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Mars: The Law of Insolvency in South Africa has established itself
as a specialist work that has for decades been the guide for anyone
who practices in this important area of law. The tenth edition of
Mars: The Law of Insolvency has been revised by a team of eleven
authors to include developments in the law of insolvency and
associated areas of the law to give readers an up-to-date treatment
of this important area of law. While retaining the proven structure
of the previous editions, this edition aims at dealing
comprehensively with all aspects of insolvency law. The latest
edition retains references to landmark cases and articles in legal
journals but also incorporates numerous new references to critical
analyses of applicable legislation, case law, insolvency law reform
initiatives and international developments in the field of
insolvency law, enabling the reader to gain a proper understanding
of the principles underlying the South African law of insolvency.
All 13 episodes from the second series of the award-winning
political drama starring Kevin Spacey. Based on the novel by
Michael Dobbs and the subsequent BBC adaptation of the book, the
series follows Francis Underwood (Spacey), a politician whose sense
of ambition is matched and encouraged by his wife Claire (Robin
Wright). Armed with an arsenal of political secrets to equal anyone
in Washington, Francis is more than willing to scheme and blackmail
his way to the top. In this series, Underwood is appointed Vice
President of the USA. However, never one to rest on his laurels, he
soon has his eye on the top job...
All 13 episodes from the first series of the award-winning
political drama starring Kevin Spacey. Based on the novel by
Michael Dobbs and the subsequent BBC adaptation of the book, the
series follows Francis Underwood (Spacey), the House Majority Whip
who, despite his position of authority, is gravely dissatisfied.
Fuelled by a sense of ambition matched and encouraged by his wife
Claire (Robin Wright), Francis ultimately wants to be president and
is embittered by the fact that he has recently been denied a
promotion. Armed with an arsenal of political secrets to equal
anyone in Washington, Francis sets out to scheme and blackmail his
way to the top.
Jopie: Jurist, Mentor, Supervisor and Friend - Essays on the Law of
Banking, Companies and Suretyship is published in honour of
Professor Jopie Pretorius, who will be retiring from his chair in
banking law at UNISA at the end of 2017. The collection comprises
personal tributes by family members, friends and colleagues, and
academic essays that deal with banking law, company law and
suretyship.
All 13 episodes from the third season of the award-winning
political drama starring Kevin Spacey. Based on the novel by
Michael Dobbs and the subsequent BBC adaptation of the book, the
show follows Francis Underwood (Spacey), a politician whose sense
of ambition is matched and encouraged by his wife Claire (Robin
Wright). Armed with an arsenal of political secrets to equal anyone
in Washington, Francis is more than willing to scheme and blackmail
his way to the top. In this season, Francis's approval ratings
plummet, a devastating hurricane hits the East Coast and Claire
makes plans to run for Ambassador to the U.N.
A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not from Earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation and become a symbol of hope for all mankind.
All 13 episodes from the second series of the award-winning
political drama starring Kevin Spacey. Based on the novel by
Michael Dobbs and the subsequent BBC adaptation of the book, the
series follows Francis Underwood (Spacey), a politician whose sense
of ambition is matched and encouraged by his wife Claire (Robin
Wright). Armed with an arsenal of political secrets to equal anyone
in Washington, Francis is more than willing to scheme and blackmail
his way to the top. In this series, Underwood is appointed Vice
President of the USA. However, never one to rest on his laurels, he
soon has his eye on the top job...
Prison Writing and the Literary World tackles international prison
writing and writing about imprisonment in relation to questions of
literary representation and formal aesthetics, the “value” or
“values” of literature, textual censorship and circulation,
institutional networks and literary-critical methodologies. It
offers scholarly essays exploring prison writing in relation to
wartime internment, political imprisonment, resistance and
independence creation, regimes of terror, and personal narratives
of development and awakening that grapple with race, class and
gender. Cutting across geospatial divides while drawing on nation-
and region-specific expertise, it asks readers to connect the
questions, examples and challenges arising from prison writing and
writing about imprisonment within the UK and the USA, but also
across continental Europe, Stalinist Russia, the Americas, Africa
and the Middle East. It also includes critical reflection pieces
from authors, editors, educators and theatre practitioners with
experience of the fraught, testing and potentially inspiring links
between prison and the literary world.
