This book examines the dominance of social construction within sociology while shedding light on what social construction looks like in practice beyond the realm of sociological thought.The idea that reality is socially constructed has dominated sociological thinking since Berger and Luckmann’s seminal work in the 1960s, but it has also been widely accepted across society and the media as the explanation of a wide range of phenomena, including conceptions of beauty, the value of mo...

‘Painful, raw and with an honesty that rings clear as a bell’ Catherine Simpson, author of When I Had a Little SisterA searing account of a mother’s late-diagnosis of autism – and its reaching effects on a whole family.‘[A] vividly told and profoundly affecting memoir’ The Bookseller‘A brilliant, searing account and I defy anyone not to be gripped by it.’ Sally MagnussonAnna grew up...

Paddington returns for another fun-filled instalment of marmalade and mishaps in a star-studded new movie!Join the irresistible Brown family and their adopted bear, plus a whole new cast of heroes and villains. Bigger and better than ever, the story of the new Paddington movie is both hilarious and heart-warming. Guaranteed to capture the hearts of fans, old and new!

New for 2024, the unmissable, official novelisation of the third Paddington movie!In his third big screen outing from Studiocanal, the creators of Wonka and the Harry Potter movies, Paddington and the Browns leave Windsor Gardens to embark on an epic adventure to visit Aunt Lucy at The Home for Retired Bears. There, they find a mystery that sends them on a hilarious and thrilling journey along the Amazon, through the jungle and up to the mountain peaks of Peru.This...

The Four Rooms of Change - The Changing Formula A deep insight into Claes Janssens unique practical psychological change theory. Four Rooms is the Changing formula that has been used for decades by more than 100,000 people in a wide variety of cultures. We show how Four Rooms helps each individual and how it is possible to develop and embrace change jointly because Four Rooms engages the emotional level. Whether in a company or in a classroom, it makes it possible to work more smoothly tog...

From Jane Yolen, the author of the Caldecott Award–winning book Owl Moon, comes a friendship story about a bird-loving boy who meets a bird-loving girl in the picture book Love Birds, featuring illustrations by Anna Wilson.Jon loved to listen to birdsong. Bright cardinals, cawing crows, chatty chickadees, wrens, and jays; barn swallows and doves’ lullabies. He especially loved to listen to owls.One night when an owl hoots, throaty and love...

Anna Wilson is Assistant Professor of English at Harvard University.

Nine-year-old Pippa Peppercorn loves helping out at the only beauty salon in the quiet town of Crumbly-Under-Edge. A cosy joint run by the cuddly Mrs Semolina Ribena Fudge, customers and their pets stop by as much for the tea and sympathy as for a trim. But when rival beautician Trinity Meddler comes to town and sets up shop, Mrs Fudge is in danger of losing her customers. What's more, Trinity has a sinister plan up her sleeve - involving oodles of poodles! Luckily Dash the talking dachshu...

A heartwarming story of winter magic from the bestselling author of The Girl and the Dinosaur.Here's a city hard at work,with a billion bustling feet –its spires and domes all stretching upfrom cobbled knobbled streets . . .In the heart of a great city lives a little boy without a home.But when Quinn finds a magical snow globe, everything begins to change . . . For when snow begins to ...

Bertie Fletcher is back! She's happier than a cat who's got the custard when she gets Jaffa, her very own beautiful marmalade kitten. Even Dad seems to have come to terms with the whole pet-owning thing. But then the horrendously over-perfect Meerley family arrives on the scene and Jaffa is caught in a tug-of-love between them and Bertie. Who will Jaffa decide she wants to live with? May the best family win!The sequel to KITTEN KABOODLE, this is another funny and heart-warming stor...

Bertie Fletcher is determined to find out who or what has been bothering her kitten. Jaffa's clearly spooked by something - she's even tried to hide herself in the fridge! With the help of some video equipment Bertie mounts a surveillance operation and finds out that a big bad tom cat has been hurtling uninvited through the catflap. But it turns out that Bob the bruiser isn't quite as scary as he seems - and he soon finds himself the welcome recipient of attention from a mystery source . ....

Ten-year-old Bertie Fletcher has only ever wanted one thing - a pet - but her grumpy dad won't allow her so much as a goldfish. So, to score herself plenty of animal time, she sets us a secret pet-sitting service. The perfect solution . . . or is it? Her first ward, Kaboodle, may just give her more than she bargained for!A funny, heart-warming and slightly cat-astrophic story about a kitten whose tongue is sharper than his claws.