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When age makes you invisible, secrets are easier to hide.
Daphne knows that age is just a number. She also knows that society no longer pays her any attention – something she’s happy to exploit to help her hide a somewhat chequered past.
But finding herself alone on her 70th birthday, with only her plants to talk to and neighbours to stalk online, she decides she needs some friends. Joining a Senior Citizen's Social Club she’s horrified at the expectation she’ll spend her time enduring gentle crafting activities. Thankfully, the other members – including a failed actor addicted to shoplifting and a prolific yarn-bomber – agree.
After a tragic accident, the local council threaten to close the club – but they have underestimated the wrong group of pensioners...and with the help of a teenage dad and a geriatric, orphaned dog, the incongruous gang set out to prove it.
As long as their pasts don't catch up with them first…
When age makes you invisible, secrets are easier to hide Lydia
imagines her new job running a Senior Citizen's Social Club three
afternoons a week will involve drinking tea while playing gentle
games of cards, listening to The Beatles and reminiscing about food
rationing and The Blitz. She does not expect to find a failed actor
addicted to shoplifting, a woman who's been hiding from a
mysterious and very chequered past, and a prolific yarn-bomber. It
turns out that their ideas about how to spend their afternoons are
very different. After a tragic accident means the council threatens
to sell the community centre, the Social Club, aided by their
friends in the nursery next door and a geriatric orphaned mongrel,
set out to save it. They might not be able to save the hall, but
they might just save each other - if their pasts don't catch up
with them first...
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Recent literature has identified modern "parenting" as an
expert-led practice-one which begins with pre-pregnancy decisions,
entails distinct types of intimate relationships, places intense
burdens on mothers and increasingly on fathers too. Exploring
within diverse historical and global contexts how men and women
make-and break-relations between generations when becoming parents,
this volume brings together innovative qualitative research by
anthropologists, historians, and sociologists. The chapters focus
tightly on inter-generational transmission and demonstrate its
importance for understanding how people become parents and rear
children.
HISTORIES OF HUMAN CONSTRUCTIONS OF NATURE Wild Things: Nature and
the Social Imagination assembles eleven substantive and original
essays on the cultural and social dimensions of environmental
history. They address a global cornucopia of social and ecological
systems, from Africa to Europe, North America and the Caribbean,
and their temporal range extends from the 1830s into the
twenty-first century. The imaginative (and actual) construction of
landscapes and the appropriation of Nature - through
image-fashioning, curating museum and zoo collections, making
'friends', 'enemies' and mythical symbols from animals - are
recurring subjects. Among the volume's thought-provoking essays are
a group enmeshing nature and the visual culture of photography and
film. Canonical environmental history themes, from colonialism to
conservation, are re-inflected by discourses including gender
studies, Romanticism, politics and technology. The loci of the
studies included here represent both the microcosmic - underwater
laboratory, zoo, film studio; and broad canvases - the German
forest, the Rocky Mountains, the islands of Haiti and Madagascar.
Their casts too are richly varied - from Britain's otters and
Africa's Nile crocodiles to Hollywood film-makers and South African
cattle. The volume represents an excitingly diverse collection of
studies of how humans, in imagination and deed, act on and are
acted on by 'wild things'.
Information Systems Development: Reflections, Challenges and New
Directions, is the collected proceedings of the 20th International
Conference on Information Systems Development held in Edinburgh,
Scotland, August 24 - 26, 2011. It follows in the tradition of
previous conferences in the series in exploring the connections
between industry, research and education. These proceedings
represent ongoing reflections within the academic community on
established information systems topics and emerging concepts,
approaches and ideas. It is hoped that the papers herein contribute
towards disseminating research and improving practice
The chapters contributed to this book have been written by the
staff and associates of The Tavistock Consultancy Service, whose
distinctive competence is in the human dimension of enterprise and
the dynamics of the workplace. From their own perspectives, they
tell a story of the experience of working as consultants over the
decade with individuals, teams and whole organizations. The
intention is to identify and explore some of the key themes that
have emerged and how these affect and influence the understanding
of leadership and management in contemporary organizations. No
attempt is made to reach a consensus, but rather to raise and map
out a territory of continuing question and debate. The themes
covered in the book are: the emotional world of the organisation
and its significance for understanding, decision and action;
different perspectives on the nature and exercise of leadership;
the dynamics of resistance to change and of creativity; the impact
of contextual change on re-shaping the concept of the organization;
different ways organizations are responding to issues of personal
challenge or vulnerability.Contributors: David Armstrong, Andrew
Cooper, Tim Dartington, William Halton, Sharon Horowitz, Linda
Hoyle, Clare Huffington, Kim James, Anton Obholzer, Jane Pooley
Recent literature has identified modern "parenting" as an
expert-led practice-one which begins with pre-pregnancy decisions,
entails distinct types of intimate relationships, places intense
burdens on mothers and increasingly on fathers too. Exploring
within diverse historical and global contexts how men and women
make-and break-relations between generations when becoming parents,
this volume brings together innovative qualitative research by
anthropologists, historians, and sociologists. The chapters focus
tightly on inter-generational transmission and demonstrate its
importance for understanding how people become parents and rear
children.
