Home for me is a memorized address, dorm room, apartment, premises with floor type identified by my feet, brand loyalties, local radio stations, siblings, and more.Most young adults leave the physical premises of home. The memories and mementos of home accompany us to new dwellings, spaces, and addresses called home. Thus possessions come with us on the journey. They can be things like brand loyalties, day planners, CD or DVD collections, inner desires for peace and quiet, or some ...

Winston Patrick, a successful lawyer but dissatisfied with his career defending the downtrodden of Vancouver's criminal world, trades in the courtroom for the high school classroom. Soon Winston's past life meets his present when a student accuses a fellow colleague of a teacher-student love affair. Reluctantly, Winston agrees to provide legal defence, but the case takes an even uglier turn: the student is murdered, making her alleged lover the prime suspect. And this is no ordinary studen...

Everybody has a story. Indeed, every thing has a story. From the smallest of atoms to the universe itself. Most stories, if truth be told, never last longer than those individuals directly involved. Some get passed on for a few generations and then, like their originators, fade and die. Some stories are worth repeating but most are not. History is full of lost, untold, mediocre and tedious stories. Only the most relevant, luckiest and brightest survive.This story may be one of them....

Before inspiration can become original work, it needs somewhere to land. Before Inspiration: Why Structure Comes First in All Original Work explores creativity not as a sudden miracle, but as a living process shaped by rhythm, boundaries, repetition, attention, and intentional design. In the world of creative work, many people wait for the perfect mood, the perfect idea, or the perfect moment, only to discover that waiting often weakens imagination rather than strengthens ...

Winston Patrick was a successful lawyer who defended the downtrodden of Vancouver's criminal world. Dissatisfied with his career, he traded in the courtroom for the high school classroom. Winston is barely surviving his first year at a Vancouver high school when his students present a human rights issue. A student wants to bring his same-sex partner to the high school prom, but the school won't let him.Winston reluctantly leads his proteges on their first legal quest: suing the sch...

The Mets have had one of the most roller-coaster histories of any major league franchise. From loveable losers to miracle champions; the frustrating 1970s followed by the glorious 1980s; surprise challengers to infuriating underachievers; phenomenal prospects to horrendous free agents. The one thing you can always count on with the Mets is—they are never boring!But with the franchise about to turn 60, it's hard for even the most diehard of Mets fans to keep track of it all. That's ...

Hoje em dia temos uma visão romantizada de empreender e de criar negócios com o reconhecimento do empreendedorismo como uma opção válida à carreira tradicional de trabalhar por conta de outrém. A ideia é que nos vemos como o Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Amancio Ortega entre outros, porém na nossa rua há os donos dos cafés, mini mercados, contabilistas, formadores, escolas de bairro, creches, lares, que são tão ou mais criadores de emprego e de riqueza, no seu conjunto como os anteriores.

This is a book about reading, drawing, and getting better—and what they have to do with one another. Specifically, it is about how these activities were put into relation by the British essayist, artist, and psychoanalyst, Marion Milner (1900-1996). The guiding question of Milner's life was of how people come to feel alive in, and feel creatively responsive to, their own lives. In pursuit of this, Milner explored fields as diverse as anthropology, folklore, education, lite...

The social practice of tact was an invention of the nineteenth century, a period when Britain was witnessing unprecedented urbanization, industrialization, and population growth. In an era when more and more people lived more closely than ever before with people they knew less and less about, tact was a new mode of feeling one’s way with others in complex modern conditions. In this book, David Russell traces how the essay genre came to exemplify this sensuous new ethic and aesthetic.

Autistic children and young people can face particular challenges in their sexual development. For many professionals in health, education, social care and justice, questions around harmful sexual behaviour remain especially complex. Research shows that autistic young people are not more likely than their peers to display such behaviour, yet they are consistently over-represented in referrals, creating uncertainty about how best to respond.This book brings together research, case st...

Sleepy rustic Carmarthenshire was secretly a hotbed of debauchery, violence and drunkenness according to Russell Davies in a new edition of his very successful book, Secret Sins. Behind the facade of idyllic rural life, there was a twilight world of mental illness, suicide, crime, vicious assaults, infanticide, cruelty and other assorted acts of depravity. This almost anecdotal historical study is often funny, sometimes disturbing, always revealing.

The Green Man is a collection of poetry that looks to the world around us and asks what lies behind the things we can see, smell, taste, touch, and hear. Poetry can help us see through what Coleridge called the "film of familiarity." These poems attempt to help the reader pierce that veil and see the world around them in a new light.