This book explores the complex ways in which belonging, identity and time are entangled in shaping young people engagement with the middle years of school. The authors argue that these ‘entanglements’ need to be understood in ways that move beyond a focus on why individual young people engage with the middle years. Instead, there should be a focus on the socio-ecologies of particular places, and the ways in which these ecologies shape the possibilities of young people engaging productively...

This book makes an innovative, sociologically informed contribution to academic and policy discussions about informal work, skills and training for lifelong learning (LLL) and the promise of decent work and just transitions for sustainable development. It does so with an explicit focus on challenges and opportunities as they shape informal economies and the experiences of informal workers in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Central and ...

This raw, vulnerable, and beautifully written book has its roots in a tragedy that would understandably turn anyone's world upside down: the death of a child; in this case, Niki's son Seth. Niki's unfathomable strength, the love of a supportive family, a relentless desire for answers and a deep spiritual awareness result in a remarkable collaboration between her funny, sensitive son – from the heavens to the earth – as she channels the profound and comforting insights that Seth offers to h...

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For the first time, Hall of Fame NBA basketball coach Larry Brown details his most memorable coaching moments, his relationships with all-star players, and the deep love of the game that drove his remarkable career.Hall of Fame NBA basketball coach Larry Brown is the only coach to ever win both an NCAA and NBA title. From his early playing days in college and the ABA to stints coaching across the country at various Universities and Professional basketball cities, L...

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An ancient magic is unleashed, and a thief hides in plain sight…For hundreds of years, the Greystone School for Runic Studies has stood in isolation, a hidden institution dedicated to the ancient disciplines of Norse magic. Olivia Grey senses that her time as the school’s director is coming to an end. Now, she prepares her resignation to find her place in the modern world.However, a new generation of magic will soon collide with the old. It’s up to Olivia...

Mary Jean Chan and Andrew McMillan's luminous anthology, 100 Queer Poems, is a celebration of thrilling contemporary voices and visionary poets of the past. Featuring Elizabeth Bishop, Langston Hughes, Ocean Vuong, Carol Ann Duffy, Kae Tempest and many more.* A Guardian Best Poetry Book of the Year ** Shortlisted for the Books Are My Bag Readers Awards *Encompassing both the flowering of queer poetry over the past f...

In Political Theology on Edge, the discourse of political theology is seen as situated on an edge—that is, on the edge of a world that is grappling with global warming, a brutal form of neoliberal capitalism, protests against racism and police brutality, and the COVID-19 pandemic. This edge is also a form of eschatology that forces us to imagine new ways of being religious and political in our cohabitation of a fragile and shared planet. Each of the essays in this volume attends t...

This collection, which is a companion volume to Young People and Stories for the Anthropocene (Kelly et al., 2022), aims to find, to explore, and to co-produce ways of ‘staying with the trouble’ (Haraway 2016) that are disruptive of orthodoxies in childhood and youth studies, and productive of new ways of thinking, and of being and becoming, in the circumstances that we (young and old) find ourselves in. Circumstances that have, problematically, been identified as the Anthropocene...

For the first time, Hall of Fame NBA basketball coach Larry Brown details his most memorable coaching moments, his relationships with all-star players, and the deep love of the game that drove his remarkable career.Hall of Fame NBA basketball coach Larry Brown is the only coach to ever win both an NCAA and NBA title. From his early playing days in college and the ABA to stints coaching across the country at various Universities and Professional basketball cities, L...