Stephanie Taylor

A school shooting in 2016 leaves Daniel Girch in a coma. As he's hovering between life and death, he inexplicably wakes up in his own bedroom...but instead of an iPhone plugged in next to his bed, there's a radio. On the dresser is a stack of cassette tapes. On the wall is a poster of a young Christie Brinkley. And in the closet are parachute pants and polo shirts. Downstairs, Daniel's dead grandmother is making pancakes, and his mom is suddenly an annoying eleven-year-old who plays with Barbies. It's 1986. With the help of his new best friend, Roger, Daniel assimilates to life as a teenager in the 1980s. He learns how to dress the part, to like the music, and to live without the conveniences of the modern world...and he also falls in love with a girl more interesting than any he's ever known. As Daniel fights for his life in 2016, he's awake in 1986 and struggling to save his uncle from the untimely death that changed the course of his whole family's lives. What will happen after he wakes up? And how will the things Daniel does in the past affect the future?

"How great to see such a holistic, 360 degree view of such an essential thing."- Rachel Maddow. This updated 2018 edition reflects constant state of change in California's water issues. With inevitable natural disaster challenges to infrastructure like fire, flood, mud, drought, it includes an essay on dam safety, with Oroville Dam as an example. Presented as an anthology in three dimensions - history, story, and images in paintings and photography, it captures moments of change both visually and verbally. Droughts, floods and water quality issues cast harsh light on how we use water in our lives, our agriculture and our environment. Water policy and use are changing in dramatic ways that also consider the public's right to safe drinking water. "Water: More or Less" provides intriguing insight as to how we got to this point, and proposes options for solutions and answers. Twenty-one top water policy leaders add their diverse voices with personal essays written just for this book, and tell why they care so passionately about water. This edition, updated in 2018, reflects timeless issues, especially with climate change challenges facing California's future.

A warm and witty celebration of the lives of amazing Black women.What will Maya be when she grows up? A rocket scientist like Annie Easley? An Olympic athlete like Alice Coachman? A brain surgeon like Alexa Canady? In this heart-warming and funny story, Maya discovers the achievements of some incredible Black women . . . but it's a brave Nigerian princess who really captures her imagination!This uplifting and empowering picture book is the perfect gift for any young reader.

A warm and witty celebration of the lives of amazing Black women. What will Maya be when she grows up? In this heart-warming and funny story, Maya discovers the achievements of some incredible Black women .

Want to get started in property but worry you don't have enough money, time or experience?Stephanie and Nicky Taylor were there too. These dynamic sisters were working too hard, for too many hours. They wanted the time, freedom and options that property seemed to provide others, but they didn't know how to start and couldn't see anyone like them doing it. Since then, they have gone from financial uncertainty to building their own multi-million pound portfolio and creating an award-winning property business, HMO Heaven.Their unique Rent 2 Rent Success System will enable you to get started in property in a simple, ethical and low-risk way with little capital outlay. Their proven system has been used by hundreds of people across the country and has featured in publications, such as Entrepreneur magazine, The Telegraph and Property Investor Today.This book will: - Guide you right through the whole process, from getting into the right mindset to get started through to building and scaling up your portfolio - Reveal the 6 key areas you need to get right for rent to rent success- Share a proven, practical system that gets results, removes the stress and ensures you avoid expensive newcomer's mistakesIf you're ready to become a gamechanger, join Stephanie and Nicky and get started on your property journey.

Stephanie Taylorʼs first picture book, I Can Change Everything, empowers young children to use imagination to change their circumstances--both the fun parts of life, like playing dress-up or observing nature, and the not-so-fun parts of life, like saying goodbye to a close friend. Hopeful and inspiring, I Can Change Everything reassures children that the world can be made into a better place--exactly how they want it to be. A writer, activist, and mother of three, Stephanie Taylor is the co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee. With beautiful illustrations by Madrid-based artist Laura Brenlla.by Stephanie Taylor - Illustrated by Laura Brenlla

Creative workers have been celebrated internationally for their flexibility in new labour markets centred on culture, creativity and, most recently, innovation. This book draws on research with novice and established workers in a range of specializations in order to explore the meanings, aspirations and practical difficulties associated with a creative identification. It investigates the difficulties and attractions of creative work as a personalized, affect-laden project of self-making, perpetually open and oriented to possibility, uncertain in its trajectory or rewards. Employing a cross-disciplinary methodology and analytic approach, the book investigates the new cultural meanings in play around a creative career. It shows how classic ideals of design and the creative arts, re-interpreted and promoted within contemporary art schools, validate the lived experience of precarious working in the global sectors of the creative and cultural industries, yet also contribute to its conflicts. 'Contemporary Identities of Creativity and Creative Work' presents a distinctive study and original findings which make it essential reading for social scientists, including social psychologists, with an interest in cultural and media studies, creativity, identity, work and contemporary careers.

