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GLUE Transforming Leadership in a Hybrid World

GLUE Transforming Leadership in a Hybrid World

The adoption of remote hybrid and flexible working is the new normal. But like the old normal no one seems very happy. The solution requires a different type of leadership – one that unites transforms and elevates performance. Leadership that creates glue. With employee engagement productivity and personal ties on the wane leaders urgently need to refocus on harnessing relationships making their organisations more humane and finding new ways to engage and unleash talent. To do that the single most impactful thing leaders can do is to create and nurture an intangible yet essential factor called glue. So this book sets out some ideas about glue: where to look for it how to use it and most importantly how to cultivate glue amongst your most valuable people. It explores the approach of some unusual leaders and of firms transformed through the ‘organisational advantage’ of smartly configuring and harnessing talent. Using stories from firms such as Alibaba Apple Barclays Sky Husqvarna Group HSBC Space X Zopa and Richer Sounds the book shows how leaders can shape the effectiveness of teams reimagine the workplace and reinvigorate their business through the talents ideas and energy of their firm’s best people. This book is for anyone who has a genuine interest in leading others with impact and wants to better unite transform and elevate their business. Whatever your role sector or seniority this book sets out a distinctive vision for the firm and shows the profound impact you can make through creating and nurturing glue. | GLUE Transforming Leadership in a Hybrid World

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Bringing the People Back In State Building from Below in the Nordic Countries ca. 1500-1800

Bringing the People Back In State Building from Below in the Nordic Countries ca. 1500-1800

The formation of states in early modern Europe has long been an important topic for historical analysis. Traditionally the political and military struggles of kings and rulers were the favoured object of study for academic historians. This book highlights new historical research from Europe’s northern frontier bringing ‘the people’ back into the discussion of state politics presenting alternative views of political and social relations in the Nordic countries before industrialisation. The early modern period was a time that witnessed initiatives from people from many groups formally excluded from political influence operating outside the structures of central government and this book returns to the subject of contentious politics and state building from below. | Bringing the People Back In State Building from Below in the Nordic Countries ca. 1500-1800

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Computational Engineering of Historical Memories With a Showcase on Afro-Eurasia (ca 1100-1500 CE)

Computational Engineering of Historical Memories With a Showcase on Afro-Eurasia (ca 1100-1500 CE)

Nanetti outlines a methodology for deploying artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance historical research. Historical events are the treasure of human experiences the heritage that societies have used to remain resilient and express their identities. Nanetti has created and developed an interdisciplinary methodology supported by practice-based research that serves as a pathway between historical and computer sciences to design and build computational structures that analyse how societies create narratives about historical events. This consilience pathway aims to make historical memory machine-understandable. It turns history into a computational discipline through an interdisciplinary blend of philological accuracy historical scholarship history-based media projects and computational tools. Nanetti presents the theory behind this methodology from a humanities perspective and discusses its practical application in user interface and experience. An essential read for historians and scholars working in the digital humanities. | Computational Engineering of Historical Memories With a Showcase on Afro-Eurasia (ca 1100-1500 CE)

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Conversation Analysis and Second Language Pedagogy A Guide for ESL/EFL Teachers

Conversation Analysis and Second Language Pedagogy A Guide for ESL/EFL Teachers

Now in its second edition this volume offers a strong synthesis of classic and current work in conversation analysis (CA) usefully encapsulated in a model of interactional practices that comprise interactional competence. Through this synthesis Wong and Waring demonstrate how CA findings can help to increase language teachers’ awareness of the spoken language and suggest ways of applying that knowledge to teaching second language interaction skills. The Second Edition features: Substantial updates that include new findings on interactional practices Reconceptualized reorganized and revised content for greater accuracy clarity and readability Expanded key concepts glossary at the end of each chapter New tasks with more transcripts of actual talk New authors' stories The book is geared towards current and prospective second or foreign language teachers material developers and other language professionals and assumes neither background knowledge of conversation analysis nor its connection to second language teaching. It also serves as a handy reference for those interested in key CA findings on social interaction. | Conversation Analysis and Second Language Pedagogy A Guide for ESL/EFL Teachers

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Toward Effective Strategic Analysis New Applications Of Information Technology

