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The first official book from the life-changing BBC One show, Sort
Your Life Out will have you falling back in love with your home in
three simple steps: 1. STRIP - how to let go and clear out the
clutter (when you don't have a warehouse to hand)! 2. SORT - time
to sell, donate, recycle and upcycle. 3. SYSTEMISE - learn how to
organise, fold and store in a way that is manageable and
sustainable. Filled with every tip and trick from your favourite
experts Stacey, Dilly, Iwan and Rob, this empowering book will give
you the tools to transform your home and get that Sort Your Life
Out mindset.
This book explores the trace of the emotional undercurrent stirred
by money from its beginnings in childhood to its consolidation into
adult life, through love and work, for individuals and society
alike, and with an emphasis on ordinary development, rather than on
pathology.
In this introductory text the authors look closely at widely held
assumptions about 'race' and schooling in Britain, and evaluate the
role of the school in a multi-ethnic society. Focusing on
contemporary issues and concerns, they consider such controversial
questions as: Is the education system rigged against black pupils?
Is 'tolerance' really a characteristic of the British? The volume
provides a detailed analysis of the Education Reform Act (1988) and
the debate surrounding the National Curriculum, and asks whether
these new initiatives do truly open the doors of opportunity for
all children.
This book explores the key issues and future prospects facing
critical criminology, bringing together a set of leading
authorities in the field from the UK, Australasia and the US. A key
concern of the book is to review the possibilities and strategies
of pursuing critical criminological scholarship in the context of
an increasingly dominant administrative criminology paradigm,
reflected in the rise of neo-liberalism, a "governmentalized"
criminology of risk, crime control and situational crime
prevention. The book is organized around three key themes: the
first addresses the historical and genealogical context of the rise
and demise of critical criminology in the liberal democracies; the
second considers the possibility of re-envisioning critical
criminological projects in the 21st century, given critiques of
"rational" western thought, the impact of globalization and
shifting modes of "social control" in criminal justice; while the
third sets out a number of challenges and achievemen
Global Directions in Inclusive Education pushes the conceptual
boundaries of 'inclusive education' and explores new ways to
research and envision inclusion and diversity in education for all
children. This pioneering book problematizes 'inclusive education'
as a global currency, as another form of deficit-thinking, and as a
universal application. The expert team of international
contributors argue that much of the field of inclusive education
needs a reinvigoration of new ideas, critical introspection, and
ways of knowing that can overcome the well-worn deficit paths of
inclusive education study, namely: 'barriers' to inclusion, teacher
attitudes, policy-practice gaps, lack of resources, and lack of
teacher training. Seeking diverse ways forward that represent new
visions and innovations from around the world, this text features
voices and ideas from both early career and established scholars,
to enliven debate and promote a more positive and productive
dialogue. Global Directions in Inclusive Education is ideal for
students, researchers, and scholars of inclusive education;
development practitioners seeking new ideas; and practitioners
seeking to gain a deeper and more global understanding of inclusive
education both in theory and in practice.
‘WHAT DID I JUST READ…What a jaw dropping twist!’ Reader
Review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Her child is missing. And she’d do
anything to find her… Every Friday Mercy Hamilton goes to the
same supermarket. She doesn’t go to buy groceries, instead, she
shows a fading photo of a little girl to anyone who’ll look –
begging for help to find her daughter. One Friday, Erica Fielding
comes across Mercy, and touched by her story, Erica agrees to help.
As Erica is drawn deeper and deeper into Mercy’s life, she
discovers there is no record of Mercy’s daughter. In fact,
there’s no record of a child at all. But who is the girl in the
photo if not Mercy’s missing daughter? And what danger will Erica
find herself in by pursuing the truth? The pulse pounding
psychological thriller that will leave you totally breathless.
Perfect for fans of Gone Girl, Lisa Jewell and Shari Lapena.
