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"An incredible resource for anyone suffering with bulimia. Informative and motivating from page 1; this workbook provides you with a multitude of practical techniques for changing your underlying beliefs and creating new healthy habits. Kate even...

Are you a parent caring for a child or young person with physical or mental health issues?Are you struggling to get the right support not only for your child but for yourself as well? Navigating the obstacles that come alongside caring for a child with...

In the summer of 2016, NS, the performance art journal of Los Angeles, brought together 35 performance artists, scholars, and activists to discuss the impact of the ongoing AIDS crisis on queer communities and performance culture in Los Angeles...

What was it like growing up during the Cold War? What can childhood memories tell us about state socialism and its aftermath? How can these intimate memories complicate history and redefine possible futures? These questions are at the heart of the...

A Kundalini Awakening using the proper and verified ways might be the first step in utilizing your spiritual abilities. It may also be the sole practice required to achieve the ultimate aim of spiritual emancipation in the physical body.

Within each and every one of us lies an undiscovered goldmine, a vast treasure trove that transcends conception.Continue reading if you want to find out...

Many fresh research ideas will be inspired and generated by the observations of practitioners who share their views and expertise. This book is an excellent resource for students, practitioners, and professionals interested in learning about the science...

This book is written for researchers, students and professionals in areas including animal welfare ethics, animal behaviourists, veterinarians, veterinary nurses, animal welfare counsellors, animal trainers, and professionals and volunteers with an...

Mental health is simply the sanity of the mind.It is very important to take good care of our health especially our mental health - it impacts every aspect of our lives, whether we're aware of it or not. It not only affects how we think and feel, but also...

A critical resource that carefully examines the context, themes and techniques of contemporary British poetry published between 2000 and 2011 in the Poems of the Decade anthology. In addition, the author shares analytical insights, and interesting...

When people are placing bets, maybe you're not so straight after all.Angel Barnett always assumed he was straight. Sure, he'd had an occasional fantasy about sex with a man. But he'd never contemplated having sex with two men, until he met Gideon Foster...

Chance has an unexpected attraction to his neighbors-a gay couple-and this unconventional relationship could end Chance's career and family relationships.Chance Findley is a successful marketing executive until his career is jeopardized by a disastrous...

"When you're 18 you think life is going to be like walking across a succession of stepping-stones, ticking key life events off as you go, but it doesn't work like that."A true and honest account of coming out and family life.  A relatable story of...

The 1960s was a decade of massive political and cultural change in Western Europe, as seismic shifts took place in in attitudes towards sexuality, gender, and motherhood in everyday life. Through case studies of British and French films, Pepsi and the...

Sexuality and gender have come to serve as measures for cultural belonging in discussions of the position of Muslim immigrants in multicultural Western societies. While the acceptance of assumed local norms such as sexual liberty and gender equality are...

Employing methodological perspectives from the fields of political geography, environmental studies, anthropology, and their cognate disciplines, this volume explores alternative logics of sentient landscapes as racist, xenophobic, and right-wing. While...

Modern perceptions of race across much of the Global South are indebted to the Brazilian social scientist Gilberto Freyre, who in works such as The Masters and the Slaves claimed that Portuguese colonialism produced exceptionally benign and tolerant race...

When a billionaire and his assistant bring change to the village, Michael has to adapt...The future's uncertain for Michael Fleming. He came to the sleepy Yorkshire village of Napthwaite a year ago as Thorpe Hall's gardener, but now the Hall's been sold....

As Georgia seeks to reinvent itself as a nation-state in the post-Soviet period, Georgian women are maneuvering, adjusting, resisting and transforming the new economic, social and political order. In Gender in Georgia, editors Maia Barkaia and Alisse...

The focus of this tri-authored scholarly work is on marketing communication and consumer behaviour of the selected generations X, Y, and Z in terms of the size of purchases and the types of retail outlets they use.

The book is a collection of articles written by the author on utopianism - especially on utopian literature, utopian practice, and utopian social theory

If the Anthropocene heralds both a new age of human supremacy and an out-of-control Nature ushering in a premature apocalypse, this living book insists such assumptions must be hacked. Re-performing selections from two live events staged in 2016, 2017...

The name Larry Grayson will be instantly recognisable to anyone who can remember the 1970s when his catchphrase 'Shut That Door' was on everybody's lips. However, Larry's rise to fame was slow in coming, born of years of perfecting his craft in clubs and...

Containing ballads of martial heroism, tales of tragic lovers and visions of the nature of the world, Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet: Texts in Mongghul, Chinese, and English is a rich repository of songs collected...

