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You may have studied the ancient Persian Empire in school, but have you ever wondered what kinds of stories the ancient Persians told to themselves and their children?The roots of Persian myth extend back more than five thousand years to the culture of...

This a tale of a super ambitious, super bright young woman, Coco, and Ian Blakely, a hedge fund manager who by chance becomes important in her life. Murder, sex and money intersect in this Southeast Asian thriller as Coco executes a strategy to get back...

A tragedy sidetracks Donna, setting up a series of difficulties. How will she find her way, and how will she get help?This powerful true story begins with Donna, at seventeen, excited for life after graduation with her best friend at her side until an...

The inspiring true story of one man's rise from homelessness to success in the world of TV and movie production...----------Having grown up with an absentee single mother and subjected to homelessness, to being shunted from relative to relative and...

From space opera to weird fiction to indie games and NaNoWriMo, this collection represents the best in nonfiction dedicated to geekery. Founded by Holly Lyn Walrath, Interstellar Flight Magazine is an online SFF and pop culture mag devoted to essays...

…a fun read. Serious yet prepared with a light and accessible touch. Highly informative. It covers a substantial range of material in a jargon-free manner while explaining core ideas, a rare trait! The volume will appeal to a broad range of people...

Susie Edwards – a prolific writer of personal notes – demonstrated to literally hundreds of people how to live and die at the hands of ovarian, colon, and liver cancer. Her profound gratitude and abiding sense of peace were evident in the...

Some From Zacatecas is the story of the migration and adaptation of an extended family of undocumented immigrants from that Mexican State to the west side of Los Angeles, and how some of them received amnesty after the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control...

A powerful example of a sincere effort to practice what you live and what you preach. Making Gumbo helps us feel the discomfort that naturally occurs when an institution pursues diversity. It places the responsibility for diversity at all levels of the...

Step by step, into tomorrow. And so much to learn from yesterday.10-year journey of reflection. Cosmos is grand, comprehensive reading is twin to broad vision. Thus, World Culture Pictorial® Reading and Reflection - from poetry to policy, high tech to...

Eric Hoffer—one of America's most important thinkers and the author of The True Believer—begins with a macro view on the progress of civilization, ending with his crucible vision on the unique and transformative aspects of mankind...

Lalita's Power involves two main characters: Jack Turner and his daughter, Lalita Fitzgerald. Jack is a man who spends his whole life seeking the salvation of his soul. He's charismatic, intelligent, creative, attractive andobservant. Seeing the...

In 1980 Elaine Harvey worked for the International Red Cross in the Cambodian refugee camps immediately after the fall of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime. It was a time when sorrow fell like monsoon rain. “I was not a victim of war, poverty, or...

Communities around the world are entering a new era of community building. Whether improving economic conditions and reducing poverty, re-energizing citizens and social programs, reducing crime, or revitalizing a troubled neighborhood, they are engaging...

In recent years the United States has seen an influx of Christian athletes and coaches into big-time sports, as well as a heightened importance placed on sports in church programs and enormous platforms for intercollegiate sports at Christian schools and...

It is possible to overcome barriers to minority success in Canada. The stance of this book is that new immigrants, refugees and international students do not have to settle for underachievement despite the cultural and structural disadvantages they face...

In this stunning new work, Tony Schneider, a practising clinical psychologist for over 30 years, outlines a new model of psychological drives around sexual behaviour. He describes a dual biological and subjective, multiple-drive profile, that energises...

YOUR LIFE AS A WONDER WOMAN STARTS HEREIn this incredibly illuminating how-to book, Alison Wheeler, the award-winning performance athlete and distinguished entrepreneur, reveals how you can become a modern-day wonder woman. Your wonder woman is bold,...

In the 2022 James Backhouse Lecture, Yarrow Goodley looks at the critical issue of climate justice-at how our responses to the climate emergency have the potential for great suffering, as well as great redemption. In a world where the rich pollute, and...

'This book will save lives-human and animals.' Victoria Thompson is a passionate advocate for the protection of animals from great harm. She movingly describes our appalling failures in this regard and praises those who press for the enlightened...

"Teachers are my lessons doneI cannot do another one"Leonard CohenAre your lessons ever really done? Sometimes the burden of life can be so great . . . But maybe that's for a reason.In this honest and raw account of Catherine Harford's own Hero's...

Women, visibility and morality in Kenyan popular media explores familiar constructions of femininity to assess ways in which it circulates in discourse, both stereotypically and otherwise. It assesses the meanings of such discourses and their...

Portrait of a Young Girl Falling is unapologetic in its feminist exploration of desire, consent, identity, and gendered experience. Katrina Moinet's poems tug at violences and tensions present in language, the way it constructs, shapes, limits, or opens...

