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A new colouring book from New York Times bestselling illustrator,
Kerby Rosanes, whose detailed illustrations are loved by adults and
children alike. Mythic World features over 55 mythical creatures
and legends to colour. Showcasing some of the best-known creatures
alongside some you might not have discovered before, each scene
shows them interacting with and morphing out of some of the most
distinctive landscapes in our world today. Warring giants morph out
of The Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland, petrified trolls come
back to life in Icelandic rock formations, the Bhutanese Druk
emerges from Mount Everest's cloudy summit and much more. Colour
and discover the classical myths of Ancient Greece and Rome; celtic
folklore from Ireland and Scotland; oriental tales from Japan and
China; and norse sagas from across Scandinavia. Pages at the back
of the book provide a brief introduction to each mythical creature
and explain the inspiration and rationale behind each illustration.
Now revised, updated, and expanded, this groundbreaking guide for
parents and professionals covers the legal, financial, and
emotional realities of creating two happy and stable homes for
children in the aftermath of a divorce, including custody
arrangements, mediation, and more.
Can children flourish in any custody situation? If their parents
read "Mom's House, Dad's House," the answer is a resounding yes.
This unique ground-breaking classic, which has become "the"
standard for two generations of parents, is again breaking new
ground with examples, self-tests, checklists, and guidelines. This
comprehensive guide looks anew at the needs of all concerned with
even more creative options and commonsense advice, including:
- The map to a "decent divorce" and two happy homes; healing
yourself and your children; the New Family Bill of Rights after
separation.
- Helping your children with age-specific advice; explaining
change, giving them continuity and security; restabilizing their
sense of home and family; danger signals; five ways to evaluate
your children's time.
- Negotiating Parental Agreements; legal do's and don'ts; time
arrangements; custody types; attorneys; how to get ready for
negotiations; when to use mediation; using "HIRT" test when an
agreement is broken.
- Breaking away from "negative intimacy" with a difficult ex; how
to talk to your former mate; steps to building a "businesslike"
relationship as parents; how to avoid becoming the neighborhood
"soap opera"
- Sidestepping destructive myths; making the emotions,
"flashbacks," and heartbreak of separation or divorce work for you
and your child.
- Handling long-distance parenting; managing the return of an
absent parent, holidays, remarriage, life without another parent
Adolescence, Girlhood, and Media Migration: US Teens' Use of Social
Media to Negotiate Offline Struggles considers teens' social media
use as a lens through which to more clearly see American
adolescence, girlhood, and marginality in the twenty-first century.
Detailing a year-long ethnography following a racially, ethnically,
and economically diverse group of female, rural, teenaged
adolescents living in the Midwest region of the United States, this
book investigates how young women creatively call upon social media
in everyday attempts to address, mediate, and negotiate the
struggles they face in their offline lives as minors, females, and
ethnic and racial minorities. In tracing girls' appreciation and
use of social media to roots anchored well outside of the
individual, this book finds American girls' relationships with
social media to be far more culturally nuanced than adults
typically imagine. There are material reasons for US teens' social
media use explained by how we do girlhood, adolescence, family,
class, race, and technology. And, as this book argues, an unpacking
of these areas is essential to understanding adolescent girls'
social media use.
Following the 2008 economic crisis, the situation for young people
deteriorated dramatically in many European countries. Employment
and training opportunities have reduced, and levels of poverty and
social exclusion have increased. This book evaluates both
institutional frameworks and programmes as well as the quantitative
and qualitative basis of judgements in European youth policies that
dominate current strategies. Empowering Young People in
Disempowering Times uses EU survey data and in-depth qualitative
research to examine the education, employment experiences and
quality of life of young people in Europe. It develops an extensive
critique of the dominant policy approaches used in Europe, which
aim to tackle the challenges facing disadvantaged young people
through a focus on work first and a narrow human capital centered
approach of integration. In response, the book analyses and
discusses alternatives emerging from an application of Amartya
Sens's Capability Approach to youth policies and an enlarged
concept of participation. Offering quantitative and qualitative
analysis which aim to develop new and progressive ways to assess
the situation of socially disadvantaged young people in Europe,
this book will be fascinating reading for students and teachers of
social policy, as well as policy-makers, social practitioners and
social scientists. Contributors include: G. Acconcia, R. Atzmuller,
E. Baillergeau, S. Belda-Miquel, T. Berthet, B. Beuret, A. Boni
Aristizabal, J.-M. Bonvin, E. Chiappero-Martinetti, S. Dahmen, J.W.
Duyvendak, V. Egdell, A.K. Frorup, C. Goffette, H. Graham, P.R.
Graziano, B. Haidinger, N.R. Jensen, C.C. Kjeldsen, A. Knecht, T.
