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"I'll kill the first person who comes through this door." My father
grips a baseball bat in his meaty hands. It is 1962 and Diane is
three years old when her violent father moves their family--her,
her pregnant mother, and her six siblings--to a remote farm in
Upstate New York. There, she grabs the reader by the hand and takes
them to the broken-down barns, barren fields, and rows of bunk beds
in her rat-infested attic bedroom as she questions all that feels
wrong about her new world. She watches her ever-pregnant mother
grow emotionally colder with each new baby and wonders, Where is
she when he swings his fists, his steel-toed boot, or a crowbar?
Forced to perform adult manual labor in between the erratic
beatings she and her siblings pound on one another to release their
own aggressions, she asks herself, Is this what we've become? What
I've become? Narrated in the ever-hopeful voice of a child, The
Taste of Anger explores in raw, unflinching detail how years of
isolation, oppression, and the threat of retaliation create an
environment in which family secrets are guarded at all costs.
Tension is palpable with the turning of each page, ensuring that
the reader won't let go of Diane's hand until she gets an answer to
her most urgent question of all: Who will rescue us?
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original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Consolidating developmental local government documents the dynamics
of local government transformation and captures the key themes of
the debates about policy options, lessons and key strategic
decisions. These debates are aimed at ensuring that municipalities
play a key role in creating more democratic, non-racial, equitable
and sustainable communities, towns and cities. Compiled and written
by people who participated in one way or another in the experience
of democratic consolidation, this text will be an indispensable
resource for government officials, students, researchers,
specialists, community leaders, businesses and the general reader.
Critical questions are raised throughout the book about the kinds
of challenges that all those involved with the future of local
governance will face in the years ahead.
Consensus Design offers a practical step by step guide to
co-design; an increasingly important consideration for architects
as they compete for work.
The text moves from identifying the methodology of the process to
developing a series of principles and practical steps which
illustrate how consensus design can be established.
For easy reference, flow charts show the process of achieving
consensus design and include variations for different types of
project and different groups of people. It gives clear timings so
that agreements can be reached within a specific time frame, and
also features a number of case studies to illustrate consensus
design principles in practice. Case studies include projects in the
UK, US, and Sweden.
Consensus design isn't just a utopian ideal. It's the only
meaningful way in which people can be involved in shaping where
they live and work. It can have an influence on social stability,
crime-reduction, personal health and building longevity, all of
which in turn have monetary and environmental cost implications.
Its consideration can also greatly help architects win work and
commissions.
Day argues that when places are designed by professionals for
people, many things obvious to the residents are overlooked. When
they are designed by lay people, the design can suffer from the
lowest common denominator factor. When places are designed by both
it tends to end up in conflict. However, Consensus Design shows
that co-design is not doomed to either conflict or banality if it
is managed correctly.
* An accessible guide that offers practical advice for implementing
consensus design
* Learn how to carry out 'inclusive design' and gain the edgeover
the competition when bidding for work
* Illustrations of an international range of case studies
demonstrate how consensus projects evolve in practice
(Applause Books). QED is a seductive mix of science, human
affections, moral courage and comic eccentricity... not to be
missed." John Simon, New York Magazine The play itself is a kind of
proof, dramatically illustrating how a man who happens to be a
genius elegantly and movingly works through the human problem of
how to face the end of his life." Nancy Franklin, The New Yorker
With a moving and powerful introduction from Alan Alda. Who knew
that quantum electrodynamics could make for a dramatic read? In the
hands of the late, great physicist Richard Feynman, it does.
