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Bee Bible Coulthard Sally

An illustrated guide to helping Britain's best-loved

World-Making Renaissance Women Hammons Pamela S.

This book answers three simple questions. First, what mistaken assumptions do we make about the early modern period when we ignore women's literary contributions? Second, how might we come to recognise women's influence on the history of literature and culture, as well as those instances of outright pathbreaking mastery for which they are so often responsible? Finally, is it possible to see some women writers as world-makers in their own right, individuals whose craft cut into cultural practice so incisively that their shaping authority can be traced well beyond their own moment? The essays in this volume pursue these questions through intense archival investigation, intricate close reading, and painstaking literary-historical tracking, tracing in concrete terms sixteen remarkable women and their world-shaping

The Sociology of Work: Continuity and Change in Paid and Unpaid Work Edgell Stephen

'Definitive, critical and engaging, this is a superb introduction to the sociology of work.' Leo McCann, Professor of Management, University of YorkNow in a fully updated third edition, The Sociology of Work draws on the work of classic and contemporary theorists, to provide readers with a thorough exploration of all aspects of work and employment, including paid and unpaid work, standard and non-standard employment, and unemployment.The new edition includes:Two new chapters on Work, Skill and the Labour Process and Managing Culture at Work.Expanded coverage of the rise and decline of trade unions; emotional labour, misbehaviour, and resistance at work.Further discussion of the gig economy and precarious work; automation and the end of work; globalization and human rights.For Sociology

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Body and Soul Food Collette Abby

In this page-turning new mystery series, fraternal twins Keaton and Koby will pull double duty when they take down a killer while preparing to open their new bookstore and soul-food caf , Books & Biscuits.When Koby Hill and Keaton Rutledge were orphaned at age two, they were separated, but their unbreakable connection lingered. Year later, they reunite and decide to make up for lost time and capitalize on their shared interests by opening up a well-stocked bookstore and cozy soul-food caf in the quaint Pacific Northwest town of Timber Lake. But this new chapter of their lives could end on a cliffhanger after Koby's foster brother is found murdered.The murder, which occurred in public between light-rail stops, seems impossible for the police to solve. But as Keaton and Koby know, two heads are always better than one, especially when it comes to mysteries. With just a

A Sufi Commentary on the Qur'an, 2: Ta'wilat Al-Qur'an Williams Khalid

The Sufi commentary on the Qur'an by Abd al-Razzaq al-Kashani (Ta'wilat al-Qur'an)--long believed to have been written by Muhyi al-Din Ibn Arabi (d. 1240)--is one of the masterpieces of Sufi exegesis. It is a complete commentary on the Qur'an, commenting on every chapter but not on every verse. A Sufi Commentary on the Qur'an is the first translation into English of this seminal work. Though little is known about the life of Abd al-Razzaq al-Kashani (d. between 1329-35), it is accepted that he studied under Mu'ayyid al-Din al-Jandi, who himself had studied with Sadr al-Din Qunawi, the stepson of Ibn Arabi and leading exponent of Akbarian doctrine. Despite the paucity of information on his life, Kashani is recognised for the significant contribution he made to the school of Ibn Arabi; his influence and legacy lie in his systemisation of the ideas and thoughts of Ibn Arabi. The central

Voices on South Asia: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Women's Status, Challenges and Futures Flatt Emma J.

This book investigates the contemporary social, political and economic issues faced by women in South Asia. It focuses on the policies and practices that have challenged or perpetuated gender inequalities, and the evolving role of women in South Asian societies. With contributions from practitioners, policy makers, academics and civil society activists from across South Asia, this volume provides a broad and diverse range of viewpoints on South Asian women's labour force participation, political participation, education, and health, as well as country-specific insights.The volume is conceived as a stage for debate where specific insights act as a window into wider themes, practices and policies. Each essay is followed by policy-relevant recommendations and suggestions for avenues to improve current practice. This book will be relevant for undergraduate students and lecturers

Turning Emotion Inside Out: Affective Life Beyond the Subject Casey Edward S.

