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Amid evictions, raids, killings, the drug trade, and fire, inner-city Johannesburg residents seek safety and a home. A grandmother struggles to keep her granddaughter as she is torn away from her. A mother seeks healing in the wake of her son’s murder. And displaced by a city’s drive for urban regeneration, a group of blind migrants try to carve out an existence.
The Blinded City recounts the history of inner-city Johannesburg from 2010 to 2019, primarily from the perspectives of the unlawful occupiers of spaces known as hijacked buildings, bad buildings or dark buildings. Tens of thousands of residents, both South African and foreign national, live in these buildings in dire conditions. This book tells the story of these sites, and the court cases around them, ones that strike at the centre of who has the right to occupy the city.
In February 2010, while Johannesburg prepared for the FIFA World Cup, the South Gauteng High Court ordered the eviction of the unlawful occupiers of an abandoned carpet factory on Saratoga Avenue and that the city’s Metropolitan Municipality provide temporary emergency accommodation for the evicted. The case, which became known as Blue Moonlight and went to the Constitutional Court, catalysed a decade of struggles over housing and eviction in Johannesburg.
The Blinded City chronicles this case, among others, and the aftermath – a tumultuous period in the city characterised by recurrent dispossessions, police and immigration operations, outbursts of xenophobic violence, and political and legal change. All through the decade, there is the backdrop of successive mayors and their attempts to ‘clean up’ the city, and the struggles of residents and urban housing activists for homes and a better life.
The interwoven narratives present a compelling mosaic of life in post-apartheid Johannesburg, one of the globe’s most infamous and vital cities.
Raise self-confident, self-reliant children using the RIE
(Resources for Infant Educarers) Approach.
Your baby knows more than you think. That's the heart of the
principles and teachings of Magda Gerber, founder of RIE (Resources
for Infant Educarers), and Educaring. BABY KNOWS BEST is based on
Gerber's belief in babies' natural abilities to develop at their
own pace, without coaxing from helicoptering or hovering parents.
The Educaring Approach helps parents see their infants as competent
people with a growing ability to communicate, problem-solve, and
self-soothe.
BABY KNOWS BEST is a comprehensive resource that""shows parents how
to respond to their babies' cues and signals; how to develop
healthy sleep habits; why babies need uninterrupted playtime; and
how to set clear, consistent limits. The result? More relaxed
parents and more confident, self-reliant children.
When Chandler Cohen accepts her next ghostwriting gig penning a memoir for cult actor Finnegan Walsh, it should be a dream job.
However, Chandler knows him best as something else: her worst-ever one-night stand . . . She's determined to keep things professional. But when she finally admits to Finn that their night together wasn't as mind-blowing as he thought, he's determined to make amends.
So, they strike a deal. During the day, they'll work on the book, and at night, she'll school him in the art of satisfaction. Soon the line between business and pleasure starts to blur.
Can Chandler and Finn have both, or will they have to choose?
Great Writing bridges the gap from ESL writers to mainstream
writers! The Great Writing series uses clear explanations and
extensive practical activities to help students write great
sentences, paragraphs, and essays. Each book contains a wide
variety of writing models in carefully selected rhetorical styles
that provide practice in working with the writing process to
develop a final piece of writing. * An all-new level, Great Writing
Foundations introduces students to the basics of sentence
structure, grammar, spelling and vocabulary for writing. *
Impactful National Geographic images open every unit and help to
stimulate student writing. * Updated "Grammar for Writing" sections
help students apply target structures to the writing goals. *
"Building Better Vocabulary" activities highlight words from the
Academic Word List and encourage students to use new words in their
writing. * Student writing models help students focus on specific
writing skills and multiple rhetorical structures
Engineering is mathematics in action. But engineering students do not always see the link between what they learn in mathematics and how this applies to engineering problems.
From relatively simple questions, like determining the maximum weight a beam can support to complex projects like mapping out the most efficient electrical flow for a city’s traffic lights, mathematics is essential.
