This book explores the complex ways in which belonging, identity and time are entangled in shaping young people engagement with the middle years of school. The authors argue that these 'entanglements' need to be understood in ways that move beyond a focus on why individual young people engage with the middle years. Instead, there should be a focus on the socio-ecologies of particular places, and the ways in which these ecologies shape the possibilities of young people engaging productively in the middle years. Drawing on extensive qualitative data from an outer-urban metropolitan context, this book will appeal to scholars of sociology, education and policy studies.

The Anthropocene is, firstly, a discourse of the earth systems sciences. However, if humans - in all their historical, cultural, social, economic and political diversity - are differently implicated in the emergence and consequences of the Anthropocene, then Childhood and Youth Studies must critically engage with, and contribute to, debates about these planetary wide changes and their consequences for children and young people. Well-being, resilience, and enterprise are keywords in many policy, academic and community discourses about contemporary populations of children and young people around the globe. Most often these key-words take the form of psycho-biological based encouragements for young people to care for their own physical, mental and social health and well-being, to develop their resilience, and to become enterprising in a world that is taken-for-granted as being challenging and disruptive. This collection brings a multi-disciplinary focus to discussions about children and young people's well-being, resilience, and enterprise to develop new ways of troubling these keywords at a time when planetary systems - atmospheric, oceanic, terran, capitalist - are in crisis.

From the story of Rhode Island's first colonist (who contrary to your elementary-school history book wasn't Roger Williams) to the revolutionary precursors to the Boston Tea Party to the wedding of Jack and Jackie Kennedy, It Happened in Rhode Island captures some the great events in American History and the history of the small, but fascinating, Ocean State.

This book explores the complex ways in which belonging, identity and time are entangled in shaping young people engagement with the middle years of school. The authors argue that these 'entanglements' need to be understood in ways that move beyond a focus on why individual young people engage with the middle years. Instead, there should be a focus on the socio-ecologies of particular places, and the ways in which these ecologies shape the possibilities of young people engaging productively in the middle years. Drawing on extensive qualitative data from an outer-urban metropolitan context, this book will appeal to scholars of sociology, education and policy studies.

This is a photo book of some of the hiking trails found in the Olympic National Forest in Washington State. 52 Full color pages of trails and trail location and descriptions.

"From God To Verse" is a faithful line-by-line translation of the Five Books of Moses -- Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy -- into verse. The content of the original is all there, but the language has been modernized for greater accessibility, and presented in iambic heptameter. The book also contains a child-friendly summary of each chapter, written in 4-8 lines of iambic tetrameter that precede each chapter's main text. The book is, essentially, a Torah/Bible that has been made friendlier without losing a single line of content. Four sources were used in creating this translation: 1) The Five Books of Moses, by Everett Fox (Schocken Books) 2) The JPS (Jewish Publication Society) Torah - (1962 edition) 3) New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha (expanded edition, revised standard version). 4) King James Version Bible