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Widow to Widow How the Bereaved Help One Another

Widow to Widow How the Bereaved Help One Another

Widow to Widow shares the experiences of widows who have found comfort and continuity in mutual-help and community support programs. In the second edition of her pioneering text Phyllis Silverman brings the success of the original widow-to-widow program into the 21st century preparing a new generation of community leaders clergy counselors hospice staff social workers and the widowed themselves to organize and implement mutual-help programs. | Widow to Widow How the Bereaved Help One Another

GBP 175.00
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Community Food Initiatives A Critical Reparative Approach

Community Food Initiatives A Critical Reparative Approach

This book examines a diverse range of community food initiatives in light of their everyday practices innovations and contestations. While community food initiatives aim to tackle issues like food security food waste or food poverty it is a cause for concern for many when they are framed as the next big solution to the problems of the current industrialised food system. They have been critiqued for being too neoliberal elitist and localist; for not challenging structural inequalities (e. g. racism privilege exclusion colonialism capitalism); and for reproducing these inequalities within their own contexts. This edited volume examines the everyday realities of community food initiatives focusing on both their hopes and their troubles their limitations and failures but also their best intentions missions and models alongside their capacity to create hope in difficult times. The stories presented in this book are grounded in contemporary theoretical debates on neoliberalism diverse economies food justice community and inclusion and social innovation and help to sharpen these as conceptual tools for interrogating community food initiatives as sites of both hope and trouble. The novelty of this volume is its focus on the everyday doings of these initiatives in particular places and contexts with different constraints and opportunities. This grounded relational and place-based approach allows us to move beyond more traditional framings in which community food initiatives are either applauded for their potential or criticized for their limitations. It enables researchers and practitioners to explore how community food initiatives can realize their potential for creating alternative food futures and generates innovative pathways for theorising the mutual interplay of food production and consumption. This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of critical food studies food security public health and nutrition as well as human geographers sociologists and anthropologists with an interest in food. | Community Food Initiatives A Critical Reparative Approach

GBP 130.00
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Why Nations Fail to Feed the Poor The Politics of Food Security in Bangladesh

Why Nations Fail to Feed the Poor The Politics of Food Security in Bangladesh

This book examines the political and economic dimensions of food security in Bangladesh and assesses the role of the state in meeting the challenges of food security. The key concern which is at the heart of this study is to explore how Bangladesh responds when its people go hungry. There are no detailed empirical studies that examine the Bangladesh’s role by providing an historical cum political analysis; however conventional approaches are primarily concerned with a partial diagnosis of the economic or nutritional problems of food security. The book then provides a detailed picture of the missing dimensions of state that include the strength of institutions the scope of state functions and other important attributes. In doing so it uses the concept of neo-patrimonialism to explore the political system of Bangladesh. This book explicates the various impediments to food security ranging from the process of policy formulation to their implementation mechanisms. It unpacks the structural weaknesses of the Bangladesh's institutional capacity in promoting food security and in the process argues that the root cause of food insecurity is deeply embedded in the nature of the government itself and the political institutions that link the state and society. | Why Nations Fail to Feed the Poor The Politics of Food Security in Bangladesh

GBP 120.00
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Marriages in Trouble The Process of Seeking Help

Marriages in Trouble The Process of Seeking Help

In the early 1980s it was fashionable to suggest that marriage as an institution was in trouble but there were widely differing views as to whether or not this was really so. Originally published in 1982 this title started as a small-scale exploratory study of clients with marital problems and how they came to seek help. Using a sociological approach to marriage the authors compare the medical and non-medical settings the clients attended and looks at their social networks as a way to see how people view and conduct their marital relationships. It also looks at the broader concept of marriage and how it came to be seen as problematic in our society and became part of wider public discourse at the time. Today reissued with a new preface it can be read in its historical context. | Marriages in Trouble The Process of Seeking Help

GBP 90.00
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Mentoring and Coaching Tips How Educators Can Help Each Other

Mentoring and Coaching Tips How Educators Can Help Each Other

This book is for educators at all levels and is packed with creative use-now tips and activities to support new and struggling teachers. Combining real-life scenarios with current research the author demonstrates how educators can get the most out of available resources promote a school culture devoted to helping and caring and meet common school challenges head-on! New and noteworthy—by providing creative activities and acknowledging the complexity inherent in school culture this practical guide can really help educators implement a mentoring/coaching program that works! | Mentoring and Coaching Tips How Educators Can Help Each Other