Toward Effective Strategic Analysis New Applications Of Information Technology

Exploring the future of strategic analysis this book identifies problems at the heart of the historical U. S. failure to perform effective strategic analysis then explains and dramatizes how new applications of information technology can make significant progress possible. Certain specific limitations of human memory says the author are major ca | Toward Effective Strategic Analysis New Applications Of Information Technology

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Studies on Ottoman Society and Culture 16th–18th Centuries

Studies on Ottoman Society and Culture 16th–18th Centuries

The studies presented in this collection are concerned most particularly with the material conditions of life in the mature Ottoman state of the 16th-18th centuries. They range from the evaluation of sources of livelihood and conditions in the workplace on the one hand to notions of domesticity and organization of the private sphere on the other and deal with the provinces in both the Balkans and in Asia as much as with Istanbul. At the same time the volume aims to illuminate Ottoman imperial institutional forms and norms as they existed in the high imperial era before the rapid change and transformation associated with late imperial times when the empire was more exposed both to global economic forces and external political pressures. This concentration on the relatively stable conditions that prevailed in the empire throughout the bulk of the early modern era (ca. 1450-ca. 1750) provides the reader with an opportunity to assess Ottoman institutional development and observe social and economic organization in their relatively 'pure' state before the double impact of industrialization and increasing Westernization in the late nineteenth century. | Studies on Ottoman Society and Culture 16th–18th Centuries

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Norse Greenland: Viking Peasants in the Arctic

Norse Greenland: Viking Peasants in the Arctic

How could a community of 2000–3000 Viking peasants survive in Arctic Greenland for 430 years (ca. 985–1415) and why did they finally disappear? European agriculture in an Arctic environment encountered serious ecological challenges. The Norse peasants faced these challenges by adapting agricultural practices they had learned from the Atlantic and North Sea coast of Norway. Norse Greenland was the stepping stone for the Europeans who first discovered America and settled briefly in Newfoundland ca. AD 1000. The community had a global significance which surpassed its modest size. In the last decades scholars have been nearly unanimous in emphasising that long-term climatic and environmental changes created a situation where Norse agriculture was no longer sustainable and the community was ruined. A secondary hypothesis has focused on ethnic confrontations between Norse peasants and Inuit hunters. In the last decades ethnic violence has been on the rise in Eastern Europe the Middle East and parts of Africa. In some cases it has degenerated into ethnic cleansing. This has strengthened the interest in ethnic violence in past societies. Challenging traditional hypotheses is a source of progress in all science. The present book does this on the basis of relevant written and archaeological material respecting the methodology of both sciences. | Norse Greenland: Viking Peasants in the Arctic

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Roman Masculinity and Politics from Republic to Empire

Roman Masculinity and Politics from Republic to Empire

This volume explores the role that republican political participation played in forging elite Roman masculinity. It situates familiarly manly traits like militarism aggressive sexuality and the pursuit of power within a political system based on power sharing and cooperation. In deliberations in the Senate at social gatherings and on military campaign displays of consensus with other men greased the wheels of social discourse and built elite comradery. Through literary sources and inscriptions that offer censorious or affirmative appraisal of male behavior from the Middle and Late Republic (ca. 300–31 BCE) to the Principate or Early Empire (ca. 100 CE) this book shows how the vir bonus or good man the Roman persona of male aristocratic excellence modulated imperatives for personal distinction and military and sexual violence with political cooperation and moral exemplarity. While the advent of one-man rule in the Empire transformed political power relations ideals forged in the Republic adapted to the new climate and provided a coherent model of masculinity for emperor and senator alike. Scholars often paint a picture of Republic and Principate as distinct landscapes but enduring ideals of male self-fashioning constitute an important continuity. Roman Masculinity and Politics from Republic to Empire provides a fascinating insight into the intertwined nature of masculinity and political power for anyone interested in Roman political and social history and those working on gender in the ancient world more broadly.