UKIYO-E: "Pictures of the floating world." The floating world - a transient realm of pleasures, horrors, and dreams. Ukiyo-e, depictions of this shadowy projection of the human mind, formed the mainstay of Japanese paintings and woodblock prints produced...

Believing whole-heartedly that ordinary women of the past were far more than just wives and mothers, author Lucy Whitfield has set out to discover and profile a collection of interesting women from across North Wiltshire. Digging much deeper than the...

Prepare to unleash the light warrior within.There is a formidable Goddess energy rising into the collective consciousness right now. We stand at a pivotal point in the history of Earth, where we must choose to spiritually evolve in order to shift into...

You Have A Right To Recover. You Have A Right To Thrive.Shadow and Rose is a companion for women recovering from sex crimes. Yoga teacher and author, Sarah Wheeler, shares her own recovery journey in a ten week programme designed to catalyse and empower...

When there is no freedom and happiness, there is no life.There are people who suffered abuse, insult, isolation and humiliation, and they never experienced happiness and freedom from their childhood, into adulthood, and in some cases until they become...

When best-laid-plans fall apart, all you can do is pick up the pieces-and host a gallery exhibit.Nic Walker and Vincent Blake lead charmed lives-or so thinks their neglected friend Juno. But when Juno's plans come crumbling down, it's their boyfriend...

This book is a peep through the multiple doors that the author has passed in the course of his career. The account is a product of history. Guided by historical actuality, the author focuses on factuality, authenticity and the true value of knowledge in...

When a troubled teenage sex worker replies to a casual job ad, little does she know she will soon find herself pulled further into the world of the adult sex industry. With no experience or understanding of adult sex chat, will the vulnerable teen prove...

Alma Moodie's letters trace her experiences as a violinist on tour against the backdrop of the instability of the Weimar Republic, the Great Depression, the Third Reich, and the perils of war. Available for the first time in English translation, the...

Celebrating the 50th volume of the landmark Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality series, this book offers a much-needed analysis of shifting reproductive policies and practices in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a society that is usually represented as...

Focusing on contemporary ideas about how aged care is provided, this book poses the question: How can people who are aged and frail live out the final phase of their lives with dignity? In seeking answers, the author examines what it means to be 'at...

Many films and novels defy our ability to make sense of the plot. While puzzling storytelling, strange incongruities, inviting enigmas and persistent ambiguities have been central to the effects of many literary and cinematic traditions, a great deal of...

Questioning what shelter is and how we can define it, this volume brings together essays on different forms of refugee shelter, with a view to widening public understanding about the lives of forced migrants and developing theoretical understanding of...

The increased presence of Somalis has brought much change to East African towns and cities in recent decades, change that has met with ambivalence and suspicion, especially within Kenya. This volume demystifies Somali residence and mobility in urban East...

Delving into Pacific spaces from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and interpretations, this book looks at how the anthropological and architectural can be connected. The contributors to this book - architectural practitioners, architectural and...

The matsutake mushroom continues to be a highly sought delicacy, especially in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean cuisine. Matsutake Worlds explores this mushroom through the lens of multi-species encounters centered around the matsutake's notorious...

Today, more than 75 years after the Holocaust and World War II, antisemitism remains a poisonous force in European culture and politics, whether cloaked in the garb of reactionary nationalism or manifested in outright physical violence. Nothing New in...

Motherhood in Mexico is profoundly shaped by the legacy of colonialism. This ethnography situates motherhood in a critical global health analysis of maternal health inequalities and interventions in the southeast state of Chiapas. Using a transitional...

Through an interdisciplinary conversation with contributors from social anthropology, religious studies, film studies, literary studies, cultural studies, and history, Crafting Chinese Memories is a novel book which addresses how works of art shape...

Status and gender are two closely associated concepts within medieval society, which tended to view both notions as binary: elite or low status, married or single, holy or cursed, male or female, or as complementary and cohesive as multiple parts of a...

Exploring how technological apparatuses "capture" invisible worlds, this book looks at how spirits, UFOs, discarnate entities, spectral energies, atmospheric forces and particles are mattered into existence by human minds. Technological and scientific...

Elsie Angelos was the Chief Editor of Malibu Publishing, but she did not belong just to this world. She is the first agent to encompass all three kinds in the supernatural and mortal realms. She is the Moon Angel and the only one who can create peace...

Brown Girl in the Ring is a beautifully crafted, deeply personal memoir; not only is it the ultimate message on how to put an end to racism, it is a true story for our times.In this, her first book, she tells of her momentous struggle growing up as a...

Motherhood is amazing and the devotion you encounter is staggeringly strong. But when you're in the eye of the shitstorm, veering between love and lunacy, wondering how this tiny, adorable human can wreak so much bedlam in your life, I believe you need a...