In Turning Emotion Inside Out, Edward S. Casey challenges the commonplace assumption that our emotions are to be located inside our minds, brains, hearts, or bodies. Instead, he invites us to rethink our emotions as fundamentally, although not entirely, emerging from outside and around the self, redirecting our attention from felt interiority to the emotions located in the world around us, beyond the confines of subjectivity.This book begins with a brief critique of internalist views of emotion that hold that feelings are sequestered within a subject. Casey affirms that while certain emotions are felt as resonating within our subjectivity, many others are experienced as occurring outside any such subjectivity. These include intentional or expressive feelings that transpire between ourselves and others, such as an angry exchange between two people, as well as emotions

The the Expanding Roles of Chinese Americans in U.S.-China Relations: Transnational Networks and Trans-Pacific Interacti...

This book addresses the historical and contemporary involvement of Chinese Americans from diverse walks of life in U.S.-China relations. The contributors present new evidence and fresh perspectives on familiar and unfamiliar national and transnational networks - including families, businesspersons, community newspapers, students, lobbyists, philanthropists, and scientists - and consider the likely future impact of such contacts on the most important bilateral relationship at the start of the new millennium. The volume makes a multidisciplinary contribution to understanding the extensive and vital roles and promise of Chinese Americans at this critical juncture in U.S.-China relations, and to revealing the importance of migrants as actors in contemporary global politics. The assessments shared by the contributors suggest that the nature and scope of the Chinese American involvement,

Improvised Theatre and the Autism Spectrum: A Practical Guide to Teaching Social Connection and Communication Skills Kra...

This guide provides educators, professionals, and parents with an easy-to-follow and comprehensive approach to utilizing improvised theatre as a tool to teach social and communication skills to individuals on the autism spectrum.Opening with the philosophy of the curriculum and the considerations of mental health, play, and environmental factors on individuals with autism, the book then breaks down specific activities, suggests course sequencing, and explains how each activity works and applies to desired outcomes. Packed with dozens of activities and explanations, the book includes all the information necessary to design a full curriculum or create an at-home learning program for parents.By combining the fun and engaging atmosphere of improvisational theatre with the systematic teaching of social skills, professionals and parents can cultivate learning in a way that

Customer Acquisition Strategies: Modern Lessons from Ancient Rome's Greatest Entrepreneurs Lerner Robert C.

Customers are the lifeblood of any modern company but how do you go about capturing their business? Robert Lerner reaches back in time to the customer acquisition strategies of four of the most successful entrepreneurs of ancient Rome: Eurysaces built an extensive bread making enterprise in the last few decades before the birth of Christ. Eumachia played a significant role in ancient Pompeii's woolen trade. Scaurus controlled nearly 30% of the Pompeian fish sauce market using innovative techniques to communicate the quality of his products to potential customers. Atticus' successful banking activities, spanning decades of turmoil, uniquely demonstrate the importance of establishing strong client relationships. Based upon the marketing and promotional techniques of these four ancient entrepreneurs, this book provides powerful lessons in customer acquisition that survive the passage of

Batched & Bottled Cocktails Venning Max

Batched & Bottled features 50 of the best recipes for batched and bottled cocktails - cocktails you can pre-make and bottle, and either pour straight over ice or leave to mature for an hour, a month or even a year.From Negronis and Manhattans, to more complex concoctions you can infuse with botanicals or fermented ingredients, the recipes follow the seasons and range from simple, stir-through mixes to more elaborate drinks that require kitchen prep.Drinking, just like eating, is best if you follow nature, and match what's going on outside. So, in this book you'll find everything from light, spritzy drinks for the summer and rich, comforting drinks for those quiet, cosy nights in.Sick of standing in the corner making cocktails while everyone else is having fun? Fed up with having to buy loads of expensive spirits and bitters? Just want to pour a delicious cocktail any time, any place?

