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A memoir and cultural history the World’s End, a West London area once home to bohemian artists and punk rock and now an outpost of neoliberalism. Charlie Gere’s account of growing up in the World’s End area of West London during the Cold War combines local history, cultural history, memoir, and a strong sense of the apocalyptic. Once a rundown part of Chelsea at the wrong end of the King’s Road, the World’s End has long been a place for bohemian writers and artists, including Turner, Whistler, Beckett, Bacon, and Bacon’s muse Henrietta Moraes, all of whom evinced an appropriate apocalyptic sensibility. After World War II, in which the area suffered severe bombing, it became a center of the counterculture that emerged from what Jeff Nuttall called “Bomb Culture,” formed by the threat of nuclear annihilation. The famous boutique Granny Takes a Trip opened there in 1966, joined later on by Hung On You, Puss Weber’s Flying Dragon Tea Room, and the commune Gandalf’s Garden. The area also featured trepanning aristocrats and pet lions, among other eccentricities. In the 1970s, the World’s End was the center of punk rock. Gere’s parents arrived as part of a wave of gentrification, and Gere, born and brought up there, witnessed its social and cultural evolution. As an adolescent, he was traumatized by the prospect of nuclear war. He has lived long enough to see the World’s End now bearing the marks of out-of-control neoliberalism and its grotesque accompanying inequality. But this too shall pass as worlds end.

"35 Fuck Offs from Around the World: A Rude Geometric Color Therapy Book To Help Relieve Stress And Anxiety While Promoting A Calm Mind," Colorful Coloring Books. This Color Therapy book contains over 35 expertly illustrated unique designs based around geometric patters, mandalas and how to say fuck off in 35 different languages. A simple and inexpensive way to relieve stress, and promote ant anxiety, is to unwind while coloring images. The act of coloring has been proven to be highly soothing due to the methodical action of coloring itself and the fact that you, the artist, have full control over color choice and medium. Refocusing your attention and allowing yourself to be completely engaged with the act of coloring will definitely help to reverse the effects of anxiety, depression and other stressors. Features: - Single sided coloring pages which allow for the pages to be removed and shared amongst friends or to be removed for a keepsake purpose. - The single sided coloring pages also prevents coloring bleeding onto the next design which makes this Color Therapy book suitable for coloring pencils, paint, felt tips and marker pens. - Professionally designed Mandalas throughout the coloring book. - The 6x9 size makes this color therapy book perfect for use during commutes, travelling and outdoor coloring. - Anti Anxiety! Perfect gift for anyone with Anxiety as color therapy has been proven to help with depression, anxiety and relaxing in general. Welcome to this Color Therapy book, by Colorful Coloring Books. Each page is filled with a unique piece of art for you to enjoy coloring. Have you had a hard day at work? Feel like shit? Want everyone to Fuck Off? If that is the case, this Color Therapy book is ideal for you! The content of this coloring book is rude, adult and unnecessarily sweary in an attempt to bring an heir of comedy into our overworked and highly stressful lives! This Color Therapy book is made up of 35 way to say 'Fuck off' in 35 different languages. Each 'Fuck off' is accompanied with professionally designed geometric patterns for you to color at your leisure and to help you chill the Fuck out. The designs in this book are a fusion of Mandalas, geometric shapes and sweary sweary text! Reading some of the sweary text alone should help relieve some of your day to day stress due to the sheer ridiculousness of them! ABOUT THE AUTHOR During my childhood and my teenage years, I found myself prone to taking 'action' to relieve my daily stresses, problems and grievances. Unfortunately, the 'actions' I took tended to be extremely self-destructive in nature. It wasn't until I was older that I realized how calming, stress relieving and relaxing colour therapy books can truly be - I guess the term 'therapy' should have made that obvious to me, oh well. I have always had an interest in things that have been considered to be 'socially unacceptable' and 'taboo,' and wanted my coloring books to reflect this. Hence the creation of 'Colorful Coloring Books,' a series of adult themed color therapy books that aim to give you both a relaxing and enjoyable experience, and to also, hopefully, make you laugh along the way. All forms of Feedback are greatly appreciated! WARNING: CONTAINS SERIOUSLY OFFENSIVE AND COLORFUL LANGUAGE. Not for the easily TRIGGERED. Tags: Color, Colour, Colour therapy, Color therapy, coloring book, colouring book, adult coloring, adult colouring, anti anxiety, anti stress, color by numbers,

Family policy holds a particular status in the quest for a more equitable world as it intersects the rights of women, children, and workers. But despite local and global efforts and initiatives, the state of family policy in different areas of the world varies widely. Through a cross-section of countries on six continents, Family Policies Across the Globe offers the current state of the laws concerning family life, structure, and services, providing historical, cultural, and socioeconomic context. Lucidly written chapters analyze key aspects of family definition, marriage, child well-being, work/family balance, and family assistance, reviewing underlying social issues and controversies as they exist in each country. Details of challenges to implementation and methods of evaluating policy outcomes bring practical realities into sharp focus, and each chapter concludes with recommendations for improvement at the research, service, and governmental levels. The result is an important comparative look at how governments support families, and how societies perceive themselves as they evolve. Among the issues covered: Sierra Leone: toward sustainable family policies. Russia: folkways versus state-ways. Japan: policy responses to a declining population. Australia: reform, revolutions, and lingering effects. Canada: a patchwork policy. Colombia: a focus on policies for vulnerable families. Researchers , professors and graduate students in the fields of social policy, child and family studies, psychology, sociology, and social work will find in Family Policies Across the Globe a reference that will grow in importance as world events continue to develop.

Sarah J. Maas hit the New York Times SERIES list at #1 with A Court of Wings and Ruin!

Whose truth is the lie? Stay up all night reading the sensational psychological thriller that has readers obsessed, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Too Late and It Ends With Us. #1 New York Times Bestseller · USA Today Bestseller · Globe and Mail Bestseller · Publishers Weekly Bestseller Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity’s notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn’t expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read. Page after page of bone-chilling admissions, including Verity's recollection of the night her family was forever altered. Lowen decides to keep the manuscript hidden from Jeremy, knowing its contents could devastate the already grieving father. But as Lowen’s feelings for Jeremy begin to intensify, she recognizes all the ways she could benefit if he were to read his wife’s words. After all, no matter how devoted Jeremy is to his injured wife, a truth this horrifying would make it impossible for him to continue loving her.