A diplomatic and contrapuntal history of the emergence of Robert Liston, British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire in the early 19th century and the emergence of the 'Eastern Question'.
A remarkable, eyewitness-based, narrative on what actually occurred in the first year of the Great War around the globe.
From the bestselling author of How Are You Feeling Today?, this sensitive and important picture book helps children explore positive mental health.
Provides the first comprehensive comparative and empirical analysis of the state of harmonisation in EU copyright law in the 27 Member States, and the UK, at the level of national courts.
A thrilling and shocking adaptation of Orwell's acclaimed novel, detailing the dangers and realities of a totalitarian state.
Drawing on qualitative research exploring the techniques of playwriting instructors, this book outlines signature pedagogies within playwriting instruction for 'novice' writers and how they may be reimagined and reinvigorated. Through research gathered in interviews with 11 instructors, and surveying their methods, syllabi and handouts, Andrew Black interrogates key challenges within dramatic writing pedagogy: the myth that it, along with creativity, cannot be taught; the lack of clarity about the instructional value of playwriting education for diverse contemporary audiences; the tendency to allow the writing product to drive instruction rather than process; and the tension between traditional and experimental models of play construction and how this can confound instructional techniques.Identifying 3 indispensable and signature pedagogies that are consistently used in the classroom - the writing exercise, the use of mentor texts and the workshopping of student material, this book describes key strategies and practices used by seasoned instructors which bring these pedagogical strategies to life, strategies which can support instructors in reimagining their playwriting classrooms. An intervention for "lorebased" pedagogical models that are often out of date and reflect the biases of previous generations, Black offers a starting point for instructors developing their first lesson plans that are inclusive and which offers a comprehensive understanding of the options available for them to use with their students.
Exploring the role that courts martial played in the professional lives of flag officers in the late Georgian Royal Navy, this book examines the genesis, proceedings and outcomes of nine trials faced by British admirals in the American and French wars. Despite only one admiral being found guilty as charged, the implications of facing trial were highly significant on all of these officers' careers and their surrounding political climates. For some officers, courts martial provided them a means of preserving their honour and professional reputations in the face of perceived mistreatment or criticism.This study sets the experiences of these nine admirals in the context of the naval courts martial system and considers their charging and conviction rate with other naval personnel in the period to understand how the naval justice system worked at the top of society. Drawing on a range of sources, from Admiralty records in the National Archives to official and personal papers, publications of the Naval Records Society and press literature, it sheds new light on prominent individuals' careers and key moments in 18th century naval history.
Ezra Coad has lived in the little cottage on the edge of the Trengrose estate all his life. He was born there, his father was born there, and his grandfather before him, and it is his own little paradise. But when Eliza Rosevear, the mistress of the estate, dies without leaving a will, the ownership of Ezra's cottage comes into question. Especially when financier Toby Hardman and his wife acquire Trengrose House, and move in. Toby at once sniffs an opportunity to acquire the rundown cottage to rent out to Cornish tourists. Can Ezra find a way to hold on to his home? And when Toby Hardman removes the ancient Celtic cross that gives the estate its name, battle lines are drawn between them.But it turns out the recently deceased mistress of Trengrose took some secrets to her grave. And she doesn't intend to rest quietly until they come to light...
Draws resources from Edwards's Christology both for current discussion of the relationship between the divine being and economy and for current Reformed attempts to speak of the beauty of God and of God's works.
Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love (2000) is a film that luxuriates in the feeling of being in love - without ever turning into a love story. Its central characters, Mr Chow and Mrs Chan, are tenants in next-door apartments in Hong Kong who discover that their respective spouses are having an affair. As they try to make sense of their partners' behaviour, they also struggle to control their growing feelings for each other. Hailed by the press as 'the consummate unconsummated love story of the new millennium', this film about desire repressed has become a firmly established classic of the twenty-first century. In his sharp and revealing analysis of In the Mood for Love, Tony Rayns draws on his considerable expertise in East Asian cinema and on his proximity to Wong Kar-wai and his colleagues at production company Jet Tone during the film's long and complicated genesis. He delivers a personal and highly original commentary on the film and its production, complete with insights into Wong's idiosyncratic working methods and influences. He also places the film in the context of Wong's other work, with sidelights on its place in Hong Kong cinema as a whole. This new edition features an afterword by the author, looking back on In the Mood for Love 25 years after its first release.
A new look at change management, bringing in new theories on what leaders really need to do to ensure that their change management programmes are effective, meaningful for their teams, and also long-lasting.
An exploration of how popes attempted to construct, maintain, and represent their power beyond Europe's eastern frontiers during the Avignon period of the 14th century.After the main crusades concluded with the loss of the Holy Land in the 13th century, the papacy did not withdraw from its interests and activities in the Eastern Mediterranean. This book, based primarily on the letters sent by the popes in the Vatican Archives, explores the power and authority of the popes in their attempts at influencing events in the Eastern Mediterranean during the 14th century, and considers how this impacted their successes and failures.The Avignon Popes and the Eastern Mediterranean explores a wide set of circumstances and situations, taking into account efforts to control Latin activity beyond Europe, how the popes interacted with and attempted to control non-Latin Churches, and how the popes acted as a Europe-wide political body in diplomatic activities with the Mamluks and the Mongols. James Hill looks at how, in its dealings with the wider world, the papacy continuously encountered the same issue: its position as head of the Church gave it significant authority, but it was often unable to compel actions it wanted. Hill expertly charts how the popes attempted to use their authority to achieve concrete results, and the extent to which those attempts were successful.
