Sarah Cooper-Ellis, ecologist and early childhood educator, writes from a deep regard for the human and natural world. She lives in Putney, Vermont with her husband Abijah Reed. Her essays have been published in The Commons and WriteAngles Journal. Landing is her first novel.scooperellis.com

In an increasingly digital world, everyday life is mediated by screens, algorithms, and virtual interfaces that privilege sight and sound while quietly sidelining the sense of touch. This book makes a compelling case for why that omission matters. It explores the critical role of sensory stimuli, particularly haptics, in shaping lived experience, with far reaching implications for trust, brand perception, and wellbeing.Haptics exert a powerful influence on perceptions of experience...

89% narrates the love story of a mother and daughter: one has cancer while the other grapples with her sexuality. This collection documents the mother, using her words as quotes, floating between poems. The daughter explores her body as she witnesses her mother and experiences the bodies of other women. While sexuality and disability are central to the formulation of this collection, these poems resist single-issue narratives. There is humor and light alongside enduring loss. This collecti...

Why actually become the smartest person in the meeting when you can simply look like it?In this brilliantly illustrated workplace satire, comedian and bestselling author Sarah Cooper hilariously dissects the unwritten rules of modern office life with 100 tongue-in-cheek strategies for surviving meetings, conference calls, presentations, networking events, and every other corporate ritual that somehow fills the workweek. Drawing on her years in Silicon Valley, Cooper skewers busines...

In this hilariously revealing debut memoir, comedian Sarah Cooper charts her rise from lip-synching in church to lip-synching the president, and all the dad issues she collected along the way.As the youngest of four in a tight-knit Jamaican family, Cooper cut her teeth in the mean cornfields of suburban Maryland. Soon she became a charmingly neurotic woman trying to break her worst patterns and reclaim her linen closet. From an early obsession with hair bands to he...

Teaching memoir including personal experiences, life lessons, guides, inspiration, and the secret recipe for life and dinner.

Middle school history teachers confront the same challenge every day: how to convey the breadth and depth of a curriculum that spans centuries, countries, and cultures. In Making History Mine, Sarah Cooper shows teachers how to use thematic instruction to link skills to content knowledge. By combining thought-provoking activities and rich assessments, Sarah encourages teachers to challenge students to make history personal and relevant to their lives.

This book explores regulatory conundrums around adolescent sexual health, abortion and assisted reproductive technologies in the UK. In doing so, it seeks to examine the various stages at which women’s reproductive health comes into contact with government action and assesses how these legal and policy fields are shaped through the conceptual lens of policy networks. Transformed expectations of women’s roles, along with developed biological capabilities and understandings of gender and sex...

Since the early 1950s, Chris Marker has embraced different filmmaking styles as readily as he has new technologies, and has broadened conceptions of the documentary in distinctly personal ways. He has travelled around the world, tracking political upheavals and historic events, as well as unearthing the stories buried under official reporting. This globetrotting filmmaker testifies to his six decades on the move through a passionate devotion to the moving image. Yet from the outset, his fi...

Founded in a perspective that speaks to the diversity of contexts and processes used across Canada, this work is nevertheless firmly grounded in theory, offering an in-depth analysis geared toward advanced study in community practice.This depth is further strengthened by the diversity of topics represented in this collective work: community work in various regions of the country exploring issues of poverty and environmental activism; community work with immigrants and refugees, and...

A number of women’s issues serve to create novel policy problems that require creative, and sometimes unique, regulatory and legal responses. This book embarks upon a comparative case study approach to explore UK policymaking in the areas of abortion, rape, prostitution and pornography in turn. Each chapter engages a different institutional perspective to explore the influence of a range of bodies such as the legal system, medical profession, civil society, police force and mass media. The...