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This is the first full-length book to investigate Beckett's work through contemporary ecological thinking, offering a wide range of artistic and scholarly responses to ongoing ecological crises.In response to the ever-growing urgency of global warming, the vitality and the creativity of art and literature have been singled out as sources of hope by Nobel Prize awardee in chemistry and coiner of the 'Anthropocene', Paul J. Crutzen. Samuel Beckett was not an environmental artist, but his oeuvre, poised between forms of precarity and hope, is a rich territory for the exploration of the most pressing issues of our time: the rift between the human species, its technological and economic advancement and the ecologies that sustain it all. In recent years, Beckett's name, aphorisms and work have frequently been invoked relative to environmental catastrophe, helping stimulate debates on ecology, the arts and the eco-systemic place of the human. Beckett and Ecology is the first full-length book to offer a wide range of scholarly and artistic responses to the ecological crises provoked, mediated or challenged by Beckett's work. The volume reflects on the varied practices and narratives in Beckettian intermedial ecologies, offering new insights into the connections between Beckett and the Anthropocene in the terrains of translation, adaptation, performance and the visual arts. Chapters also explore the potential of Happy Days (1961) for ecological thought and the role it has taken in ecodramaturgy. Short bursts of writing, entitled 'Coups de gong,' are woven throughout the volume and testify to the variety of Beckett-inspired local responses to global climate instability.

This book examines how, at the end of the 19th century, Japanese modernizers abandoned the traditional Chinese-style medicine that had dominated for centuries, and turned instead to Western medical theory and practice. Ellen Gardner Nakamura considers how the adoption of Western medicine became an important symbol of Japanese modernity and progress. The men who took the lead in transforming Japanese medicine under the new Meiji government were Western-style Japanese physicians, an enthusiastic minority who had studied European medical texts and techniques in the era before the 'opening' of Japan. Their achievements in creating the institutions of modern Japanese medicine are celebrated in almost every Japanese medical history book. Japanese Medical Lives in Transformation, on the other hand, focuses on a selection of lesser-known men and women whose roles in the transformation of Japanese medicine were important but unspectacular. The six Japanese doctors discussed here had various educational backgrounds. Most trained in the Dutch-style medicine which had become popular in the middle of the Tokugawa era, but they ultimately struggled with the transition to modernity. To what extent was their background in premodern Western-style medicine an advantage in adapting to the Meiji era? Who were the winners and who were the losers in the modernization process? What personal and professional challenges did they face? This book is shaped by these broad questions and the informative life trajectories of six fascinating contemporaries.

This book is the first critical study to explore the emergent field of witness literature across fiction, nonfiction, memoir, journalism and survivor testimony. Witness Literature examines writing from three sites of exceptional violence and fluid justice: the Cambodian Genocide, the Sri Lankan civil war and the borderscapes of honour-based violence in Jordan, Pakistan, Turkey and the UK. Drawing on the intersecting fields of literary analysis, biopolitics, border aesthetics and testimony studies, this book examines the place of the fictive in writings of traumatic events; takes up the call to expand Western understanding of the normatively human by focusing on work that bears witness from sites of compromised belonging; and shows how witness literature by migrant subjects marks an important intervention in Western readings of trauma. Ambitious in cultural and conceptual reach, Witness Literature from the Border invokes a wide range of texts from within the nations studied and from diasporic writers. These include: eye witness accounts and survivor stories gathered in Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields, Voices of Peace and Still Counting the Dead; memoirs and autobiographies like Loung Ung's First They Killed My Father, Niromi de Soyza's Tamil Tigress and Ajith Boyagoda's memoir as told to Sunila Galappatti in A Long Watch; the graphic novel, Vanni; novels of diasporic writers such as Michael Ondaatje's and Anuk Arudpragasam; the posthumously published editorial of Lasantha Wickrematunge, an assassinated writer who anticipated his death; fabricated testimony and fictive reconstructions of real events Forbidden Love by Norma Khouri's and Lene Wold's Inside an Honour Killing; and such works as Elif Shafak's Honour, Salman Rushdie's Shame and Shalimar the Clown, Madeleine Thien's Dogs at the Perimeter and Francois Bizot's The Gate. Offering a compelling and surprising analysis of the representation of life under the threat, Minoli Salgado exposes how the mixed cultural allegiances of the border witness marks a double agency that challenges multiple orthodoxies and marks storytelling as significant in mapping new moral communities.

