New Releases by Kate Kennedy

A cello has no language, yet it possesses a vocabulary wide enough to tell, bear witness, and make connections across time and continents, which is brought to life in this brilliant new book. In this luminous narrative, Kate Kennedy, a writer and cellist herself, weaves together the story of four cellists who suffered various forms of persecution, injury, and misfortune. The stories are those of the forgotten Jewish cellist Pal Hermann, who is likely to have been murdered by the Nazis in Lithuania during the Holocaust; Lise Cristiani, another forgotten performer, who is considered to be the first female professional cello soloist and who embarked on an epic concert tour of Siberia in the 1850s taking with her a Stradivarius cello that can be seen to this day in a museum in Cremona in northern Italy; Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who played in the orchestra at Auschwitz and survived spells in both that camp and in Bergen-Belsen; and Amedeo Baldovino of the Trieste piano trio, whose ''Mara'' Stradivarius was lost in a shipwreck in the River Plate between Buenos Aires and Uruguay but later recovered from the water and repaired. Interwoven with these remarkable and often moving stories are a series of ''detours'' that offer a foil to these remarkable lives. Cello examine the themes explored in the narratives from different perspectives, drawing together historical research, personal experience, and interviews and encounters with contemporary cellists in this unique book that will resonate long after the final page.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BESTSELLER From pop culture podcaster and a voice of a generation, Kate Kennedy, a celebration of the millennial zeitgeist One In a Millennial is an exploration of pop culture, nostalgia, the millennial zeitgeist, and the life lessons learned (for better and for worse) from coming of age as a member of a much-maligned generation. Kate is a pop culture commentator and host of the popular millennial-focused podcast Be There in Five. Part-funny, part-serious, Kate navigates the complicated nature of celebrating and criticizing the culture that shaped her as a woman, while arguing that great depths can come from surface-level interests. With her trademark style and vulnerability, One In a Millennial is sharp, hilarious, and heartwarming all at once. She tackles AOL Instant Messenger, purity culture, American Girl Dolls, going out tops, Spice Girl feminism, her feelings about millennial motherhood, and more. Kate’s laugh-out-loud asides and keen observations will have you nodding your head and maybe even tearing up.

The first comprehensive biography of an extraordinary English poet and composer whose life was haunted by fighting in the First World War and, later, confinement in a mental asylum Ivor Gurney (1890–1937) wrote some of the most anthologized poems of the First World War and composed some of the greatest works in the English song repertoire, such as “Sleep.” Yet his life was shadowed by the trauma of the war and mental illness, and he spent his last fifteen years confined to a mental asylum. In Dweller in Shadows, Kate Kennedy presents the first comprehensive biography of this extraordinary and misunderstood artist. A promising student at the Royal College of Music, Gurney enlisted as a private with the Gloucestershire regiment in 1915 and spent two years in the trenches of the Western Front. Wounded in the arm and subsequently gassed during the Battle of Passchendaele, Gurney was recovering in hospital when his first collection of poems, Severn and Somme, was published. Despite episodes of depression, he resumed his music studies after the war until he was committed to an asylum in 1922. At times believing he was Shakespeare and that the “machines under the floor” were torturing him, he nevertheless continued to write and compose, leaving behind a vast body of unpublished work when he died of tuberculosis. Drawing on extensive archival research and spanning literary criticism, history, psychiatry and musicology, this compelling narrative sets Gurney’s life and work against the backdrop of the war and his institutionalisation, probing the links between madness, suffering and creativity. Facing death in the trenches, Gurney hoped that history might not “forget me quite.” This definitive account of his life and work helps ensure that he will indeed be remembered.

We use linked administrative data that combines the universe of California birth records, hospitalizations, and death records with parental income from Internal Revenue Service tax records and the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics file to provide novel evidence on economic inequality in infant and maternal health. We find that birth outcomes vary non-monotonically with parental income, and that children of parents in the top ventile of the income distribution have higher rates of low birth weight and preterm birth than those in the bottom ventile. However, unlike birth outcomes, infant mortality varies monotonically with income, and infants of parents in the top ventile of the income distribution--who have the worst birth outcomes--have a death rate that is half that of infants of parents in the bottom ventile. When studying maternal health, we find a similar pattern of non-monotonicity between income and severe maternal morbidity, and a monotonic and decreasing relationship between income and maternal mortality. At the same time, these disparities by parental income are small when compared to racial disparities, and we observe virtually no convergence in health outcomes across racial and ethnic groups as income rises. Indeed, infant and maternal health in Black families at the top of the income distribution is markedly worse than that of white families at the bottom of the income distribution. Lastly, we benchmark the health gradients in California to those in Sweden, finding that infant and maternal health is worse in California than in Sweden for most outcomes throughout the entire income distribution.

Memoir of a writer''s experience of cancer, writing, and the natural world.

Follow Baby Bear in this modern fairy tale as she learns the life-changing magic of social media selfies, shares, post, tweets and more. Becoming a super star social media influencer isn''t easy, but with helpful advice from classic nursery tale characters, Baby Bear is sure to make it big. This delightfully illustrated, rhyming parody for adults offers a humorous take on the world of social media.

Meet Hunch. The Superhero. Coming to the rescue when you''ve splinters on your arse from sitting on the fence. Making decisions to save the lives of others, she must start calling the shots to save her own. Hunch is a new dark comedy about the power of gut decisions, written and performed by Kate Kennedy.