Prison Writing and the Literary World tackles international prison
writing and writing about imprisonment in relation to questions of
literary representation and formal aesthetics, the "value" or
"values" of literature, textual censorship and circulation,
institutional networks and literary-critical methodologies. It
offers scholarly essays exploring prison writing in relation to
wartime internment, political imprisonment, resistance and
independence creation, regimes of terror, and personal narratives
of development and awakening that grapple with race, class and
gender. Cutting across geospatial divides while drawing on nation-
and region-specific expertise, it asks readers to connect the
questions, examples and challenges arising from prison writing and
writing about imprisonment within the UK and the USA, but also
across continental Europe, Stalinist Russia, the Americas, Africa
and the Middle East. It also includes critical reflection pieces
from authors, editors, educators and theatre practitioners with
experience of the fraught, testing and potentially inspiring links
between prison and the literary world.
Fields, Capitals, Habitus provides an insightful analysis of the
relations between culture and society in contemporary Australia.
Presenting the findings of a detailed national survey of Australian
cultural tastes and practices, it demonstrates the pivotal
significance of the role culture plays at the intersections of a
range of social divisions and inequalities: between classes, age
cohorts, ethnicities, genders, city and country, and the relations
between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. The book looks
first at how social divisions inform the ways in which Australians
from different social backgrounds and positions engage with the
genres, institutions and particular works of culture and cultural
figures across six cultural fields: the visual arts, literature,
music, heritage, television and sport. It then examines how
Australians' cultural preferences across these fields interact
within the Australian 'space of lifestyles'. The close attention
paid to class here includes an engagement with role of 'middlebrow'
cultures in Australia and the role played by new forms of
Indigenous cultural capital in the emergence of an Indigenous
middle class. The rich survey data is complemented throughout by
in-depth qualitative data provided by interviews with survey
participants. These are discussed more closely in the final part of
the book which explores the gendered, political, personal and
community associations of cultural tastes across Australia's
Anglo-Celtic, Italian, Lebanese, Chinese and Indian populations.
The distinctive ethical issues associated with how Australians
relate to Indigenous culture are also examined. In the light it
throws on the formations of cultural capital in a multicultural
settler colonial society, Fields, Capitals, Habitus makes a
landmark contribution to cultural capital research.
Fields, Capitals, Habitus provides an insightful analysis of the
relations between culture and society in contemporary Australia.
Presenting the findings of a detailed national survey of Australian
cultural tastes and practices, it demonstrates the pivotal
significance of the role culture plays at the intersections of a
range of social divisions and inequalities: between classes, age
cohorts, ethnicities, genders, city and country, and the relations
between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. The book looks
first at how social divisions inform the ways in which Australians
from different social backgrounds and positions engage with the
genres, institutions and particular works of culture and cultural
figures across six cultural fields: the visual arts, literature,
music, heritage, television and sport. It then examines how
Australians' cultural preferences across these fields interact
within the Australian 'space of lifestyles'. The close attention
paid to class here includes an engagement with role of 'middlebrow'
cultures in Australia and the role played by new forms of
Indigenous cultural capital in the emergence of an Indigenous
middle class. The rich survey data is complemented throughout by
in-depth qualitative data provided by interviews with survey
participants. These are discussed more closely in the final part of
the book which explores the gendered, political, personal and
community associations of cultural tastes across Australia's
Anglo-Celtic, Italian, Lebanese, Chinese and Indian populations.
The distinctive ethical issues associated with how Australians
relate to Indigenous culture are also examined. In the light it
throws on the formations of cultural capital in a multicultural
settler colonial society, Fields, Capitals, Habitus makes a
landmark contribution to cultural capital research.
The growth of health promotion as a topic for discussion and a
principle for practice is widespread, and affects all groups of
health professionals. The "Healthy Cities" project, like "Health
for All", was inaugurated by the World Health Organization and has
informed policy throughout the world. This volume examines the
application of the project in a number of countries. The
contributors explore problems in the relationship between policy
makers, communities and academic researchers, and discuss how the
"Healthy Cities" programme affects housing policy, commmunity
development, scientific interchange and health education. In
addition, John Davies and Michael Kelly provide a context by
tracing the history of the WHO projects, and then discuss them in
the broader context of scientific and philosophical debates about
modernism and post-modernism. The contributors are drawn from
practitioners and scientists with wide experience in this area from
the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and the United States.
