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Presence in the Online World: A Contemplative Perspective and Practice Guide for Educators addresses the challenges and possibilities of cultivating contemplative presence in an online teaching environment. It brings together proponents of contemplative pedagogy and experts in online education.

Presence in the Online World: A Contemplative Perspective and Practice Guide for Educators addresses the challenges and possibilities of cultivating contemplative presence in an online teaching environment. It brings together proponents of contemplative pedagogy and experts in online education.

Ah've got a brain for business me. Nothing says business like a pair of trackies.Looking for a way out of their humdrum lives in the outskirts of Glasgow, straight-laced Sean, fresh from dropping out of uni, and the gallus Daro, overflowing with charisma and business 'acumen', reckon they can be the dream team of frozen treats.Following in the footsteps of their business heroes Bannatyne and Branson, full of tall tales and cunning plans, and fuelled by Irn Bru and baccy, the two go from the heady heights of summer to the perilous cold of winter in their slightly clapped-out van of destiny. But surely it's always ice cream season? However, they quickly discover that conquering the ice cream business will be anything but a sundae stroll.As the bills, admin and brain freezes build up, Sean and Daro's relationship is put to the test and their friendship gets frosty. Will they stay solid, or will they melt under the pressure? From the Traverse Theatre Company, Laurie Motherwell's Sean and Daro Flake it 'Til They Make It is a comedic story of friendship, finances and flakes.This edition was published to coincide with the TravFest23 run at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in August 2023.

Everyone always grows up thinking it's the end of the world. The only difference with you lot is you think it makes you special.A black comedy that is by turns explosive and tender, ADULTS follows acclaimed playwright Kieran Hurley's TravFest19 smash-hit Mouthpiece.Amongst a raft of anonymous Airbnbs in Edinburgh, thirty-something Zara is running her own business and trying to make her way in the world. A new client has just arrived, but her colleague is running late. Tensions are high.Also, the business is a brothel, the client is her old teacher, and her colleague is having an existential panic attack about growing up.They're all convinced that they're the most hard done by, and that the mess of a world that's around them definitely isn't their fault. But maybe something has to break between them, before anything can really change.Adults is a raw, darkly funny play about alienation, loneliness, growing up, growing old - and the human need for connection, intimacy and acceptance to survive in a world that fails you. This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at the Traverse Theatre during the Festival, in August 2023.

Richly illustrated with exotic images, ranging from Moorish palaces fantastically imagined by the Romantic painter Genaro Pérez Villaamil to paintings of everyday life in colonial Morocco by Mariano Bertuchi, this is the first history of Spanish Orientalist art in English. It shows how artists visualized Spain's Islamic past (711-1492) and their nearest "Orient" in Morocco for audiences at home and abroad. With the exception of Fortuny, the book introduces many unfamiliar figures, such as Francisco Iturrino, who travelled with Matisse to Morocco, producing novel visions of the exotic. The state-funded annual Pintores de Africa exhibitions, never examined before, provide a vital perspective on how art served Franco's colonial politics based on a "Hispano-Moroccan brotherhood". Hopkins reveals that Spanish Orientalism was inflected by diverse issues (such as national identity, gender anxieties, colonialism, aesthetics) and put to a wide range of uses. The familiar understanding of Western Orientalism in terms of distinct opposition (East/West) is challenged.

Explaining how and why there are such diverging outcomes of UN peace negotiations and treaties, this book offers a detailed examination of peace processes in order to demonstrate that how treaties are negotiated and written significantly impacts their implementation. Drawing on case studies from the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars, Miranda Melcher demonstrates the critical importance of specificity in peace treaties in understanding implementation outcomes for military integration. Based on unique primary source data, including interviews with key actors who have participated in peace treaty negotiations, as well as thousands of previously unassessed UN archival documents, the book offers new insights and policy recommendations for key details whose presence or absence can have a significant impact on how peace processes unfold.