Caitlin is a normal farm girl living a farm girl's life after world collapse. But she makes a discovery that, on her twelfth birthday, will change her life forever.

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.What is Discourse Analysis? is an accessible introduction to an empirical research approach which is widely used in the social sciences and related disciplines.This book explores the idea of how meaning is socially constructed and how 'talk' and text can be interpreted. The challenges of discourse analysis are outlined as well as helpful ways to approach them - from finding the right starting point, processing and interpreting data through to building an argument. Discourse analysts work with language data, including talk, documents and broadcast material. Researchers in different traditions study interactions and social practices, meaning-making and larger meaning systems, and contests and conflicts around collective identities, social norms and subjectification. What is Discourse Analysis? addresses new researchers and other academics interested in language and its associated practices. The book outlines the history of discourse analysis, its key concepts and theorists and its uses and challenges. Discussions of published studies illustrate the use of the approach to investigate a range of research topics, such as gender, health and national identities. The book also addresses the practical aspects of discourse analysis, providing clear guidance on data collection and data processing, including transcription and selection. Covering important topics, What is Discourse Analysis? draws from recent articles to show how discourse analysis works in action. Common questions about discourse analysis are presented in a lively and accessible Q&A format. This book will be an essential resource for all researchers working with discourse analysis.

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.What is Discourse Analysis? is an accessible introduction to an empirical research approach which is widely used in the social sciences and related disciplines.This book explores the idea of how meaning is socially constructed and how 'talk' and text can be interpreted. The challenges of discourse analysis are outlined as well as helpful ways to approach them - from finding the right starting point, processing and interpreting data through to building an argument. Discourse analysts work with language data, including talk, documents and broadcast material. Researchers in different traditions study interactions and social practices, meaning-making and larger meaning systems, and contests and conflicts around collective identities, social norms and subjectification. What is Discourse Analysis? addresses new researchers and other academics interested in language and its associated practices. The book outlines the history of discourse analysis, its key concepts and theorists and its uses and challenges. Discussions of published studies illustrate the use of the approach to investigate a range of research topics, such as gender, health and national identities. The book also addresses the practical aspects of discourse analysis, providing clear guidance on data collection and data processing, including transcription and selection. Covering important topics, What is Discourse Analysis? draws from recent articles to show how discourse analysis works in action. Common questions about discourse analysis are presented in a lively and accessible Q&A format. This book will be an essential resource for all researchers working with discourse analysis.

Changes of residence are common in contemporary Western societies. Traditional connections to birthplaces, home towns and countries are broken as people relocate and migrate, yet where they live remains significant to people’s identity and stories of who they are. This book investigates the continuing importance of place for women’s identities, employing a theoretical and empirical approach based on previous work in narrative and discursive psychology. Through an analysis of women’s talk, the book examines how commonsense meanings shape and limit people’s identity-work to establish a connection to place. It argues that talk about place, and especially place of residence, enables a complex positioning of self and others in which identities of gender, class and national identity intersect. It shows how a speaker’s multiple interpretations of where she lives remain central to her life narrative, and to her fragile and idealized definition of ‘home’ as the place in which she may position herself positively.Narratives of Identity and Place presents a unique and valuable integration of the popular methods of narrative and discourse analysis, compellingly demonstrating the value of these approaches for research on identity.

Creative workers have been celebrated internationally for their flexibility in new labour markets centred on culture, creativity and, most recently, innovation. This book draws on research with novice and established workers in a range of specializations in order to explore the meanings, aspirations and practical difficulties associated with a creative identification. It investigates the difficulties and attractions of creative work as a personalized, affect-laden project of self-making, perpetually open and oriented to possibility, uncertain in its trajectory or rewards. Employing a cross-disciplinary methodology and analytic approach, the book investigates the new cultural meanings in play around a creative career. It shows how classic ideals of design and the creative arts, re-interpreted and promoted within contemporary art schools, validate the lived experience of precarious working in the global sectors of the creative and cultural industries, yet also contribute to its conflicts. 'Contemporary Identities of Creativity and Creative Work' presents a distinctive study and original findings which make it essential reading for social scientists, including social psychologists, with an interest in cultural and media studies, creativity, identity, work and contemporary careers.