Effective regulation of consumer credit in modern society is an
ever-changing challenge. As new forms of credit emerge in free
societies, regulation often lags behind. This volume explores
contemporary problems related to the regulation of consumer credit
in market economies with a focus on credit extended to the most
vulnerable and poorest members of the community. Written by experts
in the field of consumer credit regulation from Europe, North
America, Australia and South Africa, the book examines some of the
most important consumer credit issues facing consumers today and
proposes innovative ways to protect the consumer interest in those
markets.
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Bioethics - A Culture War (Paperback, New)
Nicholas C Lund-Molfese, Michael L. Kelly; Contributions by Nicholas C Lund-Molfese, Michael Kelly, Francis Cardinal George, OMI, …
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The purpose of this valuable book is to consider recent cultural
trends in bioethics from a Catholic perspective. The first section
describes modern cultural notions of health and human suffering. It
examines the meaning of suffering in the contemporary world and
relates this discussion to the ethical issues surrounding abortion,
euthanasia, and the competing conceptions of health. The second
section discusses the philosophical origins of the culture war
through an examination of the problematic bases of various forms of
moral relativism and its inability to guide moral action. The third
section contextualizes this abstract discussion in the current
political and legal debate on biotechnology, marriage, and the
family. Bioethics is intended for a lay audience interested in
understanding bioethical issues from a Catholic perspective.
This book seeks to illuminate how Thai elites have used democracy as an instrument for order and discipline. Drawing on interviews, numerous Thai language sources, and critical theory, the author reveals a remarkable adaptation of the idea of democracy in the Thai context. Connors shows how elites have drawn on Western political theory to design projects to create modern citizens. He argues that it is possible to see the idea and practice of elite liberal democracy in Thailand, and elsewhere, as a key ideological resource in the project of securing hegemony over undisciplined populations. In this perspective the ideas of civil society, civic virtue, social capital and democracy itself are all part of the weaponry deployed in an effort to create 'good citizens', who act as guardians of the elite defined common good. eBook available with sample pages: 0203361636
Effective regulation of consumer credit in modern society is an
ever-changing challenge. As new forms of credit emerge in free
societies, regulation often lags behind. This volume explores
contemporary problems related to the regulation of consumer credit
in market economies with a focus on credit extended to the most
vulnerable and poorest members of the community. Written by experts
in the field of consumer credit regulation from Europe, North
America, Australia and South Africa, the book examines some of the
most important consumer credit issues facing consumers today and
proposes innovative ways to protect the consumer interest in those
markets.
Black Art and Aesthetics: Relationalities, Interiorities,
Reckonings comprises an array of essays, poems, and interviews, and
over 50 images from artists and writers including Angela Y. Davis,
Theaster Gates, Vijay Iyer, Isaac Julien, George E. Lewis, Sarah
Elizabeth Lewis, Meleko Mokgosi, Wangechi Mutu, Nell Painter, Kevin
Quashie, Claudia Rankine, Paul C. Taylor, Kara Walker, and Mabel O.
Wilson. The stellar contributors practice Black aesthetics by
engaging intersectionally with class, queer sexuality, female
embodiment, dance vocabularies, coloniality, Afrodiasporic music,
Black post-soul art, Afropessimism, and more. Black aesthetics thus
restores aesthetics to its full potential by encompassing all forms
of sensation and imagination in art, culture, design, everyday
life, and nature and by creating new ways of reckoning with
experience, identity, and resistance. Highlighting wide-ranging
forms of Black aesthetics across the arts, culture, and theory,
Black Art and Aesthetics: Relationalities, Interiorities,
Reckonings provides an unprecedented view of a field enjoying a
global resurgence. Black aesthetics materializes in communities of
artists, activists, theorists, and others who critique racial
inequities, create new forms of interiority and relationality,
uncover affective histories, and develop strategies for social
justice.
