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Author : Peter Matz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783732269068
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (69 download)
Download or read book Lost in Transformation: Two Years in Angola written by Peter Matz and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : W. Martin James
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 081087458X
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Angola written by W. Martin James and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2011-05-05 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of the Historical Dictionary of Angola is a thorough examination of Angola. It includes a chronology, bibliography, maps, appendixes, and over 600 cross referenced dictionary entries. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Angola.
Author : Michael Hallett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317300602
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book The Angola Prison Seminary written by Michael Hallett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corrections officials faced with rising populations and shrinking budgets have increasingly welcomed "faith-based" providers offering services at no cost to help meet the needs of inmates. Drawing from three years of on-site research, this book utilizes survey analysis along with life-history interviews of inmates and staff to explore the history, purpose, and functioning of the Inmate Minister program at Louisiana State Penitentiary (aka "Angola"), America’s largest maximum-security prison. This book takes seriously attributions from inmates that faith is helpful for "surviving prison" and explores the implications of religious programming for an American corrections system in crisis, featuring high recidivism, dehumanizing violence, and often draconian punishments. A first-of-its-kind prototype in a quickly expanding policy arena, Angola’s unique Inmate Minister program deploys trained graduates of the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary in bi-vocational pastoral service roles throughout the prison. Inmates lead their own congregations and serve in lay-ministry capacities in hospice, cell block visitation, delivery of familial death notifications to fellow inmates, "sidewalk counseling" and tier ministry, officiating inmate funerals, and delivering "care packages" to indigent prisoners. Life-history interviews uncover deep-level change in self-identity corresponding with a growing body of research on identity change and religiously motivated desistance. The concluding chapter addresses concerns regarding the First Amendment, the dysfunctional state of U.S. corrections, and directions for future research.
Author : Jess Auerbach
Publisher : African Sun Media
ISBN 13 : 1928314759
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (283 download)
Download or read book From Water to Wine: Angola's Transformation written by Jess Auerbach and published by African Sun Media. This book was released on 2020-09-04 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Water to Wine explores how Angola has changed since the end of its civil war in 2002. Its focus is on the middle class— defined as those with a house, a car, and an education—and their consumption, aspirations, and hopes for their families. It takes as its starting point “what is working in Angola?” rather than “what is going wrong?” and makes a deliberate, political choice to give attention to beauty and happiness in everyday life in a country that has had an unusually troubled history. Each chapter focuses on one of the five senses, with the introduction and conclusion provoking reflection on proprioception (or kinesthesia) and curiosity. Various media are employed—poetry, recipes, photos, comics, and other textual experiments—to engage readers and their senses. Written for a broad audience, this text is an excellent addition to the study of Africa, the lusophone world, international development, sensory ethnography, and ethnographic writing.
Author : Bertelsmann Stiftung
Publisher : Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung
ISBN 13 : 386793570X
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (679 download)
Download or read book Transformation Index BTI 2014 written by Bertelsmann Stiftung and published by Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing the peaceful transition of authoritarian states to democracy and a market-economic system represents a tremendous challenge. Whether it comes to reconstituting the coherency of the state following armed conflict, expanding participation rights and the rule of law in emerging democracies, overcoming corrupt structures, fighting poverty and inequality, or establishing clear rules for stable market-economic competition, the requirements are enormous, and the pressure on responsible leaders is intense. After all, the quality of political management makes an essential contribution to the success or failure of transformation processes. The Bertelsmann Stiftung's Transformation Index (BTI) thus systematically places political decision-makers' steering capability at the heart of its analysis and, as a result, is the only index in the world that measures and compares the quality of governance with self-collected data. This is done in the firm conviction that the ongoing comparative study of transformation processes is invaluable for the successful design of reforms and holds enormous global potential to learn from different political strategies for steering change, even though diverse traditions, power configurations, resources and cultures necessarily make each transformation process unique. The BTI measures and compares transition processes in 129 transformation countries with data collected between 2011 and 2013 and establishes their global rating based on detailed country reports. Now in its sixth edition, it offers the opportunity to understand long-term trends and global developments through the analysis of time-series data. The spotlight on current developments is thus complemented by a decade of data that captures the most varied transformation processes and puts into perspective recent progress and setbacks on the way to democracy and a market economy.
