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Rosita Armytage. 2020. Big capital in an unequal world: The micropolitics of wealth in Pakistan. London: Berghahn Books.Ashley Mears. 2020. Very important people: Status and beauty in the global party circuit. New York: Princeton University Press.

The inheritance practices of the ultra-wealthy play a key role in reproducing socio-economic inequalities across generations. Given this role, we need a better understanding of the individuals and families who own, accumulate and pass on substantial amounts of wealth. This article asks two questions: first, how do parents with profound ownership or control over capital reconcile cultivating dynastic wealth with beliefs in meritocratic achievement? And, second, how do wealth managers justify their commercial value to first generation wealthy clients? The answer to both of these questions involves what I call a pedagogy of inherited wealth. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with first-generation ultra-wealthy parents and their wealth managers, it documents how wealthy parents and wealth managers construct risky futures around inheritance, and their strategies to manage those risks through the control of access to the family’s wealth. In doing so, it explores how they produce two roles, termed here the ‘good inheritor’ and the ‘good client’. Through examining various strategies to manage family wealth and inheritance, the article reveals the legitimating and enabling pedagogy surrounding this process and the paradox at the heart of this pedagogy – which promotes both the value of work among the next generation of inheritors and the preservation of dynastic wealth that will preclude their dependence on income-generating work.

Insect-borne parasite Trypanosoma brucei plagues humans and other animals, eliciting the disease Human African trypanosomiasis, also known as African sleeping sickness. This disease poses the biggest threat to the people in Sub-Saharan Africa. Given the high toxicity and difficulties with administration of currently available drugs, a novel treatment is needed. Building on known Human African trypanosomiasis structure–activity relationship (SAR), we now describe a number of functionally simple diphenyl ether analogs which give low micromolar activity (IC50 = 0.16–0.96 μM) against T. b. rhodesiense. The best compound shows favorable selectivity against the L6 cell line (SI = 750) and even greater selectivity (SI = 1200) against four human cell lines. The data herein provides direction for the ongoing optimization of antitrypanosomal diphenyl ethers.

This chapter examines the differences and similarities in the meaning of national identities and expressions of patriotism for contemporary English, Welsh and Scottish migrants to Aotearoa New Zealand. It argues that despite widespread acknowledgement of the contested and heterogeneous character of 'Britishness', there has been relatively little attention to the variation between Britain's constituent nations when researching with them as an emigrant group. The chapter explores the experiences of those who came from nations which might draw on a 'Celtic' identification in order to highlight both the similarities, and the significant differences, in their experiences. It considers the sometimes fleeting and place-bound character of national sentiment. British emigrants' experiences take place within, and are influenced by, a broader context of shifting representations of Britishness. 'The British' have varying relationships to their nationality, as will be revealed through an exploration of participants' experiences from Wales and Scotland.

The Georgia Sea Turtle Center has a mission of conservation based rehabilitation, research, and education. Marine debris is a serious threat to marine species. In an effort to educate local students, the GSTC obtained a grant to provide educational opportunities to local third graders. Third and fourth grade classes in Glynn County, Georgia were offered a Garbage in the Water program and 964 students were reached. After programming, students showed a statistically significant (p < .0001) increase in test scores between the pre and posttests. This success led to repeat funding for additional programming for first grades as well as a formalized relationship with the Glynn County School District. As part of this relationship the Georgia Sea Turtle Center is now the official field trip location for all third grades in the district.

Twenty years after the political and social transformations attendant to the ending of apartheid, the succession to power of the African National Congress and the conceptualisation of a new ‘Rainbo...