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The Chancer
Fiona Graham
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R587
Discovery Miles 5 870
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The deep and personal storyâtold through history, poetry, and
imagesâof the forced displacement of the SĂĄmi people from their
homeland in northern Norway and Sweden and its reverberations today
 More than a hundred years have passed since the Såmi were
forcibly displaced from their homes in northern Norway and Sweden,
a hundred years since Elin Anna Labbaâs ancestors and relations
drove their reindeer over the strait to the mainland for the last
time. The place where they lived has remained empty ever since. We
carry our homes in our hearts, Labba shares, citing the SĂĄmi poet
ĂillohaĹĄ. How do you bear that weight if you were forced to
leave? In a remarkable blend of historical reportage, memoir, and
lyrical reimagining, Labba travels to the lost homeland of her
ancestors to tell of the forced removal of the SĂĄmi in the early
twentieth century and to reclaim a place in history, and in
todayâs world, for these Indigenous people of northern
Scandinavia. Â When Norway became a country independent from
Sweden in 1905, the two nations came to an agreement that called
for the displacement of the Northern SĂĄmi, who spent summers on
the Norwegian coast and winters in Sweden. This âdislocation,â
as the authorities called it, gave rise to a new word in SĂĄmi
language, bĂĄggojohtin, forced displacement. The first of the
sirdolaÄÄat, or âthe displaced,â left their homes fully
believing they would soon return. Through stories, photographs,
letters, and joik lyrics, Labba gathers a chorus of SĂĄmi
expression that resonates across the years, evoking the nomadic
life they were required to abandon and the immense hardship and
challenges they endured: children left behind with relatives,
reindeer lost when they returned to familiar territory, sorrow and
estrangement that linger through generations. Â Starkly
poetic and emotionally heart-wrenching, this dark history is told
through the voices of the sirdolaÄÄat, echoing the displacements
of other Indigenous people around the world as it depicts the
singular experience of the Northern SĂĄmi. For her extraordinary
work, Labba was awarded Swedenâs most important national book
prize in 2020, the August Prize for Best Nonfiction.
This book presents a definitive guide to understanding, applying,
and teaching Occupational Performance Coaching (OPC). Grounded in
principles of occupational therapy, person-centredness, and
interprofessional frameworks of health and disability, this book
will be of interest across health and rehabilitation professions.
Supporting people affected by disability to do well and live the
life they want is the ultimate outcome of all rehabilitation
professionals, no matter where on the lifespan our clients sit.
Coaching is increasingly recognised as highly effective in
achieving this aim. This accessible manual provides case examples
related to diverse health conditions alongside practitioner
reflections. Uniquely, this manual presents coaching methods
designed specifically for the rehabilitation environment. This book
is a manual for practitioners, researchers, students, and lecturers
interested in gaining a robust understanding of OPC methods,
theoretical basis, and implementation. An e-Resource linked to the
book provides access to video demonstrations, a podcast from Dr
Graham, and downloadable materials including a self-assessment of
OPC skills (OPC Fidelity Measure), templates for clinical work, and
teaching presentation material. You can access this eResource via
http://resourcecentre.routledge.com/books/9780367427962
This book presents a definitive guide to understanding, applying,
and teaching Occupational Performance Coaching (OPC). Grounded in
principles of occupational therapy, person-centredness, and
interprofessional frameworks of health and disability, this book
will be of interest across health and rehabilitation professions.
Supporting people affected by disability to do well and live the
life they want is the ultimate outcome of all rehabilitation
professionals, no matter where on the lifespan our clients sit.
