Homeless Companions

Homeless Companions
Author: Kim Godden
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2024-03-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1035847418

Harmony Harringdon is a teenager with her whole life ahead of her. She is beautiful, sweet, and talented. Harmony and her best friend Jake Butler are inseparable. As the pair grow from children to teenagers, their friendship becomes love. They weren’t to know what fate has planned for them. It would all become too much for Harmony, despite having Jake there to support her. Fleeing the shame and devastation she believes she has caused, Harmony leaves all she knows behind her. Bearing witness to the cruel realities of life, this time fate is kind and brings Harmony a Carnival. With newfound purpose, Harmony’s talent and tenacity propels her on an unexpected journey. However, all Harmony longs for more than anything is for something or someone to save her.

My Dog Always Eats First

My Dog Always Eats First
Author: Leslie Irvine
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Pub
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2013
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781588268884

A weary-looking man stands at an intersection, backpack at his feet. Curled up nearby is a mixed-breed dog, unfazed by the passing traffic. The man holds a sign that reads, ¿Two old dogs need help. God bless.¿ What¿s happening here? Leslie Irvine breaks new ground in the study of homelessness by investigating the frequently noticed, yet underexplored, role that animals play in the lives of homeless people. Irvine conducted interviews on streetcorners, in shelters, even at highway underpasses, to provide insights into the benefits and liabilities that animals have for the homeless. She also weighs the perspectives of social service workers, veterinarians, and local communities. Her work provides a new way of looking at both the meaning of animal companionship and the concept of home itself.

Just Fodder

Just Fodder
Author: Josh Milburn
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2022-07-19
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0228013240

Animal lovers who feed meat to other animals are faced with a paradox: perhaps fewer animals would be harmed if they stopped feeding the ones they love. Animal diets do not raise problems merely for individuals. To address environmental crises, health threats, and harm to animals, we must change our food systems and practices. And in these systems, animals, too, are eaters. Moving beyond what humans should eat and whether to count animals as food, Just Fodder answers ethical and political questions arising from thinking about animals as eaters. Josh Milburn begins with practical dilemmas about feeding the animals closest to us, our pets or animal companions. The questions grow more complicated as he considers relationships with more distance – questions about whether and how to feed garden birds, farmland animals who would eat our crops, and wild animals. Milburn evaluates the nature and circumstances of our relationships with animals to generate a novel theory of animal rights. Looking past arguments about what we can and cannot do to other beings, Just Fodder asks what we can, should, and must do for them, laying out a fuller range of our ethical obligations to other animals.

Homelessness to Hope

Homelessness to Hope
Author: Uday Chatterjee
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 530
Release: 2024-04-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0443140537

Homelessness to Hope: Research, Policy and Practices on Global Perspectives brings together stories, observations and critical appraisals that have emerged out of the interdisciplinary studies spanning across the global North and South. It explores how diverse accounts on homelessness and homeless people are situated within the structural-institutional arrangements of the developing and developed worlds. Through its comparative framework, the book offers a broader understanding of the multiple ways in which homelessness is experienced, perceived, and addressed. The book uses cross-cutting theoretical framings (such as resilience, wellbeing, social-ecological systems, sustainability, urban planning, institutions, gender) and emerging discourses on homelessness to complement current empirical findings from around the world. It provides insights on diverse concepts, meanings, perceptions, identities, and values concerning homelessness across rural and urban settings to promote a comprehensive understanding. In doing so, the book critically addresses the limits of contemporary discussions on homelessness, eviction, and poverty. Broadly, the authors explore the causations and processes of homelessness to shed light on physical, social, ontological, territorial, and cognitive facets of homelessness at both local and regional contexts across the world. Furthermore, the book lays a strong focus on viable transitions through identifying, comparing, and advocating for inclusive, collaborative, actionable measures and policies. This volume is a useful guide to the students, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers interested in expanding their understanding on homelessness as well as formulating effective pathways for improvements or change. - Features contributions from interdisciplinary researchers involved with ethnographic, historical and sustainability research across the plane of social sciences: sociology, human geography, history, economics, psychology, development studies, population studies, South Asian studies, and political science - Builds upon the current scholarship on homelessness, focusing on high-, medium- and low-income countries of the world, tracing out the commonalities, variabilities and interconnections within the processes and contexts of homelessness across nations - Adheres to a solution-focused approach, emphasizing collaboration among practitioners, activists, grass-roots organizations, and researchers in designing action-oriented pathways

TimeWorm

TimeWorm
Author: Brenda Heller
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2017-10-02
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1640278591

Brenda Heller & Jimmy Adams 10605 A piercing scream stopped him in his tracks. By instinct he dropped to a squat. He caught his breath as he had ignored the flooding room and now felt the icy water press against his chest. The noise grew louder as it moved closer to where Theo squatted neck-deep in the frigid water. “Murphy!” Shards of the tile wall behind him flew in every direction as the bullet slammed into it, well above where Theo’s head had previously been. Seventeen-year-old Theo is caught up in a teenage world of driftboarding and HoloGames until his father’s friend and fellow scientist, Viktor Brack, destroys the laboratory, vowing to use a time machine to rewrite history. Trapped behind sealed doors, Theo promises himself to retrieve a book of secrets and prevent Brack’s evil plot. Theo and his robotic dog, Murphy, follow Brack over 100 years earlier to Nazi Germany. After his own escape from a pit of death, Theo is rescued until forces of evil and Hitler’s Youth attempt to kill him. He is found by sixteen-year-old Gracie, who understands the dangers of the streets. For both teens, the need to survive becomes a reality never touched by Theo’s false world of the HoloGame. Together, the teens take Murphy as they join an underground society, and begin a trek against the evil of Hitler’s regime. Dark alleys, tunnels, and creatures of repulsion force Theo and Gracie into a life-or-death fight to save both past and future. Jimmy Adams and Brenda Heller are teachers who met at the high school in Derby, Kansas. Jimmy lives in the city and was born in Pennsylvania. Brenda lives in the country and was born in Kansas. However, both enjoy running, the outdoors, and teaching teens. Each holds a degree in history, so when Jimmy had an idea to blend the truth of history with a flair of imagination, the series began. TimeWorm and the books to follow bring the events of yesterday as alive and daring as the moments in which they first occurred.

