Nancy Lee

A searing exploration of girlhood in the pre- and post- #MeToo eras from the acclaimed novelist. CBC Best Canadian Poetry of 2020 What keeps a kind girl alive in the wild? The men in town are crapshoots, sawbucks, coins striking heads and tails. Nancy Lee's searing collection of poems confronts how socially ingrained violence and sexual power dynamics distort and dislocate girlhood, womanhood, and relationships. Startling and visceral, the poems in What Hurts Going Down deconstruct a lifetime of survival, hover in the uneasy territory of pre- and post- #MeToo, and scrutinize the changing wagers of being female.

A wide-ranging anthology of personal essays from diverse voices about their relationships to the fibre arts.Sometimes, the reliability of a knit stitch, the steady rocking of a quilting needle, the solid structure of a loom, is all you have. During the pandemic, fiber arts newbies discovered and lapsed crafters rediscovered that picking up some sticks and string or a needle and thread was the perfect way to reduce stress, quell anxiety, and foster creativity, an antidote to endless hours of doom-scrolling.Chances are you or someone close to you is currently in an ecstatic relationship with yarn, thread, or fabric. As we struggle with the pressures, anxieties, and impacts of daily life, fiber arts--knitting, crocheting, embroidery, weaving, beading, sewing, quilting, textiles--can be an antidote, a mirror and a metaphor for so many of life's challenges. Part time machine, part meditation app, the simple act of working with one's hands instantly reduces the overwhelming scope of living to a human scale and the present moment.In this nonfiction anthology, writers and artists from different backgrounds explore their complex relationships to fiber arts and the intersection of creative practice and identity, technology, climate change, trauma, politics, chronic illness, and disability. In answer tothe mainstream craft space's tendency to centre the perspectives and careers ofwhite women, Sharp Notions showcases Black, Indigenous, South-Asian, Chinese, and queer artists and makers and the cultural traditions of craft indiasporic communities. Accompanied by full-colour photographs throughout, thesepowerful essays challenge the traditional view of crafting and examine therole, purpose, joy, and necessity of craft amid the alienation of contemporarylife.

"This book gives the reader a great slice of the true frontier Alaskan experience. Nancy Lee has walked the walk...her stories are heartfelt, exciting, and inspirational. If you've had a yearning to pack up, leave the city life behind, and head into the Alaskan wilderness, Nancy's stories willhelp show you the way." -Charles Heath Jr., father, teacher, Alaskan author and gold miner."This is a fascinating tale of a girl growing up on America's last frontier, in the wilderness of Alaska with its bear, moose, caribou, and wolves, with many close calls and adventures. Nancy was married to a bold bushpilot who was also a gold miner, hunting guide and flyer of Mt. McKinley climbers. All in all, a wonderful story of high adventure in Alaska." -Lowell Thomas Jr., former Lt. Governor and Alaska State Senator, adventurer, author, film and television producer, lecturer, and Alaskan Bush Pilot.COVER - Talkeetna Air Taxi flying to recover climbers after being caught in a weather emergency for eight days on the Kahiltna Glacier, Mount Denal, Alaska.

Nina, a new graduate from fashion design in college, gladly accepts the offer to have her palm read as a graduation gift. Smiling, the palm reader tells Nina that she has a long lifeline, as she traces it on her hand. As soon as the words are uttered, the palm reader's facial expression turns to one of fear. In broken English, she whispers, "Break - very bad break in middle of life. Maybe you die."Nina does come close to death at age thirty-four when she and her family are involved in a serious auto accident. She assumes she has successfully cheated the death that the palm reader prophesied. Unfortunately, the sinister and tragic break in the lifeline and its deliverer are yet to be revealed.

Why read Sustaining Seas? It is as simple as this: the seas sustain all life. This edited book emerges from conversations across several disciplines, and including practitioners of different specialities (artists, writers, planners, policy makers) about how to sustain the seas, as they sustain us. Sustaining Seas: Oceanic space and the politics of care aims to build a better understanding of what it means to care for aquatic places and their biocultural communities. The book is truly interdisciplinary and brings together a wide range of authors including, academics from diverse fields (architecture, science, cultural studies, law), artists, fisheries managers, and Indigenous Traditional Owners. It provides readers with new theoretical framings, as well as grounded case studies with a wide geographical and cultural breadth. This book assumes that understanding complexity, including social, cultural, ecological and economic interconnections, is crucial to any solution. Sustaining the seas is one of the most pressing global challenges for the planet and all her inhabitants. How to do justice to this challenge is an exigency for all scholars, and how to represent the oceans is a guiding theme in the book that is addressed by scholars, artists, and practitioners.

