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The Huntress
At thirteen, Kamryn was yanked from her normal life into the world of vampire hunting. As the last living descendant of the Van Helsing bloodline, Kamryn was taught that the only good vampire was a dead vampire. For years, Kamryn dutifully killed any vampire that crossed her path until she met Alex. Alex was the most powerful vampire that Kamryn had ever encountered. Three years ago, he approached Kamryn and offered his assistance in hunting those vampires that indiscriminately killed humans and teaching her about vampires. The alliance did not last as their true nature pushed them apart. Now a new evil threatens both hunters and vampires, forcing Kamryn to seek Alex's help. In order to protect her and destroy their enemies, Alex must bring Kamryn into his world of vampires. There, Alex shows Kamryn that not all vampires are as soulless or as predatory as she was taught.
Parents in the Spotlight
Children and parents have become a focus of debates on ‘new social risks’ in European welfare states. Policymaking elites have converged in defining such risks, and they have outlined new forms of parenting support to better safeguard children and activate their potential. Increasingly, parents are suspected of falling short of public expectations. Contributors to this special issue scrutinize this shift towards parenting as performance and analyse recent forms of parenting support.
Buzz Kill
With a bossy mother, a deteriorating Los Angeles apartment, and a love life going nowhere, magazine writer Toni Carey's childhood memories of caring for her uncle's beehives lead her to the bucolic citrus town of Loma Vista. But a bludgeoning, a murder, and a hot Sheriff's detective have more than the bees buzzing. "Buzz Kill is the bee’s knees! When Toni “Cookie” Carey’s beloved Uncle Horace is found unconscious in his home, she joins forces with a handsome detective to get to the bottom of things. Uncle Horace, an avid bee hobbyist, has left clues in the hives, but can the insects help Toni solve the case? Buzz Kill is buzzing with fun, mystery and romance." — Sue Ann Jaffarian, author of the popular Odelia Grey mysteries and Ghost of Granny Apples mysteries. "With its quirky heroine, appealing setting, and intriguing bee-centric plot, Buzz Kill is a honey of a mystery read." — Ellen Byron, Agatha Award - winning author of the best-selling Cajun Country Mysteries and the author of The Catering Hall Mysteries under the pen name Maria DiRico.
The Child as Citizen
Marking the 20th anniversary of the United Nations General Assembly's adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), this volume of the ANNALS considers conceptual, legal, and practical issues related to the realization of children as citizens.
Loving Music Till it Hurts
Loving Music Till It Hurts explores how people's intense love and protectiveness of music can lead to interpersonal conflicts, societal injustices, and violence. But how might we love music, even embrace it as vital to human thriving, without weaponizing this love? What can we do when loving music and loving people seem at odds?
Key Concepts in Childhood Studies
This book has already proved itself as a course adoption leader in Childhood Studies. All of the strengths of the First Edition have been retained. The book is comprehensive and judged with the needs of students in mind. It is a model of clarity and precision and has been acknowledged as such in reviews and course feedback. The new edition thoroughly revises old entries and adds new ones. The book is the most accessible, relevant student introduction to this expanding, interdisciplinary field.
America's Courage of Faith
"Our wise old Church," he said then, "has discovered that if you will act as if you believed belief will be granted to you: if you pray with doubt, but pray with sincerity, your doubt will be dispelled: if you will surround yourself to the beauty of that liturgy the power of which over the human spirit has been proved by the experience of the ages, peace will descend upon you. The distance that separates you from faith is no greater than the thickness of a cigarette paper."
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Hip-Hop Authenticity and the London Scene
This book explores the highly-valued, and often highly-charged, ideal of authenticity in hip-hop — what it is, why it is important, and how it affects the day-to-day life of rap artists. By analyzing the practices, identities, and struggles that shape the lives of rappers in the London scene, the study exposes the strategies and tactics that hip-hop practitioners engage in to negotiate authenticity on an everyday basis. In-depth interviews and fieldwork provide insight into the nature of authenticity in global hip-hop, and the dynamics of cultural appropriation, globalization, marketization, and digitization through a combined set of ethnographic, theoretical, and cultural analysis. Despite growing attention to authenticity in popular music, this book is the first to offer a comprehensive theoretical model explaining the reflexive approaches hip-hop artists adopt to ‘live out’ authenticity in everyday life. This model will act as a blueprint for new studies in global hip-hop and be generative in other authenticity research, and for other music genres such as punk, rock and roll, country, and blues that share similar issues surrounding contested artist authenticity.
