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In this sequel to 'Escape from the Planet of the Apes' the year is
1991. Caesar (Roddy McDowall), the son of Zira and Cornelius, has
been sheltered for 18 years by circus owner Armando (Ricardo
Montalban). Following a plague which wiped out all cats and dogs,
apes have been adopted as pets by humans, but when Caesar sees them
being treated as slaves, he leads his brother simians in rebellion
against their overlords.
In 1978, the South African activist and novelist Alex La Guma
(1925-1985) published A Soviet Journey, a memoir of his travels in
the Soviet Union. Today it stands as one of the longest and most
substantive first-hand accounts of the USSR by an African writer.
La Guma's book is consequently a rare and important document of the
anti-apartheid struggle and the Cold War period, depicting the
Soviet model from an African perspective and the specific meaning
it held for those envisioning a future South Africa. For many
members of the African National Congress and the South African
Communist Party, the Soviet Union represented a political system
that had achieved political and economic justice through
socialism-a point of view that has since been lost with the
collapse of the USSR and the end of the Cold War. This new edition
of A Soviet Journey-the first since 1978-restores this vision to
the historical record, highlighting how activist-intellectuals like
La Guma looked to the Soviet Union as a paradigm of
self-determination, decolonization, and postcolonial development.
The introduction by Christopher J. Lee discusses these elements of
La Guma's text, in addition to situating La Guma more broadly
within the intercontinental spaces of the Black Atlantic and an
emergent Third World. Presenting a more expansive view of African
literature and its global intellectual engagements, A Soviet
Journey will be of interest to readers of African fiction and
non-fiction, South African history, postcolonial Cold War studies,
and radical political thought.
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This book is the first to combine the much talked about topics
of leadership and sustainability, and provides readers with a
comprehensive overview and pragmatic approach to leading
sustainable organizations.
Chapters include discussions, case examples, steps, and useful
tools centred on the components of the Leading the Sustainable
Organization model. This model provides managers with a pragmatic,
end-to-end framework for creating (in the case of new entities) or
shifting (in the case of existing firms) their organizations
workforces to a sustainability focus.
Leading the Sustainable Organization is the perfect tool for
executives and managers in small, medium, and large companies, and
in all industries, to assist with the difficult and confusing topic
of leading sustainability efforts. This book will be of great
interest to students and academics who want to learn more about
corporate sustainability.
One of South Africa's best-known writers during the apartheid era,
Alex La Guma was a lifelong activist and a member of the South
African Communist Party and the African National Congress.
Persecuted and imprisoned by the South African regime in the 1950s
and 60s, La Guma went into exile in the United Kingdom with his
wife and children in 1966, eventually serving as the ANC's
diplomatic representative for Latin America and the Caribbean in
Cuba. Culture and Liberation captures a different dimension of his
long writing career by collecting his political journalism,
literary criticism, and other short pieces published while he was
in exile. This volume spans La Guma's political and literary life
in exile through accounts of his travels to Algeria, Lebanon,
Vietnam, Soviet Central Asia, and elsewhere, along with his
critical assessments of Paul Robeson, Nadine Gordimer, Maxim Gorky,
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and Pablo Neruda, among other writers. The
first dedicated collection of La Guma's exile writing, Culture and
Liberation restores an overlooked dimension of his life and work,
while opening a window on a wider world of cultural and political
struggles in Africa, Asia, and Latin America during the second half
of the twentieth century.
Bestselling Author Reveals How God Empowers Women for Leadership
and Purpose
Christian women are often led to believe they are God's
afterthoughts--as if they were created inferior to men or destined
by God to play a secondary role in life. Not so, says bestselling
author J. Lee Grady, father of four daughters and a leading
international voice confronting the abuse of women. He counters
that the Bible's message is neither sexist nor patronizing.
Through sharing the lives of 23 mold-breaking biblical women, Grady
shows how God enables his daughters to do amazing, even impossible
things. He also reveals the empowering, yet often-overlooked, gifts
God longs to give each of his daughters--gifts like wisdom,
fruitfulness, leadership, family, and boldness. When women learn to
receive each of these, and more, as a divine inheritance, they will
live the fearless and beautiful lives of purpose God desires for
them.
