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Being a teen or tween is tough for anyone. And if you're on the
Autism Spectrum, life can feel like a game you're playing without
knowing the rules. Jennifer Cook knows - she's been there! Her
internationally bestselling handbook is the key to unlocking those
unwritten, often confusing, not-so-obvious social guidelines and
bolstering confidence, all at once. Finally, teens can play the
game of life with instructions. The 10th Anniversary Edition of The
(Secret) Book of Social Rules reveals the essential secrets behind
the baffling social codes surrounding making and keeping friends,
dating, and catastrophic conversation pitfalls, with all-new
content on social media and talking about neurodiversity. It's no
wonder Jennifer's is the navigation tool tens of thousands of fans
have come to love! Full of brand-new funny illustrations,
take-it-from-me explanations, and comic strip examples, this Book
of the Year award winner is real, positive, and speaks from the
heart (without ever sounding like your mother's guide to manners).
It's confidence, humor, and smarts. For the Human Spectrum.
The New Feminist Literary Studies presents sixteen essays by
leading and emerging scholars that examine contemporary feminism
and the most pressing issues of today. The book is divided into
three sections. This first section , 'Frontiers', contains essays
on issues and phenomena that may be considered, if not new, then
newly and sometimes uneasily prominent in the public eye:
transfeminism, the sexual violence highlighted by #MeToo, Black
motherhood, migration, sex worker rights, and celebrity feminism.
Essays in the second section, 'Fields', specifically intervene into
long-constituted or relatively new academic fields and areas of
theory: disability studies, eco-theory, queer studies, and Marxist
feminism. Finally, the third section, 'Forms', is dedicated to
literary genres and tackles novels of domesticity, feminist
dystopias, young adult fiction, feminist manuals and manifestos,
memoir, and poetry. Together these essays provide new interventions
into the thinking and theorising of contemporary feminism.
A member of the art history generation from the golden age of the
1920s and 1930s, Millard Meiss (1904-1975) developed a new and
multi-faceted methodological approach. This book lays the
foundation for a reassessment of this key figure in post-war
American and international art history. The book analyses his work
alongside that of contemporary art historians, considering both
those who influenced him and those who were receptive to his
research. Jennifer Cooke uses extensive archival material to give
Meiss the critical consideration that his extensive and important
art historical, restoration and conservation work deserves. This
book will be of interest to scholars in art history, historiography
and heritage management and conservation.
Autism in Heels, an intimate memoir and Wall Street Journal
bestseller, reveals the woman inside one of autism's most prominent
figures, Jennifer O'Toole. At the age of thirty-five, Jennifer was
diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, and for the first time in her
life, things made sense. Jennifer exposes the constant struggle
between carefully crafted persona and authentic existence, editing
the autism script with wit, candor, passion, and power. Her journey
is one of reverse-self-discovery not only as an Aspie but--more
importantly--as a thoroughly modern woman. Beyond being a memoir,
Autism in Heels is a love letter to all women. It's a conversation
starter. A game changer. And a firsthand account of what it is to
walk in Jennifer's shoes (especially those iconic red stilettos).
Whether it's bad perms or body image, sexuality or self-esteem,
Jennifer's is as much a human journey as one on the spectrum.
Because autism "looks a bit different in pink," most girls and
women who fit the profile are not identified, facing years of
avoidable anxiety, eating disorders, volatile relationships,
self-harm, and stunted independence. Jennifer has been there, too.
Autism in Heels takes that message to the mainstream. From her own
struggles and self-discovery, she has built an empire of
empowerment, inspiring women the world over to realize they aren't
mistakes. They are misunderstood miracles.
The New Feminist Literary Studies presents sixteen essays by
leading and emerging scholars that examine contemporary feminism
and the most pressing issues of today. The book is divided into
three sections. This first section , 'Frontiers', contains essays
on issues and phenomena that may be considered, if not new, then
newly and sometimes uneasily prominent in the public eye:
transfeminism, the sexual violence highlighted by #MeToo, Black
motherhood, migration, sex worker rights, and celebrity feminism.
Essays in the second section, 'Fields', specifically intervene into
long-constituted or relatively new academic fields and areas of
theory: disability studies, eco-theory, queer studies, and Marxist
feminism. Finally, the third section, 'Forms', is dedicated to
literary genres and tackles novels of domesticity, feminist
dystopias, young adult fiction, feminist manuals and manifestos,
memoir, and poetry. Together these essays provide new interventions
into the thinking and theorising of contemporary feminism.
Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing is the first volume to identify
and analyse the 'new audacity' of recent feminist writings from
life. Characterised by boldness in both style and content,
willingness to explore difficult and disturbing experiences, the
refusal of victimhood, and a lack of respect for traditional genre
boundaries, new audacity writing takes risks with its author's and
others' reputations, and even, on occasion, with the law. This book
offers an examination and critical assessment of new audacity in
works by Katherine Angel, Alison Bechdel, Marie Calloway, Virginie
Despentes, Tracey Emin, Sheila Heti, Juliet Jacques, Chris Krauss,
Jana Leo, Maggie Nelson, Vanessa Place, Paul Preciado, and Kate
Zambreno. It analyses how they write about women's self-authorship,
trans experiences, struggles with mental illness, sexual violence
and rape, and the desire for sexual submission. It engages with
recent feminist and gender scholarship, providing discussions of
vulnerability, victimhood, authenticity, trauma, and affect.
As a parent, a teacher and an Aspie herself, Jennifer O'Toole
provides the definitive insider's view of Asperger syndrome. She
shows how to help children on the spectrum by understanding how
they think and by exploiting their special interests to promote
learning. Her strategies work because she thinks like the children
that she teaches. This exciting book is full of effective and fun
ways of engaging with children with Asperger syndrome. Jennifer
explains how theory of mind difficulties create the need for
concrete forms of communication, and provides original methods to
inspire imagination through sensorial experiences. In particular
she reveals the untapped power of special interests, showing how to
harness these interests to encourage academic, social and emotional
growth. Affirming that different doesn't mean defective, this book
offers the insight and guidance that parents, educators, and other
professionals need to connect with the Asperkids in their life and
get them excited about learning.
Combining incisive experiments with the latest theoretical
advances, this book presents an extensive study of
transfer-triggered breakup, the dominant process by which breakup
occurs in reactions involving light, weakly bound nuclei. It
demonstrates not only that lifetimes of resonant states shorter
than a zeptosecond are crucially important for these reactions to
suppress complete fusion, but also that such short lifetimes are
experimentally accessible. By making quantitative predictions of
the effect of breakup from short-lived resonant states on
incomplete fusion at above-barrier energies, the book suggests that
the extent to which near-target breakup can suppress complete
fusion is much more limited than previously thought. With an
impressive amount of complex data and state-of-the-art models,
which were developed, modified, and tested over course of the
Ph.D., it examines all aspects of nuclear reactions - nuclear
models, modern detectors and spectrometers, as well as data
analysis, and offers a detailed discussion of experimental results
and technical developments like new radioactive beams. This
excellent and beautifully written book presents outstanding quality
experimental work that establishes a cornerstone in our
understanding of the reaction dynamics of light weakly bound nuclei
at energies around the Coulomb barrier.
Combining incisive experiments with the latest theoretical
advances, this book presents an extensive study of
transfer-triggered breakup, the dominant process by which breakup
occurs in reactions involving light, weakly bound nuclei. It
demonstrates not only that lifetimes of resonant states shorter
than a zeptosecond are crucially important for these reactions to
suppress complete fusion, but also that such short lifetimes are
experimentally accessible. By making quantitative predictions of
the effect of breakup from short-lived resonant states on
incomplete fusion at above-barrier energies, the book suggests that
the extent to which near-target breakup can suppress complete
fusion is much more limited than previously thought. With an
impressive amount of complex data and state-of-the-art models,
which were developed, modified, and tested over course of the
Ph.D., it examines all aspects of nuclear reactions - nuclear
models, modern detectors and spectrometers, as well as data
analysis, and offers a detailed discussion of experimental results
and technical developments like new radioactive beams. This
excellent and beautifully written book presents outstanding quality
experimental work that establishes a cornerstone in our
understanding of the reaction dynamics of light weakly bound nuclei
at energies around the Coulomb barrier.
Spectrum gals, ever wished you had a handbook to help navigate the
confusing world of teenage girlhood? Look no further!
Aspie-in-the-know, Jennifer Cook O'Toole provides just that with
her inspirational guide to life for teenage girls with Asperger
syndrome. Drawing on her own, real-life experiences rather than
preaching from textbooks, she covers everything you need (and
want!) to know, from body shapes and love interests to bullying,
friendships and how to discover and celebrate your unique,
beautiful self. With illustrations by an Aspie teen and
inspirational quotes from well-known, female Aspie voices,
including Temple Grandin, Rudy Simone, Robyn Steward, and Haley
Moss, Sisterhood of the Spectrum is your perfect companion on the
"yellow brick road" to womanhood. It will leave you empowered,
informed and excited to be different.