This open access volume is a call for ecological awareness and action through communication. It offers perspectives on how we, as humans, posit ourselves in relation to, and as part of, the environment in both verbal and non-verbal discourse. The contributions investigate a variety of situated communicative practices and how they instantiate and potentially influence our actions. Through the frameworks of ecolinguistics, multimodal studies and ecoliteracy, the book discusses how the environmental crisis is communicated as an urgent global and local issue in a variety of media, texts and events. The contributions present a wide range of case studies (including news articles, institutional websites, artwork installations, promotional texts, signposting, social campaigns and other), and they explore how communicative actions can help meet the challenges of ecologically-oriented change. The focus is on the impact that linguistic and multimodal communication can have on acting in, with and towards the environment seen as living ecosystems, or 'lifescapes'. The chapters offer a reflection on the way we experience, endorse, reframe and resist value systems in ecological communication, propose alternative and healthier perspectives to respect and preserve the common and nurturing lifescapes through awareness and action.The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

This book provides an insightful series of windows into the identity of the English for Academic Purposes (EAP) practitioner in a range of cultural contexts across the world. With contributions from Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, the UK, and Zimbabwe, each chapter combines theoretical underpinnings with practical applications, and implements suggestions and recommendations for how EAP teachers' roles can be taken forward. In a globalised world where EAP practice plays an increasingly important role, the reader comes face to face with the challenges and possibilities facing those who are supporting academic language development within higher education (HE) frameworks. This involves considerations of power dynamics, of differing perceptions of power and identity within an EAP unit and across an HE institution. The study also discusses how the field can be enriched through a deeper understanding of issues of agency and identity that emerge from challenges facing EAP practitioners who work in contexts beyond the hegemonic West. Drawing on ethnographic data, the contributors present a broad set of strategies for countering disciplinary marginalisation and employment precarity, concluding with a call for enhanced critical research into the lived experience of EAP professionals, as a key avenue for effecting change.

Visual Counterculture in Japan presents innovative analysis of emergent visual trends in Japan from the late 1960s to the present day. Adopting a case study approach, this interdisciplinary text deconstructs the role that visual practices played in shaping a variety of countercultural discourses related to politics, gender, identity, sexuality, censorship, ethics and disasters. It makes the case that visual practices in Japan-such as photography, reportage, photojournalism and film-drive countercultural shifts in society. The practices, actions and discourses that push against preconceived norms or orthodoxies are also examined in detail; by considering world-renowned photographers and artists whose work transgressed or subverted assumed socio-cultural boundaries in Japanese culture, this book investigates the cultural dynamics that foregrounded the role of visual practices in society. It also highlights the interconnectedness between these various practices from a global perspective.

In a rural village in nineteenth-century Nigeria, British colonial rule is finally starting to lose its grip. As a new generation of educated locals seize their chance to take back power, a deadly disease threatens to wipe out their invaluable cocoa crop. Now the village must decide who they can trust to save them... In the Yoruba land of west Nigeria, the village of Ipaja is facing a crisis - one of identity, power, and famine. At the centre of the solution are two young men, Benjamin Benjamin and Udo Akpan, who both believe their own methods are the only way to save the village from disaster. As the new District Officer for the region, Akpan is certain the only solution is to follow a British officer's suggestion and destroy every infected crop they can find. Benjamin, an ambitious politician and journalist, is determined to achieve total independence from British control, even at the cost of the farmers' livelihood. Although they claim to have the village's best intentions at heart, neither can deny the power they stand to gain if the other one fails...

In his bold and pioneering novel, No Past, No Present, No Future, Pat Amadu Maddy explores the dynamics between three young boys as their lives slide quickly into chaos and tragedy. At a missionary school in colonial West Africa, three students from very different backgrounds forge a friendship in an effort to forget the difficulties they face at home. But when one of the boys betrays the other, a series of disastrous events spiral into out of control. After finally leaving school, their paths cross once again in Europe but prejudice and diverging loyalties put the brotherhood they once had into question. How can they ever dream of a future together when the ghosts of the past are determined to haunt their present?

