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The late Chief justice of South Africa, Pius Langa, was a
remarkable man. He achieved so much in his life and touched many
people with his quiet dignity, his generosity and his sparkling
humour. As a lawyer, he had a profound impact on the establishment
of South Africa's new democracy and the adoption of the country's
Constitution. Through his work on the Constitutional court, he
charted a path that would allow the country to reach what he called
the 'vision of the Constitution'. As a man, he served as an example
to many: He was strong, committed, empathetic, thoughtful and kind.
A transformative justice: Essays in honour of Pius Langa and Acta
Juridica 2015 pay tribute to this remarkable man and lawyer. The
book has three sections: first, a series of personal tributes to
Justice Langa; second, reflections on the work of the
Constitutional court under Langa's leadership as well as aspects of
his philosophy as a judge; and third, explorations of a variety of
specific themes in his judgments, writings and speeches. The
contributions to A transformative justice are written by eminent
judges, academics and practitioners, many of whom worked closely
with Langa. The book addresses a broad range of practical and
theoretical topics, including transformative constitutionalism,
judicial dissent, the role of the people in constitutionalism, and
legal education, as well as the areas of customary law, contract
law, delict, administrative law, criminal law and procedure, and
the protection of rights to equality, freedom of religion and
culture.
Significant advances in geomatics and geomorphology are changing the way in which scientists study complex mountain environments. This book provides a critical treatment and evaluation of these recent developments. With the advent of advanced satellite sensors, high resolution satellite imagery and digital elevation, models now make possible quantitative analysis and modelling of the landscape. So it is becoming ever more important for geoscientists to integrate geomatics into their scientific investigation. This book is a "must" for any researcher actively working in geomatics, geomorphology and mountain systems. It will also be valuable to geologists and resource planners interested in the role of surface processes in complex orogens and resource assessment and sustainable development.
Since the Second World War, dignity has increasingly been
recognized as an important moral and legal value. Although
important examples of dignity-based arguments can be found in
western European and North American case law and legal theory, the
dignity jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court of South African
is widely considered to be the most sweeping in the world. In part,
this is related to the unique provisions of the South African
Constitution in areas such as socioeconomic rights and allowing
dignity to be taken into the sphere of economic justice as well as
that of human rights. This book brings together the first sixteen
years of constitutional jurisprudence addressing the meaning, role,
and reach of dignity in the law of South Africa as a multiracial
democracy. The case law is coupled with analysis from a range of
selected contributors. The book will therefore be a crucial source
for anyone seeking to evaluate dignity, whether in law or in human
life more broadly.
Thousands of children from minority and disadvantaged groups will
never cross the threshold of a classroom. What can human rights
contribute to the struggle to ensure that every learner is able to
access high quality education? This brilliant interdisciplinary
collection explores how a human rights perspective offers new
insights and tools into the current obstacles to education. It
examines the role of private actors, the need to hold states to
account for the quality of education, how to strike a balance
between religion, culture and education, the innovative responses
needed to guarantee girls' right to education and the role of
courts. This unique book draws together contributors who have been
deeply involved in this field from both developing and developed
countries which enriches the understanding and remedial approaches
to tackle current obstacles to universal education.
A private citizen discovers compelling evidence that a decades-old
murder in Nashville was not committed by the man who went to prison
for the crime but was the result of a conspiracy involving elite
members of Nashville society. Nashville 1964. Eighteen-year-old
babysitter Paula Herring is murdered in her home while her
six-year-old brother apparently sleeps through the grisly event. A
few months later a judge's son is convicted of the crime. Decades
after the slaying, Michael Bishop, a private citizen,stumbles upon
a secret file related to the case and with the help of some of the
world's top forensic experts--including forensic psychologist
Richard Walter (aka "the living Sherlock Holmes")--he uncovers the
truth. What really happened is completely different from what the
public was led to believe. Now, for the very first time, Bishop
reveals the true story. In this true-crime page-turner, the author
lays out compelling evidence that a circle of powerful citizens
were key participants in the crime and the subsequent cover-up. The
ne'er-do-well judge's son, who was falsely accused and sent to
prison, proved to be the perfect setup man. The perpetrators used
his checkered history to conceal the real facts for over half a
century. Including interviews with the original defense attorney
and a murder confession elicited from a nursing-home resident, the
information presented here will change Nashville history forever.
Philosophers defend theories of what well-being is but ignore what
psychologists have learned about it, while psychologists learn
about well-being but lack a theory of what it is. In The Good Life,
Michael Bishop brings together these complementary investigations
and proposes a powerful, new theory for understanding well-being.
