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Angels All Around Us (Hardcover)
Christopher Paul Carter; Illustrated by Skye Como Miller; Edited by Lily Herndon Weaks
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R523
Discovery Miles 5 230
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This marvellous resource provides you with: introductions to and
discussions of the various themes and topics relevant to Grade 11
Mathematics. fully worked out examples with their answers loads of
exercises and questions to practise your newly-gained skills
answers to these exercises at the end of each unit exemplar tests
and examination papers for you to work through and their answers.
This Study & Master Guide is written according to the NCS for
Mathematics.
Power may be globalized, but Westphalian notions of sovereignty
continue to determine political and legal arrangements domestically
and internationally: global issues - the legacy of colonialism
expressed in continuing human displacement and environmental
destruction - are thus treated 'parochially' and ineffectually. Not
designed for dealing with situations of interdependence, democratic
institutions find themselves in crisis. Reform in this case is not
simply operational but conceptual: political relationships need to
be drawn differently; the cultural illiteracy that prevents the
local knowledge invested in places made after their stories needs
to be recognised as a major obstacle to decolonising governance.
Archipelagic thinking refers to neglected dimensions of the earth's
human geography but also to a geo-politics of relationality, where
governance is understood performatively as the continuous
establishment of exchange rates. Insisting on the poetic literacy
that must inform a decolonising politics, Carter suggests a way out
of the incommensurability impasse that dogs assertions of
indigenous sovereignty. Discussing bicultural areal management
strategies located in south-west Victoria, Maluco (Indonesia) and
inter-regionally across the Arafura and Timor Seas, Carter argues
for the existence of creative regions constituted archipelagically
that can intervene to rewrite the theory and practice of
decolonisation. A book of great stylistic elegance and deftness of
analysis, Decolonising Governance is an important intervention in
the related fields of ecological, ecocritical and environmental
humanities. Methodologically innovative in its foregrounding of
relationality as the nexus between poetics and politics, it will
also be of great interest to scholars in a range of areas,
including communicational praxis, land/sea biodiversity design,
bicultural resource management, and the constitution of
post-Westphalian regional jurisdictions.
Written by one of the most prominent thinkers in sound studies,
Amplifications presents a perspective on sound narrated through the
experiences of a sound artist and writer. A work of reflective
philosophy, Amplifications sits at the intersection of history,
creative practice, and sound studies, recounting this narrative
through a series of themes (rattles, echoes, recordings, etc.).
Carter offers a unique perspective on migratory poetics, bringing
together his own compositions and life's works while using his
personal narrative to frame larger theoretical questions about
sound and migration.
History, Art politics, African, African American, Performance
Power may be globalized, but Westphalian notions of sovereignty
continue to determine political and legal arrangements domestically
and internationally: global issues - the legacy of colonialism
expressed in continuing human displacement and environmental
destruction - are thus treated 'parochially' and ineffectually. Not
designed for dealing with situations of interdependence, democratic
institutions find themselves in crisis. Reform in this case is not
simply operational but conceptual: political relationships need to
be drawn differently; the cultural illiteracy that prevents the
local knowledge invested in places made after their stories needs
to be recognised as a major obstacle to decolonising governance.
Archipelagic thinking refers to neglected dimensions of the earth's
human geography but also to a geo-politics of relationality, where
governance is understood performatively as the continuous
establishment of exchange rates. Insisting on the poetic literacy
that must inform a decolonising politics, Carter suggests a way out
of the incommensurability impasse that dogs assertions of
indigenous sovereignty. Discussing bicultural areal management
strategies located in south-west Victoria, Maluco (Indonesia) and
inter-regionally across the Arafura and Timor Seas, Carter argues
for the existence of creative regions constituted archipelagically
that can intervene to rewrite the theory and practice of
decolonisation. A book of great stylistic elegance and deftness of
analysis, Decolonising Governance is an important intervention in
the related fields of ecological, ecocritical and environmental
humanities. Methodologically innovative in its foregrounding of
relationality as the nexus between poetics and politics, it will
also be of great interest to scholars in a range of areas,
including communicational praxis, land/sea biodiversity design,
bicultural resource management, and the constitution of
post-Westphalian regional jurisdictions.
