Jenny Kennedy

Provides guidance to the complexities of establishing liability, as well as assistance on running psychiatric claims.This edition deals with the development of law and practice since the first edition, in particular:- The Grenfell Tower disaster - The change in attitude towards mental health - Discussion of Marsh v Ministry of Justice [2017] EWHC 1040 (QB)- Analysis of cases involving secondary victim claims- Updates on material contribution - Updates on changes to the classification of psychiatric injury This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Personal Injury Law online service.

Interested in delving into the world of interior design? Now, with the latest addition to the "Launch Into Interior Design" series, "The Consultation Companion," you can empower yourself through the intricacies of interior design consultations and forms.With over 65 illustrations and forms, discover all the insider tools and hands-on guidance needed to craft exquisitely tailored spaces that enchant your friends, family, and clients.This book provides how-to information, consultation forms, and measure sheets to keep you organized and accurate, including the following easy-to-understand documents: How to measure windows for custom blinds and soft furnishingsConsultation forms paint color consultationsGuides on measuring floorplans for new flooringCustom goods order trackingCost calculation forms and check-listsDiagrams to help you visualize conceptsNote: This book does not highlight design ideas, merely how to proceed in a consultation, take measurements, and record the information you need for the design, order forms, and costing.Designed for individuals contemplating a career in interior design and decorating, "The Consultation Companion" is a treasure trove of tools to help designers in the field. With this book as your guide, you'll fast-track your career as a design professional. ALSO AVAILABLE: Launch Into Interior Design A Beginner's Guide to the IndustryRenowned author Jenny Kennedy brings her extensive expertise, amassed over more than fifteen years in design, paint, window coverings, wallpaper, and flooring, into this user-friendly guide.

Addiction is traumatic and heartbreaking for family and friends who are left watching their loved one's struggles. It leaves us feeling helpless with no end to the chaos in sight. Safe From the Storm is a personal journey to healing the wounds of addiction and codependency in a safe healing space. Safe from the Storm is a loving release from the cycle of addiction, allowing family and friends their freedom regardless of whether loved ones are still using, in treatment, or recovery. Author Jenny Kennedy shares her painful experience with her loved ones' addictions to walk readers through the same process she used to find forgiveness, wellness, and peace. With a realistic and holistic approach, Jenny created a series of questions and exercises to refocus readers back in their own lane without judgment, shame, or guilt.Here is what you will discover in this book: Jenny's experience with four loved ones in addictionUnderstanding addiction and codependency with a judgment-free approachEmotional awareness and moving up the emotional scale to happinessDetachment from controlling behaviors that are making everyone miserableThe importance of boundaries and how to begin setting themHow to implement self-care, including meditation and self-awareness techniquesManaging triggers and getting the support you needPositive affirmations to reframe and program our thinkingHealthy mindsets around putting your wellbeing firstLetting your loved one learn from the impact of their choices and why this is critically importantAND... most of all, you will discover that while you may or may not need distance from your loved one in order to be healthy yourself, you are still allowed to love them for being human and struggling.

Digital Media, Sharing and Everyday Life provides nuanced accounts of the processes of sharing in digital culture and the complexities that arise in them. The book explores definitions of sharing, and the roles that our digital devices and the platforms we use play in these practices.Drawing upon practice theory to outline a theoretical framework of sharing practice, the book emphasizes the need for a coherent and consistent framework of sharing in digital culture and explains what this framework might look like. With insightful descriptions, the book draws out the relationship of sharing to privacy and control, the labored strategies and boundaries of reciprocation, and our relationships with the technologies which mediate sharing practices. The volume is an essential read for researchers, postgraduate and undergraduate students in Media and Communication, New Media, Sociology, Internet Studies, and Cultural Studies.

The life and times of the Smart Wife--feminized digital assistants who are friendly and sometimes flirty, occasionally glitchy but perpetually available. Meet the Smart Wife--at your service, an eclectic collection of feminized AI, robotic, and smart devices. This digital assistant is friendly and sometimes flirty, docile and efficient, occasionally glitchy but perpetually available. She might go by Siri, or Alexa, or inhabit Google Home. She can keep us company, order groceries, vacuum the floor, turn out the lights. A Japanese digital voice assistant--a virtual anime hologram named Hikari Azuma--sends her master helpful messages during the day; an American sexbot named Roxxxy takes on other kinds of household chores. In The Smart Wife, Yolande Strengers and Jenny Kennedy examine the emergence of digital devices that carry out wifework--domestic responsibilities that have traditionally fallen to (human) wives. They show that the principal prototype for these virtual helpers--designed in male-dominated industries--is the 1950s housewife: white, middle class, heteronormative, and nurturing, with a spick-and-span home. It's time, they say, to give the Smart Wife a reboot. What's wrong with preferring domestic assistants with feminine personalities? We like our assistants to conform to gender stereotypes--so what? For one thing, Strengers and Kennedy remind us, the design of gendered devices re-inscribes those outdated and unfounded stereotypes. Advanced technology is taking us backwards on gender equity. Strengers and Kennedy offer a Smart Wife manifesta, proposing a rebooted Smart Wife that would promote a revaluing of femininity in society in all her glorious diversity.

