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Hugh Miller was born in Cromarty, Ross-shire in 1802. A self-taught
stonemason, writer, social crusader and geologist, his name was
known in his lifetime not just in Scotland but across the
English-speaking world. This facsimile edition of his classic book,
first published in 1841, concerns 'The Old Red Sandstone', an
assemblage of rocks in the North Atlantic region, largely of
Devonian age. In a pre-Darwinian era, Miller was able to reconcile
his geological knowledge with his religious beliefs - he saw
geology as evidence, not as disproof, of godly design. His writing
is still immensely readable (he was known as 'the poet of geology')
and as novelist James Robertson says in his Foreword ' ... if it
tells us less than we now know about our planet's geology it tells
us much about how we have gained that knowledge, and how science is
and can only ever be a part of wider human culture.'
This account shows the full range of Hugh Miller's interests - the
lyrical description of the scenery and accounts of beautiful
fossils show a deep affection for the Scottish landscape, while his
role as a serious religious journalist and social crusader is
highlighted in his discussions on the Disruption and the Highland
Clearances.
The geological writings of Hugh Miller (1802 56) did much to
publicise this relatively new science. After an early career in
banking in Scotland, Miller became editor of a newly founded
Edinburgh newspaper, The Witness, in which he published a series of
his own articles based on his geological research, a collection of
which was issued as a book, The Old Red Sandstone, in 1841, and led
to the Devonian geological period becoming known as the 'Age of the
Fishes'. Footprints of the Creator (1849) described his
reconstruction of the extinct fish he had discovered in the Old Red
Sandstone and argued, on theological grounds, that their perfection
of development disproved the current Lamarckian theory of
evolution. The book, illustrated with woodcuts, was written partly
as a response to the then anonymous Vestiges of the Natural History
of Creation (1884), also reissued in this series.
As an Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) or Children's
Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP), you have to think on your feet,
manage a caseload, deal with emotional distress and try and not get
indigestion as you cram down a sandwich on your way to your next
session. This down-to-earth survival guide helps trainees and newly
qualified practitioners cope with the stressful demands of these
new and challenging roles. Full of case examples and practical
tools and strategies, this book will give you the confidence to
assess, set goals, and deliver effective interventions for anxiety
and depression. It also provides invaluable support on tricky
topics such as disclosures of risk and safeguarding issues, working
effectively with parents, dealing with resistance and conflict,
caring for yourself, and signposting when a situation is outside
the remit of your role.
Militant religious extremists are taking over the peaceful Vale of
Kashmir, dealing in drugs and guns to fund their war. When the
mission looks impossible, who do you call? UNACO. The Vale of
Kashmir in India, precariously caught between Afghanistan, Pakistan
and China, is one of the most serenely beautiful places on earth...
and one of the most deadly. When Malcolm Philpott, head of UNACO,
the United Nations' Anti-Crime Organization, receives a tip-off
from a local priest that the peace of the valley is being
threatened by militant religious extremists and the suspicion of a
highly organized drug-trafficking ring, he sends in two of his top
agents, Mike Graham and Sabrina Carver, to investigate and question
the priest further. But the priest is brutally murdered before they
can arrive, and an ex-CIA-trained assassin, turned native, is the
principal suspect. Suddenly Mike and Sabrina must undertake the
lethal mission of infiltrating the murderous drug convoys and
bringing the extremists under control before the volatile situation
ignites and fans into an international blood bath.
A US government official is assassinated, a list of names, all
male, all German, is found and two men on the list are already
dead. What is the connection? When the mission looks impossible,
who do you call? UNACO. A young American government employee is
murdered in cold blood on a London street. Her death is only the
tip of a conspiracy that threatens the life of Andreas Wolff, the
computer genius responsible for the security codes for ICON - the
computerized criminal identification network. Malcolm Philpott, the
enigmatic and powerful head of UNACO, recognizes the grave threat,
and assigns his two best agents to the case. Sabrina Carver and
Mike Graham must race from New York to London, Morocco and Berlin
in their efforts to crack the lethal intrigue that threatens world
security and has its roots in the final days of World War Two and
the desperate plans of a dying madman.
While the image or construct of the "good mother" has been the
focus of many research projects, the "bad mother," as a discursive
construct, and also mothers who do "bad" things as complicated,
agentic social actors, have been quite neglected, despite the
prevalence of the image of the bad mother across late modern
societies. The few researchers who address this powerful social
image point out that bad mothers are culturally identified by what
they do, yet they are also socially recognized by who they are.
Mothers become potentially bad when they behave or express opinions
that diverge from, or challenge, social or gender norms, or when
they deviate from mainstream, white, middle class, heterosexual,
nondisabled normativity. When suspected of being bad mothers, women
are surveilled, and may be disciplined, punished or otherwise
excluded, by various official agents (i.e. legal, medical and
welfare institutions), as well as by their relatives, friends and
communities. Too often, women are judged and punished without clear
evidence that they are neglecting or abusing their children.
Frequently they are blamed for the marginal sociocultural context
in which they are mothering. This anthology presents empirical,
theoretical and creative works that address the construct of the
bad mother and the lived realities of mothers labeled as bad.
Throughout the volume, the editors consider voices and acts of
resistance to bad mother constructions, demonstrating that mothers,
across time and across domains, have individually and collectively
taken a stand against this destructive label.
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