"Every child's way of being can open doors to wisdom, compassion, and human connection. We need only to listen."This is among the conclusions that the authors, one of whom is an experienced foster parent and the other a professor of developmental psychology, draw as a result of working with a diverse range of children and families. Inspired by their relationships with families in crisis, the authors began to rethink the traditional foster care models and developed an innovative pra...

How an ordinary family fell into the dark world of white supremacy, and how love ultimately triumphed over hate. As a troubled teen, Lauren Manning sought refuge online in the angry world of black metal music. When she met a recruiter who offered her the acceptance she craved, the doctrine of white supremacy supplanted the values of her middle-class upbringing, and Lauren traded suburbia for a life of violence and criminality on the streets of Toronto. Link provided for free teachers' and ...

In many modern economies, creativity, the essential prerequisite for innovation, tends to be assumed or neglected while the catchphrase "innovation" dominates the field of business as the key to national performance and competitiveness. Creativity and Innovation in Business and Beyond illustrates the ways in which creativity spurs innovation and innovation enables creativity – not only in the realms of business and management, where the innovation is regularly acknowledged and dis...

"This text is long overdue and timely. Carr and Broom have placed the issues firmly in the broader context of the relationship between our species and the others which share this planet with us...As they argue it is possible for tourists and the travel and tourism sector to take and exercise responsibility to drive change, Carr and Broom's text helps us to understand the issues and the context and to make better-informed choices." Harold Goodwin Responsible Tourism Partnership Animals are ...

In the eerie stillness of a moonlit night, a group of friends gather at an old mansion, their hearts pounding with anticipation. They have come to experience the legendary Haunted Hour, a time when the veil between the living and the dead is said to be at its thinnest. As the clock strikes midnight, strange and inexplicable events begin to unfold. Shadows dance on the walls, whispers echo through the empty halls, and the friends find themselves trapped in a terrifying game of cat and mouse...

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore them...

INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER!The first book in the epic Avalon University dark academia series, perfect for fans of the Zodiac Academy and Atlas Six series, about a young woman who enrolls at the magical Avalon, where she must uncover the secrets of her past, find the mysterious benefactor who paved her way, and stop a sadistic killer who threatens to drench Avalon in blood.Fear, fury, and fire.To know is not en...

The second book in the nationally bestselling Avalon University dark academia series, following Summer Tuatha De Daanan as she recovers from the devastating year before, but as her magical, combat, and mental training pushes her to confront the darkness in her soul, that same darkness pulls her towards the shadows of her mysterious stalker.Fear. Fury. And Fire.To Know is Never Enough.Summer Tuatha De Daanan reluctan...

As we journey through life there is perhaps one sacred duty that is more important than any other; to protect the young in their earliest years.However, society is riven with poverty and fractured with many undermining forces that create uncertainty and neglect in the lives of many families and the babies that depend upon them for love, nurture and security in their young lives.In this volume our classic authors bring you narratives with characters so young, so dependent, t...

Tax Law and the Environment: A Multidisciplinary and Worldwide Perspective takes a multidisciplinary approach to explore the ways how tax policy can is used solve environmental problems throughout the world, using a multi-jurisdictional and multidisciplinary approach. Environmental taxation involves using taxes to impose a cost on environmentally harmful activities or tax subsidies to provide preferred tax treatment to more sustainable alternatives to those harmful activities. This book pr...

Exotic tales from the vintage pages of Doctor Who Annual, brought to life by a host of Doctor Who voices.In the title adventure, The Cloud Exiles ensnare the First Doctor and hope to steal his body for their own purposes, unless he can persuade them otherwise. In Death to Mufl, the Second Doctor is sent on a mission so secret that even he doesn’t know about it! In Revenge of the Phantoms, Jo and the Third Doctor must fight for their lives against ...

Bringing new souls into the world is both a great responsibility but can ensure receiving a never-ending gift of love and laughter. But for some people raising and nurturing their young is not where’re they’re at. For these parents the responsibility and needed sacrifices are beyond what they can give, what they can manage. Going forward life for both parent and child is going to be difficult, perhaps too difficult.In this volume our classic authors begin to unravel the complexitie...