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Democracy is being destroyed. This is a crisis that expresses itself in the rising authoritarianism visible in divisive and exclusionary politics, populist political parties and movements, increased distrust in fact-based information and news, and the withering accountability of state institutions. What is less obvious is that the sources of the democratic rot are integral to the systemic crisis generated by neoliberal capitalism, which assigns economic metrics to all aspects of life. In other words, the crisis of democracy is the political crisis of neoliberal capitalism. Over the last four decades, democracy has radically shifted to a market democracy in which all aspects of human, non-human and planetary life are commodified, with corporations becoming more powerful than states and their citizens.
Volume six of the Democratic Marxism series focuses on how decades of neoliberal capitalism have eroded the global democratic project and how, in the process, authoritarian politics are gaining ground. Scholars and activists from the left focus on four country cases – India, Brazil, South Africa and the United States of America – in which the COVID-19 pandemic has fuelled and highlighted the pre-existing crisis. They interrogate issues of politics, ecology, state security, media, access to information and political parties, and affirm the need to reclaim and re-build an expansive and inclusive democracy.
Destroying Democracy is an invaluable resource for the general public, activists, scholars and students who are interested in understanding the threats to democracy and the rising tide of authoritarianism in the global global South and global North.
This delightful memoir of Mike Williams life and times will stir
many memories. Cranwellians of the late 1950s and early 60s engaged
in their jet conversion to Vampires will recall a good looking and
sympathetic instructor who had the time and sense to make this
testing time a pleasure rather than a trial. Mike stood out then as
a man with charm and style. Throughout his career, Mike retained
that charm and easy going approach which made him so popular in the
Royal Air Force, with the other services and in the civilian world.
But behind that aura lay a great professionalism and strength of
character, so necessary for a test pilot, the operations floor at
the Ministry of Defence and Station Commander at the Central Flying
School. Without that inner core of steel, it is unlikely he would
have continued to fly after the loss of one eye, and in the process
become something of a legend. Looking through his Record of
Service, from 1954 Initial Training at Kirton Lindsey to his
retirement as Deputy Commandant at Cranwell 1984, one is struck by
the number of bases no longer in being with the RAF. Kirton
Lindsey, Middleton St George, Chivenor, Stradishall, Waterbeach,
Little Rissington, Aden, Manby-all of them in their day lively,
important stations and ones which had a profound influence on the
many young men and women who spent time there. The ghosts of those
days peep out from the pages of this book. They bear witness to
just how great the changes have been to the RAF and how much
smaller it is today. It would be easy to suggest that the era Mike
Williams describes was more fun, more varied and more interesting
than the essentially UK based service of today despite the fact
that the RAF has been almost permanently on operations abroad since
1991. In reality, the world has changed and the armed services have
had to change with it. But young men and women still join the
military for much the same reason as did Mike, and they still get
the satisfaction from achievements in the air and on the ground as
did he. What I hope those of the modern generation who read this
book will learn is that professionalism can accommodate
graciousness and charm, a life outside the service without in any
way compromising excellence.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Buon'Idea is an invaluable, time-saving resource that will help you
to cover many of the objectives of the Framework for Modern Foreign
Languages. Designed with the non-specialist teacher in mind,
Buon'Idea provides key vocabulary, word and picture matching cards,
activity sheets and puzzle pages for 20 popular topics. Use the
suggestions given or develop your own games with these flexible
sheets. Italian has never been this easy - just choose your game,
copy the sheets and play Sentence building sheets for each topic
provide top tips for extending the vocabulary. Use them and soon
your pupils will soon be happily conversing in Italian with
confidence. The topics included in this book are: I numeri, The
numbers; I giorni della settimana, The days of the week; I mesi
dell'anno, The months of the year; La mia famiglia, My family; I
colori, The colours; I miei animali, My pets; In classe, In the
classroom; La scuola, School subjects; Buon appetito, Food; Il
meteo, The weather; Il corpo, The body; I passatempi, Hobbies; I
vestiti, Clothes; In citta, In the town; La mia casa, My house;
Buon Natale, Happy Christmas; San Valentino, Valentine's Day;
Carnevale, Shrove Tuesday; Buona Pasqua, Happy Easter; Halloween,
Halloween.