Ley, A. Lopez-Fogues, H.-U. Otto, A. Peruzzi, R. Raeside, G. Roets,
R. Roose, V. Simon, A.M.C. Spreafico, C. Vandekinderen, H. Van
Keer, J. Vero
What is the most widely-used paranormal human ability? Why was this
extraordinary subtle magical art brought to England by sixteenth
century German miners? Does it really work? If so, how? In this
charming book, legendary Cornish master-dowser Hamish Miller shares
the secrets of his trade, tells the story of dowsing, and gives key
hints and exercises to assist wizards and witches, young and old,
in their search for keys, kids, cats, cables and cosmic
connections. WOODEN BOOKS are small but packed with information.
"Fascinating" FINANCIAL TIMES. "Beautiful" LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS.
"Rich and Artful" THE LANCET. "Genuinely mind-expanding" FORTEAN
TIMES. "Excellent" NEW SCIENTIST. "Stunning" NEW YORK TIMES. Small
books, big ideas.
The Globalization of Rural Plays in the Twenty-First Century
excavates the neglected ideological substratum of peasant folk
plays. By focusing on northeastern Romania and southwest
Ukraine-two of the most ruralized regions in Europe-this work
reveals the complex landscape of peasant plays and the essential
role they perform in shaping local culture, economy, and social
life. The rapid demise of these practices and the creation of
preservation programs is analyzed in the context of the corrosive
effects of global capitalism and the processes of globalization,
urbanization, mass-mediatization, and heritagization. Just like
peasants in search of better resources, rural plays "migrate" from
their villages of origin into the urban, modern, and more dynamic
world, where they become more visible and are both appreciated and
exploited as forms of transnational, intangible cultural heritage.
An average of 1400 people call the South African Depression and Anxiety Suicide Helpline every day. And those are just the people who know it exists and are able to reach out for help, either for themselves or for a loved one.
Journalist Marion Scher has spent years speaking to people suffering from depression or some other form of mental illness and felt compelled to share some of these stories in Surfacing. Each chapter tells a different and very personal story, from a Springbok rugby player faced overnight with mental illness to a successful businessman who attempted suicide three times in one day. A new mother whose horrific real experiences didn’t match the Instagram photos of blissful motherhood she had expected, and a mother’s heartbreaking story of surviving the loss of her teenage daughter to suicide. The common thread that runs through the stories is how each person learnt to deal with their illness, conquer their personal mountains and go on to lead healthy, fulfilled lives – more than they’d ever hoped for.
Most stories of mental illness go untold, hidden away, for fear of the stigma that mental illness holds. Marion hopes this book will inspire you to reach out for help for yourself or to offer encouragement to people you know who are battling secret demons.
The seminal medieval history of the Second Commonwealth period of
ancient Jewish history. Sepher Yosippon was written in Hebrew by a
medieval historian and noted by modern scholars for its eloquent
style. This is the first known chronicle of Jewish history and
legend-from Adam to the destruction of the Second Temple-since the
canonical histories written by Flavius Josephus in Greek and later
translated by Christian scholars into Latin. Sepher Yosippon has
been cited and referred to by scholars, poets, and authors as the
authentic source for ancient Israel for over a millennium, until
overshadowed by the twentiethcentury Hebrew translations of
Josephus. It is based on Pseudo Hegesippus's fourth-century
anti-Jewish summary of Josephus's Jewish War. However, the
anonymous author (a.k.a. Joseph ben Gurion Hacohen) also consulted
with the Latin versions of Josephus's works available to him. At
the same time, he included a wealth of Second Temple literature as
well as Roman and Christian sources. This book contains Steven
Bowman's translation of the complete text of David Flusser's
standard Hebrew edition of Sepher Yosippon, which includes the
later medieval interpolations referring to Jesus. The present
English edition also contains the translator's introduction as well
as a preface by the fifteenth-century publisher of the book. The
anonymous author of this text remains unique for his approach to
history, his use of sources, and his almost secular attitude, which
challenges the modern picture of medieval Jews living in a
religious age. In his influential novel, A Guest for the Night, the
Nobel Laureate author Shmuel Yosef Agnon emphasized the importance
of Sepher Yosippon as a valuable reading to understand human
nature. Bowman's translation of Flusser's notes, as well as his own
scholarship, offers a well-wrought story for scholars and students
interested in Jewish legend and history in the medieval period,
Jewish studies, medieval literature, and folklore studies.
In today's globalized world, viable and reliable research is
fundamental for the development of information. Innovative methods
of research have begun to shed light on notable issues and concerns
that affect the advancement of knowledge within information
science. Building on previous literature and exploring these new
research techniques are necessary to understand the future of
information and knowledge. The Handbook of Research on Connecting
Research Methods for Information Science Research is a collection
of innovative research on the methods and application of study
methods within library and information science. While highlighting
topics including data management, philosophical foundations, and
quantitative methodology, this book is ideally designed for
librarians, information science professionals, policymakers,
advanced-level students, researchers, and academicians seeking
current research on transformative methods of research within
information science.
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