This official ICSA study text has been specially designed to
support students taking the Trust and Company Administration module
of ICSA's Level 5 qualifications in International Finance and
Administration.The text covers the syllabus for each module and is
structured to help in planning a programme of study. Learning
outcomes linked to the syllabus are highlighted to help students
focus on the examination requirements for each module.The text
follows a standard format and includes a range of features to
encourage active learning and to help students apply principles and
theory to real-life business situations, including: case law and
case examples stop and think scenarios worked examples test
yourself review questions and answers glossaries of key termsThe
text provides an excellent guide for students, but also serves as a
useful reference for anyone who needs an accessible and practical
introduction to the subject.
From the author of Today Tonight Tomorrow comes a magical romance
in the vein of Groundhog Day about a girl forced to relive her
disastrous first day of college—only to discover that her nemesis
is stuck in the time loop with her. Barrett Bloom is hoping college
will be a fresh start after a messy high school experience. But
when school begins on September 21st, everything goes wrong.
She’s humiliated by the know-it-all in her physics class, she
botches her interview for the college paper, and at a party that
night, she accidentally sets a frat on fire. She panics and flees,
and when she realizes her roommate locked her out of their dorm,
she falls asleep in the common room. The next morning, Barrett’s
perplexed to find herself back in her dorm room bed, no longer
smelling of ashes and crushed dreams. It’s September 21st. Again.
And after a confrontation with Miles, the guy from Physics 101, she
learns she’s not alone—he’s been trapped for months. When her
attempts to fix her timeline fail, she agrees to work with Miles to
find a way out. Soon they’re exploring the mysterious underbelly
of the university and going on wild, romantic adventures. As they
start falling for each other, they face the universe’s biggest
unanswered question yet: what happens to their relationship if they
finally make it to tomorrow?
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Enemies Closer (DVD)
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Peter Hyams directs this action movie starring Tom Everett Scott,
Orlando Jones and Jean-Claude Van Damme. Though former Navy SEAL
turned forest ranger Henry (Scott) may have thought his days of
high-octane encounters were over, the arrival of a drug cartel on
his territory suggests otherwise. The cartel, led by Xander (Van
Damme), are searching for a shipment of drugs that went missing in
the area and force Henry to help them. Complicating matters further
is the arrival on the scene of Clay (Jones), a man out for revenge
against Henry following a past dispute. Will the enemies be able to
work together to thwart the cartel?
'Irresistible' Jennifer Saint 'Spellbinding' Elodie Harper THE
GREATEST EVER LOVE STORY WAS A LIE . . . The first time Romeo
Montague sees young Rosaline Capulet he falls instantly in love.
Rosaline, headstrong and independent, is unsure of Romeo's
attentions but with her father determined that she join a convent,
this handsome and charming stranger offers her the chance of a
different life. Soon though, Rosaline begins to doubt all that
Romeo has told her. She breaks off the match, only for Romeo's gaze
to turn towards her cousin, thirteen-year-old Juliet. Gradually
Rosaline realises that it is not only Juliet's reputation at stake,
but her life. With only hours remaining before she will be banished
behind the nunnery walls, will Rosaline save Juliet from her Romeo?
Or can this story only ever end one way? A subversive, powerful
untelling of Shakespeare's best-known tale, narrated by a fierce,
forgotten voice: this is Rosaline's story. Hamnet meets My Dark
Vanessa in this fierce, feminist, intensely gripping novel;
captivating and chillingly relevant, FAIR ROSALINE takes everything
you thought you knew about Romeo and Juliet and turns it on its
head . . . 'Irresistible. An excellent spin on a timeless classic'
Jennifer Saint 'I have not been able to stop thinking about this
book . . . Fair Rosaline is a gripping, spellbinding and
wonderfully immersive book - and one that truly makes you think. I
would be very surprised if everyone is not talking about it this
summer' Elodie Harper 'A brilliant and beguiling re-imagining of
the Romeo and Juliet story. A terrific novel - very clever and
alluring' William Boyd 'Thought-provoking . . . a rich and
atmospheric work that, despite its historical setting, feels
intensely relatable thanks to Solomons' resilient heroine'
Katherine J. Chen, author of Joan 'Masterfully weaves Shakespeare's
classic play into a gripping story of female agency and strength.
