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Author : Jenny Stewart
Publisher : Wakefield Press
ISBN 13 : 9781862546110
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (461 download)
Download or read book The Decline of the Tea Lady written by Jenny Stewart and published by Wakefield Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses humourous anecdotes to investigate the art of management.
Author : Peter D. Griggs
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527548821
Total Pages : 746 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Tea in Australia written by Peter D. Griggs and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before 1950, Australians were the world’s highest consumers of tea per capita. This book tells the story of how tea emerged as the national beverage in the Australian colonies during the nineteenth century, and explores why Australians consumed so much of the beverage for so long. Special attention is devoted to analysing the evolution of the Australian tea distribution network, especially the marketing strategies used by the tea traders to promote their products. Other topics examined here include the development of tea rituals such as afternoon tea and high tea and their role in Australian society, the local manufacture of teawares, the establishment of tea rooms and the emergence of a tea growing industry in Australia after 1960. The first comprehensive account of the history of tea in Australia, this book will be of particular interest to individuals interested in Australian history, economic and social history, and food history.
Author : Gerald Ratner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1907293760
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (72 download)
Download or read book The Rise and Fall...and Rise Again written by Gerald Ratner and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-02-05 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1991, Gerald Ratner made a landmark speech to the Institute of Directors After over 25 years in the jewellery trade, Gerald Ratner was one of the most well-known and successful retailers of his generation. He had built up a highly profitable, multi-million pound international business, including household names like Ratners, H Samuel, Ernest Jones, Watches of Switzerland, as well as over one thousand stores in the US. Being asked to give the keynote address at the Institute of Directors' annual conference at The Royal Albert Hall was a great honour and should have been the crowning glory on two decades of empire building. Gerald's speech was seized upon by the media after he included jokes about the quality of some of the shops' products. But the far-reaching impact that these jokes would have no one could have predicted. "Even though I had once had my name above hundreds of shops up and down the country, it had become more famous as a byword for crap. It took several years to realise just what an impact the speech had had on every aspect of my life." Press coverage of hardback version: "... a rollicking good read" —Michael Skapinker, The FT "Most business autobiographies are so overlaid with ghost-writerly blandness that the character of the subject is lost. Mr Ratner had help with this one, but fortunately he is still there: obsessive, funny and a bit of a scoundrel - the last mitigated by how well he knows it." —The FT "self-effacing, revealing and human" —Luke Johnson, FT Business Life "A few ill-chosen words to a well-heeled audience 16 years ago reduced Britain's biggest jeweller to poverty. Now he reveals how he bounced back" —Jewish Chronicle "...contains lessons for us all" —Management Today "...worth its weight in gold" —The Independent Amazon reviews "Everyone knows the story of Gerald's rise and fall - what an amazing story and well worth reading.... I couldn't put it down, totally gripping and inspiring stuff, you really couldn't see this coming from such an energetic, passionate man" "I have read many bio's from business leaders and most are boring 'how to get rich' or 'let me tell you a long list of not very interesting stories with all the good bits missed out'. Gerald's book is very different it is a great read, I could not put it down" "Sobering and enlightening at the same time. A great read and a morality tale of our time."
Author : Pat Armstrong
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442691964
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Critical To Care written by Pat Armstrong and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2008-06-14 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who counts as a health care worker? The question of where we draw the line between health care workers and non-health care workers is not merely a matter of academic nicety or a debate without consequences for care. It is a central issue for policy development because the definition often results in a division among workers in ways that undermine care. Critical to Care uses a wide range of evidence to reveal the contributions that those who provide personal care, who cook, clean, keep records, and do laundry make to health services. As a result of current reforms, these workers are increasingly treated as peripheral even though the research on what determines health demonstrates that their work is essential. The authors stress the invisibility and undervaluing of 'women's work' as well as the importance of context in understanding how this work is defined and treated. Through a gendered analysis, Critical to Care establishes a basis for discussing research, policy, and other actions in relation to the work of thousands of marginalized women and men every day.
Author : Lisa See
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 150116631X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane written by Lisa See and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter who has been adopted by an American couple. Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual and routine, and it has been ever thus for generations. Then one day a jeep appears at the village gate—the first automobile any of them have seen—and a stranger arrives. In this remote Yunnan village, the stranger finds the rare tea he has been seeking and a reticent Akha people. In her biggest seller, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, See introduced the Yao people to her readers. Here she shares the customs of another Chinese ethnic minority, the Akha, whose world will soon change. Li-yan, one of the few educated girls on her mountain, translates for the stranger and is among the first to reject the rules that have shaped her existence. When she has a baby outside of wedlock, rather than stand by tradition, she wraps her daughter in a blanket, with a tea cake hidden in her swaddling, and abandons her in the nearest city. After mother and daughter have gone their separate ways, Li-yan slowly emerges from the security and insularity of her village to encounter modern life while Haley grows up a privileged and well-loved California girl. Despite Haley’s happy home life, she wonders about her origins; and Li-yan longs for her lost daughter. They both search for and find answers in the tea that has shaped their family’s destiny for generations. A powerful story about a family, separated by circumstances, culture, and distance, Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane paints an unforgettable portrait of a little known region and its people and celebrates the bond that connects mothers and daughters.
