Family rhythms is the first textbook of its kind with an explicit focus on Ireland and Irish families. Uniquely, the book draws on original in-depth interviews with people of different ages to introduce contemporary scholarship on the family and to illustrate how Irish families have adapted and changed over time. With chapters on childhood, adolescence, parenting and grandparenthood, the book shows the resilience of families in different social and historical contexts. Each chapte...

This groundbreaking work of both theoretical and experiential thought by two leading ecological philosophers and animal liberation scientists ventures into a new frontier of applied ethical anthrozoological studies. Through lean and elegant text, readers will learn that human interconnections with other species and ecosystems are severely endangered precisely because we lack - by our evolutionary self-confidence - the very coherence that is everywhere around us abundantly...

Louie Tasche von Ratzen is the galaxy's most loveable rogue, his exploits in the CS Bandit are now legendary as he lurches from one crisis to the next.With his crew of munkys and aided by a pair of guards from the SS Polaris, he thwarts the plans of space pirates and smugglers, stopping along the way to help a damsel in distress.

This work is a large, powerfully illustrated interdisciplinary natural sciences volume, the first of its kind to examine the critically important nature of ecological paradox, through an abundance of lenses: the biological sciences, taxonomy, archaeology, geopolitical history, comparative ethics, literature, philosophy, the history of science, human geography, population ecology, epistemology, anthropology, demographics, and futurism.The ecological paradox suggests that th...

Joanna Rand, a woman who has given up on life and lost faith in love, is suddenly given another chance to live her life to its fullest. Meanwhile, Sean McGovern, a man who has lost almost everything, is suddenly given another chance to rebuild his future.A story about life, love, and the consequences of our actions.

To the outside world, everything is going great for Darcy James. She has a beautiful daughter, a loving husband, and she's just decided to change careers - but things aren't always as they seem.While Darcy is navigating her way through unfamiliar territory, Ainsleigh Sheehy is living life day by day, content that things have settled into a rhythm. Then Darcy walks through the door, and everything begins to change.Can two people dealing with pain, loss, and betrayal, help ea...

This collection was written primarily from December 2013 through 2014. It addresses the topics of domestic violence, suicidal ideation, self-discovery, family, and identity.

Since the mid-1990s Ireland has experienced an extraordinary phase of economic and social development. Housing estates have mushroomed around towns and cities, most notably around the environs of Dublin. Seeking to understand the impact of these recent developments, Corcoron, Gray, and Peillon initiated the New Urban Living study, a detailed research project focused on four suburbs of Dublin. Suburban Affiliations represents the culmination of that research, offering an invaluable contribu...

This compact and elegant work (equally fitting for both academic as well as the trade audiences) provides a readily accessible and highly readable overview of Bhutan’s unique opportunities and challenges; all her prominent environmental legislation, regulatory statutes, ecological customs and practices, both in historic and contemporary terms. At the same time, Bionomics places the ecological context, including a section on animal rights in Bhutan, within the nation’s Buddhist spiritual an...

Kathryn Evans is leaving her rural Nebraska home for college in Salem, Massachusetts. Will her relationship with the father who raised her entirely on his own be able to survive the distance?As Kathryn adjusts to her new life, she faces unexpected challenges. Will those challenges put an end to the life she had planned for herself, or will she be able to rise above them and come out stronger than ever?When Kathryn falls in love with a man she never sees coming, can she must...

How can the one influence the many? From posing seminal questions about what comprises a human individual, to asking whether human evolution is alive and well, favoring individuals or the species, this work is a daring, up-to-the-minute overview of an urgent, multidisciplinary premise. It explores the extent to which human history provides empirical evidence for the capacity of an individual to exert meaningful suasion over their species, and asks: Can an individual influence the survival ...

This book is a provocative and invigorating real-time exploration of the future of human evolution by two of the world’s leading interdisciplinary ecologists – Michael Charles Tobias and Jane Gray Morrison. Steeped in a rich multitude of the sciences and humanities, the book enshrines an elegant narrative that is highly empathetic, personal, scientifically wide-ranging and original. It focuses on the geo-positioning of the human Self and its corresponding species. The book's overarching vi...