This volume contains a collection of original studies in
conversation analysis (C.A.) arranged and presented both to
introduce the discipline to the newcomer and to reveal some of the
expanding range of discoveries which conversation analysts are
making in the course of their distinctive enquiries into the order
and organisation of natural language. Though sociological in its
orientation. C.A. and the papers here represented are of direct
methodological and substantive interest to linguists, philosophers,
discourse and speech analysts and social anthropologists. Indeed
the strict adherence to the methodological principle that analysis
can and must be shown to be grounded in data represents a challenge
to all those disciplines which set out to use their materials as
mere hand-maidens to support preconstructed models, theories and
hypotheses. In this series of papers which includes previously
unpublished works of the late Harvey Sacks and the last completed
joint researches of Sacks, Jefferson and Schegloff ordinary talk is
shown as consisting of a variety of previously unnoticed socially
organised practices which conversationalists engage in to generate
the organisation which talk has. The methods and the analytic
mentality of conversation analysts are, and are here shown to be,
designed to make conversationalist's methods, structure and modes
of orientation available for empirical study. The search for order
and organisation reveals it everywhere. Laughter is shown to be
concertedly organised and negotiated in the finest detail. The
machinery of delicate repair systems is revealed. Conversational
completions are shown to be the product of elaborate negotiating
machineries. Conversationalists are revealed as subtly orienting-to
and invoking the visual contexts of their interaction within the
framework of the turn-taking organisation of conversation. This
volume also contains examples of conversation analytic work into
the talk produced in organisational settings such as courts and
Doctor/Patient interviews. Such analyses reveal the contribution
that the discipline might make towards the exploration of the kind
of social phenomena traditionally researched by sociologists,
social psychologists and social anthropologists.
HIST 98 short blurb This text examines all the major themes,
personalities and issues of this important period in a clear and
digestible form. Illustrated with with helpful maps, charts and
diagrams. "Aspects of British Political History 1914-1995" examines
all the major themes, personalities and issues of this important
period in a clear and digestible form. It: introduces fresh angles
to long-studied topics; consolidates a great body of recent
research; analyzes views of different historians; offers an
interpretive rather than narrative approach; gives concise
treatment to complex issues; is directly relevant to student
questions and courses; is carefully organised to reflect the way
teachers tackle these courses; and is illustrated with helpful
maps, charts, illustrations and photographs.
The period 1618-1648 was one of the most complex in European history. Religion interacted with rebellion and dynastic rivalry in a series of conflicts in central Europe known collectively as the Thirty Years War. This book guides the reader through the period by surveying the narrative of events and establishing the essential chronological framework. In addition Stephen Lee looks at such key issues as the motives of the participants, their gains and losses, as well as at the religious, military, social and economic aspects of the War. Each section in the book incorporates the most recent research.
Written by five leading executive coaches, Becoming an Exceptional
Executive Coach is the answer to any businesses' need for more
individualized development resources. Drawing on their varied
backgrounds, the authors show you that coaching is about more than
simply learning a set of skills. Rather, it's a whole-person
activity--one in which coaches connect to and serve clients in
unique and personal ways to help them grow in work and in life.
You'll learn how to draw on your professional experience, knowledge
of organizationally relevant topics, strong helping skills,
coaching-specific competencies, and most important, your ability to
use your own intuition to become a more effective leadership coach.
You will examine the crucial content areas that drive their work
such as: engagement goal setting needs assessment data gathering
feedback development planning With case studies that bring the
material to life in each chapter and a plethora of additional
charts, development plans, and contracts, Becoming an Exceptional
Executive Coach continues the discussion of the role of coaching in
organizational contexts and equips you to develop your own winning
strategies that will advance their careers--and the careers of
countless others.
Now you can understand how astrologers comprehend environmental
issues of the 21st century. In this ground-breaking work,
traditional astrological methods for assessing outer planet cycles,
then the full integration of the meanings of the upcoming Neptune
and Pluto cycles through 2065, are studied in depth. A full history
is presented with over seventy complete examples of how the Aries
Ingress charts and the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction series were
developed to appreciate both short-term and long-term trends. This
work does not require prior knowledge of either classical or
mundane astrology (however, experience in these areas would be
helpful). Discover how the astrological events of 2012 are not as
important as future configurations, although it is so important
that the configurations are understood now.
