What animal uses stilts, has roommates, finds safety in numbers, and even gets skin treatments at the spa? FISH! While they might seem as different from humans as animals can possibly be, we actually have a lot in common with our underwater neighbors. From hunting to homemaking to dressing to impress, fish are a lot like us - though with fascinating twists all their own. Factual, funny, and featuring a dynamic mix of photographs and cartoon illustrations, Just Like Us! Fish will charm even the most reluctant nonfiction readers.
What living things wear perfume, bask in the sun, use weapons to defend themselves, and even go on ocean cruises? PLANTS! While they might seem as different from humans as possible, we actually have a lot in common with our photosynthesizing friends. From drinking water to disguising themselves to communicating with one another, plants are a lot like us - though with fascinating twists all their own. Factual, funny, and featuring a dynamic mix of photographs and cartoon illustrations, Just Like Us! Plants will charm even the most reluctant nonfiction readers.
What animals are loving parents, great diplomats, and world class CAThletes? CATS! While they might seem as different from us as animals can possibly be, we actually have a lot in common with our feline friends. From their hunting skills to their fondness for nap time, cats are a lot like us - though with fascinating twists all their own. Factual, funny, and featuring a dynamic mix of photographs and cartoon illustrations, Just Like Us! Cats will charm even the most reluctant nonfiction readers.
Mustache Baby is headed straight for the naughty list until he figures it out it is much more fun to give than to receive in this hilarious holiday board book. Billy is an unusual baby - he was born with a mustache! And his pal Javier was born with a beard. Things get even sillier on Christmas Eve when Javier's beard turns white and he becomes Santa Baby! Being Santa Baby is a lot of work - listening to the other babies' Christmas wishes, taste testing treats, and getting the dachshunds, ahem, reindeer, ready for their big night. Luckily, Mustache Baby, AKA Elf Baby, shows up in the St. Nick of time to help make the toys. But when he finishes, he decides to keep them all for himself! Hijinks ensue, landing Mustache Baby firmly on the naughty list. The perfect holiday board book! AGES: 0 to 3 AUTHOR: Bridget Heos is the author of more than 100 books for kids, including the popular Mustache Baby books and the nonfiction Just Like Us! series. Joy Ang has illustrated many picture books in addition to the Mustache Baby books, as well as the NYT best-selling The Atlas Obscura Explorer's Guide for the World's Most Adventurous Kid.
Everyone's favorite baby-with-a-mustache dons shining armor in hopes of staving off sleep in this hilarious bedtime book. Knights in shining armor go full baby (and full mustache) in this silly and soothing bedtime adventure. Young knaves will fall blissfully asleep after hearing the tale of two brave knights: Baby Billy, House of Mustache, and Baby Javier, House of Beard, and how they fought to conquer their biggest foe: bedtime The babies fight their enemy valiantly, but eventually even gallant Baby Billy falls victim to sleep, foiled by, of all things, an enchanted book. Though Billy succumbs to the magic of the story, in his dreams, he rejoins his bearded co-knigh . . . and they became the stuff of legend.
Mantras and Affirmations Coloring Book for Libras is one in a series of adult coloring books with a purpose. Adults all over the world are rediscovering the joy of coloring and the calming, centering effect it can have. This book combines that calm with specific phrases chosen to focus the mind. This edition is created specifically for those born under the zodiac sign of Libra (September 23 - October 22). Each of the 30 coloring pages is a visually rendered phrase intended to motivate, encourage, and challenge you as you color.
Mantras and Affirmations Coloring Book for Scorpios is one in a series of adult coloring books with a purpose. Adults all over the world are rediscovering the joy of coloring and the calming, centering effect it can have. This book combines that calm with specific phrases chosen to focus the mind. This edition is created specifically for those born under the zodiac sign of Scorpio (October 23 - November 21). Each of the 30 coloring pages is a visually rendered phrase intended to motivate, encourage, and challenge you as you color.
Mantras and Affirmations Coloring Book for Sagittarians is one in a series of adult coloring books with a purpose. Adults all over the world are rediscovering the joy of coloring and the calming, centering effect it can have. This book combines that calm with specific phrases chosen to focus the mind. This edition is created specifically for those born under the zodiac sign of Sagittarius (November 22 - December 21). Each of the 30 coloring pages is a visually rendered phrase intended to motivate, encourage, and challenge you as you color.
