The day after his thirty-third birthday, Murad spots a familiar face at a crowded intersection in downtown Toronto. Shocked, he stands silently as Sofi, a woman he’d fallen in love with almost a decade ago, walks by holding the hand of a small child. Murad turns and descends the subway steps to return home to his wife as the past washes over him and he is taken back to the first time they met. Moving between Lahore, London and Toronto, Drinking the Ocean is a story of connections ...

With contributions from experienced dementia practitioners and care researchers, this book examines the impact of culture and ethnicity on the experience of dementia and on the provision of support and services, both in general terms and in relation to specific minority ethnic communities.Drawing together evidence-based research and expert practitioners' experiences, this book highlights the ways that dementia care services will need to develop in order to ensure that provision is ...

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. 50 years after the establishment of the Runnymede Trust and the Race Relations Act of 1968 which sought to end discrimination in public life, this accessible book provides commentary by some of the UK’s foremost scholars of race and ethnicity on data relating to a wide range of sectors of society, including employment, health, education, criminal justice, housing and representation in the arts and media.It explores what progress has bee...

What if the work is harder than at my last school? What if nobody wants to be my friend? What if the teacher is an alien?!Step into the fantastically imaginative and chaotic world of Planet Omar, following the adventures of an 8-year-old with a wild imagination, a big heart, and a knack for getting into trouble. This vibrant new stage adaptation based on the beloved books by Zanib Mian has been brought to life by award-winning playwright Asif Kha...

Fans of Bones and Coroner will love Dr. Zol Szabo, a doctor who is out to solve medical mysteries before it’s too lateAfter weeks of torture at the hands of Syria’s secret police, the bombing of his villa in the ancient city of Aleppo, and the murder of his daughter, trauma surgeon Dr. Hosam Khousa flees his fractured homeland with his wife and son. They make their way to Canada as refugees, where Hosam is forced to trade his prestigious scalpel f...

"Fierce Ruthless Warriors Who Shaped Ancient History Vol. I & Vol II: Alexander The Great, Charlemagne, Genghis Khan, Hannibal, Julius Caesar, And Attila The Hun" by Andre T. Smith is a monumental two-in-one volume that brings to life six of the most formidable and influential warrior kings in ancient history. This comprehensive work meticulously chronicles the lives, battles, and staggering accomplishments of these legendary figures, whose actions reshaped the world....

Providing an integrated approach to crop growth and development and the technical aspects of greenhouse cultivation and climate management, this new volume focuses on the sustainable elements of greenhouse technology that are currently available on the market. The book examines the most major issues in this dynamic and developing field that calls for innovative multidisciplinary scientific and technological solutions. The advanced greenhouse technology and topics covered in this book inclu...