This compilation of research and stories from the field about
multilingual family-school partnerships explores where systemic
inequities exist at the school, district, or community level, and
consider strategies that disrupt normative ways in which
multilingual families are included in educational decisions. The
authors present family-school partnerships in educational and
non-educational settings across the United States, and identify
frameworks, models, and practices for engaging multilingual
families in schooling. This edited volume is organized into four
sections. Section one, “School District Collaborations with
Multilingual Families,” describes how districts honor the
knowledge of multilingual parents as foundational tenets in their
collaborative work with them. Section two, “School Leadership
Approaches to Engaging Multilingual Families,” focuses on how
school leaders enacted critical approaches to building
relationships with multilingual families. Section three,
“Educator Partnerships with Multilingual Families,” explores
educators’ approaches to developing relationships with
multilingual families. Section four, “Multilingual Families as
Leaders in School Partnerships,” highlights the visible and
invisible ways that multilingual parents contribute to the overall
success of their children. Each chapter offers examples of
successes and challenges of partnerships with multilingual families
and how they can help to transform school communities.
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the ideas of Kwame Anthony Appiah, the Ghanaian-British philosopher
who is a leading public intellectual today. The book focuses on the
theme of 'identity' and is structured around five main topics,
corresponding to the subjects of his major works: race, culture,
liberalism, cosmopolitanism, and moral revolutions. This helpful
book: * Teaches students about the sources, opportunities, and
dilemmas of personal and social identity-whether on the basis of
race, gender, sexuality, or class, among others-in the purview of
Appiah. * Locates Appiah within a broader tradition of intellectual
engagement with these issues-involving such thinkers as W. E. B. Du
Bois, John Stuart Mill, and Martha Nussbaum-and, thus, how Appiah
is both an inheritor and innovator of preceding ideas. * Seeks to
inspire students on how to approach and negotiate identity politics
in the present. This book ultimately imparts a more diverse and
wider-reaching geographic sense of philosophy through the lens of
Appiah and his intellectual contributions, as well as emphasizing
the continuing social relevance of philosophy and critical theory
more generally to everyday life today.
From a renowned name in A Level history publishing, this is a
Questions and Analysis title on a major period in Russian History.
With all three exam boards offering modules on this popular subject
at A Level, this book is an absolute must-have. Looking at the many
different aspects of the period 1855-1991 that are covered in A
Level history, Stephen J. Lee examines and compares: the ideologies
of Tsarist autocracy and Soviet communism parties and opposition to
these regimes the use of repression and terror agriculture industry
the class structure the 1917 revolution the impact of the First and
Second World Wars on Russia. Key elements of this book include:
each topic/issue forms a well-structured chapter: background;
analysis; sources with questions; worked answers a prominent
historiography section - an important element of the new A2 history
assessment an incorporated A2 synoptic approach that teaches
students to draw together their entire range of knowledge and
skills to study one topic guidance on how to answer the
recently-introduced synoptic questions. Involving the importance of
understanding the connections between the essential characteristics
of historical study, this key title is the one-stop shop for all
history teachers and students.
Using methods developed by ancient Astrologers, Lee Lehman works to
strengthen techniques used by Astrologers today. The task of
Classical Astrology today is twofold: to recover these techniques
and to evaluate and understand them within a modern context. She
presents both techniques and the logic behind them to radically
improve all Astrology, regardless of whether the practitioner
chooses to adopt a Classical or Neo-Classical approach. She
analyzes the charts of several famous people and events to
demonstrate the techniques and their effectiveness.
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A Garden Called Home
Jessica J. Lee; Illustrated by Elaine Chen
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In 1978, the South African activist and novelist Alex La Guma
(1925-1985) published A Soviet Journey, a memoir of his travels in
the Soviet Union. Today it stands as one of the longest and most
substantive first-hand accounts of the USSR by an African writer.
La Guma's book is consequently a rare and important document of the
anti-apartheid struggle and the Cold War period, depicting the
Soviet model from an African perspective and the specific meaning
it held for those envisioning a future South Africa. For many
members of the African National Congress and the South African
Communist Party, the Soviet Union represented a political system
that had achieved political and economic justice through
socialism-a point of view that has since been lost with the
collapse of the USSR and the end of the Cold War. This new edition
of A Soviet Journey-the first since 1978-restores this vision to
the historical record, highlighting how activist-intellectuals like
La Guma looked to the Soviet Union as a paradigm of
self-determination, decolonization, and postcolonial development.
The introduction by Christopher J. Lee discusses these elements of
La Guma's text, in addition to situating La Guma more broadly
within the intercontinental spaces of the Black Atlantic and an
emergent Third World. Presenting a more expansive view of African
literature and its global intellectual engagements, A Soviet
Journey will be of interest to readers of African fiction and
non-fiction, South African history, postcolonial Cold War studies,
and radical political thought.