Winner of the 2014 UKLA Award Deo is a great footballer, a fierce
protector of his older brother, Innocent. His brother is easily
nervous, easily happy but good at keeping score on the dusty fields
of Zimbabwe where the boys play. Then Mugabe's soldiers come,
destroying the only home the boys have known. Now, Deo has nothing
but his brother, and a football stuffed with billions of worthless
dollars. And so starts their journey to find their father. But with
soldiers everywhere, they have only one chance to cross the border,
one chance to escape. In face of such a challenge, it is Deo's
brotherly love that endures, his belief that he will lead them both
to safety. Micheal Williams's is a masterful storyteller who pulls
you along the journey of a lifetime. Deo and Innocent's journey is
a universal story of hope in the face of despair, and the search
for a better life.
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Saying It (Book)
Mieke Bal, Michelle Williams Gamaker, Renate Farro; Edited by Stefan van der Lecq
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Starting with a young man losing consciousness and collapsing in a
mall while walking toward his wife, a chain reaction is manifested.
With each life that is affected, there is an elderly woman named
Mae Nell Harris who is coincidentally placed in their lives to help
them through her wisdom. With the unknowingly assistance from a man
who seems to appear and vanish when tragedy strikes, the lives
affected are challenged to trust a stranger when they don't know
what else to do. But whatever they choose, their lives about to
change.
Love, if left to the hand of an artist becomes a thing of beauty.
But love, if left to the imagination of a poet becomes the
embodiment of humanity. Michael William Worley
Singing is their passion! Miracle and Luzuko from the Eastern Cape;
Thato and Kagiso from the North West: one thing brings them
together in Cape Town - their determination to pursue their musical
dreams. Studying in a new big city is not easy when news from home
is bad, costs are high and competitors want you to fail. But the
lights of the stage and the applause of the audience keep them
singing...
This book is structured as a step-by-step course of study along the
lines of a VLSI integrated circuit design project. The entire
Verilog language is presented, from the basics to everything
necessary for synthesis of an entire 70,000 transistor, full-duplex
serializer-deserializer, including synthesizable PLLs. The author
includes everything an engineer needs for in-depth understanding of
the Verilog language: Syntax, synthesis semantics, simulation and
test. Complete solutions for the 27 labs are provided in the
downloadable files that accompany the book. For readers with access
to appropriate electronic design tools, all solutions can be
developed, simulated, and synthesized as described in the book. A
partial list of design topics includes design partitioning,
hierarchy decomposition, safe coding styles, back annotation,
wrapper modules, concurrency, race conditions, assertion-based
verification, clock synchronization, and design for test. A
concluding presentation of special topics includes System Verilog
and Verilog-AMS.
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NIV Study Bible, Fully Revised Edition, Personal Size, Leathersoft, Brown/Blue, Red Letter, Comfort Print (Leather / fine binding)
Kenneth L. Barker, Mark L. Strauss, Jeannine K. Brown, Craig L. Blomberg, Michael Williams
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This book focuses on the academic foundations, trends and
traditions of environmental education for sustainable development
principally in Chinese contexts. It highlights contexts and case
studies that illuminate recent Chinese initiatives. It includes
case studies of green schools and reports on recent initiatives in
school-based ESD curriculum development programmes in China, Hong
Kong, Macao and Taiwan. The book concludes with an overview chapter
that points to likely future developments. The assumption
underpinning the book is that experiences gained in such a major
country as China will be of real interest to geographical and
environmental educationists, professional educators and teachers
elsewhere. Not only will it generate interest and create greater
awareness but also it is hoped that these experiences will provide
a platform for scholarly exchange and contribute insights on
education policy and curriculum changes across Asian-Pacific
communities in an increasingly globalised world.
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