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As mankind strives to rebuild society in the wake of climate
change, over-population and global food shortages, every day is a
struggle for people like Sid and his younger sister Lo. They are
'runners'- people whose very survival the government has outlawed.
As they move west, trying to find family or somewhere they can call
home, they must work out which of the people they meet on the way
can be trusted, and which want to cut their adventure short.
Encountering people on both sides of the law, as well as those who
seem to exist outside it, Sid and Lo make and lose friends as they
fight for their lives and each other.
Experienced mental health professionals and hosts of the Therapist
Uncensored podcast offer a groundbreaking new clinical perspective
that integrates modern attachment theory, relational neuroscience,
and current cultural context to create a hopeful framework for
deeper and more permanent change, growth and connection in all
types of relationships. Secure Relating offers a refreshing and
innovative approach to understanding and improving relationships in
today's increasingly polarized world. Drawing on over thirty years
of professional clinical experience, authors Ann Kelley and Sue
Marriott integrate modern attachment theory, relational
neuroscience, and depth psychology into practical tools for
deepening self-awareness and navigating closeness with strength in
even the most challenging relationships. Instead of the popular
broad attachment categorizations, Secure Relating presents a
nuanced understanding of attachment and interpersonal defensive
patterns, allowing readers to delve into the complexities of their
own experience and apply the specific skills they need.
Refreshingly, Kelley and Marriott make complex concepts accessible
and relatable, emphasizing the realistic capacity for neural change
and psychological growth. They provide contemporary concepts and
interactive tools such as the Modern Attachment Regulation
Spectrum, a new framework that helps readers identify their
unconscious defensive patterns, update and revise their personal
narratives, and cultivate a secure state of mind amid chaos and
adversity. Secure Relating delivers hope, connection, and
empowerment amidst the many barriers to emotional closeness and
provocations towards self-protection by offering a comprehensive
approach to understanding and transforming all kinds of
relationships into more secure and satisfying bonds.
This pack contains a book of games and lists and a CD-ROM.
Generating ideas from your own improve group is always best, but
when you need a source for memory jogs and new inspirations to keep
things lively, use this book. It includes more than seventy games
and lists along with a CD-ROM so that you may print these lists
directly onto labels or pages for student use. Everything is in
alphabetical order for quick reference. It's all here - the five Ws
and the big H (how). Three appendixes include information about the
dramatic uses for games, national theatre standards and other
gimmicks and tools.
France has Montmartre, Prague has Mala Strana and England has St
Ives, an enclave where artists can create freely and showcase their
works to the world. Costa winner award Ann Kelley (Koh Tabu, OUP
Oxford, 9780192756046) has already proved to be an excellent
photographer with her previous books Sea Front: A Cornish Souvenir
and Paper Whites: Photographs and Poems. Ann Kelley expresses
herself in photographs as if they were words. Her style is simple
but special, careful and delicate and her photographs genuinely
capture the atmosphere of this beautiful Cornish town.
Winner of the 2007 Costa award, this title continues the story of
Gussie, a precocious young girl diagnosed with a rare heart
condition. Despite her health problems, she is determined to live
life to the fullest, experiencing typical adolescent woes such as
love and strained relations with her parents. Never complaining,
she offers a direct and honest insight about herself and the world
around her, bringing this poignant, charming and oddly optimistic
tale to life.
It was after I ate King that everything started to go wrong in our
entire family, as if someone had put an evil spell onto us, a hex -
like a bad fairy godmother had said at my birth, when you are
eleven you are going to be struck by a sorrow so big it will be
like a lightning bolt. There will be grief like a sharp rock in
your throat. Twelve-year-old Gussie was born with a rare,
life-threatening heart disease, but it hasn't hampered her
curiosity. When she reads about the Burying Beetle, which has the
unusual habit of burying dead birds, mice, and other small animals
by digging away the earth beneath them, it becomes her mission to
find one. As she searches the Cornish coast for the elusive insect,
Gussie learns be like the Burying Beetle, to bury things past and
to live.
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Gussie is a twelve year old girl from St. Ives in Cornwall. She is
passionate about learning, wildlife, poetry, literature, and she
wants to be a photographer when she grows up. But her dreams were
put on hold as she struggled with a serious heart condition. Now
she has got what she needed: a heart and lung transplant. But it
isn't working out quite the way she thought. Firstly she has to
leave her beloved Cornwall to live in London and in the months
following her operation she is unable to do very much except read
and adopt a stray kitten, but she could do that when she was sick.