Mantras and Affirmations Coloring Book for Capricorns is one in a series of adult coloring books with a purpose. Adults all over the world are rediscovering the joy of coloring and the calming, centering effect it can have. This book combines that calm with specific phrases chosen to focus the mind. This edition is created specifically for those born under the zodiac sign of Capricorn (December 22 - January 19). Each of the 30 coloring pages is a visually rendered phrase intended to motivate, encourage, and challenge you as you color.
Mantras and Affirmations Coloring Book for Aquarians is one in a series of adult coloring books with a purpose. Adults all over the world are rediscovering the joy of coloring and the calming, centering effect it can have. This book combines that calm with specific phrases chosen to focus the mind. This edition is created specifically for those born under the zodiac sign of Aquarius (January 20 - February 18). Each of the 30 coloring pages is a visually rendered phrase intended to motivate, encourage, and challenge you as you color.
"Artist-poet Bridget Seley Galway's poems show the painter's eye with their details from her rich life growing up in New York City and Provincetown with artists, writers and junkies and her more recent life in Somerville, Massachusetts. Beach grass, hot sun on tarred rooftops, fire hydrants spraying water, cold concrete walls, a babe in arms, birds on telephone wires through a window, darkened corners with heroin addicts shooting up. The physical details are interwoven with a deep longing that comes from many losses along the way. But the sense of loss never overwhelms her love for the people in her life and for the beauty of the physical world." - Lawrence Kessenich
This book is a compilation of three of the many bulletins Dr. George Washington Carver produced entitled: 1916 Experiment Station: How to Grow the Peanut & 105 Ways of Preparing it for Human Consumption; How To Grow The Tomato & 115 Ways to Prepare it for the Table; and How to Make Sweet Potato Flour, Starch, Sugar Bread & Mock Cocoanut. Dr. Carver produced these bulletins from 1898 to 1943 while a professor and agronomist at Tuskegee Institute. Dr. Carver dedicated his life to working in agriculture and the cultivation of soil for the fruit that it bears. He indicated that soil "can be built up and be made much more productive, and thus bring about a more ideal type of general prosperity and happiness for those whose labors are spent in the tilling of the soils." It is in that spirit that we hope to share with you just a smidgen of his enormous body of work. We hope that you, too, will benefit in general prosperity and happiness from his work and share it widely with others.
Jonathan A. Turner is an adventurer and former Appalachian Trail hiker. Throughout his time on trail, he documented his journey through pictures, capturing some of the most gorgeous images throughout his hike, including sunrises, landscapes, and monuments. In order to cope while he was away, his partner Bridget Vargas compiled some of her best poems and favorite images by him to create "Meet Me in Serenity: I'll See You Soon."
Through its themes of subjectivity, surgery, and self-stylization this book critically examines the cultural constraints and incitements that shape the practice of cosmetic surgery by older people. The book problematizes anti-ageing discourses to provide a nuanced descriptive, ethical, and political reading of ‘older’ identity politics nested within the contemporary ethico-political terrain of self-care.A New Ethic of ‘Older’ aims to de-territorialize the ‘older’ subject from normative discourses of ageing and theorize becoming ‘older’. Evidence of an active cultural politics of ‘older’ emerges from the critically reflexive engagement of older people with cosmetic surgery. This engagement constitutes a ‘cutting critique’ of ageing discourses enmeshed in an aesthetic mode of subjectivation that underpins ‘a new ethics of old age’.The book will appeal to those in the fields of Cultural Gerontology, Ageing Studies, Critical Psychology, Sociology, and Cultural Geography. The methodological approach will be of interest to academics and students exploring the application of Foucault’s work on care of the self to contemporary contexts and practices.