Needed by Nobody

Needed by Nobody
Author: Tova Höjdestrand
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2011-03-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 080145879X

Homelessness became a conspicuous facet of Russian cityscapes only in the 1990s, when the Soviet criminalization of vagrancy and similar offenses was abolished. In spite of the host of social and economic problems confronting Russia in the demise of Soviet power, the social dislocation endured by increasing numbers of people went largely unrecognized by the state. Being homeless carries a special burden in Russia, where a permanent address is the precondition for all civil rights and social benefits and where homelessness is often regarded as a result of laziness and drinking, rather than external factors. In Needed by Nobody, the anthropologist Tova Höjdestrand offers a nuanced portrait of homelessness in St. Petersburg. Based on ethnographic work at railway stations, soup kitchens, and other places where the homeless gather, Höjdestrand describes the material and mental world of this marginalized population. They are, she observes, "not needed" in two senses. The state considers them, in effect, as noncitizens. At the same time they stand outside the traditionally intimate social networks that are the real safety net of life in postsocialist Russia. As a result, they are deprived of the prerequisites for dealing with others in ways that they themselves value as "decent" and "human." Höjdestrand investigates processes of social exclusion as well as the remaining "world of waste": things, tasks, and places that are wanted by nobody else and on which "human leftovers" are forced to survive. In this bleak context, Höjdestrand takes up the intimate worlds of the homeless—their social relationships, dirt and cleanliness, and physical appearance. Her interviews with homeless people show that the indigent have a very good idea of what others think of them and that they are liable to reproduce the stigma that is attached to them even as they attempt to negotiate it. This unique and often moving portrait of life on the margins of society in the new Russia ultimately reveals how human dignity may be retained in the absence of its very preconditions.

Humans and Animals: Intersecting Lives and Worlds

Humans and Animals: Intersecting Lives and Worlds
Author: Anja Höing
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2019-07-22
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1848884095

Addressing the non-human animal from the standpoint of various social and cultural constructions from a global and multidisciplinary perspective, this volume seeks to draw attention to the complexity of the underlying issues and the manifold dimensions of the animal-human bond.

The Significance of One

The Significance of One
Author: Steve Vanzant
Publisher: Destiny Image Publishers
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2011-07-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0768492645

Filled with dramatic true-life tragedies, you are immediately submerged into the fatal world of car accidents, suicides, a train wreck, and the aftermath of traumatic experiences. Can one person make a significant difference in the midst of human suffering? Can one person change the outcome of a personal tragedy? Author Steve Vanzant says, "Yes"! As chaplain for a fire department, he is one of the first responders to scenes that would horrify and sicken even the strongest. Hold on tight as you ride with sirens blaring into areas that you hope you only read about during your lifetime. Sit still and listen carefully as you hear the heartache and see the tears that death and destruction bring. One person is significant-you can be the one who helps others through tough times, changing them and the world in the process. Just sitting beside someone in pain, listening to a suffering friend, or opening your heart to hear God's voice makes a positive difference-even an eternal difference.

Home - Lived Experiences

Home - Lived Experiences
Author: John Murungi
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2021-10-20
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3030703924

This book explores the lived experience of being at home as well as being homeless. Being at home or not is typically a matter of being at a place or not, where such a place is carved out of space and designated as such. It is a place that is both empirical and trans-empirical. When one is at home or not at home, one typically has in mind an inhabited place. To inhabit or not to inhabit it is to find oneself in a place that has an affective presence or absence. In either case, affectivity points to a lived place where lived experience is constituted and displayed. Thus, in this context, affectivity becomes more than the subject of empirical psychology. If psychology were to have access, it would be in the context of phenomenological or existential psychology – a psychology that has its roots in the sensible world and, hence, a psychology that expresses an aesthetic dimension. Each of the contributors in this book extends an invitation to the readers to participate in constituting, extending, and sharing with others the sense of either being at home or of being homeless. This book appeals to students, researchers as well as general interest readers.

The Animal's Companion

The Animal's Companion
Author: Jacky Colliss Harvey
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2019-04-02
Genre: Pets
ISBN: 0316466182

A unique and compelling exploration of why humans need animal companions -- from dogs and cats to horses, birds, and reptiles -- through the eyes of a New York Times bestselling historical detective author. In The Animal's Companion, the acclaimed social anthropologist and author of Red: A History of the Redhead turns her keen eye for cultural investigation toward uncovering why humans have such a strong desire to share everyday life with pets. It's a history that can be traced back to a cave in France where anthropologists discovered evidence of a boy and his dog taking a walk together -- 26,000 years ago. From those preserved foot and paw prints, Jacky Colliss Harvey draws on literary, artistic, and archaeological evidence to sweep readers through centuries and across continents to examine how our relationships with our pets have developed, but also stayed very much the same. Through delightful stories of the most famous, endearing, and sometimes eccentric pet owners throughout history, Colliss Harvey examines the when, the how, and the why of our connection to the animals we take into our lives, and suggests fascinating new insights into one of the most long-standing of all human love affairs.