Readers LOVE Sam Carrington: 'YES SAM CARRINGTON, YES. This is how
you write a thriller… I read this in one three-hour sitting and I
regret nothing.' Goodreads reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Phew! This
is a real edge of your seat gripping story. My heart was pounding
and I was screaming!’ Goodreads reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘WOW!!… Incredible, from the prologue to the end. I was
hooked… and the twist at the end!! O M G – I did not see that
coming… Guys, This is a MUST read!!!’ Goodreads reviewer
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Amazing. I could not put the book down for even
a minute… mind blowing.' NetGalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'I
can't speak highly enough of this… It kept me up reading til the
early hours.' NetGalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I devoured
this… One of the best books I’ve read this year.’ Goodreads
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This book will support researchers in the field of education
disability by outlining inclusive research approaches and their
challenges, outcomes, and impact. Each chapter reports on
school/university-based research supporting inclusion for young
people on the autism spectrum. This research has been developed in
Australian schools with students, families, teachers, and
specialists. The intent of this approach is to mobilise new
knowledge to the benefit of all students, including students on the
autism spectrum, their families, teachers, and school communities.
This book showcases how research can be more inclusive with a move
to collaborative, participatory, and co-produced research that will
impact on young people, families, and educators. The authors
highlight the complex challenges and the positive outcomes of
conducting research in inclusive ways and provide detailed
practical strategies for researchers. Inclusive education is
socially, emotionally, and academically beneficial for all students
and positively impacts on respectful attitudes to difference. This
book provides a groundbreaking approach to research that by design
is inclusive and therefore provides an invaluable opportunity for
building the foundations of an inclusive society for all. This book
will be invaluable to researchers, educators, and professional
learning in schools.
Since her death in 2011, the legendary Surrealist Leonora
Carrington has been reconstructed and reinvented many times over.
In this book, Gabriel Weisz Carrington draws on remembered
conversations and events to demythologise his mother, revealing the
woman and the artist behind the iconic persona. He travels between
Leonora's native England and adopted homeland of Mexico, making
stops in New York and Paris and meeting some of the remarkable
figures she associated with, from Max Ernst and Andre Breton to
Remedios Varo and Alejandro Jodorowsky. At the same time, he
strives to depict a complex and very real Surrealist creator,
exploring Leonora not simply in relation to her romantic partners
or social milieus but as the artist she always was. A textured
portrait emerges from conversations, memories, stories and
Leonora's engagement with the books that she read. -- .
Global Directions in Inclusive Education pushes the conceptual
boundaries of 'inclusive education' and explores new ways to
research and envision inclusion and diversity in education for all
children. This pioneering book problematizes 'inclusive education'
as a global currency, as another form of deficit-thinking, and as a
universal application. The expert team of international
contributors argue that much of the field of inclusive education
needs a reinvigoration of new ideas, critical introspection, and
ways of knowing that can overcome the well-worn deficit paths of
inclusive education study, namely: 'barriers' to inclusion, teacher
attitudes, policy-practice gaps, lack of resources, and lack of
teacher training. Seeking diverse ways forward that represent new
visions and innovations from around the world, this text features
voices and ideas from both early career and established scholars,
to enliven debate and promote a more positive and productive
dialogue. Global Directions in Inclusive Education is ideal for
students, researchers, and scholars of inclusive education;
development practitioners seeking new ideas; and practitioners
seeking to gain a deeper and more global understanding of inclusive
education both in theory and in practice.
This book will support researchers in the field of education
disability by outlining inclusive research approaches and their
challenges, outcomes, and impact. Each chapter reports on
school/university-based research supporting inclusion for young
people on the autism spectrum. This research has been developed in
Australian schools with students, families, teachers, and
specialists. The intent of this approach is to mobilise new
knowledge to the benefit of all students, including students on the
autism spectrum, their families, teachers, and school communities.
This book showcases how research can be more inclusive with a move
to collaborative, participatory, and co-produced research that will
impact on young people, families, and educators. The authors
highlight the complex challenges and the positive outcomes of
conducting research in inclusive ways and provide detailed
practical strategies for researchers. Inclusive education is
socially, emotionally, and academically beneficial for all students
and positively impacts on respectful attitudes to difference. This
book provides a groundbreaking approach to research that by design
is inclusive and therefore provides an invaluable opportunity for
building the foundations of an inclusive society for all. This book
will be invaluable to researchers, educators, and professional
learning in schools.
