Representing Agency in Popular Culture: Children and Youth on Page, Screen and In-Between addresses the intersection of children's and youth's agency and popular culture. As scholars in childhood studies and beyond seek to expand understandings of agency, power, and voice in children's lives, this book places popular culture and representation as central to this endeavor. Core themes of family, gender, temporality, politics, education, technology, disability, conflict, identity, ethnicity, and friendship traverse across the chapters, framed through various film, television, literature, and virtual media sources. Here, childhood is considered far from homogeneous and the dominance of neoliberal models of agency is questioned by intersectional and intergenerational analyses. This book posits there is vast power in popular culture representations of children's agency, and interrogation of these themes through interdisciplinary lenses is vital to furthering knowledge and understanding about children's lives and within childhood studies.

The busy exotic animal practitioner will find this unique issue packed with useful, practical information on new and emerging diseases. The majority of the issue will cover the bacterial and viral diseases in pet birds, reptiles, rabbits, amphibians, fish, and small mammals.

Guided Journal with Self-Discovery Journal PromptsThis 7 day journal is designed to encourage you to practice especially meaningful, time efficient journaling by spending just 20 minutes each day with words of inspiration and journal writing prompts. This journal could change your life. From the creative minds of Karen Sue Studios, comes The One Week Journal, a new guided journal approach to self-discovery. Created by Karen Chen and Nico Marceca, the authors of wildly successful coloring books and journals, this journal could be life changing. Reflect on your personal growth. The One Week Journal is an approachable, time-efficient, weeklong project. Each day you address two self-exploration themes to help you gain clarity in your life. The journal enables you to dial into your feelings during a week of your life and record your self-development progress. You then are encouraged to revisit past weeks in your journal throughout your self-improvement journey. Pause for a daily mindful moment. People color and journal for many reasons including self-reflection, to allow thoughts to surface without distractions, or to enjoy solitude. Use the self-discovery journal prompts in this journal to practice mindful journaling and reap the rewards. Inside you'll find: Unique self-discovery journal prompts that stimulate self-reflection Space to draw, free write, and express yourself Stress relief coloring pages for adults that help transport you from your inner world into the present moment If you enjoyed guided journals with self-discovery journal prompts like The 5-Minute Gratitude Journal, Let's Talk, or 52-Week Mental Health Journal, you'll love The One Week Journal.

This book examines the development of Chinese children's literature from the late Qing to early Republican era. It highlights the transnational flows of knowledge, texts, and cultures during a time when children's literature in China and the West was developing rapidly. Drawing from a rich archive of periodicals, novels, tracts, primers, and textbooks, the author analyzes how Chinese children's literature published by Protestant missionaries and Chinese educators in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries presented varying notions of childhood. In this period of dramatic transition from the dynastic Qing empire to the new Republican China, young readers were offered different models of childhood, some of which challenged dominant Confucian ideas of what it meant to be a child. This volume sheds new light on a little-explored aspect of Chinese literary history. Through its contributions to the fields of children's literature, book history, missionary history, and translation studies, it enhances our understanding of the negotiations between Chinese and Western cultures that shaped the publication and reception of Chinese texts for children.

This edited volume explores how success is conceptualized and represented in texts for young people in Asia. The essays in this collection examine how success for children relates to education, family, gender, race, class, community, and the nation. It answers the following questions: How is success for children represented in literature, cinema, and popular media? In what ways are these images grounded in the historical, political, and cultural contexts in which they are produced and consumed? How does childhood agency influence ideas about success in Asia? Highlighting the similarities and differences in how success is defined for children and young adults in Japan, South Korea, People's Republic of China, Singapore, Taiwan, Indonesia, Vietnam, and India, this volume argues that success is an important keyword in the literary and cultural study of childhood in Asia.

This collection seeks to broaden the discussion of the child image by close analysis of the child and childhood as depicted in non-Western cinemas. Each essay offers a counter-narrative to Western notions of childhood by looking critically at alternative visions of childhood that does not privilege a Western ideal. Rather, this collection seeks to broaden our ideas about children, childhood, and the child's place in the global community. This collection features a wide variety of contributors from around the world who offer compelling analyses of non-Western, non-Hollywood films starring children.

This issue of Veterinary Clinics: Exotic Animal Practice, guest edited by Drs. Sue Chen and Nicole R. Wyre, is an update on New and Emerging Diseases. This is one of three issues each year selected by the series consulting editor, Dr. Joerg Mayer. Articles in this issue include, but are not limited to: emerging zoonotic diseases, emerging diseases in turtles and tortoises, diseases in honeybees, selected emerging diseases in ferrets, update on diseases in chinchillas, update on PDD and bornavirus, selected emerging diseases in squamata, updates on thyroid disease in rabbits and guinea pigs, emerging diseases of avian wildlife, selected emerging diseases in amphibia, and selected emerging diseases in ornamental fish.

Confessions of a Walker Stalker is the story of how one woman, Sue Chen, turned her business into her passion by embarking on a mission to change America's experience of facing mobility challenges. A guidebook and invitation to join Sue in helping people in America age and face mobility challenges with dignity and style, Confessions of a Walker Stalker is also a guide to finding and expressing where your passion and work converge. Sue has taken years of being inspired by her customers - getting their groove back after experiencing a mobility makeover and talking about their triumphs in facing down disease, aging and social stigmas with style and savvy - turning it into a book that is funny, moving, eye-opening and sure to change the way people look at the world of walkers, wheelchairs and canes. Prepare to become a Walker Stalker

Representing Agency in Popular Culture: Children and Youth on Page, Screen and In-Between addresses the intersection of children's and youth's agency and popular culture. As scholars in childhood studies and beyond seek to expand understandings of agency, power, and voice in children's lives, this book places popular culture and representation as central to this endeavor. Core themes of family, gender, temporality, politics, education, technology, disability, conflict, identity, ethnicity, and friendship traverse across the chapters, framed through various film, television, literature, and virtual media sources. Here, childhood is considered far from homogeneous and the dominance of neoliberal models of agency is questioned by intersectional and intergenerational analyses. This book posits there is vast power in popular culture representations of children's agency, and interrogation of these themes through interdisciplinary lenses is vital to furthering knowledge and understanding about children's lives and within childhood studies.