GBP 105.00
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Autism The Way Forward A Self-Help Guide to Teaching Children on the Autistic Spectrum

Autism The Way Forward A Self-Help Guide to Teaching Children on the Autistic Spectrum

Specifically written for all those families who are unable to receive funding for their child's programme and is an invaluable tool for new tutors coming into the field. The book is a step-by-step guide to setting up and running a home programme which applies full communication in order to meet the needs of the child more fully. It guides the reader through the various stages showing them what to include in their programme when why and how. Included in the book is a section on what to do when things go wrong on your programme. It also shows how the methodologies of behaviourism and psychotherapy are combined to give a synergetic effect with all other methods supporting these by applying calming and performance-enhancing strategies. | Autism The Way Forward A Self-Help Guide to Teaching Children on the Autistic Spectrum

GBP 130.00
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Focus on Food Photography for Bloggers Focus on the Fundamentals

Focus on Food Photography for Bloggers Focus on the Fundamentals

Sharing your kitchen concoctions on your personal food blog has never been as popular as it is right now but if you've ever had trouble getting your tasty temptations to look like pretty plates on camera you know how difficult it can be to take amazing pictures of food. Matt Armendariz of Mattbites food blog fame shares his experiences and best practices for creating wonderful food photos in Focus On Food Photography for Bloggers. Written specifically for you the blogger Matt discusses the ins and outs of equipment lighting composition propping sparking your inspiration and getting creative all with what you have on hand at home! Learn how to avoid common pitfalls with foods that are notoriously camera shy how to successfully snap your dinner at a restaurant as well as on your kitchen table and how to style your food with what you have in your cupboards. He also includes advice on post-processing posting and protecting your prized images. As well as on his blog Matt's photography has been featured in The Skinny Bitch Cookbook on Martha Stewart Paula Deen's Best Dishes and Gordon Ramsay's Hell's Kitchen along with numerous food magazines and newspapers. Let this seasoned blogger give your food photography the boost it needs to really make your readers salivate! | Focus on Food Photography for Bloggers Focus on the Fundamentals

GBP 145.00
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The Skin-Ego A New Translation by Naomi Segal

The Skin-Ego A New Translation by Naomi Segal

In this classic work the author presents and develops his theory of the importance of 'the Skin-ego'. Just as the skin is wrapped around the body so the author sees the 'Skin-ego' as a psychical wrapping containing defining and consolidating the subject. From this perspective the structure and functions of the skin can provide psychoanalysts and general readers with a fertile and practical metaphor. The author's concept of the Skin-ego is the answer to questions he regards as crucial to contemporary psychoanalysis: questions of topography which were left incomplete by Freud; the analysis of fantasies of the container as of the contained; issues of touch between mothers and babies; extending the concept of prohibitions within an Oedipal framework to those derived from a prohibition on touching; and questions pertaining to the representation of the body and to its psychoanalytic setting. This new translation of Le Moi-peau is based on the second and last (1995) edition. | The Skin-Ego A New Translation by Naomi Segal

GBP 130.00
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A Skin for Thought Interviews with Gilbert Tarrab on Psychology and Psychoanalysis

A Skin for Thought Interviews with Gilbert Tarrab on Psychology and Psychoanalysis

A French analyst discusses the interface between psychoanalysis and psychology. A Skin for Thought takes the form of ten transcribed discussions between Didier Anzieu and Gilbert Tarrab recorded in Montreal during Anzieu's lecture tour there. A practitioner and theoretician of individual and group analysis Anzieu speaks frankly of the | A Skin for Thought Interviews with Gilbert Tarrab on Psychology and Psychoanalysis

GBP 130.00
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The Black Family Strengths Self-help And Positive Change Second Edition

The Black Family Strengths Self-help And Positive Change Second Edition

With numerous selections designed to reinforce the goal of empowering clients to take charge of their lives this revised and updated second edition of The Black Family serves a two-fold purpose. It extends the small but growing body of strength-oriented literature to include African-American families and it serves as a natural extension of current texts on African-American families to provide social workers and the education community with a broader framework for understanding the needs of Black families. Offering both a research orientation and a practice perspective this book should appeal to social work educators and practitioners involved in family services health and mental health settings and child and public welfare. | The Black Family Strengths Self-help And Positive Change Second Edition

GBP 130.00
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Food and Nutrition Throughout Life A comprehensive overview of food and nutrition in all stages of life