Author : R. A. W. Rhodes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199601143
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book Everyday Life in British Government written by R. A. W. Rhodes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-21 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his fascinating, new piece of political anthropology, Rod Rhodes uncovers exactly how the British political elite thinks and acts.
Author : Jenny Stewart
Publisher : ANU E Press
ISBN 13 : 1921536837
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (215 download)
Download or read book The Dilemmas of Engagement written by Jenny Stewart and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `Consultation¿ has become something of a mantra in contemporary governance. Governments well understand that policy occurs in a highly contestable environment in which there are multiple, and often competing interests. They well recognise the political imperative to `engage¿ stakeholders in order to manage potential conflict and, hopefully, obtain acceptance for their policies and programs. As a result, politicians and public officials frequently emphasise the need for consultation as an essential element of the deliberative processes underpinning the development of policy or the implementation of programs and services. But, moving beyond the rhetoric of consultation and engagement, how well is it done? In this monograph, Professor Jenny Stewart maps out the principal approaches used by governments to consult with and engage affected communities of interest. Stewart critically assesses the available literature and draws directly upon the experiences of political actors, bureaucrats and community sector organisations in order to identify the `good, bad, and the ugly¿ of engagement. Through a judicious use of selected case studies, Stewart distils the essential dilemmas and contradictions inherent in many consultation strategies and highlights their relative strengths and weaknesses. This monograph is a probing and dispassionate analysis of the rationales, methodologies and outcomes of consultation and engagement. It is not intended to be a `cookbook¿ or a `how to¿ manual for those consulting or the consulted. Nevertheless, there is much here for the policy practitioner, the researcher and members of those `communities of interest¿ who might, one day, find themselves the target of engagement.
Author : Jenny Stewart
Publisher : Hybrid Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1742982905
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (429 download)
Download or read book Inner Weather written by Jenny Stewart and published by Hybrid Publishers. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lucid, honest and deeply searching account of the author's struggle to come to terms with anxiety and depression. Jenny Stewart shows how, over many years, with considerable help from others, she was able gradually to take control of her depression, not by focusing on its causes, but by understanding how best to fight it. It covers practical advice as well as personal revelations. There are many books about depression - what makes this one different? This is not just a self-help book, it is a self-seeing book. It has been written specifically with women in mind. Inner Weather shows that it is possible to make something positive out of the depressive experience, provided that we have the courage to learn from it. It fills a gap between the many excellent books of professional advice and personal memoirs that relate the depressive experience. Inner Weather is not only a book for depressives, but for anyone who has an interest in managing their own mind 'from the inside'.
Author : Mark Bevir
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191614807
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book The State as Cultural Practice written by Mark Bevir and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-04-08 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The State as Cultural Practice offers a fully worked out account of the authors' distinctive interpretive approach to political science. It challenges the new institutionalism, probably the most significant present-day strand in both American and British political science. It moves away from such notions as 'bringing the state back in', 'path dependency' and modernist empiricism. Instead, Bevir and Rhodes argue for an anti-foundational analysis, ethnographic and historical methods, and a decentred approach that rejects any essentialist definition of the state and espouses the idea of politics as cultural practice. The book has three aims: · to develop an anti-foundational theory of the state · to develop a new research agenda around the topics of rule, rationalities, and resistance · by exploring empirical shifts and debates about the changing nature of the state to show how anti-foundational theory leads us to see them differently. Bevir and Rhodes argue for the idea of 'the stateless state' or the state as meaning-in-action. So, the state is neither monolithic nor a causal agent. It consists solely of the contingent actions of specific individuals; of diverse beliefs about the public sphere, about authority and power, which are constructed differently in contending traditions. Continuity and change are products of people inheriting traditions and modifying them in response to dilemmas. A decentred approach explores the limits to the state and seeks to develop a more diverse view of state authority and its exercise. In short, political scientists need to bring people back in to the study of the state.
Author : Helen Saberi
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780239688
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Teatimes written by Helen Saberi and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Teatimes, food historian Helen Saberi takes us on a stimulating journey beyond the fine porcelain, doilies, crumpets, and jam into the fascinating and diverse history of tea drinking. From elegant afternoon teas, hearty high teas, and cricket and tennis teas, to funeral teas, cream teas, and many more, Saberi investigates the whole panoply of teatime rituals and ephemera—including tea gardens, tea dances, tea gowns, and tearooms. We are invited to spend time in the sophisticated salons de thé of Paris and the cozy tearooms of the United States; to enjoy the teatime traditions of Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, where housewives prided themselves on their “well-filled tins”; to sit in on the tea parties of the Raj and Irani cafes in India; to savor teatimes along the Silk Road, where the samovar and chaikhana reign supreme; and to delight in the tasty dim sum of China and the intricate tradition of cha kaiseki in Japan. Steeped in evocative illustrations and recipes from around the world, Teatimes shows how tea drinking has become a global obsession, from American iced tea and Taiwanese bubble tea to the now-classic English afternoon tea. Pinkies up!
