The 20th century brought dramatic change to the closely knit yet independent-minded farming community of Pleasant Garden, North Carolina. Although descendants of the families who migrated from the Eastern Shore of Maryland still lived on the lands of their ancestors and attended Pleasant Garden Methodist Episcopal Church, which was organized in 1788, they welcomed progress. The community became home to one of the first state-supported high schools, and the Pleasant Garden Company built man...

"A Country Gal in the City" is a compilation of short stories and poems, all based on real life experiences. Barbie-Jo has lived in many places across the Canadian Prairies, with deep ancestral roots in the Maritimes. The title refers to her love of the many rural places where she has lived, but also her loving connection to big cities, where she has also made her homes.As she writes on her book cover, the dichotomy between country and city illustrates the contrasts in her life, in...

One afternoon my husband and I were driving in our truck heading home from a great day of fishing. As we chatted, he began to recount a story about being with friends and drifting down a lazy shallow mountain river on a sunny afternoon, enjoying the wonders of Mother Nature. Ahead was a bush trap, which is a low hanging tree limb that catches floating logs and debris. As they swerved to avoid the trap, and simultaneously rounded the bend in the river, they realized they were headed directl...

Interspersed with the recipes are random stories, mostly relating to pie making, but forgive the author if she slipped in a thought or two that has nothing at all to do with the subject matter! You'll also notice "pie notes" that are flagged with the little pie icon - it's a delicious slice of cherry pie (the author's favourite). These notes are meant to draw your attention to specific tips and tricks related to the particular pie that you are "building!" The author has rolled, stirred, an...

Established in 2004, Maori Television has had a major impact on the New Zealand broadcasting landscape. But over the past year or so, the politics of Maori Television have been brought to the foreground of public consciousness, with other media outlets tracking Maori Television's search for a new CEO, allegations of editorial intervention and arguments over news reporting approaches to Te Kohanga Reo National Trust. Based on a Marsden Grant and three years of interviews with key stakeholde...

How many of us make plans, assume an outcome only to have it all go terribly wrong? I know I have. I learned to recognize the shift from everyday to atypical from my dad. He was the master of crisis management and Plan B thinking and I am a chip of the old block! A regular work day turned into a gummy, hardened experience as Dad discovered that his mind had been occupied while he was dressing. Everything let loose mid-morning at the office. The result was a trip home to start all over agai...

In Echoes of a Country Heart, Barbie-Jo Smith shows her skill as a story teller who paints exquisite pictures with her words. Whether it be through raw emotion that tugs at your heartstrings or hilarious humour about the lighter side of life, she leaves you wanting more. Because she writes about experiences we have all had, you come away with a feeling that you can step right into her story poems and experience them first hand.

Archipelago is one of the most important and influential literary magazines of the lasttwenty years. Running to twelve editions, it was edited by Andrew McNeillie, with theassistance later of James McDonald Lockhart, and began as an attempt to reimagine therelationships between the islands of Ireland and Britain. Archipelago has brought togetherestablished and emerging artists in creative conversations that have transformed the studyof islands, coasts and...

This two-volume edited collection showcases the work of leading scholars researching hate crime perpetration. It explores current research into hate crime perpetration, develops theoretical perspectives, and provides scholarly analysis of legal frameworks, policy responses and criminal justice practice. It seeks to understand how hate and intolerance manifest and are perpetrated.This Volume (II) focuses on developing responses to hate in online and offline settings while Volume I a...

This two-volume edited collection showcases the work of leading scholars researching hate crime perpetration. It explores current research into hate crime perpetration, develops theoretical perspectives, and provides scholarly analysis of legal frameworks, policy responses and criminal justice practice. It seeks to understand how hate and intolerance manifest and are perpetrated.This Volume (I) focuses on offender profiles and motivation while Volume II examines developing response...

In all the complex cultural history of the islands of Britain and Ireland the idea of the coast as a significant representative space is critical. For many important artists coastal space has figured as a site from which to braid ideas of empire, nation, region, and archipelago. They have been drawn to the coast as a zone of geographical uncertainty in which the self-definitions of the nation founder; they have been drawn to it as a peripheral space of vestigial wildness, of island retreat...

This volume offers the personal narratives of school, district, and state education leaders engaged in ongoing pursuits of equity, as well as findings from research and from research-practice partnerships. The chapters offer glimmers of hope through glimpses into the experiences of education leaders in the US and New Zealand. None of the stories told offer a fool-proof formula for achieving the goal of culturally responsive, socially just, equity-minded schools. They each present the inher...