Food and Nutrition Throughout Life A comprehensive overview of food and nutrition in all stages of life

Nutritional requirements vary greatly according to age and lifestyle. This evidence-based comprehensive text is a complete guide to eating habits across age and population groups. It provides the recommendations for intakes of nutrients and foods and diet to achieve optimum health. Chapters systematically examine the nutritional issues for individuals from preconception pregnancy and breastfeeding through to adulthood and old age. The text features an overview of dietary patterns by age group based on national scientific survey data together with the latest recommendations for optimum nutrition to maintain well-being and address specific health concerns. The final section examines nutrition issues for specific populations including indigenous groups athletes and the disadvantaged. Throughout the text key points are illustrated by case studies and the reader's knowledge is tested via quizzes and study questions. With chapters from leading nutrition researchers and educators in Australia New Zealand and Asia this is an excellent introduction to nutrition through the lifespan. 'A comprehensive overview and detailed discussion of food and nutrition topics for all ages and stages of life. ' - Robynne Snell Curtin University | Food and Nutrition Throughout Life A comprehensive overview of food and nutrition in all stages of life

GBP 130.00
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Art Farming and Food for the Future Transforming Agriculture

Art Farming and Food for the Future Transforming Agriculture

This book explores the impact of artistic experiments in inspiring people to turn away from current food consumerism and take an active role in preserving sustaining and protecting the environment. As artists are expanding their practice into social justice and community concerns erasing traditional forms of expression and integrating others the culture around food and its production has been added to a new vocabulary of experiential art. The authors measure the impact of such experiments on local food consumption and production focusing on education and youth both in the surrounding community and culture at large. They suggest how these projects can be up-scaled to further encourage sustainable solutions for our environment and communities. The book explores the reflections and motivations of case study practitioners in urban and rural areas and through interviews engages with artists who are pioneering a new trend to create hubs of activity away from traditional art spaces in cities to follow a non-hierarchal practice that is de-centralized and communally based. This book will be of great interest to academic readers concerned with issues related to environmental aesthetics eco-design eco-criticism culture heritage memory and identity and those interested in the current debates on the place of aesthetics and culture in sustainability. | Art Farming and Food for the Future Transforming Agriculture

GBP 130.00
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Urban Expansion and Food Security in New Zealand The Collapse of Local Horticulture

Urban Expansion and Food Security in New Zealand The Collapse of Local Horticulture

This book examines suburban development in New Zealand and its conflict with and impact on local horticulture and food security. Drawing on an ethnographic study of Auckland’s rapidly expanding urban periphery combined with comparative case studies from California in the USA and Victoria in Australia the book examines how the profit-making strategies of property developers and landowners drastically reshapes work and life at the edge of cities. With a significant portion of the world's croplands lying adjacent to cities the accelerating pace of urban sprawl across the planet places unprecedented pressure on the productivity and even existence of these vital food bowl regions. The book examines how the demand for more land for development at the urban periphery collides with concerns over local food security and the protection of ecosystem services. It analyses land use policy historical records and physical patterns of development alongside participant observation of local events. It combines this with interviews with government officials property developers landowners local residents and horticulturists. By combining these narratives of the hectic and lucrative business of suburban property development with the collapse of local horticulture this book shows how the realignment of the New Zealand's interests of financial profitability over other concerns led to the transformation of urban peripheries from a productive food bowl to an investment vehicle. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of urban food and agriculture urban planning and development and rural-urban studies. | Urban Expansion and Food Security in New Zealand The Collapse of Local Horticulture

GBP 130.00
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The Food Revolution In The Soviet Union And Eastern Europe

The Food Revolution In The Soviet Union And Eastern Europe

The first study in the Western world to compare the relationship between food and politics in the countries of Eastern Europe this book views the current food revolution as part of the modernization process. Robert Deutsch argues that the communist leaders in the Comecon countries increasingly link political stability and preservation of power to the problem of satisfying consumer demand. He also assesses the various social forces that have brought about the food revolution. The most important is the expanded working class which is no longer willing to defer consumer demands to a hypothetical communist future. The CMEA countries thus face the dilemma of either gradually liberalizing their economies in order to meet growing consumer demands or resorting to repression. Neither of these options promises a long-term solution for implementing economic policies prescribed by Marxist-Leninist doctrine. Robert Deutsch presents case studies of Hungary Bulgaria and the German Democratic Republic as examples of the relative success of economic reforms. To a greater or lesser extent these countries have opted for economic decentralization by liberalizing private ownership and pricing policy and by integrating planning with market-oriented concepts. The author compares this with the economic problems of the Soviet Union Poland Romania and Czechoslovakia. The study is enhanced by an exhaustive bibliography arranged topically and drawn from the specialized literature in several languages. | The Food Revolution In The Soviet Union And Eastern Europe