Coaching is increasingly recognised as highly effective in
achieving this aim. This accessible manual provides case examples
related to diverse health conditions alongside practitioner
reflections. Uniquely, this manual presents coaching methods
designed specifically for the rehabilitation environment. This book
is a manual for practitioners, researchers, students, and lecturers
interested in gaining a robust understanding of OPC methods,
theoretical basis, and implementation. An e-Resource linked to the
book provides access to video demonstrations, a podcast from Dr
Graham, and downloadable materials including a self-assessment of
OPC skills (OPC Fidelity Measure), templates for clinical work, and
teaching presentation material. You can access this eResource via
http://resourcecentre.routledge.com/books/9780367427962
If you want beautiful, healthy, glowing skin, whatever your age,
then look no further. This Scandinavian bestseller will
revolutionise how you care for your body's largest organ. What does
the latest research tell us about our skin? How do our hormones,
genetics, diet, and environment play a part? What should we look
for in our beauty products, and what should we avoid? In this
comprehensive guide, skin scientist Johanna Gillbro teaches you how
best to care for your skin - and what not to do. Think drinking
water will replenish your skin? Think again. More products, better
skin? Nope. And an expensive product doesn't guarantee reliable
results. You don't need to cleanse your skin in the morning; in
fact, too much cleansing can be damaging. Toner is redundant,
natural products are not always best, and bacteria are not the
enemy - and that's just the start! Learn how to read the labels on
products, know exactly what it is you're putting on your skin, and
make better decisions about how you care for it. Using cutting-edge
research about the microbiome, as well as the relationship between
gut health and skin, The Scandinavian Skincare Bible challenges how
we look at beauty today. By revealing the science and exposing
commercial tricks, Dr Gillbro empowers us to lay the foundation for
healthy, beautiful skin.
We take it for granted that the streets outside out homes are
designed for movement from A to B, nothing more. But what happens
if we radically rethink how we use these public spaces? Could we
change our lives for the better? Our dependence on cars is damaging
our health - and the planet's. The Dutch seem to have the right
idea, with thousands of bike highways, but even then, what happens
to pedestrians or people who want to cycle at a more leisurely
pace? What about children playing outside their homes? Or wildlife,
which enriches our local areas? Why do we prioritise traffic above
all else? Making our communities safer, cleaner, and greener starts
with asking the fundamental questions: who do our streets belong
to, what do we use them for, and who gets to decide? Join
journalist Thalia Verkade and urban mobility expert Marco te
Broemmelstroet as they confront their own underlying beliefs and
challenge us to rethink our way of life to put people at the centre
of urban design. But be warned: you will never look at the street
outside your front door in the same way again.
Japanese white-collar workers have been characterised by their
intense loyalty and life-long commitment to their companies. This
book is based on very extensive ethnographic research inside a
Japanese insurance company during the period when the company was
going through a major crisis which ended in the company's
bankruptcy and collapse. It examines the attitudes of Japanese
employees towards their work, their company and related issues at a
time when the established order and established attitudes were
under threat. The wide range and detail of the reporting of
workers' attitudes, often in their own words, sustained over a
considerable timescale, makes this study a particularly valuable
resource.
Graham explores the attitudes of Japanese employees towards their work, their company and on related issues. Based on extensive original research inside a Japanese insurance company (C-Life), which subsequently went bankrupt, the book shows that attitudes towards lifetime employment, company loyalty and the other characteristics of Japanese working life, which are often portrayed in stereotype form in the West, are in fact more complicated than is at first apparent. eBook available with sample pages: 0203433637
What does a mammoth smell like? Do dinosaurs bob their heads as they walk, like today’s birds? Do aurochs moo like cows? You may soon find out.
From the Siberian permafrost to balmy California, scientists across the globe are working to resurrect all kinds of extinct animals, from ones that just left us to those that have been gone for many thousands of years. Their tools in this hunt are both fossils and cutting-edge genetic technologies. Some of these scientists are driven by sheer curiosity; others view the lost species as a powerful weapon in the fight to save rapidly disappearing ecosystems.
Science journalist Torill Kornfeldt travelled the world to meet the men and women working to bring extinct animals back from the dead. Along the way, she saw a mammoth that has been frozen for 20,000 years, and visited the places where these furry giants once walked. It seems certain that they and other lost species will walk the earth again, but what world will that give us? And is any of this a good idea?
