Creativity in the English Curriculum is essential reading for anyone involved or interested in the teaching of English, offering both a detailed history of how creativity has informed the tradition of teaching English, and how it should be used to position this teaching in the future.
This Scotnote Study Guide examines issues of family and cultural identities in Jackie Kay's work. It covers a wide range of her poetry as well as her 2008 poetic drama The Lamplighter, and provides a comprehensive and stimulating guide for senior school pupils and teachers.
This myth-busting history of the Mexican drug trade reveals how an industry founded by farmers and healers became dominated by cartels. The narrative challenges prejudiced views of a simplistic war between north and south, noble cops and vicious kingpins. Historian Benjamin T. Smith provides a comprehensive account of how this once-peaceful trade turned violent, exploring its origins and impact on modern Mexico, from agriculture to medicine and its relationship with the United States. Utilizing unprecedented archival research, leaked documents, and harrowing interviews, Smith presents a thrilling story filled with vivid characters, including Ignacia "La Nacha" Jasso, the "queen pin" of Ciudad Juárez, and Dr. Leopoldo Salazar Viniegra, who advocated for marijuana decriminalization. He also highlights the stories of agricultural workers, revealing the economic benefits and human costs of the trade. The narrative offers surprising conclusions about drug use and enforcement failures, backed by new research. Smith delves into the dynamics driving current drug war violence, U.S.-backed policies exacerbating the situation, and corruption on both sides of the border. This dark morality tale examines the American appetite for intoxication and the necessities of survival, making it essential for understanding the violence of the drug war and the myths shaping perceptions of Mexico today.
Gloriously illustrated with more than 200 full-colour photographs; each step is fully and clearly demonstrated to add instruction.
Outlines the source of disagreement about a resource curse, suggests strategies to address them, and shows how they produce insights about the politics of resource wealth.
The Dope exposes how an illicit industry that started with farmers, families and healers came to be dominated by cartels, kingpins and corruption. Benjamin T Smith traces an unforgettable cast of characters from the early twentieth century to the modern day, whose actions came to influence Mexico as we now know it. There's Enrique Fernández, the borderlands trafficker who became Mexico's first major narco and one of the first victims of the war on drugs; Eduardo 'Lalo' Fernández, Mexico's most prominent heroin chemist and first major cocaine importer; Leopoldo Salazar Viniegra, the brilliant doctor and Marxist who tried (and failed) to decriminalize Mexico's drugs; and Harry Anslinger, the head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics whose sensationalist strategies paved the way for U.S. interference and the extraordinary levels of violence in Mexico today
