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This volume focuses on Serbia's need to manage change while preserving community identities, a narrative that avoids the common depiction of Serbian culture as a hostile struggle between modernizers supporting foreign models and traditionalists advocating forms of national cultural patrimony. Traditions only function if they are allowed to bend to the necessary modifications demanded by a community's changing historical circumstances. Tradition and change are two sides of the same coin which Serbia, in its many different incarnations, has experienced over the centuries, protecting its national heritage while borrowing and adapting intellectual and other trends from Byzantine, Ottoman and Western sources. Outside influences have been imposed as a direct result of foreign rule or through more friendly channels of communication, leading to a complex relationship between autochthonous and alien elements in Serbian society and culture. This book argues that the division between the national and international frameworks has often been a false dichotomy, with outside features embedded in domestic symbolic capital and Serbian culture simultaneously determined on local, national, regional and global levels. David A. Norris's approach offers a new perspective to students, academics and general readers interested in the history of Serbia's participation in the broad networks of cultural exchange.

Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Prologue -- Chapter One Bad Company: The Early Life and Times of Samuel Herbert Dougal -- Chapter Two 'Goodbye, Florrie, I shan't be long' -- Chapter Three Dougal Among the Nightingales -- Chapter Four 'The Gossip and Rumours Persisted' -- Chapter Five The Melancholy Moat -- Chapter Six 'With Intent to Defraud' -- Chapter Seven 'Pleasant Drives to the Moat Farm' -- Chapter Eight The Body in the Greenhouse, the Jury in the Barn -- Plates -- Chapter Nine Boots and All: The Trial for Murder -- Chapter Ten Fearful of His Own Bones -- Chapter Eleven 'Daniel the Prophet' and Other Police -- Chapter Twelve Raking over the Ashes -- Appendix 1 The Analysts -- Appendix 2 Dougal's Notable Postings in the Royal Engineers and Afterwards -- Selected Bibliography and Other Media -- Endnotes -- Acknowledgements -- Index.

"This book proposes that Ballard's novels extrapolate the formation of a posthuman subjectivity that is centered around an affirmative understanding of what a human body can do. This new subjectivity transforms constraints and prescribed desires into creative openings in a hyper-mediated control society that conditions docile bodies through technology and consumerism. Set in surrealist predicaments in postwar affluent Western societies, Ballard's novels reminds us of the fragile veneer of order in the familiar every day. In these moments of crisis, complacent characters are compelled to undergo a process of defamiliarisation and transformation of their understanding of the self and the body. The ability to form new relationships with the unfamiliar is imperative to survival in a hostile environment. Ballard delineates both the possibilities and obstacles of forming these relationships. In particular, the author attributes the failure to do so to the irreconcilable contradictions of late capitalism"--

"In 55 BC, on a stretch of beach near Deal in East Kent, the Romans' first invasion was in great danger of being pushed back into the sea by a host of Britons defending the beach. The eagle bearer of the Tenth Legion jumped into the surf and urged his comrades to follow him, a pivotal moment in Julius Caesar's first invasion. It was to be another ninety years before Claudius finally subdued part of the island and paraded in triumph into the stronghold at Camulodunum. Roman authority quickly expanded, from Vespasian's dramatic campaign against the hillforts of southern Britain to Hadrian's famous Wall in the north. This book will cover not the reign of Emperors but what posts they held in Britain prior to their achieving the throne. Titus served as a tribune directly after the Boudiccan revolt. Pertinax served in three posts: equestrian tribune of the Sixth Legion; praefectus of an auxiliary unit; and finally as a governor of Britannia. It will cover the civil war between Clodius Albinus and Septimius Severus and the later campaigns into Scotland. The upheavals of the third century and the breakaway regimes of Postumus and Carauius, 'the pirate king'. In the fourth century Britain continued to produce usurpers and tyrants but only one managed to unite the empire, Constantine I. His namesake, Constantine III, was to be the last emperor to lead troops from Britain to Gaul, leaving the province to fend for itself into the fifth century." --

