A modern classic for readers of THE BORROWERS - about eleven-year-old Edie Winter and her magical box of winged people that only children can see.When eleven-year-old Edie Winter finds a mysterious shoebox on the London Underground she's amazed to discover that it's home to a family of Flits - tiny winged people. But Impy, Speckle and Nid need Edie's help. Not only do they need supplies (rice crispies, sugar sprinkles, digestive biscuits and raisins) and someone to...

In a new magical story about friendship, family and the importance of noticing the little things in life, Edie and the Flits are off to Paris for another adventure!Praise for EDIE AND THE BOX OF FLITS:'Charming' Sunday TimesWhen Edie's dad, who is in charge of London Underground's Lost Property Office, is invited to Paris's Bureau of Found Things, Edie and her friends jump at the chance to j...

This book offers a fresh approach to some of the most studied documents relating to Christian female asceticism in the Roman era. Focusing on the letters of advice to the women of the noble Anicia family, Kate Wilkinson argues that conventional descriptions of feminine modesty can reveal spaces of agency and self-formation in early Christian women's lives. She uses comparative data from contemporary ethnographic studies of Muslim, Hindu, and indigenous Pakistani women to draw out the possi...

An exploration of the extensive intra-personal, interpersonal and group dynamic landscape of human experience pertinent to the understanding of the human shadow in the training of psychotherapists. Using phenomenological enquiry this book invites unique, in-depth experiences, provides new insights and addresses the complexities and diversities inherent in the emergence and containment of shadow experience in psychotherapy training. This book takes the reader through a process of qualitativ...

Edie and the flits are off to Paris for a new adventure!A magical story about friendship, family and the importance of noticing the little things in life.Praise for EDIE AND THE BOX OF FLITS:'Charming' Sunday TimesEdie and Naz were so looking forward to their exciting trip to Paris - until Naz's annoying little sister Sami tagged along, that is.And as if that wasn't enough, S...

A modern classic set against the backdrop of the London Underground, this is a timeless story of friendship, family and noticing the little things in life.When eleven-year-old Edie Winter finds a mysterious box on the London Underground, she goes straight to take it to her father, an employee of the London Underground Lost Property Office. But on her way, Edie is amazed to discover that the box is home to a family of Flits - tiny winged people. And these Flits - Im...

This handbook examines why, how and where creative arts can help meet the social, psychological and occupational needs of people living with dementia and their family carers.Bringing together case studies of music, dance, poetry, digital arts and more, this book explores the core skills needed to co-create inspiring programmes in various settings. Foregrounding the lived experience of people living with dementia and their carers, each chapter showcases best practice, person-centred...

There are countless ways of thinking, feeling, and acting like an ecofeminist. Ecofeminism includes a plurality of perspectives, thriving in dialogue between diverse theories and practices involving ecological and feminist matters of concern. Deepening the dialogue, the contributors in this anthology explore critical and complementary interactions between ecofeminism and other areas of inquiry, including ecocriticism, postcolonialism, geography, environmental law, religion, geoengineering,...

Why do we mistrust people more in the UK than in Japan? Why do Americans have higher rates of teenage pregnancy than the French? What makes the Swedish thinner than the Greeks? The answer: inequality.This groundbreaking book, based on years of research, provides hard evidence to show:- How almost everything - from life expectancy to depression levels, violence to illiteracy - is affected not by how wealthy a society is, but how equal it is- That societies with a bigg...

我們以為生活品質不佳是我們努力得還不夠，但事實是，在貧富落差懸殊的社會裡，有錢人只會變得更有錢，窮人卻原地不動。───對紛亂社會提出診斷，翻譯超過27國語言的暢銷經典───說來矛盾，身處物質與科技登峰造極的年代，我們卻察覺自己備受壓力煎熬、陷入憂鬱；時時擔心他人凝視的眼光，又對人際關係心存懷疑。我們的工時日益增加，焦慮卻絲毫不減；下班後，不由自主購物採買填補空虛的心靈、暴飲暴食撫慰總感到飢餓的身體，甚至淪為酒精、精神藥物與毒品的囚徒。我們明明擁有人類史無前例的財富與舒適生活，為何卻同時製造出那麼多精神與情感痛苦？翻開理查．威金森和凱特．皮凱特的暢銷巨著《社會不平等：為何國家越富裕，社會問題越多？》，你會發現這些熟悉的困境都源自——不平等。兩位作者透過長期的研究數據及圖表證實，從身心健康到暴力犯罪及教育成果，幾乎所有事情都受貧富不均，而非富裕程度所影響。當貧富階級差距越大，人們越容易產生競爭焦慮、進行炫耀性消費，並失去對旁人的同理心及信任感，對每個人（包括有錢人）都不是好事。身心壓力及社會互信關係的流...

收入不平等跟我們有何切身關聯？為什麼高層薪水越領越高、基層薪水萬年不漲，應該被打破？其實我們的心理問題、高壓的人際關係、低落的自信以及被扭曲的天性，統統都跟收入不均、競爭以及不平等的社會有關。為什麼有些國家的人比較放鬆、人際關係不那麼緊張？為何我們總是擔心別人怎麼看待自己，常常覺得參加社交生活就像一場充滿壓力的表演？為什麼美國人得到心理疾病的比例是北歐的三倍？為何美國夢是在丹麥實現而不是美國本土？為何有些國家的兒童福利就是糟到不行？在本書中我們將看到，這些問題的原因就是「不平等」。在上一本著作《社會不平等》當中，知名公衛學者理查．威金森與凱特．皮凱特將不平等放在公共議題的中心，明確地指出較不平等的社會各方面都慘，從教育到平均壽命都遠落後於較平等的社會。他們在本著作中進一步解釋，不平等是如何影響我們每一個人的心靈，包括個人思考、感覺和行為舉止。一開始我們會先到看無可否認的證據，說明物質上的不平等有多麼強大的心理效應：當貧富差距越來越大，人們就越容易以高低階級來評價自己與他人，因為擔憂自己落於人後，自信破滅...

Why is the incidence of mental illness in the UK twice that in Germany? Why are Americans three times more likely than the Dutch to develop gambling problems? Why is child well-being so much worse in New Zealand than Japan? As this groundbreaking study demonstrates, the answer to all these hinges on inequality.In The Spirit Level Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett put inequality at the centre of public debateby showing conclusively that less-equal societies fare wor...