Curious about learning interior design? Now you can learn all the insider, hands-on tips for designing beautifully personalized spaces your friends, family, and clients will love. Starting with the building blocks of home building design and working step-by-step through to the finishing touches of d cor, you will know what decisions to make first and how to thread a cohesive plan together. In addition, you will learn all the particulars every new interior designer needs to jump-start their career, such as: Designer tools, marketing, and tips that save years in hands-on trainingUnderstanding the psychology around interior design and decoratingProper stages of product and color selection when designing or renovating a homeCabinet selection and how to refurbishFlooring types, including pros and consCoordination of countertops and backsplashSelecting lighting and metal hardwareDesigning with custom and store-bought furnitureDesigning and selecting custom blinds and draperiesWorking with area rugs, artwork, and d corChoosing the right paint, paint color, and applicationColor psychology and selectionDeveloping relationships with customers, trades, contractors, and salespeopleWritten for people considering a career in interior design and decorating, Launch into Interior Design is loaded with essential design and decorating knowledge that typically takes years to accumulate. With this book, designers will have an insider's advantage to launch their careers into the stars Author Jenny Kennedy has over fifteen years of expert knowledge in design, paint, window coverings, wallpaper, and flooring poured into one convenient, easy-to-read guide. With her business management expertise, Jenny also provides must-have tips on writing a business plan and marketing strategies to help launch your own successful interior design business.

At the turn of the twenty-first century, typical households were equipped with a landline telephone, a desktop computer connected to a dial-up modem, and a shared television set. Television, radio and newspapers were the dominant mass media. Today, homes are now network hubs for all manner of digital technologies, from mobile devices littering lounge rooms to Bluetooth toothbrushes in bathrooms--and tomorrow, these too will be replaced with objects once inconceivable. Tracing the origins of these digital developments, Jenny Kennedy, Michael Arnold, Martin Gibbs, Bjorn Nansen, and Rowan Wilken advance media domestication research through an ecology-based approach to the abundance and materiality of media in the home. The book locates digital domesticity through phases of adoption and dwelling, to management and housekeeping, to obsolescence and disposal. The authors synthesize household interviews, technology tours, remote data collection via mobile applications, and more to offer readers groundbreaking insight into domestic media consumption. Chapters use original case studies to empirically trace the adoption, use, and disposal of technology by individuals and families within their homes. The book unearths social and material accounts of media technologies, offering insight into family negotiations regarding technology usage in such a way that puts technology in the context of recent developments of digital infrastructure, devices, and software--all of which are now woven into the domestic fabric of the modern household.

At the turn of the twenty-first century, typical households were equipped with a landline telephone, a desktop computer connected to a dial-up modem, and a shared television set. Television, radio and newspapers were the dominant mass media. Today, homes are now network hubs for all manner of digital technologies, from mobile devices littering lounge rooms to Bluetooth toothbrushes in bathrooms--and tomorrow, these too will be replaced with objects once inconceivable. Tracing the origins of these digital developments, Jenny Kennedy, Michael Arnold, Martin Gibbs, Bjorn Nansen, and Rowan Wilken advance media domestication research through an ecology-based approach to the abundance and materiality of media in the home. The book locates digital domesticity through phases of adoption and dwelling, to management and housekeeping, to obsolescence and disposal. The authors synthesize household interviews, technology tours, remote data collection via mobile applications, and more to offer readers groundbreaking insight into domestic media consumption. Chapters use original case studies to empirically trace the adoption, use, and disposal of technology by individuals and families within their homes. The book unearths social and material accounts of media technologies, offering insight into family negotiations regarding technology usage in such a way that puts technology in the context of recent developments of digital infrastructure, devices, and software--all of which are now woven into the domestic fabric of the modern household.

Digital Media, Sharing and Everyday Life provides nuanced accounts of the processes of sharing in digital culture and the complexities that arise in them. The book explores definitions of sharing, and the roles that our digital devices and the platforms we use play in these practices.Drawing upon practice theory to outline a theoretical framework of sharing practice, the book emphasizes the need for a coherent and consistent framework of sharing in digital culture and explains what this framework might look like. With insightful descriptions, the book draws out the relationship of sharing to privacy and control, the labored strategies and boundaries of reciprocation, and our relationships with the technologies which mediate sharing practices. The volume is an essential read for researchers, postgraduate and undergraduate students in Media and Communication, New Media, Sociology, Internet Studies, and Cultural Studies.

This is the first academic book to examine the long running hit series Grand Designs, which occupies a significant place in the popular imagination internationally. The authors apply an empirically grounded, critical perspective to the study of television to reveal how people use the program in their everyday lives. The emphasis on everyday uses and meanings combines creatively with understanding the program theoretically, textually and in terms of its production structures. This position challenges framings of the popular lifestyle and factual television genre that has been dominated by a neoliberal or governmentality perspective for many years. Presented by British designer and writer, Kevin McCloud, Grand Designs follows the progress of home owners as they embark on design, renovation and building projects at almost always dizzying scales of endeavour. Understanding the program as both a text to analyse and a site ofmaterial impact, the book draws on interviews with production members, home renovators, building practitioners and audiences, as well as references to associated media formats to provide contextual depth to the analysis. The authors argue that, as a cultural object, the program is both shaped by and enacts social discourses of home-making, design value and taste. Navigating public, commercial and promotional logics, Grand Designs sparks new forms of cultural production and consumer markets.

Personal Injury Practice is a step-by-step guide to personal injury litigation practice written by a highly respected team of authors. It provides everything needed to conduct efficient and successful PI litigation for claimants and sets out authoritative guidance at every stage of proceedings from first interview with a client to the end of an appeal.Written in a unique case management-led style, it approaches the subject with best practice always at the fore. Helpful specimen letters and precedents are included in the text.The new edition covers the numerous developments in the field of PI and includes new chapters on: Accidents abroad Group actions The new computer portal system for claims up to £25,000This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Personal Injury Law online service.