The `Stubborn Particulars' of Social Psychology gives students an alternative approach to social psychology which acknowledges the limits of shared understandings often imposed by class, race, culture, nationality, ethnicity, language and gender. Frances Cherry shows how the generation of hypotheses, experimental practice, the interpretation of results and the process of scientific communication itself are equally framed by historical and cutural context. She discusses how to begin to understand one's own biases and prejudices, and how we create and make sense of our own social psychology as an engaged social critic, rather than as some idealised `objective' scientist. The `Stubborn Particulars' of Social Psychology should be required reading for all social psychology students as an antidote to their course text.
Encounter mystery, mayhem, and murder near Washington, DC, alongside four professional females. White House assistant chef Tara Whitley works with an old flame, FBI agent Jack Courtland, to stop a plot to sabotage a state-dinner. Attorney Ciara Turner and her nemesis Daniel Evans have trials tracking down a judge’s murderer. Archeologist intern Samantha Steele and security guard Nick Porter are on the heels of a dangerous forger. Shop owner Susan Holland and renovator Vince Martini turn upside down her late uncle’s mansion while investigating a string of mysterious accidents. Will these sleuthing couples’ machinations move them into matrimony?
Frances Cherry’s memoir takes us back to life in post-World War II Wellington. Leaving school with no qualifications, Frances worked in factories, fell in love with lots of boys and found an outlet for her creativity in Unity Theatre, and later in writing. Marriage, five children and life in Paekakariki followed, along with successful publications, domestic betrayal and then divorce. Returning to Wellington, she found love with another woman, and later adventure through travel. This memoir is a series of candid, colourful and entertaining snippets from a Wellington writer's life.
Kyla is devastated when her grandmother, her only caregiver, dies. Still struggling to come to terms with her loss, Kyla has to move to Wellington to live with her aunt. She is upset at leaving the only home she has ever known to live with an aunt she thinks hated her grandmother- but she later discovers that she hasn't been told the whole truth.
Charlotte's life is good. Sure, there's the occasional angst - what sixteen-year-old hasn't - but nothing she can't handle. A sulky brother, a neurotic dog, the odd fashion crisis or two. Do-able. What Charlotte hasn't counted on is a female bombshell who is set on blowing Charlotte's family and happiness apart. Flashpoints may be invisible, but the destruction they leave in their wake sure isn't.
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