This book explores how episodes of ‘nothing’, or lost experience, shape accounts of self-identity.What is the most important thing that is not in your life? We tell stories about absent people, missed opportunities, things we yearn or wish for and events that never happened. These negative phenomena hold special meanings in memory and imagination, and can have a deep emotional impact. They help us to understand who we are in relation to who we are not - our alternate, impossible selves and...

This accessible, introductory text explains the importance of studying 'everyday life' in the social sciences. Susie Scott examines such varied topics as leisure, eating and drinking, the idea of home, and time and schedules in order to show how societies are created and reproduced by the apparently mundane 'micro' level practices of everyday life.Each chapter is organized around three main themes: 'rituals and routines', 'social order', and 'challenging the taken-for-granted', wit...

Nothing really matters. All the things that we do not do, have or become in our lives can be important in shaping self-identity. From jobs turned down to great loves lost, secrets kept and truths untold, people missed and souls unborn, we understand ourselves through other, unlived lives that are imaginatively possible. This book explores the realm of negative social phenomena – no-things, no-bodies, non-events and no-where places – that lies behind the mirror of experience.Taking ...

Identity is never just an individual matter; it is intricately shaped by our experiences of social life. Taking a Symbolic Interactionist approach, and drawing on Goffman’s dramaturgical theory, Susie Scott explores the micro-social processes of interaction through which identities are created, maintained, challenged and reinvented. With a focus on empirical studies as illustrations, classic sociological theory is applied to contemporary examples.Each chapter focuses on a key dimen...

A GRIPPING PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER OF SECRETS, LIES AND DEADLY BETRAYAL.If you liked Harlan Coben's Netflix hit, 'Fool Me Once' then you'll love 'No Way Out'.When trust breaks, the truth bleeds.VeriScan AI is at the cutting edge of truth detection, exposing deepfakes and digital lies. Led by CEO Abigail Elsher, the company is built on precision, control, and the promise that truth can always be found.But behind the i...

Discover a heartwarming true story of joy, hope, and resilience…Now a major motion picture starring Zachary Levi.The Unbreakable Boy is the raucously tender story of the life of a teenage boy with autism and a rare brittle bone disease who joyfully embraces life's tragedies and triumphs.Like any other teenage boy, Austin loves pizza, movies, dancing, and girls. But unlike most other eighteen-year-olds, he has a rar...

Discover a heartwarming true story of joy, hope, and resilience…Now a major motion picture starring Zachary Levi.The Unbreakable Boy is the raucously tender story of the life of a teenage boy with autism and a rare brittle bone disease who joyfully embraces life's tragedies and triumphs.Like any other teenage boy, Austin loves pizza, movies, dancing, and girls. But unlike most other eighteen-year-olds, he has a rar...

In this novella collection, three renowned Christian historical fiction authors trace generations of wartime romances through a wedding dress with love sewn into its seams.A Heart in Disguise by Rachel Scott McDanielClara Westlake loves her job in the US “Camouflage Corps,” sewing suits for snipers and contributing to the war effort. But when she overhears a threat against her beloved New York City, the Great War comes too close to home—except no one believes her forewarning...

This pocket-sized monograph covers key aspects of English wine – from the history to modern developments via climate change, geology, grape varieties, viticulture, winemaking, recent vintages – while the core of the book profiles the country’s leading producers. Wine tourism has its own section (‘There’s never been a better time to visit English wine country,’ declare the authors), as does a listing of key overseas distributors to reflect the growing importance of exports. A map of the mai...

The book presents a revolutionary approach to higher education based on empathy, trust and collaboration. It describes how people can be brought together across cultural, racial, ethnic, gender, sexuality, class, ability and other divides in a spirit of love and liberation. The setting for the book is "The Bible as Literature" course taught at the University of South Florida by Dr. Gary L. Lemons. The teaching,learning and writing experiences and methods described here can be deployed not ...

This edited collection brings together social scientists to interpret identity from a wide range of analytical perspectives. Drawing on multiple interpretive traditions from the last 100 years, the book explores how underlying social, cultural and psychological forces shape the dimensions of identity.Chapters emphasize how identity forms and functions in relation to key sociological issues such as social power, social control and the production and reproduction of social inequaliti...

“Scott Parazynski’s drive, curiosity, inventiveness, and great humor shine through the pages of The Sky Below and will certainly inspire future generations to pursue their dreams with every fiber in their being.” —John Glenn, NASA astronautAn epic memoir from a man whose life is defined by exploration and innovation, The Sky Below re-creates some of the most unforgettable adventures of our time. From dramatic, high-risk spacewalks to author Scott ...