Next World Conversations is inspired by a simple truth: Times of crisis catalyze visions of better worlds. Temporarily overshadowing the larger and longer-term catastrophes of climate change, ecological decline, and social injustice, the COVID-19 pandemic triggered dramatic transformations in how we work, learn, and interact. Even as loud voices demanded a return to business as usual, many of us realized that the old normal we had left behind was very deeply flawed. We will not go back. In...

Environmental Activism on the Ground draws upon a wide range of interdisciplinary scholarship to examine small scale, local environmental activism, paying particular attention to Indigenous experiences. It illuminates the questions that are central to the ongoing evolution of the environmental movement while reappraising the history and character of late twentieth and early twenty-first environmentalism in Canada, the United States, and beyond. This collection considers the different ways ...

Understanding ExtrACTIVISM surveys how contemporary resource extractive industry works and considers the responses it inspires in local citizens and activists. Chapters cover a range of extractive industries operating around the world, including logging, hydroelectric dams, mining, and oil and natural gas extraction. Taking an activist anthropological stance, Anna Willow examines how culture and power inform recent and ongoing disputes between projects’ proponents and opponents, beneficiar...

Years after losing his wife Anna to cancer, Nathan Jenkins is convinced her spirit is still inside their family home -watching, waiting, trying to reach him. Desperate for closure, he begins to dabble in rituals meant to bridge the gap between worlds.But something else hears the call.When Mercy Willow is asked to intervene, she quickly senses that whatever’s haunting the Jenkins house isn't Anna… and may never have been. As she investigates, aided by Nathan’s daughter Lily,...

Over the last decade there has been a series of Government policy initiatives in respect of children’s services and social work education in England, many of which aim to de-regulate or privatise aspects of these services. Critically considering the impact of the MacAlister Review, this book explores the past, present and future of children’s services in the UK from a range of perspectives – lived, professional and academic.This accessible guide provides a timely and incisive overv...

Uplifting account of the struggle between the Grassy Narrows First Nation and the Canadian logging industry.In December 2002 members of the Grassy Narrows First Nation blocked a logging road to impede the movement of timber industry trucks and equipment within their 2,500-square-mile traditional territory. The Grassy Narrows blockade went on to become the longest-standing protest of its type in Canadian history. The story of the blockade is a story of convergences....

Das magische Abenteuer der vier Hexenfreundinnen bricht an – das Filmhörspiel zum KinofilmAls Willow sich eines Tages tief in den geheimnisvollen Wald hineinwagt, den sie von ihrer Großtante Alwina geerbt hat, ahnt sie nicht, was sie dort erfährt: Willow ist eine Hexe! Um jedoch ihre ganze Hexenkraft des Feuers zu entfachen, muss sie zunächst drei weitere Junghexen ausfindig machen. Nur wo? Und vor allem, wie? Zum Glück ist Willow nicht allein, denn Rufus, der Fuchs...

Nicky Singer has captured all the beauty and familiarity of this classic children’s book. Follow the adventures of Rat, Mole and Badger as they try to stop their friend Toad from getting into too much trouble.Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children's sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically.Text type: Fiction from our literary heritageCurriculum links: English: fiction from the English literary heritageThis boo...

East of Vienna, a canoe trip down the length of the Danube River turns strange and horrifying. The two men traveling find it bad enough when they are forced to camp on an isolated island in the middle of nowhere while gale-force winds howl and waters rise. But soon, the threats take on a supernatural tinge. Wild sounds and visions in the night convince the men that they’re being hunted by beings from another dimension, who are not so much malicious as vastly, cosmically indifferent to thei...

This short story is about Lennart who keeps his promise to his dead brother Åke. He marries Lena, who was Åke's fiancee and who is expecting a child. How will Lennart and Lena manage the marriage and how will the family accept this? This short story was written by an author at the end of the 50s, so you as a reader will have the opportunity to return to an era a half centery ago, which is shown both linguistically and in the environments described. The grandchild has made it possible for t...

This book theorizes the roles of optimism in anthropological thinking, research, writing, and practice. It sets out to explore optimism’s origins and implications, its conceptual and practical value, and its capacity to contribute to contemporary anthropological aims. In an era of extensive ecological disruption and social distress, this volume contemplates how an optimistic anthropology can energize the discipline while also contributing to bettering the lives, communities, and environmen...

This beautifully packaged set includes five classic masterpieces. Each exquisitely bound volume features charming four-color illustrations, a ribbon marker, and gorgeous design elements throughout. Housed in a keepsake slipcase with a magnetic closure, it’s a collection meant to be cherished for a lifetime.Readers set out with timid Mole as he explores the world, learning about courage and friendship through a series of misadventures with Rat, Toad, and Badger in The Wind in th...