Born in 1911 into a close-knit family, Mary Rebecca Chambers (known to all as Polly) spent her formative years in the heart of the East End. This vivid account of life is told with passion and humour and is brimming with stories of how Londoners, and Polly's family in particular, lived through two world wars and the Great Depression. Polly was a natural storyteller and this is a compilation of her heart-warming stories, arranged in chronological order, to tell the...

The world has been witnessing a long unfolding process of urbanization that not only has altered the structural basis of society in terms of political economy, but has also symbolically relegated rural people and life to a secondary or deviant status through an ideology of urbanormativity. Both structural and cultural changes rooted in urbanization are connected in complex ways to spatial arrangements that can be described in terms of inequality and uneven development. Through a focus on l...

Some two million Americans are in jail or in prison. Except for the occasional exposZ, what happens to them is hidden from the rest of us. Is it possible to develop and instill a professional ethic for prison personnel that, in partnership with formal regulatory constraints, will mediate relations among officers, staff, and inmates, or are the failures of imprisonment as an ethically-constrained institution so deeply etched into its structure that no professional ethic is possible? The con...

Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (18561923) was an American author and educator, best known for her children's stories. She is perhaps most famous for writing "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.""Polly Oliver's Problem" likely explores themes and challenges faced by the main character, Polly Oliver. The title suggests that the story might revolve around a particular problem or challenge that Polly has to navigate.If you enjoy literature from the early 20th century and stories with strong female protagon...

This Brief provides a quantitative and qualitative analysis of proactive strategies for management transitions in criminal justice and other public administration civic service agencies. These organizations have a unique need for managing transitions effectively.Compared to private organizations: they have a relatively high frequency of management transitions due to the terms of elected and appointed officials, and these new managers more often come from outside the organization.

Dolly likes to lay her egg in a different place each day, to give her boy a challenge. But on this particular day she's chosen a place to roost that takes her far from home and puts her in lots of danger.Will Dolly manage to get home in time to meet her boy from school?From the team that brought you Grab that Rabbit comes a brand new story about a very plucky chicken.Dolly likes to lay her egg in a different place each day, to give her owne...

Pollie struggles making friends in her new school because of her poor hygiene habits. Once Pollie realizes that her friends really have her best interest at heart, Pollie decides to take a chance and overcome her fears of bathing.

Abigail would love to have a pet parrot, but they're too expensive. So she decides to teach one of her father's chickens to talk instead. To the amazement of Abigail's family, she succeeds. Soon, they have to stop Polly being quite so chatty.

Stinknormal und langweilig, wenn Polli Pimpel sich selbst beschreibt, dann so! An ihr ist nichts spannend oder besonders denkt sie. Alles ändert sich, als sie ein Paar leuchtend rote Stiefel geschenkt bekommt: Strahlend, glücklich und selbstbewusst hüpft Polli seitdem durch ihr Leben. Sie zeigt allen, und vor allem sich selbst, was in ihr steckt. Aber dann sind die Schuhe plötzlich verschwunden und Polli muss sich fragen: Wer bin ich überhaupt, ohne meine roten Stiefel?