Beyond the city and over the sea is a forest of dreams. At the edge of the forest lives a turtle – the Dream Keeper...In a small boat, the turtle sets off on a journey to deliver dreams in the nearby city. Meanwhile, a young girl, scared in the night by the shadows in her room, finds comfort in her toys ... but cannot sleep.As the two stories unfold side by side, the young girl and the intrepid turtle must each harness their courage and overcome their fears...

Tim, Hannah, Sunita, Joe and Polly are all off to school for the first time.� Would you like to meet them and see how they go?� There are new friends to make, fun ways to learn, and lots of different things to discover.From Jane Godwin and Anna Walker comes this beautiful book focussing on the experiences and feelings of five very different children as they begin at school for the first time.Jane's simple words and ideas combine with Anna's gentle and detailed illustrations t...

In a sleepy Danish town, death lurks amongst the dusty bric‑a‑brac…The elderly volunteers at the second-hand shop keep dying. Heart attacks. Strokes. A simple case of old age, say the police. Sad but inevitable.Newly retired Mrs Mortensen begs to differ. This "Danish Miss Marple" and her loyal dachshund, Mortensen III, sniff a sinister pattern at work.Armed with a fierce sense of justice and a fondness for tea and cake, Anne-Maj launches her own investigation. The f...

Shortlisted for the 2023 NSW Premier's Literary Award for Non-FictionLonglisted for the 2023 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary AwardFrom the best-selling author of The Tall Man and The Arsonist, a personal tale about death, life and the enchantment of stories. With illustrations by Anna Walker.Let me tell you a story…When Chloe Hooper’s partner is diagnosed with a rare and aggres...

Tackle imposter syndrome with this practical and supportive guide: it's time to ditch self-doubt and realize your true worth!Do you constantly doubt your abilities?Do you often feel like you don't belong?Are you convinced you're a fraud and will eventually be found out?If the answer to these questions is yes, yes, and most definitely yes, you're not alone - a recent study revealed that 70 per cent of people will experience imposter syndrome at...

Vajayjay. Lady bits. Notorious V.A.G.It’s time we talked about vaginas. This pocket-sized book is here to debunk the myths and help you gain a better understanding of everything you were never taught, including:The amazing things the vagina does from puberty to menopause Advice on the most common complaints and how best to alleviate them The vagina in pop culture – from the page to the stage This succinct and celebratory guide separates fact from fiction and will change the w...

Thought the science of the future was all hoverboards and space travel? Think again.Every day, scientists come up with the ingenious solutions and surprising discoveries that will define our future. So here, Jim Al-Khalili and his crack team of experts bin the crystal ball and use cutting-edge science to get a glimpse of what's in store.From whether teleportation is really possible (spoiler: it is), to what we'll do if artificial intelligence takes over, What's Next?

This handbook highlights a range of ground breaking, radical and liberatory clinical and critical community psychology projects from around the world. The disciplines of critical community psychology and clinical psychology are currently experiencing radical innovations that in this book are characterised as moving from the individualising practice realm toward an altogether more contextualising orientation. Both fields are responding to an array of political, social and economic injustice...

No other hospital department cares for patients as diverse as those who come to the Emergency Department (ED). These patients encompass all stages and positions of life and health. Many belong to distinct minority cultures defined by the patient's sexual orientation and gender identity, disability, spirituality, language, race, and ethnicity. It has been well documented that minorities experience inadequate emergency treatment and face poorer healthcare outcomes. Furthermore, research has ...

Scholar Eddie Glaude Jr. argues that we often view the women and men who surrounded Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. too narrowly--primarily as followers of King's lead. Yes, they were deeply committed disciples of the movement. Yet, they were far more. The collected sermons of Cordy Tindell "C.T." Vivian remind us that Vivian stood among the impactful figures of the civil rights era as a deep thinker of Christian theology and activist-faith.Indeed, history records Vivian as a preacher-a...

Facts, figures, and essays on women and poverty by Barbara Ehrenreich, Kirsten Gillibrand, LeBron James, and other high-profile contributors.Fifty years after President Lyndon B. Johnson called for a War on Poverty and enlisted Sargent Shriver to oversee it, the most important social issue of our day is once again the dire economic straits of millions of Americans. One in three live in poverty or teeter on the brink—and seventy million are women and the children wh...

This collection of fifteen stories from the cult author of Ice examines war and mental illness from her signature surreal point of view. Inspired by Kavan's own experiences nursing traumatized Second World War soldiers and as a patient in various asylums, these pieces communicate the claustrophobia and isolation of life amidst conflict or caught in the gears of an institutional machine - but also the stunning beauty of physical experience, as her cast of outsiders find themselves ...