This book is about hope and a call to action to make the world the kind of place we want to live in. Our hope is to provoke conversation, and gently challenge possibly long-held views, beliefs, and ideologies about the way the world works and the people in that world.Written by eminent researchers and experienced practitioners, the book explores the principles that underpin living well, and gives examples of how this can be achieved not just in our own lives, but across communities and the planet we share. Chapters cover the stages of life from childhood to ageing, the foundations of everyday flourishing, including health and relationships, and finally wellbeing in the wider world, addressing issues such as economics, politics and the environment. Based in the scientific evidence of what works and supported by illustrations of good practice, this book is both ambitious and aspirational. The book is designed for a wide audience – anyone seeking to create positive change in the world, their institutions or communities. www.creatingtheworldwewanttolivein.org
This book is about hope and a call to action to make the world the kind of place we want to live in. Our hope is to provoke conversation, and gently challenge possibly long-held views, beliefs, and ideologies about the way the world works and the people in that world.Written by eminent researchers and experienced practitioners, the book explores the principles that underpin living well, and gives examples of how this can be achieved not just in our own lives, but across communities and the planet we share. Chapters cover the stages of life from childhood to ageing, the foundations of everyday flourishing, including health and relationships, and finally wellbeing in the wider world, addressing issues such as economics, politics and the environment. Based in the scientific evidence of what works and supported by illustrations of good practice, this book is both ambitious and aspirational. The book is designed for a wide audience – anyone seeking to create positive change in the world, their institutions or communities. www.creatingtheworldwewanttolivein.org
This book looks at the rich and complex history of broadcasting and community broadcasting in the multicultural and multilingual milieu in India. It explores the world of community radio and how community radio broadcasters hear and speak to their audiences under the overarching theme of polyphony.The book discusses the socio-historical contexts which allowed community radio to thrive in India. It highlights its potential to create alternative spaces of representation, and opportunity and its importance in preserving and disseminating local knowledge and traditions. The author weaves together ethnographic research and literature, as well as personal narratives and stories of those involved in the field. Further, the monograph critically examines the impact of development agendas on community projects and processes, discussing in detail the pervasiveness of the development discourse in every aspect of community radio and how it manifests on air. It also illustrates the limitations of community radio, within the context of its participation in the “spectacle of development”.Accessible and deeply insightful, this book will be of interest to researchers and students of cultural studies, sociology, social anthropology, media and communication studies, and South Asian studies.
Offender-focused prosecution concentrates attention to the actions, decisions, choices, and motivations of the offender. Crimes of intimate violence tend to compel investigators, prosecutors, and defense attorneys to fixate on the victim’s behavior to prove or disprove a case. Prosecutors can become helpless when faced with uncooperative victims, challenging facts, or attacks on the victims’ credibility. However, when the prosecution can rely on evidence and offender-focused interviewing, investigation, and case construction, there is a greater chance of success.This book will offer investigators and prosecutors concrete information and techniques to construct and present offender-focused cases in crimes of intimate violence. First, we will challenge the reader’s biases and assumptions about intimate violence, providing information that will dispel pervasive myths and misinformation we maintain. We will explain the motivations and techniques that offenders use on their victims to ensure the victims’ silence, compliance, and resistance to prosecution. The second section will address specific steps that investigators and prosecutors can take for offender-focused prosecution, including interviewing practices, conducting evidence-based investigations, selecting and preparing a jury, and building an offender-focused prosecution through the case. The reader will be offered practical and attainable practices and skills.This book will be primarily intended for investigators or prosecutors. However, it will be accessible to paralegals, victim advocates, judges, and others involved in the criminal justice system to utilize.
Offender-focused prosecution concentrates attention to the actions, decisions, choices, and motivations of the offender. Crimes of intimate violence tend to compel investigators, prosecutors, and defense attorneys to fixate on the victim’s behavior to prove or disprove a case. Prosecutors can become helpless when faced with uncooperative victims, challenging facts, or attacks on the victims’ credibility. However, when the prosecution can rely on evidence and offender-focused interviewing, investigation, and case construction, there is a greater chance of success.This book will offer investigators and prosecutors concrete information and techniques to construct and present offender-focused cases in crimes of intimate violence. First, we will challenge the reader’s biases and assumptions about intimate violence, providing information that will dispel pervasive myths and misinformation we maintain. We will explain the motivations and techniques that offenders use on their victims to ensure the victims’ silence, compliance, and resistance to prosecution. The second section will address specific steps that investigators and prosecutors can take for offender-focused prosecution, including interviewing practices, conducting evidence-based investigations, selecting and preparing a jury, and building an offender-focused prosecution through the case. The reader will be offered practical and attainable practices and skills.This book will be primarily intended for investigators or prosecutors. However, it will be accessible to paralegals, victim advocates, judges, and others involved in the criminal justice system to utilize.
This book begins with a background on expository books about melancholy in the Renaissance with chapters on the literary uses of melancholy, Marston and melancholy, Melancholy and Hamlet, and the anatomy of melancholy as literature. When Shakespeare, Burton and other Renaissance writers gave melancholy the complex meanings and associations it has in their work, they were drawing on a tradition that had been developing throughout classical antiquity and the Middle Ages, and whose diverse origins made it an especially fruitful subject for literature.