GBP 130.00
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School Food Politics in Mexico The Corporatization of Obesity and Healthy Eating Policies

School Food Politics in Mexico The Corporatization of Obesity and Healthy Eating Policies

Intertwining policy analysis and ethnography José Tenorio examines how and why now the promotion of healthy lifestyles has been positioned as an ideal ‘solution’ to obesity and how this shapes the preparation sale and consumption of food in schools in Mexico. This book situates obesity as a structural problem enabled by market-driven policy change problematizing the focus on individual behavior change which underpins current obesity policy. It argues that the idea of healthy lifestyles draws attention away from the economic and political roots of obesity shifting blame onto an ‘uneducated’ population. Deploying Foucault’s concept of dispositif Tenorio argues that healthy lifestyles functions as an ensemble of mechanisms to deploy representations of reality spaces institutions and subjectivities aligned with market principles constructing individuals both as culprits for what they eat and the prime locus of policy intervention to change diets. He demonstrates how this ensemble enmeshes within the local cultural and economic conditions surrounding the provisioning of food in Mexican schools and how it is contested in the practices around cooking. Expanding the conversation on the politics of food in schools obesity policy and dominant perspectives on the relation between food and health this book is a must-read for scholars of food and nutrition public health and education as well as those with an interest in development studies and policy enactment and outcomes. | School Food Politics in Mexico The Corporatization of Obesity and Healthy Eating Policies

GBP 130.00
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Thornton Wilder's The Skin of our Teeth

Thornton Wilder's The Skin of our Teeth

Ladies and gentlemen I‘m not going to play this particular scene tonight. Sabina Thornton Wilder‘s The Skin of Our Teeth (1942) telescopes an audacious stretch of western history and mythology into a family drama showing how the course of human events operates like theatre itself: constantly mutable vanishing and beginning again. Kyle Gillette explores Wilder‘s extraordinary play in three parts. Part I unpacks the play‘s singular yet deeply interconnected place in theatre history comparing its metatheatrics to those of Stein Pirandello and Brecht and finding its anticipation of American fantasias in the works of Vogel and Kushner. Part II turns to the play‘s many historic and mythic sources and examines its concentration of western progress and power into the model of a white American upper-middle-class nuclear family. Part III takes a longer view tangling with the play‘s philosophical stakes. Gillette magnifies the play‘s ideas and connections teasing out historical theoretical and philosophical questions on behalf of readers scholars and audience members alike. | Thornton Wilder's The Skin of our Teeth

GBP 160.00
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Artists and the Practice of Agriculture Politics and Aesthetics of Food Sovereignty in Art since 1960

Artists and the Practice of Agriculture Politics and Aesthetics of Food Sovereignty in Art since 1960

Artists and the Practice of Agriculture maps out examples of artistic practices that engage with the aesthetics and politics of gathering food growing edible and medicinal plants and interacting with non-human collaborators. In the hands of contemporary artists farming and foraging become forms of visual and material language that convey personal and political meanings. This book provides a critical analysis of artistic practices that model alternative food systems. It presents rich academic insights as well as 16 conversations with practicing artists. The volume addresses pressing issues such as the interconnectedness of human and other-than-human beings the weight of industrial agriculture the legacy of colonialism and the promise of place-based and embodied pedagogies. Through participatory projects the artists discussed here reflect on the links between past histories present challenges and future solutions for the food sovereignty of local and networked communities. The book is an easy-to-navigate resource for readers interested in food studies visual and material cultures contemporary art ecocriticism and the environmental humanities. | Artists and the Practice of Agriculture Politics and Aesthetics of Food Sovereignty in Art since 1960

GBP 130.00
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The Living Land Agriculture Food and Community Regeneration in the 21st Century

The Living Land Agriculture Food and Community Regeneration in the 21st Century

The Living Land sets out a new 'stakeholder' vision for rural regeneration in Europe. It integrates three themes: sustainable agriculture localised food systems and rural community development. All three offer ways of rebuilding natural and social capital and a large 'sustainability dividend' is waiting to be released from current practices - creating more jobs more wealth and better lives from less. | The Living Land Agriculture Food and Community Regeneration in the 21st Century

