Alyssa wasn’t ready to die. Snatched from her life and unable to access her most recent memories, she is cast into an afterlife that is very different from anything she expected. She is stuck on Earth, invisible to the living, and she is being hunted. Cornered by a malevolent being, Alyssa is saved by new friends who show her how to survive this strange world she never knew existed. A chance meeting leaves her inexplicably drawn to the enemy, and she starts to question if the line between ...

The unexpected return of Griffin, a former comrade, is met with optimism and hope from everyone, except one. Alyssa can’t put her finger on it, but something is off about him. The deeper he spirals, causing friction between friends and division between allies, the more frustrated she becomes at the refusal of those around her to see him for who and what he truly is. When an innocent child disappears, she and her friends are plunged into a desperate race against time to save him. After a fr...

Aiden and Aaliyah: Sharing Is Caring is an African American children’s book that narrates a brother and sister’s journey to understanding the purpose of sharing with each other. They encounter different problems that result in each of them becoming sad while the other discovers an idea on how to solve the issue. In the end, Aiden and Aaliyah’s mother has to intervene to help them realize that they can share with each other even when they are both upset.

It was just another busy day for Sister Morag Kelly at The Highfield General Hospital, a vey large teaching hospital where she had worked for over twenty years. But life was about to change forever when Morag and a new consultant Mr Simon McClymont uncover strange goings on within the hospital and its board of directors, people disappearing, drug rapes, who would be next…

Tourism and Wellness: Travel for the Good of All? enhances academic understandings and analyses of tourism as a social and worldmaking force by situating broad questions of well-being, health, and equity within the scaffolds of critical tourism studies. Contributors touch on power and politics, space and place, reflexivity and relationships, values and affect, and inequality and equity as viewed through critically informed and social justice perspectives. This collection of cutting-edge, c...

**Winner of the 2020 Edward M. Bruner Book Award from the Anthropology of Tourism Interest Group**"Leite, Castaneda, and Adams's volume is a beautiful retrospective of the enduring importance of Ed Bruner's work and legacy in our field, and we have no doubt that it will be used as a central historical, theoretical, and teaching text by many." - Prize CommitteeWhat does it mean to study tourism ethnographically? How has the ethnography of tourism changed from the 1970s to toda...

The cult classic novel from the author of Climbers and The Sunken Land Begins to Rise AgainWith an introduction by bestselling author of Our Wives Under the Sea, Julia Armfield'A more grown-up version of The Secret History' LUCY SCHOLES'A groundbreaking work' GUARDIAN'The best literary fiction out now' D...

The relationship between Augustine of Hippo and the subject of gender raises important questions. Augustine and Gender address these issues head-on. This volume offers original interpretations of the many ways that gender appears throughout Augustine’s thought and works. Contributions draw from a wide range of sources including Augustine’s sermons, letters, treatises, and dialogues. Readers will discover detailed analyses about the nature of desire and emotion, the politics of sex...

Über das BuchNach dem Ende ihrer leidenschaftlichen Liebesaffäre vor vielen Jahren herrscht zwischen Julian, dem König der Nachtwesen, und Melisande, Thronerbin der Hellen Fae, erbitterte Feindschaft. Doch als Melly von Justine, einer mächtigen Vampyrin und Julians erklärter Feindin, entführt wird, bietet sich der Vampyrkönig im Tausch für die Frau an, die er einfach nicht vergessen kann.Gefangen in Justines Netz aus Intrigen und Verrat müssen die beiden ehemaligen Liebende...

Communication and the Work-Life Balancing Act: Intersections across Identities, Genders, and Cultures offers scholarly research related to work-life balance in today’s environment, with a particular focus on the fields of communication and gender studies. The chapters examine the choices, challenges, and gendered experiences that women and men face as they navigate structures of work, domestic duties, and childcare in search of balance. Underpinning this text is the notion that work-life b...

This Open University Reader examines the practices of learning and teaching which have been developed to support lifelong learning, and the understanding and assumptions which underpin them. The selection of texts trace the widening scope of academic understanding of learning and teaching, and considers the implications for those who develop programmes of learning. It examines in great depth those theories which have had the greatest impact in the field, theories of reflection and...

This timely book is the most comprehensive account yet of recent commissioning practice in the English NHS and its impact on health services and the healthcare system.Drawing on eight years of research, expert researchers in the field analyse crucial aspects of commissioning, including competition and cooperation, the development of Clinical Commissioning Groups and contractual mechanisms. They also consider the influence of recent commissioning reforms on public health infrastruct...