Some dogs are perfect little angels that are responsive to your every word. Some are naughty little things that are constantly getting into trouble. Then there's your average dog, that's mostly good, but occasionally bad. There is a fourth type- one all its own. The crazy, destructive, wild, and unable to be tamed- but is still affectionate. There is only one dog that belongs in this category, and his name is Willie. This is Willie Johnson's autobiography. He's a Black Labrador living in Massachusetts with his quirky family, constant wrong doings, and so many scoldings of ""Bad dog!"" he must think it's his name. This quirky picture book autobiography of a trouble making dog will make you laugh and cuddle your dog just a little bit more.
Some dogs are perfect little angels that are responsive to your every word. Some are naughty little things that are constantly getting into trouble. Then there's your average dog, that's mostly good, but occasionally bad. There is a fourth type- one all its own. The crazy, destructive, wild, and unable to be tamed- but is still affectionate. There is only one dog that belongs in this category, and his name is Willie. This is Willie Johnson's autobiography. He's a Black Labrador living in Massachusetts with his quirky family, constant wrong doings, and so many scoldings of ""Bad dog!"" he must think it's his name. This quirky picture book autobiography of a trouble making dog will make you laugh and cuddle your dog just a little bit more.
Although Jack the Ripper has been remebered for over a century I think we should spare a thought for his victims. These women were living day to day trying to escape starvation and death. They did not have a choice how they lived. 'Jack' gave them no choice in death. Revelations of the True Ripper introduces you to my 'Jack the Ripper'. I did not choose him, I found him in the detail, hidden behind the history of the times.
There has been increased emphasis on smart cities due to the economic, environmental and technological shifts that have impacted on society. This book focuses on how cities are becoming smarter, more innovative and entrepreneurial due to the increased pressures placed on them from societal changes in the global business environment. The book defines a smart city as an urban or rural development that integrates technology to enhance a city’s assets, which may include community services, parkland, education, transportation and energy sources. The book aims to examine the role that innovation has in creating smart cities by focusing on issues such as public transport, use of energy efficiency and sustainability practices. It helps to shed understanding on how cities have become smarter in the way they handle increased migration to urban and rural areas and decrease the strain on public finances.
Based on research that was awarded the Governor General's Academic Gold Medal, Healing Home is an exploration of the lives and health of young women experiencing homelessness. Vanessa Oliver employs an innovative methodology that blends sociology and storytelling practices to investigate these women's access to health services, their understandings of health and health care delivery, and their health-seeking behaviours. Through their life stories, Oliver demonstrates how personal and social experiences shape health outcomes. In contrast to many previous studies that have focused on the deficits of these young people, Healing Home is both youth-centric and youth-positive in its approach: by foregrounding the narratives of the women themselves, Oliver empowers a sub-section of the population that traditionally has not had a voice in determining policies that shape their realities. Applying a strong, articulate, and systemic analysis to on-the-ground narratives, Oliver is able to offer fresh, incisive recommendations for health and social service providers with the potential to effect real-world change for this marginalized population.
This book is an innovative and compelling work that develops a modified moral panic model illustrated by the drugs in sport debate. Drawing on Max Weber’s work on moral authority and legitimacy, McDermott argues that doping scandals create a crisis of legitimacy for sport governing bodies and other elite groups. This crisis leads to a moral panic, where the issue at stake for elite groups is perceptions of their organizational legitimacy. The book highlights the role of the media as a site where claims to legitimacy are made, and contested, contributing to the social construction of a moral panic. The book explores the way regulatory responses, in this case anti-doping policies in sport, reflect the interests of elite groups and the impact of those responses on individuals, or "folk devils." The War on Drugs in Sport makes a key contribution to moral panic theory by adapting Goode and Ben-Yehuda’s moral panic model to capture the diversity of interests and complex relationships between elite groups. The difference between this book and others in the field is its application of a new theoretical perspective, supported by well-researched empirical evidence.
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