This book provides an alternative perspective on community resilience, drawing on critical sociological and social policy insights about how people individually and collectively cope with different kinds of adversity. Based on the idea that resilience is more than simply an invention of neoliberal governments, this book explores diverse expressions of resilience and considers what supports and undermines people’s resilience in different contexts. Focusing on the United Kingdom, it examines...

Love Inspired Suspense brings you three new titles! Enjoy these suspenseful romances of danger and faith.This box set includes:CHASING DANGER (A K-9 Search and Rescue story)by Kerry JohnsonWhen K-9 Officer Daniel Fletcher responds to a panicked call from his estranged childhood friend, Annabelle Brooks, he discovers her clinging to the edge of a cliff, fighting for her life. Her search for missing friends in Mesa Verd...

Victoria Beckham uses them backstage at her fashion shows.Miranda Kerr places them in her meditation-yoga room.Adele raves about their calming properties.Welcome to the world of healing crystals.Crystals have existed on earth for millions of years. They're a tool which work with your energy field to absorb, focus and direct energies. This modern, empowering guide illustrates how to tap in to the energy of crystals to strengthen intuition, set intention and f...

Connect with the healing energies and ancestral stories of 20 ancient stones, following Katie-Jane Wright's travels to sacred sites.Discover the healing properties and inner energies of these stones through ancient legends. Connect to the stones and our shared ancestors with your heart centre for healing and spiritual growth.After travelling to many sacred sites, exploring her own heritage and gathering legends of venerable stones, Katie-Jane Wright has cur...

The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (2013– 17) was one of the largest public inquiries in Australian history and one of the most important investigations into child abuse internationally. It facilitated a national conversation about justice for victims and survivors and how to improve child safety in the future. Through the examination of practices in key social institutions, including churches, schools, sporting clubs, hospitals and voluntary organisati...

This book examines father-son relations and their role in the transfer of forms of masculinity and fathering practices. It also explores how far the psychosocial resources transferred from fathers to sons enable sons to navigate challenges in their everyday lives, particularly in contexts of disadvantage and marginalization. This study is a successor to an earlier book examining the inter-generational transfer of human wellbeing amongst Latin American migrant women and their daughters. By ...

Katie Wright explores how human wellbeing is constructed and how it 'travels' across spatial boundaries. She draws on empirical research, undertaken with Peruvian migrants based in London and Madrid and their Peru-based relatives and close friends to explore how human wellbeing is constructed and how it 'travels' transnationally.

The statistics are alarming and become more so every year. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 1 in 68 children have been identified with an autism spectrum disorder, making it one of the fastest growing developmental disorders in the United States. Further, the CDC estimates that parents with a child on the autism spectrum can have nearly a 20 percent chance of having a second child with autism.In How to Prevent Autism, Dara Berger shares her per...

Social Theory and Health Education brings together health education scholarship with a diverse range of social theories to demonstrate the value and impact of their application to associated health and education contexts.For the first time, this book draws together cutting-edge research that demonstrates the productive and impactful ways social theory can be applied to the diversity of research in this field. Topics covered include digital health, health education in sexua...

Iris Wildthyme and Panda are back in three more unique audio adventures in Time, Space and the little bits in between.Whatever Happened to Iris Wildthyme? by Cavan Scott and Mark WrightIris is living the life she always dreamt of, swanning from one party to the next. From the swinging Sixties to the roaring Twenties to Freddie Mercury's 40th birthday bash via Ancient Rome, Iris has become the ultimate party girl. What more could she want? But who are those sinister ticking f...

In a time of ongoing global instability and the emergence of new fault lines of social inequality generated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the rights of children and young people have been thrown into sharp relief. From uncertain futures arising from the climate crisis to concerns about regressive and reactionary politics to widespread experiences of harassment, abuse and violence, young people and their advocates are mobilising for social change and making their voices heard.Across a v...

An examination of the Western world's contemporary fascination with psychological life, and the historical developments that fostered it.In this book, sociologist Katie Wright traces the ascendancy of therapeutic culture, from nineteenth-century concerns about nervousness, to the growth of psychology, the diffusion of an analytic attitude, and the spread of therapy and counseling, using Australia as a focal point.Wright's analysis, which draws on social theor...