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House and Home Cultural Contexts Ontological Roles

House and Home Cultural Contexts Ontological Roles

House and home are words routinely used to describe where and how one lives. This book challenges predominant definitions and argues that domesticity fundamentally satisfies the human need to create and inhabit a defined place in the world. Consequently house and home have performed numerous cultural and ontological roles and have been assiduously represented in scripture literature art and philosophy. This book presents how the search for home in an unpredictable world led people to create myths about the origins of architecture houses for their gods and house tombs for eternal life. Turning to more recent topics it discusses how writers often used simple huts as a means to address the essentials of existence; modernist architects envisioned the capacity of house and home to improve society; and the suburban house was positioned as a superior setting for culture and family. Throughout the book house and home are critically examined to illustrate the perennial role and capacity of architecture to articulate the human condition position it more meaningfully in the world and assist in our collective homecoming. | House and Home Cultural Contexts Ontological Roles

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Home Schooling in China Culture Religion Politics and Gender

Home Schooling in China Culture Religion Politics and Gender

Home Schooling in China seeks to provide a better understanding of the social movement of home schooling in China. In this book the author addresses several major themes of home education including marketization social stratification culture religion Confucianism gender policy gender and home schooling. This book draws a broad attention to the in-depth information to the relationship of marketisation social stratification and home education in China. It offers an implication for a better understanding not only for influences of religion (e. g. Christianity) but also the effects of Confucianism on the growth of home education in China. With a strong theoretical foundation the book comprehensively untangles the key possible factors that shape China’s social movement of home education. The book offers a background on theories and research methodology as well as reports on empirical studies that analyse the influences of marketisation on home schooling social stratification and the development of home schooling. This book is ideal reading for academics researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of Confucianism social class gender and education in China. | Home Schooling in China Culture Religion Politics and Gender

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The Coaching Shift How A Coaching Mindset and Skills Can Change You Your Interactions and the World Around You

The Coaching Shift How A Coaching Mindset and Skills Can Change You Your Interactions and the World Around You

The Coaching Shift: How A Coaching Mindset and Skills Can Change You Your Interactions and the World Around You offers practical guidance on how to adopt a coaching mindset and how to build a coaching skill set to unlock better communication stronger relationships and high performance in others. Accessible and practical the book draws on research from coaching neuroscience cognitive psychology social psychology and industrial-organizational psychology to provide the best science-based practices that can be applied in work and life. It presents core coaching skills that anyone can develop and use to improve their own emotions thoughts behaviors and interactions with others. It uses levels of analysis to help readers think about key concepts first in relation to themselves and then in 1:1 interactions group and team dynamics organizational-level impact and beyond. The book offers specific and tangible advice for readers to develop their coaching and communication skills while also developing a deeper understanding of themselves. The Coaching Shift with its clear tone anecdotal references and practical application will be essential reading for coaches in practice and in training and for academics and students of coaching and coaching psychology. These concepts and practices are also relevant for anyone who wants to have more effective interactions with others. | The Coaching Shift How A Coaching Mindset and Skills Can Change You Your Interactions and the World Around You

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Migration Work and Home-Making in the City Dwelling and Belonging among Vietnamese Communities in London

Migration Work and Home-Making in the City Dwelling and Belonging among Vietnamese Communities in London

This book explores the relationships between home work and migration among Vietnamese people in East London demonstrating the diversity of home-making practices and forms of belonging in relation to the dwelling workplace and wider city. Engaging with wider scholarship on transnationalism urban mobilities and the geopolitical dimensions of home among migrants and diasporic communities the author draws on ethnographic work to examine the experiences of people who migrated from Vietnam to London at different times and in diverse circumstances including individuals who arrived as refugees in the 1970s as well as those who have migrated for work or education in recent years. Migration Work and Home-Making in the City thus sheds new light on the social material and spiritual practices through which people create senses of home that connect them with their country of origin and reveals how home-making is constrained by immigration policies insecure housing and precarious work thus highlighting the barriers to belonging in the city. | Migration Work and Home-Making in the City Dwelling and Belonging among Vietnamese Communities in London

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Future Home Trends Innovations and Disruptors in Housing Design