An account of Egypt's foreign policy decline following the Arab Uprisings, explaining the causes, consequences, and dynamics of this decline. Egypt, traditionally an important regional power in the Middle East, has experienced a considerable decline in its national capabilities and regional influence over the past decade which has had significant implications for Egypt's relations with other regional powers.Here Nael Shama identifies the causes of this decline, which include Egypt's economic downturn and deficiencies of its decision-making structures and policymakers. The study draws on a number of regional case studies - such as the erosion of Egypt's interests in the Nile Basin and the Red Sea - to illustrate Egypt's declining diplomatic power along its own borders, and in the wider region. Shama offers a crucial lens into enhancing our understanding of the multiple levels of engagement Egypt has in the Middle East, and the widespread consequences of its decline in influence, while also offering a valuable case study of how declining powers think and act on the international stage.

This book examines the emergence of Urdu as a literary and Poetic language in the 18th century, highlighting its engagement with diverse regional cultures and communities in South Asia. Revisiting the Origins of Urdu Poetry reframes the history of Urdu within the diverse contexts from which it emerged. It places the earliest Urdu poets and their craft in the lively social gatherings, bazaars, shrines, and courts of 18th century South Asia. Through aesthetic analysis and historical contextualization of poems, using primary sources in manuscripts, the authors reveal why everyday vernaculars, multi-lingual puns, alongside the use of courtly Persian and complex metaphors attracted a wide audience for this new literary language.Dhawan and Pauwels re-examine the long-dominant mischaracterization of Urdu as an elite language of South Asian Muslims by analysing the poetic biographies of Vali Dakhani and his contemporaries Fa'iz, Abru and Hatim. The authors reveal how selective attention to a handful of poets and rarefied courtly texts obscured the much more diverse roots of an important vernacular tradition, thereby reconstructing a lost literary network of speakers, poets and participants in Urdu's past.

There are an estimated 6 million Bahá'ís in the world across over 200 countries. Founded by Bahá'u'lláh in 1863 and initially spreading in Persia and parts of the Middle East, the Bahá'í Faith has faced ongoing persecution since its inception. This handbook is the first rigorous and comprehensive study of the Bahá'ís holy text, the Kitáb-i-Aqdas (the "Most Holy Book"). The Kitáb-i-Aqdas was written by Bahá'u'lláh in 1873 and covers the theology, laws and principles that guide the Bahá'í faith. This handbook provides a detailed analysis of the holy book and the foundational Bahá'í teachings and laws. It aims to offer clear explanations for academics, students of religion and general readers on this as-yet little understood religious community.The first part of the handbook is formed of eight chapters and covers key Bahá'í concepts such as the origin, nature and purpose of human beings; the Bahá'í views on God and salvation; the religion's strong connections to Christian and Islamic theology and other world religions; and Bahá'í laws on issues such as prayer, cleanliness, marriage, divorce and inheritance. This part also explains when and how the Kitáb-i-Aqdas was first written and later disseminated and translated. Part Two consists of annotations and commentary on specific laws, terms and concepts that are found in almost every one of the 190 paragraphs of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas. These encyclopedic entries are highly detailed so readers can use the book to investigate specific themes and ideas in depth. Drawing on hundreds of original Arabic, Persian and English sources, including previously unpublished ones, Exploring the Kitáb-i-Aqdas is an exhaustive resource and standard reference work on the most important book of the Bahá'í Faith.

Infused with the dark and strange against the landscapes of Northern England, an unforgettable debut about violence, resilience - and survivalThe three women flinch: feel something pass outside. A reek of singed fur, scorching damp. Flaming eyes. A creature. It knows these women. They feel its wanting.From the river it comes.To the river it always returns.Alex is trying to hold her growing family together with a husband who is becoming more and more difficult to keep happy. Lauren hopes that the new man in her life might present a fresh start for her and her two boys. And Nancy's son has moved her into a care home where she feels entirely out of place, longing for her lost dog while dreaming of her own escape. But there is something else at play here. Something lurking in the water or at the end of an unlit street; a shadow in a bag of strangers' clothing; a chorus of voices calling in the distance. As each woman's world spirals from her grasp, they feel it getting closer, revealing the truth of what binds them together, and what must be done to set each of them free . . .

