THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER'Informative...warm in tone and easy to understand. A safe space to learn about money.' Clare Seal, author and founder of My Frugal Year‘An evergreen guide to keep through different life stages.’ Bola Sol, author of Your Money Life'Cuts the jargon, keeps it real — and actually makes money feel manageable.' Jason Butler, global financial well-bein...

Everything’s made to be broken in this wickedly funny story collection from Catalan’s greatest contemporary writer.

The True Story Behind Valentine's DayUncover the captivating history and untold tales behind one of the world's most beloved holidays with "The True Story Behind Valentine's Day." In this illuminating and comprehensive exploration, Sara E. Monzo delves deep into the origins, myths, and cultural significance of Valentine's Day, offering readers a rich tapestry of insights, anecdotes, and revelations.From its ancient roots in Roman festivals to its modern-day celebration as a...

La reunión en la sede central de Vicky Foods había finalizado. El clima era distendidoaquella mañana de diciembre de 2019. Los resultados del año habíansido muy positivos. Sin embargo, las ventas de la bollería dulce envasada habíandisminuido en los últimos años. Aunque Rafael Juan, CEO desde 2007, intuía lasrazones, necesitaba implementar nuevas estrategias y un enfoque diferente paralograr el reposicionamiento de esta categoría de productos. Por esta razón, convocóa un equipo de consulto...

The meeting at Vicky Foods head office was over. The atmosphere was relaxed on that December morning in 2019. The financial results for the year had been very positive. However, sales of packaged sweet pastries had suffered a steady decline in recent years. Although Rafael Juan, CEO since 2007, sensed the reasons, he needed to implement new strategies and a different approach to achieve the repositioning of this product category. For this reason, he called in a team of consultants to excee...

This book presents a new model to visualize and understand the creative process in free improvisation: the Interactive Dimensions of the Creative Flow (IDCF). Drawing on theoretical work on distributed creativity and the author’s background as a professional pianist, this short monograph establishes provocative dialogues between the field of music and the cultural psychology of semiotic dynamics to investigate human interactions involved in the act of creating.New empirical data an...

This collection critically examines the practical impacts of machine translation (MT) through the lens of an ethics of care. It addresses the ideological issues in MT development linked to social hierarchies and explores the transformative potential of care ethics for more equitable technological progress.The volume explores the ideological constructs behind MT as a labor-saving technology, how these constructs are embedded in both its development and social reception, and how they...

This collection takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of gendered technology, an emerging area of inquiry that draws on a range of fields to explore how technology is designed and used in a way that reinforces or challenges gender norms and inequalities.The volume explores different perspectives on the impact of technology on gender relations through specific cases of translation and interpreting technologies. In particular, the book considers the slow response of legal ...

Asian citrus psyllid (ACP), Diaphorina citri, is an insect pest which transmits a bacterium, Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus (CLas), primarily through feeding in newly emergent foliage of citrus trees. This pathogen causes a disease known as Huanglongbing (HLB), or citrus greening, which has become the most debilitating and intractable disease in citrus crops. This book, written by a team of experts on the Asian citrus psyllid, gathers together everything currently known about the biolog...

This innovative book explains and introduces the use of mindfulness in therapeutic work with parents and babies, covering issues such as feeding, crying, sleeping and relating, as well as other developmental challenges which affect family life, as practiced in both clinical sessions and in the home.The book is divided into two parts. Part 1 introduces: (1) what parent-infant psychotherapy is, its origin and evolution; (2) mindfulness, which consists in paying attention in a purpose...

From turkeys gathered around a spring in sub zero weather to clumsy, young geese learning to fly; from a mysterious bird to a great blue heron with a different outlook on life, these poems describe and celebrate wildlife on our 40 acres. Then, there is the wildlife within our home: our black cat, imprisoned, in her way of thinking, when being outside amongst the lilacs would be preferable. People in our family are included in poetry also, from a loved sister in her last days to a visit by ...

These dialogues with child, adolescent and adult psychotherapists and child psychiatrists focus on their personal as well as professional experiences. All the contributors have a long-standing practice of Buddhism or other forms of meditation. The relevance of this to their clinical work with infants, children, adolescents, families and adults is described. Buddhist principles such as suffering, impermanence, non-attachment, no-self and the Four Noble Truths influence the contributors' pra...