Luna is a cheeky and playful big black dog with lots of curly-wurly hair who likes to explore and play.Luna really loves her special dog biscuits. One day Lilly leaves Luna's special dog biscuit jar open.Will Luna be a naughty dog or a good dog?Let's find out.
Luna is a cheeky and playful big black dog with lots of curly-wurly hair who likes to explore and play.Luna really loves her special dog biscuits. One day Lilly leaves Luna's special dog biscuit jar open.Will Luna be a naughty dog or a good dog?Let's find out.
This is a children's book explaining in an engaging, creative and imaginary way how two little girls came into the world through in-vitro fertilisation (IVF). The book was inspired by a conversation between a five-year-old girl and her mum at bedtime when the former asked, "Mummy, how did I come into this world? Did I come out of your tummy?"
Will this lost little owl ever find his home?Late one summer's night, a baby owl finds himself lost in the forest and far from his family. Owl will have to gain the trust of a mouse to help him find his way home on the condition, of course, that he will not eat the mouse along the way
For any parent, near and far, Who loves their baby to the moon and stars, This tale of dreams, both big and small, Invites you to wonder, to ponder it all.With each turn of the page, let your heart take flight, Imagining futures-what a delight Across the universe, sand, sky and seaTogether you'll dream of what your child can be.Filled with soft rhymes and magical scenes, This book celebrates love and all of your dreams;A cherished bedtime read, full of joy and cheer, For every little bundle, forever held dear.
Emotional Fluctuations depicts the ups and downs of life through poetry and nature. It is filled with poems of life and love. It is dedicated to everyone going through the ups and downs of life. May you have the courage to get back up each time you fall, love truly, live fearlessly and appreciate the wonders of life's journey.
This wide-ranging, historically informed study examines the career of the culture concept and related notions of context in comparative and international politics, tracing connections through the disciplines of anthropology and history as well as through issues in nationalism and democracy.
• Topic talk activities to introduce key vocabulary and ideas for the unit topic• Skills focus to develop listening and speaking skills• Language development with skills and useful phrases for the Speaking test and revised Pronunciation focus• Technique boxes with ideas on how to approach the IELTS Writing tasks• Exam listening task with authentic test questions• Access to extra online practice through MPO• ‘Without Key’ version
• Skills focus with exercises and examples to develop writing skills• Language development with helpful phrases and vocabulary to use in each writing task to ensure students are well prepared and confident• Technique boxes with ideas on how to approach the IELTS Writing tasks• Practice test: a complete Writing paper based on the unit topic• Topic talk activities to introduce key vocabulary and ideas for the unit topic• Access to extra online practice through MPO• ‘With Key’ version
• Skills focus with exercises and examples to develop writing skills• Language development with helpful phrases and vocabulary to use in each writing task to ensure students are well prepared and confident• Technique boxes with ideas on how to approach the IELTS Writing tasks• Practice test: a complete Writing paper based on the unit topic• Topic talk activities to introduce key vocabulary and ideas for the unit topic• ‘Without Key’ version
Addressing the contradictions surrounding modern-day femininity and its complicated relationship with feminism and postfeminism, this book examines a range of popular female and feminist icons and paradigms. It offers an innovative and forward-looking perspective on femininity and the modern female self.
Early in the twentieth century, Americans and other English-speaking nations began to regard adolescence as a separate phase of life. Associated with uncertainty, inwardness, instability, and sexual energy, adolescence acquired its own tastes, habits, subcultures, slang, economic interests, and art forms. This new idea of adolescence became the driving force behind some of the modern era's most original poetry. Stephen Burt demonstrates how adolescence supplied the inspiration, and at times the formal principles, on which many twentieth-century poets founded their works. William Carlos Williams and his contemporaries fashioned their American verse in response to the idealization of new kinds of youth in the 1910s and 1920s. W. H. Auden's early work, Philip Larkin's verse, Thom Gunn's transatlantic poetry, and Basil Bunting's late-modernist masterpiece, Briggflatts, all track the development of adolescence in Britain as it moved from the private space of elite schools to the urban public space of sixties subcultures. The diversity of American poetry from the Second World War to the end of the sixties illuminates poets' reactions to the idea that teenagers, juvenile delinquents, hippies, and student radicals might, for better or worse, transform the nation. George Oppen, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Robert Lowell in particular built and rebuilt their sixties styles in reaction to changing concepts of youth. Contemporary poets continue to fashion new ideas of youth. Laura Kasischke and Jorie Graham focus on the discoveries of a specifically female adolescence. The Irish poet Paul Muldoon and the Australian poet John Tranter use teenage perspectives to represent a postmodernist uncertainty. Other poets have rejected traditional and modern ideas of adolescence, preferring instead to view this age as a reflection of the uncertainties and restricted tastes of the way we live now. The first comprehensive study of adolescence in twentieth-century poetry, The Forms of Youth recasts the history of how English-speaking cultures began to view this phase of life as a valuable state of consciousness, if not the very essence of a Western identity.
