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Literature & Literary StudiesApril 2010The life of Una Marson, 1905–65
by Delia Jarrett-Macauley
This is an original, full length biography of Britain's first twentieth-century black feminist - Una Marson - poet, playwright, and social activist and BBC broadcaster. Una Marson is recognised today as the first major woman poet of the Caribbean and as a significant forerunner of contemporary black writers; her story throws light on the problems facing politicised black artists. In challenging definitions of 'race' and 'gender' in her political and creative work, she forged a valiant path for later black feminists. Her enormous social and cultural contributions to the Caribbean and Britain have, until now, remained hidden in archives and memoirs around the world. Based on extensive research and oral testimony, this biography embraces postcolonial realities and promise, and is a major contribution to British cultural history. ;
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November 2023Theorien des digitalen Kapitalismus
Arbeit und Ökonomie, Politik und Subjekt
by Tanja Carstensen, Simon Schaupp, Sebastian Sevignani
Verändert sich der Kapitalismus grundlegend angesichts der gegenwärtigen Digitalisierungsschübe? Konjunktur haben jedenfalls theoretische Analysen und Zeitdiagnosen, die sich der Charakterisierung eines digitalen Kapitalismus widmen. Der vorliegende Band bietet erstmals einen Überblick über diese unterschiedlichen Theorien und Debatten und lotet entlang der Felder Arbeit und Ökonomie, Politik und Subjekt die Formen und Auswirkungen des Kapitalismus im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung aus. Mit Beiträgen u. a. von Emma Dowling, Helen Hester, Ursula Huws, Kylie Jarrett, Oliver Nachtwey, Nick Srnicek, Philipp Staab und Jamie Woodcock.
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June 2022Hey, Kiddo
Wie ich meine Mutter verlor, meinen Vater fand und mit Drogensucht in meiner Familie klarkommen musste
by Jarrett J. Krosoczka
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February 2006Frag mich, wer die Beatles sind
Brief an meinen Sohn über die Liebe zur Musik
by Roberto Cotroneo, Karin Krieger
Die elementare Art, wie Musik auf das Seelische wirkt, ist rätselhaft - so rätselhaft, daß der größte Seelenkundler der Moderne, Sigmund Freud, nichts mit ihr anzufangen wußte und beinahe Angst vor ihr empfand. Die Musik entzieht sich dem rationalen Zugriff, gerade weil sie so unmittelbar wirkt und weil die Klänge, die wir lieben, unauflöslich mit unserem Selbst verbunden sind. Und so nähert sich Cotroneo dem Phänomen der Musik auch nicht durch Analyse, sondern erzählend, in Form eines langen Briefes an seinen kleinen Sohn Andrea: indem er von Mozart erzählt und von Jimi Hendrix, von Chopin und von Keith Jarrett, indem er beschreibt, wie eine Schulklasse John Lennons "Imagine" aufführt, ja indem er in einem erzählten Traum zusammen mit Andrea erlebt, wie eine private Uraufführung von Brahms' erstem Klavierkonzert zustande kommt. In Episoden von ergreifender Schönheit wird klar, wie ein einzelnes Musikerlebnis prägend werden kann für ein ganzes Leben, und wir begreifen vom Wesen der Musik mehr als durch gelehrte Abhandlungen.
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MedicineFebruary 2020The Impact of Research at The International Livestock Research Institute
by John McIntire, Delia Grace
This book recounts the history and achievements of research at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), including work at its predecessors the International Livestock Centre for Africa (ILCA; 1974-1994) and the International Laboratory for Research on Animal Diseases (ILRAD; 1974-1994). The scientific and economic impacts of tropical livestock research reveal valuable lessons, in this work charting the research of these three institutions. Describing mixed crop and livestock systems' impact on the global environment, it also covers animal genetics, production, health and disease control, land management, public policy, and economics. Providing global estimates of the impact of livestock research and with useful pointers for future research, this book provides an important reference for animal scientists and veterinarians working in the global south.
