It's 2120 in Solsys and life sucks.Robots hold all the jobs. Corporations buy laws to keep the economy in a stranglehold. The only intelligent species out there is interested solely in Earth’s dandelions. Even with the paradox drive, which made interplanetary travel possible, there isn’t much opportunity for someone who wants more out of life than the default human experience of soul-crushing poverty.Kandi Kumari was searching for just that when she found h...

Blindfulness is a deeply human account of losing sight and learning to live again. With clarity and restraint, Earl Zapf brings together grief, mindfulness, and reflection to map the unfamiliar terrain of blindness. What begins as loss becomes something more nuanced: a gradual loosening of reliance on vision, and the discovery of another way of meeting experience, one grounded in presence rather than control. Meditation appears here not as a fix, but as a steady companion. This perceptive ...

Blindfulness is a deeply human account of losing sight and learning to live again. Earl Zapf weaves grief, mindfulness, and reflection into a quiet exploration of blindness. What begins as loss becomes a shift in perception, toward presence rather than control. A thoughtful book for anyone navigating change or transformation.

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.Drawing on the latest debates in ecocritical theory and sustainability studies, Literature as Cultural Ecology: Sustainable Texts outlines a new approach to the reading of literary texts. Hubert Zapf considers the ways in which literature operates as a form of cultural ecology, using language, imagination and critique to challenge an...

Forensic mental health assessment (FMHA) has grown into a specialization informed by research and professional guidelines. This series presents up-to-date information on the most important and frequently conducted forms of FMHA. The 19 topical volumes address best approaches to practice for particular types of evaluation in the criminal, civil, and juvenile/family areas. Each volume contains a thorough discussion of the relevant legal and psychological concepts, followed by a step-by-step ...

Laura Zapfe’s aim is to explain how education system and school characteristics affect the gender gap in mathematics and reading competencies. She adapts the macro-meso-micro model. At the micro level, she uses theories, e.g., gender-specific socialization, highlighting how gender-specific expectations and stereotypes cause gendered interest and skills and therefore gender differences in mathematics and reading. Deriving a macro-meso-micro link, she explains how education system characteri...

Material Ecocriticism offers new ways to analyze language and reality, human and nonhuman life, mind and matter, without falling into well-worn paths of thinking. Bringing ecocriticism closer to the material turn, the contributions to this landmark volume focus on material forces and substances, the agency of things, processes, narratives and stories, and making meaning out of the world. This broad-ranging reflection on contemporary human experience and expression provokes new understandin...

An imaginative retelling of a piece of New England history that switches between the eighteenth century and the present, The Strange Story of Maria Hallett is a tale of romance, shipwrecks, pirates, a magic book, and a centuries-old unpaid debt.When Joe, a Cape Cod hardware store owner, discovers an ancient library book, its supernatural power compels him to read it. He discovers the story of a passionate and headstrong teenage girl, Maria Hallett, who fell in love with Black Sam B...

Praise for Forensic Psychology and Law"In Forensic Psychology and Law, three internationally known experts provide exceptional coverage of a wide array of topics that address both the clinical applications of forensic psychology and the role of psychological science in understanding and evaluating legal assumptions and processes."—Norman Poythress, PhD, Research Director and Professor, Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institu...

Thoughts are free - but they are no longer secret. Today, our data is automatically stored and analyzed by algorithms ”behind the cloud” - where we no longer have control over our data. Our most private and secret information is entrusted to the internet and permanently collected, stacked and linked to our digital twins. With and without our consent. "Privacy is dead", as Mark Zuckerberg put it.The question is: How did we get there? And, if the actors behind the cloud know everythi...

A charmingly irreverent look at a mischievous kid-fixation: underwear!Underpants can be fancy or functional, but for pre-schoolers, it is always funny. Take Lily McBloom - she has the fancy kind and loves to show them off with a special dance to make everyone laugh. This horrifies her big sister who comes up with a plan to stop Lily's underpants dance forever. But Lily is one creative girl, and with a little outside-the-box thinking, she can keep right on dancing!For fans o...

Hen and Duck make a trip to the grocery store to buy apples for a pie.