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Patchwork Clan
The story of John and Ann Sweeney and their family of seventeen, including adopted Indian, black, and Vietnamese children.
Attic of the Wind
A story about what happens to all the things (such as feathers, hats, kites, autumn leaves) that blow away and are lost in the wind.
Eric
This is the bestselling story of Eric, a boy with leukemia who refused to give up living--as told by the person who was with him through it all, his mother. Eric was seventeen when he heard the doctor's verdict about the disease that wanted his life. At first he and his family could not believe it. Eric was the picture of everything a youth should be--a champion athlete, a splendid human being, vibrant with energy and loved by all who knew him. The doctors could promise little. They would do as much as was medically possible. Eric had to do as much as was humanly possible. But if the odds were not good, they were good enough for Eric. Given the choice between life and death, Eric chose to live.
Eric
The author recounts the enthusiastic way in which her son lived with the knowledge of his terminal illness.
Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough
Exploring some of the ways in which repair practices and perceptions of brokenness vary culturally, Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough argues that repair is both a process and also a consequence which is sought out—an attempt to extend the life of things as well as an answer to failures, gaps, wrongdoings, and leftovers. This volume develops an open-ended combination of empirical and theoretical questions including: What does it mean to claim that something is broken? At what point is something broken repairable? What are the social relationships that take place around repair? And how much tolerance for failure do our societies have?
Doing Human Service Ethnography
This book shows researchers how ethnography can be carried out within human service settings, providing an invaluable guide on how to apply ethnographic creativeness and offering a more humanistic and context-sensitive approach to generating valid knowledge about today’s service work.
A Research Agenda for Sustainable Consumption Governance
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Arial} Evaluating achievements, challenges and future avenues for research, this book explores how new dimensions of knowledge and practice contest, reshape and advance traditional understandings of sustainable consumption governance.
Living in Death’s Shadow
Challenging assumptions about caregiving for those dying of chronic illness. What is it like to live with—and love—someone whose death, while delayed, is nevertheless foretold? In Living in Death’s Shadow, Emily K. Abel, an expert on the history of death and dying, examines memoirs written between 1965 and 2014 by family members of people who died from chronic disease. In earlier eras, death generally occurred quickly from acute illnesses, but as chronic disease became the major cause of mortality, many people continued to live with terminal diagnoses for months and even years. Illuminating the excruciatingly painful experience of coping with a family member’s extended fatal illness,...
Business Regulation and Non-State Actors
This volume assesses the achievements and limitations of a new set of non-state or multistakeholder institutions that are concerned with improving the social and environmental record of business, and holding corporations to account. It does so from a perspective that aims to address two limitations that often characterize this field of inquiry. First, fragmentation: articles or books typically focus on one or a handful of cases. Second, the development dimension: what does such regulation imply for developing countries and subaltern groups in terms of well-being, empowerment and sustainability? This volume examines more than 20 initiatives or institutions associated with different regulatory and development approaches, including the business-friendly corporate social responsibility (CSR) agenda, ‘corporate accountability’ and ‘fair trade’ or social economy.
Simon's Choice
"But Daddy, who will live with me in heaven?" Doctor Simon Bailey's previously perfect life is shattered when his seven year old daughter is given months to live. While he can almost come to terms with her impending death, and feeling he may one day deal with never being able to see her again, he cannot stand the idea of his child facing death alone. He answers the question in a moment of desperation, testing his marriage, his professional judgment and his sanity to the limit. He offers to go with her. As cracks form in the foundations of a family that once appeared unbreakable, we wonder - as do his loved ones - will he really make the ultimate sacrifice? Combining poignant moments of both humor and pain, and never maudlin despite its subject matter, 'Simon's Choice' is a penetrating, and surprisingly heart-warming, account of parenthood as we would never wish to live it.
