Nine year old William admits that he is a worrier - but by writing down everything that happens in his life, we get a candid glimpse into how he thinks and feels. Worried William documents his life over a short period as he shares what makes him stressed, what makes him worry, and ultimately what makes him smile. From school day angst to the upcoming Halloween Disco and his nervousness around new friend Marlee, we learn what's important to him and why. Injected with feeling, humour and hashtags, Worried William gives a unique insight into what really makes a nine year old boy tick.
Baseball has been Japan's most popular sport for over a century. The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers analyzes Japanese baseball ethnographically by focusing on a single professional team, the Hanshin Tigers. For over fifty years, the Tigers have been the one of the country’s most watched and talked-about professional baseball teams, second only to their powerful rivals, the Tokyo Yomiuri Giants. Despite a largely losing record, perennial frustration, and infighting among players, the Tigers remain overwhelming sentimental favorites in many parts of the country. This book analyzes the Hanshin Tiger phenomenon, and offers an account of why it has long been so compelling and instructive. Author William Kelly argues that the Tigers represent what he calls a sportsworld —a collective product of the actions of players, coaching staff, management, media, and millions of passionate fans. The team has come to symbolize a powerful counter-narrative to idealized notions of Japanese workplace relations. The Tigers are savored as a melodramatic representation of real corporate life, rife with rivalries and office politics familiar to every Japanese worker. And playing in a historic stadium on the edge of Osaka, they carry the hopes and frustrations of Japan’s second city against the all-powerful capital.
From Retribution to Public Safety places clinical assessment and intervention
of mentally, intellectually and neurocognitively disordered offenders squarely
in the middle of criminal justice reform and develops a roadmap for
appropriate changes to criminal law and procedure as well as public health.
Discusses the policy, process, and funding innovations and priorities that the
United States needs to effectively reduce crime, recidivism, victimization,
and cost
Historians have been slow to recognize photographs as important primary sources for research and it is only in recent years that photographs are being taken seriously as historical documents in their own right. This book gives a brief outline of the history of photography from the daguerreotype camera of early Victorian times to the digital camera. It traces the development of photography in Ireland, how the vast number of photographs have accumulated, where theÃ?Â?Ã?Â?best collections are held and how they may be accessed. It suggests ways in which photographs may be examined to see what information can be extracted from them.