Author : Michael A. Gomez
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807861715
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Exchanging Our Country Marks written by Michael A. Gomez and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transatlantic slave trade brought individuals from diverse African regions and cultures to a common destiny in the American South. In this comprehensive study, Michael Gomez establishes tangible links between the African American community and its African origins and traces the process by which African populations exchanged their distinct ethnic identities for one defined primarily by the conception of race. He examines transformations in the politics, social structures, and religions of slave populations through 1830, by which time the contours of a new African American identity had begun to emerge. After discussing specific ethnic groups in Africa, Gomez follows their movement to North America, where they tended to be amassed in recognizable concentrations within individual colonies (and, later, states). For this reason, he argues, it is possible to identify particular ethnic cultural influences and ensuing social formations that heretofore have been considered unrecoverable. Using sources pertaining to the African continent as well as runaway slave advertisements, ex-slave narratives, and folklore, Gomez reveals concrete and specific links between particular African populations and their North American progeny, thereby shedding new light on subsequent African American social formation.
Author : Raffaele D'Agata
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 0761853952
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)
Download or read book One More 'Lost Peace'? written by Raffaele D'Agata and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2010-11-26 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Were there any missed chances to build a more peaceful world than the present one after the Cold War? Were there any attempts at working out a more comprehensive and more cooperative way to overcome it? What was precisely at stake during the Cold War? What was really at stake for the 'losers' and what stakes did the 'winners' gain —- if there are any 'winners' at all? Those questions were raised during a seminar where some outstanding scholars were invited to discuss them plainly before an audience of young students in an ancient, yet 'peripheral' Italian university. The result may be seen as a readable concentration of basic and meaningful insights that often defy a noticeable amount of conventional wisdom on the ground of careful and authoritative scholarly research.
Author : José Miguel Ribeiro
Publisher : Praça Filmes Unipessoal Lda.
ISBN 13 : 9893343992
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (933 download)
Download or read book The Digital Art Book of the Movie Nayola written by José Miguel Ribeiro and published by Praça Filmes Unipessoal Lda.. This book was released on 2023-11-03 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAYOLA, the digital art book of the movie, shares with the reader a nine-year journey through the creative process of developing and producing this animated feature movie. The digital book is organized into twelve chapters that initially refer the reader to the process of adapting the script, based on two literary works written by two renowned African writers. First, a short story, written by José Eduardo Agualusa, an Angolan writer, then a play, written by José Eduardo Agualusa and Mia Couto, a Mozambican writer. By accessing the links in the digital book, the reader can read the short story, then the play and finally the script. Understand and enjoy the way in which two plots emerged in the script, one based on the play, and the other on an original journey – exterior and interior – of the main character throughout the movie. Few books on cinematographic creative processes give the reader so many possibilities. Being a movie set in Angola, a country in southern Africa, taking place in the final phase of the rather unknown Angolan Civil War, and in the first years of peace that followed the book shares with the reader information about these two consecutive wars that lasted 40 years. Ancestral Angola, its colonial period and the present. The way in which the history, culture, peoples, languages, and ecosystems of this beautiful country were incorporated into the movie, in a visual and sound narrative, poetic and dazzling. Afterwards, the digital book reveals to the reader how a fiction with strong roots in Angolan reality was created. It describes the importance of the repérages carried out, the long development phase associated with detailed investigations into all aspects of the movie. From African masks to geomorphology, flora and fauna, to the customs and rituals of the indigenous peoples of the desert, from popular music to the hip-hop movement, the matriarchal structure of Angolan society to the intervention of women in the Civil War. Professional and amateur Angolan actors, poets and musicians, recorded the voices of all characters in Luanda. The reader can see interviews with the three voice actors that created the voices of the three protagonists of the movie through links available in the digital book. Six excellent Angolan musicians composed and performed the songs that make up the movie soundtrack. The script incorporates memories, poems and songs by the Angolan