Award-winning author Mongo Beti presents The Poor Christ of Bomba, a cutting satirical critique on the role of Catholic missionaries and French colonialism in 1930s Cameroon. A revolutionary novel in its time.In a small village called Bomba in Cameroon, a French missionary priest is instructed to build a parish for its residents. Father Drumont has one important task; to save the village from heresy by preparing its girls for Christian marriage.A servant in Father Drumont's house, a young boy named Denis is reliant on the priest's generosity after the death of his mother. In the eyes of the Catholic church, Denis is the perfect example of the African heathen saved by Christianity - but the reality of what happens behind closed doors in much more sinister.'One of the foremost African writers of the independence generation.' Guardian

Since its publication, Ahmadou Kourouma's award winning novel, The Suns of Independence, has established itself as one of the great classics of Francophone African literature, capturing the dreams and struggles of a newly independent nation.Fama is the last of an ancient line of Dumbuya princes who, before the European conquest, reigned undisputed over the Malinke tribe. Yet even when his country finally wins their independence, Fama is forced to beg for his place amongst the bureaucratic elite. Meanwhile, his wife, Salimata, is desperately attempting to overcome her past trauma and save the Dumbuya legacy from extinction.Beyond the gripping political intrigue, Ahmadou Kourouma weaves together an in-depth tapestry of Malinke life, blending the everyday of 1960s postcolonial survival with age-old myths and traditions.'Perhaps the most remarkable African novelist writing in French.' Guardian

Full of political intrigue and far-reaching corruption, Smouldering Charcoal illustrates the devastating injustice and inequality inflicted on society by the ruling classes in post-colonial Malawi. Two couples - one poor and working class, the other college-educated and part of a rising middle class - both live under the brutal regime of The Leader. Inside his nation, secret informants are everywhere and any form of protest will get you killed. Following their very different perspectives, they discover that violence and oppression has invaded every level of society. It soon becomes apparent that even after overthrowing an empire, one evil can simply be replaced by another...'Compassionate and real, the book praises the tenacity of the human spirit without glamorizing it.' New Internationalist

From award-winning author, Evelyne Accad, Wounding Words tells the story of Hayate, a young student in Tunisia, as she struggles to cope under the everyday injustices around her. Finding comfort in her new friends, she becomes determined to work together and imagine a better life for the nation's women. 'I learned to demystify the world of men at a very young age... Some of my illiterate cousins had died under the blows of husbands and I said I would never accept that fate.' Tunisia is the most democratic and inclusive country in the Arab world - at least, that's what hopeful student Hayate has been told. Yet what she finds when she arrives is a starkly different reality. Finding solace in her journal, she writes about her experiences as a feminist scholar living in Tunisia, exploring the choices available to the women around her and questioning how they can find new ways of relating to men and to each other. Thought-provoking and intelligently written, Accad encapsulates diverging facets of feminism as they exist across the world, asking how women everywhere can live day-to-day by its values.

In this coming-of-age story, Timothy Wangusa tells the tale of a young boy struggling to reconcile between his Christian beliefs and his village's ancient traditions. Upon this Mountain captures a time of profound religious change and colonialism in rural Uganda. 'Father, have you ever touched heaven?'Mwambu, a schoolboy living in eastern Uganda, is certain that if heaven is anywhere, it must be at the highest peak of their village's mountain - so he is shocked to discover that his father has never tried to reach it. While on a quest to climb to the top, Mwambu finds himself on a journey of self-realisation, confronted with the contradictions of his childhood. As the values of Christianity collide with the traditions of his ancestors, the path to adulthood becomes increasingly treacherous.

Winner of the 1991 Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Africa Region). Syl Cheney-Coker's acclaimed debut novel, The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar traces the history of a nation's rise and fall, as prophesied by an ancient sorcerer.A military general sits in one of Malagueta's prison cells, awaiting his execution. He has just failed in overthrowing the government. In the same land, over two centuries ago, the wife of a formerly enslaved man takes her first steps towards freedom. From the creation of Malagueta to its devastating fall - Alusine Dunbar, the wizened old diviner, has prophesied it all. And what he sees, he calls a tragedy.One of Sierra Leone's most renowned novelists and poets, Sly Cheney-Coker creates a world teeming with magical realism as he draws the journey from precolonial Africa to its shaky independence.

