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Tumble down the rabbit hole into a construction of technology,
machines, retro-art and culture, full of fantastic visions in a
time and place that realizes an alternate world to our own. The
Steampunk Tarot imagines this in an alternate-reality tarot where
The Technomage is king and the Punk Diva is queen. The world of
steampunk combines Victorian and Gothic elements, and early
invention with a huge dash of imagination and a tremendous sense of
style. The Steampunk Tarot is a world apart: a nexus of opulence,
innovation and alternate world-views that is reflected in 78
scenes. The 22 major arcana cards are the actors at the heart of
the machine, the deos macninae or "the gods of the machine." Acting
as mediators of the Gods of the Machine are the 16 court cards who
are the Legates of the Omniverse, or ambassadorial representatives
of the Four Leagues, comprising all the skills that maintain the
Imperium: they are the movers and shakers--the Commander, Lady,
Navigator, and Messenger, or King, Queen, Knight and Page. They
oversee the other 40 cards of the minor arcana, who are the
elemental worlds of Airships, Engines, Submersibles and Gears, or
Swords, Wands, Cups and Coins. There are still things to discover
and uncover in the Steampunk Imperium. Many new methods of
spreading and playing with tarot cards are included, as well as
methods of life-navigation by the use of skillful questions. The
Steampunk Tarot is an adventurous tarot for the discerning diviner,
to be appreciated both by tarot-users and steampunk fans.
A Brief Moment in the Sun is the first scholarly biography of
Francis Lewis Cardozo, one of the most talented and influential
African Americans to hold elected office in the South between
Reconstruction and the civil rights era. Born to a formerly
enslaved African American mother and white Jewish father in
antebellum South Carolina, Cardozo led a life of extraordinary
achievement as a pioneering educator, politician, and government
official. However, today he is largely unknown in South Carolina
and among students of nineteenth-century American history.
Immediately after the Civil War, Cardozo succeeded in creating and
leading a successful school for formerly enslaved children in the
face of widespread racial hostility. Between 1868 and 1877, voters
elected him secretary of state and state treasurer. In the
Republican administrations that controlled the state during
Reconstruction, Cardozo was a famously honest officeholder when
many of his colleagues were notoriously corrupt. He played a major
part in securing a viable educational system for Black and white
children and land reform for thousands of landless families.
Cardozo proved that Black men could govern at least as well as
white. As a result, he became the target of white supremacist
Democratic politicians after they reclaimed power through a
campaign of violence and intimidation. They prosecuted, convicted,
and imprisoned Cardozo on a fabricated fraud charge. Pardoned in
1879, Cardozo moved to Washington DC, where he led an even more
successful school for African American children. Neil Kinghan's
Brief Moment in the Sun is the first complete historical analysis
of Francis Cardozo and his contribution to Reconstruction and
African American history. It draws on original research on
Cardozo's early life and education in Scotland and England and
pulls together for the first time the extant sources on his
experiences in South Carolina and Washington, DC. Kinghan reveals
all that Cardozo achieved as a Black educator and political leader
and explores what else he might have realized if white racism and
violence had not ended his efforts in South Carolina. Above all,
Kinghan shows that Francis Cardozo deserves a place of honor and
distinction in the history of nineteenth-century America.
This open access book provides a snapshot of the state of
contemporary access to justice in England and Wales. Legal aid
lawyers provide a critical function in supporting individuals to
address a range of problems. These are problems that commonly
intersect with issues of social justice, including crime,
homelessness, domestic violence, family breakdown and educational
exclusion. However, the past few decades have seen a clear retreat
from the tenets of the welfare state, including, as part of this,
the reduced availability of legal aid. This book examines the
impact of austerity and related policies on those at the coalface
of the legal profession. It documents the current state of the
sector as well as the social and economic factors that make working
in the legal aid profession more challenging than ever before.
Through data collected via the Legal Aid Census 2021, the book is
underpinned by the accounts of over 1000 current and former legal
aid lawyers. These accounts offer a detailed demography and insight
into the financial, cultural and other pressures forcing lawyers to
give up publicly funded work. This book combines a mixture of
quantitative and qualitative analysis, allowing readers a broad
appreciation of trends in the legal aid profession. This book will
equip readers with a thorough knowledge of legal aid lawyers in
England and Wales, and aims to stimulate debate as to the fate of
access to justice and legal aid in the future.
Imagine a time when vast helium-fueled airships took the place of
aircraft, and where the hunger for adventure and exploration took
the human race into stranger places than we ever imagined. "The
Steampunk Tarot" imagines this in an alternate-reality tarot where
The Technomage is king and the Punk Diva is queen.