Without a Trace Bettany Jane

'This was such a brilliant whodunit thriller that I didn't want to put down. I picked it up in the morning and by lunchtime I was finished.' NetGalley Reviewer, You can cover up the truth, but every murder leaves a

Village Ties: Women, Ngos, and Informal Institutions in Rural Bangladesh Qayum Nayma

Across the global South, poor women's lives are embedded in their social relationships and governed not just by formal institutions - rules that exist on paper - but by informal norms and practices. Village Ties takes the reader to Bangladesh, a country that has risen from the ashes of war, natural disaster, and decades of resource drain to become a development miracle. The book argues that grassroots women's mobilization programs can empower women to challenge informal institutions when such programs are anti-oppression, deliberative, and embedded in their communities. Qayum dives into the work of Polli Shomaj (PS), a program of the development organization BRAC to show how the women of PS negotiate with state and society to alter the rules of the game, changing how poor people access resources including safety nets, the law, and governing spaces. These women create a complex

Welcome Back!: How to Reboot Your Physical and Mental Well-Being for a Post-Pandemic World Chin Elaine

Welcome Back! is your wellness partner, guiding you from languishing to thriving. This book puts the power of achieving optimal health into your hands. With do-it-yourself diagnostics grounded in personalized medicine, Welcome Back! will boost your sense of health, fortify your immunity and put an end to pandemic fears and anxiety. As a trustworthy and credible voice across North America, Dr. Chin combines scientific evidence and a compassionate approach to support her clients in repairing and recovering from health setbacks and renew their health resiliency. Wellness isn't a luxury - it's the foundation for enjoying all of life's offerings and something we just simply must prioritize. In Welcome Back!, Dr. Chin shares actionable insights and strategies to reclaim your physical stamina and mental fitness in this post-pandemic

Modern Apartment Design Marriage Guy

Modern Apartment Design provides guidelines to the design of modern apartment buildings as well as a summation of current cutting-edge practice in engineered timber construction.　The book covers a brief history of apartment buildings around the world, a broad outline of different types of apartment blocks, and a strong focus on the design and actual construction of apartment buildings, especially those utilising mass timber, such as cross laminated timber and laminated veneer lumber. It also features six Case Study chapters from industry-leading practitioners in the area, enabling best practice in architecture and engineering of these new apartment building types to be more widely understood and propagated worldwide.　The fully illustrated, full colour, case studies span the globe and include: Clearwater Quay in Christchurch, New

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The Quest to Feel Good Rasmussen Paul R.

Emotions, rather than simply being the result of random or disordered biochemical processes, are adaptive mechanisms that are often overly relied upon as a function of basic learning processes. The Quest to Feel Good helps the reader understand that negative emotions serve a critical adaptive purpose that functions in relation to one's ultimate desire for a felt-positive state. Paul Rasmussen addresses the role of emotions as adaptive components, in combination with cognitive and behavioral processes, to our overall orchestration of life. To this end, the therapist is directed to use a client's negative affect as a means of guiding critical therapeutic conclusions and decisions. Rasmussen emphasizes an integration of the basic premises of Adlerian psychology with the evolutionary-imperative model presented by Theodore Millon (1990, 1999). This integration is used to

Transitions: A Director's Journey and Motivational Handbook Chatmon Pete

Becoming a director is not just about making a film, webseries, commercial, or music video. The opportunity to direct for television is not a given because you've successfully completed a project in another medium. Turning your passion into your profession requires the ability to make transitions at the exact moment a pivot is needed, with creativity and confidence. Chatmon's book helps directors across all mediums shape their career with targeted anecdotes, worksheets, and other resources, all of which fall into three designated categories:How-To, Self-Help, and

Kindness Makes Us Strong Beer Sophie

This bright book by the creator of Love Makes a Family celebrates acts of kindness big and small.Kindness is a friendly hello. A roaring cheer. A quick boost. Kindness is what makes us strong This joyful board book shows various children as they extend kindness in all kinds of situations: on the playground, at lunchtime, on a bike path, and on a neighborhood street. This sweet preschool read-aloud shows the way kindness helps build friendship and

International Floral Art 2021/2022

The latest edition of the International Floral Art series, highlighting the work of a new generation of floral

Geospatial Development By Example with Python Carreira Pablo

The Quiet People Cleave Paul

"A cinematic, raging, rollercoaster of a plot with a wry humour ... The Quiet People is wildly entertaining and will keep you guessing right to the end." --New Zealand Herald "A superb novel from a champion storyteller." --Crime Watch "Cleave writes the kind of dark, intense thrillers that I never want to end. Do yourself a favour and check him out." --Simon Kernick ______________________________Cameron and Lisa Murdoch are successful crime writers. They have been on the promotional circuit, joking that no one knows how to get away with crime like they do. After all, they write about it for a living.So when their seven-year-old son Zach goes missing, the police and the public naturally wonder if they have finally decided to prove what they have been saying all this time...Are they trying to show how they can commit the perfect

