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When the Sky Falls (DVD)
Gerard Flynn, Ruaidhri Conroy, Joan Allen, Peter Postlethwaite, Liam Cunningham, …
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Fictionalized account of the events which lead to the 1996 murder
of journalist Veronica Guerin. Sinead Hamilton (Joan Allen) is a
reporter employed by the Irish Sunday Globe. In the course of her
work she becomes interested in the possibility of exposing the
corruption which allows Dublin's drug lords to lead the lives of
respectable businessmen, and of working towards a reform of
Ireland's notoriously ineffective criminal laws. But her
investigations earn her some enemies in high places, and Sinead
soon receives threats to her own well-being.
The Red Emperor presents an eye-opening portrait of Xi Jinping, the man
who presides over 1.4 billion people and the second largest economy on
earth. Born a 'princeling' to one of Communist China's ruling families,
the young Xi was exiled to the countryside during the Cultural
Revolution. He fought his way back to the top by stealth, privilege and
guile. In 2012, following the spectacular fall of his rival Bo Xilai,
Xi Jinping became the leader of China.
In a compulsively readable narrative, veteran foreign correspondent
Michael Sheridan takes the reader from the poor, isolated country of
Xi's youth to the military and economic superpower of today. In Xi's
new China, family mafias struggle for power amid murder, corruption and
sex scandals as ministers and generals vanish in purges. No one is safe
in his techno-security state. Xi is an absolute ruler whose word is law
on everything from war and peace to the ruthless campaign against
Covid-19. He aims to dominate world trade, to defeat Western democracy
and to make China the supreme power in the East. A loner and a
risk-taker, he is the most consequential leader of our time.
Drawing on intimate stories from the closed world of China's leading
families and two decades of first-hand reporting, Michael Sheridan
sheds new light on the history and politics of China. The book reveals
that behind the façade of the Chinese Communist Party there is a modern
dynasty and a new emperor.
'Impressive ... Fascinating' Sunday Times 'An authoritative
history' Financial Times 'Gripping and richly researched' Rana
Mitter A superb new history of the rise of China and the fall of
Hong Kong to authoritarian rule. The rise of China and the fall of
Hong Kong to authoritarian rule are told with unique insight in
this new history by Michael Sheridan, drawing on eyewitness
reporting over three decades, interviews with key figures and
documents from archives in China and the West. The story sweeps the
reader from the earliest days of trade through the Opium Wars of
the 19th century to the age of globalisation and the handover of
Hong Kong from Britain to China. It ends with the battle for
democracy on the city's streets and the ultimate victory of the
Chinese Communist Party. How did it come to this? We learn from
private papers that Margaret Thatcher anguished over the fate of
Hong Kong, sought secret American briefings on how to handle China
and put her trust in an adviser who was torn between duty and
pride. The deal they made with Beijing did not last. The Chinese
side of this history, so often unheard, emerges from memoirs and
documents, many new to the foreign reader, revealing how the
party's iron will and negotiating tactics crushed its opponents.
Yet the voices of Hong Kong people - eloquent, smart and bold -
speak out here for ideals that refuse to die. Sheridan's book tells
how Hong Kong opened the way for the People's Republic as it
reformed its economy and changed the world, emerging to challenge
the West with a new order that raises fundamental questions about
progress, identity and freedom. It is critical reading for all who
study, trade or deal with China.
Roots of Power tells five stories of plants, people, property,
politics, peace, and protection in tropical societies. In Cameroon,
French Polynesia, Papua New Guinea, St. Vincent, and Tanzania,
dracaena and cordyline plants are simultaneously property rights
institutions, markers of social organization, and expressions of
life-force and vitality. In addition to their localized roles in
forming landscapes and societies, these plants mark multiple
boundaries and demonstrate deep historical connections across much
of the planet's tropics. These plants' deep roots in society and
culture have made them the routes through which postcolonial
agrarian societies have negotiated both social and cultural
continuity and change. This book is a multi-sited ethnographic
political ecology of ethnobotanical institutions. It uses five
parallel case studies to investigate the central phenomenon of
"boundary plants" and establish the linkages among the case studies
via both ancient and relatively recent demographic transformations
such as the Bantu expansion across tropical Africa, the
Austronesian expansion into the Pacific, and the colonial system of
plantation slavery in the Black Atlantic. Each case study is a
social-ecological system with distinctive characteristics stemming
from the ways that power is organized by kinship and gender, social
ranking, or racialized capitalism. This book contributes to the
literature on property rights institutions and land management by
arguing that tropical boundary plants' social entanglements and
cultural legitimacy make them effective foundations for development
policy. Formal recognition of these institutions could reduce
contradiction, conflict, and ambiguity between resource managers
and states in postcolonial societies and contribute to sustainable
livelihoods and landscapes. This book will appeal to scholars and
students of environmental anthropology, political ecology,
ethnobotany, landscape studies, colonial history, and development
studies, and readers will benefit from its demonstration of the
comparative method.
'Impressive ... Fascinating' Sunday Times 'An authoritative
history' Financial Times 'Gripping and richly researched' Rana
Mitter A superb new history of the rise of China and the fall of
Hong Kong to authoritarian rule. The rise of China and the fall of
Hong Kong to authoritarian rule are told with unique insight in
this new history by Michael Sheridan, drawing on eyewitness
reporting over three decades, interviews with key figures and
documents from archives in China and the West. The story sweeps the
reader from the earliest days of trade through the Opium Wars of
the 19th century to the age of globalisation and the handover of
Hong Kong from Britain to China. It ends with the battle for
democracy on the city's streets and the ultimate victory of the
Chinese Communist Party. How did it come to this? We learn from
private papers that Margaret Thatcher anguished over the fate of
Hong Kong, sought secret American briefings on how to handle China
and put her trust in an adviser who was torn between duty and
pride. The deal they made with Beijing did not last. The Chinese
side of this history, so often unheard, emerges from memoirs and
documents, many new to the foreign reader, revealing how the
party's iron will and negotiating tactics crushed its opponents.
Yet the voices of Hong Kong people - eloquent, smart and bold -
speak out here for ideals that refuse to die. Sheridan's book tells
how Hong Kong opened the way for the People's Republic as it
reformed its economy and changed the world, emerging to challenge
the West with a new order that raises fundamental questions about
progress, identity and freedom. It is critical reading for all who
study, trade or deal with China.
Jim Wallis, well-known justice advocate and author, has stated that
the two great hungers in the world today are for spirituality and
social justice. Although social work and related fields have
increasingly recognized the importance of addressing spirituality
within clinical practice, less attention has been paid to the role
of spirituality in promoting social justice or supporting social
change within macropractice. The contributions in this edited
collection highlight current developments in this area, including
emerging conceptual frameworks, practice applications and research
findings. Theoretical approaches to understanding the link between
spirituality and justice are explored in analyses of alternative
models of social justice and justice orientations of major faith
traditions. The critical role of spirituality in larger system
change is illustrated through exemplars of research on vulnerable
populations, community practice, legislative advocacy, development
of social movements, and ecological social work. The importance of
including content on religion and spirituality in professional
curricula is explored through research on students' attitudes
toward spirituality and social advocacy. Noting the resonating
themes within all of these contributions, the volume concludes with
an overview of emerging principles for spiritual activism. This
book aims to stimulate further development in the vital connection
between spirituality and social justice. It was originally
published as a special issue of the Journal of Religion &
Spirituality in Social Work.
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