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"The unbelievable true story of the young woman who faced down one of the most valuable startups in Silicon Valley history--and what came after In 2017, twenty-five-year-old Susan Fowler published a blog post detailing the sexual harassment and retaliation she'd experienced as an entry-level engineer at Uber. The post went viral, leading not only to the ouster of Uber's CEO and twenty other employees, but 'starting a bonfire on creepy sexual behavior in Silicon Valley that . . . spread to Hollywood and engulfed Harvey Weinstein' (Maureen Dowd, The New York Times). When Susan decided to share her story, she was fully aware of the consequences most women faced for speaking out about harassment prior to the #MeToo era. But, as her inspiring memoir, Whistleblower, reveals, this courageous act was entirely consistent with Susan's young life so far: a life characterized by extraordinary determination, a refusal to accept things as they are, and the desire to do what is good and right. Growing up in poverty in rural Arizona, she was denied a formal education--yet went on to obtain an Ivy League degree. When she was told, after discovering the pervasive culture of sexism, harassment, racism, and abuse at Uber, that she was the problem, she banded together with other women to try to make change. When that didn't work, she went public. She could never have anticipated the lengths to which Uber would go in its efforts to intimidate and discredit her, the impact her words would have on Silicon Valley--and the world--or how they would set her on a course toward finally achieving her dreams. The moving story of a woman's lifelong fight to do what she loves--despite repeatedly being told no or treated as less-than--Whistleblower is both a riveting read and a source of inspiration for anyone seeking to stand up against inequality in their own workplace"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- About the editors -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introducing our discourse -- Section 1: A global overview Section introduction -- 1 Paediatric palliative care as a basic human right -- 2 The International Children's Palliative Care Network (ICPCN): a global overview -- 3 Organisation of care in the UK -- 4 Organisation of care in Romania -- 5 Organisation of care in Uganda -- 6 Organisation of care in South Africa -- Section 2: Focusing on families: hearing the evidence Section introduction -- 7 A research perspective: narrative research -- 8 Part 1: 'Where's my sitcom?' The young adult's voice -- Part 2: Commentary on the young adult's story -- 9 Part 1: The parent's voice -- Part 2: Jamie's continuing care domains -- Part 3: Commentary on the parent's story: the key to integrating services -- 10 Part 1: A child's life path -- Part 2: A philosophical perspective on a father's tale -- 11 Hearing the voices of parents and carers -- 12 Hearing the voices of siblings -- 13 Transitions within the family -- Section 3: Minimising crisis points in paediatric palliative care Section introduction -- 14 Pathways in palliative care -- 15 Use of clinical practice guidelines and critical pathways -- 16 Minimising crisis points in paediatric palliative care: the ACT care pathways in action -- Section 4: Supporting transitions Section introduction -- 17 Transitions within acute care settings: the chaplain's perspective -- 18 Transitions at the beginning of life: psychological support -- 19 Managing transitions to hospice care: the hospice consultant's perspective -- 20 Supporting transitions: effective palliative care teams -- Section 5: Evidence/knowledge transfer into practice Section introduction

We explore elements of resilience on East Anglian farms through analysis of nine farmers' life stories. Using a largely unprompted narrative approach, narrators had freedom to structure their own personal accounts, and later to review our initial interpretations. Transcriptions were organised in timelines, themes were identified, and causes and effects of major farm turning points distinguished. We find that internal drivers such as intergenerational transition, health and family relationships, from the narrators' viewpoint, were cited as producing more change than external pressures such as price volatility or production variation. Robust and especially adaptation responses are prevalent in the stories, transformations are neither particularly radical nor innovative, but widespread piecemeal change through time can accumulate to enhance resilience. Four farmers identified more as businesspeople, with blurred boundaries between their farming and other commercial interests. Farming succession, with occasional conflict and new problems arising from extended working lives, prompts most change. Insights can arise as much from what is unsaid in these stories, and self‐explanation to outsiders can have cathartic effects. This narrative and analysis approach challenges preconceptions and can reframe theoretical perspectives and suggest approaches for policy reform. The focus was on existing farms with some resilience, further work should explore why former farmers were not resilient. Narrative analysis in other European countries showed important similarities in differing system contexts, but also divergences in the overall character of the life‐stories. ; EU; GB; en; contact: pkn@aber.ac.uk

The purpose of this study was to teach behavior management skills to the mother of a 24-year old, noninstitutionalized, profoundly retarded, noncompliant, and aggressive woman. Through the use of written instructions and verbal feedback, the mother was trained to apply a positive reinforcement and time-out program. In contrast to previous studies using this approach, this instructional program contained extensive sequenced directions that enabled the mother to systematically apply the procedures in teaching her daughter basic self-help and preacademic skills. These included hair brushing, tooth brushing, face washing, bead stringing, and ring stacking. Results indicated the program was successful in reorienting the mother's behavioral "style" of interaction with her daughter, in increasing the daughter's compliance, and in decreasing her noncompliance and aggressive responses during the self-help and preacademic training.

Resilience over time is achieved across the increasingly fundamental attributes of robustness, adaptability and transformability, representing system responses to short, medium and long-term external drivers, respectively. Analysis of narratives can be used to enable researchers to gain indepth understanding of the rationale surrounding farmer decision making when faced with drivers of change, and how farmers manage critical decision points in their farming businesses. This report assesses personal histories of family farms, and business histories of corporate farms, to identify phases in the separate production, demographic and policy adaptive cycles as they have impacted on the individuals concerned and their business enterprises. Biographical stories were collected from nine to ten narrators (early-, mid- and late-career),in each of five case studies chosen to represent a range of regions and farming systems in Europe. A single question was used to initiate the narrators' stories, without qualification beforehand, supported only with expressions of interest and encouragement in the first part of the interview, with subsequent exploratory questions devoted to clarifying the internal structure of the narrative. ; EU; en; contact: pkn@aber.ac.uk