Around the introduction of Agenda 21 at Rio in 1991, some countries like the Netherlands and New Zealand were already leading the way with quite innovative approaches to environmental planning. Focusing on the New Zealand government's innovations in sustainable and environmental planning, particularly the Resource Management Act of 1991, this book highlights planning and governance under devolved and co-operative mandates. It uses multiple methods to evaluate the quality of policy statemen...

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...

'Murder has no right to be this funny!' ERIN KELLYTo have and to hold, to lie and to kill...Meet James and Daisy Dixon. They get along perfectly well - especially when on separate sides of their huge manor house, where Daisy can plot her husband's murder in peace.However, after accidentally killing a man on their way home from a lavish party, they're forced to work together to bury the evidence. All is going surpr...

Healing from Church Hurt: A Faith-Informed Guide to Emotional Recovery and Spiritual Renewalby Dr. Jennifer Dixon-Hooks, PhDChurch hurt cuts deep. When spiritual communities—places meant to nurture, protect, and guide—become sources of pain, betrayal, or emotional harm, the impact can shake your identity, your faith, and your sense of belonging. But healing is possible, and you don't have to walk through it alone.In this compassionate and pr...

What happens when life falls apart and all you have left is your faith?In Faithful in Uncertainty: Finding God Through Seasons of Loss, Healing, and Restoration, Dr. Jennifer Dixon-Hooks takes readers on a deeply personal and faith-filled journey through grief, heartbreak, emotional healing, rebuilding, and spiritual restoration using the powerful story of Ruth in the Book of Ruth as both inspiration and foundation.Many know Ruth because of Boaz, but her story is a...

Marian Stamford moves to her dream home: a snug little cottage in a Dorset village where nothing ever happens. She only wants a quiet life, a home for her unlikely family of two nieces and one troublesome kitten.Before long, things take a darker turn. A man breaks out of prison, leaving the villagers rattled.What are they afraid of?Marian isn’t one for idle gossip. But she can’t ignore the telltale signs that someone has been sneaking into her garden at night.

With contributors in the fields of communication, psychology, English, law, and others, Navigating Life with a Graduate Degree as a Military Spouse: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Challenges, Lessons Learned, and Thriving amidst Uncertainty utilizes interdisciplinary theories, methods, and approaches to study the educational and career experiences of military spouses with advanced degrees.The contributors to this volume analyze the challenges, struggles, and positive aspects of be...

To have and to hold, to lie and to kill...Meet Daisy Dixon. She loves sewing, antiques, and watching murder mysteries. Oh, and plotting to kill her husband.Meet James Dixon. He's mega-rich, mega-successful, and completely missing a conscience.On the way back from a party, the Dixons hit a man with their car. There's only one thing for it, and that's to bury him in the grounds of their manor house, Langley Hall. All is going well, until the day that ...

Feeling used up or worn out. Reaching the limits of our personal and collective resources. Tapping out. Laying waste to the planet. Burning fuel until there's nothing left but fumes.Each story and poem in this book engages exhaustion anew, revealing human struggles, moments of grace, and a relentless questioning. Far from exhausting the topic, this book opens up a conversation about what it means to have limited reserves and how we can move forward under such conditions."So...

WINNER OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL SOCIETY’S 2025 GEORGE C. ROGERS JR. BOOK AWARDIn the spring of 1969, hundreds of workers, all Black and mostly female, went on strike at Medical College Hospital and Charleston County Hospital to protest racial discrimination, low wages, and the marginalization of their dignity. The movement began with an incident of wrongful termination in 1967 involving five Black women at Medical College Hospital that uncovered the pervasi...

Is our destiny written inside our very DNA? Richard Rudd suggests that humanity is on the verge of a major shift in consciousness rooted in a new understanding of how our genes operate. He introduces this fantastic possibility, showing how the "gene keys" are an inner language designed to transform our core beliefs about ourselves and raise us to a higher level of awareness. The book works alongside state-of-the-art online profiling software that provides instantaneous free "Hologenetic Pr...

Packed with stunning revelations, this is the inside story of The Queen Mother from the New York Times bestselling author who first revealed the truth about Princess Diana.Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother has been called the "most successful queen since Cleopatra." Her personality was so captivating that even her arch-enemy Wallis Simpson wrote about "her legendary charm." Portrayed as a selfless partner to the King in the Oscar-winning movie The King's Speech, The Queen Mother is most oft...