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Jill Mason Art 2024
Jill Mason Art is a collection of photography curated from hours of kayaking, walking, fishing and traveling back roads. Together with my partner Mike Rice, we spend our lives as close to the water as we can exploring coastlines, lakes and rivers, always looking for the next great photo opportunity. Drawn to the color and light of the seascapes and the weathered, chipped paint of colorful boats, skiffs and dinghies, we capture them and the moments as we see them and make them into art. Each image is printed on archival quality canvas and rendered with subtle brushstrokes, glazed and applied to a hand built wooden base and framed with weathered wood. Our hope is that the result is a piece of art that conveys the layers of memory and meaning we feel when an image speaks to us.
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.
Couldn't Happen to Me
Couldn't Happen to Me offers hope to families facing the unthinkable: a vibrant 26-year-old mowed down by a hopeless drunk and left for dead. Author Jill Mason has battled back from expectations that she would not recover beyond a vegetative state to fully independent living even as she continues to struggle with traumatic brain injury and life in a wheelchair. Her story begins in 2004 when she is left in a crumpled heap on the side of a Santa Rosa highway, her boyfriend killed outright. Drawing on family journals and her own hazy memories, she details the challenges of the first few months while she was hospitalized and then the painfully long recovery in her childhood home. Against all odds, she successfully pushes to regain her independence. Fearlessly honest, Jill generously shares her frustrations as well as practical advice on types of chairs, buying a car, and dating. Most of all, she offers her indomitable spirit as an inspiration to her readers.
Rural England
'Rural England' is an informative and entertaining celebration of the diversity of the English countryside today. Each month of the year, Jill Mason brings aspects of rural England to life for her readers.
Inkwells and Jail Cells
Massachusetts, 1777...Both the United States and the Mason family are fighting for survival. Adult twins Jill Mason Goodwin and Joanna Mason McGregor grew up hearing stories of the heroic Zachariah Mason, their patriotic ancestor who fought in the American Revolution. As a birthday surprise for their dad, the twins use their new positions as time-portal guardians to arrange a family trip to 1777. But the excursion derails when their parents refuse to time travel. Jill, Joanna, and their husbands travel to 1777 and discover someone else is controlling the portals. Jill and Rob must solve a case of mistaken identity while defending themselves against British soldiers, wild animals, and desperate women. In Boston, Joanna and Liam must solve a murder and defend an innocent man from being hanged without becoming victims themselves. In their adventures, Jill and Joanna discover secrets that threaten to tear the Mason family apart in both the eighteenth and twenty-first centuries.
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...
Everything You Wanted to Know about the Countryside
What goes on in the farm, the fields and the forests today? This book is packed with facts about rural Britain today, presented in a clear and lively way. It will inform the city dweller and surprise even the farmer . Chicken, sheep, pig, beef and dairy farming, crops, pest control, GM, rare breeds, Scottish crofting, organic farming, horticulture - no topic is ignored! All the latest information about the countryside today and plans for its future.
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.