From developed to developing nations, the utilization of tourism as a development strategy has been a prevalent practice at both national and local levels. In this compelling read, authors Shruti Arora and Anukrati Sharma explore an understanding of how countries envision the future of their tourism sectors and chart a course towards that vision. Unveiling the potential of tourism as a catalyst for economic prosperity, numerous communities view it as a promising avenue to enhance their standard of living. With evidence showcasing its wealth-generating capabilities, these communities place unwavering faith in tourism's ability to uplift their societies. Strategic Tourism Planning for Communities: Restructuring and Rebranding offers fresh insights and knowledge for students and researchers alike. Drawing on examples from around the world, this is a must-read for anyone passionate about the growth and development of regions through the lens of tourism.

"Between 1961 and 1973 Turkish migrants were recruited as guest-workers in Germany, becoming West Germany's largest ethnic minority. This transnational history explores their experiences, emphasizing German racism and the estrangement faced by those who remigrated in the following decades, and reveals how many came to feel foreign in two homelands"--

"This book takes the topic of aviation crisis and emergency management and walks the reader through what aviation organisations must consider alongside legislation to fully respond to an incident. It offers both theory and practical tips and ideas along with templates and checklists to help build confidence in how to run an aviation emergency operation. This includes timelines for activation, setting up and managing humanitarian centres and how a full aviation crisis operation runs at the site of the incident. Fundamentals of Aviation Crisis and Emergency Management is the only textbook available to have all required elements laid out chronologically. This lays out an aviation incident from start to finish and leaves nothing to chance. The reader can plan for, train for and exercise for a multitude of crisis examples, building both confidence and competence in managing an incident. Fundamentals of Aviation Crisis and Emergency Management includes a range of case studies and a variety of interviews with those people who have experienced an aviation crisis and deployed to it. This allows the reader to fully immerse themselves in the topic and makes the book both a textbook of key knowledge but also a book that can be read for increasing understanding of the topic. It will be essential for aviation students and professionals, disaster response organisations, and emergency planners"--

First published in 1965, The Latvian Republic is based on the official British documents, partly on German and other writings of the period and of the author's own experiences on a mission to Baltic Provinces in 1919. Throughout the centuries of foreign domination and the determination of their rulers to stamp out all vestiges of nationalism, the national spirit of the Latvian people survived, and they remained united in the hope of achieving, one day, the state of independent nationhood. With the collapse of the Russian Empire towards the end of the First World War, their dream became reality. A Latvian Provisional Government was formed and in November 1918 the Latvians declared themselves an independent republic, encouraged by the declaration of President Wilson in favour of the self-determination of all peoples and of all nations. This book will be of interest to students of history and political science.

Care and Pandemic captures an up-to-the-moment account of COVID-19 by an interdisciplinary network of scholars from Brazil, Colombia, and France. Case studies examine care work across diverse national contexts and detail their implications for understanding new geometries of inequality.

Teaching for Linguistic Diversity in Schools: Student Wellbeing and Achievement explores the linguistic landscape of Australia, including English, Indigenous languages, community languages and school-taught modern languages, to help teachers recognise the extent of children's language knowledge and to reflect on its implications for the classroom.

The author constructs A Theology of Traumatic Affect by employing affect and trauma theories conjointly. The interconnectedness of individuals is established, which in turn uncovers the social dimensions of all traumatic experiences. A collective engagement makes bearing witness and holding the space for prophetic public imagination possible.

Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Battle Plan and Maps -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Volunteers -- Chapter 2 On Active Service -- Chapter 3 In Action -- Chapter 4 Hardening -- Chapter 5 Life and Death -- Plates -- Chapter 6 Attrition -- Chapter 7 Survival -- Chapter 8 Endurance -- Chapter 9 Remembering -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back cover -- Back Cover.