ATTEMPTING 300KPH on an untested experimental motorcycle could be
considered a perfect way to kill yourself, but Paul Carter is
still, well, PAUL CARTER and danger at high speed is his second
name. Whether discovering that being dyslexic means delivering your
lines to camera back to front in the midst of filming a TV series,
or starting a new business and travelling the world, or dealing
with life's more sober moments like the birth of a son or the loss
of a father, Paul Carter is still the funniest man in the bar and
the nicest 'alpha male' you'll ever meet as he risks all for the
sake of a cracking yarn. SO STRAP YOURSELF IN and HOLD ON TIGHT for
his FOURTH BOOK - we just have to hope that he won't be
institutionalised before completing his fifth!
Oi, mate, is that monstrosity diesel? From the author of the
bestsellers Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, She Thinks I'm a
Piano Player in a Whorehouse and This Is Not a Drill, this is the
eagerly awaited next installment of Paul Carter's rollicking life.
Take one mad adventurer and a motorbike that runs on bio fuel
(cooking oil i.e. chip fat to you and me) and send them with one
filmmaker on a road trip around Australia just to see what happens.
What you get is a story full of outback characters, implausible
(but true) situations, unlikely events and unfortunate breakdowns,
all at a break neck pace. Never one to sit still for long, this is
what Paul Carter did next. Whether you've been shocked, delighted,
entertained, horrified - or all of the above - by Paul's stories
whether from oil rigs or the road one thing is for sure, they are
always high octane adventures.
A take-no-prisoners approach to life has seen Paul Carter heading
to some of the world's most remote, wild and dangerous places as a
contractor in the oil business. Amazingly, he's survived (so far)
to tell these stories from the edge of civilization. He has been
shot at, hijacked and held hostage; almost died of dysentery in
Asia and toothache in Russia; watched a Texan lose his mind in the
jungles of Asia; lost a lot of money backing a scorpion against a
mouse in a fight to the death, and been served cocktails by an
orangutan on an ocean freighter. And that's just his day job.
Taking postings in some of the world's wildest and most remote
regions, not to mention some of the roughest rigs on the planet,
Paul has worked, got into trouble, and been given serious talkings
to, in locations as far-flung as the North Sea, Middle East, Borneo
and Tunisia, as exotic as Sumatra, Vietnam and Thailand, and as
flat-out dangerous as Columbia, Nigeria and Russia, with some of
the maddest, baddest and strangest people you could ever hope not
to meet.
Few subjects in European welfare history attract as much attention
as the nineteenth-century English and Welsh New Poor Law. Its
founding statute was considered the single most important piece of
social legislation ever enacted, and at the same time, the coming
of its institutions - from penny-pinching Boards of Guardians to
the dreaded workhouse - has generally been viewed as a catastrophe
for ordinary working people. Until now it has been impossible to
know how the poor themselves felt about the New Poor Law and its
measures, how they negotiated its terms, and how their interactions
with the local and national state shifted and changed across the
nineteenth century. In Their Own Write exposes this hidden history.
Based on an unparalleled collection of first-hand testimony -
pauper letters and witness statements interwoven with letters to
newspapers and correspondence from poor law officials and advocates
- the book reveals lives marked by hardship, deprivation,
bureaucratic intransigence, parsimonious officialdom, and sometimes
institutional cruelty, while also challenging the dominant view
that the poor were powerless and lacked agency in these
interactions. The testimonies collected in these pages clearly
demonstrate that both the poor and their advocates were adept at
navigating the new bureaucracy, holding local and national
officials to account, and influencing the outcomes of relief
negotiations for themselves and their communities. Fascinating and
compelling, the stories presented in In Their Own Write amount to
nothing less than a new history of welfare from below.
Modern biographies of Richard Nixon have been consumed with
Watergate. All have missed arguably the most important perspective
on Nixon as California’s native son, the only U.S. president born
and raised in California. In addition, Nixon was also a son,
brother, friend, husband, father, uncle, and grandfather. By
shifting the focus from Watergate and Washington to Nixon’s deep,
defining roots in California, Paul Carter boldly challenges common
conceptions of the thirty-seventh president of the United States.