This unprecedented study of sex trafficking, forced labor, organ trafficking, and sex tourism across twenty-four nations highlights the experiences of the victims, perpetrators, and anti-traffickers involved in this brutal trade. Combining statistical data with intimate accounts and interviews, journalist Stephanie Hepburn and justice scholar Rita J. Simon create a dynamic volume sure to educate and spur action. Hepburn and Simon recount the lives of victims during and after their experience with trafficking, and they follow the activities of traffickers before capture and their outcomes after sentencing. Each chapter centers on the trafficking practices and anti-trafficking measures of a single country: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, France, Germany, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Niger, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Syria, Thailand, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Examining these nations' laws, Hepburn and Simon reveal gaps in legislation and enforcement and outline the cultural norms and biases, societal assumptions, and conflicting policies that make trafficking scenarios so pervasive and resilient. This study points out those most vulnerable in each nation and the specific cultural, economic, environmental, and geopolitical factors that contribute to each nation's trafficking issues. Furthermore, the study also highlights common phenomena that governments and international anti-traffickers should consider in their fight against this illicit trade.
This unprecedented study of sex trafficking, forced labor, organ trafficking, and sex tourism across twenty-four nations highlights the experiences of the victims, perpetrators, and anti-traffickers involved in this brutal trade. Combining statistical data with intimate accounts and interviews, journalist Stephanie Hepburn and justice scholar Rita J. Simon create a dynamic volume sure to educate and spur action. Hepburn and Simon recount the lives of victims during and after their experience with trafficking, and they follow the activities of traffickers before capture and their outcomes after sentencing. Each chapter centers on the trafficking practices and anti-trafficking measures of a single country: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, France, Germany, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Niger, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Syria, Thailand, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Examining these nations' laws, Hepburn and Simon reveal gaps in legislation and enforcement and outline the cultural norms and biases, societal assumptions, and conflicting policies that make trafficking scenarios so pervasive and resilient. This study points out those most vulnerable in each nation and the specific cultural, economic, environmental, and geopolitical factors that contribute to each nation's trafficking issues. Furthermore, the study also highlights common phenomena that governments and international anti-traffickers should consider in their fight against this illicit trade.
Ordinary people can perform acts of astonishing selflessness, sometimes even putting their lives on the line. A pregnant woman saw a dorsal fin and blood in the water—and dove right in to pull her wounded husband to safety. Remarkably, some even leap into action to save complete strangers: One New York man jumped onto the subway tracks to rescue a boy who had fallen into the path of an oncoming train. Such behavior is not uniquely human. Researchers have found that mother rodents are highly motivated to bring newborn pups—not just their own—back to safety. What do these stories have in common, and what do they reveal about the instinct to protect others?In The Altruistic Urge, Stephanie D. Preston explores how and why we developed a surprisingly powerful drive to help the vulnerable. She argues that the neural and psychological mechanisms that evolved to safeguard offspring also motivate people to save strangers in need of immediate aid. Eye-catching dramatic rescues bear a striking similarity to how other mammals retrieve their young and help explain more mundane forms of support like donating money. Merging extensive interdisciplinary research that spans psychology, neuroscience, neurobiology, and evolutionary biology, Preston develops a groundbreaking model of altruistic responses. Her theory accounts for extraordinary feats of bravery, all-too-common apathy, and everything in between—and it can also be deployed to craft more effective appeals to assist those in need.
