An empowering memoir of a life reclaimed through reading.'Moving and inspiring, this is a book you want to start reading again, as soon as you have finished' SUSANNAH FULLERTON'Wilson's memoir is essential reading for anyone who wants to experience and understand the unique comfort that Austen's works universally provide.' NATALIE JENNERRuth Wilson first encountered Pride and Prejudice in the 1940s and has returned to Jane Austen countless times over the course of a...

This practical and easy-to-read guide shows you how to integrate nature connectedness and spiritual development into your early childhood teaching, whether in a nature-based forest program or a more traditional one. It uses a research-based framework to illustrate ways nature and spirituality can contribute to quality of life during the early childhood years and beyond. Detailing favourable conditions for supporting children’s connectedness to nature and spiritual development—including pos...

An uplifting and delightfully bookish memoir about an 89-year-old woman who reclaims her life by re-reading each of Jane Austen's novels.As she approached the age of seventy, Ruth Wilson began to have recurring dreams about losing her voice. Unable to dismiss her feelings of unexplainable sadness, she made the radical decision to retreat from her conventional life with her husband to a small sunshine-yellow cottage in the Southern Highlands where she lived alone for the next decade...

Now in its third edition, Nature and Young Children promotes the holistic development of children by connecting them with nature. It offers practical advice on how to set up indoor and outdoor nature play spaces as well as encouraging environmentally responsible attitudes, values and behaviour in your early childhood setting.With fully revised chapters in line with recent developments to policy and practice, and brand new material covering Early Childhood Education for Sus...

This volume adopts a holistic approach and focuses on the child with special educational needs as an active learner, rather than on how to cope with a disability. Young children with special needs can be very active learners when provided with environments that encourage alternative ways to explore and experience the world around them.

Deborah Wayfaring is a woman of faith who is always sensing and feeling something different for her future than what is seemingly her destiny. Determined to follow her dreams and not afraid to take risks, she is the epitome of elegance and beauty. Sadly, even though she has been married, Deborah has never experienced love in its purest form. Now single, Deborah is ready to follow her love path to see where it leads and ends. When she finally believes she has found the right guy in Reverend...

The movement to connect young children with nature continues to grow, as more parents and educators become passionate about bringing learning outdoors and letting children explore outside the bounds of traditional lessons. In the full-color Learning Is in Bloom, teachers and caregivers will find 40 hands-on activities effective in engaging young children in investigating nature, both indoors and outdoors, on the school grounds, and on excursions around the neighborhood. Through fostering a...

Gathering together Ruth Wilson Gilmore's work from over three decades, Abolition Geography presents her singular contribution to the politics of abolition as theorist, researcher, and organizer, offering scholars and activists ways of seeing and doing to help navigate our turbulent present.Abolition Geography moves us away from explanations of mass incarceration and racist violence focused on uninterrupted histories of prejudice or the dull compulsion of neolibera...

Dal 7 ottobre 2023 abbiamo assistito a Gaza a un genocidio in diretta streaming. Sono decenni, però, che Israele porta avanti un lento "genocidio per logoramento". Una strategia che colpisce in vari modi le infrastrutture di creazione della vita: le scuole, gli ospedali, le abitazioni, le terre da coltivare, le strade per poter raggiungere persone care e lavoro, la stessa possibilità di avere a disposizione acqua e cibo. Soprusi e politiche che impattano particolarmente sulle condizioni ma...

A publicação de "Califórnia Gulag: prisões, crise do capitalismo e abolicionismo penal" traz para o português brasileiro o primeiro livro da autora. Ruth Wilson Gilmore é a mais importante estudiosa e escritora sobre a questão carcerária e abolicionista na atualidade. Este livro é considerado o maior clássico sobre a formação e consolidação do "complexo industrial prisional" nos Estados Unidos. Desde 1980, o número de pessoas nas prisões dos EUA aumentou mais de 450%. Apesar de uma taxa de...

Since 1980, the number of people in US prisons has increased more than 450%. Despite a crime rate that has been falling steadily for decades, California has led the way in this explosion, with what a state analyst called "the biggest prison building project in the history of the world." Golden Gulag provides the first detailed explanation for that buildup by looking at how political and economic forces conjoined to produce the prison boom.Ruth Wilson Gilmore examines this ...

A memoir of a mother and daughter’s return to Cabo Verde reveals the legacies of national liberation, a story of memory and migration, and the psychic and physical landscape that colonialism has wrought.When Sonia Vaz Borges accompanied her mother, Maria Isabel Vaz, home to Santiago Island, Cabo Verde, it was the first time she experienced the island where her mother and family were born, and where her mother left forty years earlier. As a historian, documentarian,...