voice actors. The reader will be able to see and hear them through links available in the digital book. The digital book is profusely illustrated and, many hyperlinks, allow the reader to consult from the first graphic studies of the characters and backgrounds, to their final version, colour tests, animation tests, the storyboard and the animatic. The reasons that led to the choice of the animation techniques used in the movie are shared with the reader: the plot in the Past in 2D and in archival footage, the plot in the Present in 3D, oneiric sequences in animated painting. Finally, the producer and co-producers tell the reader about the work processes of this international co-production that involved five countries, Portugal, Belgium, France, the Netherlands and Angola, and more than 100 collaborators. We believe that the digital book will be very interesting for film students and professionals, especially animation cinema, animation movie fans and spectators in general. These stories, people and places that inspired us; we hope they inspire you too. Virgílio Almeida (Screenwriter) José Miguel Ribeiro (Movie director) Review: Nayola – A Journey Through the Creative Process at radix (in spanish): https://radixanimacion.com/criticas/resena-nayola-artbook/
Author : Kobi Michael
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313365024
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)
Download or read book The Transformation of the World of War and Peace Support Operations written by Kobi Michael and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-03-20 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the end of the Cold War, the euphoria of the Gulf War of the 1990s and the avowal of a New World Order, peace-operations were declared as the recipe for a better world through international intervention in conflict arenas. However, the debacles and failures in Cambodia, Somalia, or the Balkans led to disillusionment and a sense of strategic helplessness among leaders, experts and scholars in the industrial democracies. While these arguments have been the focus of intense criticism and discussion, they nevertheless underscore the fact that since the end of the Cold War the armed forces of the industrial democracies have undergone very significant transformations. This is the first work linking the changes in armed forces to Peace Support Operations (PSOs), those operations with major state-building components that demand broad and coherent cooperation between military forces and civilian entities. The Transformation of the World of War and Peace Support Operations is timely as the recent debates over PSOs continue to take center stage. This work embodies a new set of ideas and concepts that aid in grasping and interpreting the transformations taking place in the world of war and in PSOs. It seeks to understand how social, economic, political, and organizational transformations around the globe are related to the complex links between armed forces and PSOs. Additionally, this work addresses issues that continue to define the character and makeup of modern warfare and the missions of PSOs for coming decades.
Author : Mark W. Baker
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506455654
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)
Download or read book You Can Change written by Mark W. Baker and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can people make positive changes in their lives that really last? Dr. Mark W. Baker has been trying to answer this question for the past twenty-five years as a clinical psychologist. To discover the answer, he went on a quest to find people who have changed their lives in the most dramatic ways, ending up in the largest maximum-security prison in the United States, located in Angola, Louisiana. Once the most brutal prison in the country, Angola was transformed into one of the most effective sites for rehabilitation in the United States. Baker uses stories from inside Angola, along with his decades of experience as a clinical psychologist, to share with readers the amazing human potential for change and personal growth. Drawing on themes of forgiveness, community, justice, hope, and spirituality, Baker shows all of us how to change our lives for the better--no matter who we are or what we've done.
Author : Shaun Johnson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253353955
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (539 download)
Download or read book South Africa written by Shaun Johnson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of contemporary South Africa focuses thematically on the major political contestants, interest-groups and power-brokers in that country. The book attempts to provide an introduction to aspects of contemporary South African politics and an insight into its many forms of resistance.
Author : Sabrina Petra Ramet
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429710550
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)
Download or read book Adaptation And Transformation In Communist And Post-communist Systems written by Sabrina Petra Ramet and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tackles different aspects of the adaptive and transformative process in communist and post-communist systems in Eastern Europe, offering competing models, which locate the explanatory variable in different places and account for the unfolding of change in different ways.
