For many service users and professionals in the field of social work, shame is an ongoing part of their daily experience.Providing an in-depth examination of the complex phenomena of shame and humiliation, this book sets out key contextual issues and theoretical approaches to comprehend shame and its relevance within social work. It provides a broad understanding of shame, its underlying social and political contexts and its effects on service users and professionals.The bo...

Power and control sit at the heart of statutory social work. In a profession grounded in social justice, practices of control are often positioned as reinforcing inequality and oppression. Yet normative critiques of control embedded within conflictual theories of power can lead to overlooking the complex realities of everyday practice.Drawing on practitioner and service user interviews, case file analysis and detailed observations, this book offers a rare ethnographic account of ho...

Contests are an important aspect of the lives of diverse animals, from sea anemones competing for space on a rocky shore to fallow deer stags contending for access to females. Why do animals fight? What determines when fights stop and which contestant wins? Addressing fundamental questions on contest behaviour, this volume presents theoretical and empirical perspectives across a range of species. The historical development of contest research, the evolutionary theory of both dyadic and mul...

This definitive guide to the sport of whitewater kayaking draws on the combined 30+ years of experience of world-renowned paddlers and instructors Ken Whiting and Kevin Varette. Covers everything from the most basic skills and concepts to the most advanced, cutting-edge paddling techniques.

The short-story commenced its career as a verbal utterance, or, as Robert Louis Stevenson puts it, with the first men who told their stories round the savage camp-fire.

Few books have been published to assist local and visiting clinicians in addressing opportunities to expand surgical care in low- and middle-income countries. With contributions from international experts and surgical leaders, this book serves as a valuable resource for local and visiting faculty, trainees, and students in their endeavors to deliver surgical services in existing facilities as well as to develop new infrastructures for specialized surgical care. This book presents an anthol...

Southern Gothic: New Tales of the South is an anthology like no other. Featuring over 15 stories and poems by new and veteran authors, the writing reflects a diverse range of Southern experience. From the post-Kartina New Orleans of Rose Yndigoyen’s “Long Gone Girls” and the deep-rooted family of Hardy Jones’ “Visitin’ Coremierville” to the racial tension of Eryk Pruitt’s “Them Riders” and Shane K. Bernard’s “The Phrenologist,” the anthology represents a new interpretation of the ...

Riparian areas—transitional zones between the aquatic environments of streams, rivers, and lakes and the terrestrial environments on and alongside their banks—are special places. They provide almost two hundred thousand miles of connections through which the waters of Texas flow. Keeping the water flowing, in as natural a way as possible, is key to the careful and wise management of the state’s water resources.Texas Riparian Areas evolved from a report commissioned by the ...

At 3 years old, my first grand daughter was sophisticated, affable, and articulate or so she thought. Her vocabulary included words like Lasterday, Nexterday, and Inaminnit to communicate her concepts of time. Granted, these concepts were born, in part, from her perceptions of her fathers procrastinations. Dad, what doin Lasterday? Cake, inaminnit. Home Nexterdaykay? But, I have found these words to be exceptionally versatile in communicating those pleasurable and unbounded memories of tim...

At just three years old, my first granddaughter spoke with a charming mix of confidence and creativity. She used words like Lasterday, Nexterday, and Inaminnit to describe time in her own way-shaped partly by her father's procrastinations."Dad, what doin' Lasterday?""Cake, Inaminnit.""Home, Nexterdaykay?"These whimsical words became more than toddler talk. They captured fleeting, treasured moments-echoes of times and places that no longer exist except in mem...

What if your final adventure was your most extraordinary?Meet The Swimmer, an unlikely hero in his eighties, who leaves his island home with nothing but a Speedo, goggles, and a forgotten vow. Swimming oceans and slipping through therapy tubs, he searches for the truth buried in his past. But this is no ordinary quest. Each unique combination of his prescribed medications unlocks strange, unpredictable powers- if only he could figure out which mix does what.With heart, humo...

Tune in to Mr Punch’s captivating journey through history as we present "Leaves from the Highland Journals of Queen Victoria," brought to life by the enchanting voice of Virginia McKenna.“...these journals offer us so many insights into the paraphernalia that accompanied the royal progress north... Virginia McKenna reads beautifully.” Sunday Times“A chronicle of life at Balmoral... very effectively read by Virginia McKenna.”