Future Home Trends Innovations and Disruptors in Housing Design

Global pandemics smart technologies demographics and climate change are just some of the external disruptors that may impact the home’s evolution over the next ten years. Future Home provides a comprehensive ‘horizon scan’ of what our homes may be like approximately ten years from now by looking for early signs of potentially important developments through a systematic examination of trends innovations and disruptors. The authors consider what aspects of the home are likely to remain constant and what aspects may change beyond all recognition and if changes are predicted what form they may take and most importantly what this means for design professionals. Exploring areas of buildings and technology people and delivery each chapter addresses the catalysts natures and responses to these changes. This book provides an overview of the future home that will be essential reading for designers policy-makers and homeowners alike. | Future Home Trends Innovations and Disruptors in Housing Design

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Feeding Children Inside and Outside the Home Critical Perspectives

Feeding Children Inside and Outside the Home Critical Perspectives

This cross-disciplinary volume brings together diverse perspectives on children’s food occasions inside and outside of the home across different geographical locations. By unpacking mundane food occasions - from school dinners to domestic meals and from breakfast to snacks - Feeding Children Inside and Outside the Home shows the role of food in the everyday lives of children and adults around them. Investigating food occasions at home schools and in nurseries during weekdays and holidays this book reveals how children mothers fathers teachers and other adults involved in feeding children understand make sense of and navigate ideological discourses of parenting health imperatives and policy interventions. Revealing the material and symbolic complexity of feeding children and the role that parenting and healthy discourses play in shaping perpetuating and transforming both feeding and eating this volume shows how micro and macro aspects are at play in mundane and everyday practices of family life and education. This volume will be of great interested to a wide range of students and researchers interested in the sociology of family life education food studies and everyday consumption. | Feeding Children Inside and Outside the Home Critical Perspectives

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Involuntary Dislocation Home Trauma Resilience and Adversity-Activated Development

Involuntary Dislocation Home Trauma Resilience and Adversity-Activated Development

Renos K. Papadopoulos clearly and sensitively explores the experiences of people who reluctantly abandon their homes searching for safer lives elsewhere and provides a detailed guide to the complex experiences of involuntary dislocation. Involuntary Dislocation: Home Trauma Resilience and Adversity-Activated Development identifies involuntary dislocation as a distinct phenomenon challenging existing assumptions and established positions and explores its linguistic historical and cultural contexts. Papadopoulos elaborates on key themes including home identity nostalgic disorientation the victim and trauma providing an in-depth understanding of each contributing factor whilst emphasising the human experience throughout. The book concludes by articulating an approach to conceptualising and working with people who have experienced adversities engendered by involuntary dislocation and with a reflection on the language of repair and renewal. Involuntary Dislocation will be a compassionate and comprehensive guide for psychotherapists clinical psychologists counsellors and other professionals working with people who have experienced displacement. It will also be important reading for anyone wishing to understand the psychosocial impact of extreme adversity. | Involuntary Dislocation Home Trauma Resilience and Adversity-Activated Development

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Climate Positive Business How You and Your Company Hit Bold Climate Goals and Go Net Zero

Climate Positive Business How You and Your Company Hit Bold Climate Goals and Go Net Zero

This is the decade for climate action. Internal and external stakeholders demand action. How we choose to act in the next ten years will determine our foreseeable future. Businesses hold a critical role for climate futures. The need for businesses to reduce their carbon footprint is now unquestioned but how to achieve reductions in a credible way is neither clear nor easy once you’ve tackled the obvious energy culprits. Climate Positive Business lays out the path of business climate strategy highlighting how your business must set goals measure impact and improve performance. Greenhouse gas protocols can instruct you on the core accounting process that lies at the heart of climate strategy. At least as important to success are the details that protocols don’t tell you: the sticking points; the areas of controversy and the best practices. Rooted in real experience and written in an entertaining and engaging style this book provides you with the tips tools and techniques to tackle your company’s carbon footprint and it helps you do so in a way that is credible and appropriately ambitious to meet stakeholder expectations. The book will equip you with tools to think critically about GHG reduction carbon offsets and carbon removal as well as help ensure we collectively implement real solutions to slow and eventually reverse the climate crisis. It includes lessons learned from real-world consulting projects and provides a plan of action for readers to implement. A go-to book for business looking to understand manage and reduce their carbon footprint it is an invaluable resource for sustainable business practitioners consultants and those aspiring to become climate champions. | Climate Positive Business How You and Your Company Hit Bold Climate Goals and Go Net Zero

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Home Advantage in Sport Causes and the Effect on Performance

