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An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and
legendary frontwoman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre Hey girlfriend I
got a proposition, goes something like this: Dare ya to do what you
want. Kathleen Hanna’s rallying cry to feminists echoed far and
wide through the punk scene of the 1980s, ’90s, and beyond. Her
band, Bikini Kill, embodies this iconic time, and today their
gutsy, radical lyrics of anthems like ‘Rebel Girl’ and
‘Double Dare Ya’ are more powerful than ever. But where did
this transformative voice come from? In Rebel Girl, Hanna’s raw
and insightful new memoir, she takes us from her tumultuous
childhood home, to her formative college years in Olympia,
Washington, and on to her first years on tour, fighting hard for
gigs and for her band. As Hanna makes blindingly clear, being in a
‘girl band’, especially a punk girl band, in those years was
not a simple or a safe prospect. Male violence and antagonism
threatened at every turn, and surviving as a singer who was a
lightening rod for controversy took limitless amounts of
determination. But the relationships she developed during those
years buoyed her – including with her bandmates Tobi Vail, Kathi
Wilcox, and Billy Karren; her friendship with Kurt Cobain; and her
introduction to Joan Jett – and they were a testament to how the
true punk world nurtured and cared for its own. Hanna opens up
about falling in love with Ad-Rock of the Beastie Boys and her
debilitating battle with Lyme disease, and she brings us behind the
scenes of her later bands, Le Tigre and The Julie Ruin. She also
writes candidly about the Riot Grrrl movement and its decline,
documenting with love its grassroots origins but critiquing its
later exclusivity. In an uncut voice all her own, Hanna reveals the
darkest, hardest times along with the most joyful – and how it
all fuelled her revolutionary art, from the 1980s to today.
'A glimpse of the foetid underbelly of the internet' - The Times
'Taut as a thriller, sharp as a slug of ice-cold vodka' - Irish
Times To be a content moderator is to see humanity at its worst -
but Kayleigh needs money. That's why she takes a job working for a
social media platform whose name she isn't allowed to mention. Her
job: reviewing offensive videos and pictures, rants and conspiracy
theories, and deciding which need to be removed. It's gruelling
work. Kayleigh and her colleagues spend all day watching horrors
and hate on their screens, evaluating them with the platform's
ever-changing moderating guidelines. Yet Kayleigh is good at her
job, and in her colleagues she finds a group of friends, even a new
girlfriend - and for the first time in her life, Kayleigh's future
seems bright. But soon the job seems to change them all, shifting
their worlds in alarming ways. How long before the moderators own
morals bend and flex under the weight of what they see? We Had To
Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets is a chilling, powerful and
gripping story about who or what determines our world view.
Examining the toxic world of content moderation, the novel forces
us to ask: what is right? What is real? What is normal? And who
gets to decide? Translated from the original Dutch by Emma Rault.
'A superbly poised, psychologically astute and subtle' - Ian
McEwan, author of Atonement 'Fast paced and thrilling, violent and
nightmarish' - Kristen Arnett, author of Mostly Dead Things 'An
acid glimpse into a new form of labor existing today' - Ling Ma,
author of Severance
Among the many models of school reform that have emerged in the
late 20th and early 21st centuries, one has endured for more than
50 years: the School Development Program (SDP). Established in 1968
by renowned child psychiatrist James P. Comer and the Yale Child
Study Center, the SDP is grounded in the belief that successful
schooling-particularly for children from disadvantaged
backgrounds-must focus on the whole child. With that in mind, the
SDP encompasses both academics and social-emotional development,
and it is founded on positive and productive relationships among
students, teachers, school leaders, and parents. With the Whole
Child in Mind describes the SDP's six developmental pathways
(cognitive, social, psychological, physical, linguistic, and
ethical) and explains how the program's nine key components (in the
form of mechanisms, operations, and guiding principles) create a
comprehensive approach to educating children for successful
outcomes. Firsthand recollections by Comer, school leaders and
teachers, and SDP staff members provide an inside look at the
challenges and successes that eventually transformed severely
underperforming schools into models of excellence. Linda
Darling-Hammond, one of the country's foremost experts on K-12
education, and her colleagues argue persuasively for the continuing
relevance of the SDP. Far too many schools still operate in a
high-pressure environment that emphasizes testing and standardized
curricula while ignoring the fundamental importance of personal
connections that make a profound difference for students. Fifty
years on, the SDP is still just as powerful as ever.