This book is an anthology of work by critical media scholars,
media makers, and activists who are committed to advancing social
justice. Topics addressed include but are not limited to
international media activist projects such as the Right to
Communication movement and its corollaries; the importance of
listening and enacting policies that advance democratic media;
regional and local media justice projects; explorations of the
challenges the era of participatory media pose to public media;
youth and minority media projects and activism; ethical dilemmas
posed by attempts to democratize access to media tools; the
continued marginalization of feminist perspectives in international
policy venues; software freedom and intellectual property rights;
video activism in both historical and contemporary contexts;
internet strategies for defending dissenting voices; and five
accounts by prominent scholar/activists of their lifelong struggles
for media justice.
Now includes an exclusive extract of Clare Pooley's new and
brilliantly uplifting novel The People On Platform 5 - available
now Treat yourself to the warm, poignant and uplifting Radio 2 Book
Club pick, loved by hundreds of thousands of readers... 'The first
book which has made me laugh in a long time' 'A charming, funny and
uplifting story' 'Full of optimism ... I defy anyone not to pick it
up and be both transported and delighted' 'This book helped to lift
my spirits' 'Well-written, great characters , a charming tale, and
packed with feel-good factor' ------------ Six strangers with one
thing in common: their lives aren't always what they make them out
to be. What would happen if they told the truth instead? Julian
Jessop is tired of hiding the deep loneliness he feels. So he
begins The Authenticity Project - a small green notebook containing
the truth about his life. Leaving the notebook on a table in his
friendly neighbourhood cafe, Julian never expects Monica, the
owner, to track him down after finding it. Or that she'll be
inspired to write down her own story. Little do they realise that
such small acts of honesty hold the power to impact all those who
discover the notebook and change their lives completely.
-------------- Praise for The Authenticity Project: 'A warm and
endearing tale about truth, friendship and the power of connection'
Mike Gayle 'Original, engaging and unforgettable' Sarah Morgan 'A
joyous, funny read that leaves you all warm inside' Beth Morrey,
Sunday Times bestselling author of Saving Missy
Cape Town's iconic Table Mountain and the surrounding peninsula has
been a crucible for attempts to integrate the social and ecological
dimensions of wild fire. This environmental history of humans and
wildfire outlines these interactions from the practices of Khoikhoi
herders to the conflagrations of January 2000. The region's unique,
famously diverse fynbos vegetation has been transformed since
European colonial settlement, through urbanisation and biological
modifications, both intentional (forestry) and unintentional
(biological invasions). In all the diverse visions people have
formed for Table Mountain, aesthetic and utilitarian, fire has been
regarded as a central problem. This book shows how scientific
understandings of fire in fynbos developed slowly in the face of
strong prejudices. Human impacts were intensified in the twentieth
century, which provides the temporal focus for the book. The
disjunctures between popular perception, expert knowledge, policy
and management are explored, and the book supplements existing
short-term scientific data with proxies on fire incidence trends
recovered from historical records.
"Looking at language variation in French using linguistic data that
has emerged in recent years from France, Belgium and Switzerland,
and comparing it to other European countries, this comparative
study sets out to track how language changes have followed social
and attitudinal developments, giving it a particular
sociolinguistic slant"--
This volume draws together material from The Japan Chronicle, The
Japan Gazette and the China Treaty Port foreign papers, all of
which are of great historical value. The Japan and China Treaty
Port foreign papers frequently contain important articles
translated from the vernacular press. These original articles were
often written by leading politicians and statesmen - Count Mutsu,
Count Hayashi, Tang-shao-Yi, Wu-ting-Fang and Liang-chi-Chao were
all prolific contributors. Written with the prospect of World War
II looming, the rapid changes in the Far East happened almost
without the West realising. This volume makes available key
documents and analyses Japanese foreign policy with a view to
directing UK handling of a delicate diplomatic situation in the Far
East.
These natural history guides have been developed to encourage young people and anyone with a budding interest in natural history to learn about the wonders of southern Africa's fascinating fauna and flora. They are an invaluable resource for the beginner, providing information at a glance: each of the species presented is described in easy-to-read text, with a photograph and distribution map. A short introduction gives context to the topic.
This book uses diaries written by ordinary British people over the
past two centuries to examine and explain the nature and extent of
everyday mobilities, such as travel to school, to work, to shop or
to visit friends, and to explore the meanings attached to these
mobilities. After a critical evaluation of diary writing, the ways
in which mobility changed over time, interacted with new forms of
transport technology, and varied from place to place are examined.
Further chapters focus on the roles of family and life course,
gender, income and class, and journey purpose in shaping
mobilities, including immobility. It is argued that easy and
frequent everyday mobilities were experienced by most of the
diarists studied, that travellers could exercise their own agency
to adapt easily to new forms of transport technology, but that
factors such as gender, class, and location also created
significant mobility inequalities.
Poplulation migration is one of the demographic and social
processes which have structured the British economy and society
over the last 250 years. It affects individuals, families,
communities, places, economic and social structures and
governments. This book examines the pattern and process of
migration in Britain over the last three centuries. Using late
1990s research and data, the authors have shed light on migrations
patterns (including internal migration and movement overseas), its
impact on social and economic change, and highlights differences by
gender, age, family, position, socio-economic status and other
variables.
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