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There are over 2,000 words and phrases, each illustrated with
amusing pictures of busy everyday scenes, in this colourful
dictionary. Words are arranged thematically, with topics including
buying food, at work, travel and more. Children can hear every word
read aloud by a native Spanish speaker, via the Usborne Quicklinks
website
A colourful dictionary with over 2000 words and phrases illustrated
with amusing pictures of busy everyday scenes. Arranged
thematically so words appear in context with topics on "Buying
Food", "At Work", "In the Countryside" and more. With a
pronunciation guide to every word read by a native French speaker
at the Usborne Quicklinks Website.
In "Atlanta and Environs," historian Franklin M. Garrett wrote that
Oakland Cemetery is "Atlanta's most tangible link between the past
and the present." Within its forty-eight acres are more than
seventy thousand personal stories--of settlers and immigrants who
forged a city from a rowdy railroad camp, former slaves who carved
out lives in a segregated world, soldiers in blue and gray who were
cut down in a brutal civil war, and civic and business visionaries
who rebuilt the Phoenix City from the ashes of war and carried it
to prominence on the international stage.
Today, Atlanta's oldest public cemetery remains a must-see
destination for anyone interested in the city's colorful story.
Past the grieving mien of the Lion of Atlanta, which guards nearly
three thousand unknown Confederate soldiers, visitors can pay
respect to those who made Atlanta history--former slave Carrie
Steele Logan, who founded the first orphanage for African American
children; Joseph Jacobs, owner of the pharmacy where Coca-Cola was
first served as a fountain drink; Morris and Emanuel Rich, founders
of the storied Rich's Department Stores; golfing Grand Slam legend
Bobby Jones; "Gone With the Wind" author Margaret Mitchell; Maynard
Jackson, the city's first African American mayor, and many others.
Aside from its importance as a historic site, Oakland is among the
nation's finest examples of a rural garden cemetery, characteristic
of the nineteenth-century movement to transform stark burial
grounds into pastoral landscapes for both the repose of the dead
and the enjoyment of the living.
With Ren and Helen Davis's engaging narrative, rich photography,
archival images, and detailed maps, "Atlanta's Oakland Cemetery" is
a versatile guide for touring the cemetery's landscape of
remembrance, as well as a unique way to explore Atlanta's history.
A Friends Fund Publication. Published in association with the
Historic Oakland Foundation.
First full collection on the seven most significant English mappae
mundi from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Mappae mundi (maps
of the world), beautiful objects in themselves, offer huge insights
into how medieval scholars conceived the world and their place
within it. They are a fusion of "real" geographical locations with
fantastical, geographic, historical, legendary and theological
material. Their production reached its height in England in the
twelfth and thirteenth centuries, with such well-known examples as
the Hereford map, the maps of Matthew Paris, and the Vercelli map.
This volume provides a comprehensive Companion to the seven most
significant English mappae mundi. It begins with a survey of the
maps' materials, types, shapes, sources, contents,
conventions,idiosyncrasies, commissioners and users, moving on to
locate the maps' creation and use in the realms of medieval
rhetoric, Victorine memory theory and clerical pedagogy. It also
establishes the shared history of map and book making, and
demonstrates how pre-and post-Conquest monastic libraries in
Britain fostered and fed their complementary relationship. A
chapter is then devoted to each individual map. An annotated
bibliography of multilingual resourcescompletes the volume. DAN
TERKLA is Emeritus Professor of English at Illinois Wesleyan
University; NICK MILLEA is Map Librarian, Bodleian Library,
University of Oxford. Contributors: Nathalie Bouloux, Michelle
Brown. Daniel Connolly, Helen Davies, Gregory Heyworth, Alfred
Hiatt, Marcia Kupfer, Nick Millea, Asa Simon Mittman, Dan Terkla,
Chet Van Duzer.
This edited collection explores the representations of identity in
comedy and interrogates the ways in which "humorous" constructions
of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, religion, class and disability
raise serious issues about privilege, agency and oppression in
popular culture. Should there be limits to free speech when humour
is aimed at marginalised social groups? What are the limits of free
speech when comedy pokes fun at those who hold social power? Can
taboo joking be used towards politically progressive ends? Can
stereotypes be mocked through their re-invocation? Comedy and the
Politics of Representation: Mocking the Weak breaks new theoretical
ground by demonstrating how the way people are represented mediates
the triadic relationship set up in comedy between teller, audience
and butt of the joke. By bringing together a selection of essays
from international scholars, this study unpacks and examines the
dynamic role that humour plays in making and remaking identity and
power relations in culture and society.
Neo-Victorian Freakery explores the way in which contemporary
fiction, film, and television has revisited the lives of
nineteenth-century freak show performers. It locates the
neo-Victorian freak show as a crucial forum for debating the
politics of disability, gender, sexuality and race within the genre
more broadly.