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Technological Capability and Learning in Firms Vietnamese Industries in Transition

Technological Capability and Learning in Firms Vietnamese Industries in Transition

First published in 1999 this volume examines technology in developing countries with a focus on Vietnam. One of the world’s poorest countries Vietnam has begun rehabilitation following the Vietnam War. Tran Ngoc Ca had four aims for this study. First exploration of the development of TC in Vietnamese industrial companies and looks at how the learning process is related to the accumulation of TC. Second to detail links between macro environment factors and micro internal actions of firms and their impact on TC. Third addressing specific issues in comparison with other developing countries and transitional economies. Fourth and finally to provide a background for the implementation of policy concerned with enhancing TC acquisition. | Technological Capability and Learning in Firms Vietnamese Industries in Transition

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Hybridity in Early Modern Art

Hybridity in Early Modern Art

This collection of essays explores hybridity in early modern art through two primary lenses: hybrid media and hybrid time. The varied approaches in the volume to theories of hybridity reflect the increased presence in art historical scholarship of interdisciplinary frameworks that extend art historical inquiry beyond the single time or material. The essays engage with what happens when an object is considered beyond the point of origin or as a legend of information the implications of the juxtaposition of disparate media how the meaning of an object alters over time and what the conspicuous use of out-of-date styles means for the patron artist and/or viewer. Essays examine both canonical and lesser-known works produced by European artists in Italy northern Europe and colonial Peru ca. 1400–1600. The book will be of interest to art historians visual culture historians and early modern historians.

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Disaster in the Early Modern World Examinations Representations Interventions

Disaster in the Early Modern World Examinations Representations Interventions

How did early modern societies think about disasters such as earthquakes or floods? How did they represent disaster and how did they intervene to mitigate its destructive effects? This collection showcases the breadth of new work on the period ca. 1300-1750. Covering topics that range from new thinking about risk and securitisation to the protection of dikes from shipworm and with a geography that extends from Europe to Spanish America the volume places early modern disaster studies squarely at the intersection of intellectual cultural and socio-economic history. This period witnessed fresh speculation on nature the diffusion of disaster narratives and imagery and unprecedented attempts to control the physical world. The book will be essential to specialists and students of environmental history and disaster as well as general readers who seek to discover how pre-industrial societies addressed some of the same foundational issues we grapple with today. | Disaster in the Early Modern World Examinations Representations Interventions

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Valuing People in Construction

Valuing People in Construction

Valuing People in Construction provides contemporary perspectives on the ‘glue’ that binds the construction process together; people. The book addresses people issues in the construction industry where behavioural outcomes impact upon business and project performance. The main proposition of the book is that as people continue to lead the completion of construction activities their health safety and well-being should be seen as a priority and valued by stakeholders. As employers and employees the role of people in construction must be to strive for the improvement of individual lives and society. This edited collection which is the first book to focus specifically on placing value on people in construction focuses on people at work gender at work conditions at work and respect at work. In addition to an editorial overview the book presents tested and refined empirical work and case studies by leading construction researchers from Africa Australia and Europe. Essential reading for researchers students and professionals interested in construction management the sociology of construction HRM in construction gender work and health studies.

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The Arithmetica of Diophantus A Complete Translation and Commentary

The Arithmetica of Diophantus A Complete Translation and Commentary

This volume offers an English translation of all ten extant books of Diophantus of Alexandria’s Arithmetica along with a comprehensive conceptual historical and mathematical commentary. Before his work became the inspiration for the emerging field of number theory in the seventeenth century Diophantus (ca. 3rd c. CE) was known primarily as an algebraist. This volume explains how his method of solving arithmetical problems agrees both conceptually and procedurally with the premodern algebra later practiced in Arabic Latin and European vernaculars and how this algebra differs radically from the modern algebra initiated by François Viète and René Descartes. It also discusses other surviving traces of ancient Greek algebra and follows the influence of the Arithmetica in medieval Islam Byzantium and the European Renaissance down to the 1621 publication of Claude-Gaspard Bachet’s edition. After the English translation the book provides a problem-by-problem commentary explaining the solutions in a manner compatible with Diophantus’s mode of thought. The Arithmetica of Diophantus provides an invaluable resource for historians of mathematics science and technology as well as those studying ancient Greek medieval Islamic and Byzantine and Renaissance history. In addition the volume is also suitable for mathematicians and mathematics educators. | The Arithmetica of Diophantus A Complete Translation and Commentary

GBP 120.00
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The Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic in the Eastern Fertile Crescent Revisiting the Hilly Flanks

The Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic in the Eastern Fertile Crescent Revisiting the Hilly Flanks