The central theme of this book is the importance of the act of shared memory in reconstituting identity in every generation. This is particularly so where the traditional culture of the community has been under threat from a powerful neighbour, as is the...

Like many genres, biography came belatedly to Russia. As with other such late arrivals, biography underwent intensive growth in quantity, sophistication, cultural significance and popularity from the era of Nicholas I onwards. It stands today as a...

Carmen Laforet (Barcelona 1921 – Madrid 2004) was one of Spain’s most significant writers of the post-civil war period. Her debut novel Nada (1945) won the first Premio Nadal and remains her best-known work of fiction, but a primarily...

<p><b>Starting out in your career can be a daunting time, but it's also one filled with excitement, opportunity and purpose.</b></p><p>Whether you're travelling the corporate route, embarking on an entrepreneurial journey or...

In Dandelion of That Winter, the author reflects on the most precious treasures that have shaped her existence. These gems, like sparkling facets in a jewel, illuminate her life's journey:Children: Over 50 years of standing by her side, her children have...

I was fortunate enough to have grown up in Lac Vert, a small town in North-Central Saskatchewan during the 1950s-60s.Sonny Poolroom is a memoir, a collection of memories of events and my reactions to them. If you lived in a prairie town during those...

THE COLOR OF MAGIC Embark on a mesmerizing journey where spirituality, interior design, and serendipity converge in The Color of Magic, an intimate autobiography from Ellen Kennon that unveils the profound connections between the metaphysical world and...

This book investigates the transposition of short stories to drama in the works of two leading Sicilian authors, Giovanni Verga (1840-1922) and Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936), focussing specifically on their representation of women. De Francisci argues...

Discover the powerful relationship between mental health and the environment.Explore eco-therapy, sustainable buildings, transportation, technology, and agriculture to promote mental wellbeing. Overcome barriers, collaborate, and evaluate the impact of...

Kemdi Chino Opara was born in Nigeria, in West Africa. As a native of Mbaitoli Local Government Area of Imo State, Nigeria. Opara graduated from Government Secondary School in Owerri. To further his education, Opara came to the United States in 1979 and...

I welcome you, my intelligent and curious reader, to journey with me as I share my stories, thoughts, and insights of living with a subtle and quiet kind of unconscious prejudice, I call Invisible Inequity. Over decades, my perspectives on unconscious...

Have manipulative aliens replaced reality with some kind of simulation since 2012? Is the COVID-19 pandemic a product of apparent collaboration between such demonic entities and elites? Are elites in fact demonic entities masquerading as 'humans'.Is...

#1 Best-seller Not Simply Broken is a tale of immense gratitude of recognizing the miracle of existence and celebrating life despite the circumstances. A woman's soulful attempt to make sense of the changes and not simply broken after being hit by...

A wonderfully ridiculous book about the power of pleasure, fully illustrated and written in Dr. Seuss-style verse. Oh, the Places You’ll Go Oh Oh! is the perfect gift for people who love orgasms, and those who want more of them...

Teenage boys are faced with many opposing and conflicting views, emotions and social norms. The constant struggle to define themselves and be their best self is not an easy task for a maturing teen. They are bombarded with content from social media and...

Racial Trauma Recovery: Healing Our Past Using Rhythm and Processing StrategiesChallenge your preconceptions and change your beliefs about trauma treatment."Mr. Archer has written a book that is a must-read for any practitioner in the field of trauma...

Despite growing up in Deep River, Ontario, the company town for Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories that only exists because of science, Marilyn Carr was firmly neither a science, technology, engineering, nor mathematics person. When How I...

As biologist Jeremy Griffith explains in THE Interview (which psychiatrist Professor Harry Prosen described as "the most important interview of all time"), while we humans lacked the explanation for our 2-million-year corrupted human...

We are all journalists and publishers now: at the touch of a button we can send our words, sounds and images out to the world. No matter whether you're a traditional journalist, a blogger, a public relations practitioner or a social media editor,...

Good writing engages as it informs and feature journalism offers writers the opportunity to tell deep, affecting stories that look beyond the immediate mechanics of who, what, where and when and explore the more difficult-and more rewarding- questions:...

After a century of speculation by writers, filmmakers, travelers and scholars, being Australian' has become a recognisable shorthand for a group of national characteristics. Now, in an era of international terrorism, being seen as un-Australian' has...

"Your reward in reading this intriguing book will be what you will inevitably find to be new, surprising and important." --Michael Adams, author of Fire and IceThis fascinating new book explores Canada's progress in dealing with a number of...

In this exciting, thought-provoking new book, author Eric Weissman draws on personal experience, firsthand empirical research, and social theory to probe the causes and consequences of homelessness.Hundreds of thousands of North Americans are homeless...