Is tai chi a stretching exercise, deep-breathing program, martial
art, dance or prayer? Yes, it's all those and more.Tai chi, like
many ancient Eastern practices, does not fit strict Western
categories. Tai chi, together with the extraordinary self-healing
method developed by Dr Lee, offers relief for stress, breathing
disorders, muscular ailments, chronic headaches, and a variety of
modern office- and sports-related complaints, as well as for deep
emotional distress.Few today are as well positioned to explain the
healing powers of tai chi as Dr. Martin Lee, a renowned engineering
physicist and tai chi master. He and his wife, Emily, also a tai
chi master, are the only Americans to have studied with Yu
Pen-Shih, one of China's foremost ch'i kung masters. Dr. Lee has
developed a groundbreaking practical program that combines Eastern
and Western approaches to wellness, which he calls 'physical
philosophy.' Its goal is to help people become 'one with nature,' a
Buddhist term for the natural restoration of true health.The
rewards of one-with-nature tai chi are inner happiness,
self-control, self-realization, and self-healing. Each one of these
benefits receives individual attention, complete with the 64 tai
chi forms, thoroughly illustrated with photographs and diagrams.
The central focus is on the flow of energy - the chi, or 'inner
breath' - that tai chi evokes through Lee's four basic
instructions: Relax. Breathe. Feel the earth. Do nothing extra.
Here is a valuable health, exercise, and meditation program that
combines ancient spiritual insights with advanced scientific
knowledge and important original discoveries.
This book is written as a senior undergraduate and graduate
textbook of theoretical plasma physics; topics include Boltzmann
equation, two-fluid equations, magnetohydrodynamics, Vlasov-Maxwell
Plasma, absolute and convective instabilities, fundamental kinetic
theory, Lenard-Balescu equation, electric fluctuation, plasma
electrodynamics and causality, nonlinear waves, inverse scattering
method, surface waves, and dusty plasma. It also includes special
topics like parametric instabilities and kinetic theory of surface
waves in a plasma slab.The development of theory is presented
through gentle mathematical steps through easy and straightforward
demonstration. The readers will be able to appreciate the beauty of
mathematical analysis in connection with theoretical plasma
physics.
A simple algorithm for solving a set of nonlinear equations by
matrix algebra has been discovered recently - first by transforming
them into an equivalent matrix equation and then finding the
solution analytically in terms of the inverse matrix of this
equation. With this newly developed ACORN (Adaptive Constrained
Optimal Robust Nonlinear) algorithm, it is possible to minimize the
objective function [constructed from the functions in the nonlinear
set of equations] without computing its derivatives.This book will
present the details of ACORN algorithm and how it is used to solve
large scale nonlinear equations with an innovative approach ACORN
Magic [minimization algorithms gathered in a cloud].The ultimate
motivation of this work is its application to optimization. In
recent years, with the advances in big-data, optimization becomes
an even more powerful tool in knowledge discovery. ACORN Magic is
the perfect choice in this kind of application because of that fact
that it is fast, robust and simple enough to be embedded in any
type of machine learning program.
For more than sixteen years, veteran journalist J. Lee Grady has
kept a finger on the pulse of the charismatic and Pentecostal
renewal, which restored the power of the Holy Spirit to the church,
but which now suffers from abuse. Since many Spirit-empowered
believers have lost their original focus and purity, Grady delves
into some of the problems that plague churches and ministries:
financial scandal, faulty theology, moral failure, and more.
Yet the message of this fervent journalist, who loves the gifts of
the Spirit, isn't one of condemnation and finger-pointing. Instead
it is a clarion call to restore the fire of supernatural anointing
with biblical boldness, purity, integrity, humility, truth,
justice, and compassion. Grady longs for every believer to find or
recover a genuine experience with the Holy Spirit.
Among the topics he addresses are
- the genuine work of the Holy Spirit
- strategies for developing healthy leaders
- how to set up proper accountability structures
- why so many churches and ministries have imploded in recent years
With extraordinary insight, a keen eye for discernment, and a
desire to see the church purified and believers empowered, Grady
gives a straightforward and ultimately affirming message that will
expose the problems and ignite believers with God's fire.
Contents: Introduction. 1.The formation and structure of the Second Reich 2.Domestic Policies 1871-1890 3.Foreign and imperial policies 1871-1890 4.Domestic policies 1890-1914 5.Foreign and imperial policies 1890-1914 6.Economy and society 1871-1914 7.War and collapse 1914-1918 Notes, Bibliography
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