This volume brings together the latest results and discussions from research carried out in the eastern Fertile Crescent the so-called hilly flanks and adjacent regions as well as providing key historical perspectives on earlier fieldwork in the region. The emergence of sedentary food producing societies in southwest Asia ca. 10 000 years ago has been a key research focus for archaeologists since the 1930s. This book provides a balance to the weight of work undertaken in the western Fertile Crescent namely the Levant and southern Anatolia. This preference has led to a heavy emphasis on these regions in discussions about where when and how the transition from hunting and gathering to plant cultivation and animal domestication occurred. Chapters assess the role of the eastern Fertile Crescent as a key region in the Neolithization process in southwest Asia highlighting the key and important contributions people in this region made to the emergence of sedentary farming societies. This book is primarily aimed at academics researching the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture in southwest Asia. It will also be of interest to archaeologists working on this transition in other parts of Eurasia. | The Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic in the Eastern Fertile Crescent Revisiting the Hilly Flanks

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Federico Barocci Inspiration and Innovation in Early Modern Italy

Federico Barocci Inspiration and Innovation in Early Modern Italy

Reviewers of a recent exhibition termed Federico Barocci (ca. 1533–1612) 'the greatest artist you’ve never heard of'. One of the first original iconographers of the Counter Reformation Barocci was a remarkably inventive religious painter and draftsman and the first Italian artist to incorporate extensive color into his drawings. The purpose of this volume is to offer new insights into Barocci’s work and to accord this artist the dates of whose career fall between the traditional Renaissance and Baroque periods the critical attention he deserves. Employing a range of methodologies the essays include new ideas on Barocci’s masterpiece the Entombment of Christ; fresh thinking about his use of color in his drawings and innovative design methods; insights into his approach to the nude; revelations on a key early patron; a consideration of the reasons behind some of his most original iconography; an analysis of his unusual approach to the marketing of his pictures; an exploration of some little-known aspects of his early production such as his reliance on Italian majolica and contemporary sculpture in developing his compositions; and an examination of a key Barocci document the post mortem inventory of his studio. A translated transcription of the inventory is included as an appendix. | Federico Barocci Inspiration and Innovation in Early Modern Italy

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Essence and Energies: Being and Naming God in St Gregory Palamas

Essence and Energies: Being and Naming God in St Gregory Palamas

St. Gregory Palamas (ca. 1296–1357) is among the most well-known and celebrated theologians of late Byzantium. This book provides a comprehensive account of the essence-energies distinction across his twenty-five treatises and letters written over a twenty-year period. An Athonite monk abbot and later Metropolitan of Thessalonica Gregory is remembered especially for his distinction between God’s essence and energies and his celebrated doctrine still generates a great deal of debate. What does Palamas actually mean by the term energies? Are they ‘activities’ that God performs and if so how can they be eternal and uncreated? Indeed how could God be simple if he possesses energies distinct from his essence? Going beyond the Triads and the One Hundred and Fifty Chapters this book explores Palamas’s answers to these long-standing questions by analyzing all of the treatises produced by Palamas between the years 1338 and 1357. It seeks to understand what Palamas means when he speaks of God’s energies how he seeks to prove that they are distinct from the divine essence and how he explains that this distinction in no way violates the unity and simplicity of the one God in Trinity. Essence and Energies is a useful resource for upper-level undergraduates postgraduates and scholars interested in Byzantine theology in the fourteenth century. | Essence and Energies: Being and Naming God in St Gregory Palamas

GBP 120.00
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Goth Music From Sound to Subculture

Goth Music From Sound to Subculture

Is goth music a genre and if so how does it relate to the goth subculture? The music played at goth club nights and festivals encompasses a broad range of musical substyles from gloomy Batcave reverberations to neo-medieval bagpipe drones and from the lush vocals of goth metal to the harsh distortion of goth industrial. Goth Music: From Sound to Subculture argues that within this variegated musical landscape a number of key consistencies exist. Not only do all these goth substyles share a number of musical and textual characteristics but more importantly these aspects of the music are constitutive of goth social reality. Drawing on their own experiences in the European and American goth scenes the authors explore the ways in which the sounds of goth inform the scene’s listening practices its fantasies of other worlds and its re-enchantment of their own world. Goth music this book asserts engenders a musical timespace of its own a musical chronotope that is driven by nostalgic yearning. Goth Music: From Sound to Subculture reorients goth subcultural studies onto music: goth music must be recognized not only as simultaneously diverse and consistent but also as the glue that holds together goth scenes from all over the world. It all starts with the music. | Goth Music From Sound to Subculture

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Plato and the Creation of the Hebrew Bible

