As sales of fair-trade goods explode across the globe, Fair Trade and the Citizen-Consumer provides a timely analysis of the organizations, institutions and grassroots networks behind this growing movement. Drawing on examples from the UK, Sweden and USA, this book moves away from models of individualized consumer choice and instead explores the collective cultures and practices that motivate and sustain fair-trade consumer behaviour. Although the fair-trade citizen-consumer has been called to action and publicly represented as an individual 'voting' in the marketplace, this book reveals how market interventions are editing the choices available to consumers, at the same time as 'Fairtrade Town' consumer networks are flourishing. Offering new and critical insights into the fair-trade success story, this book also contributes to debates about sustainable consumption behaviour and the growth of 'new' forms of political participation and citizenship.

As sales of fair-trade goods explode across the globe, Fair Trade and the Citizen-Consumer provides a timely analysis of the organizations, institutions and grassroots networks behind this growing movement. Drawing on examples from the UK, Sweden and USA, this book moves away from models of individualized consumer choice and instead explores the collective cultures and practices that motivate and sustain fair-trade consumer behaviour. Although the fair-trade citizen-consumer has been called to action and publicly represented as an individual 'voting' in the marketplace, this book reveals how market interventions are editing the choices available to consumers, at the same time as 'Fairtrade Town' consumer networks are flourishing. Offering new and critical insights into the fair-trade success story, this book also contributes to debates about sustainable consumption behaviour and the growth of 'new' forms of political participation and citizenship.

Learning that someone you love is involved in sexual sin is heart-breaking and confusing. Even though an estimated 30-40% of Christian men struggle with some sort of sexual compulsion or addiction that is negatively affecting their lives, the awkwardness and shame surrounding this topic make it difficult for their loved ones to find the information, answers and hope that they so desperately need. Written especially for the spouses of those struggling with pornography, masturbation, affairs and other sexual compulsions, When Sex Causes Heartbreak addresses the very private issues relating to sexual compulsions and addiction, honestly, directly and confidentially in an easy-to-read, easy-to-understand question and answer format. This biblically-based resource will provide a deeper understanding of your husband's struggle and help calm your fears, alleviate your anger and empower you to address this very real threat to your marriage and self-esteem head-on with new confidence and strength.

ABC is a fun and easy way for kids to learn their Alphabet with great examples and well recognize characters kids pick up the sound of letters while expanding their vocabulary as easy as A, B, C.

Now Choose Life is very different than other faith-based sexual addiction books. Each chapter offers a unique balance of personal testimony, practical information and spiritual truth as we follow the down-to-earth story of the escalation of one man's addiction; the impact of his compulsive behaviors on his wife and marriage; and the trials and triumphs of his recovery. Through poignant glimpses into his thirty-year battle with sexual addiction interwoven with easy-to-understand professional commentary, Now Choose Life dispels many of the rampant myths and misconceptions about this little-understood addiction and provides indispensable education, empowering hope and a proven way out of the grip of sexual sin for every struggler. This book will benefit not only sex addicts and their spouses, but any Christian who seeks a deeper understanding of sexual addiction and the path to lasting freedom.

'Contingency Plans' maps the body, the land, and the hollows therein, eager to determine their dimensions, carried along by possibility, to find that what once made us anxious is out of the question, and what has kept us awake now sings us back to sleep. Note to teachers: excellent for classroom use if you are teaching villanelles and sestinas.

Kathleen Wheeler's critical guide analyzes in 135 essays the narrative practices and stylistic devices of fiction from all over the English-speaking world. Eleven further chapters focus on the influence of early psychological writings on fiction, the rise of international English literature, fiction from the rich post-war period (when the novel was supposed to be dead), post-structuralist theory, postmodernism and magic realism, and feminist theory.

The guide also discusses dozens of further writers from across the world in a geographically arranged chapter, while a final chapter guides readers through the vast range of available research resources. The bibliography covers thoroughly the secondary criticism available, in separate listings for each of the 135 entries, and in a list of both general criticism and anthologies.

This study sets out the literary, critical and philosophical origins of deconstruction. It presents a background of romanticism as formulated by Coleridge, Shelley, and the German Romantic Ironists in which the "tyranny of reason" is rejected in favor of an anti-dualist philosophy. Against this background, the challenges to the philosophy of William James and John Dewey are examined, in an attempt to clarify later post-structuralist deconstructions of metaphysics and traditional literary theory. Dewey's philosophy and his insights into language are discussed in relation to Coleridge and Derrida, while Derrida's writings are related both to romanticism and pragmatism. The reaction against post-structuralism, the "new historicism," is examined as a return to dualistic thinking and a "forgetting" of the liberating critiques of philosophy.