Why read Sustaining Seas? It is as simple as this: the seas sustain all life. This edited book emerges from conversations across several disciplines, and including practitioners of different specialities (artists, writers, planners, policy makers) about how to sustain the seas, as they sustain us. Sustaining Seas: Oceanic space and the politics of care aims to build a better understanding of what it means to care for aquatic places and their biocultural communities. The book is truly interdisciplinary and brings together a wide range of authors including, academics from diverse fields (architecture, science, cultural studies, law), artists, fisheries managers, and Indigenous Traditional Owners. It provides readers with new theoretical framings, as well as grounded case studies with a wide geographical and cultural breadth. This book assumes that understanding complexity, including social, cultural, ecological and economic interconnections, is crucial to any solution. Sustaining the seas is one of the most pressing global challenges for the planet and all her inhabitants. How to do justice to this challenge is an exigency for all scholars, and how to represent the oceans is a guiding theme in the book that is addressed by scholars, artists, and practitioners.

"Shelly Cat By the Sea: Adventures at the Beach" is the delightful story of Shelly Cat and her two "marvelous" mice friends, Marv & Louis, who live by the beach. The three friends build sand castles, collect sea shells, and have adventures at the beach seeing dolphins, sea lions and harbor seals. The inquisitive cat and mice watch pelicans plunge into the sea for dinner, snowy egrets "dance" on the beach and see cormorants with turquoise eyes and throats. Each adventure is an opportunity for education about the beach environment on the west coast of Southern California. Shelly Cat and the mice even spend time picking up trash on the beach. Shelly Cat is a very happy cat and clearly enjoys her life by the sea. She wears assorted hats and necklaces. Marv & Louis each have distinctive personalities. Marv is the serious one who likes to read books and watches out for Louis. Louis is shy and has a childlike silliness. Louis often carries paper umbrellas used for drinks that he found at the beach. One day the mice discover that they are talented at weaving baskets and hats from reeds growing in the marsh on the bay. Another day the three friends run away from the waves with the tiny Sanderling birds. Together they collect and learn about sea weeds and hermit crabs, which live in sea shells in the tide pools. Shelly Cat, Marv & Louis go grunion hunting under the full moon and collect pine nuts from Torrey Pine trees. They watch Western sea gulls raise their polka-dotted chicks. Every day is a marvelous adventure at the beach with Shelly Cat By the Sea and her two mice friends, Marv & Louis. Both adults and children will enjoy this book. "Shelly Cat By the Sea: Adventures at the Beach" has beautiful watercolor illustrations, which have been created from Nancy Lee, Artist By-the-Sea's nature photography. Nancy Lee, Artist By-the-Sea has previously published "A Guide to San Diego Sea Shells", which is a sea shell education book with her watercolor illustrations and photography of sea shells.

Local San Diego resident, Nancy Lee, Artist By-the-Sea, has written and illustrated A Guide to San Diego Sea Shells. This book contains Nancy Lee's watercolor sea shell illustrations & sea shell photographs with educational information about the sea shells written in calligraphy. - Learn information such as the name of local sea shells, how long some shells live, predators of some of these marine mollusks and where these sea shells can be found in other parts of the west coast. - Discover fun facts about some of our local San Diego sea shells - Identify San Diego sea shells from photographs.

Vices are outlawed in Cloquet in 1918—except on the Island. There, loggers can have the time of their lives with drink, women of the night, and poker games. When the city is threatened by fire, the virtuous citizens of Cloquet have to overcome their prejudice in order to survive. Everything is destroyed—except the Island. As one reporter commented, "The Devil takes care of his own.

Social Marketing for Public Health examines how social marketing is used as a strategy for changing health behavior in the world today. Addressing issues and trends in social marketing and public health globally, it highlights successful and measurable health behavior-changing campaigns launched by the governments, by a combination of the governments and citizens, or by the citizens themselves in various countries. Each chapter focuses on one selected country, making the content very accessible. The text provides an in-depth and up-to-date treatment of the subject matter.