Twelve-year-old Kylie Hannigan loves life on her family's Montana horse ranch. She loves teasing her best friend Joey, barrel racing her favorite horse Kiwi, and helping her mom train horses. But now it's all disappearing. She doesn't understand why her mom has been acting so weird. She's either sleeping for days on end, or she has more energy than a hundred horses. Kylie used to feel loved and safe with her mom.If her friends could see what g...
The sociological imagination and the artistic imagination have been historically intertwined, at once reciprocal and conflicting, complementary and tensional. This connection is nowhere more apparent than in the work of Zygmunt Bauman. His conception and practice of sociology was always infused with a literary and artistic imagination. He wrote extensively on the relationship between sociology and the arts, and especially on sociology and lite...
The sociological imagination and the artistic imagination have been historically intertwined, at once reciprocal and conflicting, complementary and tensional. This connection is nowhere more apparent than in the work of Zygmunt Bauman. His conception and practice of sociology was always infused with a literary and artistic imagination. He wrote extensively on the relationship between sociology and the arts, and especially on sociology and lite...
Der Holocaust wurde inmitten der modernen Gesellschaft konzipiert und durchgeführt, in einer hochentwickelten Zivilisation und im Umfeld außergewöhnlicher kultureller Leistungen, er muss daher als Problem dieser Gesellschaft, Zivilisation und Kultur betrachtet werden.
The Write Plan is a guided notebook and dot grid journal for fiction writers who want to organize their ideas on paper. Whether you're writing short stories or novels, this journal covers the basic things you need to know for each story, including characters, setting, and plot.The journal is broken down into 7 sections, including:Goals & DeadlinesIdeas & NotesCharactersSettingPlotResearchRevisionsEach section contains guided sections, which ma...
Climate change is no laughing matter, but maybe it should be. The topic is so critical that everyone, from students to policy-makers to voters, needs a quick and easy guide to the basics. This title covers topics ranging from Milankovitch cycles to carbon taxes.
Once more bringing together Bauman, economist and standup comedian, and the award-winning illustrator Klein, "The Cartoon Introduction to Economics: Volume Two: Macroeconomics" delivers the most digestible, readable, and humorous introduction to economics.
If it is true that God is a male, then His Divinity or Deity is expressed in His masculinity. Yet I am a woman, and there are parts of my body, such as my breasts, my vagina, and my womb that are telling a story about God that I have never learned or understood. This is an exploration of the significance of a womb that must shed and bleed before it can create. How will we engage our body which cyclically bleeds most of our life and can build a...
Freedom is a concept central to many of the social sciences. This book explores the social production of 'free agents', and the intimate connection between this process and the issues of systemic integration and social control.
Reintegration into the community is a critical part of the incarceration process. It is a time often filled with uncertainty and strong emotions. While many individuals are excited to return home, many are also filled with feelings of overwhelm and anxiety as they contemplate the hard work that lies ahead. Steps to Success: A Re-Entry Workbook offers incarcerated individuals practical exercises to explore all aspects of re-entry - from decidin...
After years of witnessing horrors inflicted upon women fleeing abuse in their home countries, human rights attorney Charlotte "Lottie" Fornea is approaching burnout at warp spped. Sure, she could do therapy, but the need to do something more burns like acid in her soul.Her self-prescribed remedy is as dangerous as it is simple. Form a low-profile little nonprofit, and use its financial support to wreak high-profile humiliation upon those who s...
Does religion cause violent conflict, asks Chad M. Bauman, and if so, does it cause conflict more than other social identities? Through an extended history of Christian-Hindu relations, with particular attention to the 2007¿2008 riots in Kandhamal, Odisha, Anti-Christian Violence in India examines religious violence and how it pertains to broader aspects of humanity. Is "religious" conflict sui generis, or is it merely one species of intergrou...