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The Kidnapping of Journalists: Reporting from High-Risk Conflict Zones (Risj Challenges Ser.)
by Robert G. Picard Hannah StormThe vulnerability of journalists to kidnappings was starkly illustrated by the killing of James Foley and Steven Sotloff by Islamic militants in 2014. Their murder underscored the risks taken by journalists and news organisations trying to cover developments in dangerous regions of the world and has forced news enterprises to more clearly prepare for and confront issues of safety. This book explores the complex organisational issues surrounding the capture or kidnapping of journalists in areas of conflict and risk. It explores how journalists 'becoming news' is covered and the implications of that coverage, how news organisations prepare for and respond to such events, and how kidnapping and ransom insurers, victim recovery firms, journalists' families, and governments influence the actions of news enterprises. It considers how and why journalists are kidnapped, how employers and journalists' organisations respond to kidnappings and why freelancers are particularly at risk as well as suggesting best practices for preventing and responding to kidnappings.
The Kids' Guide to Getting Your Words on Paper: Simple Stuff to Build the Motor Skills and Strength for Handwriting
by Lauren BruknerDoes your hand ache when you write? Packed with fun and simple ideas to help kids feel good about writing, this handwriting book with a difference helps children embed the strength and skills they need to get the most out of their written work, at home and school!From different kinds of cushions, hand warm-ups, and cool eye scan exercises, and pencil grips to yoga balls in cardboard boxes, personalized activity binders, playdough, lego, and Velcro on pencils, this book is filled with fun stuff to help kids focus, get stronger, and be in control of their writing. The strategies in the book are accompanied by cartoon-style illustrations, and the author includes useful tips for parents and teachers as well as handy visual charts, a quiz to identify areas of most difficulty, and checklists for children to track their own progress.Armed with the strategies and exercises in this book, kids will be well on their way to writing with greater ease, and the positive self-esteem that goes along with that. Suitable for children with writing difficulties aged approximately 7 to 12.
Kids Talk: Strategic Language Use in Later Childhood (Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics)
by Susan M. Hoyle Carolyn Temple AdgerBetween early childhood and adulthood, language acquisition is succeeded by a bloom of repertoire for managing interaction, a growing sensitivity to the relation of language and society, an expanding ability to wield power through the strategic use of language, and an increasing sophistication in framing speech activities. This book examines a wide range of language practices among school-age children and teenagers, using data from naturally occurring recorded talk and from careful observation of interaction in peer groups. The contributors analyze talk at play, at school, and at work, documenting the growing communicative skills of young people while always focusing on what young speakers themselves do with (and through) language. Theoretical constructs to which the contributors appeal include Goffman's notion of footing and Hymes' communicative competence, as well as multiple characterizations of discourse structure. The chapters show older children as strategic language users, dynamic actors who are often concerned with defining themselves as a distinctive group, different from adults, yet who just as often display proficiency at sophisticated discourse activities that presage those of adulthood.
Kieran Hurley Plays 1: Hitch; Beats; Heads Up; Mouthpiece; The Enemy (Contemporary Dramatists)
by Kieran HurleyMulti-award-winning Scottish playwright Kieran Hurley has been making waves since the early 2010s with his vivid storytelling and searing honesty, creating plays acutely concerned with society and community, and deeply enmeshed in Scotland's local political context. Tracking the evolution of Hurley's work from his early solo shows to his later large-cast plays and featuring an introduction by Scottish theatre critic Joyce McMillan, this is an exciting collection showcasing one of the UK's most exciting creators of politically-engaged theatre. The plays collected are:Hitch (2010): a previously unpublished solo show about Hurley's hitchhiking trip to the 2009 G8 meeting in L'Aquila, exploring the meaning of political protest.Beats (2012): a coming-of-age story exploring the aftermath of the 1994 Criminal Justice Act outlawing raves. It was adapted into a film in 2019, garnering nominations for BIFA Best Debut Screenplay and WGGB Best Screenplay.Heads Up (2016): a ferocious piece of storytelling asking what we would do if we found ourselves at the end of our world as we know it. (Winner of the Fringe First Award 2016.)Mouthpiece (2018): an unflinching Edinburgh-centric two-hander which examines whether it's possible to tell someone else's story without exploiting them along the way. (Winner of the Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award 2019.)The Enemy (2021): a provocative and timely drama offering a uniquely Scottish take on Henrik Ibsen's timeless work An Enemy of the People.
