Häftad, Engelska, 2017
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- Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
350 kr
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- E-bokEngelska, 2024
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One street in a royal town. Twelve people. Twelve secrets.
Known to all but herself as "Minty", royal-obsessed Araminta Cavendish pretends to be posh. Eighty-two, single and lonely, she plans to make friends and become her street''s queen bee by organising a Platinum Jubilee street party. But when a last-minute knock on the door threatens to spoil everything, she discovers her neighbours have secrets of their own.
Secret Street recounts the tale of Araminta as she sets out on a quest to find friends. Each friend she makes tells her their secret story, and each story gives Araminta a gift of knowledge that helps her learn the only way to find peace - and friendship - is to be herself.
Secret Street is a fiction-based-on-fact novel. It represents the culmination of the author - who has a background in mental health nursing - spending four decades living and working with traumatised people, observing the relationship between adverse life experience and human connectivity. It blows apart the stereotype of comfortable middle-class England, personified by the infamous fictional letter-writer to The Times, "Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells". The true stories woven into the narrative have psychosocial themes such as abortion, addiction, adoption, eating disorder, learning disability, sexual assault, and asylum seeking. These serious themes are approached with both gentleness and energy, creating light as well as shade.
Secret Street offers a discourse on the relationships between stigma, friendship, class, and identity, and will prompt juicy discussions at book clubs. These life-changing stories will stay with you.
''...a charming, personal, and at times challenging, exploration of the complex lives of people living in Tunbridge Wells ...Laugh-out-loud funny at times, and painfully sad at others.''
Tom Davis, St. James
''I felt as if I was part of the story ...Every single character can teach us something...I hope it touches other readers'' hearts, as it did mine.''
Sonja Wright, Paddock Wood
''''Secret Street'' gets under your skin.''
Tom Mortley, Broadwater
''Moving and inclusive, this life-affirming read invites us to share journeys through personal hardships, compassion, and ultimately mutual acceptance. Nothing is off limits as human tragedies hidden behind closed doors are laid bare. The heartwarming empathy we feel towards these people - who could so easily be you and me - is a credit to the author.''
Sarah Mitchell, Ferndale
- Häftad, Engelska, 2024
223 kr
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- Häftad, Engelska, 2018
434 kr
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In a break away from the traditional mono-disciplinary scope of academic enquiry, this volume sets forth a challenge for practitioners within, and outwith archaeology to develop multi-disciplinary approaches in the study of identity in general and aspects in the formation of national identity in particular. The entanglement of identity and nationhood is explored from the prehistory of northern Britain; the establishment of a proto-Scottish identity in the early Middle Ages; facets of Scottish identity at home and in the wider diaspora of Empire; and the more recent heralding of Scottish identity as a multiethnic construction. Set against the backdrop of a groundswell change in the Scottish political landscape and the unprecedented, and largely unexpected, energised and proactive politicisation of the Scottish electorate in the lead up to and aftermath of the 2014 Independence Referendum, the volume is a timely and relevant contribution to discussions of national identities. By bringing together specialists covering a wide array of time periods and subject specialisms, we transcend the concept of identity. This is achieved by exploring the links of nationhood and Scottish identity in the early 20th and 21st Centuries in the ongoing quest for independence demonstrating the political manipulation of history, imagery and mythology entangled in political propaganda. - E-bokEngelska, 2021
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Despite a growing literature on identity theory in the last two decades, much of its current use in archaeology is still driven toward locating and dating static categories such as ‘Phoenician’, ‘Christian’ or ‘native’. Previous studies have highlighted the various problems and challenges presented by identity, with the overall effect of deconstructing it to insignificance. As the humanities and social sciences turn to material culture, archaeology provides a unique perspective on the interaction between people and things over the long term. This volume argues that identity is worth studying not despite its slippery nature, but because of it. Identity can be seen as an emergent property of living in a material world, an ongoing process of becoming which archaeologists are particularly well suited to study. The geographic and temporal scale of the papers included is purposefully broad to demonstrate the variety of ways in which archaeology is redefining identity. Research areas span from the Great Lakes to the Mediterranean, with case studies from the Mesolithic to the contemporary world by emerging voices in the field. The volume contains a critical review of theories of identity by the editors, as well as a response and afterward by A. Bernard Knapp.EPUB3: Reflowable - Häftad, Engelska, 2021
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The vivid, passionately wrought poems of Beautiful Nowhere encompass themes of childhood trauma, madness, dissociation, psychosis and even an exorcism. Louisa Campbell's sure handling of these dark and difficult themes draws upon five decades of experience, ensuring the poems' unflinching honesty, empathy and authenticity in depicting extreme states of mind. Yet these are poems of joy as much as despair, always looking towards ‘the furthest we can see; a beautiful nowhere'.
