Competition S A Witch

Author : Kelly McClymer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-16
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781439103746

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Competition's a Witch by Kelly McClymer Pdf

Prudence Stewart is finally starting to get her witch on. It's been a month since her parents decided to give their magic-deficient daughter a crash course in enchantment by enrolling her in Agatha's Day School for Witches. And sure, Pru's still stuck in Magic for Dummies -- but at least she made the cheerleading squad. Now Prudence has a bigger problem...she walks, talks, and cheers like a mortal. And she's deathly afraid the other witches will catch on. So she vows to give up her old earthly ways: no cell phone, no car, and above all, no dating mortal boys. There's just one hitch to the sitch: Angelo, the megacute mortal-next-door. When he and Prudence meet, sparks fly -- no magic necessary. And breaking Angelo's spell turns out to be the hardest trick of all.

Author : David Chidester
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317649861

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Religions of South Africa (Routledge Revivals) by David Chidester Pdf

First published in 1992, this title explores the religious diversity of South Africa, organizing it into a single coherent narrative and providing the first comparative study and introduction to the topic. David Chidester emphasizes the fact that the complex distinctive character of South African religious life has taken shape with a particular economic, social and political context, and pays special attention to the creativity of people who have suffered under conquest, colonialism and apartheid. With an overview of African traditional religion, Christian missions, and African innovations during the nineteenth century, this reissue will be of great value to students of religious studies, South African history, anthropology, sociology, and political studies.

Author : Lana Harper
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593336076

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Payback's a Witch by Lana Harper Pdf

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina meets The L Word in this fresh, sizzling New York Times bestselling rom-com by Lana Harper. Emmy Harlow is a witch but not a very powerful one—in part because she hasn't been home to the magical town of Thistle Grove in years. Her self-imposed exile has a lot to do with a complicated family history and a desire to forge her own way in the world, and only the very tiniest bit to do with Gareth Blackmoore, heir to the most powerful magical family in town and casual breaker of hearts and destroyer of dreams. But when a spellcasting tournament that her family serves as arbiters for approaches, it turns out the pull of tradition (or the truly impressive parental guilt trip that comes with it) is strong enough to bring Emmy back. She's determined to do her familial duty; spend some quality time with her best friend, Linden Thorn; and get back to her real life in Chicago. On her first night home, Emmy runs into Talia Avramov—an all-around badass adept in the darker magical arts—who is fresh off a bad breakup . . . with Gareth Blackmoore. Talia had let herself be charmed, only to discover that Gareth was also seeing Linden—unbeknownst to either of them. And now she and Linden want revenge. Only one question stands: Is Emmy in? But most concerning of all: Why can't she stop thinking about the terrifyingly competent, devastatingly gorgeous, wickedly charming Talia Avramov?

Author : Adam Ashforth
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-15
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0226029735

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Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa by Adam Ashforth Pdf

Large numbers of people in Soweto & other parts of South Africa live in fear of witchcraft, presenting complex & unique problems for the government. Adam Ashforth explores the challenge of occult violence & the spiritual insecurity that it engenders to democratic rule in South Africa.

Author : Isak Niehaus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781139560733

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Witchcraft and a Life in the New South Africa by Isak Niehaus Pdf

Witchcraft and a Life in the New South Africa reconstructs the biography of an ordinary South African, Jimmy Mohale. Born in 1964, Jimmy came of age in rural South Africa during apartheid, then studied at university and worked as a teacher during the anti-apartheid struggle. In 2005, Jimmy died from an undiagnosed sickness, probably related to AIDS. Jimmy gradually came to see the unanticipated misfortune he experienced as a result of his father's witchcraft and sought remedies from diviners rather than from biomedical doctors. This study casts new light on scholarly understandings of the connections between South African politics, witchcraft and the AIDS pandemic.

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1544 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : WISC:89116883372

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress Pdf

Author : Ilan Pappé
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781783605927

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Israel and South Africa by Ilan Pappé Pdf

Within the already heavily polarised debate on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, parallels between Israel and apartheid South Africa remain highly contentious. A number of prominent academic and political commentators, including former US president Jimmy Carter and UN Special Rapporteur John Dugard, have argued that Israel's treatment of its Arab-Israeli citizens and the people of the occupied territories amounts to a system of oppression no less brutal or inhumane than that of South Africa's white supremacists. Similarly, boycott and disinvestment campaigns comparable to those employed by anti-apartheid activists have attracted growing support. Yet while the 'apartheid question' has become increasingly visible in this debate, there has been little in the way of genuine scholarly analysis of the similarities (or otherwise) between the Zionist and apartheid regimes. In Israel and South Africa, Ilan Pappé, one of Israel's preeminent academics and a noted critic of the current government, brings together lawyers, journalists, policy makers and historians of both countries to assess the implications of the apartheid analogy for international law, activism and policy making. With contributors including the distinguished anti-apartheid activist Ronnie Kasrils, Israel and South Africa offers a bold and incisive perspective on one of the defining moral questions of our age.

Author : Shireen Ally,Arianna Lissoni
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351970693

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New Histories of South Africa's Apartheid-Era Bantustans by Shireen Ally,Arianna Lissoni Pdf

The bantustans – or ‘homelands’ – were created by South Africa’s apartheid regime as ethnically-defined territories for Africans. Granted self-governing and ‘independent’ status by Pretoria, they aimed to deflect the demands for full political representation by black South Africans and were shunned by the anti-apartheid movement. In 1972, Steve Biko wrote that ‘politically, the bantustans are the greatest single fraud ever invented by white politicians’. With the end of apartheid and the first democratic elections of 1994, the bantustans formally ceased to exist, but their legacies remain inscribed in South Africa’s contemporary social, cultural, political, and economic landscape. While the older literature on the bantustans has tended to focus on their repressive role and political illegitimacy, this edited volume offers new approaches to the histories and afterlives of the former bantustans in South Africa by a new generation of scholars. This book was originally published as various special issues of the South African Historical Journal.