Kieran Hurley Plays 1: Hitch; Beats; Heads Up; Mouthpiece; The Enemy (Contemporary Dramatists)
by Kieran HurleyMulti-award-winning Scottish playwright Kieran Hurley has been making waves since the early 2010s with his vivid storytelling and searing honesty, creating plays acutely concerned with society and community, and deeply enmeshed in Scotland's local political context. Tracking the evolution of Hurley's work from his early solo shows to his later large-cast plays and featuring an introduction by Scottish theatre critic Joyce McMillan, this is an exciting collection showcasing one of the UK's most exciting creators of politically-engaged theatre. The plays collected are:Hitch (2010): a previously unpublished solo show about Hurley's hitchhiking trip to the 2009 G8 meeting in L'Aquila, exploring the meaning of political protest.Beats (2012): a coming-of-age story exploring the aftermath of the 1994 Criminal Justice Act outlawing raves. It was adapted into a film in 2019, garnering nominations for BIFA Best Debut Screenplay and WGGB Best Screenplay.Heads Up (2016): a ferocious piece of storytelling asking what we would do if we found ourselves at the end of our world as we know it. (Winner of the Fringe First Award 2016.)Mouthpiece (2018): an unflinching Edinburgh-centric two-hander which examines whether it's possible to tell someone else's story without exploiting them along the way. (Winner of the Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award 2019.)The Enemy (2021): a provocative and timely drama offering a uniquely Scottish take on Henrik Ibsen's timeless work An Enemy of the People.
Kierkegaard and the Refusal of Transcendence (Radical Theologies and Philosophies)
by Steven ShakespeareKierkegaard and the Refusal of Transcendence challenges the standard view that Kierkegaard's God is infinitely other than the world. It argues that his work immerses us in the paradoxical nature of existence itself, and opposes any flight into another world.
Kierkegaard on the Philosophy of History
by G. PatiosHistory doesn't have to mean only an effort to know the past. It can be instead, according to Kierkegaard, a willful and personal choice regarding the creation of the future. Kierkegaard offers us an amazing new approach to the problem of what is history and who makes it.
Kill Floor (Modern Plays)
by Abe KooglerSee in my opinion there are two types of people in the world.There are people who actually do something with their lives?Who have some kind of values or something?And then there are people like you.A small town. Today. Following a long incarceration, Andy returns to her hometown to restart her life. After securing a job at the local slaughterhouse, the challenges of reentry unfold as she reconnects with her teenage son, B, a staunch vegetarian with a life he's unwilling to share with his mother.Writer Abe Koogler has written a funny, surprising and moving search for connection in modern America. Kill Floor received its world premiere at New York's LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater in October 2015 and played at American Theatre Company, Chicago, from March 2016.
Kill Floor (Modern Plays)
by Abe KooglerSee in my opinion there are two types of people in the world.There are people who actually do something with their lives?Who have some kind of values or something?And then there are people like you.A small town. Today. Following a long incarceration, Andy returns to her hometown to restart her life. After securing a job at the local slaughterhouse, the challenges of reentry unfold as she reconnects with her teenage son, B, a staunch vegetarian with a life he's unwilling to share with his mother.Writer Abe Koogler has written a funny, surprising and moving search for connection in modern America. Kill Floor received its world premiere at New York's LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater in October 2015 and played at American Theatre Company, Chicago, from March 2016.
Killing Spanish: Literary Essays on Ambivalent U.S. Latino/a Identity
by L. SandinIn this intelligent monograph for women's studies, literature and Latin American studies, Lyn Di Iorio Sandin asserts that there is a significant ambivalence surrounding identity that is present in the works of Latino writers such as Cristina Garcia, Edward Rivera, and Abraham Rodriguez. Sandin incorporates the theories of allegory and 'double identity' to talk about fragmentation of the Latino psyche. What Sandin finds compelling is that in all of the works of this diverse group of writers, there is a common theme of anxiety about origins that manifests itself through the symbols of dead women, ghosts, or madwomen. Using specific examples from literature ranging from Cuban American Cristina Garcia's The Aguero Sisters to Puerto Rican Rosario Ferre's Maldito amor , Sandin finds that fragmented ethnic identification is an area that is just beginning to be explored within the analysis of U.S. Latino fiction.