She craves adventure and experience beyond her four walls, until,
that is, she hits upon a plan - she is going to get her divorced
parents to fall in love again. It's not going to be easy, her mum
is still dating her doctor boyfriend and despises Gussie's father,
who happens to be living with his new girlfriend - the Snow Queen.
But Gussie is a determined girl and there is only one thing that
could stop her now.
For the first time in years Gussie can run, climb and jump. Every
breath she takes is easier now, and every step more confident, but
Gussie can't help wondering about her doner. Was she young? Had she
been very sick or was there an accident? And with her new life
comes a whole new set of problems. She is going back to school at
last - but she doesn't know anyone her own age, with the exception
of Siobhan, the girl she hates most in the world. With school not
meeting up to her expectations, Gussie turns to her old pastimes of
bird watching and photography, but troubling news awaits her there
too. And the lightning strikes and Gussie must act at once.
A semester-long curriculum guide using improv games to teach basic
drama skills. If used with Improv Ideas by the same authors, there
are enough games and ideas to provide for more than a year's work.
Select from more than 134 games! It's adaptable to all age groups -
from beginners to experts. The lessons are structured sequentially
with emphasis on group building. It's designed to teach
holistically. Students are unaware they are being taught many new
skills with every lesson. This curriculum is the culmination of
many years of evolution and testing.
"Insightful...empathetic...a thoughtful consideration of a topic
that will have a substantial impact on our future."-Booklist Book
Pick for Summer 2022-Civil Eats Ever wonder if there's a better way
to live, work, and eat? You're not alone. Here is the story of five
back-to-the-land movements, from 1840 to present day, when large
numbers of utopian-minded people in the United States took action
to establish small-scale farming as an alternative to mainstream
agriculture. Then and now, it's the story of people striving to
live freely and fight injustice, to make the food on their table a
little healthier, and to leave the planet less scarred than they
found it. Throughout America's history as an industrial nation,
sizable countercultural movements have chosen to forgo modern
comforts in pursuit of a simpler life. In this illuminating
alternative American history, Margot Anne Kelley details the
evolution of food-centric utopian movements that were fueled by
deep yearnings for unpolluted water and air, racial and gender
equality, for peace, for a less consumerist lifestyle, for a sense
of authenticity, for simplicity, for a healthy diet, and for a
sustaining connection to the natural world. Millennials who
jettisoned cities for rural life form the core of America's current
back-to-the-land movement. These young farmers helped meet surges
in supplies for food when COVID-19 ravaged lives and economies, and
laid bare limitations in America's industrial food supply chain.
Their forebears were the utopians of the 1840s, including Thoreau
and his fellow Transcendental friends who created Brook Farm and
Fruitlands; the single taxers and "little landers" who created
self-sufficient communities at the turn of the last century; Scott
and Helen Nearing and others who decamped to the countryside during
the Great Depression; and, of course, the hippie
back-to-the-landers of the 1970s. Today, food has become an
important element of the social justice movement. Food is no longer
just about what we eat, but about how our food is raised and who
profits along the way. Kelley looks closely at the efforts of young
farmers now growing heirloom pigs, culturally appropriate foods,
and newly bred vegetables, along with others working in coalitions,
advocacy groups, and educational programs to extend the reach of
this era's Good Food Movement. Foodtopia is for anyone interested
in how we all might lead much better-and well-fed-lives.
Winner of the 2007 Costa award, this title continues the story of
Gussie, a precocious young girl diagnosed with a rare heart
condition. Despite her health problems, she is determined to live
life to the fullest, experiencing typical adolescent woes such as
love and strained relations with her parents. Never complaining,
she offers a direct and honest insight about herself and the world
around her, bringing this poignant, charming and oddly optimistic
tale to life.
She had made me envious. Strange as it might seem, I had not known
envy before. Surely there must be other ways of living, I thought,
not hand-to-mouth, alone, in a draughty old shack looking out at
the same scene, day after day. Was this to be my future? It’s
2137, and the future’s dark. Sixteen-year-old Flora is scraping
out a humble living, selling homegrown supplies from her late
grandparents’ run-down Shell Shack and keeping her illegal copy
of Pride and Prejudice hidden from the terrifying Uzi soldiers. But
Flora’s life changes when she meets Li-li, the daughter of a
powerful Rice Lord. Flora is seduced by the lavish lifestyle of her
rulers, but also sees the brutality that underpins their lifestyle.
What choices will she face on her last days in Eden?
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