the novel.
Most importantly, study guide author Ruth Everson interviewed Siphiwe Ndlovu in September 2021, and illuminating excerpts from this conversation are included in the book.
This book examines the heritage of Victor Shklovsky in a variety of
disciplines. To achieve this end, Slav N. Gratchev and Howard
Mancing draw upon colleagues from eight different countries across
the world-the United States, Canada, Russia, England, Scotland, the
Netherlands, Norway, and China-in order to bring the widest variety
of points of view on the subject. Viktor Shklovsky's Heritage in
Literature, Arts, and Philosophy is more than just another
collection of essays of literary criticism: the editors invited
scholars from different disciplines-literature, cinematography, and
philosophy-who have dealt with Shklovsky's heritage and saw its
practical application in their fields. Therefore, all of these
essays are written in a variety of humanist academic and scholarly
styles, all engaging and dynamic.
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Charlemagne in Italy (Hardcover)
Jane E. Everson; Contributions by Jane E. Everson, Claudia Boscolo, Leslie Zarker Morgan, Franca Strologo, …
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R3,042
Discovery Miles 30 420
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An exploration of the many depictions of Charlemagne in the Italian
tradition of chivalric narratives in verse and prose. Chivalric
tales and narratives concerning Charlemagne were composed and
circulated in Italy from the early fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth
century (and indeed subsequently flourished in forms of popular
theatre which continue today). But are they history or fiction?
Myth or fact? Cultural memory or deliberate appropriation? Elite
culture or popular entertainment? Oral or written, performed or
read? This book explores the many depictions of the Emperor in the
Italian tradition of chivalric narratives in verse and prose.
Beginning in the age of Dante with the earliest tales composed for
Italians in the hybrid language of Franco-Italian, which draw
inspiration from the French tradition of Charlemagne narratives,
the volume considers the compositions of anonymous reciters of
cantari and the prose versions of the Florentine Andrea da
Barberino, before discussing the major literary contributions to
the genre by Luigi Pulci, Matteo Maria Boiardo and Ludovico
Ariosto. The focus throughout is on the ways in which the portrait
of Charlemagne, seen as both Emperor and King of France, is
persistently ambiguous, affected by the contemporary political
situation and historical events such as invasion and warfare. He
emerges through these texts in myriad guises, from positive and
admirable to negative and despised.
Business networks consist of several independent businesses that
enter into interrelated contracts, conferring on the parties many
of the benefits of co-ordination achieved through vertical
integration in a single firm, without creating a single integrated
business such as a corporation or partnership. Retail franchises
are one such example of a network, but the most common instance is
a credit card transaction between a customer, retailer, and the
issuer of the card. How should the law analyse this hybrid economic
phenomenon? It is neither exactly a market relationship - because
that overlooks the co-ordination, relational qualities and
interdependence of the contracts - nor is it a type of business
association or company, since it lacks a centralised co-ordinating
authority that receives the residual profits. This book is a
translation of Gunther Teubner's classic work on networks, setting
out his novel legal concept of 'connected contracts'. In it he
explains how this concept addresses the problems posed by networks,
such as the question whether the network as a whole can be held
legally responsible for damage that it causes to third parties such
as customers. A substantial introduction by Hugh Collins explains
the analysis of networks in the context of German law and the
systems theory from which Teubner approaches the topic. The
introduction also explores how far the concept of connected
contracts might assist in the common law world, including the UK
and the USA, to address the same problems that arise in cases
involving networks. As well as making a contribution to comparative
law and legal theory, the book will be of interest to scholars
interested in contract law, commercial law and the law of business
associations.
Central to this volume, and critical to its unique creative
significance and contribution, is the conceptual unification of
syndemics and stigma. Syndemics theory is increasingly recognized
in social science and medicine as a crucial framework for examining
and addressing pathways of interaction between biological and
social aspects of chronic and acute suffering in populations. While
much research to date addresses known syndemics such as those
involving HIV, diabetes, and mental illness, this book explores new
directions just beginning to emerge in syndemics research -
revealing what syndemics theory can illuminate about, for example
the health consequences of socially pathologized pregnancy or
infertility, when stigmatization of reproductive options or
experiences affect women's health. In other chapters, newly
identified syndemics affecting incarcerated or detained individuals
are highlighted, demonstrating the physical, psychological,
structural, and political-economic effects of stigmatizing legal
frameworks on human health, through a syndemic lens. Elsewhere in
the volume, scholars examine the stigma of poverty and how it
affects both nutritional and oral health. The common thread across
all chapters is linkages of social stigmatization, structural
conditions, and how these societal forces drive biological and
disease interactions affecting human health, in areas not
previously explored through these lenses.
The trade conflicts that the EU has faced within the EU or WTO
context demonstrate that the question of how to balance trade and
other societal values in situations of uncertainty has not been
solved by the regulatory model evolved by the EU in the aftermath
of the BSE crisis - one which privileges processes of
depoliticisation and scientification. This book addresses the
current key dilemmas around science, law and the regulation of
trade, both on a regime level and in the context of particular
industrial sectors, e.g pharmaceuticals, climate change and
nanotechnology. It will present possible future research avenues by
looking at both theory and practice and learning from various
disciplines (law and social sciences), legal realities (WTO, USA
and EU) and actors (regulators, stakeholders, courts).
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