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\"A memoir of the author's upbringing by her grandparents in a fading mansion above Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, California\"-- Provided by publisher.

How does family diversity affect the choice of hybrid entrepreneurship? The effect of family dynamics has received little attention in research on the mode of entry into entrepreneurship. Building on the family embeddedness perspective, we hypothesize that the diversity of family households at surface (i.e., age and gender) and deep (i.e., work experience and education background) levels impacts the entrepreneur's adoption of a full-time or hybrid mode to start a new business. We further theorize that the effects of family diversity on entrepreneurial entry decisions are moderated by income stratification, which largely determines the ways entrepreneurs deal with family diversity. Using a sample of 1,320 individual-wave observations from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), our findings demonstrate that the choice of hybrid entrepreneurship is affected more by deep-level diversity than surface-level diversity among family households. Moreover, being from a high-strata family strengthens the relationship between surface-level diversity and the choice of hybrid entry, while weakening the effects of deep-level diversity. This study contributes to the ongoing discussion about family dynamics and entrepreneurship variations and provides important theoretical and practical implications. 家庭多样性如何影响家族成员去选择兼职创业还是全职创业？本文基于家庭嵌入视角，假设家庭在表层特质（如年龄和性别）和深层特质（如工作经验和教育背景）上的多样性会影响创业者创业模式的选择。进一步，家庭多样性对创业模式的选择会受到家庭收入水平的影响。我们对中国健康与营养调查（China Health and Nutrition Survey，CHNS）1,320个个体-期的观测样本进行了分析，发现与表层特质多样性相比，家庭深层特质多样性更显著地影响家庭成员做出兼职创业的选择。此外，高收入阶层家庭背景会强化家庭表层多样性对于家族成员兼职创业模式的选择，同时削弱家庭深层多样性对兼职创业模式的选择。该研究有助于深入讨论家庭动态与家族成员创业模式的关系，具有重要的理论和实践启示。

In Breakfast, Karl Glogauer, a variant on the time-travelling Glogauer of Behold the Man (1969), encounters a mysterious 'Nigerian' man who seduces him sexually and intellectually, triggering visions of alternate selves which the narrative hints, via this mysterious unnamed man, may actually exist in real alternate histories. Some characters are alienated, shy, struggling to cope socially or often isolated from each other, or living in cramped proximity, desperate to move out and leave home, and feeling trapped. Of one key relationship, between Shrimp and January, we see Shrimp's longing and social isolation through her own desperate introspection in her room, hidden from her family, contrasted with January's consultation with her own close circle, a small collective of mostly Black revolutionaries, who listen and probe her with sympathetic but psychosocial questions - it's an issue that Shrimp lives with her family because a core tenet of the group is a critique of the family unit as core of class society. The vignettes of Disch's novella are very domestic, but in their quiet concerns with money and everyday life, social housing and money for social support (and the consequences of it being withheld), they point toward a very clear sense of the wider world of the fiction.

Harrison’s Rule (HR) postulates a positive allometry between host and parasite body sizes. We tested HR for Syringophilid quill mites parasitizing birds. Using host body mass and parasite body length as size indices, this pattern was absent in the Syringophilidae family and the Syringophilinae subfamily as a whole. However, when considering the parasite genera as units of study, as proposed originally by Harrison, we found that host body mass positively correlates with both male and female parasite body length in seven genera (Aulobia, Aulonastus, Neoaulonastus, Picobia, Neopicobia, Syringophilopsis, and Torotrogla). Most of these relationships were non-significant. On the contrary, male and female Syringophiloidus mites exhibited negative relationships with host mass (both non-significant). This apparent contradiction disappeared when we applied wing length as an index of host body size. Since species of this genus are specific to the host flight feathers (secondaries and also primaries), wing length is a more meaningful index of host body size than body mass. Overall, most cases corresponded to the positive direction predicted by Harrison when examined on the genus level. This finding also implies a surprising reliability of the genus concept, at least in this group of ectoparasites.

In the late nineteenth century, adult and public learning pedagogy were the key instruments utilised in the campaign to achieve Victorian Women's Suffrage. The democratic process of changing state government legislation on franchise demanded multiple pedagogical methods. Through the actions of Bessie Harrison Lee (1860-1950), this paper identifies the reaching out to urban and rural women by the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), where they engaged in a transformative exercise in consciousness-raising. This helped women visualise the possibilities of improving their lives through the democratic process. The WCTU taught Lee the value of femalecentred political action. The WCTU and Lee's involvement successfully influenced the suffrage debate and contributed to the emerging international women's culture (McLean and Baroud, 2020, p. 506). Part of this culture featured Australian women adopting the petition as a political instrument. The petition had already had a long history in Britain, used by groups with little political influence. Ian Fletcher's conception of the British Empire as \"a set of relations, rather than the sum of their parts, as frameworks structuring political, economic and cultural exchanges between metropole and colonies\" is useful in understanding how political ideas travelled to and were adapted in the Australian context (Fletcher, Levine and Mayall, 2012, p. xiv). This paper argues that new ways of knowing were made possible by Lee, who, empowered by the evangelical faith (her cultural capital) spoke out confidently in public spaces such as town halls, outside public bars, and on the front doorsteps of women's homes in both cities and rural towns. These spaces were the places of learning, or as Bourdieu described, the field. Also, the meeting places of the WCTU, whether private lounge rooms or church halls, enabled women to support each other in the political process of debate, addressing community issues, and devising strategic plans to improve the lives of women. Through critical discourse analysis of newspaper reports, WCTU's publication The White Ribbon, the Victorian Alliance publication Alliance Record, and Lee's autobiography, this paper identifies these learning spaces. It also explores the community of practice in WCTU meetings, doorknocking, pamphleteering and the physical act of collecting signatures for the 1891 'Victorian Monster Petition'. The language and actions used to enact democratic activity that involves women in ways of saying, doing, and being full citizens are unlocked; however, the WCTU was exclusionary of Indigenous and non-AngloCeltic ancestry. Therefore, their learning spaces were complicit in the Great Silence (Stanner, 1968).

This selection seeks to explore rural West Virginia and the cycles that plague it. From addiction, abuse, and poverty, through the lens of three generations of women from the family, each aspect is touched on. The themes of longing, loving, hating, wondering, and leaving embrace each other through the lives of the women and their bonds with each other.

First and foremost, both Canadian and Australian aboriginal playwrights wish to offer a new perspective on their forgotten history, thus undermining the biased vision of white settlers. [...]the term Aboriginal will be employed in this paper as an acknowledgement of this. According to Enoch, \"The title was changed when audience members argued that the children were never lost, they were stolen\" (2007, viii).