Feynman's theory of QED is just one of the many topics the
playwright Peter Parnell explores in this nearly-one-man show, a
recent Broadway triumph for star Alan Alda as Feynman. Set in
Feynman's office on the weekend of his realization that he has
terminal cancer, this play is an intellectual tour-de-force that
captures the unique, hilarious, and puckish genius that Feynman
was. From his work on the Manhattan Project to the death of his
beloved first wife, from his mission to reconstruct the Challenger
space shuttle tragedy to his Nobel-prize winning physics ideas, the
resume of Feynman's life is fascinating. But Parnell gives us more,
letting fill in the details of his life. When he reads a letter he
wrote to his wife after her death, or flirts with a student, or
chillingly recalls walking around Manhattan calculating the damage
an atomic bomb could do, we grow to love the man behind the
scientist. And we read in fascination as he puzzles out the problem
of his own death. Combining the current interest in science and
math in the entertainment world with one of the most entertaining
scientists in U.S. history, QED is a tour-de-force.
Discusses the current Human Factors issues in aviation and its
future directions. Covers the importance of user-centered design on
the flight deck, and a process for conducting this effectively is
provided. Real-world case study examples are given of new avionic
technologies. Provides the process for applying Human Factors
across the design lifecycle of new avionic technologies with
illustrated examples.
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One of the six political books for kids you should definitely read
according to Zoe Williams in the Guardian, November 2018! Roy and
Silo are just like the other penguin couples at the zoo - they bow
to each other, walk together and swim together. But Roy and Silo
are a little bit different - they're both boys. Then, one day, when
Mr Gramzay the zookeeper finds them trying to hatch a stone, he
realises that it may be time for Roy and Silo to become parents for
real.
This book explores various social, cultural, political and economic
issues through the lenses of various sport mega-events in the
twenty-first century, including the Olympic Games, and the World
Cup and European Championships in football. In a time where sport
mega-events are closely followed by controversies, legacy
discourses and questions of their governance, the chapters within
this book showcase why sport mega-events continue to ignite
important questions for scholars, commentators, fans and sport and
political authorities. By covering various topics emerging around
sport mega-events such as physical activity, legacies, rhetoric,
media coverage, environmental impacts, diplomacy and spectators'
experiences, this book breaks new ground as it considers a range of
longstanding and emerging socio-political issues relating broadly
to the staging of spectacular sport mega-events in the present-day.
This is a fascinating reading for students and researchers situated
in sociology, sport management, event management, political
science, sport studies, sport business, urban studies and leisure
studies. The chapters in this book were originally published as a
special issue of Sport in Society.
Showcasing some of the most important current research in football
studies, this book demonstrates the value of social theory and
sociology in helping us to better understand the world's favourite
sport. This book sheds critical new light on key issues in
contemporary football, with each chapter using a different
theoretical lens, drawing on the work of key thinkers from Elias
and Foucault to Hall and Maffesoli. It explores issues and topics
central to the study of modern football, including homophobia,
feminist-informed coaching practice, the racialised experiences of
black professional footballers, the concussion crisis and the role
of identity in online football communities. It also looks ahead at
the issues that are likely to define the research agenda in
football studies in years to come. This is fascinating reading for
any student or researcher with an interest in football, the
sociology of sport, social theory or social issues in wider
society.
The FIFA World Cup is arguably the biggest sporting event on earth.
This book is the first to focus on the business and management of
the World Cup, taking the reader from the initial stages of bidding
and hosting decisions, through planning and organisation, to the
eventual legacies of the competition. The book introduces the
global context in which the World Cup takes place, surveying the
history and evolution of the tournament and the geopolitical
background against which bidding and hosting decisions take place.
It examines all the key issues and debates which surround the
tournament, from governance and corruption to security and the
media, and looks closely at the technical processes that create the
event, from planning and finance to marketing and fan engagement.
Analysis of the Women's World Cup is also embedded in every
chapter, and the book also considers the significance of World Cup
tournaments at age-group level. No sport business or management
course is complete without some discussion of the FIFA World Cup,
so this book is essential reading for any student, researcher or
sport business professional looking to fully understand global
sport business today.
Soccer is the world's most valuable sport, generating bigger
revenues, as well as being watched and played by more people, than
any other. It is virtually impossible to understand the business of
sport without understanding the football industry. This book
surveys contemporary football in unparalleled breadth and depth.