Maine''s Remarkable Women tells the stories of fifteen strong and determined women who broke through social, cultural, or political barriers. Through their passions for art, exploration, literature, politics, music, and nature, these women made contributions to society that still resonate today. Meet Marguerite "Tante Blanche" Thibodeau Cyr, "The Mother of Madawaska," whose bravery and kindness during one brutal winter saved her frontier settlement; botanist-artist Kate Furbish, who explored Maine''s wilderness, collecting, classifying, and painting all of its flowering plants; and Florence Nicolar Shay, a Native-American basketmaker who demanded and succeeded in gaining rights for her tribe, the Penobscots. Each of these women demonstrated courage, compassion, and an independence of spirit that is as inspiring now as it was then. Read about their extraordinary lives in this collection of brief and absorbing biographies.

Value-added is the most robust, statistically significant method for connecting teachers to students. In other words, value-added analysis links teachers to students and, for the very first time, allows educators to see the amount of growth they are facilitating with students. Built around the value-added analysis professional development work of Battelle for Kids, this book for district and school leaders prepares educators to understand and implement value-added analysis in order to ensure that all students are achieving and progressing. By providing a user-friendly, five-step implementation process along with success stories of schools, teachers, and students as well as strategies, samples, and tools, this book will equip educators to use value-added analysis to help accelerate student progress. It is written to inform readers about what value-added analysis is and to help them utilize value-added information in a classroom and/or school setting.

Recent research concerning Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) has focused on the role of identity disturbance and unstable sense of self in maintaining difficulties for individuals with this diagnosis. This research proposes that unstable sense of self may be underpinned by a lack of self integration, and that as a result, people with BPD may rely heavily on the views of others to inform their sense of self (role absorption), making them vulnerable in relationships and presenting barriers to recovery. The present study utilised a mixed design and questionnaire methodology to investigate sense of self and discrepancies between self and anticipated other perspectives. Participants were 10 females with BPD, 10 females with anxiety and depression and 10 females with no history of mental health difficulties. Participants completed the Who Are You? questionnaire, in addition to the Wechsler Test of Adult Reading, Beck Depression Inventory and Beck Anxiety Inventory. Participants in clinical groups completed the SCID-II interview for Borderline Personality Disorder and the SCID-I Mood Episodes and Anxiety Disorders modules. Results indicate that for females with BPD, sense of self is significantly more negative in content when compared with females with anxiety and depression and those with no history of mental health difficulties. Females with BPD have significantly larger discrepancies between their sense of their appearance and their sense of how their appearance is viewed by significant others, in comparison to other participants with anxiety and depression, and those with no history of mental health difficulties. There is some evidence that females with BPD have significantly less integrated sense of self in comparison to participants with anxiety and depression, and participants with no history of mental health problems. Results do not support a role absorption hypothesis as underpinning unstable sense of self in BPD, which may have implications for current psychological conceptualisations of BPD.

Trudi Tate, Kate Kennedy Editorial; R.K.R. Thornton What did they expect?;Sally Minogue ''That Awkward Squad'': Ivor Gurney and John Clare in the Line of English Poetry;Charles Mueller Ivor Gurney and the Poetics of War: An Intensification of the Georgian Aesthetic;Philip Lancaster Gurney''s Duality: Well-Spring, Correlations and Conflicts;April Frederick The Craft of Beauty: An Interdisciplinary Model of Criticism for the Songs;Peter Palmer What Makes a Song-Cycle a Cycle?;Stephen Banfield Gurney the Musician;Ian Venables The ''Unpublished Songs'' of Ivor Gurney: A Composer''s Reappraisal;Kate Kennedy ''Asylum-made Lunatics'': Life in Dartford;James Allum ''Bright;y Coloured and Exceptionally Cheap'': The Asylum in the Early 20th Century;Pamela Blevins Ivor Gurney''s Illness: ''The Tide of Darkness'';Mark Facknitz ''Gone out is part of sanity'': Reading from Ivor Gurney''s Shell Shock;

The third and final volume in Gaspereau Press''s tenth-anniversary set is an annotated bibliography of the books and ephemera ; posters, invitations, catalogues, samplers ; issued from Gaspereau Press since the business was launched in 1997, as well as select jobs designed for clients of our printing arm. For readers of Gaspereau Press titles, the avid archivist, and those interested in small press publishing, design and printing, this bibliography provides a comprehensive listing of our first decade. The book includes both colour and black & white reproductions, commentary by co-publisher Andrew Steeves, and an introductory essay by archivist, collector and long-time friend of the press, Joe Stevens. Each entry in the bibliography provides production specifics as well as more detailed notes on design and manufacturing issues, and even occasional anecdotes from those particularly adventure-fraught projects. A must-have for Gaspereauphiles.

More than Petticoats: Remarkable Main Women tells the stories of thirteen strong and determined women who broke through social, cultural, or political barriers. Through their passions for art, exploration, literature, politics, music, and nature, these women made contributions to society that still resonate today.

Ivory is fourteen years old and is madly in love with fifteen-year-old Blake. She hangs out with a tough older crowd, drinks, smokes, and even has a pregnancy scare. One night Ivory doesn''t come home. Her body is found a few months later, brutally stabbed to death. Blake stands accused of her murder, but the evidence is inconclusive. Who murdered Ivory Towle? Will the truth ever be known?