Famous for its hardy nature and shaggy good looks, the Highland Cow has played an important role in Scottish rural life for many centuries. This is an illustrated celebration of the ever-popular Highlanders, who have today become iconic figures in the landscape of Scotland.
Scotland's Nature and Wildlife [Hardcover] Taylor, Kenny
Focusing on the themes of displacement and dispossession in the 21st century, this book explores how migration affects communities globally. It combines theoretical insights with real-life examples of how people express their experiences through creative mediums like poetry, storytelling, and photography. The latter sections discuss policy and professional practices aimed at fostering solidarity and social justice, while addressing the structural inequalities influenced by social class, gender, ethnicity, age, ability, and faith.
Focusing on the intersection of legal advice and welfare rights, this study examines strategies for enhancing support for disadvantaged communities. It emphasizes the importance of developing these strategies in a manner that upholds the core ethics and principles of public service, rather than compromising them. The exploration aims to provide insights into effective and ethical approaches to ensure access to justice and welfare for those in need.
Understanding the Past, Learning for the Future
Focusing on the need to decolonize community education and development, the book emphasizes learning from historical injustices to combat present discrimination and oppression. Marjorie Mayo explores strategies for creating inclusive policies and practices aimed at achieving social justice. She addresses the detrimental effects of 'culture wars' on community initiatives and confronts the denial of colonial legacies that continue to impact society.
Mayo demonstrates how, through popular education and participatory action research, communities can develop their own understandings of their problems. Using case studies that illustrate popular education approaches in practice, she offers pedagogies of hope and shows how communities can engineer impactful and democratic forms of social change.
BEING ME Award winning illustrator, Grisel Miranda bring us a super fun, silly story about a bored little monkey who is having a identity crisis. Her ever-patient mother listens to her fantasies but, in the end, makes her see who she really is. Award-winning artist, Grisel Miranda, has illustrated the book in beautiful vivd colours to attract the pre or early reader. A must for parents wanting to bolster a child's selfesteem.
Written by experts this important book explores the vital relationships between active citizenship, civil society and the third sector in different socio-political contexts. Drawing on a range of theory and empirical studies the book will be a useful resource for researchers and practitioners.
Part cookbook and part storybook of a family's life in France, The Cook's Atelier combines classic French recipes, step-by-step instructions on technique, and narratives of living in French wine country from mother-and- daughter duo Marjorie Taylor and Kendall Smith Franchini