Rosaline is a compelling heroine and I was rooting for her from the
first page' Isabelle Schuler, author of Lady Macbethad
'Intelligent, imaginative, irreverent. Solomons has created a
gripping Romeo and Juliet for the 21st century' Annabel Abbs 'A
brilliant, feminist re-imagining of Romeo and Juliet. I absolutely
devoured this thought-provoking, female-centric take on
Shakespeare' Jillian Cantor, USA Today bestselling author of
Beautiful Little Fools 'Exquisitely written, wonderfully lyrical
and richly immersive - this a story we all know made fresh and
chillingly relevant, refracted through a feminist lens' Ellery
Lloyd *SELECTED AS ONE TO WATCH IN 2023 IN THE EVENING STANDARD*
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Sorrowland (Paperback)
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Vern, a hunted woman alone in the woods, gives birth to twins and
raises them away from the influence of the outside world. But something
is wrong - not with them, but with her own body. It's changing, it's
itching, it's stronger, it's... not normal.
To understand her body's metamorphosis, Vern must investigate not just
the secluded religious compound she fled but the violent history of
dehumanization, medical experimentation, and genocide that produced it.
In the course of reclaiming her own darkness, Vern learns that monsters
aren't just individuals, but entire histories, systems, and nations.
Sorrowland is a memorable work of Gothic fiction that wrestles with the
tangled history of racism in America and the marginalisation of
society's undesirables. It is a searing, seminal book that marks the
arrival of a bold, unignorable voice in American fiction.
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Weather Girl (Paperback)
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Great Writing bridges the gap from ESL writers to mainstream
writers! The Great Writing series uses clear explanations and
extensive practical activities to help students write great
sentences, paragraphs, and essays. Each book contains a wide
variety of writing models in carefully selected rhetorical styles
that provide practice in working with the writing process to
develop a final piece of writing. * An all-new level, Great Writing
Foundations introduces students to the basics of sentence
structure, grammar, spelling and vocabulary for writing. *
Impactful National Geographic images open every unit and help to
stimulate student writing. * Updated "Grammar for Writing" sections
help students apply target structures to the writing goals. *
"Building Better Vocabulary" activities highlight words from the
Academic Word List and encourage students to use new words in their
writing. * Student writing models help students focus on specific
writing skills and multiple rhetorical structures
Between government cutbacks, shrinking endowments, and business
belt-tightening, the nonprofit sector may end up being the biggest
victim of today's topsy-turvy market that few even hear about. But
this does not mean that nonprofits aren't just as vital as
before--if not more so--or that yours cannot receive the regular
funding it needs to fulfill the mission you heroically set out to
do. But it's going to take the same type of advanced organizational
and competitive strategies that the most successful for-profit
businesses have utilized in order to remain atop the leader
board.Bridging the gap between theory and practical methods, The
Nonprofit Fundraising Solution shows readers how to: - Ensure that
executive leadership and board dynamics fully support fundraising
initiatives - Build a broad constituency of donors aligned to the
mission - Determine the right level of funding diversification -
Use tactics such as challenge drives, stretch gifts, and corporate
matching; parlor gatherings; leadership councils; year-end drives;
corporate partnerships; and major campaigns to power revenue,
increase access to wealthy donors, and raise their community
profile - Proactively encourage planned giving - Avoid revenue
plateausTo survive and ultimately thrive, a nonprofit needs
forceful revenue strategies and an organizational culture that
champions them. Complete with stories of those who have done this
exceptionally well, as well as "casebooks" of the
strategies-in-action, this invaluable resource for philanthropists
of all kinds reveals how any nonprofit can implement advanced
fundraising methods and secure the funds they need to excel.
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