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April 2024Climate Change and Global Health
Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Effects
by Colin Butler, Kerryn Higgs, Ågot Aakra, Khaled Abass, Robyn Alders, Kofi Amegah, Janetrix Hellen Amuguni, Gulrez Shah Azhar, Katherine Barraclough, Barbara Berner, Alex Blum, Justin Borevitz, Menno Bouma, Devin C. Bowles, Mark Braidwood, Anne Lise Brantsæter, Cyril Caminade, Katrina Charles, Fiona Charlson, Moumita Sett Chatterjee, Matthew Chersich, Rebecca Colvin, Namukolo Covic, Christopher B Daniels, Richard Dennis, Cybele Dey, Hubert Dirven, Yuming Guo, Tari Haahtela, Ivan C Hanigan, Andrew Harmer, Budi Haryanto, Kerryn Higgs, Susanne Hyllestad, Christine Instanes, Ruth Irwin, Ollie Jay, Solveig Jore, Ke Ju, Tord Kjellstrom, Marit Låg, Jason KW Lee, Shanshan Li, Irakli Loladze, Rosemary A. McFarlane, Martin McKee, Helle Margrete Meltzer, Glen Mola, Andy Morse, Juliet Nabyonga-Orem, Nicholas H. Ogden, Johan Øvrevik, Rebecca Patrick, Rezanur Rahaman, Delia Randolph, Shilpa Rao, Arja Rautio, Mary Robinson, Tilman Ruff, Subhashis Sahu, Jonathan Samet, Photini Sinnis, Julie P Smith, Jes
There is increasing understanding that climate change will have profound, mostly harmful effects, on human health. In this authoritative book, international experts examine long-recognized areas of health concern for populations vulnerable to climate change, describing effects that are both direct, such as heat waves, and indirect, such as via vector-borne diseases. Set in a broad international, economic, political and environmental context, this unique book expands these issues by reviving and championing a third ('tertiary') category of longer term impacts on global health: famine, population dislocation, conflict and collapse. This edition has an expanded foundation, with new chapters discussing nuclear war, population and limits to growth, among others. This lively yet scholarly resource explores all these issues, finishing with a practical discussion of avenues to reform. As Mary Robinson, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, states in the foreword: 'Climate change interacts with many undesirable aspects of human behaviour, including inequality, racism and other manifestations of injustice. Climate change policies, as practised by most countries in the global North, not only interact with these long-standing forms of injustice, but exemplify a new form, of startling magnitude.' The book is dedicated to Tony McMichael, Will Steffen and Maurice King. This book will be invaluable for students, post-graduates, researchers and policy-makers in public health, climate change and medicine.
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Biography & True StoriesA Nurse's Story
Medical Missionary in Korea and Siberia, 1915-1920
by Delia Battles Lewis
Delia Battles left her small town in Ohio to train as a nurse in New York City and then went on an adventure of a lifetime. She found fulfillment in her work as a medical missionary in Korea, training native nurses at the mission hospital in another small town, Haeju. Her life of service there was interrupted by WWI, when she was called to be part of a Red Cross unit on the Eastern Front. She traveled on the Trans-Siberian railroad, encountered fleeing refugees in Harbin, and then worked in a typhus hospital and helped establish a Red Cross hospital in Omsk. At the end of the war, she returned to Korea to work in a hospital in Seoul, just in time to witness the first stirrings of the Korean Independence movement.
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Building Writing Center Assessments That Matter
by Ellen Schendel, William J. Macauley, Jr.
No less than other divisions of the college or university, contemporary writing centers find themselves within a galaxy of competing questions and demands that relate to assessment—questions and demands that usually embed priorities from outside the purview of the writing center itself. Writing centers are used to certain kinds of assessment, both quantitative and qualitative, but are often unprepared to address larger institutional or societal issues. In Building Writing Center Assessments that Matter, Schendel and Macauley start from the kinds of assessment strengths already in place in writing centers, and they build a framework that can help writing centers satisfy local needs and put them in useful dialogue with the larger needs of their institutions, while staying rooted in writing assessment theory. The authors begin from the position that tutoring writers is already an assessment activity, and that good assessment practice (rooted in the work of Adler-Kassner, O'Neill, Moore, and Huot) already reflects the values of writing center theory and practice. They offer examples of assessments developed in local contexts, and of how assessment data built within those contexts can powerfully inform decisions and shape the futures of local writing centers. With additional contributions by Neal Lerner, Brian Huot and Nicole Caswell, and with a strong commitment to honoring on-site local needs, the volume does not advocate a one-size-fits-all answer. But, like the modeling often used in a writing consultation, examples here illustrate how important assessment principles have been applied in a range of local contexts. Ultimately, Building Writing Assessments Centers that Matter describes a theory stance toward assessment for writing centers that honors the uniqueness of the writing center context, and examples of assessment in action that are concrete, manageable, portable, and adaptable.
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July 2014Producing Country
The Inside Story of the Great Recordings
by Michael Jarrett
Legendary producers describe the making of country music’s great recordings
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BoxingJuly 2015Dempsey and the Wild Bull
The Four Minute Fight of the Century
by John Jarrett
They still call it the most sensational fight ever for the world heavyweight championship, between champion Jack Dempsey and his hammer-fisted Argentine challenger, Luis Angel Firpo. Back in the Roaring Twenties, 85,000 packed into New York's Polo Grounds to see all three minutes fifty-seven seconds of it. Nobody asked for their money back. In the first round Firpo was floored seven times, but got up to deck the champion, then knocked him clean into the press section. Pushed back into the ring as the count reached nine, the champion survived the round, thinking he had been knocked out. In round two, Dempsey knocked Firpo out in fifty-seven seconds. The four-minute Fight of the Century was over! 'The Wild Bull of the Pampas' became Argentina's most famous citizen, after the infamous Perons. Dempsey, half a million dollars richer, rested and rusted for three years before losing his title to Gene Tunney.
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November 2020El juguete que faltaba
by Mejía, Ana Delia
Santiago has a mascot, a great imagination and a great desire to play. With boxes, with chairs, with dirt, he is an expert at playing with everything... or almost everything, because one day he discovers that there is a toy that he needs. And he will not stop until he gets it. This book reminds us that play is a right that is exercised with freedom
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Novae Spes
by Terry Steward
This is a contemporary adventure novel dealing with modern themes such as, pollution, plastic waste, genetic manipulation and regulation set in the thrilling landscape of equatorial Guinea.
