Welcome to the world of Rosie Nix! Rosie loves science, bike riding, and pancakes on Saturdays. She DOES NOT LIKE having to try new things. So what happens when she has to learn about Football in school PE? "Rosie Nix Knows Nothing About Football" is the first book in this quirky new children's series for ages 6-10.Written by a clinical psychologist with over 25 years of experience working with children and young people, Rosie Nix's stories will resonate with young children who hav...

Part of our new series of accessible introductory guides to significant contemporary filmmakers, this guide is a must for film fans and students of contemporary cinema alike. An introductory chapter highlights thematic and visual devices, followed by an exploration of British director Steve McQueen’s work, from his short films and video art through his critically acclaimed feature films, including his masterpiece, the Academy Award-winning 12 Years A Slave, to his BBC TV series Small Axe a...

Perseverance, thought Connor. To not give up even when it is hard to keep going.Connor loves practicing taekwondo at his dojang. Having ADHD means he has to work a little harder to keep his focus during sparring sessions, but that doesn't stop him from mastering new forms and rising through the taekwondo ranks. However, when Wyatt--Connor's nemesis--starts training at the same dojang, staying focused suddenly becomes a lot harder. Can Connor perse...

A significant driver of disengagement amongst employees is a lack of psychological safety generated from weak and underdeveloped intra- and interpersonal skills on the part of managers. Addressing the issue head on, this book enables leaders to lead with conscious awareness to build and sustain psychologically safe cultures through which team members may positively engage with work in a far more meaningful and purposeful way.All too often, leadership-follower relationships are pure...

Francis Beedings "Das Haus von Dr. Edwardes" erschien 1927. "Haus" ist allerdings leicht untertrieben. Château Landry ist ein mittelalterliches Schloss. Hier führt Dr. Edwardes eine renommierte Nervenklinik. Zwei neue Ärzte werden erwartet: Dr. Murchison, Psychiater, und die Berufsanfängerin Dr. Constance Sedgwick, die bei ihrer Ankunft feststellen muss, dass Dr. Edwardes abgereist ist – er hat selbst einen Nervenzusammenbruch erlitten. Zudem hat der unter Zwangsvorstellungen leidende neue...

In Francis Iles' Thriller "Before the Fact", der Vorlage für "Suspicion", geht es nicht um das "Wer" sondern um das "Ob". Cox verfasste das Buch unter dem Pseudonym Francis Iles. Sein Protagonist, charming Johnny Aysgarth, wirkt ebenfalls verdächtig "pseudo". Lina, ledig und auf dem Weg zur "alten Jungfer", verfällt ihm sofort und heiratet ihn, obwohl ihre Familie überzeugt ist, daß Johnny nur hinter ihrem Geld her sei. Schließlich besäße Lina zwar einen messerscharfen Verstand, wäre aber ...

Jen Vincent believes everyone is a writer. This conviction has long been her secret to success in classrooms and workshops where she empowers writers of all ages.In Living the Life of a Writer, Vincent shifts the focus of writing instruction from the writing to the writer—guiding teachers so they can help students boldly face the blank page and move through their writing process with enthusiasm.Through a broad lens view, Vincent explores writing instruction as a cl...

This book sets out to document and analyse the Sámi narrative tradition. It considers the worldviews inherent in the narratives and links them to traditional cosmology and other cultural expressions (such as joik and duodji). The chapters address a variety of issues, including care for children, the perception of nature, disputes over land and natural resources, local justice, the spiritual world of everyday life, and Læstadianism. Sketching Sámi history and the cultural context of storyte...

This book explores the significance of new information technology for socio-cultural change and provides ethnographic insight into the early days of remote working. It draws on long-term anthropological fieldwork among people in rural Denmark working from home via the internet. Going back to the late 1990s and early 2000s, the study demonstrates how remote and flexible working was mostly practiced informally, fostering incremental changes to the cultural domain of ‘work’. It captures the d...

This book brings together some of the key researchers and thinkers in the field of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and/or queer (LGBTIQ+) teacher research. The authors offer international perspectives on the state of play for LGBTIQ+ teachers and engage with some of the key issues that have and continue to shape research. Importantly, this book offers accounts from trans*/non-binary teachers and researchers as well as racialised LGBTIQ+ teachers and researchers—voices that ha...

This book argues that long-ignored, non-western political systems from the distant and more recent past can provide critical insights into improving global governance.These societies show how successful collection action can occur by dividing sovereignty, consensus building, power from below, and other mechanisms. For a better tomorrow, we need to free ourselves of the colonial constraints on our political imagination. A pandemic, war in Europe, and another year of climatic anomali...

This volume brings together perspectives from different parts of the world that showcase the wide variety of practices, institutions, and ideologies that allowed for shared identities and coordinated actions across broad collectives. It shows that there are many ways that people can work together.How did the world’s first large-scale collectives come into being? For much of our discipline’s history, the answer was the state. People learned how to be part of a larger community via p...