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This book investigates the expanding involvement of China in
security cooperation in Africa. Drawing on leading and emerging
scholars in the field, the volume uses a combination of analytical
insights and case studies to unpack the complexity of security
challenges confronting China and the continent. It interrogates how
security considerations impact upon the growing economic and social
links China has developed with African states.
This book investigates the expanding involvement of China in
security cooperation in Africa. Drawing on leading and emerging
scholars in the field, the volume uses a combination of analytical
insights and case studies to unpack the complexity of security
challenges confronting China and the continent. It interrogates how
security considerations impact upon the growing economic and social
links China has developed with African states.
Taking its inspiration from Shakespeare's idea of the 'seven ages'
of a human life, this new anthology brings together the best-loved
poems in English to inspire, comfort and delight readers for a
lifetime. Beginning with babies, the book is divided into sections
on childhood, growing up, making a living and making love, family
life, getting older, and approaching death, ending with poems of
mourning and commemoration. Ranging from Chaucer to Carol Ann
Duffy, via Shakespeare, Keats, and Lemn Sissay, this book offers
something for each of those moments in life - whether falling in
love, finding your first grey hair or saying your final goodbyes -
when only a poem will do.
This collection highlights the work of the Royal Anthropological
Institute’s Urgent Anthropology Fellowships fund, which supports
research into communities whose culture and social life are under
immediate threat. Created by George Appell in response to the
distress he experienced working with a traumatized community of
swidden cultivators in Borneo, who were struggling to survive after
relocation in what Appell describes as a ‘cultural concentration
camp’, the fund was established to identify ways of supporting
and strengthening such communities through ethnographic work. Since
1995, Urgent Anthropology Fellows have worked with many displaced
communities, whether found in refugee camps, resettled in kindred
communities across national borders or in environments hostile to
their traditional way of life; or whether suffering from the
aftermath of civil war or the intrusion of foreigners in search of
minerals. Despite the diversity of circumstances in these case
studies, this book shows some of the common strategies that emerge
in helping displaced communities regain some control over their own
destinies. These include membership of social networks, access to
natural resources, land ownership and self sufficiency, autonomy in
local judicial procedures and economic activities as well as the
celebration of traditional rituals, all of which lessen the
potential powerlessness of displaced communities. Any
anthropologist or NGO worker, and indeed anyone who works with, or
cares about, vulnerable communities and the rights of indigenous
peoples, will gain much from the accumulation of experience and
insights offered herein.
Here are poems to take you on a journey from the 'suddenly' of love
at first sight to the 'truly, madly, deeply' of infatuation and on
to the 'eternally' of love that lasts beyond the end of life, along
the way taking in flirtation, passion, fury, betrayal and broken
hearts. Bringing together the greatest love poetry from around the
world and through the ages, ranging from W. H. Auden to William
Shakespeare, John Donne to Emily Dickinson, Robert Browning to
Roger McGough, this new anthology will delight, comfort and inspire
anyone who has ever tasted love - in any of its forms.
Now in paperback, a wonderful anthology of wedding poems, filled
with surprising, curious, unorthodox and charming poems about love
and the public commitment to love. For the many thousands of
readers who each year go through the complex mix of thrill and
trauma that is the planning of a marriage ceremony, Laura Barber's
anthology is the answer to a prayer, with a wonderfully generous
and unusual selection of poems suitable for reading out loud, and
which celebrate and encapsulate our deepest feelings in all their
bewildering diversity. Including verse by poets ranging from John
Keats to Carol Ann Duffy and Walt Whitman to W. H. Auden, as well
as many less familiar voices, this anthology offers numerous
options for anyone about to read at the wedding of family or
friends, or to celebrate their own.
Learning by heart is the best way to experience a poem, but the
method has fallen from favour as part of the educational system.
This small collection of the best English poems offers the reader
the chance to re-engage with poetry. Filled with favourites, and
thoughtfully selected by Laura Barber (editor of Penguin's Poems
for Life and the forthcoming Penguin's Poems for Love) this
anthologoy is an essential addition to everyone's repertoire.
Taking its inspiration from Shakespeare's idea of the "seven ages"
of a human life, this new anthology brings together the best-loved
poems in English to inspire, comfort and delight readers for a
lifetime. Beginning with babies, the book is divided into sections
on childhood, growing up, making a living and making love, family
life, getting older, and approaching death, ending with poems of
mourning and commemoration. Ranging from Chaucer to Carol Ann
Duffy, via Shakespeare, Keats, and Lemn Sissay, this book offers
something for each of those moments in life - whether falling in
love, finding your first grey hair or saying your final goodbyes -
when only a poem will do.
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