Science officer Shera is on her way back to her home planet when they receive a distress signal from the small planet L’Khan. She offers to take a team down to investigate. Captain Chevanto is devastated when the team returns without Shera. Not only is she his first officer, his number one, but without her knowledge, he has fallen in love with her. They search for her for days but cannot find her. Who has kidnapped Shera? And why?
This book examines the discourses on ageing and ageism in Indian culture, politics, art and society. It explores its representations and the anxieties, fears and vulnerabilities associated with ageing. The volume looks at ageing within the contexts of the larger discourses of gender, sexuality, nation, health and the performance and politics of ageing. The chapters grapple with diverse issues around ageing and elder care in contemporary India, shifts in socio-economic conditions and the breakdown of the heteropatriarchal family. The book includes personal accounts and narratives that detail the daily experiences of ageing and living with disease, anxiety, loneliness and loss for both elders and their friends and families. The book also explores the models of alternative networks of kinship and care that queer elders in India create in India as well as examining narratives—in society, art, sports and popular culture that both critique and challenge stereotypical ideas about the desires, aspirations, and mental and physical capabilities of elders. Topical and comprehensive, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of gerontology, literature, cultural studies, popular culture, sociology, social psychology, queer studies, gender studies, social anthropology, and South Asian studies.
Famous actress Trixie Halloway heads out to go on location for her next movie. The road through the mountains is treacherous at the best of times but mix in a sudden rainstorm and blinding oncoming headlights? That’s all she wrote. Sometime later, Trixie wakes, but the body she wakes up in is not her own. To make matters worse, she is now an undercover agent working for Galactic Intelligence. What the hell does she know about being an agent? But the job does come with perks in the form of a hunky partner.
The Advocate is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) monthly newsmagazine. Established in 1967, it is the oldest continuing LGBT publication in the United States.
This ground-breaking new work provides a detailed and extensive comparison of how the physical environment has been conceptualized in social work and other professions, and offers a new and attractive foundational metaphor for social work. The author acknowledges the need for greater awareness and action regarding environmental impacts and the book promotes more comprehensive notions of responsibility, identity, and stewardship that lead to a dynamic metaphor of people as place as the foundation for relevant social work practice in the early 21st century. Why is that a profession with a declared focus on ""person-in-environment"" has been so silent on the environmental crisis? Mainstream social work theory has narrowed the understanding of environment to include merely the social environment, but this approach is no longer sufficient for participation in multi-disciplinary efforts to tackle urgent environmental issues. Transformative notions of responsibility, identity, and stewardship have been developed on the fringes of our professional community: rural/remote social workers, Aboriginal social workers, and international and spiritual social workers. They must now move to the core of the profession.
There have been many things written about Canada’s violent siege of Kanehsatà:ke and Kahnawà:ke in the summer of 1990, but When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance is the first book from the perspective of Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel, who was the Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) spokesperson during the siege. When the Pine Needles Fall, written in a conversational style by Gabriel with historian Sean Carleton, offers an intimate look at Gabriel’s life leading up to the 1990 siege, her experiences as spokesperson for her community, and her work since then as an Indigenous land defender, human rights activist, and feminist leader. More than just the memoir of an extraordinary individual, When the Pine Needles Fall offers insight into Indigenous language, history, and philosophy, reflections on our relationship with the land, and calls to action against both colonialism and capitalism as we face the climate crisis. Gabriel’s hopes for a decolonial future make clear why protecting Indigenous homelands is vital not only for the survival of Indigenous peoples, but for all who live on this planet.
In the heart of the Arizona desert, geologist Annelies Turner, her assistant Tristan, and her team venture into the landmark Meteor Crater, chasing the truth behind reports of a series of bizarre sightings. As they delve deeper into the crater’s desolate landscape, the desertscape explodes into a forest of exotic alien flora. However, the excitement of their discovery is tempered by a growing sense of danger that hints at a cosmic mystery and danger beyond their wildest imaginations. With the Earth trembling beneath their feet, Anne and her team are drawn deeper into the unknown, where answers could redefine the very fabric of reality itself. Will they unlock the truth, or will the enigmatic forces of the crater consume them?
To save her mother’s life, Myra comes up with a plan to travel back in time and return without any of her team knowing. Myra's excursion to the past goes according to plan until she steps through the portal to return to her lab. To her surprise and consternation, she ends up on an alien world with a hoard of dragons. The time machine has malfunctioned and either killed her, and she’s gone to the afterlife, or she’s been badly hurt and hallucinating. But the exotic hunk called Odon feels far from a hallucination…
The exploration ship sent out months ago to find a suitable planet for the population of Makunia returns with seven captured Earthlings. Valonius is furious when he learns of this lawless act. Upon meeting the Earthlings, a woman called Athena intrigues Valonius. Beautiful, alluring, she is a spitfire and minces no words. Athena feels drawn to the handsome blue alien and determines to at least seduce him before doomsday. Little does she know that she and the other six abductees have landed in a web of intrigue and deceit. Or that they’re in for the adventure of a lifetime...