Home Advantage in Sport Causes and the Effect on Performance

This is the first book exploring the concept of home advantage (HA) the well-known beneficial effect that players and teams derive from performing at home in all sports throughout the world. Despite the fact that the existence of HA dates back to the origins of organized sport in the late 19th century its root causes and how they operate and interact with each other are still unclear and remain the topic of intense research involving many disciplines all with the potential objective of improving team and individual performance. This book covers a broad review of HA divided into three different sections: (i) Section 1 focuses on the theory of HA in sport (the concept of this phenomenon its quantification and factors supposedly associated with the HA are explored; (ii) Section 2 analyses the effects of HA in sports related to both male and female athletes in relation to tactics and strategies fans referees travel situational variables and the home disadvantage; and (iii) Section 3 studies the HA as it applies to specific sports worldwide such as outdoor sports (football rugby cricket and Australian Football) indoor sports (basketball futsal handball water polo and volleyball) US professional sports individual sports racket sports combat sports minor sports disabled sports and the Olympic Games. This book has been written in cooperation with top leading experts in this field worldwide. The book offers a better understanding of the HA effect for MSc and PhD students athletes coaches performance analysts sport psychologists sociologists sport scientists and sport journalists. | Home Advantage in Sport Causes and the Effect on Performance

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Strengthening Social Connections and Individual Resilience in Adolescence The Belong and Be You Curriculum

Strengthening Social Connections and Individual Resilience in Adolescence The Belong and Be You Curriculum

This book introduces a group counseling curriculum that provides both a foundation to confidently lead a counseling group for adolescents and inspiration for how a group leader can adapt and modify the text in a range of settings. The curriculum is three-fold corresponding with the three major sections of the text. In Part One of the text the authors provide a conceptual and practical way of understanding two matters: first the critical leadership challenges faced by group counselors as well as the skills they need to navigate those challenges successfully and second the critical developmental challenges faced by adolescents and the skills they need to navigate those challenges successfully. Part Two introduces a nine-week social skills curriculum – Belong and Be You – designed and modified over ten years of use to help adolescents be better socially connected as well as confidently independent. Part Three provides an additional resource which is meant to be used in tandem with the curriculum: 40 strategic stories on four different themes contributed by faculty and students. This book will benefit school counselors and group counselors working with adolescents to successfully navigate group leadership and help students embrace themselves and find belonging. | Strengthening Social Connections and Individual Resilience in Adolescence The Belong and Be You Curriculum

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Damned If You Do Damned If You Don't Working in Child Welfare

Damned If You Do Damned If You Don't Working in Child Welfare

First published in 1998 Anthony McMahon details the accounts of public agency child welfare dealing abused and neglected children and their families and the pressures on child welfare workers. Opening up the discussion on the ambiguities whilst dealing with balancing child welfare work whilst dealing with the societal pressure of the non-intrusion into family life. | Damned If You Do Damned If You Don't Working in Child Welfare

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When You Feel Like Quitting Teaching Read This Book Inspiration and Strategies for Long-Term Success

When You Feel Like Quitting Teaching Read This Book Inspiration and Strategies for Long-Term Success

When You Feel Like Quitting Teaching Read This Book offers hope to educators helping you remember the joy of the profession through the power of great teaching and learning. The book provides inspiring stories along with clear strategies to make teaching more meaningful and manageable. Common teaching issues such as increasing student engagement and motivation improving structure maximizing prep and assessment time reconsidering student–teacher interactions and establishing positive teacher collaborations and support are given a fresh relevant approach. Appropriate for teachers of any subject or grade level the book will leave you with inspiration as well as practical takeaways to help you stay reinvigorated on your professional journey. | When You Feel Like Quitting Teaching Read This Book Inspiration and Strategies for Long-Term Success

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First Aid for Teacher Burnout How You Can Find Peace and Success

First Aid for Teacher Burnout How You Can Find Peace and Success

Offering clear strategies rooted in research and expert recommendations the new edition of First Aid for Teacher Burnout empowers teachers to prevent and recover from burnout while finding success at work in a sustainable way. Each chapter explores a different common cause of teacher burnout and provides takeaway strategies and realistic tips. Chapter coverage includes fighting low morale diminishing stress streamlining grading reducing workload leveraging collaboration using technology to your advantage managing classroom behavior advocating for support from your administration securing the help of parents and community and more. New in this edition the author expands on discussion about teacher activism using digital resources as well as a wealth of tips throughout for those teaching virtually. Full of reflection exercises confessions from real teachers and veteran teacher tips this accessible book provides easy-to-implement steps for alleviating burnout problems so you can enjoy peace and success in your teaching. | First Aid for Teacher Burnout How You Can Find Peace and Success

