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Climate change makes fossil fuels unburnable, yet global coal
production has almost doubled over the last 20 years. This book
explores how the world can stop mining coal - the most prolific
source of greenhouse gas emissions. It documents efforts at halting
coal production, focusing specifically on how campaigners are
trying to stop coal mining in India, Germany, and Australia.
Through in-depth comparative ethnography, it shows how local people
are fighting to save their homes, livelihoods, and environments,
creating new constituencies and alliances for the transition from
fossil fuels. The book relates these struggles to conflicts between
global climate policy and the national coal-industrial complex.
With coal's meaning transformed from an important asset to a
threat, and the coal industry declining, it charts reasons for
continuing coal dependence, and how this can be overcome. It will
provide a source of inspiration for energy transition for
researchers in environment, sustainability, and politics, as well
as policymakers.
An examination of how language functions in CLIL, based on a corpus
of classroom interactions. Drawing on their wide experience as CLIL
educators and researchers, the authors explore data collected in
real CLIL classrooms from two interrelated perspectives: the CLIL
classroom as an interactional context for developing language and
content, and the genres and registers through which the meanings of
the different academic subjects are enacted. From the analysis of
this corpus of data, the authors provide a rich description of how
CLIL students' language works and may be expected to develop. Also
available separately as a hardback.
Waters of life. Distilled spirits of all kinds have borne that
name, in various tongues, since time immemorial. Aqua vita. Eau de
vie. Uisge Beatha. Tom Morton has travelled the world in search of
the finest drams the planet has to offer. His journeys reveal the
links between faith and alcohol, between spirits and the spiritual.
From Christianity's Holy Communion to the temple libations of
Japan, through the rum concoctions of Haitian Voodoo to the
monastic producers of every liquid from beer to "tonic" wine. And
of course Tom's beloved whisky, brewed in many corners of the
world. Holy Waters is Tom's journey to the spiritual heart of
whisky, sake, rum, Champagne, beer, mead and a variety of wines.
With great insight, humour and for the most part sobriety, he
traces the links between brewing, winemaking, distilling and
worship, from ancient pagan rites to the most modern Trappist
technology. He revels in the lore and mysteries of craft
production, the elemental, magical love stories, the passionate
relationships between human and landscape, grain and pure water,
grape and fire. And he does so on a motorcycle which, to his
astonishment, runs very well on cask-strength Islay single malt.
This book is a celebration of cultures and artisan craft, a book
for food and drink, travel and history lovers.
1939: fascism spreads across Europe, Franco marches on Barcelona
and two German chemists discover the processes of atomic fission.
In Berkeley, California, theoretical physicists recognise the
horrendous potential of this new science: a weapon that draws its
power from the very building blocks of the universe. Struggling to
cast off his radical past and thrust into a position of power and
authority, the charismatic J Robert Oppenheimer races to win the
'battle of the laboratories' and create a weapon so devastating
that it would bring about an end not just to the Second World War
but to all war. Tom Morton-Smith's new play takes us into the heart
of the Manhattan Project, revealing the personal cost of making
history.
"You know when a song gets stuck in your head? Round and round ...
over and over. I've got that right now ... only it's not a piece of
music ... it's not a tune ... it's a phrase: home is where the
heart is ... home is where the heart is." A coastline erodes, a
house falls into the sea. A mysterious brother and sister arrive
looking for answers. Marnie clings to her camera, taking
photographs of strangers and places. She has come to say goodbye to
a life she never knew whilst her brother Linus is keen to make a
fresh start. But when they find Simon and daughter Kelly, reeling
in the wake of tragedy, all four lives are to become inextricably
linked under the weight of the past.
After a close encounter with death, Tom Morton realised he needed a
change of pace and perspective. He decided to become the only
independent funeral celebrant on the remote Shetland Islands, an
unusual new profession that would lead him on an extraordinary
journey into the world of the dead. In a vivid narrative that
reveals the fascinating realm of the unspoken - from extraordinary
undertakers and death cafes, to pilgrimages and taboos - Tom
quickly learns that death and speaking for the dead requires you to
think on your feet and often take a magpie approach to faith and
philosophy. From Humanism to hymns, Theravada Buddhism to Star Wars
theology, he discovers the importance of ritual, humour, and the
empowering act of trying to find words for something beyond
language itself. This is an accessible and thought-provoking guide
to celebrating mortality. When grief must be an inevitable part of
life, Tom shows how we can mourn together in a way that feels
appropriate to the life of the one who has passed on, and
ultimately cultivate a healthy attitude to our own eventual demise.
