Prenatal screening for genetic disorders is becoming an increasingly widespread phenomenon across the globe. While studies have highlighted the importance of women’s experiences of such screening, little is known about men’s roles and direct involvement in this process. With a focus on the experiences of both women and men, this text offers an innovative and passionate account of the gendered nature of prenatal screening.Drawing on interview data with pregnant women and their male ...

A richly colourful minibeast adventure from Kate Read, multi-award-winning creator of One Fox: A Counting Book Thriller.The Big Bad Bug, a self-proclaimed 'very rare species' is used to getting his own way, but claiming a giant berry all for himself is a step too far . . . Will he ever learn to share, and mend his bullying ways?This bug's eye view from the bottom of the garden will entrance any young child and show them the value of kindness and co...

This book offers a detailed and sensitive account of how parents experience different forms of baby loss, and subsequently make decisions about post-mortem examination. It also analyses some of the challenges professionals face when working in this highly sensitive field of medicine. It draws on data from an ESRC award-winning UK based study on the development of minimally invasive post-mortem to examine a range of sociologically pertinent issues relating to: ‘trauma’ ‘emotions’, ‘decision...

**“A gripping, ripped-from-headlines tale.” —People“Spellbinding.” —Megan Abbott, The New York Times Book ReviewTracing the fifteen-year fallout of a toxic high school rumor, a riveting, astonishingly original debut novel about the power of stories—and who gets to tell them**2015. A gifted and reclusive ghostwriter, Alice Lovett makes a living helping other people tell their stories. But she is haunted by the one story she can't tell: the ...

In this compelling middle-grade graphic novel The Leak, Ruth, a young journalist, is determined to uncover a secret that threatens her town.Ruth Keller is brash and precocious; she argues with her dentist, her parents, and her teachers. So, when she discovers a strange black slime in the man-made lake of her suburban neighborhood, she decides to investigate. Fortified by the encouragement of those around her, Ruth seeks the truth at all costs, even if it m...

**“A gripping, ripped-from-headlines tale.” —People“Spellbinding.” —Megan Abbott, The New York Times Book ReviewTracing the fifteen-year fallout of a toxic high school rumor, a riveting, astonishingly original debut novel about the power of stories—and who gets to tell them**2015. A gifted and reclusive ghostwriter, Alice Lovett makes a living helping other people tell their stories. But she is haunted by the one story she can't tell: the ...

Follow the mystery tail in this interactive finger-trail adventure!Whose is this tail?Whose can it be?I followed the tail,just to see.One curious child and one long, colorful tail invite you on a playful journey, using your finger to trace the tactile trail through every twist and turn.Children will delight in exploring die-cut doors and windows, weaving up and down until they...

Follow the mystery tail in this interactive finger-trail adventure!Whose is this tail?Whose can it be?I followed the tail,just to see.One curious child and one long, colourful tail invite you on a playful journey, using your finger to trace the tactile trail through every twist and turn.Children will delight in exploring die-cut doors and windows, weaving up and down until the...

In Social Life, the authors highlight, explain, and scrutinize socio-theoretical analyses of contemporary social relations and conditions - put forward by eight modern social theorists - and analyse how these have informed sociological inquiries into people’s lives in today’s social world.The book discusses the works of the following social theorists:Anthony GiddensPierre BourdieuBruno LatourDonna HarawayZygmunt Bauman

Refugees and displaced people rarely figure as historical actors, and almost never as historical narrators. We often assume a person residing in a refugee camp, lacking funding, training, social networks, and other material resources that enable the research and writing of academic history, cannot be a historian because a historian cannot be a person residing in a refugee camp.The Right to Research disrupts this tautology by featuring nine works by refugee and host-communi...

Beryl lives in a world full of toys. But these aren't your ordinary toys—they're mechanical marvels that almost seem alive! And at the slightest touch, these toys "catalyze," that is, they merge with their owner and give them special abilities.But not Beryl. She's a Neon Knight, and Neon Knights can't catalyze.Beryl does have a special ability that no one knows about—she's an inventor who can turn a broken toy into an amazing, new creation. When a powerful Oxygen Knight nam...

A K-9 and his handlertake on their toughest challenge yet…K-9 officer Levi Nash and his Dutch shepherd, Skye, arrive at Jess Bennett’s door just as she is ambushed. Mistaken for her twin sister, Jess becomes the target of a deadly drug gang—and its leader wants her dead. Jess has every reason to keep her distance from Levi—her ex and her late husband’s best friend. But with her baby daughter’s life on the line, trusting him may be her only c...