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Dandelion (Paperback)
Gabbie Hanna
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'An eerie, fascinating, nihilistic triumph' Heather Darwent ----- A
New York City wedding. Two great love stories. The beginning of a
breaking world. Yun and Emory fall into an intense romance, and
then don't let go. Andrew is clinging to his marriage, but knows
he's lying to himself. Fin can't resist ruining things, until he
meets the right person. But on that night, the world shifts in an
impossible way. One of the wedding guests suddenly sits down and
never gets back up. Soon people are doing it all across the world.
Is it a choice - or an illness? Can anyone be happy in a world
where the only choice is to feel everything - or nothing at all? An
intensely compulsive novel for anyone who has ever felt hopeful and
helpless in one breath, ARE YOU HAPPY NOW is about how you keep
living when the world is on fire. ----- 'Such a brilliant concept,
perfectly executed' Araminta Hall, Hidden Depths 'Furious and
tender . . . cuts to the core of modern life' Jessica Moor, Keeper
'A compelling meditation on fear, hope and grief' The Bookseller
'Yun, Emory, Andrew & Fin buried themselves into my heart'
Nikki Smith, The Beach Party 'Extraordinary' Emily St John Mandel,
Station Eleven 'One of those books you can't stop reading, but
don't want to end' TM Logan, The Holiday 'Dark, compelling,
original' CJ Tudor, The Burning Girls 'Compulsively readable' Daily
Telegraph
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The Magic Lunch Box
Hanna Kim; Illustrated by Emily Paik
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The End of Drum-Time
Hanna Pylväinen
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Offering a novel view on morality in consumption, this book
creatively examines how the seven deadly sins - pride, greed, lust,
gluttony, envy, wrath, and sloth - are embodied in contemporary
consumer society. Each of the seven chapters summarizes previous
literature of the sins across disciplinary boundaries, and explores
how consumption is likely to change in the future. The sins are
presented as social, historical, cultural and political constructs,
relying on the underlying assumptions of cultural consumer
research. Each is elaborated on within particular consumption and
marketing-related spheres, including advertising, retail
environment, convenience food consumption, poverty, and ethical
consumption. Consequently, the book provides a new way to
understand contemporary consumer culture. Although beginning with
the dark notions of sinfulness, the authors conclude with a hopeful
tone for positive transformations in consumption. This fascinating
book will be of significant interest to consumer researchers and
post-graduate students studying the effects of consumption in
social science disciplines, including marketing, business and
sociology. Contributors include: L. Alhonnoro, P. Berg, P. Borisov,
J. Gummerus, K. Hellen, A. Huuhka, M.-M. Jaskari, H.
Kauppinen-Raisanen, P. Laaksonen, H. Leipamaa-Leskinen, H.T.
Luomala, A. Norrgrann, C. Rodriguez Santos, J. Sihvonen, H.
Syrjala, M. Saaksjarvi, L.L.M. Turunen, C. von Koskull
Come along on an informative, whirlwind tour of urban
species—from intelligent crows to backyard lichens—and discover
that you are surrounded by wild nature, even in your own backyard.
When biologist Hanna Bjørgaas spots a fairy cup lichen in
Antarctica, she is surprised to recognize it from her own backyard
in Oslo. When she returns home, she embarks on a journey into urban
nature, visiting city parks, cemeteries, and concrete rooftops to
investigate the species that live in urban spaces. Along the way,
she meets corvids, songbirds, ants, pigeons, bats, sparrows, fungi,
and linden trees—and the experts who study their surprising
abilities to survive, and thrive, in the city. As Bjørgaas
discovers, urban nature—and its unique mixture of species that
have never lived together before in Earth’s history—is
valuable. More than half of the world’s human population lives in
densely populated areas—and plants and animals have followed us
into cities. Secret Life of the City invites us to pay more
attention to the sounds, sights, and smells of urban nature right
outside our door. A treasure trove of fascinating flora and fauna,
this wonderful book offers a plea to save our city plants, animals,
and fungi before we lose them, too.
