Get Up, Girl is a powerful invitation to every woman who's ever felt stuck in fear, shame, anxiety, or heartbreak. Drawing from the miraculous stories of healing in the Gospels-the woman who touched the hem of Jesus' garment, the little girl Jesus raised with just a word-this book tells one woman's journey of hearing those same words from the Lord: "Just believe. Fear not. Get up, girl."Through raw storytelling and honest reflection, the author shares how God met her in the depths ...

Charlotte Taylor lived in the front row of history. In 1775, at the young age of twenty, she fled her English country house and boarded a ship to Jamaica with her lover, the family’s black butler. Soon after reaching shore, Charlotte’s lover died of yellow fever, leaving her alone and pregnant in Jamaica. In the sixty-six years that followed, she would find refuge with the Mi’kmaq of what is present-day New Brunswick, have three husbands, nine more children and a lifelong relationship with...

When we are born, we are each assigned a gender based on our physical anatomy. But why is it that some people experience such dissonance between their biological sex and their inner identity? Is gender something we are or something we do? Is our expression of gender inborn or does it develop as we grow? Are the traditional binary male and female gender roles relevant in an increasingly fluid and flexible world? This intelligent, stimulating volume assesses the connections between gender, p...

Sally the Seagull: An illustrated children's book featuring Sally Seagull and how she copes with life in a seaside town with other seagulls. 'Sally stands apart from her fellow seagulls. While they squawk, flap, and squabble over chips, Sally remains serene-gazing at the sunrise, listening to the waves, and reminding her friends that life offers more than just food and chaos.When a storm approaches, and the gulls become frightened, Sally demonstrates the importance of ...

Sally Hemings: Given Her Time is an exciting, concise biography tells that tells the extraordinary tale of Sally Hemings, mother of Thomas Jefferson’s enslaved children.Born on the eve of the American Revolution, the war hung over Sally Hemings' childhood. As a teenager, she travelled to Paris to witness the beginning of another revolution. There, she entered a painful bargain and became Jefferson’s concubine in exchange for her children’s freedom. Over thirty-six years sh...

Interpretive Description: Qualitative Research for Applied Practice has established itself as the key resource for novice and intermediate level researchers in applied settings for conducting a qualitative research project with practical outcomes.This book takes the reader through the qualitative research process, from research design through fieldwork, analysis, interpretation, and application of the results; provides numerous examples from a variety of applied fields to ...

Originally published in 2002, this engaging ethnographic study uncovers the problems that arise when principles underlying policy are difficult to interpret and are at odds with the culture of the locality within which policy is implemented. Examining one strategy in particular, the All Wales Strategy in relation to people with learning disabilities, the author focuses as much attention on the community of the small Welsh mining town as on the citizens with learning disabilities who are th...

This book is designed for pre-service teachers and K-8 educators seeking to develop their knowledge of how language works. Grounded in Systemic Functional Linguistics, it serves as a practical language toolkit, offering supportive task cycles with exercises that help teachers identify, analyze, and apply language features to support student learning.This book is essential for those looking to develop their pedagogical language knowledge (PLK) to support multilingual students. Throu...

This innovative study examines the early years of the Red Army as it developed from a revolutionary partisan force into a modern, professional institution under the leadership of Mikhail Tukhachevsky, an important and controversial figure in the politics of the Stalin period. Sally Stoecker combines her institutional analysis of the formative period of the Soviet military with an astute look at the person and political maneuvers of Marshal Tukhachevsky and his complex relationship with Sta...

This innovative series is designed to help primary teachers plan focused sessions on the work of popular, well-loved and valued authors, both classic and contemporary. Each book contains a range of activities for use directly in the classroom, covering biographical information about the author; a review of the author's work and a summary of major themes in his/her key texts; key language features of the author; frameworks to help children analyze, evaluate and compare texts, and to develop...

This innovative series is designed to help primary teachers plan focused sessions on the work of popular, well-loved and valued authors, both classic and contemporary. Each book contains a range of activities for use directly in the classroom, covering biographical information about the author; a review of the author's work and a summary of major themes in his/her key texts; key language features of the author; frameworks to help children analyze, evaluate and compare texts, and to develop...

In the 1980s deaf people were grossly neglected by our society, and little attempt was made, either by the public or the policy makers, to understand their needs. Because few deaf people can communicate by speech, and because they are barred from all the information networks which rely on sound, they led separate and largely invisible lives.Originally published in 1986, this book was unique in providing a vivid and sometimes disturbing portrait of what it is like to be deaf in our ...