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11-year-old twins Jess and Matt have lived with their upbeat Aunt Emma ever since their parents mysteriously disappeared six years ago.Jess is serious and studious; Matt is fun-loving and doesn’t care much for school… But they have one thing in common: They desperately want to know what happened to their parents.When Matt’s friend Jax mentions the Dark Watchers, mysterious shadowy figures who appear at dawn and dusk in the Santa Lucia Mountains, Matt’s brain starts whirring...

HOW MUCH PAIN CAN A MAN CARRY BEFORE SOMEBODY NOTICES HE'S HURTING?Men are told to man up, stay strong, and keep moving. So they learn to smile through depression, hide childhood wounds, bury their grief, and fight battles the people closest to them know nothing about.In Unspoken Pain, 24 men from different walks of life finally tell their stories without being judged. They speak honestly about trauma, addiction, mental health, fatherhood, rejection, illness, grief, faith, ...

When Annabel meets Cal, it’s love at first sight. But after a strange dream, she starts to wonder if perhaps there’s something more than destiny bringing them together. She knows in her heart that she loves Cal, but will that be enough for her to get the one Christmas wish she wants more than anything?

Uncommon folktales and a few old favorites revived and retold for young people and tradition keepers. Folk and fairy tales celebrate different cultures and ways to see the world.A collection of the author’s favorite folktales from his professional storytelling repertoire, retold in contemporary jargon for young reader, UNDER THE OAKEN BOUGH is an anthology which breathes new life into the folk and fairy tales of old. Professional storyteller, Simon Brooks, has written the stories h...

Written as an act of protest in a Welsh-speaking community in north-west Wales, Why Wales Never Was combines a devastating analysis of the historical failure of Welsh nationalism with an apocalyptic vision of a non-Welsh future. It is the ‘progressive’ nature of Welsh politics and the ‘empire of the civic’, which rejects both language and culture, that prevents the colonised from rising up against his colonial master. Wales will always be a subjugated nation until modes of thought, dominan...

People suffering from mental illnesses are among the most vulnerable of our society’s unfortunates. They deserve our support and care. While the clinical care they receive from front-line psychiatrists and other clinicians is generally good in the Western world, better understanding of mental illness is desperately needed. Every year or so sees new diagnoses added to the list of mental disorders, each with cohorts of new patients. Every year or so sees new estimates—ever swelling—of the nu...

This book guides you through five different approaches to qualitative data analysis – thematic analysis, interpretative phenomenological analysis, grounded theory, narrative analysis, and discourse analysis. It applies each of them to a common data set, this book gives a step-by-step guide to each approach and helps you work out which is the right one for you to use.With chapters on the history of qualitative research in psychology, ethical considerations, and data collection metho...

Cyfrol o atgofion a sylwebaeth wleidyddol gan yr awdur a'r ymgyrchydd amlwg, Simon Brooks. Ceir dadansoddiad treiddgar o'r ardaloedd Cymraeg wrth i'r awdur ddilyn clwb peldroed Porthmadog gyda'i fab yn ystod tymor 201718.

This book is a call to action for educators who seek to move beyond superficial learning and engage students in deeper, more meaningful thinking. At a time when education is dominated by standardisation and a crowded curriculum, this book champions a different path, prioritising student agency, curiosity, and thinking.Grounded in the influential Cultures of Thinking™ approach developed by Dr. Ron Ritchhart from Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, this book sho...

Originally published in 1986. This helpful text sets out what appears to make exchange rates change and shows how these various factors contribute to an explanation of the past. It considers the problems of providing satisfactory forecasts of the exchange rate while presenting the methods used, outlining their drawbacks and speculating on future ways forward. Laid out to move from empirical issues to theory and on to policy, this book is easily of use to those interested in macroeconomics,...

**A collection of Algren’s lost and unfinished writings, including his last novel and several stories considered to be among his masterpieces, with a new introduction by Algren's biographer Colin Asher."You should not read [Algren] if you can’t take a punch. Mr. Algren can hit with both hands and move around and he will kill you if you are not awfully careful." —Ernest Hemingway**Nelson Algren sought humanity in the urban wilderness of postwar America, where his powerful vo...

Gay and Lesbian Communities the World Over examines the treatment and status of gays and lesbians in 21 countries around the world. The countries included are Canada, the United States, Argentina, Brazil, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Israel, Egypt, Iran, Nigeria, South Africa, India, China, Japan, and Australia. The book explores the history of homosexuality dating back to ancient Greece and Rome, as well as attitudes toward gays and lesb...