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When he died in 1950, Bernard Shaw was a Nobel laureate hailed as the second greatest playwright in the English language. At the same time, his strangely flamboyant personality, so teeming with eccentricities and contradictions, aroused unquenchable curiosity. Despite many investigations into Shaw's life and art, parts of him—parts crucial to understanding both man and artist—have remained veiled in secrecy. In this critical biography, Sally Peters explores Shaw's background and beliefs, interests and obsessions, relations with men and women, prose writings and dramatic art. In deciphering the enigma that was Shaw, she uncovers a convoluted and extravagant inner life studded with erotic secrets.Peters examines the passions of Shaw's life—everything from vegetarianism and boxing to socialism and feminism—and pieces them together in a new configuration, offering a fresh interpretation of his life and works. Striving unceasingly to ascend, possessed of monumental energy, Shaw was in many ways a dazzling example of his idealized superman. But, says Peters, this superman was also a man haunted by phantoms, a man of gender ambivalences and romantic yearnings, and a man who championed will even while believing that his erotic inclinations were the secret mark of the "born artist." Throughout, he was braced by a resilient comic vision as he transformed his life into enduring art.

From Simon & Schuster, Your Pregnancy Companion: Month-By-Month Guide to All You Need to Know Before, During, and After is the perfect guide to pregnancy from the author of Breastfeeding Secrets and Solutions.Winner of A Child Magazine Book Award for Excellence in Family Issues, Janis Graham's Your Pregnancy Companion is a month-by-month guide to all you need to know before, during and after pregnancy.

From Simon & Schuster, More Haunted Houses is a guide to cryptic hangouts and ghostly locales in the United States.From a robber's cave that echoes with voices of its past to America's own Loch Ness Monster to a vampire-infested cemetery, this fascinating companion volume to Haunted Houses USA takes us on a tour of some of America's spookiest places.

Research into early childhood transitions has become a field in its own right. It is increasingly understood that a positive start in any new setting can influence the child’s engagement, sense of belonging, well-being, progression in learning, and agency, and may be dependent on the insight of educators and families, and yet there is no research methodology or research methods book dedicated to this growing field of study. Including 27 chapters written by researchers from the UK, New Zealand, the USA, Sweden, Iceland, Australia and Canada this handbook presents an overview of the field exploring its current debates, reflects on its history, and offers suggestions for the future of the field. This book is an essential reference point for anyone studying or undertaking research into transitions in early childhood.

Research into early childhood transitions has become a field in its own right. It is increasingly understood that a positive start in any new setting can influence the child''s engagement, sense of belonging, well-being, progression in learning, and agency, and may be dependent on the insight of educators and families, and yet there is no research methodology or research methods book dedicated to this growing field of study. Including 27 chapters written by researchers from the UK, New Zealand, the USA, Sweden, Iceland, Australia and Canada this handbook presents an overview of the field exploring its current debates, reflects on its history, and offers suggestions for the future of the field. This book is an essential reference point for anyone studying or undertaking research into transitions in early childhood.

Research into early childhood transitions has become a field in its own right. It is increasingly understood that a positive start in any new setting can influence the child''s engagement, sense of belonging, well-being, progression in learning, and agency, and may be dependent on the insight of educators and families, and yet there is no research methodology or research methods book dedicated to this growing field of study. Including 27 chapters written by researchers from the UK, New Zealand, the USA, Sweden, Iceland, Australia and Canada this handbook presents an overview of the field exploring its current debates, reflects on its history, and offers suggestions for the future of the field. This book is an essential reference point for anyone studying or undertaking research into transitions in early childhood.

Usher’s Passing is about descendants of the Usher family from Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Fall of the House of Usher.”The house of usher is built on death itself—and now it has a new master… For generations the House of Usher has grown wealthier and more powerful on the invention and sale of murderous military weapons. But another evil has lived and grown within the House of Usher—a legacy of depravity of bloodshed that goes back generations, and stains the hallways of the family mansion. One young heir, Rix Usher, is reluctant to return home. But the House of Usher has chosen him to take the reins from his dying father… to learn the house’s terrible secrets. Joining in a ritual of fantastic evil, he will be forced to unleash the dreadful powers of Usher…

Sally Peters erforscht anhand von qualitativen Interviews den Zusammenhang zwischen Armut und Überschuldung von jungen Erwachsenen. Die Autorin zeigt, dass Überschuldung im Zusammenhang mit gesellschaftspolitischen Problemlagen wie Erwerbslosigkeit, Armut, prekärer Beschäftigung, schwierigen Lebensereignissen sowie der Bewältigung von Entwicklungsaufgaben gesehen werden muss. Die Ausführungen über die Lebenslagen junger Erwachsener eröffnen dabei Perspektiven auf das Zusammenspiel von materiellen Ressourcen, individuellen Möglichkeiten und gesellschaftlichen Rahmenbedingungen. Es wird verdeutlicht, dass die Bewältigung von Schulden Lern- und Bildungsprozesse initiieren kann, umgekehrt aber auch Lern- und Bildungsprozesse eine Voraussetzung für die erfolgreiche Bewältigung eines Überschuldungsverlaufs sein können.