A revised and expanded second edition of the definitive guide to sunbirds and their relatives. Sunbirds are some of the most striking of all bird families; their dazzling iridescent plumage and long curved bills are conspicuous when the birds visit garden flowers on sunny days to feed on nectar. Some species - especially the females - are duller in appearance and harder to spot, feeding mostly on insects high up in forest canopies. Spiderhunters, as their name suggests, feed extensively on spiders, while sunbirds' other close relatives, the flowerpeckers, are especially partial to mistletoe berries. This new edition has been fully revised and updated to reflect the many developments that have occurred in sunbird taxonomy, as well as the new research that has been published on their biology. It now covers all 218 currently recognised species, providing details of key identification features, voice, habitat, distribution, conservation status, movements, food and behaviour. New colour plates by award-winning artist Richard Allen have been added, and hundreds of high-quality colour photographs beautifully capture both sexes of every species. Maps for each of the subspecies depict their geographical distributions for the first time. This important new edition remains fascinating and essential reading for researchers, birders and conservationists alike.

When the mudlarking gang find a mysterious cutlass on the banks of the Thames, they immediately know that something fishy is afoot. When the cutlass vanishes, and Mrs Drummonds disappears too, it's down to Clem and the gang to find them. The mystery leads them to a band of ghost pirates, who will stop at nothing to find their long-lost treasure. With the help from their friends in the Undercity, the gang must set sail on the seven seas, solve riddles and save the day! This is the third instalment in the critically acclaimed series from award-winning author Katya Balen.

This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the national and international legal issues surrounding digital assets in enforcement and insolvency.Its primary aim is to ensure that the economic value of digital assets can be fully realised by creditors and other stakeholders through the legal processes and remedies available to them, and that holders of digital assets receive adequate protection. These legal issues are considered in diverse commercial and technical contexts, ranging from native cryptocurrencies held directly, or with custodians and other intermediaries, as well as the interface with traditional finance.The book offers analysis on different levels: 1. It scrutinises the existing legal frameworks in various countries and evaluates the extent to which they can accommodate digital forms of value. 2. It compares the approaches taken in different jurisdictions with international regimes. 3. It considers the cross-border issues of jurisdiction, conflict of laws, and the recognition of judgments.The book provides much-needed responses to the increasing significance of digital assets in modern insolvency and enforcement proceedings. It takes a unique global approach to a wide range of legal perspectives, drawing upon the contributors' experience as leading practitioners, representatives of international organisations, and academics, in common law and civil law jurisdictions around the world. The book identifies the most pressing areas for law reform, and proposes solutions that are both legally robust as well as fit for practical purpose.

As the first cultural history of Palestinian aviation, Palestine in the Air reveals civil aviation's role in the 'question of Palestine' over the past century. International civil aviation has been a powerful tool for the systemic disenfranchisement of Palestinian statehood, connectivity and mobility. Yet, at the same time, Palestinians have creatively appropriated aviation technologies in diverse modes of resistance. They have exploited flight's symbolic values of escape and liberation in their struggle against occupation. Using an interdisciplinary approach that draws on media studies, cultural studies, critical theory, diplomacy and history, Palestine in the Air examines civil aviation's political, social and cultural impact upon the Palestinian quest for sovereignty. The book makes use of an unprecedented range of aviation-related sources spanning histories, images, interviews with Palestinians, research, print and television archives, art, film, literature, poetry and even stand-up comedy. Aviation is presented here as an unconventional weapon of resistance that has gained media exposure and has had the ability to disrupt dominant narratives about Palestine. This includes, most radically, aeroplane hijackings, but also subaltern resistance movements that make use of balloons and kites, or filmmakers and researchers that use commercial drones to reclaim knowledge and agency of their environment.

