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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.
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.
This edited volume is a collection of twelve interdisciplinary
essays from various Brazilian literary scholars, historians, and
anthropologists analyzing the work of 19th- and 20th-century
Afro-Brazilian writer Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto. This is the
first collection to present a cohesive analysis of this writer's
work in English. It is an intellectually diverse collection of
essays that recover Barreto's oeuvre and consider a wide range of
topics, including Barreto's treatment of race, family, class,
social and gender politics of postabolition Brazil, neocolonialism,
the disjuncture between urban and suburban spaces, and national
identity politics.
Drama / 9m, 2f / Int. From the author of I Never Sang for My
Father, this groundbreaking drama explores a sensitive young man's
coming of age amid the taunts and suspicions of his classmates and
teachers at a private boy's academy. Only a sympathetic act of
compassion by the wife of the headmaster gives young Tom the
courage to grow into a man. A hit onstage and film with Deborah
Kerr.
Akira Kurosawa is widely known as the director who opened up
Japanese film to Western audiences, and following his death in
1998, a process of reflection has begun about his life's work as a
whole and its legacy to cinema. Kurosawa's 1950 film Rashomon has
become one of the best-known Japanese films ever made, and
continues to be discussed and imitated more than 60 years after its
first screening. This book examines the cultural and aesthetic
impacts of Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon, as well as the director's
larger legacies to cinema, its global audiences and beyond. It
demonstrates that these legacies are manifold: not only cinematic
and artistic, but also cultural and cognitive. The book moves from
an examination of one filmmaker and his immediate social context in
Japan, and goes on to explore how an artist's ideas might transcend
their cultural origins to ultimately provide global influences.
Discussing how Rashomon's effects began to multiply with the film
being re-imagined and repurposed in numerous media forms in the
decades that followed its initial release, the book also shows that
the film and its ideas have been applied to a wider range of social
and cultural phenomena in a variety of institutional contexts. It
addresses issues beyond the realm of Rashomon within film studies,
extending to the Rashomon effect, which itself has become a widely
recognized English term referring to the significantly different
interpretations of different eyewitnesses to the same dramatic
event. As the first book on Rashomon since Donald Richie's 1987
anthology, it will be invaluable to students and scholars of film
studies, film history, Japanese cinema and communication studies.
It will also resonate more broadly with those interested in
Japanese culture and society, anthropology and philosophy.
Stay up-to-date in health care ministry as cultural and spiritual
heterogeneity increases Ministry in the Spiritual and Cultural
Diversity in Health Care: Increasing the Competency of Chaplains
identifies concrete methods for improving the provision of pastoral
care to culturally and religiously diverse patients and/or
residents. Experts from both inside and outside the profession with
established records in cross-cultural work and experience with
religious diversity discuss in detail the multicultural revolution
that has challenged the traditional health care delivery system.
With this timely resource, you will be able to respond to the
requests and desires of patients and their loved ones with
compassion and consideration for their cultural and spiritual
backgrounds. Ministry in the Spiritual and Cultural Diversity in
Health Care explores the challenges for the spiritual care
professional in health care to address the emotional, cultural, and
spiritual needs of a patient without assumption, bias, or
discomfort for either person.In addition to advice,
recommendations, and real-world examples and case studies, this
valuable resource provides a guide for chaplaincy supervisors to
use when training chaplain students to impart such unprejudiced
care. The book is devoted to establishing chaplains who are
clinically trained and certified to contribute to the increasingly
pluralistic and global health care context with assorted religious,
spiritual, and cultural values, beliefs, and practices. Ministry in
the Spiritual and Cultural Diversity in Health Care will keep you
updated on: how a health care chaplain can overlook the differing
worldview of a patient and his or her family how cultural diversity
impacts the work of the health care chaplain specific strategies
and tools that will assist chaplains in acquiring spiritual and
cultural competency definitions, obstacles, and standards of care
for fostering a genuine multicultural perspective among health care
givers, particularly chaplains how professional health care
chaplains take leadership in responding to cultural and spiritual
diversity within health care environments
Rich with doctrinal exactitude and a moving beauty of expression,
the prayers and hymns of St. Thomas Aquinas have long been
considered to be among the Church's greatest treasures. Now you can
bring these treasures into your own prayer life with this first
complete English collection of these stirring prayers.
This handy and beautiful leatherette volume brings you all of
St. Thomas's known prayers and hymns in their Latin originals,
along with new English translations. These translations render the
originals with superb precision and a soul-fortifying eloquence
that rivals St. Thomas's own masterly use of Latin. A number of
these prayers have never before been translated into English.
This cross-disciplinary anthology of contemporary global issues
explores a number of topics and methodologies critical to
developing responsible world citizenship. Globalism, Globalization,
Culture, Environmentalism, Western Imperialism, Global Media and
News; Global Media and News. For anyone wishing to better
understand globalization and its impact.