GBP 28.99
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The Fake Food Cookbook Props You Can't Eat for Theatre Film and TV

The Fake Food Cookbook Props You Can't Eat for Theatre Film and TV

The Fake Food Cookbook: Props You Can’t Eat for Theatre Film and TV contains step by step instructions on how to create the most realistic prop food for a theatrical production. From appetizers such as oysters on a half shell and chicken wings entrees such as lobster and honey-glazed ham to desserts breakfasts and even beverages every meal is covered in this how-to guide. Full color images of each step and finished products illustrate each recipe along with suggestions for keeping the budget for each project low. Safety Data Sheets and links to informative videos are hosted on a companion website. | The Fake Food Cookbook Props You Can't Eat for Theatre Film and TV

GBP 35.99
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Nourishing Caregiver Collaborations Elevating Home Experiences and Classroom Practices for Collective Care

Nourishing Caregiver Collaborations Elevating Home Experiences and Classroom Practices for Collective Care

In Nourishing Caregiver Collaborations: Elevating Home Experiences and Classroom Practices for Collective Care Nawal Qarooni invites us to step beyond school-centric one-off events and practices to create more authentic engaging collaborations with caregivers. Instead of asking what families can do to support schools Qarooni asks how schools can identify and celebrate what families already inherently bring to their children’s literacy learning. Establishing this work in holistic teaching—a pedagogical mindset that affirms the importance of loving the whole child through compassionate collective care—Qarooni explores five critical literacy tenets by highlighting opportunities to listen for honor connect to and elevate family strengths while inviting them even further into our shared work and encouraging reflection around: Recognizing the journey of process Celebrating the role collaboration plays within the collective Using observational literacy to read the world Advocating for the power of talk to grow ideas and connect with others Giving children choice to make self-directed decisions With moments of memoir woven in alongside diverse family examples and classroom stories connected to realistic instructional practices Qarooni shows how all families contribute meaningfully to their children’s literacy lives. Discover how we can tap into those vast wells to support learning at home and in school while building positive reciprocal relationships across both settings. With an afterword by En Comunidad authors Carla España and Luz Yadira Herrera Nourishing Caregiver Collaborations is rooted in the simple truth that we cannot separate knowing our students from knowing their home communities and the people that they love. This book offers a toolkit for connecting with families and elevating the intrinsic strengths that reside in every child’s home. | Nourishing Caregiver Collaborations Elevating Home Experiences and Classroom Practices for Collective Care

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Styling Your Writing Mixing and Matching Academic Writing Techniques to Create Something Uniquely You

Styling Your Writing Mixing and Matching Academic Writing Techniques to Create Something Uniquely You

This text helps developing writers in the academy and beyond think through their writing process and develop strategies for styling their writing to meet the demands of a wide range of goals. The book imagines writing as an assortment of outfits— bundles of styles and strategies through which one approaches a writing purpose such as writing focused on experimentation and growth or writing focused on a professional task. By assessing the outfits writers feel most and least confident in and examining how to be more at home in the outfits that matter to them this book helps students develop both specific skills and their overall identity as writers. Readers are guided through before- during- and after-writing strategies and techniques including: freewriting outlining visual planning and composing in multimodal forms. Readers are also introduced to the importance of setting clear writing goals and sharing their work in a variety of ways both in preparation for classroom success through peer review and writing center visits and beyond the classroom in virtual and in-person spaces. This book serves as a core or supplemental text for writing courses at the undergraduate graduate or high school level or as a writing guide for individual readers. | Styling Your Writing Mixing and Matching Academic Writing Techniques to Create Something Uniquely You

GBP 35.99
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Children and Adolescent’s Experiences of Violence and Abuse at Home Current Theory Research and Practitioner Insights

Children and Adolescent’s Experiences of Violence and Abuse at Home Current Theory Research and Practitioner Insights