A Creative Approach to Teaching Science Outdoors is filled with exciting and innovative ways to teach the National Curriculum for primary physics, chemistry and biology from Years 1-6 - all in the great outdoors!This book is jam-packed full of activities and ready-made ideas with a creative edge, like using 'racing leaves' to teach about physics and movement and 'audio trails' to learn about sound waves. The lesson plans are all curriculum-linked and aimed at engaging children and encouraging them to think critically and scientifically. Tried and tested by expert authors, every activity uses materials which can easily be found outside or around the home and is adaptable for every setting - no matter how much or little green space you have!Teaching outdoors has proven benefits for mental health and wellbeing and creates natural links to talking about the environment and climate change in a fun and accessible way. This book is a must-have for teachers looking to inspire their pupils and show children that science is truly everywhere!

Actionable, road-tested approaches to understanding and tackling poverty in schoolsThe stark reality of poverty and disadvantage in our communities is one of the biggest challenges faced by schools today. Schools need better understanding of the broader impact of poverty and disadvantage and what they can do about it - that's where this book comes in. From expert authors working in a deprived area in the north east of England, Tackling Poverty and Disadvantage in Schools goes beyond the statistics and - whilst there are no 'silver bullets' - offers practical ways forward. This book is backed by research and is complete with case studies, reflective tasks and next steps from contributors from across the UK and working with all phases. From poverty-proofing the classroom and curriculum to changing whole-school culture and breaking the cycle, this resource speaks to the multiple intersecting crises currently faced by schools including lost learning during the pandemic, the cost of living crisis and increased referrals relating to DV. Tackling Poverty and Disadvantage in Schools equips you as a system-leader or educator to understand more deeply, diagnose issues and better address inequalities in your school.

No matter what you teach, there is a 100 Ideas title for you!The 100 Ideas series offers teachers practical, easy-to-implement strategies and activities for the classroom. Each author is an expert in their field and is passionate about sharing best practice with their peers. Each title includes at least ten additional extra-creative Bonus Ideas that won't fail to inspire and engage all learners. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Based on extensive research and trialing in the classroom, 100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers: Student Personal Development presents practical and inspiring ideas for personal development in your school both across and beyond individual subjects. This book brings together a wealth of good practice and realistic ideas to equip and support personal development leads and their teams. It includes strategies for many vital areas including careers education, mental health and wellbeing, student leadership and social action as well as invaluable advice for PD leads on quality assurance and whole-school approaches. From peer coaching and student-led surgeries to 'drop-down days' and debating academies, 100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers: Student Personal Development has everything you need from easy-to-implement ideas to the overarching strategies to transform your school PD culture.

'A fantastic addition to every bookshelf' - Kathy Brodie, Host and founder of Early Years TV on The Muddy Puddle TeacherThe playful guide to creating an outdoor Key Stage 1 curriculum from the popular Muddy Puddle TeacherBased on the well-loved Muddy Puddle Teacher Approach and following the Three Muddy M's - mother nature, mental health and getting more kids moving - this handbook is jam-packed with simple outdoor activities for every season. As in the popular Early Years guide, there are step-by-step instructions and full-colour photographs to demonstrate the activities. Whether you're a forest school enthusiast or just getting started in taking your teaching outside, there are plenty of inspiring ideas to promote children's engagement, effective learning and wellbeing - and save hours of preparation time!Using natural and upcycled materials, the activities in this book span key National Curriculum topics and themes, from muddy maths and literacy to muddy meditation and yoga. From using wellington boots to test materials to using clay grass heads to talk about emotions, every activity is ideal for delivering a fun and practical session while inspiring a love of nature and raising environmental awareness. Perfectly adaptable to all outdoor spaces, this book will transform your teaching practice in an affordable, sustainable way.

A beautifully illustrated step-by-step guide to twisting, weaving and wrapping wire jewellery. In Twisted!, wire artist Nadja Shields encourages you to twist, wrap and weave your way to a treasure trove of stunning jewellery. Featuring 15 step-by-step projects, you can use copper, steel, silver or even gold wire and embellish your pieces with sparkling gems or beads. Before embarking on your first project, discover the techniques used for various weaves, information on tools and materials, details on creating and assembling components, and options for setting gems and beads. After gaining a grasp of the basics, delve into projects ranging from beginner through to advanced, such as simple butterfly earrings, a beaded cuff bracelet and a complex bejewelled pendant. By the time you have completed the last project, you will have all the skills and techniques you need to become a confident and skilled wire artist, from the first twist to the final polish.