Apache Pulsar in Action Kjerrumgaard David

Apache Pulsar in Action is a comprehensive and practical guide to building high-traffic applications with Pulsar, delivering extreme levels of speed and durability. You'll start with Pulsar's fundamentals, each illustrated by real-world examples, then move on to deploying a Pulsar server, ingesting data from third-party systems, deploying lightweight computing logic with simple functions, and more.Distributed applications demand reliable, high-performance messaging. The Apache Pulsar server-to-server messaging system provides a secure, stable platform without the need for a stream processing engine like Spark. Apache Pulsar in Action is a hands-on guide to building scalable streaming messaging systems for distributed applications and microservices systems.Apache Pulsar in Action is a comprehensive and practical guide to building high-traffic applications with

The Brainy Bunch: The Harding Family's Method to College Ready by Age Twelve Harding Kip

"A straightforward, practical guide that takes an anyone-can-do-this approach" (Kirkus Reviews), The Brainy Bunch outlines the Harding family's well-rounded method for producing college-ready kids by age twelve.Having six out of ten kids go to college is no small feat on its own, but having six kids in college before their teens--that's nothing short of incredible. "Never judgmental and not without humor," this "fascinating read" (Library Journal) is Kip and Mona Lisa Harding's story of producing exactly those extraordinary results. Kip and Mona Lisa are parents to an engineer (who earned her BS in mathematics at seventeen), an architect (who became the youngest member of the American Institute of Architects), a Navy physician (who earned her biology degree at seventeen), an entrepreneur (who earned an MS in computer science at seventeen), a sixteen-year-old college senior studying

Disney Bach: Fy Lliwiau Cyntaf Disney

Revolutionary Mathematics: Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and the Logic of Capitalism Joque Justin

Traces the revolution in statistics that gave rise to artificial intelligence and predictive algorithms refiguring contemporary capitalism.Our finances, politics, media, opportunities, information, shopping and knowledge production are mediated through algorithms and their statistical approaches to knowledge; increasingly, these methods form the organizational backbone of contemporary capitalism. Revolutionary Mathematics traces the revolution in statistics and probability that has quietly underwritten the explosion of machine learning, big data and predictive algorithms that now decide many aspects of our lives. Exploring shifts in the philosophical understanding of probability in the late twentieth century, Joque shows how this was not merely a technical change but a wholesale philosophical transformation in the production of knowledge and the extraction of value. This

Proctor Valley Road Morrison Grant

August, Rylee, Cora & Jennie have organized a "Spook Tour" on the most haunted stretch of road in America, but when it turns deadly they must slay the evils roaming Proctor Valley Road!August, Rylee, Cora & Jennie have organized a "Spook Tour" with their classmates on the most haunted, demon-infested stretch of road in America to fund attending the concert of their dreams. But when their visit turns deadly, these four friends race to rescue the missing students... before the town tears them limb from limb. Now they must slay the evils roaming Proctor Valley Road... along with the monsters lurking in the hearts of 1970s America. Visionary author Grant Morrison (Klaus, Batman: Arkham Asylum) and co-writer Alex Child (BBC's Holby City) along with artist Naomi Franquiz (Tales from Harrow County) present a chilling new horror series about the mysterious monsters that haunt

Harsh Times Llosa Mario Vargas

The true story of Guatemala's political turmoil of the 1950s as only a master of fiction can tell itGuatemala, 1954. The military coup perpetrated by Carlos Castillo Armas and supported by the CIA topples the government of Jacobo rbenz. Behind this violent act is a lie passed off as truth, which forever changes the development of Latin America: the accusation by the Eisenhower administration that rbenz encouraged the spread of Soviet Communism in the Americas. Harsh Times is a story of international conspiracies and conflicting interests in the time of the Cold War, the echoes of which are still felt today.In this thrilling novel, Mario Vargas Llosa fuses reality with two fictions: that of the narrator, who freely re-creates characters and situations, and the one designed by those who would control the politics and the economy of a continent by manipulating

Brothers of the Wind Williams Tad

The Long-Awaited Prequel to The Dragonbone