Paul O'Connor

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This book explores the ways in which religion is observed, performed, and organised in skateboard culture. Drawing on scholarship from the sociology of religion and the cultural politics of lifestyle sports, this work combines ethnographic research with media analysis to argue that the rituals of skateboarding provide participants with a rich cultural canvas for emotional and spiritual engagement. Paul O’Connor contends that religious identification in skateboarding is set to increase as participants pursue ways to both control and engage meaningfully with an activity that has become an increasingly mainstream and institutionalised sport. Religion is explored through the themes of myth, celebrity, iconography, pilgrimage, evangelism, cults, and self-help.

Skateboarding and Religion

Practical health guide to multiple sclerosis for both patients and their familites, including advice on diagnosis, treatment options and symptoms.

Everything You Need to Know

Multiple Sclerosis

Rhona H. Flin

Margaret Crichton

Safety at the Sharp End is a general guide to the theory and practice of non-technical skills for safety. It covers the identification, training and evaluation of non-technical skills and has been written for use by individuals who are studying or training these skills on CRM and other safety or human factors courses. The material is also suitable for undergraduate and post-experience students studying human factors or industrial safety programmes.

A Guide to Non-technical Skills

Safety at the Sharp End

Questions of home and belonging have never been more topical. Populist politicians in both Europe and America play on anxieties over globalisation by promising to reconstitute the national home, through cutting immigration and ‘taking back control’. Increasing numbers of young people are unable to afford home-ownership, a trend with implications for the future shape of families and communities. The dominant conceptualisations of home in the twentieth century – the nation-state and the suburban nuclear household – are in crisis, yet they continue to shape our personal and political aspirations. Home: The Foundations of Belonging puts these issues into context by drawing on a range of disciplines to offer a deep anthropological and historical perspective on home. Beginning with a vision of modernity as characterised by both spiralling liminality and an ongoing quest for belonging, it plumbs the archaic roots of Western civilisation and assembles a wide body of comparative anthropological evidence to illuminate the foundations of a sense of home. Home is theorised as a stable centre around which we organise both everyday routines and perspectives on reality, bringing order to a chaotic world and overcoming liminality. Constituted by a set of ongoing processes which concentrate and embody meaning in intimate relationships, everyday rituals and familiar places, a shared home becomes the foundation for community and society. The Foundations of Belonging thus elevates ‘home’ to the position of a foundational sociological and anthropological concept at a moment when the crisis of globalisation has opened the way to a revaluation of the local.

Home: The Foundations of Belonging

Michael Tierney

Jim Breyfogle

The Artomique Paradigm (Part 3 of 3) By MICHAEL TIERNEY Achilles "Whip" Hister is dead! The Galactic summit has turned into a massacre, and the Artomiques are ready to unleash their ultimate weapon: dreadnoughts based on the Space Shark Erlik created! Can anyone, or anything, stop them?! Too Many Mangos By JIM BREYFOGLE Foes pursue the Mongoose and Meerkat in the frigid north, seeking to prevent retrieval of a magic trinket for a client! One of the bandits...appears to be Mangos!? The Black Skull By REV. JOE KELLY A strange and forbidding artifact has wended its way to an abbey! What is the black skull, and what strange powers might this grotesque and evil object possess?! We Have Always Been Beasts By S.H. Mansouri An evil rain falls on the cursed children of Grewal... Brothers hope that they can end the rains that have corrupted and deformed them by ending their father's life! Dead Neighbor By DAVID SKINNER Armed with his only wits and his experimental Existential Motion Detection Device, a man is determined to discover exactly what has become of his neighbor! The Light of Reason By TEEL JAMES GLENN Jack Stone and his mentor, Doctor Argent, have finally tracked down the vampire lord, Count Mendoza! But will they be able to vanquish the cornered monster?! Locker No. 249 By JAMES LAM A new student has just been assigned a locker next to that of a boy whose mysterious disappearance is connected to rumors of a Chinese mummy's curse! Remorsels By LOUISE SORENSEN Ghosts of animals appear as if by magic in paintings! The phenomenon is a strange blessing... Until a butcher begins supplying choice cuts of mystery meat to the artist! BADAXETM By PAUL O'CONNOR - WRITER KENT BURLES - PENCILLER JAMES BALDWIN - INKS BARB KAALBERG - TONES PAT BROSSEAU - LETTERS MITCH FOUST - COVER PAINTING MICHAEL TIERNEY - DIGITAL RESTORATION

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