Presenting critical insights from world-leading football scholars
and introducing football's key organisations, leagues and emerging
nations, it explores key themes from governance and law to strategy
and finance, as well as cutting edge topics such as analytics,
digital media and the women's game. This is essential reading for
all students, researchers and practitioners working in football,
sport business, sport management or mainstream business and
management.
Much has been written about trauma and neglect and the damage they
do to the developing brain. But little has been written or
researched about the potential to heal these attachment wounds and
address the damage sustained from neglect or poor parenting in
early childhood. This book presents a therapy that focuses on
precisely these areas. Laurel Parnell, leader and innovator in the
field of eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR),
offers us a way to embrace two often separate worlds of knowing:
the science of early attachment relationships and the practice of
healing within an EMDR framework. This beautifully written and
clinically practical book combines attachment theory, one of the
most dynamic theoretical areas in psychotherapy today, with EMDR to
teach therapists a new way of healing clients with relational
trauma and attachment deficits. Readers will find science-based
ideas about how our early relationships shape the way the mind and
brain develop from our young years into our adult lives. Our
connections with caregivers induce neural circuit firings that
persist throughout our lives, shaping how we think, feel, remember,
and behave. When we are lucky enough to have secure attachment
experiences in which we feel seen, safe, soothed, and secure-the
"four S's of attachment" that serve as the foundation for a healthy
mind-these relational experiences stimulate the neuronal activation
and growth of the integrative fibers of the brain. EMDR is a
powerful tool for catalyzing integration in an individual across
several domains, including memory, narrative, state, and vertical
and bilateral integration. In Laurel Parnell's attachment-based
modifications of the EMDR approach, the structural foundations of
this integrative framework are adapted to further catalyze
integration for individuals who have experienced non-secure
attachment and developmental trauma. The book is divided into four
parts. Part I lays the groundwork and outlines the five basic
principles that guide and define the work. Part II provides
information about attachment-repair resources available to
clinicians. This section can be used by therapists who are not
trained in EMDR. Part III teaches therapists how to use EMDR
specifically with an attachment-repair orientation, including
client preparation, target development, modifications of the
standard EMDR protocol, desensitization, and using interweaves.
Case material is used throughout. Part IV includes the presentation
of three cases from different EMDR therapists who used
attachment-focused EMDR with their clients. These cases illustrate
what was discussed in the previous chapters and allow the reader to
observe the theoretical concepts put into clinical practice-giving
the history and background of the clients, actual EMDR sessions,
attachment-repair interventions within these sessions and the
rationale for them, and information about the effects of the
interventions and the course of treatment.
A unique look at a powerful marriage in the celebrated age of
Justinian Belisarius and Antonina were titans in the Roman world
some 1,500 years ago. Belisarius was the most well-known general of
his age, victor over the Persians, conqueror of the Vandals and the
Goths, and as if this were not enough, wealthy beyond imagination.
His wife, Antonina, was an impressive person in her own right. She
made a name for herself by traveling with Belisarius on his
military campaigns, deposing a pope, and scheming to disgrace
important Roman officials. Together, the pair were extremely
influential, and arguably wielded more power in the late Roman
world than anyone except the emperor Justinian and empress Theodora
themselves. This unadulterated power and wealth did not mean that
Belisarius and Antonina were universally successful in all that
they undertook. They occasionally stumbled militarily, politically,
and personally - in their marriage and with their children. These
failures knock them from their lofty perch, humanize them, and make
them even more relatable and intriguing to us today. Belisarius
& Antonina is the first modern portrait of this unique
partnership. They were not merely husband and wife but also
partners in power. This is a paradigm which might seem strange to
us, as we reflexively imagine that marriages in the ancient world
were staunchly traditional, relegating wives to the domestic sphere
only. But Antonina was not a reserved housewife, and Belisarius
showed no desire for Antonina to remain in the home. Their private
and public lives blended as they traveled together, sometimes
bringing their children, and worked side-by-side. Theirs was
without a doubt the most important nonroyal marriage of the late
Roman world, and one of the very few from all of antiquity that
speaks directly to contemporary readers.
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