In his last interview, the late Italian Cardinal and former
Archbishop of Milan, Carlo Maria Martini, said the need for deep
reform in the Catholic Church was urgent and long overdue because
'the Church is 200 years behind the times'. The reference to 200
years clearly points to the watershed in European life that the
French Revolution and the Enlightenment became. Vatican II was one
attempt to meet the challenge of relevance to our times. But its
best efforts have been on ice since the late 1970s. Now a new
opportunity arrives in the pontificate of Jorge Mario Bergoglio.
And the movement he has initiated is evangelical in source and
comprehensive in reach. But, as many observers have pointed out, it
will not be lasting if it does not lead to sustainable structural
change-to reform that accompanies renewal. In Tomorrow's Church
Today, five highly qualified commentators focus on what lies ahead
for the Church to be reformed if it is to meet the challenges of
the 21st Century:* A theologian and historian (Massimo Faggioli)
who targets how ministry and leadership can be reshaped
authentically for our times* A reporter and analyst with 30 years
experience of moves and machinations in the Etenrnal City (Robert
Mickens)* A bishop with a lifetime of experience of ministering to
the divorced and remarried and the benefit of legal and biblical
scholarship to support his edited by Michael Kelly SJ approach
(Geoffrey Robinson)* A biblical scholar who examines much of what's
taken for granted in the governance of the Church and exposes where
it is left wanting (Antony Campbell)* and A bishop whose forced
'resignation' exposes the deficiencies of a system of governance
devoid of basics-due process and respect for natural rights. But
the Catholic Church is not its clerics, scholars and commentators.
It is the baptised. Geraldine Doogue is a celebrated Australian
broadcaster and commentator whose Introduction speaks for and from
the experience of the mass of Catholics.
For decades, aesthetics has been subjected to a variety of
critiques, often concerning its treatment of beauty or the autonomy
of art. Collectively, these complaints have generated an
anti-aesthetic stance prevalent in the contemporary art world. Yet
if we examine the motivations for these critiques, Michael Kelly
argues, we find theorists and artists hungering for a new kind of
aesthetics, one better calibrated to contemporary art and its moral
and political demands. Following an analysis of the work of Stanley
Cavell, Arthur Danto, Umberto Eco, Susan Sontag, and other
philosophers of the 1960s who made aesthetics more responsive to
contemporary art, Kelly considers Sontag's aesthetics in greater
detail. In On Photography (1977), she argues that a photograph of a
person who is suffering only aestheticizes the suffering for the
viewer's pleasure, yet she insists in Regarding the Pain of Others
(2003) that such a photograph can have a sustainable
moral-political effect precisely because of its aesthetics. Kelly
considers this dramatic change to be symptomatic of a cultural
shift in our understanding of aesthetics, ethics, and politics. He
discusses these issues in connection with Gerhard Richter's and
Doris Salcedo's art, chosen because it is often identified with the
anti-aesthetic, even though it is clearly aesthetic. Focusing first
on Richter's Baader-Meinhof series, Kelly concludes with Salcedo's
enactments of suffering caused by social injustice. Throughout A
Hunger for Aesthetics, he reveals the place of critique in
contemporary art, which, if we understand aesthetics as critique,
confirms that it is integral to art. Meeting the demand for
aesthetics voiced by many who participate in art, Kelly advocates
for a critical aesthetics that confirms the power of art.
This Handbook maps the contours of an exciting and burgeoning
interdisciplinary field concerned with the role of language and
languages in situations of conflict. It explores conceptual
approaches, sources of information that are available, and the
institutions and actors that mediate language encounters. It
examines case studies of the role that languages have played in
specific conflicts, from colonial times through to the Middle East
and Africa today. The contributors provide vibrant evidence to
challenge the monolingual assumptions that have affected
traditional views of war and conflict. They show that languages are
woven into every aspect of the making of war and peace, and
demonstrate how language shapes public policy and military
strategy, setting frameworks and expectations. The Handbook's 22
chapters powerfully illustrate how the encounter between languages
is integral to almost all conflicts, to every phase of military
operations and to the lived experiences of those on the ground, who
meet, work and fight with speakers of other languages. This
comprehensive work will appeal to scholars from across the
disciplines of linguistics, translation studies, history, and
international relations; and provide fresh insights for a broad
range of practitioners interested in understanding the role and
implications of foreign languages in war.
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