They Wish They Were Us meets The Queen’s Gambit in this
“stunning…unforgettable” (Publishers Weekly) thriller set in
the world of competitive Scrabble, where a teen girl is forced to
investigate the mysterious death of her best friend when her
Instagram comes back to life with cryptic posts and messages.
CATALYST 13 points noun: a substance that speeds up a reaction
without itself changing When Najwa Bakri walks into her first
Scrabble competition since her best friend’s death, it’s with
the intention to heal and move on with her life. Perhaps it
wasn’t the best idea to choose the very same competition where
said best friend, Trina Low, died. It seems that even though Najwa
is trying to change, she’s not ready to give up Trina just yet.
But the same can’t be said for all the other competitors. With
Trina, the Scrabble Queen herself, gone, the throne is empty, and
her friends are eager to be the next reigning champion. All’s
fair in love and Scrabble, but all bets are off when Trina’s
formerly inactive Instagram starts posting again, with cryptic
messages suggesting that maybe Trina’s death wasn’t as
straightforward as everyone thought. And maybe someone at the
competition had something to do with it. As secrets are revealed
and the true colors of her friends are shown, it’s up to Najwa to
find out who’s behind these mysterious posts—not just to save
Trina’s memory, but to save herself.
The Routledge Handbook on Africana Criminologies plugs a gaping
hole in criminological literature, which remains dominated by work
on Europe and settler-colonial locations at the expense of
neocolonial locations and at a huge cost to the discipline that
remains relatively underdeveloped. It is well known that
criminology is thriving in Europe and settler-colonial locations
while people of African descent remain marginalized in the
discipline. This handbook therefore defines and explores this field
within criminology, moving away from the colonialist approach of
offering administrative criminology about policing, courts, and
prisons and making a case for decolonizing the wider discipline.
Arranged in five parts, it outlines Africana criminologies, maps
its emergence, and addresses key themes such as slavery,
colonialism, and apartheid as crimes against humanity; critiques of
imperialist reason; Africana cultural criminology; and theories of
law enforcement and Africana people. Coalescing a diverse range of
voices from Africa and the diaspora, the handbook explores outside
Eurocentric canons in order to learn from the experiences,
struggles, and contributions of people of African descent. Offering
innovative ways of theorizing and explaining the criminological
crises that face Africa and the entire world with the view of
contributing to a more humane world, this groundbreaking handbook
is essential reading for criminologists and sociologists worldwide,
as well as scholars of Africana studies and African studies.
Brain and Crime, Volume 197 reviews the relation between brain
function and aggressive and rule-breaking (criminal)
behavior. The book's focus is on the violation of social
rules and not on violation of regulations that are different in
different counties. It discusses the development of this behavior
from childhood into adulthood, along with the mechanisms associated
with the risk for aggression and rule-breaking behavior. In
addition, it explores from a behavioral level concepts like
psychopathology, syndrome and concepts from law, such as crime,
defendant and offender. Finally, sections explore brain function,
including emotion, cognitive processes, and decision-making. From
the perspective of brain structure, the book covers brain networks
and brain disorders. In genetics, the book includes the influence
of genes and the mechanisms of epigenetics. All chapters are
intended to provide information for use in the diagnosis and
treatment of disorders, and in assessment and prevention.
Motivation and Emotion in Learning and Teaching across Educational
Contexts brings together current theoretical and methodological
perspectives as well as examples of empirical implementations from
leading international researchers focusing on the
context-specificity and situatedness of their core theories in
motivation and emotion. The book is compiled of two main sections,
the first covers theoretical reflections and perspectives on the
main theories on emotion and motivation in learning and teaching
and their transferability across different educational contexts
illustrated with empirical examples. The second section addresses
the methodological reflections and perspectives on the methodology
that is needed to address the complexity and context-specificity of
motivation and emotion. In addition to general reflections and
perspectives regarding methodology, concrete empirical examples are
provided. All cutting edge chapters include current empirical
studies on emotions and motivation in learning and teaching across
different contexts (age groups, domains, countries etc.) making
them applicable and relevant to a wide range of contexts and
settings. This high-quality volume with contributions from leading
international experts will be an essential resource for
researchers, students and teacher trainers interested in the vital
role that motivation and emotions can play in education.
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