Children and Adolescent’s Experiences of Violence and Abuse at Home is a unique book that explores some of the main controversies and challenges within the field. The book is organised into three sections the first covering work that has focused on the experiences of living in DV settings as a child or young person the second offers overviews of the impact of child victimisation and the final section is about working with children in practice and service-based settings. It includes extensive reviews of the literature empirical research and practice observations all of which provide compelling evidence of a need to change how we construct victims and design services. It provides evidence for the need to work sensitively inclusively and responsively around issues of victim identification support and prevention. Moreover the evidence urges us to include children’s and adult victim/survivor’s experiences and contributions in the creation of services. Concluding with a series of recommendations for both future research and ways in which we can help use the research findings to inform practice it is a must-read for researchers practitioners and educators working with children and young people within the field of domestic violence and abuse. It will also be of interest and value to policy makers who are reviewing legislation and those involved in commissioning psychological services and victim services that work with child and adolescent victims. | Children and Adolescent’s Experiences of Violence and Abuse at Home Current Theory Research and Practitioner Insights

GBP 34.99
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An At-Home Guide to Children’s Sensory and Behavioral Problems Qigong Sensory Treatment for Parents and Clinicians

An At-Home Guide to Children’s Sensory and Behavioral Problems Qigong Sensory Treatment for Parents and Clinicians

An At-Home Guide to Children’s Sensory and Behavioral Problems gives a new perspective on sensory and behavior problems one that sees those behaviors as stemming from a child’s immature sensory nervous system and regulation difficulties. This book offers an effective at-home intervention the Qigong Sensory Treatment that enlists a parent's attuned touch to address often overlooked sensory issues that underlie ‘problem’ behaviors and works to organize those sensory experiences to foster connection and the capacity for self-regulation. It introduces the reader to a new and clinically useful model to understand sensory development the Early Childhood Self-regulatory Milestones which are critical to the emotional and behavioral health and regulation for all children. With clear step-by-step instructions diagrams and links to online instructional videos it teaches parents how to successfully implement the daily QST hands-on routine. Unique to the treatment model is how it guides and focuses parents to easily recognize interpret and respond to their child's shifting non-verbal body and behavioral responses and cues. An extensive workbook section navigates parents through a year-long process of learning and implementing QST at home. Weekly letters include those written by the authors parents who share their own personal experiences with the routine and by QST Master Trainers who offer their years of experience and helpful tips. The 52 letters are timed to anticipate and answer typical questions or stumbling blocks that parents commonly encounter at key points guiding them to success with their child’s sensory and behavior difficulties while making for happier and less-stressful times with their child. This guide will be indispensable to parents and clinicians looking to understand and more effectively work with their child’s developmental difficulties. | An At-Home Guide to Children’s Sensory and Behavioral Problems Qigong Sensory Treatment for Parents and Clinicians

GBP 26.99
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Teaching What You Want to Learn A Guidebook for Dance and Movement Teachers

Teaching What You Want to Learn A Guidebook for Dance and Movement Teachers

Teaching What You Want to Learn distills the five decades that Bill Evans has spent immersed in teaching dance into an indispensable guide for today’s dance instructor. From devising specific pedagogical strategies and translating theory into action to working with diverse bodies and embracing evolving value systems Evans has considered every element of the teacher’s role and provided 94 essential essays about becoming a more effective and satisfied educator. As well as setting out his own particular training methods and somatic practice as one of the world's leading dance teachers he explores the huge range of challenges and rewards that a teacher will encounter across their career. These explorations equip the reader not only to enable and empower their students but also to get the most out of their own work so they are learning as they teach. This is an essential book for anyone who wants to teach dance and movement from professional and academic settings to amateur artists and trainee instructors. | Teaching What You Want to Learn A Guidebook for Dance and Movement Teachers

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Decentring Security Policing Communities at Home and Abroad

Decentring Security Policing Communities at Home and Abroad

Contemporary security governance often relies on markets and networks to link public agencies to non-governmental actors. This book explores the rise nature and future of these new forms of security governance across various domestic transnational and international settings. The chapters reveal similarities and differences in the way security governance operates in various policy settings. The contributors argue that the similarities generally arise because policy elites at various levels of governance have come to believe that security depends on building resilience and communities through various joined-up arrangements networks and partnerships. Differences nonetheless persist because civil servants street level bureaucrats voluntary sector actors and citizens all draw on diverse traditions to interpret and at times resist the joined-up security being promoted by these policy elites. This book therefore decentres security governance showing how all kinds of local traditions influence the way it works in different settings. It pays particular attention to the meanings cultures and ideologies by which policy actors encounter interpret and evaluate security dilemmas. This book was originally published as a special issue in Global Crime. | Decentring Security Policing Communities at Home and Abroad

