Join Maya on a magical journey in The Book of Endless Stories, where each page reveals a new world, filled with captivating lessons on courage, kindness, and unity. Guided by wise characters, Maya visits enchanted gardens, vast horizons, flowing rivers, and quiet harbors, each place offering profound wisdom about love, respect, and compassion. Every chapter is an adventure, teaching children to see the beauty in diversity and the strength in kindness. This heartwarming book is a c...

What is the difference between respect and control?At first glance, the line can seem blurry. Control often disguises itself as protection, leadership, love, concern, or standards. Respect can be quieter. It gives room, honors boundaries, allows choice, and values dignity. Control narrows, pressures, monitors, and punishes independence.Respect vs. Control helps readers clearly identify the difference between healthy influence and harmful domination in roman...

What makes a relationship feel safe… or silently exhausting?Why do some connections allow honesty, closeness, and growth—while others leave you second-guessing yourself, walking on eggshells, or holding back what you really feel?Emotional Safety and Trust Building: How to Create Secure, Honest, Lasting Relationships at Home, in Love, and in Life is a powerful, practical guide to understanding what real trust actually looks like—and how to build it, protect ...

Why do so many people care deeply for each other and still feel emotionally disconnected?Understanding Love Languages: How to Give, Receive, and Sustain Deep Connection in Every Relationship is a practical, insightful guide to one of the most important truths about human connection: love is often present, but poorly translated. People express care in different ways, and when those differences go unrecognized, even sincere relationships can become strained, lonely, ...

A quiet salon. A dead body. And a pair of scissors where they don’t belong.Victoria Fanning thought her biggest worry was the usual small-town gossip at her beloved seaside salon, Affair with Hair. But when she stumbles upon a dead body in the middle of her shop—with a pair of hair scissors stuck in his chest—her cozy life in Crystal Cove spirals into chaos.With the local rumor mill running wild and her business's reputation on the line, Victoria teams up w...

She thought it was love.Rose Romanov is a mafia princess, and everything that entails. Violently over-protective parents. A giant extended family, all ready to kill anyone who looks at her wrong. Learning to run a business that isn’t exactly on the right side of the law. So, naturally, when she meets a nice guy who isn’t in the life, she falls hard… Right up until the she discovers her new boyfriend isn’t a civilian at all.But he betrayed her.

Tief verborgen unter den Wellen lauern Geschichten, die nur darauf warten, erzählt zu werden. Die Welten des Wassers sind grenzenlos und voller Geheimnisse. Ein stiller See birgt ein uraltes Unheil, ein Fluss flüstert von längst vergessenen Sünden, und aus den schwarzen Abgründen des Meeres steigen Albträume empor. Jeder Tropfen, jede Strömung, jede Flut ist ein Portal in eine Welt, in der das Wasser zugleich Leben spendet und verschlingt. Mit 17 phantastischen Geschichten von: Jules B. As...

No one is prepared for the loss of a child. No one. It feels completely unnatural for children to predecease their parents. Although it is not widely known, each year there are over 135,000 under 40-year-old deaths in the U.S. alone. And, according to one study, 19% of parents outlive their children—often carrying the weight of horrendous grief to their own graves.“Isolated and alone” is how parents often describe the grief process. Well-meaning friends and family members usually r...

Palenque is one of the best known and oldest Mayan archaeological sites. But recently little has been published on the ongoing work here. Marken's collection brings the archaeological record of Palenque up to date. Chapters cover a wide range of topics from architecture to hieroglyphic texts, from broad issues of chronology to settlement to theoretical and methodological issues concerning architectural excavations. Palenque represents an important update of research for any Mayan archaeolo...

El mayor temor que ha invadido al hombre a lo largo de la historia es el miedo a lo desconocido, al viaje sin retorno, a la muerte. Desde los hombres de Cro-Magnon se creía que la oscuridad de las cavernas era el umbral hacia el más allá. Los primeros informes que tenemos de este espacio están alejados de cualquier idea de retribución o castigo; sólo es un lugar de reunión y permanencia de los muertos. Como señala Georges Minois, "no es más que la continuación de la vida terrestre; no hay ...

Experience daily life in Maya civilization, from its earliest beginnings to the Spanish conquest in the 16th century. Narrative chapters describe Mayan political life, economy, social structure, religion, writing, warfare, and scientific methods. Readers will explore the Mayan calendar, counting system, hunting and gathering methods, language, and family roles and relationships. A revised and expanded edition based on the latest archaeological research, this volume offers new interpretatio...

Assessment and Staging of Care for Dementia: The IDEAL schedule and its user manual is a unique resource containing a global clinical staging schedule for dementia alongside essential, practical information on how to use it. The International Schedule for the Integrated Assessment and Staging of Care for Dementia (IDEAL) schedule assesses a patient's capacity to function in seven domains. These domains are 'activities of daily living', 'physical health', 'cognitive functioning', '...