Thomas Mofolo's final novel and masterpiece, Chaka, captures the phenomenal rise and fall of the great Zulu king. One of the earliest modern literary classics from Southern Africa, Chaka, is the tragic tale of a warrior-king and his insatiable hunger for power. Told in a mythic style, Chaka follows the torments of the Zulu king's early life, his rapid ascension to the throne, and the prophesied events that led to his downfall. Despised from birth as an illegitimate son, Chaka's hope of being accepted by his father, the king, is shattered when his father unexpectedly orders his execution. While fleeing from would-be assassins, he encounters a mysterious figure known as Isanusi - a master in sorcery and political intrigue. Insanusi offers him the chance to take the kingdom for his own but Chaka soon discovers that ultimate power comes at a heavy price... 'Chaka is a beautifully dark and twisted take on the true life story of the Zulu King... built around one of the most enigmatic and memorable literary figures you'd ever encounter.' Ainehi Edoro

An epic historical romance, Mhudi is the first novel in English to be written by a Black South African writer. Renowned as one of South Africa's most important literary works. Mhudi has witnessed the genocide of her tribe and survived. After days of wandering the land, terrified of encountering enemy warriors, she is struck by a fear even worse than death; that she is now completely alone. Upon crossing paths with the tribe's only other known survivor, she finds herself at the centre of an extraordinary story about love, war, and unexpected allies. Writing in the early twentieth century, Sol T. Plaatje weaves an incredible retelling of South Africa's history that refused to justify the colonialism of the period. 'More than a classic; there is just no other book on earth like it. All the stature and grandeur of the author are in it.' Bessie Head 'Plaatje [writes] some of the most compelling and celebrated accounts of the early days of apartheid.' Trevor Noah, New York Times 'One of the most remarkable books on Africa by one of the continent's most remarkable writers.' Neil Parsons

It is 1947. The workers on the Dakar-Niger Railway have come out on strike. Sembène Ousmane, in this vivid and moving novel, evokes all of the colour, passion and tragedy of those decisive years in the history of West Africa.'Ever since they left Thiès, the women had not stopped singing. As soon as one group allowed the refrain to die, another picked it up, and new verses were born at the hazard of chance or inspiration, one word leading to another and each finding, in its turn, its rhythm and its place. No one was very sure any longer where the song began, or if it had an ending.'God's Bits of Wood is Sembène Ousmane's internationally renowned novel, based on his own experiences of the landmark 1947 railroad strike that spread across French West Africa.'A classic.' Guardian'Ousmane Sembène [was] a crucial figure in Africa's postcolonial cultural awakening.' New York Times'A powerful story.' KirkusTranslated from the French by Francis Price.

In her award-winning novel, Eyes of the Sky, Rayda Jacobs explores the complex and interconnected lives of the settlers and the enslaved in eighteenth century South Africa. Controlled by the Dutch for over a century, The Cape of Good Hope has witnessed the horrific enslavement of over sixty thousand men and women. In this impactful historical novel, we follow the saga of the Kloots; an old farming family recently settled on the edge of Cape Colony in the late eighteenth century.As they struggle to live off the the harsh, barren landscape, tensions begin to rise to breaking point. While some are determined to despise the indigenous inhabitants of the Cape, one young member of the family, Harman, takes it upon himself to bridge the gap between the two groups and prevent them from mutual destruction. To fail risks the extinction of them all.Full of dark history and unexpected twists, Eyes of the Sky is a remarkable tale of identity, betrayal, forbidden love, and the fusing of people and cultures.