Plato and the Creation of the Hebrew Bible

Plato and the Creation of the Hebrew Bible for the first time compares the ancient law collections of the Ancient Near East the Greeks and the Pentateuch to determine the legal antecedents for the biblical laws. Following on from his 2006 work Berossus and Genesis Manetho and Exodus Gmirkin takes up his theory that the Pentateuch was written around 270 BCE using Greek sources found at the Great Library of Alexandria and applies this to an examination of the biblical law codes. A striking number of legal parallels are found between the Pentateuch and Athenian laws and specifically with those found in Plato's Laws of ca. 350 BCE. Constitutional features in biblical law Athenian law and Plato's Laws also contain close correspondences. Several genres of biblical law including the Decalogue are shown to have striking parallels with Greek legal collections and the synthesis of narrative and legal content is shown to be compatible with Greek literature. All this evidence points to direct influence from Greek writings especially Plato's Laws on the biblical legal tradition. Finally it is argued that the creation of the Hebrew Bible took place according to the program found in Plato's Laws for creating a legally authorized national ethical literature reinforcing the importance of this specific Greek text to the authors of the Torah and Hebrew Bible in the early Hellenistic Era. This study offers a fascinating analysis of the background to the Pentateuch and will be of interest not only to biblical scholars but also to students of Plato ancient law and Hellenistic literary traditions.

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Planting Design Connecting People and Place

Planting Design Connecting People and Place

Landscape designers have long understood the use of plants to provide beauty aesthetic pleasure and visual stimulation while supporting a broad range of functional goals. However the potential for plants in the landscape to elicit human involvement and provide mental stimulation and restoration is much less well understood. This book meshes the art of planting design with an understanding of how humans respond to natural environments. Beginning with an understanding of human needs preferences and responses to landscape the author interprets the ways in which an understanding of the human-environment interaction can inform planting design. Many of the principles and techniques that may be used in planting design are beautifully illustrated in full colour with examples by leading landscape architects and designers from the United Kingdom Europe North America and Asia including: Andrea Cochran Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture San Francisco CA Design Workshop Inc. Richard Hartlage Land Morphology Seattle WA Shunmyo Masuno Japan Landscape Consultants Ltd. Yokohama Piet Oudolf Hummelo The Netherlands Melody Redekop Vancouver Christine Ten Eyck Ten Eyck Landscape Architects Inc. Austin TX Kongjian Yu Turenscape Ltd. Beijing. The book stimulates thought provides new direction and assists the reader to find their own unique design voice. Because there are many valid processes and intentions for landscape design the book is not intended to be overly prescriptive. Rather than presenting a strict design method and accompanying set of rules Planting Design provides information insight and inspiration as a basis for developing the individual designer’s own expression in this most challenging of art forms. | Planting Design Connecting People and Place

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Restorative and Responsive Human Services

Restorative and Responsive Human Services

In Restorative and Responsive Human Services Gale Burford John Braithwaite and Valerie Braithwaite bring together a distinguished collection providing rich lessons on how regulation in human services can proceed in empowering ways that heal and are respectful of human relationships and legal obligations. The human services are in trouble: combining restorative justice with responsive regulation might redeem them renewing their well-intended principles. Families provide glue that connects complex systems. What are the challenges in scaling up relational practices that put families and primary groups at the core of health education and other social services? This collection has a distinctive focus on the relational complexity of restorative practices. How do they enable more responsive ways of grappling with complexity than hierarchical and prescriptive human services? Lessons from responsive business regulation inform a re-imagining of the human services to advance wellbeing and reduce domination. Readers are challenged to re-examine the perverse incentives and contradictions buried in policies and practices. How do they undermine the capacities of families and communities to solve problems on their own terms? This book will interest those who harbor concerns about the creep of domination into the lives of vulnerable citizens. It will help policymakers and researchers to re-focus human services to fundamental outcomes at the foundation of sustainable democracies. This book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www. routledge. com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution- Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license.