More biographies have been written on Nixon than any other U.S.
politician. Yet the territory traversed by Carter is unexplored,
revealing for the first time the people, places, and experiences
that shaped Richard Nixon and the qualities that garnered him
respect from those who knew him well. Born in Yorba Linda and
raised in Whittier, California, Nixon succeeded early in life,
excelling in academics while enjoying athletics through high
school. At Whittier College he graduated at the top of his class
and was voted Best Man on Campus. During his career at Whittier’s
oldest law firm, he was respected professionally and became a chief
trial attorney. As a military man in the South Pacific during World
War II, he was admired by his fellow servicemen. Returning to his
Quaker roots after the war, he was elected to the U.S. House of
Representatives, the Senate, and the vice presidency, all within
six short years. After losing to John Kennedy in the 1960
presidential campaign, Nixon returned to Southern California to
practice law. After losing his gubernatorial race he reinvented
himself: he moved to New York and was elected president of the
United States in 1968. He returned to Southern California after
Watergate and his resignation to heal before once again taking a
place on the world stage. Richard Nixon: California’s Native Son
is the story of Nixon’s Southern California journey from his
birth in Yorba Linda to his final resting place just a few yards
from the home in which he was born. Â
Translations is a personal history written at the intersection of
colonial anthropology, creative practice and migrant ethnography.
Renowned postcolonial scholar, public artist and radio maker,
UK-born Paul Carter documents and discusses a prodigiously varied
and original trajectory of writing, sound installation and public
space dramaturgy produced in Australia to present the phenomenon of
contemporary migration in an entirely new light. Migrant
space-time, Carter argues, is not linear, but turbulent, vortical
and opportunistic. Before-and-after narratives fail to capture the
work of self-becoming and serve merely to perpetuate colonialist
fantasies. The 'mirror state' relationship between England and
Australia, its structurally symmetrical histories of land theft and
internal colonisation, repress the appearance of new subjects and
subject relations. Reflecting on collaborations with Aboriginal
artists, Carter argues for a new definition of the stranger-host
relationship predicated on recognition of Aboriginal sovereignty.
Carter calls the creative practice that breaks the cycle of
repeated invasion 'dirty art'. Translations is a passionately
eloquent argument for reframing borders as crossing-places: framing
less murderous exchange rates, symbolic literacy, creative courage
and, above all, the emergence of a resilient migrant poetics will
be essential. -- .
The outrageous sequel to Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs (She
Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse) brings more great
stories from the far side of civilization - hilarious, full of
humour, colourful characters and dramatic action! Just another
glorious day in the oilfield for Paul Carter! He's stuck in the
middle of the Russian sea on a rig staffed by a crew from
Azerbaijan. The choppers are older than him and can only fly by
line of sight, turning back regularly due to the weather which gets
particuarly interesting when they are past the point of no return
with half there fuel gone and they are committed to finding the rig
in a fog that's thicker than a Big Brother housemate. The closest
thing to a hotel for miles around is the Asylum, a former soviet
mental institution that now houses offshore personnel en-route to
the rig, where his room mates are Vodka Bob - who drinks Guinness
for breakfast when he's not on the rig - Sick Boy, who snores like
a pit bull being hot-waxed and Sealbasher. In his inimitable style
Paul Carter regales us with his colourful adventures from the front
line of thee oil industry and the far side of civilization!
Paul C. Carter's TRACKING WHITETAILS: Answers to Your Questions is
an in-depth look at the art of tracking whitetail deer in snow.
Packed with detail and written in an interesting and understandable
format, the author identifies the essential and varied skills
necessary to become consistently successful at taking deer by
tracking them through their domain; and methodically guides the
reader in how to acquire these abilities. The text is supported by
more than 100 photographs which illustrate the author's
observations and recommendations. Although written primarily for
those who prefer the challenges of one-on-one hunting from the
ground, TRACKING WHITETAILS contains information and insights that
would give anyone a better understanding of whitetail deer and the
sign they leave behind, and make any reader a better deer hunter.
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A Real Good Woman (Paperback)
Carolyn Blakeslee; Photographs by Paul Carter III; Illustrated by Monique Grimme
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R426
Discovery Miles 4 260
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Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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