Author : Elirea Bornman,René Van Eeden,Marie Wentzel
Publisher : HSRC Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0796918589

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Violence in South Africa by Elirea Bornman,René Van Eeden,Marie Wentzel Pdf

Violence in South Africa contains contributions on various issues related to violence in South Africa. The variety of perspectives, explanations and intervention strategies indicates that violence, its causes and prevention are diverse and complex matters. Hence a single perspective or universal explanation cannot properly explain the phenomenon. Factors related to the micro- and macro-levels, as well as the interaction between these levels, should be considered. The contributions consequently do not deal only with violence of a structural, collective or political nature, but also the far more prevalent forms of interpersonal and small group-violence.

Author : Eva Ibbotson
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780330477758

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Which Witch? by Eva Ibbotson Pdf

Which Witch? is a brilliantly witty tale of magic and marriage by Eva Ibbotson, shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. 'Find me a witch!' cried Arriman the Awful, feared Wizard of the North. Arriman has decided to marry. His wife must be a witch of the darkest powers – but which witch will she be? To find the most fiendish, he holds a spell-casting competition. Glamorous Madame Olympia performs the terrifying Symphony of Death and conjures up a thousand plague-bearing rats. The magic of gentle Belladonna, the white witch, goes hopelessly wrong. She produces perfumed flowers instead of snakes. And bats roost in her golden hair instead of becoming blood-sucking vampires. Poor Belladonna longs to be an evil enchantress – but how? 'This kind of fun will never fail to delight' - Philip Pullman.

Author : Govind Kelkar,Dev Nathan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781108490511

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Witch Hunts: Culture, Patriarchy, and Transformation by Govind Kelkar,Dev Nathan Pdf

This book is a unique intersectional analysis combining culture, gender struggles and structural including economic transformations, both in the formation of gendered class society, patriarchy and capitalism.

Author : P. L. van den Berghe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000635690

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The Liberal Dilemma in South Africa by P. L. van den Berghe Pdf

Originally published in 1979, The Liberal Dilemma in South Africa discusses the dilemma of how to overthrow an oppressive social order maintained through violence in a non-violent manner. The contributors to this volume were all established social scientists and academics, with extensive experience of living and doing research in South Africa. They analyse various aspects of that dilemma and of the social order which creates it, particularly emphasizing the role of students, academics and other intellectuals in South African society.

Author : John Hund
Publisher : Spotlight Poets
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015061746643

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Witchcraft Violence and the Law in South Africa by John Hund Pdf

Witchcraft accusations and violence are generating new forms of popular 'justice' that threaten to destabilize the state's administration of justice. What is to be done?

Author : Alison Games
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442203594

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Witchcraft in Early North America by Alison Games Pdf

Witchcraft in Early North America investigates European, African, and Indian witchcraft beliefs and their expression in colonial America. Alison Games's engaging book takes us beyond the infamous outbreak at Salem, Massachusetts, to look at how witchcraft was a central feature of colonial societies in North America. Her substantial and lively introduction orients readers to the subject and to the rich selection of documents that follows. The documents begin with first encounters between European missionaries and Native Americans in New France and New Mexico, and they conclude with witch hunts among Native Americans in the years of the early American republic. The documents—some of which have never been published previously—include excerpts from trials in Virginia, New Mexico, and Massachusetts; accounts of outbreaks in Salem, Abiquiu (New Mexico), and among the Delaware Indians; descriptions of possession; legal codes; and allegations of poisoning by slaves. The documents raise issues central to legal, cultural, social, religious, and gender history. This fascinating topic and the book’s broad geographic and chronological coverage make this book ideally suited for readers interested in new approaches to colonial history and the history of witchcraft.

Author : Glenys Lobban,Michael O’Loughlin,Giada Del Fabbro,Gillian Eagle
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781868148035

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Psychodynamic Psychotherapy in South Africa by Glenys Lobban,Michael O’Loughlin,Giada Del Fabbro,Gillian Eagle Pdf

An accessible text for practitioners, students, and non-specialists about the practice of psychotherapy in South Africa. Psychoanalysis as a long term modality is inaccessible to the average South African. In this book the authors describe how psychoanalytically orientated or psychodynamic psychotherapy can be practiced as a short-term endeavour and applied to contemporary issues facing the country. Psychodynamic work is currently undertaken by clinical psychologists, therapists, clinicians, trainers, teachers, clinical supervisors, consultants and researchers working in university settings, state hospitals, community projects, private practice and research. The debates, clinical issues, therapeutic practice and nature of research covered in the book are widely representative of the work being done in the country. The need for shorter term therapy models and evidence-based interventions is as acute in global practice as it is locally. The lessons learned in South Africa have broader implications for international practitioners, and the authors stress the potential inherent in psychoanalytic theory and technique to tackle the complex problems faced in all places and settings characterised by increasing globalisation and dislocation. The book is structured in three main sections. Psychodynamic Psychotherapy in South Africa is aimed at local and international practitioners and students, while non-specialist readers will find the text informative and accessible.