Lisa Kings - Böcker

Att barns och ungdomars socioekonomiska levnadsvillkor påverkar deras möjligheter att delta i fritidsutbudet framgår av flera tidigare studier. Vad kan då den kommunala förvaltningen göra för att erbjuda en meningsfull fritid för alla barn och ung...

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Den här boken handlar om aktionsforskning och en socialt engagerad samhällsvetenskap, vilka möjligheter och utmaningar det innebär att göra aktionsforskning i dag och på vilka olika sätt forskningen kan bedrivas. Med den här boken bidrar vi till e...

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Sverige har länge betraktats som en demokratisk förebild och ett öppet och solidariskt välfärdssamhälle. Under 2000-talet har social ojämlikhet och boendesegregering ökat, åtföljd av rasism och en allt mer restriktiv flyktingpolitik. Idag är Sveri...

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"It is as he said, I have spoken, and the whole world is falling apart." Young Lady Ashling destroys more than her chains when she defies all she has known to save the life of an innocent man. Her public accusation against the vindictive and power...

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“Just watch, he can set anything on fire.” Burned and scarred, Tabar is five summers old and destined for execution.  His crime? Being a reminder of the past.       Rescued from the gallows and integrated into ...

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"Who do you think you are?"   For Ashling, safety has always been found in pretending to be what others wanted her to be.   But pretending is no longer an option. The people await the arrival of the Eariss, and Ash must discover what it ...

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"Choice is power, and Coral has none."For nine-year-old Coral, life revolves around her family. Dad says finding the old boarding house in Fitzroy is fortuitous, given war is just around the corner. Coral doesn't know what that word mean...

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Everyone who aspires to more effective public service should read this book. It provides a compelling antidote to the managerial focus of theory and practice in public administration. Written with the aim of inspiring and rekindling a mission for ...

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Everyone who aspires to more effective public service should read this book. It provides a compelling antidote to the managerial focus of theory and practice in public administration. Written with the aim of inspiring and rekindling a mission for ...

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An interdisciplinary work that draws on the fields of rhetorical studies, Native American and Indigenous studies, and museum studies, Legible Sovereignties considers the creation, critical reception, and adaptation of Indigenous self-representatio...

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Everyone who aspires to more effective public service should read this book. It provides a compelling antidote to the managerial focus of theory and practice in public administration. Written with the aim of inspiring and rekindling a mission for ...

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Everyone who aspires to more effective public service should read this book. It provides a compelling antidote to the managerial focus of theory and practice in public administration. Written with the aim of inspiring and rekindling a mission for ...

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Through Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.'s words and Bible verses, kids will discover that Dr. King's Christian faith was the foundation for his activism and that God calls us to stand up for justice and love. This illustrated children&ap...

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Through Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.'s words and Bible verses, kids will discover that Dr. King's Christian faith was the foundation for his activism and that God calls us to stand up for justice and love. This illustrated children's devotional...

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When Nicolas Colin, an 800 year old vampire enters Sarah Pierce's life, nothing is ever the same again for her. She never dreamed that things like vampires and witches actually existed. She is about to learn the truth. The love she develops for Ni...

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In many pop culture texts, "e;monsters"e; can be read as metaphors for marginalized Others in U.S. culture. This book applies the philosophical lens of Michel Foucault's normalizing and bio-powers to zombies, vampires, magicians, genetic m...

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In many pop culture texts, "monsters" can be read as metaphors for marginalized Others in U.S. culture. This book applies the philosophical lens of Michel Foucault's normalizing and bio-powers to zombies, vampires, magicians, geneti...

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Imagine a sophisticated thirty-two-year old Nancy Drew who has a career as a wine magazine writer, is not interested in monogamy, and has the kind of sex appeal only an independent woman can possess. Meet Jean Applequist. Though she despises the g...

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Traveling from Galena, Illinois, George Washington Gridley was 32 years old when he first gazed upon a broad verdant valley in California in 1850. He looked northward from the top of the buttes and knew at once that he had found his future home. G...

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Seventy-year-old Matthew Werner, who suffers from a debilitating case of Not Normal, doesn't know that nearly everyone on earth has died. He only knows that, out in the world, something terrible is happening ¿ something he's not willing to discove...

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Seventy-year-old Matthew Werner, who suffers from a debilitating case of Not Normal, doesn't know that nearly everyone on earth has died. He only knows that, out in the world, something terrible is happening ¿ something he's not willing to discove...

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Welcome to Blue Haven, the world's most lucrative condo corporation¿so exclusive that only five lucky residents live in this lush, tropical paradise, housed in a top-secret location. Among them is twenty-five-year-old Aloe Malone, an introvert and...

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Sleep is the last thing on the minds of this sister and brother who are about to meet some strange, beautiful and quite questionable characters! Follow them and the clues as they look for Annie the Amazing Angelfish while weathering winds, summoni...

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You do not know me, but you will, I am like you. I thought I had it all. The family, the preverbal picket fence, and a baby, the icing on my cake. She was incredibly bright and the light of my life, the embodiment of my dreams. She is the reason f...

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You do not know me, but you will, I am like you. I thought I had it all. The family, the preverbal picket fence, and a baby, the icing on my cake. She was incredibly bright and the light of my life, the embodiment of my dreams. She is the reason f...

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