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The Chancer
Fiona Graham
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R433
Discovery Miles 4 330
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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The Portuguese visual artist Paula Rego has inspired this trilogy
of plays. Her paintings CrivellI's Garden, The Prey and Breaking
China became the catalyst for writing by theatre maker Fiona
Graham. Commissioned by Theatre Centre and Komedia, these three new
plays were developed for specific audiences through a series of
artist/audience residencies and collaborations. These works have
toured Britain and been re-staged in Portugal and Singapore.
Crivellis's Garden was created for a 16+ audience and explores
rites of passage as two young women decide whether they should stay
or leave their fishing village to go to university in Portugal.
Between Friends is for 7 -11 year olds and examines the politics of
friendship between three young people when they are shipwrecked and
abandoned in a lighthouse. Breaking China is for 4-8 year olds and
shows the importance of creative play and storytelling when making
sense of change and adversity.
Karin Bojs grew up in a small, broken family. At her mother's funeral she felt this more keenly than ever. As a science journalist she was eager to learn more about herself, her family and the interconnectedness of society. After all, we're all related. And in a sense, we are all family.
My European Family tells the story of Europe and its people through its genetic legacy, from the first wave of immigration to the present day, weaving in the latest archaeological findings. Karin goes deep in search of her genealogy; by having her DNA sequenced she was able to trace the path of her ancestors back through the Viking and Bronze ages to the Neolithic and beyond into prehistory, even back to a time when Neanderthals ran the European show. Travelling to dozens of countries to follow the story, she learns about early farmers in the Middle East and flute-playing cavemen in Germany and France, and a whole host of other fascinating characters.
This book looks at genetics from a uniquely pan-European perspective, with the author meeting dozens of geneticists, historians and archaeologists in the course of her research. The genes of this seemingly ordinary modern European woman have a truly fascinating story to tell, and in many ways it is the true story of Europe. At a time when politics is pushing nations apart, this book shows that, ultimately, our genes will always bind us together.
Text in English, French & German. This book is a highlight for
all fans of tattoo, and Japan as well! Photographer Martin Hladik
attended the Japanese tattoo master Horikazu with his camera for
years, and he presents now the lifework of a remarkable tattoo
artist in spectacular images. With this book, comprising scant 500
pages with more than 460 pictures you are diving into the still
hidden world of traditional Japanese tattooing. Interviews with the
late master (2011) and his successor Horikazuwaka provide virtually
intimate insights into the art of tattooing in Asakusa, and give a
glance of the protagonists of a recognised dynasty of tattoo
artists. Functioning and techniques of this handicraft are shown
in-depth. Furthermore you will experience the fascinating
aesthetics, and the complex conception of motifs in traditional
Japanese tattoos displayed in gorgeous photographs, from Koi to
Kabuki, from Buddha to Benzaiten. Anyone of the tattoos reproduced
is one of a kind, it was exclusively created for the wearer, and
made by hand. More highlights come with pictures of the personal,
and familial life of the master. You may visit his studio, and
watch him tattoo his clients. The present selection of not
previously published designs is a true rarity! Downright
sensational, and unique up-to-date is a series of full-page
pictures of Horikazus clients, presenting their full body tattoos
openly and with self-confidence. Total works of art of an ingenious
artist, stung into the skin, lasting an eternity. HORIKAZU is an
iconographical benchmark, and contains a fully comprehensive
account of traditional Japanese tattooing. The illustrious Sanja
festival in Asakusa is displayed in stirring images from past and
presence. Finally photographs from Horikazus funeral reveal another
aspect of Japanese tradition, whether closest friends pay their
last respects to the master. Text input from qualified authors
provides access to the secretive world of images of Japanese tattoo
art. Tattooists, tattoo fans and any art lover will certainly be
thrilled by this unrivalled illustrated book.
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