Killing the Messenger: Journalists at Risk in Modern Warfare
by Herbert N. FoerstelKilling the Messenger reveals the dangerous new face of war and journalism. Covering armed conflicts has always been dangerous business, but in the past, press heroes like Ernie Pyle and Edward R. Murrow faced only the danger of random bullets or bombs. Today's war correspondent is actually in the cross hairs, a target of combatants on all sides of conflicts. In their own words, correspondents describe the new dangers they face and attempt to explain why they are targeted.Killing the Messenger reveals the dangerous new face of war and journalism. Covering armed conflicts has always been dangerous business, but in the past, press heroes like Ernie Pyle and Edward R. Murrow faced only the danger of random bullets or bombs. Today's war correspondent is actually in the cross hairs, a target of combatants on all sides of conflicts.In this book, correspondents describe the new dangers they face, and attempt to explain why they are targeted. Is it simply that modern combatants are more brutal than in the past, or has journalism changed, making correspondents players, rather than observers, in modern warfare? Extended interviews with correspondents who have been abducted and tortured during Middle East conflicts shed chilling light on this new face of war. These journalists, who have paid dearly to bring first-hand images of war to the public, offer some surprising insights into the nature and motivation of their kidnappers, and the reasons why reporters are targeted. They display no self-pity and little inclination to blame anyone other than themselves. At the same time, they are candid in describing the violence within Iraq and without. Ways to reduce the risks for reporters are discussed, but these editors and correspondents suggest that, short of withdrawing into isolated and protected enclaves, they may be facing an indefinite escalation of violence against journalists.
Kin
by E. V. CroweEverybody expects the report to say they are a delight. They are very bright. They are pure as light. But they are small dogs Headmistress. I must report what I see. They are small dogs in packs or pairs, doing what small dogs do.A girls' boarding school in the 1990s is no Malory Towers. Whilst Mimi learns her lines for John Proctor in the Christmas play, Janey desperately clings on to her best-friend status.
Kin of Another Kind: Transracial Adoption in American Literature
by Cynthia Callahan"The study of transracial adoption has long been dominated by historians, legal scholars, and social scientists, but with the growth of the lively field of humanistic adoption studies comes a growing understanding of the importance of cultural representations to the social meanings and even the practices of adoption itself . . . This book makes a valuable contribution in showing how important the theme of adoption has been throughout the twentieth century in representations of race relations, and in showing that the adoption theme has served to challenge racial norms as well as uphold them." ---Margaret Homans, Yale University The subject of transracial adoption seems to be enjoying unprecedented media attention of late, particularly as white celebrities have made headlines by adopting children of color from overseas. But interest in transracial adoption is nothing new---it has long occupied a space in the public imagination, a space disproportionate with the number of people actually adopted across racial lines. Even before World War II, when transracial adoption was neither legally nor socially sanctioned, American authors wrote about it, often depicting it as an "accident"---the result of racial ambiguity that prevented adopters from knowing who is white or black. After World War II, as the real-world practice of transracial and international adoption increased, American literary representations of it became an index not only of the changing cultural attitudes toward adoption as a way of creating families but also of the social issues that informed it and made it, at times, controversial. Kin of Another Kind examines the appearance of transracial adoption in American literature at certain key moments from the turn of the twentieth century to the turn of the twenty-first to help understand its literary and social significance to authors and readers alike. In juxtaposing representations of African American, American Indian, and Korean and Chinese adoptions across racial (and national) lines, Kin of Another Kind traces the metaphorical significance of adoption when it appears in fiction. At the same time, aligning these groups calls attention to their unique and divergent cultural histories with adoption, which serve as important contexts for the fiction discussed in this study. The book explores the fiction of canonical authors such as William Faulkner and Toni Morrison and places it alongside lesser-known works by Robert E. Boles, Dallas Chief Eagle (Lakota), and Sui Sin Far that, when reconsidered, can advance our understanding both of adoption in literature and of twentieth-century American literature in general. Kin of Another Kind will appeal to students and scholars in adoption in literature, American literature, and comparative multiethnic literatures. It adds to the growing body of work on adoption in literature, which focuses on orphancy and adoption in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Cynthia Callahan is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Ohio State University, Mansfield.
A Kind of People (Oberon Modern Plays)
by Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti“In this country, you go as far as they let you.” Friday night and someone’s having a party. It seems like a laugh, but not everyone’s having fun. Gary and Nicky have been together since school. Gary’s going for a promotion so he can get his family out of their council flat and give Nicky everything she deserves. Anjum and Mo are used to aiming for the best. And doing whatever it takes to get it. Gary’s sister Karen is more interested in having a life than fighting for any cause. Mark is just…always there. And Victoria, Victoria wants to dance with somebody…
Kind Regards: The Lost Art of Letter Writing
by Liz WilliamsAll the signs show that the worthy art of letter writing is in decline. One third of 16-year-olds have never written a letter, and in the next ten years it is predicted that first-class mail will drop by 37%. Emails and texts have overtaken the humble pen and paper as the most popular method of communication. In Kind Regards, Liz Williams explores the popular history of letter writing and how it has shaped the world today - from the early Greek philosophers, to the great letter writers Byron and Walpole and famous letters that changed the world. It also covers the invention of the fountain pen and the growth of the mail delivery system. This is the fascinating story of how a simple piece of paper revolutionized global communication and how, despite the ever-growing influence of technology, handwritten letters are regaining their value, meaning and popularity
Kinder- und Jugendliteratur 1933–1945: Ein Handbuch. Band 2: Darstellender Teil
by Norbert Hopster Petra Josting Joachim NeuhausDas grundlegende Nachschlagewerk zur Kinder- und Jugendliteratur des Dritten Reiches. Nach der Bibliographie in Band 1 bringt der Band 2 Beiträge, die zeigen, mit welchen ideologischen Vorstellungen und literaturpolitischen Maßnahmen staatliche und parteiamtliche Instanzen versuchten, lenkend Einfluss zu nehmen, und darüber hinaus Sachartikel zu diversen Themen.
Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung 1994/95: Mit einer Gesamtbibliographie der Veröffentlichungen des Jahres 1994
Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung 1996/97: Mit einer Gesamtbibliographie der Veröffentlichungen des Jahres 1996
Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung 1997/98: Mit einer Gesamtbibliographie der Veröffentlichungen des Jahres 1997
Die vierte Folge des mittlerweile im In- und Ausland viel beachteten und intensiv genutzten Jahrbuches bietet wie stets das Verzeichnis der im Vorjahr erschienenen Fachliteratur - ca. 1600 Titel - sowie zahlreiche Rezensionen wissenschaftlicher Neuerscheinungen zur Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, zur literarischen Sozialisation und zur Lese(r)forschung.
Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung 1998/99: Mit einer Gesamtbibliographie der Veröffentlichungen des Jahres 1998
Die fünfte Folge des im In- und Ausland viel beachteten »Jahrbuchs« steht ganz im Zeichen des 100. Geburtstags von Erich Kästner, dem wohl bedeutendsten deutschsprachigen Kinderschriftsteller des 20. Jahrhunderts.
Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung 1999/2000: Mit einer Gesamtbibliographie der Veröffentlichungen des Jahres 1999
Die sechste Folge des Jahrbuchs widmet sich dem Thema »Kinder- und Jugendliteratur und Erziehung/Pädagogik«.
Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung 2000/2001: Mit einer Gesamtbibliographie der Veröffentlichungen des Jahres 2000
by Carola Pohlmann Verena Rutschmann Ernst Seibert Jack Zipes Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kinder- und JugendliteraturforschungDie siebte Folge des Jahrbuches enthält Beiträge zum (kindlichen und jugendlichen) Leser im Text: Ute Dettmar und Elisabeth Stuck befassen sich mit Kindern als Leser und Laiendarsteller von Kinderschauspielen des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts. Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer untersucht den kindlichen Leser als Entzifferer von intertextuellen Bezügen. Andrea Weinmann zeichnet die Figur des kindlichen Zuhörers in Kinderbüchern der 50er und 60er Jahre nach, während Gunther Reiss sich mit Strategien der Leserlenkung in Texten von Gudrun Pausewang auseinandersetzt. Heinrich Kaulen untersucht das Motiv jugendlicher Schlüssellektüre im Adoleszenzroman der Moderne, um dessen Verschwinden im Zeitalter der Postmoderne zu konstatieren. Beiträge von Gabriele von Glasenapp zum Wandel des historischen Romans für junge Leser und von Karin Richter und Ute Frey zur Medienrezeption von Grundschülern schließen sich an. Ein umfassender Rezensionsteil und eine Bibliographie der Fachliteratur des Vorjahrs (ca. 1.600 Titel) runden den Band ab.
Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung 2001/2002: Mit einer Gesamtbibliographie der Veröffentlichungen des Jahres 2001
by Bernd Dolle-Weinkauff Hans-Heino Ewers Carola PohlmannDas neue Jahrbuch bietet zunächst eine Reihe historischer Studien: Ute Dettmar untersucht die konkurrierenden Robinson-Bearbeitungen Campes und Wezels, Susanne Pellatz die religiösen Mädchenzeitschriften des 19. Jahrhunderts. Gisela Wilkending beschäftigt sich mit der Verschmelzung von Jugendliteratur und Massenunterhaltung in der Zeit um 1900. Irmgard Wagner stellt die Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts populäre Autorin Tony Schumacher vor. Mit der Kinderliteratur der Gegenwart befassen sich Heinz-Jürgen Kliewer und Ernst Seibert. Zwei Forschungsberichte - von Bernhard Rank zur kinderliterarischen Phantastik, von Martin-Christoph Just zu Enid Blyton - schließen sich an. Den Abschluss bildet wie üblich ein umfangreicher Rezensionsteil und eine Bibliographie der Fachliteratur des Vorjahres 2001.