Author : Franz-Wilhelm Heimer
Publisher : München : Weltforum Verlag
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Social Change in Angola written by Franz-Wilhelm Heimer and published by München : Weltforum Verlag. This book was released on 1973 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bertelsmann Stiftung
Publisher : Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung
ISBN 13 : 3867938482
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (679 download)
Download or read book Transformation Index BTI 2018 written by Bertelsmann Stiftung and published by Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing the peaceful transition of authoritarian states to democracy and a market-economic system represents a tremendous challenge. Whether it comes to reconstituting the coherency of the state following armed conflict, expanding participation rights and the rule of law in emerging democracies, overcoming corrupt structures, fighting poverty and inequality, or establishing clear rules for stable market-economic competition, the requirements are enormous, and the pressure on responsible leaders is intense. After all, the quality of governance makes an essential contribution to the success or failure of transformation processes. The Bertelsmann Stiftung's Transformation Index (BTI) thus systematically places political decision-makers' steering capability at the heart of its analysis and, as a result, is the only index in the world that measures and compares the quality of governance with self-collected data. This is done in the firm conviction that the ongoing comparative study of transformation processes is invaluable for the successful design of reforms and holds enormous global potential to learn from different political strategies for steering change, even though diverse traditions, power configurations, resources and cultures necessarily make each transformation process unique. The BTI measures and compares transition processes in 129 transformation countries with data collected between 2015 and 2017 and establishes their global rating based on detailed country reports. Now in its eighth edition, it offers the opportunity to understand long-term trends and global developments through the analysis of time-series data. The spotlight on current developments is thus complemented by a decade of data that captures the most varied transformation processes and puts into perspective recent progress and setbacks on the way to democracy and a market economy.
Author : Jess Auerbach
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487524331
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)
Download or read book From Water to Wine written by Jess Auerbach and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part monograph, part methods handbook, and including poetry, photos and other media, this highly original work explores the emergent middle class in Angola through the lens of the senses.
Author : Bertelsmann Stiftung
Publisher : Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung
ISBN 13 : 3867934584
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (679 download)
Download or read book Transformation Index BTI 2012 written by Bertelsmann Stiftung and published by Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung. This book was released on 2012-06-27 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The peaceful transition of authoritarian regimes towards democracy and a market economy poses enormous challenges for citizens and politicians alike. Around the world, under widely differing conditions and with varying degrees of success, reform-oriented groups are struggling to democratize their countries and to strengthen the market economy. Good governance is the decisive factor for the success or failure of any transition process. The BTI 2012 is the fifth edition of the Bertelsmann Stiftung's Transformation Index which is published every two years. The global ranking measures and compares transition processes worldwide on the basis of detailed country reports. Comparing systematically the status of democracy and market economy on an international basis, the BTI also provides comprehensive data on the quality of political management in 128 transition and developing countries from 2009 to 2011.
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Author : Chris J. Magoc
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1610694309
Total Pages : 1665 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Imperialism and Expansionism in American History [4 volumes] written by Chris J. Magoc and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 1665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This four-volume encyclopedia chronicles the historical roots of the United States' current military dominance, documenting its growth from continental expansionism to hemispheric hegemony to global empire. This groundbreaking four-volume encyclopedia offers sweeping coverage of a subject central to American history and of urgent importance today as the nation wrestles with a global imperial posture and the long-term viability of the largest military establishment in human history. The work features more than 650 entries encompassing the full scope of American expansionism and imperialism from the colonial era through the 21st-century "War on Terror." Readers will learn about U.S.-Native American conflicts; 19th-century land laws; early forays overseas, for example, the opening of Japan; and America's imperial conflicts in Cuba and the Philippines. U.S. interests in Latin America are explored, as are the often-forgotten ambitions that lay behind the nation's involvement in the World Wars. The work also offers extensive coverage of the Cold War and today's ongoing conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Africa, and the Middle East as they relate to U.S. national interests. Notable individuals, including American statesmen, military commanders, influential public figures, and anti-imperialists are covered as well. The inclusion of cultural elements of American expansionism and imperialism—for example, Hollywood films and protest music—helps distinguish this set from other more limited works.