'Ring for your maid, and when she comes in we'll pounce upon her
and tear off her face. I'll wear her face tonight instead of mine.'
These dreamlike, carnivalesque fables by one of the leading lights
of the Surrealist movement are masterpieces of invention and
grand-guignol humour. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating
the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series,
with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary,
international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to
James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to
Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and
disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep
South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest
reaches of outer space.
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Around the world, countries are searching for ways of making their
schools more effective for all children and young people. This book
offers a new way of thinking about how to address this challenge.
It sees improvement as requiring a collective effort that involves
contributions from all members of a school community. Crucial to
this is the idea of ethical leadership. Promoting Equity in Schools
is written by a team of academic researchers who had a most unusual
opportunity to work with a network of schools over three years,
experimenting to find more effective ways of including
hard-to-reach learners. Bringing together practitioner knowledge
and ideas from research carried out from a variety of perspectives,
the authors provide rich accounts of what happened when the schools
attempted to become more inclusive and fairer. In so doing, they
throw light on the challenges this presents for school leaders. The
accounts presented in the book are located in Queensland,
Australia, where the school system faces significant difficulties
in relation to equity that resonate with similar difficulties
around the world. These difficulties relate to policies that
emphasise high-stakes testing and school choice, which tend to
promote increased segregation, to the particular disadvantage of
young people from low-income and minority backgrounds. The
arguments presented suggest that even where worrying policies are
in place, schools with leadership driven by a commitment to equity
can still find space to develop more equitable ways of working.
The Hearing Trumpet is the story of 92-year-old Marian Leatherby,
who is given the gift of a hearing trumpet only to discover that
what her family is saying is that she is to be committed to an
institution. But this is an institution where the buildings are
shaped like birthday cakes and igloos, where the Winking Abbess and
the Queen Bee reign, and where the gateway to the underworld is
open. It is also the scene of a mysterious murder. Occult twin to
Alice in Wonderland, The Hearing Trumpet is a classic of fantastic
literature that has been translated and celebrated throughout the
world.
Since her death in 2011, the legendary Surrealist Leonora
Carrington has been reconstructed and reinvented many times over.
In this book, Gabriel Weisz Carrington draws on remembered
conversations and events to demythologise his mother, revealing the
woman and the artist behind the iconic persona. He travels between
Leonora's native England and adopted homeland of Mexico, making
stops in New York and Paris and meeting some of the remarkable
figures she associated with, from Max Ernst and Andre Breton to
Remedios Varo and Alejandro Jodorowsky. At the same time, he
strives to depict a complex and very real Surrealist creator,
exploring Leonora not simply in relation to her romantic partners
or social milieus but as the artist she always was. A textured
portrait emerges from conversations, memories, stories and
Leonora's engagement with the books that she read. -- .
In this book, Kerry Carrington takes a bold, critical and
reflexive approach to understanding the global divisions and
inequalities that shape distinctive patterns of gender and
crime.
The book argues that for feminism to enhance its conceptual and
political relevance in the 21st century requires bold new
directions in feminist thinking about gender, crime and global
justice, which take into account global divisions and inequalities.
Issues explored in the book include the forced marriage of child
brides, female genital mutilation, feminicide, honour crimes, rape
and domestic violence, and the systemic denial of female rights
justified by religion, custom or culture. It also explores rising
rates of violence recorded for women offenders globally, and their
increasing participation in terrorism, as well as troubling
male-on-male violence in anomic spaces cultivated by globalising
forces.
"
Feminism and Global Justice" argues that the world needs
feminism more than ever to address systemic culturally shaped and
diverse forms of injustice experienced by females across the globe,
many of them children. It will be essential reading for
international and national human rights organisations, as well as
academics and students engaged in the study of criminology,
development studies, sociology, politics, and gender studies.
