Raise your hand if you suspect that you are the only one who struggles with anxiety, doubt, fear, resentment, comparison, jealousy, etc.?In Soul-Selfie: #NoFilter, Heather turns the camera back on herself, exposing her own battles with those same “plagues of the heart”, as she calls them. She lays bare her raw, unfiltered inner-world and invites you to come along side and walk with her toward hope, healing, and transformation.Heather shares her exp...

Two halves, one soul… Can Seven find it within her battered heart and fractured soul to trust in love oncemore?After working her life as a servant in her abusive mother's cathouse, Seven Ponds dares to dream of a future with the local farmer who stole her heart. But when her home is engulfed in flames, and the fire claims the life of her first love, she struggles against the grief consuming her.When a strange mechanical device in the...

Two halves, one soul… Can Seven find it within her battered heart and fractured soul to trust in love once more?After working her life as a servant in her abusive mother’s cathouse, Seven Ponds dares to dream of a future with the local farmer who stole her heart. But when her home is engulfed in flames, and the fire claims the life of her first love, she struggles against the grief consuming her.When a strange mechanical device in the sky and terrifying shadow creatures app...

Facts, figures, and essays on women and poverty by Barbara Ehrenreich, Kirsten Gillibrand, LeBron James, and other high-profile contributors.Fifty years after President Lyndon B. Johnson called for a War on Poverty and enlisted Sargent Shriver to oversee it, the most important social issue of our day is once again the dire economic straits of millions of Americans. One in three live in poverty or teeter on the brink—and seventy million are women and the children wh...

What happens when plant medicine meets the ancient wisdom of the Traditional Chinese Medicine meridian system?In Drops of Wisdom, Points of Power, twelve holistic practitioners from diverse backgrounds share compelling, real-life stories from both their clinical practices and personal healing journeys. Through the innovative use of essential oils applied to acupressure points, these practitioners share a gentle yet profound approach to transformation, one that acknowledges...

A missing groom—a deconsecrated church—a hidden crypt—a skeleton wrapped in a blanketWhen a skeleton is discovered in the hidden crypt of a deconsecrated church, everyone is convinced the bones must be those of Conor Devitt, a local man who went missing on his wedding day six years previously. But the postmortem reveals otherwise.Solicitor Benedicta "Ben" O'Keeffe is acting for the owners of the church. She is reluctant to get involved, but when Conor's bro...

Do you remember in sights or sounds? For one family, the 1970s and 80s were filled with small moments in and around the farm that will never be forgotten. Waking to piano notes lilting from the music room and the sizzle of fresh eggs in the kitchen . . . scanning the horizon for a hint of rain or waiting for the first bean seedlings to pop through the soil . . . listening for the rumbling of tractors in spring or the gentle lowing of mama cows as they get their su...

Spiritual Care in Psychological Suffering: How a Research Collaboration Informs Integrative Practice highlights spiritually integrative research and demonstrates the evolution of a national partnership of psychologists and chaplains collaborating for optimal results. Interdisciplinary teams are the gold standard in spiritual care provision, and this book orients the purpose and promise of such collaboration for research and practice. Recent work in the psychology of religion and spirituali...

Andamooka Anna is the snarky sister of Andamooka Nanna and Barossa Nanna. All three are fictional figures based in South Australia.Andamooka Anna's creative collages centre on women's lives and experiences. Essentially, 'herstory'.Andamooka Anna creates collages that question how to go about changing organisations, not women, to deliver structural reform that ensures equity for all women.A perspective on a range of topics including Societal Misogyny, The Environment...

A wide-ranging group of scholarly essays that probe the historical nature of English identity, both through self-definition and in relationship to the rest of Europe

Higher Education Implications for Teaching and Learning during COVID-19 provides different perspectives regarding the impact of COVID-19 on college teaching and learning and on students, both collectively and individually. Contributors argue that the pandemic forced a higher education reckoning as institutions around the world were forced to shut their physical doors and open up their online platforms in a wider capacity. While these concerns are linked to a certain point in time, there is...

Engagement is trendy. Although paired most often with community, diverse invocations of engagement have gained cache, capturing longstanding shifts toward new practices of knowledge making that both reflect and facilitate multiple ways of being an academic. Engagement functions as a gloss for these shifts—addressing more expansive understandings of where, how, and with whom we research, teach, and partner. This book examines these shifts, locating them within socio-economic trends within a...