Decolonizing research and education means loosening the grip of Western academic requirements upon scholars and students. It means embracing cosmologies and ontologies of non-Western cultures in order to open new spaces for pedagogies and methodologies independent of Western notions of measurable academic achievement. In a word, it means embracing pluriversalism, an anti-concept that resounds throughout many decolonial methodologies and pedagogies. Yet despite its prominence in other fields, this notion has never been foregrounded in any full-length study of social work.This co-edited volume does just that, and in so doing, it reveals a thriving subcurrent of othered ways of researching and teaching social work. This in turn opens new spaces for teaching and talking about social work in a manner that is more just, culturally sensitive, and attuned to structural power relations. Furthermore, it calls new attention to structural power relations still at play in many of the best-intentioned attempts to decolonize methodologies and pedagogies: while the chapters gathered here question the assumptions and current directions of empirical scientific research and academic education, they also engage critically with the risks of cultural appropriation endemic to pluriversal approaches, themselves, appropriations that would ultimately reproduce the exploitation mechanisms they aim to resist.For its thought-provoking, highly original attention to important, even foundational, but badly neglected issues within the field, this book is a must-read for all scholars and students of social work, and particularly for those interested in issues related to diversity, pedagogy, or the history of the profession. It is also of keen interest for practitioners wishing to cast a critical eye on their own education and practice.
In the early morning of 9 April 1940 a fleet of German ships entered the Oslofjord. The Norwegian artillery delayed the German advance long enough for King Haakon VII and his cabinet to escape to England, but there was no stopping the Nazi blitzkrieg. Norway stood on the cusp of a traumatic five-year occupation whose aftershocks would continue to trouble its national consciousness long after the defeated Germans departed in May 1945.In a magnificent feat of storytelling, Robert Ferguson tells the extraordinary - and relatively little-known - story of the occupation and its judicial aftermath. He focuses in particular on the Germans' attempt to use a Norwegian Nazi administration under Vidkun Quisling to impose a National Socialist revolution on Norwegians, and on the many brave and ingenious ways in which the Norwegians resisted the attempt.Ferguson describes the occupation in all its aspects - from Nazi terror to non-violent resistance, from censorship to sabotage - ending with a riveting and heart-rending account of the trial and ensuing execution of a member of the Norwegian resistance. Norway's War presents a series of heterogeneous but interlinked narratives which are richly involving in themselves but which always allow the wider politico-military story to keep moving forward. The key players in the occupation, whether occupiers, collaborators or resisters, both non-violent and otherwise, are memorably characterised. One of them, the remarkable double agent Gunnar Waaler, occupies an especially prominent place in the narrative.Above all, Norway's War evokes the bravery of ordinary Norwegians in a manner that is deeply engaging, moving and fascinating.
Tahir Nisar presents a cogent, compelling account of recent developments and disruptions within the digital economy, and particularly within the industrial and service sectors. Through an original, overarching framework rooted in the concept of personalization and its antecedents, Nisar identifies radically new forms of relationships, both economic and social, among firms and customers. These new relationships are driving major changes in commercial and industrial firms' policies and practices, and in turn, in the entire market economy. E-commerce trading, user-generated content, virtual communities, co-creation, influencer movements, FinTech, and sharing economies have strengthened the hands of consumers and have encouraged developments in cognitive technologies such as AI automation, which in turn create new ways of working and disruptions to traditional capital-labour relations. Ultimately, what emerges from this study is a picture of how digital technologies unleash forces of change that are creating new forms of social and economic sharing arrangements and new forms of social organization.For its empirical depth and and theoretical rigor, this book is essential reading for researchers and students interested in emerging, alternative forms of economics, business, and management, and particularly those interested in the digital economy and the state and future of capitalist markets.
Enter the enchanted forest of the festival for the broken-hearted... Hearts will be healed, and hearts broken, but nobody will leave this festival exactly as they arrived, in the new novel from Booker Prize-winning author Sir Ben Okri.
Jamie and July are eleven-year-olds from opposite sides of London - and opposite sides of the tracks. They meet for the first time at Waterloo Station in the last week of the summer holidays, both desperate to get away but for very different reasons. Despite their worries, the sun is shining and, as they escape everything they've left behind in the heat of the city streets, Jamie and July can't help but sense adventure in the air. But running away isn't just harmless summertime fun. What are they really trying to escape? And will either Jamie or July find a place that finally feels like home?
THE FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARThis absorbing collective biography of the genius Nobel family reveals how the Nobels' business and personal lives were fundamentally intertwined with the histories of Sweden and Russia, as well as the economic and entrepreneurial development of Europe in the long 19th century. The name Nobel is mainly associated with the Nobel prize. However, Alfred Nobel was only one of a family of conspicuously gifted individuals. The Nobels, who moved from Sweden to Russia in the 1830s, ran one of Russia's biggest machine factories and founded the Russian oil industry. Using thousands of Nobel family letters and other documents shared here for the first time, Bengt Jangfeldt provides a fascinating and authoritative multi-generational chronicle charting the family exploits. The author describes how the father, Immanuel Nobel, a polymath architect, inventor, and engineer set the family on a path to financial success amidst a backdrop of imperial Russian industrial growth. He tells the story of how Immanuel's sons, Robert and Ludvig, and his grandson, Emanuel, developed the family business into a powerful industrial empire with a progressive agenda in the fields of worker's welfare, profit-sharing and charity. When the Revolution struck in 1917, the family's industrial empire as well as their huge personal wealth were swept away in one go. As a result they had to flee the country where they had been active for 80 years and return to Sweden. During a time of immense change in Russia and right across Europe, the story of the Nobels stands out as one of both brilliance and resilience, with family firmly at its heart.
Through its 75-year-old narrator, Pericles Drakos, The Circle tells the story of Istanbul's deterioration, beginning from COVID-19 era and weaving its way backwards to the 1950s
An essential work to beread by all non-Indigenous scholars and activists seeking solidarity withIndigenous struggles across the world
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