Best Hikes Atlanta introduces nearly forty distinct outdoor hiking
destinations across the metropolitan area, from the foothills of
the Appalachian Mountains in the north to the rolling, heavily
forested Piedmont foothills in the south. It is an essential
addition to the library of all who wish to explore the rich natural
and historical sites within an hour's drive of Atlanta.
The literary, historical, and linguistic confluence that
characterized the Irish Sea region in the pre-modern period is
reflected in the interdisciplinarity of these new research essays,
centered on the literatures, languages, and histories of the
Irish-Sea communities of the Middle Ages, much of which is still
evoked in contemporary culture. The contributors to this collection
dive deep into the rich historical record, heroic literature, and
story lore of the medieval communities ringing the Irish Sea, with
case studies that encompass Manx, Irish, Scandinavian, Welsh, and
English traditions. Manannan, the famous travelling Celtic divinity
who supposedly claimed the Isle of Man as his home, mingles here
with his mythical, legendary, and historical neighbors, whose
impact on our image and understanding of the pre-modern cultures of
the Northern Atlantic has persisted down through the centuries.
This edited collection explores the representations of identity in
comedy and interrogates the ways in which "humorous" constructions
of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, religion, class and disability
raise serious issues about privilege, agency and oppression in
popular culture. Should there be limits to free speech when humour
is aimed at marginalised social groups? What are the limits of free
speech when comedy pokes fun at those who hold social power? Can
taboo joking be used towards politically progressive ends? Can
stereotypes be mocked through their re-invocation? Comedy and the
Politics of Representation: Mocking the Weak breaks new theoretical
ground by demonstrating how the way people are represented mediates
the triadic relationship set up in comedy between teller, audience
and butt of the joke. By bringing together a selection of essays
from international scholars, this study unpacks and examines the
dynamic role that humour plays in making and remaking identity and
power relations in culture and society.
Social work with vulnerable adults is becoming increasingly centred
on a key piece of legislation: the Mental Capacity Act. The Act
provides a framework for protecting the vulnerable while allowing
those who may lack capacity to have certain safeguards enshrined in
law. This book will help support students to learn two things:
first, how the Mental Capacity Act operates and what its key
principles are when applied to safeguarding adults; and second,
what are the compassionate skills and values that need to be
interwoven with legislative knowledge? The authors show how these
two principles interact and inform one another and how taking a
person-centred approach to safeguarding vulnerable adults will mean
better outcomes for the individual and our wider society.
Social work with vulnerable adults is becoming increasingly centred
on a key piece of legislation: the Mental Capacity Act. The Act
provides a framework for protecting the vulnerable while allowing
those who may lack capacity to have certain safeguards enshrined in
law. This book will help support students to learn two things:
first, how the Mental Capacity Act operates and what its key
principles are when applied to safeguarding adults; and second,
what are the compassionate skills and values that need to be
interwoven with legislative knowledge? The authors show how these
two principles interact and inform one another and how taking a
person-centred approach to safeguarding vulnerable adults will mean
better outcomes for the individual and our wider society.
Written from a unique interprofessional perspective, this book is
an essential introduction to working with children, young people
and families. It covers policy, practice and theory, exploring key
themes and developments, including: - poverty and disadvantage -
ethical practice - child development - education - child protection
- children and young people's rights - doing research. The book
introduces students to a range of theoretical perspectives, links
the key themes to the existing and emerging policy and practice
context and supports students in engaging with and evaluating the
central debates. With case studies, reflective questions and
sources of further reading, this is an ideal text for students
taking courses in childhood studies, working with children, young
people and families, interprofessional children's services, early
years, youth work and social work.
George Alexander Grant is an unknown elder in the field of American
landscape photography. Just as they did the work of his
contemporaries Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Eliot Porter, and
others, millions of people viewed Grant's photographs; unlike those
contemporaries, few even knew Grant's name. Landscapes for the
People shares his story through his remarkable images and a
compelling biography profiling patience, perseverance, dedication,
and an unsurpassed love of the natural and historic places that
Americans chose to preserve. A Pennsylvania native, Grant was
introduced to the parks during the summer of 1922 and resolved to
make parks work and photography his life. Seven years later, he
received his dream job and spent the next quarter century visiting
the four corners of the country to produce images in more than one
hundred national parks, monuments, historic sites, battlefields,
and other locations. He was there to visually document the dramatic
expansion of the National Park Service during the New Deal,
including the work of the Civilian Conservation Corps. Grant's
images are the work of a master craftsman. His practiced eye for
composition and exposure and his patience to capture subjects in
their finest light are comparable to those of his more widely known
contemporaries. Nearly fifty years after his death, and in concert
with the 2016 centennial of the National Park Service, it is
fitting that George Grant's photography be introduced to a
newgeneration of Americans.
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