This ground-breaking and innovative textbook offers a uniquely global approach to the study of social psychology. Inclusive and outward-looking, the authors consciously re-orientate the discipline of social psychology, promoting a collectivist approach. Each chapter begins with an illustrative scenario based on everyday events, from visiting a local health centre to shopping in a supermarket, which challenges readers to confront the issues that arise in today's diverse, multicultural socie...

Psychology of Aid provides an original, psychological approach to development studies, focusing as it does on the social aspects of aid and the motivational foundations. Designed as a practical tool for looking at development projects in a new and structured way, the authors bring many of the social apsects of development and aid together in one book; from the needs of the Northern donor to the public tensions between Third World host and foreign development agencies.

The Aid Triangle focuses on the human dynamics of international aid and illustrates how the aid system incorporates power relationships, and therefore relationships of dominance.Using the concept of a triangle of dominance, justice and identity, this timely work explains how the experience of injustice is both a challenge and a stimulus to personal, community and national identity, and how such identities underlie the human potential that international aid should seek to enrich. Th...

Fourteen impossible mysteries from the masters of the Golden Age detective story.‘Lock your door and enjoy’ – KirkusLocked-room mysteries have baffled and delighted readers for generations. They present the reader with a seemingly impossible crime – a body found inside a windowless room that’s been locked from the inside, for example – before revealing an ingenious and satisfying solution.This unique collection features fou...

'You can't reform profit capitalism and inhumanity. Just kick it till it breaks.'— Angry Brigade, communiqué 8.Between 1970 and 1972 the Angry Brigade used guns and bombs in a series of symbolic attacks against property. A series of communiqués accompanied the actions, explaining the choice of targets and the Angry Brigade philosophy: autonomous organisation and attacks on property alongside other forms of militant working class action. Targets included the embassies of rep...

She’s sleeping with the enemy…Caitlyn’s life is running smoothly until she comes face-to-face with a cutthroat businessman who’s used to getting everything he wants. Problem is he wants Pat’s Pub—and he’s not taking no for an answer. Caitlyn should despise him for threatening her family’s business, but there’s something about Lucas’s dominant nature that awakens the hidden submissive inside her.What should be a run-of-the-mill real estate acquisition goes off the r...

It’s raining men. Hallelujah?Fiona has a man problem—she has too many in her life. Owen is the sweet boy (turned sexy man) she dated in college; Asher is the hot hunk starring in too many current fantasies. Both are her coworkers, part of the writing team for the hit sitcom Wild Winters.Fiona’s resigned herself to having neither man…until the team decides to film the show’s season finale in her family’s bar, Pat’s Pub. While under the influence of her craz...

Fame comes with a price, one she isn’t sure she’s ready to pay.Ailis couldn’t be more dissimilar from aspiring rock star Hunter. Quiet to his loud, calm to his frantic, innocent to his experience, bookish to his street smart; they have no common ground. Except for the fact that Ailis’s boyfriend just ran away with Hunter’s fiancée.With one impulsive kiss, everything changes and opposites suddenly attract. Ailis’s feelings toward Hunter turn to serious lust…and more...

The winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction,Marian Engel’s most famous – and most controversial – novel tells the unforgettable story of a woman transformed by a primal, erotic relationship. Lou is a lonely librarian who spends her days in the dusty archives of the Historical Institute. When an unusual field assignment comes her way, she jumps at the chance to travel to a remote island in northern Ontario, where she will spend the summer cataloguing a library that belon...

This book examines the links between work wage and wellbeing, drawing on the new specialism of Humanitarian Work Psychology and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Humanitarian work psychology foregrounds people before profit, not wages before people. It resonates with the SDGs through the Decent Work Agenda, a policy program that stresses a number of humanitarian concerns: standards and rights at work, employment creation and enterprise development, social protection ...

In You and Your Baby Can Sleep Through the Night, you will discover:Fully mapped-out sleep schedules for your baby, ranging from zero weeks to three yearsThe top 10 reasons why other sleep training fails, and what adjustments you can make to ensure all things run smoothly next timeThe life-saving secrets to training your baby to sleep so you, too, can get a restful slumberWhy your bedtime approach isn’t ...

Life isn't measured in time. It's measured in moments...Padraig is a carefree bartender, filled with hopes and dreams for his future…which are thrown off course when Mia walks into the bar. When she leaves in tears, Padraig follows. He hopes to give the young woman comfort and assurance. What he gets in return is a massive dose of reality.Mia has an inoperable tumor with a diagnosis of only six months to live. As Padraig listens to her detail the things she’ll neve...