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Mind the Gap Global Learning at Home and Abroad

Mind the Gap Global Learning at Home and Abroad

There is growing awareness that global learning is not confined to university credit-bearing off campus international programs and that institutions of higher learning have up until now conceived of global education too narrowly. Global learning through study abroad and off-campus domestic study fits into a larger context of students’ educational experiences. You can find global learning as part of other high-impact practices; domestic off-campus programs undergraduate research and service- or community-based learning all can be global learning opportunities. On-campus global learning can occur in the disciplines and in the core curriculum as well. Language and culture anthropology sociology and other departments multicultural centers and diversity and inclusivity offices to name a few also teach students to be global learners. Global learning pertains to the many staff and faculty educators who intentionally encourage students to engage with and successfully navigate difference. Thus there is a growing need for bridging across disciplinary and administrative silos silos that are culturally bound within academia. The gaps between these silos matter as students seek to integrate off- and on-campus learning. Higher education needs a new holistic assessment of global learning. This book investigates not just student learning but also faculty experiences program structures and pathways that impact global learning and expands the context of global learning to show its antecedents and impacts as a part of the larger higher education experience. Chapters look at recent developments such as short-term off-campus international study and certificate/medallion programs as well as blended learning environments and undergraduate research all in the context of multi-institutional comparisons. Global learning is also situated in a larger university context. A Series on Engaged Learning and Teaching Book. Visit the books’ companion website hosted by the Center for Engaged Learning for book resources. | Mind the Gap Global Learning at Home and Abroad

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Jane Eyre's Fairytale Legacy at Home and Abroad Constructions and Deconstructions of National Identity

Jane Eyre's Fairytale Legacy at Home and Abroad Constructions and Deconstructions of National Identity

Exploring the literary microcosm inspired by Brontë's debut novel Jane Eyre's Fairytale Legacy at Home and Abroad focuses on the nationalistic stakes of the mythic and fairytale paradigms that were incorporated into the heroic female bildungsroman tradition. Jane Eyre Abigail Heiniger argues is a heroic changeling indebted to the regional pre-Victorian fairy lore Charlotte Brontë heard and read in Haworth an influence that Brontë repudiates in her last novel Villette. While this heroic figure inspired a range of female writers on both sides of the Atlantic Heiniger suggests that the regional aspects of the changeling were especially attractive to North American writers such as Susan Warner and L. M. Montgomery who responded to Jane Eyre as part of the Cinderella tradition. Heiniger contrasts the reactions of these white women writers with that of Hannah Crafts whose Jane Eyre-influenced The Bondwoman's Narrative rejects the Cinderella model. Instead Heiniger shows Crafts creates a heroic female bildungsroman that critiques fairytale narratives from the viewpoint of the obscure oppressed workers who remain forever outside the tales of wonder produced for middle-class consumption. Heiniger concludes by demonstrating how Brontë's middle-class American readers projected the self-rise ethic onto Jane Eyre miring the novel in nineteenth-century narratives of American identity formation. | Jane Eyre's Fairytale Legacy at Home and Abroad Constructions and Deconstructions of National Identity

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Renewable Energy Systems The Earthscan Expert Guide to Renewable Energy Technologies for Home and Business

Renewable Energy Systems The Earthscan Expert Guide to Renewable Energy Technologies for Home and Business

This book is the long awaited guide for anyone interested in renewables at home or work. It sweeps away scores of common misconceptions while clearly illustrating the best in renewable and energy efficiency technologies. A fully illustrated guide to renewable energy for the home and small business the book provides an expert overview of precisely which sustainable energy technologies are appropriate for wide-spread domestic and small business application. The sections on different renewable energy options provide detailed descriptions of each technology along with case studies installation diagrams and colour photographs showing precisely what is possible for the average household. The chapter on how to select the renewable technology most appropriate for ordinary homes and businesses summarizes this analysis in a neat and easy to use table and demonstrates with examples exactly how to assess your local renewable resources. Renewable technologies covered include wood energy wind power solar photovoltaics solar thermal passive solar geothermal and air-to-air heat pumps as well as water or hydro based energy systems – plus the all-important subject of energy efficiency. Whilst written to be accessible to a wide audience the book is targeted at readers who are keen to work with renewable technologies students building engineers architects planners householders and home-owners. | Renewable Energy Systems The Earthscan Expert Guide to Renewable Energy Technologies for Home and Business

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