Stay up-to-date in health care ministry as cultural and spiritual
heterogeneity increases Ministry in the Spiritual and Cultural
Diversity in Health Care: Increasing the Competency of Chaplains
identifies concrete methods for improving the provision of pastoral
care to culturally and religiously diverse patients and/or
residents. Experts from both inside and outside the profession with
established records in cross-cultural work and experience with
religious diversity discuss in detail the multicultural revolution
that has challenged the traditional health care delivery system.
With this timely resource, you will be able to respond to the
requests and desires of patients and their loved ones with
compassion and consideration for their cultural and spiritual
backgrounds. Ministry in the Spiritual and Cultural Diversity in
Health Care explores the challenges for the spiritual care
professional in health care to address the emotional, cultural, and
spiritual needs of a patient without assumption, bias, or
discomfort for either person.In addition to advice,
recommendations, and real-world examples and case studies, this
valuable resource provides a guide for chaplaincy supervisors to
use when training chaplain students to impart such unprejudiced
care. The book is devoted to establishing chaplains who are
clinically trained and certified to contribute to the increasingly
pluralistic and global health care context with assorted religious,
spiritual, and cultural values, beliefs, and practices. Ministry in
the Spiritual and Cultural Diversity in Health Care will keep you
updated on: how a health care chaplain can overlook the differing
worldview of a patient and his or her family how cultural diversity
impacts the work of the health care chaplain specific strategies
and tools that will assist chaplains in acquiring spiritual and
cultural competency definitions, obstacles, and standards of care
for fostering a genuine multicultural perspective among health care
givers, particularly chaplains how professional health care
chaplains take leadership in responding to cultural and spiritual
diversity within health care environments
Few entrepreneurs can claim to have actually changed the way we
live, but Ray Kroc is one of them. Hisrevolutions in food service
automation, franchising, shared national training and advertising
have earned him aplace beside the men who founded not merely
businesses but entire new industries.But even more interesting than
Ray Kroc the business legend is Ray Kroc the man. Not your typical
self-madetycoon, Kroc was 52 when he met the McDonald brothers and
opened his first franchise. Now meet Ray Kroc, theman behind the
business legend, in his own words. Irrepressible enthusiast,
perceptive people-watcher, and bornstoryteller, he will fascinate
and inspire you. You'll never forget Ray Kroc.
Akira Kurosawa is widely known as the director who opened up
Japanese film to Western audiences, and following his death in
1998, a process of reflection has begun about his life's work as a
whole and its legacy to cinema. Kurosawa's 1950 film Rashomon has
become one of the best-known Japanese films ever made, and
continues to be discussed and imitated more than 60 years after its
first screening. This book examines the cultural and aesthetic
impacts of Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon, as well as the director's
larger legacies to cinema, its global audiences and beyond. It
demonstrates that these legacies are manifold: not only cinematic
and artistic, but also cultural and cognitive. The book moves from
an examination of one filmmaker and his immediate social context in
Japan, and goes on to explore how an artist's ideas might transcend
their cultural origins to ultimately provide global influences.
Discussing how Rashomon's effects began to multiply with the film
being re-imagined and repurposed in numerous media forms in the
decades that followed its initial release, the book also shows that
the film and its ideas have been applied to a wider range of social
and cultural phenomena in a variety of institutional contexts. It
addresses issues beyond the realm of Rashomon within film studies,
extending to the Rashomon effect, which itself has become a widely
recognized English term referring to the significantly different
interpretations of different eyewitnesses to the same dramatic
event. As the first book on Rashomon since Donald Richie's 1987
anthology, it will be invaluable to students and scholars of film
studies, film history, Japanese cinema and communication studies.
It will also resonate more broadly with those interested in
Japanese culture and society, anthropology and philosophy.
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Low Level Hell (Paperback)
Hugh Mills, Robert Anderson
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R314
R257
Discovery Miles 2 570
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'The best 'bird's eye view' of the helicopter war in Vietnam in
print today ... Mills has captured the realities of a select group
of aviators who shot craps with death on every mission' R.S.
Maxham, Director, US Army Aviation Museum The aeroscouts of the 1st
Infantry Division have three words emblazoned on their unit patch:
Low Level Hell. It was the perfect concise defininition of what
those intrepid aviators experienced as they ranged the skies of
Vietnam from the Cambodian border to the Iron Triangle. The
Outcasts, as they were known, flew low and slow. They were the
aerial eyes of the division in search of the enemy. Too often for
longevity's sake they found the Viet Cong and the fight was on.
These young pilots, who were usually 19 to 22 years old, invented
the book as they went along.
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Return to Leeds (Paperback)
Robert Anderson, Peter J. Rose; Edited by Stephen J. Chapman
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R428
Discovery Miles 4 280
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Offers a look at the ever changing Leeds railway scene over a span
of 50 years from the late 1940s to the 1990s. In 217 top quality
photographs, this book features not only many steam trains of the
past but diesels, electrics, stations, locomotive depots and goods
yards. It also includes introductory text, track plans and other
information.
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