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This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores internal and external precarities in the lives of children. The goal of the book is to illuminate, promote, and help situate subjectivities that are often blotted out for both the child and society.

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The height of the AIDS crisis left many profound untold. Hidden Mercy uncovers the stories of Catholics who at great personal cost chose compassion. A compelling picture of those who responded to human suffering with mercy, offering insights for LGBTQ and other people of faith struggling to find a home in religious communities today.

With its complex layering of themes, this unique new work by one of Ireland's finest and most innovative poets is as bold a statement as the building itself.

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All that we see occurs through the medium of light, whether as power in electromagnetic radiation, or as brightness visible to the human eye and mind. So pervasive is this illumination of light in our lives that it also has a metaphoric and symbolic function as enlightenment or knowledge. That duality of meaning lends a special emphasis on the perception of light as awareness or truth, above and beyond what we perceive through simple eyesight....

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With the push toward accountability and test performance in schools there has been a decline in emphasis on creativity, imagination, and feelings in schools. Psychodynamic Perspectives on Working with Children, Families, and Schools is designed for students and professionals who are interested in restoring such values to their work with children.There is an absence of psychoanalytic ways of thinking in conventional professional discourses of s...

This volume offers very specific illustrations of psychoanalytic ways of thinking and working in both clinical and pedagogical contexts with children. It is designed for professionals who work with infants, children, and adolescents, and who are seeking modes of working that respects emotions, that embrace context, and that privilege imagination and possibility. For professionals who already practice in ways that are sympathetic to these modes...

How do you reinvigorate an institution that prides itself on preserving two thousand years of history? That is the challenge Jorge Mario Bergoglio faced when he became Pope Francis in March 2013. From the beginning, with his commitment to "remember the poor, " Francis embarked on a mission to "rebrand" the Church so that it better reflected its founder, Jesus Christ, instead of preserving institutional power and prestige. Amid surprising prono...

Framed by America's enemies for a crime she didn't commit. Fifteen-year-old Colleen Lee "Collie" Knight is on trial for her life in a foreign land. If she's found guilty, then the Monarchy of The Kingdom's Realm will off the American teen a blindfold as she stands in front of their military firing squad. Will Collie be spared from sitting in her prison cell waiting in fearful anticipation for her execution day to arrive? Can the efforts of her...

Framed by America's enemies for a crime she didn't commit. Fifteen-year-old Colleen Lee "Collie" Knight is on trial for her life in a foreign land. If she's found guilty, then the Monarchy of The Kingdom's Realm will off the American teen a blindfold as she stands in front of their military firing squad. Will Collie be spared from sitting in her prison cell waiting in fearful anticipation for her execution day to arrive? Can the efforts of her...

With the push toward accountability and test performance in schools there has been a decline in emphasis on creativity, imagination, and feelings in schools. Psychodynamic Perspectives on Working with Children, Families, and Schools is designed for students and professionals who are interested in restoring such values to their work with children. There is an absence of psychoanalytic ways of thinking in conventional professional discourses of ...

The Ethics of Remembering and the Consequences of Forgetting brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines to address intersections of trauma, history, and memory. Methodologies include personal narrative, auto-ethnography, micro-history, psychosocial studies, critical theory, psychoanalysis, film/art criticism, and historical inquiry.

The Subject of Childhood is a collection of essays on early childhood education/childhood studies that brings critical psychological, psychoanalytic, and cultural studies perspectives to bear on understanding the lives children live. Central concerns running through these essays are the emergence of subjectivity in the child, the complexity of conceptualizing the relationship between external cultural and social forces, and the internal sense ...

The Subject of Childhood is a collection of essays on early childhood education/childhood studies that brings critical psychological, psychoanalytic, and cultural studies perspectives to bear on understanding the lives children live. Central concerns running through these essays are the emergence of subjectivity in the child, the complexity of conceptualizing the relationship between external cultural and social forces, and the internal sense ...

The purpose of this book is to imagine things otherwise in theorizing childhood subjectivity. The work brings together influential thinkers who are forthright in their refusal to be seduced by simplistic binaries, who are willing to address the notion of childhood subjectivity in ways that are complex and critical, and whose arguments lead to practical advances in our thinking about child policy, child-rearing, pedagogy, and curriculum. The co...

This exceptional collection of poetry vividly portrays Michael J. O'Loughlin's experiences while hiking and climbing in wilderness areas in North and Central America. It describes not only the incredible beauty of these sanctuaries, but it also tries to examine our human reactions to the wonder, awe, and apprehension we feel when encountering nature on her terms.About the AuthorMichael J. O'Loughlin's twenty-year career as a classroom teacher ...

Pope Francis embarked on the challenge of reinvigorating the papacy and the mission to 'remember the poor, ' and has used Twitter and his 21 million followers to reach out directly to his global flock. His 140 character or less sermons reveal the secret of his popularity and provide a window on his priorities, passions and revolutionary vision for the Church.