This is a unique and exciting book that challenges traditional
conceptions of middle years provision. It should be read by
policy-makers, educators and researchers alike.' Jackie Marsh,
University of Sheffield Carrington's analysis of contemporary youth
and the lives that they bring to school is significant. This stage
of education is fundamental to understanding how we might engage
learners, and her sensitive and insightful analysis makes a major
contribution to our understandings about how these years resonate
with their needs and interests.' Professor Nicola Yelland, Victoria
University Despite two decades of research and reform, schools
across the Western world still struggle to engage their students in
the middle years. But does this mean there is a youth crisis? And
what do technology and risk have to do with it? Victoria Carrington
argues for the need to move beyond developmentally based models to
see middle years pedagogy in historical, social, economic and
political contexts. Setting research from Australia alongside
international experience, she emphasises the importance of
understanding the risk society, and young peoples' immersion in
digital technologies and consumer culture. She shows how teachers
and schools can use this understanding to work more effectively
with early adolescents, and how policy-makers and education leaders
could reshape the middle years reform agenda to improve
professional practice and student outcomes.
The first comprehensive collection of its kind, this handbook
addresses the problem of knowledge production in criminology,
redressing the global imbalance with an original focus on the
Global South. Issues of vital criminological research and policy
significance abound in the Global South, with important
implications for South/North relations as well as global security
and justice. In a world of high speed communication technologies
and fluid national borders, empire building has shifted from
colonising territories to colonising knowledge. The authors of this
volume question whose voices, experiences, and theories are
reflected in the discipline, and argue that diversity of discourse
is more important now than ever before. Approaching the subject
from a range of historical, theoretical, and social perspectives,
this collection promotes the Global South not only as a space for
the production of knowledge, but crucially, as a source of
innovative research and theory on crime and justice. Wide-ranging
in scope and authoritative in theory, this study will appeal to
scholars, activists, policy-makers, and students from a wide range
of social science disciplines from both the Global North and South,
including criminal justice, human rights, and penology.
This book explores the trace of the emotional undercurrent stirred
by money from its beginnings in childhood to its consolidation into
adult life, through love and work, for individuals and society
alike, and with an emphasis on ordinary development, rather than on
pathology.
The cultural ubiquity, political prominence and economic
significance of contemporary sport present fertile terrain for its
critical socio-cultural analysis. From corporate and media
dominated mega-events like the Olympic Games, to state programmes
for nation-building and health promotion, to the cultural politics
of "race", gender, sexuality, age and disability, sport is so
profoundly marked by relations of power that it lends itself to
critique and deconstruction. Marxism, Cultural Studies and Sport
brings together leading experts on sport to address these issues
and to reflect on the continued appeal of sport to people across
the globe, as well as on the forms of inequality that sport both
produces and highlights. Including a Foreword by Harry Cleaver and
Afterword by Michael Berube, this book assesses the impact of this
work on the fields of 'mainstream' Marxism and cultural studies.
Marxism, Cultural Studies and Sport is centred on three vital
questions: Is Marxism still relevant for understanding sport in the
twenty-first century? Has Marxism been preserved or transcended by
cultural studies? What is the relationship between theory and
intervention in the politics of sport? The result is a unique and
diverse examination of modern sports culture. The first book
published on the relationship between sport and Marxism for over
twenty years, Marxism, Cultural Studies and Sport is an invaluable
resource for students of sport sociology, Marxism, and cultural
studies at all levels.
This is a unique and exciting book that challenges traditional
conceptions of middle years provision. It should be read by
policy-makers, educators and researchers alike.'Jackie Marsh,
University of Sheffield Carrington's analysis of contemporary youth
and the lives that they bring to school is significant. This stage
of education is fundamental to understanding how we might engage
learners, and her sensitive and insightful analysis makes a major
contribution to our understandings about how these years resonate
with their needs and interests.'Professor Nicola Yelland, Victoria
UniversityDespite two decades of research and reform, schools
across the Western world still struggle to engage their students in
the middle years. But does this mean there is a youth crisis? And
what do technology and risk have to do with it?Victoria Carrington
argues for the need to move beyond developmentally based models to
see middle years pedagogy in historical, social, economic and
political contexts. Setting research from Australia alongside
international experience, she emphasises the importance of
understanding the risk society, and young peoples' immersion in
digital technologies and consumer culture. She shows how teachers
and schools can use this understanding to work more effectively
with early adolescents, and how policy-makers and education leaders
could reshape the middle years reform agenda to improve
professional practice and student outcomes.
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