Author : Andrea David
Publisher : Artesian Well Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (661 download)
Download or read book Darcy's Fair Lady written by Andrea David and published by Artesian Well Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fake engagement! Can Darcy convince London society that Elizabeth will become his wife—while persuading his heart that she won't? After quitting Netherfield, Darcy must convince Lady Catherine that he's betrothed. It's the only way she'll let her daughter Anne marry her beloved. When Darcy receives a sudden windfall from one of his investments, he comes upon an idea. He offers Elizabeth Bennet a substantial sum to pose as his fiancée. Lizzy is shocked by the impropriety of his proposal. Yet she and her sisters desperately need the funds to stave off genteel poverty. Plus, while she's in London, she can help reunite her sister Jane with Bingley, her former suitor. Lizzy and Jane live as guests under Darcy's roof and receive lessons to fit into fashionable society. Lizzy discovers a new side to the Darcy she once despised: his kindness to his staff, his devotion to his sister, his concern for her wellbeing. Is there more to this handsome and fascinating man she once considered so proud? Could their faux betrothal turn real? This sweet Regency Pride and Prejudice variation is a 57,000-word standalone novel. It includes kissing but no on-page intimacy.
Author : Linda Zock
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1440173044
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Now or Then written by Linda Zock and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-10-12 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Season-Marie is a beautiful, but lonely woman. Even being a successful editor of a popular fashion magazine didn't take that feeling of loneliness away. She desperately wanted to meet the man of her dreams. One who would bring her happiness, and the kind of love she had been searching for all of her life. In her spare time Season-Marie read romance novels wishing for her own happy ending. She dreamed of being the belle of the ball, and finding her own true love. But being the optimist she was, she didn't think he would just come knocking on her door. Then one Saturday night after a few glasses of wine and finishing one of her books the strangest thing happened. As Season-Marie rose from the couch to head for bed, everything around her became surreal. Passing out, she later woke to find herself 100 years in the past. That's when she met Lord Jonathan Drake. The man of her dreams. The kind of man she had been looking for all of her life. One who truely cared for her and loved her deeply. But could she really have somehow been transported back in time, or was all of it just a dream?
Author : Carla Kelly
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101573007
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The Lady's Companion written by Carla Kelly and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lady in distress finds an unlikely companion in this classic Signet Regency Romance from Carla Kelly. AVAILABLE DIGITALLY FOR THE FIRST TIME Miss Susan Hampton never imagined she would have to make her own way in the world. But when her reckless father gambles away the family estate, and she becomes an unpaid servant of her aunt, she flees in search of a better life. Taking the position of companion to a temperamental dowager, she finds herself in dangerously close contact with the dowager’s handsome bailiff, David Wiggins, who is everything a man should be—except a gentleman. Though she tells herself he is a thoroughly unsuitable suitor, his irresistible charms could make her forget she was ever a lady… Don’t miss Carla Kelly’s other classic Signet Regency romance, The Wedding Journey.
Author : New Zealand. Parliament
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Parliamentary Debates written by New Zealand. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jessalynn Keller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351175440
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Emergent Feminisms written by Jessalynn Keller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-21 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through twelve chapters that historicize and re-evaluate postfeminism as a dominant framework of feminist media studies, this collection maps out new modes of feminist media analysis at both theoretical and empirical levels and offers new insights into the visibility and circulation of feminist politics in contemporary media cultures. The essays in this collection resituate feminism within current debates about postfeminism, considering how both operate as modes of political engagement and as scholarly traditions. Authors analyze a range of media texts and practices including American television shows Being Mary Jane and Inside Amy Schumer, Beyonce’s "Formation" music video, misandry memes, and Hong Kong cinema.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Australian Book Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chetan H C
Publisher : Educreation Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Ecological restoration of abandoned tea plantations written by Chetan H C and published by Educreation Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globally, millions of hectares of tropical forests have been cleared and replaced with commercial plantations. Many of these plantations are abandoned or put to alternative use. Abandoned plantations provide opportunities that compensate to an extent, forest cover depletion in the tropics. However, restoration of such abandoned land to natural forests involves a complex interplay of ecological, socio-economic and legal issues. Apart from ecological issues of colonisation, there are social issues of rehabilitating people once they lose their livelihood, legal rights of the landowner, economics of abandonment and finally legal issues such as protected areas (PAs) act and legislation that can lead to abandonment. In the Western Ghats, tea plantations were established in the rainforest during the colonial rule and are owned by individuals or large companies. During the globalisation process, the demand for tea decreased and many small owners could not maintain their plantations due to labour and other issues which led to the abandonment of many such plantations. In addition, plantations established during the British rule are now inside PAs, and they face closure once the lease on the land expires. In the Trivandrum division alone, which has a large number of plantations, almost 55% have been abandoned. In areas that lie within PAs, forest managers are keen that the plantations should be annexed to the PA, but such large-scale abandonment of land provides a challenge to restoration of native species. This book addresses the ecological aspects of colonisation by native tree species in the abandoned plantations within a PA and suggests restoration activities from ecological and social perspectives, helpful to forest and plantation managers.
