This book analyses the challenges and opportunities faced by art-based social enterprises (ASEs) engaging young creatives in education and training and supporting their pathways to the creative industries. In doing so, it addresses the complex intersecting issues of marginality and entrepreneurship, particularly in relation to young creatives from socially, economically and culturally diverse backgrounds. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and interviews with twelve key organisations, and three in-depth case studies in Australia, the book offers a detailed analysis of using enterprise to engage with the structural challenges of marginality. The book explores the local and global contexts through which art-based social enterprises (ASEs) operate and within which they attempt – often successfully – to improve access to education and work for emerging creatives. It also attends to the findings generated through engaging with the lived experiences of the staff and young creatives involved in our ASE case studies, in order to understand both the challenges and impacts of the ASE model on young people’s education, training, and employment pathways. The book focuses on three broad themes; precarious youth and digital futures, material practice and sustainable economies, and cultural citizenship in the urban fringe. In exploring these themes, the book contributes to debates about the limits, possibilities and challenges that attach to, and emerge from, an ASE model and highlights the ways in which these models can contribute to young people’s well-being, engagement, education and training, and work pathways. More broadly, it examines the possibilities of art as a means of social and cultural engagement. In the context of the precarious future of the creative industries, this book emphasise the ways in which young artists are building alternative economic and cultural models that support both individual pathways and collective change. This bookwill move the field forward with a critical lens that engages closely with experience and the lived realities of juggling multiple priorities of social, economic and artistic goals.
For more than 40 years, Lillian Rubin's work has stood as a model for the integration of the psychological and the sociological in studies of class, male-female relationships and friendships, women and aging, the sexual revolution, and the contemporary crisis of the American family. Worlds of Pain: Life in the Working-Class Family and her other books have been enormously influential. This new book brings together articles and book excerpts that reflect Rubin's revolutionary style and her distinct analytic contributions.
For more than 40 years, Lillian Rubin's work has stood as a model for the integration of the psychological and the sociological in studies of class, male-female relationships and friendships, women and aging, the sexual revolution, and the contemporary crisis of the American family. Worlds of Pain: Life in the Working-Class Family and her other books have been enormously influential. This new book brings together articles and book excerpts that reflect Rubin's revolutionary style and her distinct analytic contributions.
Discover the truth behind the myths of the Emerald IsleForget about shamrocks, leprechans, and all that blarney; 101 Things You Didn't Know about Irish History dispels the myths and tells the true story of the Irish.Inside, you'll learn about:Lives of the ancient Celts before the British invasionsFamous Irish including Michael Collins, Charles Parnell?and Bono!The potato famine and emigration (were there really gangs of New York?)Irish music and danceComplete with an Irish language primer and pronunciation guide, 101 Things You Didn't Know about Irish History is an informative reference for anyone who loves the Irish.
This Summer issue of Hinterland indulges in all of the delights food-writing has to offer. Headlining this issue we have new writing from Kate Young who anticipates sharing meals once more, and Pragya Agarwal, who uses memories of food to explore the promise and pain of emigration. We also sit down to chat with celebrated cook Anna Jones about how she writes her award-winning cookbooks.Also featuring writing by Noah Birksted-Breen, Amy Cotler, Sally Gander, Hester Van Hensbergen, Sue Hann, Connor Harrison, Andrew Kenrick, Edward Little, Maya Osman-Krinsky, Kimmo Rosenthal and Sarah Young.
Women are still underrepresented as public-sector organizational leaders, despite comprising half of the United States public-sector workforce. To explore the factors driving gender imbalance, this Element employs a problem-driven approach to examine gender imbalance in local government management. We use multiple methods, inductive and deductive research, and different theoretical frames for exploring why so few women are city or county managers. Our interviews, resume analysis and secondary data analysis suggesting that women in local government management face a complex puzzle of gendered experiences, career paths and appointment circumstances that lend insights into gender imbalanced leadership in this domain.
Taking its title from Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, exhibition Black Is, Black Ain't (April 20 – June 8, 2008) explored a shift in the rhetoric of race from an earlier emphasis on inclusion to a present moment where racial identity is being simultaneously rejected and retained. Curated by the Renaissance Society's Associate Curator and Education Director Hamza Walker, the exhibition brought together works by twenty-seven black and non-black artists whose work collectively examines a moment where the cultural production of so-called "blackness" is concurrent with efforts to make race socially and politically irrelevant. The publication features essays by Huey Copeland, Darby English, Greg Foster-Rice, Amy M. Mooney, Kymberly N. Pinder, Krista Thompson, Hamza Walker, and Kenneth Warrren.
