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Have you ever wondered what your cat is thinking or trying to tell you in his language?For many of us, cat language feels foreign, difficult to understand, and even harder to decipher.We all know about the effects that an untrained cat can have on our stress levels and wallet.Proper training and care can make it easy to raise a well-behaved and loving companion.More often than not, cats can have tricky to solve behavior problems that can easily escalate with...

Love & Passion Through The Ages gathers an unusually broad canon of historical, romantic, Gothic, realist, sentimental, and social fiction to examine desire as both private experience and public force. Spanning courtship, illicit attachment, marriage, betrayal, exile, inheritance, and class aspiration, the set places psychologically charged romances beside sweeping narratives of political upheaval and domestic constraint. Its range—from epistolary intrigue and irony to melodrama, regional ...

Discover the American Civil War beyond the generals, battle maps, and famous speeches.In A Peek into the Past, Dr. Robert Ray Meadows presents a fascinating and accessible exploration of the people, events, innovations, and experiences that shaped one of the most transformative periods in American history.Readers will learn about the everyday lives and hardships of Union and Confederate soldiers, the changing roles of women, and the courageous fema...

'Love Through the Eras' encapsulates not only a vast temporal sweep but also a rich tapestry of literary styles and thematic depth, encompassing seventy historical romances penned by a constellation of great authors. From the nuanced realism of Jane Austen's Regency England to the dramatic passions of Alexandre Dumas' France and beyond, the anthology celebrates love's multifaceted expressions across different societies and epochs. Each narrative, unique in its own right, coalesces into a c...

The anthology 'The Greatest Historical Novels of All Time' presents an expansive array of narratives that collectively explore the depths of human experience through the lens of historical fiction. With contributions from a stellar cast of writers, including giants such as Leo Tolstoy and F. Scott Fitzgerald, the collection spans continents and centuries, intricately weaving the personal with the historical in a range of literary styles. From the refined societal observations of Jane Auste...

This book brings together an unprecedented number and range of contributions from different disciplines relating to sleep in one comprehensive volume.The contributors explore the science of sleep - what it is, what makes it happen and why we do it - as well as the measurement of sleep, its importance for daytime performance and its sociological and cultural aspects. Sleep disorders, sleep quality and the importance of sleep for daytime performance are also explored, as are the ways...

Have you ever wondered what your cat is thinking or trying to tell you in his language?For many of us, cat language feels foreign, difficult to understand, and even harder to decipher.We all know about the effects that an untrained cat can have on our stress levels and wallet.Proper training and care can make it easy to raise a well-behaved and loving companion.More often than not, cats can have tricky to solve behavior problems that can easily escalate with...

Historical Romances – Boxed Set surveys the long evolution of romance as a mode for imagining the past, from courtly intrigue and epistolary experiment to Gothic intensity, social satire, adventure, realism, and modern psychological nuance. Its selection ranges across national traditions and centuries, placing novels of revolution, inheritance, war, colonial encounter, and domestic constraint beside tales of mystery and passionate conflict. Sweeping historical panoramas, sharply observed m...

This is the first book to systematically describe the range of approaches used in music imagery and Guided Imagery and Music across the lifespan, from young children through to palliative care with older people.Covering a broad spectrum of client populations and settings, international contributors present various adaptations of the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery to accommodate factors such as time restraints, context (including hospitals, schools, and the wider community), client ...

This book draws on a variety of substantive examples from science, technology, medicine, literature, and popular culture to highlight how a new technoscientifically mediated and modified phase and form of technosleep is now in the making – in the global north at least; and to discuss the consequences for our relationships to sleep, the values we accord sleep and the very nature and normativities of sleep itself.The authors discuss how technosleep, at its simplest denotes the ‘comin...

Bloomsbury presents Jagdverband 44: The Luftwaffe’s Mavericks by Robert Forsyth, read by Mark Meadows.The dramatic story of Jagdverband 44, the squadron of aces founded by leading Luftwaffe pilot Adolf Galland equipped with the new Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter.Jagdverband (JV) 44 was formed as a result of conflict and dissent within the Luftwaffe’s high command. Following disagreement with Reichsmarschall Herman Göring, the co...

Mitchell the house mouse is cozy in his shoebox home in Grammy's closet. What will he do when her granddaughter snatches the box away to make a miniature float for a Carnival contest? Maybe he will pitch in and even get to ride! Young readers will thrill to Mitchell's adventure involving the long-beloved childhood tradition of crafting a Mardi Gras float from a cardboard shoebox.