The network theory holds that to have well-being is to be "stuck"
in a self-perpetuating cycle of positive emotions, attitudes,
traits and accomplishments. For someone with well-being, these
states - states such as joy and contentment, optimism and
adventurousness, extraversion and perseverance, strong
relationships, professional success and good health - build upon
and foster each other. They form a kind of positive causal network
(PCN), so that a person high in well-being finds herself in a
positive cycle or "groove." A person with a lesser degree of
well-being might possess only fragments of such a network - some
positive feelings, attitudes, traits or successes, but not enough
to kick start a full-blown, self-perpetuating network. Although
recent years have seen an explosion of psychological research into
well-being, this discipline, often called Positive Psychology, has
no consensus definition. The network theory provides a new
framework for understanding Positive Psychology. When psychologists
investigate correlations and causal connections among positive
emotions, attitudes, traits, and accomplishments, they are studying
the structure of PCNs. And when they identify states that
establish, strengthen or extinguish PCNs, they are studying the
dynamics of PCNs. Positive Psychology, then, is the study of the
structure and dynamics of positive causal networks. The Good Life
represents a new, inclusive approach to the study of well-being, an
approach committed to the proposition that discovering the nature
of well-being requires the knowledge and skills of both the
philosopher in her armchair and the scientist in her lab. The
resulting theory provides a powerful, unified foundation for future
scientific and philosophical investigations into well-being and the
good life.
In 1943, at the height of World War II, the Highbridge Hellbenders
of the the class-C Chattahoochee Valley League deep in Georgia
acquire a 17-year-old shortstop from Oklahoma named Danny Boles.
The Hellbenders snap him up because he's too young for the draft
and preternaturally talented. In Highbridge, they make him the
boarding-house roommate of an enormous first baseman with the
awe-inspiring skill of blasting monster home runs out of the CVL's
tumbledown ballparks. Known to his teammates as Jumbo Hank Clerval,
this mysterious giant and the mute Danny Boles strike up an
improbable friendship that culminates at the hot season's end in
triumph and disappointment, not to mention a host of haunting
discoveries in both the simmering South and the wind-swept Aleutian
Islands. Hailed by critics as a contender for the Great American
Novel laurel, Brittle Innings evokes a bygone era of worldwide
conflict and homeland unity. It also convincingly links documented
wartime history with the immemorial mythology of the superhero and
the legendary status of baseball as the unchallenged American
pastime. If you read it, you will not forget it.
In a clearing of the great forest of the planet Bosk Veld, a
strange, ape-like species of alien, the Asadi, act out their
almost-incomprehensible rituals, rainbow eyes flashing, spinning
like pinwheels. Egon Chaney, in his anthropological study, 'Death
and Designation Among the Asadi' has shown how their life-style has
apparently degenerated from a level of complex technological
sophistication and devolved to a primal simplicity. Long after his
disappearance in the forest, his daughter, Elegy Cather, comes to
Bosk Veld to carry on his studies of the Asadi where he left off.
With her is an intelligent ape, Kretzoi, physically adapted to
resemble the aliens. Together with Thomas Benedict, Chaney's old
partner, Elegy begins to unravel the enigma of the Asadi. As
Kretzoi insinuates himself into their rituals, so we are drawn into
what is perhaps the most convincing portrayal of the alien yet.
Joshua Kampa is torn between two worlds - the Early Pleistocene
Africa of his dreams and the 20th-century reality of his waking
life. These worlds are transposed when a government experiment
sends him over a million years back in time. Here, John builds a
new life as part of a tribe of protohumans. But the reality of
early Africa is much more challenging than his fantasies. With the
landscape, the species, and John himself evolving, he reaches a
temporal crossroads where he must decide whether the past or the
future will be his present.
In 1989 Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus were awarded the Nobel
Prize for their discovery that normal genes under certain
conditions can cause cancer. In this book, Bishop tells us how he
and Varmus made their momentous discovery. More than a lively
account of the making of a brilliant scientist, "How to Win the
Nobel Prize" is also a broader narrative combining two major and
intertwined strands of medical history: the long and ongoing
struggles to control infectious diseases and to find and attack the
causes of cancer.
Alongside his own story, that of a youthful humanist evolving
into an ambivalent medical student, an accidental microbiologist,
and finally a world-class researcher, Bishop gives us a fast-paced
and engrossing tale of the microbe hunters. It is a narrative
enlivened by vivid anecdotes about our deadliest microbial
enemies--the Black Death, cholera, syphilis, tuberculosis, malaria,
smallpox, HIV--and by biographical sketches of the scientists who
led the fight against these scourges.
Bishop then provides an introduction for nonscientists to the
molecular underpinnings of cancer and concludes with an analysis of
many of today's most important science-related
controversies--ranging from stem cell research to the attack on
evolution to scientific misconduct. "How to Win the Nobel Prize"
affords us the pleasure of hearing about science from a brilliant
practitioner who is a humanist at heart. Bishop's perspective will
be valued by anyone interested in biomedical research and in the
past, present, and future of the battle against cancer.
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Perfect the Way I Am (Paperback)
Khloe Bell; Illustrated by Michael Bishop; Contributions by Keaidy Selmon
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