In Life Beside Itself, Lisa Stevenson takes us on a haunting ethnographic journey through two historical moments when life for the Canadian Inuit has hung in the balance: the tuberculosis epidemic (1940s to the early 1960s) and the subsequent suicide epidemic (1980s to the present). Along the way, Stevenson troubles our commonsense understanding of what life is and what it means to care for the life of another. Through close attention to the images in which we think and dream and ...

Welcome to this working from home toolkit. With thirty one individual cards to provide you with inspiration, hints, quotes, tips and ideas. Creating great outcomes for you as you navigate working from home over the course of just a single month and change your approach to working, living and being forever. Every card comes with a beautiful picture, explanation covering what the activity is, ideas to make that happen and what outcomes you can create and expect. There are eight categories of...

Combining first-person narration, philosophical reflections, and advocacy, this volume features conversations with anthropologists and ethnographers Lisa Stevenson, João Biehl, and Kristen Ghodsee and offers a toolkit of strategies for listening as a form of care. The contributors teach us to foreground the lives of ordinary people within a rapidly changing political and institutional landscape, and afford us opportunities to explore and reimagine health in relation to frameworks such as p...

Step into the comforting fog of time with A Right Cozy Historical Crime, a deliciously diverse anthology of cozy mysteries that span centuries and continents. From ancient alleys to a Victorian medical school, American towns to Scottish glens, these tales take you on a gentle stroll through history - where murder hides behind lace curtains and secrets linger in candlelit corridors. Perfect for fans of clever sleuths, rich historical detail, and mysteries solved with more brains th...

De kom objudna, nu vägrar de att gå …Tamsin hemsöks av ovälkomna besökare i sitt hem – hon kallar dem "gästerna".Ingen annan än hon själv känner av deras närvaro. Men när hon anförtrodde sig åt sin man lämnade han henne, så det misstaget tänker hon inte begå igen.Men nu börjar gästernas närvaro tära på relationen till tonårsdottern Summer. För varje dag som går blir deras existens allt svårare att uthärda. De påverkar hela Tamsins liv, och hon behöver hjälp.M...

There are no limits to where a butterfly can go or what it can achieve. In its caterpillar-like state of pattern, it is limited and predictable. However, upon its transformation, only the butterfly can speak to its journey and knows the struggle, the strength, resilience, and patience it takes to emerge from its resting place, new and improved, better and stronger, more prepared to fly in its potential, no longer crawling in its pattern. The butterfly knows the cocoon is a guiding post, no...

Imagistic Care explores ethnographically how images function in our concepts, our writing, our fieldwork, and our lives. With contributions from anthropologists, philosophers and an artist, the volume asks: How can imagistic inquiries help us understand the complex entanglements of self and other, dependence and independency, frailty and charisma, notions of good and bad aging, and norms and practices of care in old age? And how can imagistic inquiries offer grounds for critique?

How can education become a transformative experience for all learners and teachers? The contributors to this volume contend that the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) can provide a strong foundation for the role of education in promoting social justice. The collection features contributions by an array of educators and scholars, highlighting the various ways that learners and teachers can prepare for and engage with social justice concerns. The essays offer reflections on the val...

Perfekta grannar, fulländade lögner …När Violas nya grannar flyttar in i nummer 33, verkar allt till en början frid och fröjd. Men bakom fasaden till den välskötta gräsmattan och de artiga leendena lurar mörka hemligheter.När Viola, en stillsam pensionär, börjar gräva djupare i grannfamiljens märkliga beteende upptäcker hon ett oroande nät av lögner.Pappan, Rhys, är fientlig. Mamman, Wendy, tycks vara på väg att förlora greppet om verkligheten och d...

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore them...

AN AUDIBLE 'BEST OF THE YEAR' SELECTIONThis is a neglected history. No attempt at a sweeping, definitive, exhaustive history of the world but something quieter, more intimate and particular, told by Annabelle Hirsch through her selection of 101 objects, and now brought thrillingly alive for you by a chorus of 101 remarkable women in this ground-breaking audio release.Open up this cabinet of curiosities and you’ll discover objects that have been highly estee...

Hija de uno de los mayores mitos de Estados Unidos y criada en el territorio salvaje de Graceland, Lisa Marie Presley cuenta por primera vez su historia en estas memorias sinceras, conmovedoras y totalmente únicas, fielmente completadas por su hija, Riley Keough.En 2022, Lisa Marie Presley le pidió a su hija que la ayudase a terminar las memorias que tanto tiempo llevaba preparando.Un mes después, Lisa Marie fallecía, dejando al mundo sin la posibilidad de ...