Tumble down the rabbit hole into a construction of technology,
machines, retro-art and culture, full of fantastic visions in a
time and place that realizes an alternate world to our own. The
world of steampunk combines Victoriana, the Gothic, and early
invention with a huge dash of imagination and a tremendous sense of
style. "The Steampunk Tarot" is a world apart: a nexus of opulence,
innovation and alternate world-views that is reflected in 78
scenes. More utopian than dystopian, it breeds its own thrilling
archetypes. The 22 major arcana cards are the actors at the heart
of the machine, the "deos macninae" or "the gods of the machine."
Here their primal impulses beat out the determining rhythm that
courses through every artery of the Imperium. Each of the actors in
the steampunk mysteries are like performers on the stage, their
archetypes spot-lit. Acting as mediators of the Gods of the Machine
are the 16 court cards who are the Legates of the Omniverse, or
ambassadorial representatives of the Four Leagues, comprising all
the skills that maintain the Imperium: they are the movers and
shakers--the Commander, Lady, Navigator, and Messenger, or King,
Queen, Knight and Page. They oversee the other 40 cards of the
minor arcana, who are the elemental worlds of Airships, Engines,
Submersibles and Gears, or Swords, Wands, Cups and Coins.
There are still things to discover and uncover in the Steampunk
Imperium. Many new methods of spreading and playing with tarot
cards are included, as well as methods of life-navigation by the
use of skillful questions. "The Steampunk Tarot" is an adventurous
tarot for the discerning diviner, to be appreciated both by
tarot-users and steampunk fans the world over.
Before spoken language evolved, our ancestors communicated through
images, drawn or carved onto the walls of caves. A vast proportion
of the thousands of such images derive from the visionary insights
of the first shamans, who either left them as reminders for
themselves or as spiritual signposts for those who came after
them.Created by practising shaman John Matthews and beautifully
illustrated with evocative images of cave paintings by Wil Kinghan,
this highly original deck contains 52 cards, which are divided into
five groupings - Spirits, Ancestors, Hunters, Dancers and Shamans -
each representing a different aspect of human experience. Two
further cards - the Journeyer and the Helper - represent the person
who is conducting the reading: the Seeker. As the cards are drawn,
they reveal insights that will help to guide the Seeker on his or
her quest for the answers to life's most vital questions.The images
are not only beautiful, atmospheric and mysterious, but they also
touch on the deepest memories we all possess - the unconscious
archetypes that influence our thoughts, feelings and actions at the
deepest level of being.
Written by a lawyer who works at the intersection between legal
education and practice in access to justice and human rights, this
book locates, describes and defines a collective identity for
social justice lawyering in the UK. Underpinned by theories of
cause lawyering and legal mobilisation, the book argues that it is
vital to understand the positions that progressive lawyers
collectively take in order to frame the connections they make
between their personal and professional lives, the tools they use
to achieve social change, as well as ethical tensions presented by
their work. The book takes a reflexive ethnographic approach to
capture the stories of 35 lawyers working to positively transform
law and policy in the UK over the last 50 years. It also draws on a
wealth of primary sources including case reports, historic campaign
materials and media analysis alongside wider ethnographic
interviews with academics, students and lawyers and participant
observation at social justice conferences, workshops and events.
The book explains the way in which lawyers' networks facilitate
their collective positioning and influence their strategic decision
making, which in turn shapes their interactions with social
activists, with other lawyers and with the state itself.
Michel de Nostredame, sixteenth-century French apothecary and seer,
was the most famous visionary of them all. In 1994, in the Italian
National Library in Rome, a manuscript believed to be by the man
himself was discovered along with 80 mysterious paintings drawing
heavily on the symbolism of the tarot. John Matthews and Wil
Kinghan realized the implications of this work and, after much
research, now bring it to fruition. For the first time, the
astounding power of the prophecies is married to the predictive
imagery of the Tarot. Fresh translations from the original
quatrains add another dimension to the readings making this,
without question, the ultimate oracle from the primary
prognosticator.
Written by a lawyer who works at the intersection between legal
education and practice in access to justice and human rights, this
book locates, describes and defines a collective identity for
social justice lawyering in the UK. Underpinned by theories of
cause lawyering and legal mobilisation, the book argues that it is
vital to understand the positions that progressive lawyers
collectively take in order to frame the connections they make
between their personal and professional lives, the tools they use
to achieve social change, as well as ethical tensions presented by
their work. The book takes a reflexive ethnographic approach to
capture the stories of 35 lawyers working to positively transform
law and policy in the UK over the last 50 years. It also draws on a
wealth of primary sources including case reports, historic campaign
materials and media analysis alongside wider ethnographic
interviews with academics, students and lawyers and participant
observation at social justice conferences, workshops and events.
The book explains the way in which lawyers' networks facilitate
their collective positioning and influence their strategic decision
making, which in turn shapes their interactions with social
activists, with other lawyers and with the state itself.
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