Maureen Johnson; Robison Wells; Lauren Oliver; Jennifer L. Armentrout; Amy Reed; Aprilynne Pike; Rachel M. Wilson; Dan Wells; Amber Benson; E. Kristin Anderson; Sarah Fine; Kelly Fiore-Stultz; Ellen Hopkins; Scott Neumyer; Crissa-Jean Chappell; Francesca Lia Block; Tara Kelly; Kimberly McCreight; Megan Kelley Hall; Hannah Moskowitz; Karen Mahoney; Tom Pollock; Cyn Balog; Melissa Marr; Wendy Toliver; Cindy L. Rodriguez; Candace Ganger; Sara Zarr; Cynthia Hand; Francisco X. Stork; Jessica Burkhart
“Who better to raise teens’ awareness of mental illness and health than the YA authors they admire?” —Booklist (starred review) “[A] much-needed, enlightening book.” —School Library Journal (starred review) Your favorite YA authors including Ellen Hopkins, Maureen Johnson, and more recount their own experiences with mental health in this raw, real, and powerful collection of essays that explores everything from ADD to PTSD.Have you ever felt like you just couldn’t get out of bed? Not the occasional morning, but every day? Do you find yourself listening to a voice in your head that says “you’re not good enough,” “not good looking enough,” “not thin enough,” or “not smart enough”? Have you ever found yourself unable to do homework or pay attention in class unless everything is “just so” on your desk? Everyone has had days like that, but what if you have them every day? You’re not alone. Millions of people are going through similar things. However issues around mental health still tend to be treated as something shrouded in shame or discussed in whispers. It’s easier to have a broken bone—something tangible that can be “fixed”—than to have a mental illness, and easier to have a discussion about sex than it is to have one about mental health. Life Inside My Mind is an anthology of true-life events from writers of this generation, for this generation. These essays tackle everything from neurodiversity to addiction to OCD to PTSD and much more. The goals of this book range from providing a home to those who are feeling alone, awareness to those who are witnessing a friend or family member struggle, and to open the floodgates to conversation.
Kit Cox; Den Patrick; Al Ewing; David Lee Stone; Jonathan Oliver; Gary McMahon; Andrew Lane; Josh Reynolds; C L Werner; Toby Frost; Robert Spalding; Laurel Sills; Ian Whates; Amy Taylor; Andy Taylor; Richard Salter; Sarah Peploe; Kim Lakin-Smith; David Tallerman; Steven Savile; Jenni Hill; Alec Worley
Sharks - the ultimate predators, masters of their watery domain, a world that is entirely alien and inhospitable to man. So many aspects of the shark are associated with humankind's most primal fears. The tell-tale dorsal fin slicing through the water, the dead eyed-stare, the gaping jaws full to unforgiving teeth, the remorseless drive to kill and feed...Inspired by such classic pulp movies as Jaws and Deep Blue Sea - as well as such ludicrous delights as Sharknado and Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus - the stories contained within are rip-roaring page-turners and slow-build chillers that celebrate all things savage, pulp and selachian. Covering the whole range of speculative fiction genres, from horror and Steampunk, through to SF and WTF, these are stories with bite! Come on in. The water's fine...
Book 2 of MC's Diner TrilogyLife is about making choices-millions of them. Unfortunately, one bad choice can lead to serious consequences and a lifetime of unhappiness, without the aid of God.Amy Wentdorf's mother is one such person who made a bad choice, then another, and another, and another. It cost her a mother/daughter relationship during her daughter's teen years.Young teenager, Amy, ran away from her mother's perverted wishes. Loneliness followed and hounded her. She remained strong opposing her mother's lifestyle.A few years later, while searching for her only other known living relative, fate hammered her down. Suicide seemed logical for her pitiful existence.Amy failed to realize not one of us is a master of our own fate-God is in control and He can use all things, both good and evil, for our good.
There were three things Amy Curry didn't expect out of senior year. First: her father's death. Second: her mother's decision to relocate to the East Coast. Third: Roger Sullivan. After her father's sudden death, Amy's mom has decided to start anew--in Connecticut, just before the start of senior year. And she's decided that it'll be Amy's job to get the car from California to Connecticut. The only problem? Amy hasn't gotten behind the wheel since the car accident that took her father's life. Enter Roger, a family friend, tasked by his mother to help Amy drive across the country. Amy's not pleased to be driving across the country with a boy she barely knows, but as Amy gets lost on her cross-country adventure, she must confront the past she's running from, come to terms with the grief of losing a parent, and learn how to open her heart in order to find herself again.
AmyBy: Wendy LuftWhen little Amy Miller is born, her parents could not be happier. Both estranged from their own families, they are thrilled to finally be making one of their own. But when tragedy strikes, life as Amy knows it will be thrown upside down.Anne Russell is lonely. Sure, she has her husband, but she's looking for something else. Someone else. When a chance trip takes her to Ireland, she views this as the opportunity to find out more about her family. But one sightseeing trip leads to a discovery no one could have predicted.In Amy, Wendy Luft presents two lonely individuals and their journeys to find love and family, sometimes in the most unlikely of places.About the AuthorWendy Luft is a retired radiologic technologist. Creativity has always been a part of her life. In her free time, she plays the ukulele and sings with various groups.
Homicide detective Ford and his partner Jesse fall down a rabbit hole of murder, insanity and love. When they are spit out into the land of the occult, they must figure out this string of homicides before it's too late Ford must eventually risk life and limb to get back to the life he once knew.
Una historia que derriba los prejuicios y escribe con sus escombros el m s bello amor.-Melanie Rogers.El sue o de Amy Brosman es llevar el saber a cada rinc n del globo, desde su Inglaterra natal, hasta aquel lejano punto del mapa llamado Sacramento. Con un car cter firme y un temple de acero, desaf a una a una las normas, para desterrar la ignorancia de los habitantes del oeste, sin imaginar que ser ella quien aprenda la lecci n m s importante.En una sociedad dividida por colores, etnias y dinero, no hay sitio para un mestizo mitad Iowa, ni para un amor que rompe con las leyes y mandatos establecidos.Cuando el mundo nos queda peque o, podemos ajustarnos las cintas del cors , tomar aire y aguantar; o hacerlo a icos y construir uno en el que quepamos todos.Scarlett O'Connor llega con la tercera entrega de Se oritas Brit nicas. Mujeres fuertes, hombres nobles y un amor con sabor a esperanza que los invitar a so ar junto a Amy y Hotah.
