Brad Fisher came from a strict Christian home. His parents were concerned that Brad's relationship with his non-Christian girlfriend had become a stumbling block and he was no longer committed to God as he used to be. For his seventeenth birthday, they gave him an air ticket to visit Brad's fathers brother, a missionary in Southern Africa. With much trepidation and anger he departs to Africa. This is a story of a teenager who is exposed to a relationship with the Lord and learns to trust God. Set in the Zambezi Valley, Brad comes face to face with Africa's fiercest wild animals and when his uncle and cousin take him on a trip to deliver bibles to a mission station in Mozambique, they are captured by blood thirsty bandits. The three of them experience God's love as never before... Near death the three of them put their trust in God and watch as God's love defeats the enemy and after witnessing so many miracles, Brad sees God's power at work. Brad left America an immature teenager and returns a young man. Ray Fourie was born and educated in Rhodesia, which is now called Zimbabwe. He spent years in the Territorial Army fighting against communist guerrillas. Ray as well as being in secular work, where he had his own company, now works for an International Christian Ministry. He has spent twenty-two years working with the same ministry. He now lives in England.
Brad Fisher came from a strict Christian home. His parents were concerned that Brad's relationship with his non-Christian girlfriend had become a stumbling block and he was no longer committed to God as he used to be. For his seventeenth birthday, they gave him an air ticket to visit Brad's fathers brother, a missionary in Southern Africa. With much trepidation and anger he departs to Africa. This is a story of a teenager who is exposed to a relationship with the Lord and learns to trust God. Set in the Zambezi Valley, Brad comes face to face with Africa's fiercest wild animals and when his uncle and cousin take him on a trip to deliver bibles to a mission station in Mozambique, they are captured by blood thirsty bandits. The three of them experience God's love as never before... Near death the three of them put their trust in God and watch as God's love defeats the enemy and after witnessing so many miracles, Brad sees God's power at work. Brad left America an immature teenager and returns a young man. Ray Fourie was born and educated in Rhodesia, which is now called Zimbabwe. He spent years in the Territorial Army fighting against communist guerrillas. Ray as well as being in secular work, where he had his own company, now works for an International Christian Ministry. He has spent twenty-two years working with the same ministry. He now lives in England.
The American Indian has figured prominently in many films and television shows, portrayed variously as a villain, subservient friend, or a hapless victim of progress. Many Indian stereotypes that were derived from European colonial discourse—some hundreds of years old—still exist in the media today. Even when set in the contemporary era, novels, films, and programs tend to purvey rehashed tropes such as Pocahontas or man Friday. In Native Americans on Network TV: Stereotypes, Myths, and the “Good Indian,” Michael Ray FitzGerald argues that the colonial power of the U.S. is clearly evident in network television’s portrayals of Native Americans. FitzGerald contends that these representations fit neatly into existing conceptions of colonial discourse and that their messages about the “Good Indian” have become part of viewers’ understandings of Native Americans. In this study, FitzGerald offers close examinations of such series as The Lone Ranger, Daniel Boone, Broken Arrow, Hawk, Nakia, and Walker, Texas Ranger. By examining the traditional role of stereotypes and their functions in the rhetoric of colonialism, the volume ultimately offers a critical analysis of images of the “Good Indian”—minority figures that enforce the dominant group’s norms. A long overdue discussion of this issue, Native Americans on Network TV will be of interest to scholars of television and media studies, but also those of Native American studies, subaltern studies, and media history.
With a new and comprehensive account of the South African Constitutional Court's social rights decisions, Brian Ray argues that the Court's procedural enforcement approach has had significant but underappreciated effects on law and policy, and challenges the view that a stronger substantive standard of review is necessary to realize these rights. Drawing connections between the Court's widely acclaimed early decisions and the more recent second-wave cases, Ray explains that the Court has responded to the democratic legitimacy and institutional competence concerns that consistently constrain it by developing doctrines and remedial techniques that enable activists, civil society and local communities to press directly for rights-protective policies through structured, court-managed engagement processes. Engaging with Social Rights shows how those tools could be developed to make state institutions responsive to the needs of poor communities by giving those communities and their advocates consistent access to policy-making and planning processes.
Between June and July 2010, 64 games of football determined that Spain was the world's best team at the World Cup in South Africa. South Africans – and the world – celebrated a brilliantly hosted tournament where everything worked like clockwork and the stands were packed with vuvuzela-wielding fans. But the truth was not yet known. Behind this significant national achievement lay years of corporate skulduggery, crooked companies rigging tenders and match fixing involving the national team. As late as 2015 it was revealed that the tournament's very foundations were corrupt when evidence emerged that South Africa had encouraged FIFA to pay money to a bent official in the Caribbean to buy three votes in its favour. As Sepp Blatter's FIFA edifice crumbled, a web of transactions from New York to Trinidad and Tobago showed how money was diverted to allow South Africa's bid to host the tournament to succeed. In The Big Fix: How South Africa Stole the 2010 World Cup, Ray Hartley reveals the story of an epic national achievement and the people who undermined it in pursuit of their own interests. It is the real story of the 2010 World Cup.
Pharmacology is a rapidly progressing area of biomedical research, with new developments surfacing at regular intervals, constantly revolutionizing drug therapy for disease states. The interaction of this discipline with other biomedical sciences has opened up new vistas and opportunities in drug design and development. Basic and clinical concepts in the mechanism and use of drugs are carefully integrated into hypotheses, which are aimed at the maintenance of a critical balance between health and disease. Current Trends in Pharmacology is a comprehensive collection of topics highly significant in the current health scenario. The book comprises a combination of articles in clinical and experimental pharmacology and toxicology from the viewpoint of both basic and clinical scientists. It also details recent developments in the basic aspects of drug action in some very relevant disease states like hypertension, atherosclerosis, arrhythmia, stroke, tuberculosis, hospital acquired pneumonia, and cancer. It also highlights the applied issues relating to rational use of drugs. The contributing authors are leading experts in their respective fields and have presented the topics in a lucid and comprehensive manner
The rapidly evolving world of global health and medicine -- in the palm of your hand "The book's 17 multi-authored chapters cover contemporary global public health remarkably well....Overall, it is a superb introductory text for preclinical and public health novices in global health across a wide spectrum of health careers."--Family Medicine Journal "This is a welcome addition to the expanding roster of books on global health. It is well written and provides appropriate background information required to initiate any study program in global health. 3 Stars."--Doody's Review Service Understanding Global Health is the groundbreaking, go-to primer that puts global health and its many challenges into sharp focus like no other text. Written with the nonspecialist in mind, this powerful resource expertly reviews all the core topics that you must know in order to thrive in this decentralized new global health environment. It's all here: unique, authoritative coverage of public health concepts, plus insights into infectious diseases and clinical medicine-everything you need to truly comprehend how global medicine is dramatically affecting today's practice of medicine-and to prepare for your role in it.
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