Analyses how different English language teacher identities and
power relationships are oriented to and made relevant in social
interactionSocial interaction and English language teacher identity
uses fine-grained analyses of interaction in a range of teacher
education and professional practice settings in ELT to explore the
different identities and power relationships which teachers orient
to. It traces the role of identity and interaction in the processes
of acquiring new teaching skills and knowledge, reflecting on
professional practice and constructing teaching selves, and
explores the limits and constraints on these processes imposed by
global forces such as the marketization of education. The book is
written for teachers, teacher educators, postgraduate students and
researchers interested in the relationships between social
interaction, identity and professional practice in ELT. Key
features Includes a full survey of different approaches to the
study of language teacher learning and identityProvides an
introduction to a range of frameworks for analyzing talk and
identity in teacher education and professional practice contexts
Analyses spoken data from activities such as guided
lesson-planning, post-teaching reflection, discussions of teaching
materials Each chapter ends with practice tasks, discussion points,
and references for further reading Suitable for use in conjunction
with any postgraduate-level course on language in interaction, as
it surveys and critically discusses various approaches and includes
many practical examples
"It's got everything a pop-lit novel for guys needs...sex, guns,
black humour, Scotland, religious fanatics, mercenaries,
drinking...It even comes with recommended drams and tasting notes
for each chapter." Whisky Magazine
"Tom modestly says the simultaneous consumption of whisky is not
essential to enjoying the book, 'but it probably helps.' If only
religions had thought up such a wheeze, our churches might not be
so empty." Ken Smith's Herald Diary
"Each chapter highlights a particular whisky, and if you read the
whole book in one sitting I confidently predict irreparable damage
to your liver." Alan Taylor, Sunday Herald
"A Whisky in Monsterville. How does it rate. Highly, I think.
Unlike many of those who tread the best seller trail, Tom Morton is
genuinely erudite, with an enviable breadth of knowledge covering
music, literature, and a lot more of what makes life worth living
so all sorts of stuff crops up to lighten and enliven the
narrative. That narrative carries you professionally along. But
meanwhile the book holds you in a way most in the genre don't,
through well drawn characters, humour, and yes, erudition." The
Shetland Times
It's a monster of a thriller. A black farce. An immersion in the
dark waters and mysteries of Loch Ness. And the world's first
interactive malt whisky novel
A Whisky in Monsterville: It's the tail end of the Loch Ness
tourist season. And monstrous things are happening in the Highlands
of Scotland. But no-one expects a series of horrific ritual
murders. Certainly not retired marine Murricane, whose idyllic
fishing-and-drinking existence on the loch is rudely interrupted.
By a burnt and mutilated body.
Druids, lost hippies, obsessive foodies, heavily armed
fundamentalist Christians, whisky experts and monster hunters. The
glens and woodlands around Loch Ness shelter a bizarre cast of
characters.
And they're being murdered in the most horrendous ways.
As his own murky past comes back to haunt him, can Murricane,
continually distracted by gourmet cooking and obscure malt
whiskies, stop the killing?
It's a dram good read - funny, frightening and full of Highland
character. And you can sip a different whisky along with each
chapter. if you dare...
Reykjavik, 1972. All eyes are on Iceland ahead of ‘the Match of
the Century’: Boris Spassky vs. Bobby Fischer. For the two
contenders, the stakes have never been higher – the world title,
unprecedented prize money, and stratospheric fame are all on the
table.
Analyses how different English language teacher identities and
power relationships are oriented to and made relevant in social
interactionSocial interaction and English language teacher identity
uses fine-grained analyses of interaction in a range of teacher
education and professional practice settings in ELT to explore the
different identities and power relationships which teachers orient
to. It traces the role of identity and interaction in the processes
of acquiring new teaching skills and knowledge, reflecting on
professional practice and constructing teaching selves, and
explores the limits and constraints on these processes imposed by
global forces such as the marketization of education. The book is
written for teachers, teacher educators, postgraduate students and
researchers interested in the relationships between social
interaction, identity and professional practice in ELT. Key
features Includes a full survey of different approaches to the
study of language teacher learning and identityProvides an
introduction to a range of frameworks for analyzing talk and
identity in teacher education and professional practice contexts
Analyses spoken data from activities such as guided
lesson-planning, post-teaching reflection, discussions of teaching
materials Each chapter ends with practice tasks, discussion points,
and references for further reading Suitable for use in conjunction
with any postgraduate-level course on language in interaction, as
it surveys and critically discusses various approaches and includes
many practical examples
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