Set during apartheid in rural South Africa, Hill of Fools tells a classic tale of forbidden love and tragedy as two rival families fight over ancient feuds.Although arranged to marry one of the most powerful men in her village, Zuziwe falls deeply in love with a young warrior across the river, Bhuqa. A leading fighter in his own village, Bhuqa is caught between his love for Zuziwe and the long-standing grudge that their families have inherited - a rivalry so old that no one remembers how it began. As peace negotiations between the two tribes crumble, Zuziwe and Bhuqa's hopes for a future together fall further and further away while violence threatens to ruin everything they hold dear.Hill of Fools is a heartfelt portrayal of tribalism in South Africa, rich with Xhosa idioms and age-old traditions. R.L. Peteni weaves together an unforgettable tale of two lovers doomed by past prejudice.

Winner of the 1990 Commonwealth First Novel Prize (Africa). The Gunny Sack begins its tale with an old and unremarkable bag. Its inheritor, Salim Juma, begins to piece together the stories hidden inside only to discover the fateful series of events that changed his family forever.In exile from Tanzania, Salim Juma is bequeathed a gunny sack by his beloved but strange great-aunt. The bag takes him back to his childhood, when he was first mesmerised by the peculiar mementos inside. Put together, the bag's contents tell the tantalising tales of his great-grandfather, Dhanji Govindji, who migrated from India to East Africa and fell in love with an enslaved woman named Bibi Taratibu. The stories that follow stretch across four generations of Salim's family, tracing their footsteps and unravelling their loves, betrayals, and incredible adventures.The Gunny Sack is an extraordinary chronicle into the experiences of Indian migrants in Africa as they struggled under changing power structures, from German invasions to British colonialism.

After an exhausting day of hard labour, Ben finds oblivion in the seedy bars and clubs of River Road - anything to leave his cockroach-infested rooms and ignore the reality of living paycheck to paycheck. At times, it's difficult to remember that it wasn't always this way. Somehow, he went from a promising career as a soldier to a disgraceful dismissal and a steady decline into poverty. Now the only thing Ben has left to lose is hope.Writing with colourful realism, Meja Mwangi paints an unforgettable depiction of life in Nairobi's slums - drawing attention to the hardships of the working poor and their disillusion with uncaring politicians.'[Mwangi is] among the leading Kenyan writers.' New York Times 'Riveting.' Guardian 'The finest African novel ever.' Professor Ibrahim Bello Kano

In Lília Momplé thrilling novel, Neighbours, a group of strangers find their futures forever intertwined as, over the course of just a few short hours, they are pulled into the heart of an unimaginable - and violent - tragedy. On the eve of Eid al-Fitr, three families quietly prepare for the night's celebrations, preoccupied with the drama of their own separate lives. Narguiss cooks food with her daughters, anxiously waiting for her husband to come home. Leia and Januário take joy in the fact they finally have a roof over their heads, especially after the birth of their young daughter. And Mena overhears her husband plotting murder... Before dawn, these innocent people are thrown together in a vicious conspiracy - a secret plot to infiltrate and destabilise Mozambique's government.

From award-winning author, Ifeoma Okoye, Behind the Clouds is the emotional tale of a woman building a family under the societal pressures of 1970s Nigeria.Ije has visited every reputable faith healer, doctor, and herbalist she can find yet her desire to become a mother is proving impossible to fulfill. While her mother-in-law believes the blame for a childless marriage should rest solely on the wife, her husband remains unfailingly supportive. That is until one day Ife arrives home to find a pregnant woman sitting in her house, surrounded by suitcases. The woman is the mother of her husband's child and she's here to take her rightful place in Ife's home...Raw and immensely thought-provoking, Okoye boldly captures the painful experiences of being a 'barren' woman in 1970s Nigeria.

Exploring the experience of feeling like a stranger in your own country, Sugarcane with Salt offers a glimpse into the lives and traditions of those living in 1980s Malawi.After almost a decade of studying medicine in London, Dr. Khumbo Dala finally decides to return to his village and parents in Malawi. On his arrival, he finds a family in total disarray and a society that has undergone enormous change. Shocked to learn of his younger brother's involvement with a lucrative drug racket and his mother's marriage to a white man, Khumbo must take responsibility for the family duties he has neglected for too long. Writing with depth and nuance, James Ng'ombe creates a novel full of intriguing characters as they shape - and are shaped by - the dramatic circumstances around them.