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The Routledge Handbook of Emotions in the Ancient Near East

The Routledge Handbook of Emotions in the Ancient Near East

This in-depth exploration of emotions in the ancient Near East illuminates the rich and complex worlds of feelings encompassed within the literary and material remains of this remarkable region home to many of the world’s earliest cities and empires and lays critical foundations for future study. Thirty-four chapters by leading international scholars including philologists art historians and archaeologists examine the ways in which emotions were conceived experienced and expressed by the peoples of the ancient Near East with particular attention to Mesopotamia Anatolia and the kingdom of Ugarit from the Late Uruk through to the Neo-Babylonian Period (ca. 3300–539 BCE). The volume is divided into two parts: the first addressing theoretical and methodological issues through thematic analyses and the second encompassing corpus-based approaches to specific emotions. Part I addresses emotions and history defining the terms materialization and material remains kings and the state and engaging the gods. Part II explores happiness and joy; fear terror and awe; sadness grief and depression; contempt disgust and shame; anger and hate; envy and jealousy; love affection and admiration; and pity empathy and compassion. Numerous sub-themes threading through the volume explore such topics as emotional expression and suppression in relation to social status gender the body and particular social and spatial conditions or material contexts. The Routledge Handbook of Emotions in the Ancient Near East is an invaluable and accessible resource for Near Eastern studies and adjacent fields including Classical Biblical and medieval studies and a must-read for scholars students and others interested in the history and cross-cultural study of emotions.

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Racial Imagination and the American Dream The Peace-Maker The Prophet and The Politician

Racial Imagination and the American Dream The Peace-Maker The Prophet and The Politician

Although the phrase the American Dream dates from the 1930s the concept or idea of the American Dream is as old as the country. The values proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence and reaffirmed (and extended) in the Gettysburg Address have been continuously promoted by every American president. Moreover they form the basis of our national collective narrative as expressed through both elite and popular culture. The American Dream is intrinsically tied to the American Creed and American Exceptionalism. It is the foundation of our national identity the glue that holds together our individual aspirations. Yet until the mid-twentieth century the American Dream excluded African Americans. We as a nation—as an imagined community—could not imagine an integrated multiracial society with Blacks and Whites living together as equals. By examining the lives of the only three African American Nobel Peace Prize winners we can see how their lives were shaped by the American Dream and how their success was used to deny the structural racism that prevented others from achieving the American Dream. Ralph Bunche as a role model of academic and technical expertise Martin Luther King Jr. as a model race leader and Barack Obama as a political leader provide a window on the changing meaning of the American Dream. In conclusion Haiti is presented as a failed example of an attempt to export the American Dream in the form of American Exceptionalism and racial reparations are reimagined as a radical democratic project aimed at true global integration and justice. | Racial Imagination and the American Dream The Peace-Maker The Prophet and The Politician

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Divine Fertility The Continuity in Transformation of an Ideology of Sacred Kinship in Northeast Africa

Divine Fertility The Continuity in Transformation of an Ideology of Sacred Kinship in Northeast Africa

This book uniquely explores the impact of indigenous ideology and thought on everyday life in Northeast Africa. Furthermore in highlighting the diversity in pre-Christian pre-Islamic regional beliefs and practices that extend beyond the simplistic political arguments of the current dominant narratives the study shows that for millennia complex indigenous institutions have bound people together beyond the labels of Christianity and Islam; they have sustained peace through cultural exchange and tolerance (if not always complete acceptance). Through recent archaeological and ethnographic research the concepts landscapes materials and rituals believed to be associated with the indigenous and shared culture of the Sky-God belief are examined. The author makes sense for the first time of the relationship between the notion of sacred fertility and a number of regional archaeological features and on-going ancient practices including FGM spirit possessions and other physically invasive practices and the ritual hunt. The book explores one of the most important pilgrimage centres in Somaliland and Somalia the sacred landscape of Saint Aw-Barkhadle founded ca. 12th century AD. It is believed to be the burial place of the rulers of the first Muslim Ifat and Awdal dynasties in this region and potentially the lost first capital of Awdal kingdom before Harar. This ritual centre is seen as a ‘microcosm’ of the ancient Horn of Africa with its exceptional multi-religious heritage through which the author lays out a locally appropriate archaeological interpretational framework the Ritual Set also applied here to the Ethiopian sites of Tiya Sheikh Hussein Bale Aksum and Lalibela setting these places against a wider historical background of indigenous Sky-God belief. This archaeological study of sacred landscapes stelae traditions ancient Christian and medieval Muslim centres of Northeast Africa is the first to put forward a theoretical and analytical framework for the interpretation of the shared regional heritage and the indigenous archaeology of the region. It will be invaluable to archaeologists anthropologists historians and policymakers interested in Africa and beyond. | Divine Fertility The Continuity in Transformation of an Ideology of Sacred Kinship in Northeast Africa

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