FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Glitch Factory: Perfectly Human in an Imperfect World Local Human Mother Releases Anthology That Explores Our Hilarious Attempts to Control the Chaos in Our Lives. 12 stories, 12 doses of reality, 12 quirky perspectives, all strung together to reveal the glitches that curb our future plans and make us second guess the reality we’ve been so hastily shoved into. CITY, STATE, PROVINCE, DATE— Donna Thompson, local mother, retired teacher, and full-time author, has rel...

Julie Cromwell is a selfish, manipulative, insecure woman, and those are her best qualities. She sets up a fake kidnapping to see if her husband will pay a million dollars for her safe return. Something goes wrong and she winds up dead. This is the first plot twist, but certainly not the last. Enter lead detective Karl Larkin and his partner, Ted Cramer. They are a team who refuses to let sleeping dogs lie. They begin rattling the skeletons in the family's closets. Larkin finds himself bre...

As an aspiring or seasoned writer, do you feel like you aren't making headway, stumbling on what to write next, or wondering if you're even on the right path? Are you unable to find the motivation to charge up your computer and put your fingers on the keyboard after that last rejection?Between the pages of What I Wish I'd Known: For Writers, 100 highly accomplished authors share their time, energy, and knowledge to pay it forward and inspire other writers, experienced or a...

Nel posto giusto al momento giusto?Harmony Gibbs non aveva intenzione di essere un'eroina. Non cercava altro che la sua tazza di caffè del mattino. Gli uomini che vide fare irruzione in un vicino palazzo di uffici chiaramente non dovevano trovarsi lì. Era sua responsabilità, da persona perbene, denunciare il fatto.Peccato che abbia salvato qualcuno che non voleva essere salvato.Damien Joseph, come tutti nella zona, vide la conferenza stampa...

Nessuno prende ciò che gli appartiene.Lance Kilgore non stringeva amicizie. Con nessuno. Ma soprattutto non con la sua nuova vicina di casa, eccessivamente amichevole e fin troppo curiosa. Non importava che lei fosse la protagonista di una o due, o di tutte, le sue fantasie notturne; l'amore non era nelle carte per Lance. E Claudia Reynolds aveva scritto in faccia di essere una romantica dal cuore tenero, pronta a innamorarsi perdutamente.Claudia e...

Perché era vivo?Non era giusto. Austin Ward non aveva nessuno. Né moglie, né figlia, nemmeno un dannato cane. Allora perché lui era vivo e il suo partner, quello che aveva tutte quelle cose, era morto?Austin non era l'unico a volere delle risposte. La figlia del suo partner morto, una bibliotecaria dolce come il miele, si presentò a casa sua ed entrò con la forza, pretendendo la verità. Le sue guance rigate dalle lacrime e gli occhi cerchiati di ro...

This is a practical book exploring how to conduct animal assisted intervention (AAI) in ways that protect and prioritize animal and human welfare. This resource is for social scientists (e.g., psychology, social work, human development and family studies, etc.), as well as ethologists and animal behaviour and welfare students and practitioners. The book is a series of short chapters that depict a wide array of AAIs and their potential welfare concerns. The chapters include descriptions of ...

When it comes to earthshaking songs—the ones that signal a tectonic shift in the current musical landscape—there is “Johnny B. Goode” . . . there is “Good Vibrations” . . . and there is "I Feel Love." A disco touchstone recorded by Donna Summer in 1976 and released on her fifth studio album, I Remember Yesterday, in 1977, "I Feel Love" is one of the most important records in music history, and one of the most influential."I Feel Love" topped charts the world over—including in the U...

How did a remarkably simple wooden platform end up dictating the architectural layout of nearly every single grocery store on earth? Standardized Pallets uncovers the astonishing macro-logistics behind retail design, proving that global consumerism is driven by mundane dimensions. Consumers mistakenly believe that supermarket aisles are designed specifically for their shopping convenience or psychological manipulation. In reality, the exact width of the aisles, the specific height of the s...

Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is a new approach to environmental assessment, global in scope, which considers the environmental impacts of policies, plans and programmes. It is already in use in a number of countries and is rapidly being adopted by those involved with environmental management and regulation, including governments, official and voluntary sector agencies, academic courses and consultancies. This text defines and analyzes SEA within the overall context of environme...

The Daily Joy devotional inspires women to engage with God's word every day, allowing the truth of the gospel to transform their lives throughout the year. Featuring content from the ESV Women's Devotional Bible, Scripture meditations and articles are written by more than 50 Christian writers and pastors including Joni Eareckson Tada, Lydia Brownback, Dane C. Ortlund, Jen Wilkin, Sam Storms, and Nancy Guthrie. Focused on biblical teaching and God's transforming grace, the...

This book is part of a two volume set that examines prostitution and sex trafficking on a global scale, with each chapter devoted to a particular country in one of seven "geo-cultural" areas of the world. The 18 chapters in this volume (Volume I) are devoted to examination of the commercial sex industry (CSI) in countries within Africa, Asia, Middle East, and Oceania, while the 16 chapters that comprise Volume II focus exclusively on Europe, Latin America, and North America. Volume II also...