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  • The Energy Switch

    How Companies and Customers Are Transforming the Electrical Grid and the Future of Power

    The energy industry is changing, and it’s far more than just solar panels. Electric vehicles look to overtake gasoline-powered cars within our lifetimes, wind farms are popping up in unlikely places, traders are transforming energy into a commodity, and supercomputers are crunching vast amounts of data in nanoseconds while helping to keep our energy grids secure from hackers.The way humans produce ... Read more

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  • Night Terrors Vol. 14

    Short Horror Stories Anthology

    Series Book 14 - Night Terrors
    When night falls, a dance of death begins…A realtor desperately tries to sell a haunted house before it consumes her body and soul. A young couple’s vacation at a campground takes an ominous turn when something menacing lurks nearby. And a haunting melody leads a curious girl to a bittersweet tale of love and loss…Grab your partner and join the spirits on the dance floor. Scare Street’s latest ... Read more

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  • Night Terrors Vol. 19

    Short Horror Stories Anthology

    Series Book 19 - Night Terrors
    Trick or treat, trick or treat! Hungry ghouls crave fresh meat…A recovering addict faces the ultimate test when an old friend puts him through a terrifying ordeal. Two brave souls spend the night in a haunted house, only to emerge forever changed. And a cursed photographer goes to horrific lengths when their vision slowly decays…Scare Street is proud to present a new collection of diabolical ... Read more

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  • Informal Workers and a Political Economy of Lifelong Learning

    Provocations from the Margins of Global Capitalism

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book makes an innovative, sociologically informed contribution to academic and policy discussions about informal work, skills and training for lifelong learning (LLL) and the promise of decent work and just transitions for sustainable development. It does so with an explicit focus on challenges and opportunities as they shape informal economies and the experiences of informal workers in Latin ... Read more

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  • Young People and Uncertain Futures?

    A Genealogy of Young People's Enterprise and Aspiration, The Fourth Industrial Revolution, and Education for Sustainable Development

    Series series Youth, Young Adulthood and Society
    Drawing on Foucault’s ‘genealogical ethos’ and his work on power/knowledge/subjects, this book analyses the ways in which neo-liberal education apparatuses in Australia and other high-income economies frame the problem of young people and uncertain futures.The book critically examines the character of the presents and futures of education, training, and work, and of the planet that have been ... Read more

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  • Ovid and Plato

    Disturbing Realities

    by Peter Kelly ...
    The Roman poet Ovid, while sailing across the Black Sea to Tomis, considered his exile to have cosmic proportions; in the surging waves he sees his world seemingly veering back towards primordial chaos. Throughout his work Ovid seeks to depict the vast heterogeneity of the world, its creation and destruction, and the interconnection between humans and their unstable environment. This book explores ... Read more

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  • Young People and Stories for the Anthropocene

    Series series Children and Young People in the Anthropocene
    This edited collection presents stories of children and young people’s entanglements with times of ongoing crisis in the Anthropocene. The authors use biographical narratives and arts-based methodologies to further the discussion surrounding young people’s well-being, resilience, and enterprise. Through these stories, they seek to critically engage with the literature on the Anthropocene and ... Read more

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  • Young People and Thinking Technologies for the Anthropocene

    Series series Children and Young People in the Anthropocene
    This collection, which is a companion volume to Young People and Stories for the Anthropocene (Kelly et al., 2022), aims to find, to explore, and to co-produce ways of ‘staying with the trouble’ (Haraway 2016) that are disruptive of orthodoxies in childhood and youth studies, and productive of new ways of thinking, and of being and becoming, in the circumstances that we (young and old) find ... Read more

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  • Art-Based Social Enterprise, Young Creatives and the Forces of Marginalisation

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book analyses the challenges and opportunities faced by art-based social enterprises (ASEs) engaging young creatives in education and training and supporting their pathways to the creative industries. In doing so, it addresses the complex intersecting issues of marginality and entrepreneurship, particularly in relation to young creatives from socially, economically and culturally diverse ... Read more

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  • Neo-Liberalism and Austerity

    The Moral Economies of Young People’s Health and Well-being

    Edited by Peter Kelly, Jo Pike ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This collection examines the relationships between a globalising neoliberal capitalism, a post-GFC environment of recession and austerity, and the moral economies of young people’s health and well-being. Contributors explore how in the second decade of the 21st century, many young people in the OECD/EU economies and in the developing economies of Asia, Africa and Central and South America continue ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Belonging, Identity, Time and Young People’s Engagement in the Middle Years of School

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book explores the complex ways in which belonging, identity and time are entangled in shaping young people engagement with the middle years of school. The authors argue that these ‘entanglements’ need to be understood in ways that move beyond a focus on why individual young people engage with the middle years. Instead, there should be a focus on the socio-ecologies of particular places, and ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Young People and the Aesthetics of Health Promotion

    Beyond Reason, Rationality and Risk

    Series series Youth, Young Adulthood and Society
    Health promotion with young people has largely been framed by theories of behaviour change to target ‘unsafe’, ‘unhealthy’ and/or ‘risky’ behaviours. These theories and models seek to encourage the development in young people of reasoned, rational and risk-aware personal strategies.This book presents an innovative and critical perspective on young people and health promotion. It explores the ... Read more

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