Gathering the artistic talents of Asperkids and artists from around
the world, as well as her own original artwork, Jennifer O'Toole
has created a one-of-a-kind coloring book that's educational, fun
and above all a celebration of difference! We all know that
children with Asperger syndrome are far more likely to learn and
enjoy themselves when their special interests are involved, and the
color-in drawings in this book cover a wide range of subjects that
Aspies love. We're talking mythology, atomic structures, nature,
historical fashions, and more! Full of cool art, geeky humor, and
inspirational quotations, this is a coloring book for all ages that
celebrates the unapologetic awesomeness of Asperkids. A proportion
of the proceeds will go towards supporting arts programs for
children on the autism spectrum.
"Scenes of Intimacy" analyzes the representation of acts and
relationships of intimacy in contemporary literature, the effect
this has upon readers, and the ways these representations resonate
with, complement, and challenge the concerns of contemporary
theory. Opening with an in-depth interview with literary critic,
Derridean, and novelist Professor Nicholas Royle, the volume
contains eleven further essays that move from intimate scenes of
familial and pedagogic legacy, on to representations of love, of
sex, and finally to scenes of death and dying. The essays are
textually attentive to how literary techniques create intimacy, and
draw upon new and notable theoretical positions and critics from
queer theory, affect studies, psychoanalysis, poststructualism and
deconstruction to ask difficult and uncomfortable questions about
intimacy and its representation. Across the genres of poetry,
autobiography, journals, love letters, short stories and novels,
"Scenes of Intimacy" shows that contemporary literature poses new
possibilities and questions about our intimate relationalities,
their failures and their futures.
God desires His people to have the knowledge and skill to
confidently contend for the faith - to see people who have adopted
other beliefs as reachable with the gospel of Jesus Christ. The
problem is, God's people often avoid the fight for faith, or feel
ill-equipped to deliver a message of freedom to the lost stuck in
these lies. Some Christians are themselves held in bondage to false
beliefs. The good news is, you can learn how to rightly divide your
own faith and help others who are captive Through this Bible study,
author Jennifer Cooke uncovers the lies of modern-day idols, cults
and other world religions and teaches you the exact points to
address your own doubts, answer critics, and deliver biblical
answers to false doctrines.Through her direct, in-depth and
personal manner, you will learn: Generational parallels between
Judges and ourselves How to obey God in the face of competing
interests Conditional promises we stand to inherit, and how to
fulfill God's conditions to reach those held captive by false
beliefs How to identify wrong social norms and explain God's design
The history behind major cults and major world religions, their
false beliefs, and exactly what truth to respond withJoin the Lord
on the journey not just to unadulterated agreement with His
message; but to tear down our generation's false idols and
religions against His message.Jennifer Cooke is a Bible teacher who
has been teaching the Word of God since God called her in 2005. She
leads an online, cross-denominational ministry dedicated to the
Lord, so that through the Word, His servants will absolutely,
positively know the gospel of Christ and be thoroughly equipped for
every good work.Jennifer Cooke Ministries. Online address:
jennifercooke.org/.
Scenes of Intimacy analyzes the representation of acts and
relationships of intimacy in contemporary literature, the effect
this has upon readers, and the ways these representations resonate
with, complement, and challenge the concerns of contemporary
theory. Opening with an in-depth interview with literary critic,
Derridean, and novelist Professor Nicholas Royle, the volume
contains eleven further essays that move from intimate scenes of
familial and pedagogic legacy, on to representations of love, of
sex, and finally to scenes of death and dying. The essays are
textually attentive to how literary techniques create intimacy, and
draw upon new and notable theoretical positions and critics from
queer theory, affect studies, psychoanalysis, poststructualism and
deconstruction to ask difficult and uncomfortable questions about
intimacy and its representation. Across the genres of poetry,
autobiography, journals, love letters, short stories and novels,
Scenes of Intimacy shows that contemporary literature poses new
possibilities and questions about our intimate relationalities,
their failures and their futures.
For Asperkids, home is both their protected lair and their launch
pad into success in a neurotypical world. Jennifer O'Toole provides
parents with all the help they need in planning their home
environment to encourage their Asperkid superheroes to soar. The
Asperkid's Launch Pad is a visually-led guide to preparing a home
environment that supports the development of children with Asperger
syndrome. From a bedroom light switch that the child can easily
reach, to a tucked-away safe place that he or she can retreat to
when feeling overwhelmed or anxious, small changes in the home can
boost the child's self-confidence, independence, comfort and life
skills. Award-winning author Jennifer O'Toole gives readers a
walk-through tour of the home, showing, room by room, how physical
surroundings affect Asperkids and highlighting the learning
opportunities in every space and object. Beautifully presented with
color photographs throughout, this functional and fun book will win
a place in the homes and hearts of all parents of children with
Asperger syndrome.
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