GBP 175.00
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Food Policy and Practice in Early Childhood Education and Care Children Practitioners and Parents in an English Nursery

Food Policy and Practice in Early Childhood Education and Care Children Practitioners and Parents in an English Nursery

This book is about food and feeding in early childhood education and care offering an exploration of the intersection of children’s food education family intervention and public health policies. The notion of ‘good’ food for children is often communicated as a matter of common sense by policymakers and public health authorities; yet the social material and practical aspects of feeding children are far from straightforward. Drawing on a detailed ethnographic study conducted in a London nursery and children’s centre this book provides a close examination of the practices of childcare practitioners children and parents asking how the universalism of policy and bureaucracy fits with the particularism of feeding and eating in the early years. Looking at the unintended consequences that emerged in the field such as contradictory public health messaging and arbitrary policy interventions the book reveals the harmful assumptions about disadvantaged groups that are perpetuated in policy discourse and challenges the constructs of individual choice and responsibility as main determinants of health. Children’s food practices at the nursery are examined to explore the notion that whilst for adults it is what children eat that often matters most to children it is how they eat that is more important. This book contributes to a growing body of literature evidencing how children’s food is a contested domain in which power relations are continuously negotiated. This raises questions not only on how children can be included in policy beyond a tokenistic involvement but also on what children’s well-being might mean beyond the biomedical sphere. The book will particularly appeal to students and scholars in food and health food policy childhood studies and medical anthropology. Policymakers and non-governmental bodies working in the domains of children’s food and early years policies will also find this book of interest. | Food Policy and Practice in Early Childhood Education and Care Children Practitioners and Parents in an English Nursery

GBP 130.00
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Food Feasting and Table Manners in the Late Middle Ages Volume I: The Iberian Peninsula in the European Context

Food Feasting and Table Manners in the Late Middle Ages Volume I: The Iberian Peninsula in the European Context

This book offers a study of what and how people ate in the Iberian Peninsula between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries. It has long been recognized that Mediterranean cultures attach great importance to communal meals and food cooked with great refinement. However whilst medieval feasting in England France and Italy has been thoroughly studied Spain and Portugal have both been somewhat neglected in this area of study. This volume analyses how medieval men of the Iberian Peninsula questioned themselves about different aspects deemed important in social feasting. It investigates the acquisition of table manners and rhetorical skills the interaction between medicine and eating and the presence of food in literature and religion. The book also shows how this shared society and culture as well as their attitude towards food connected them to a Western European tradition. The book will appeal to scholars and students alike interested in food and feasting from the perspectives of literature history language art religion and medicine and to those interested in a social cultural and literary overview of life in the Iberian Peninsula during the late Middle Ages. | Food Feasting and Table Manners in the Late Middle Ages Volume I: The Iberian Peninsula in the European Context

GBP 130.00
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Capacity-Building and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus Rethinking Integration in the Asia-Pacific

Capacity-Building and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus Rethinking Integration in the Asia-Pacific

Critically analysing methodologies and objectives of capacity building and the practical linkages required to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals this book looks at whether nexus thinking offers a systematic approach to combat global environmental problems and facilitate enhanced sustainable development. Building effective and sustainable mechanisms to tackle environmental problems requires in-depth understanding of relationships between natural resources going beyond conventional policy and siloed decision making. The water energy food nexus has been promoted as a conceptual framework and management tool to facilitate integrated planning and practical linkages to support sustainable development. The author opens this book with an overview of capacity building and reviews the significance of the water energy food nexus bringing in links to the 2030 Agenda. Climate change is highlighted as a key consideration in any conversation about natural resource use and case studies from Japan India and China are utilised to show that whist long-term sustainable development practices are being implemented the environmental challenges across the region raise concerns about institutional capacity economic sustainability and future of the region. Finally through the lens of capacity building the book suggests that whilst the water energy food nexus may provide a new approach to sustainable development it will not be enough to achieve long-term sustainability or extend to the lives of those most affected. The book will be interest to scholars and students within the water energy and agriculture sectors sustainability governance and sustainable development. It will also be a valuable resource to those working in governmental organisations and NGOs involved in capacity building and development. | Capacity-Building and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus Rethinking Integration in the Asia-Pacific

GBP 130.00
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