A successful, 'forty something'-year-old professional embarks on a long overdue journey back to Norfolk Island - her birthplace and spiritual home.Sailing solo, as she did decades ago, she wrestles not only with the sea but with her regrets as well. Clinging to hopes, memories, and a powerful connection with one man, she pushes beyond the limits of human endurance and doggedly sails onwards - to a new life, back on the island she loves.An emotional journey of survival, love...

The child of Italian immigrants struggles to find meaning in Edwardian-era London.Olga Boselli, a young Italian woman who immigrated to London with her parents at the turn of the century, dies during childbirth. Her son, Gian-Luca, is raised by his grandparents, but his grandmother, a hard woman with a nose for business, resents him-and God-for taking the life of her daughter.As Gian-Luca comes of age, he struggles to find an identity and meaning in his life. His grandmothe...

“Consciously I was neither radical nor conservative, and yet my reading was drawing me inevitably out of the narrower field of polite literature into the new world of social thought that was rising about me. Carlyle, Ruskin, Morris became increasingly my teachers-above all others Morris. I have always been a rebel, I think, but with the bias of my training in art and letters I must enter the field of radicalism through such an avenue if at all. My economics must be sugar-coated for me. She...

Human beings live prospectively. Even memory, on close inspection, is in service of anticipation - the brain uses the past to estimate what's about to happen, prepares the body accordingly, and treats the resulting experience as evidence for the next prediction. The Predictive Life develops this single mechanism across a full clinical and conceptual arc: how old learning becomes prediction, how prediction organises attention and bodily preparation, how behaviour changes the eviden...

A Treatise on Staff Making and Pivoting: Containing Complete Directions for Making and Fitting New Staffs from the Raw Material is a comprehensive manual authored by E. Goodrich and originally published in the 19th century. This classic work serves as an essential guide for watchmakers, horologists, and anyone interested in the intricate art of watch repair and construction. The book meticulously details the processes involved in crafting and fitting new balance staffs, a critical componen...

Candy-Making Revolutionized: Confectionery from Vegetables is a groundbreaking book by Mary Elizabeth Hall, first published in 1912, that transforms the art of candy-making by introducing innovative methods for creating sweets from vegetables. This unique guide challenges traditional notions of confectionery, offering a fresh perspective on how everyday vegetables can be transformed into delicious, healthful treats. Hall’s work is both practical and inventive, providing detailed instructio...

Join little Ezzy on a heartwarming bedtime adventure in "Ezzy and the Moonlight Surprised" - a gentle, imaginative tale of curiosity, wonder, and the special bond between a mother and her child.

Join little Ezzy on a heartwarming bedtime adventure in "Ezzy and the Moonlight Surprised" - a gentle, imaginative tale of curiosity, wonder, and the special bond between a mother and her child.

Who can find a virtuous woman? This is an age-old question that can both inspire and intimidate. The saintly sister described in Proverbs 31 is nothing short of astonishing: an ideal wife and mother, a valued contributor to society, and a tireless proponent of all that is good and right. In viewing these qualities as a goal, women can often fall prey to this passage’s common outcome: feelings of discouragement and inadequacy. Many women are left to wonder, Who could possibly embody such a ...

This landmark text offers critical reflection and practical tool for pastors working and leading congregations where there is a large percentage of African Caribbean worshippers and other marginalised communities. Drawing from real-life pastoral examples, socio-political analysis and the theme of Eucharist as a means to human healing and restoration, it outlines and explores what a black British pastoral theology might look like.

The classic text in critical care medicine! The 3rd Edition of this classic text is streamlined and focused on the needs of the working critical care physician and features important new treatment strategies. Organized by organ systems, this text, the only critical care source that includes evidence-based learning, guides physicians from initial patient assessment and differential diagnosis through therapeutic plan.

When war photographer Jo returns from her latest assignment in Afghanistan and moves into the Brighton flat she’s just inherited, she hopes to restore equilibrium to her chaotic life. But images and events of her recent past and the reading of her great-grandmother Elizabeth’s diary haunt her night and day, forcing Jo to come to terms with demons she thought she could leave behind.Written as a long confession to Jo’s ex-girlfriend Susie, alternating with Elizabeth’s account of nursing Indi...