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The Rabbit
The rabbit has fed and clothed the nation, has altered our landscape, has kept thousands of us in paid employment, has kept starvation at bay during two world wars and now provides all sorts of possibilities for the future. And how have we thanked it? We introduced myxomatosis and killed it by the million. Jill Mason puts the currently under-rated wild rabbit back into context. With lovely photographic illustrations by David Mason, she explains its lifecycle, its behaviour, breeding, feeding habits and, above all, its incredible adaptability and resourcefulness, which brings the species back from the brink to pest proportions again and again, in all corners of the earth, from semi-desert to meadowland. With a fascinating reference section on the sites of the UK's former commercial warrens.
Laughter in Interaction
Laughter in Interaction is an illuminating and lively account of how and why people laugh during conversation. Bringing together twenty-five years of research on the sequential organisation of laughter in everyday talk, Glenn analyses recordings and transcripts to show the finely detailed co-ordination of human laughter. He demonstrates that its production and placement, relative to talk and other activities, reveal much about its emergent meaning and accomplishments. The book shows how the participants in a conversation move from a single laugh to laughing together, how the matter of 'who laughs first' implicates orientation to social activities and how interactants work out whether laughs are more affiliative or hostile. The final chapter examines the contribution of laughter to sequences of conversational intimacy and play and to the invocation of gender. Engaging and original, the book shows how this seemingly insignificant part of human communication turns out to play a highly significant role in how people display, respond to and revise identities and relationships.
Purified
“There’s no use trying to escape. You’re miles from anywhere. You have no clothes, no food, no money... You’re dead, Mason.” Mason Bushing died over a year ago, but his life was saved through an unauthorized experiment with a drug called Purify. When he awakens in a strange place, all Mason wants is his old life back. His plans change after he discovers his wife is more interested in the insurance money than seeing him alive. His best friend doesn’t believe his story, and after he almost kills his wife’s new boyfriend, fraud and assault charges loom. When a detective is assigned the case, his suspicions are raised by lies, disturbing coincidences, and related homicides. Mason becomes his prime suspect, and he’s forced to run again. Imagine having to run from someone who saved your life. Imagine everyone thinking you’re dead, and waking up to questions, accusations, conspiracies and murder. What would you do if you were Purified?
Restorative Just Culture in Practice
A restorative just culture has become a core aspiration for many organizations in healthcare and elsewhere. Whereas ‘just culture’ is the topic of some residual conceptual debate (e.g. retributive policies organized around rules,violations and consequences are ‘sold’ as just culture), the evidence base on, and business case for, restorative practice has been growing and is generating increasing, global interest. In the wake of an incident, restorative practices ask who are impacted, what their needs are and whose obligation it is to meet those needs. Restorative practices aim to involve participants from the entire community in the resolution and repair of harms. This book offers org...
The Little Book of Stories from Around the World
The stories featured in this book come from all over the world. The Practice Guidance for the Early Years Foundation Stage sets out the requirement that children be provided with 'positive images that challenge children's thinking and help them embrace differences in gender, ethnicity, language, religion, culture...' Stories are powerful medium that engage and envelop young children, helping them to enter unfamiliar worlds and begin to empathise with characters from different backgrounds. This book provides a range of stories through which young children can explore and learn about other cultures. Each activity page will include: * The story * Adult-led and independent activity ideas to follow up the story * Related songs, poems and rhymes * A list of additional stories, information books and websites * Relevant links with the EYFS Areas of Learning and Development
Reflections Beyond the Mirror
Noted architect Jamal Jameson and award winning TV news reporter Tory Carter, friends since childhood, are faced with the challenge of controlling their appetite for the opposite sex. As former star collegiate athletes and now handsome single black professionals, meeting women has never been a problem. With a flair for artful conversation, they float like sexual butterflies from one leaf to another. Commitment has always been outside their flight pattern. Jamals romantic and compassionate personality captures hearts, yet unexpectedly, he begins to question his revolving door policy. Torys handsome, egotistical persona drives his need to cover as many women as he does news stories. For him, it is the only way to live. Philosophical differences push their lifelong friendship as Jamal realizes through a chance meeting with a stranger, that his way of relating to women is as shallow as his best friend and that his way of dealing with them has lacked the most important ingredient
FOUR FACES OF A KILLER
Special Agent Kyrie Shea thought things were finally settling down for her. There were no crazed killers after her, and she was enjoying a committed relationship with best friend and lover, Derrick Chamberlin. She should've known the normality wouldn't last... Her best friend and coroner moves to Hollow Cove, bringing with her a case that sparks an investigation into a new breed of serial killer. Next: She acquires a new nemesis in Army Lieutenant Raina Lowe, who's popped in for her yearly attempt at seducing Kyrie's boss, Matthew "Fox" Foxworth. Which causes jealousy to ignite, forcing Kyrie to face the fact her feelings for Fox are still there. And quite possibly, are even stronger than she realized. Then, mentor from the Quantico FBI head-quarters shows up to help solve the serial murders. Now she's dealing with his cynical attitude, hard drinking, and reckless sexual escapades while they track the killer cross country and back. Kyrie will have to face off with the nemesis, the killer, and the friend.
A Study Guide for Peter Shaffer's "Equus"
A Study Guide for Peter Shaffer's "Equus," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.
Women and Children First
This diverse collection explores the rhetoric of a wide range of public policies that propose "to put women and children first," including homeland security, school violence, gun control, medical intervention of intersex infants, and policies that aim to distinguish "good" from "bad" mothers. Using various feminist philosophical analyses, the contributors uncover a logic of paternalistic treatment of women and children that purports to protect them but almost always also disempowers them and sometimes harms them. This logic is widespread in contemporary popular policy discourse and affects the way that people understand and respond to social and political issues. Contributors rethink basic philosophical assumptions concerning subjectivity, difference, and dualistic logic in order to read the rhetoric of contemporary public policy discourse and develop new ways of talking and acting in the policy domain.
