Zeeba is an American cat born on a Nebraska farm. The farmer meets a Persian man, Bahram, who is looking for two baby kittens for his daughter, Taraneh. The Persian family goes out to the farm and chooses Zeeba and her sister, Peeshi. The two kittens learn a new way of life, begin speaking the Farsi language, and lounge on colorful Persian carpets. She also lives all the usual perils of a cat's life and experiences love and loss. Through every lesson and trial, Zeeba remains smart, obedien...

Crossing the Mirror Line explores doubleness, the unsettling symmetries of mirrored reflections, the magician's disorientating art that 'makes nothing appear'. Artists' mannequins and watchful children stand at an angle to the familiar-seeming world; an estuary blurs distinctions between land and sea.Like the eighteenth-century artists' landscape mirror that reconfigured the relationship between the viewer and what is viewed, the poems in Judith Willson's first collection a...

Crossing the Mirror Line, the stunning debut from Judith Willson, explores doubleness; the unsettling symmetries of mirrored reflections, the magician's disorientating art that 'makes nothing appear'. Artists' mannequins and watchful children stand at an angle to the familiar world; an estuary elides distinctions between land and sea. Like the eighteenth-century artists' landscape mirror that reconfigured the relationship between the viewer and what is viewed, these poems are conc...

Zeeba is an American cat born on a Nebraska farm. The farmer meets a Persian man, Bahram, who is looking for two baby kittens for his daughter, Taraneh. The Persian family goes out to the farm and chooses Zeeba and her sister, Peeshi. The two kittens learn a new way of life, begin speaking the Farsi language, and lounge on colorful Persian carpets. She also lives all the usual perils of a cat's life and experiences love and loss. Through every lesson and trial, Zeeba remains smart, obedien...

In 1878, in London, a woman served a prison sentence for deserting two of her children, a charge she denied. Almost nothing else is known of her life or that of her husband, a dealer in 'foreign birds and curiosities', who was himself a migrant. The two children vanished from the record. This is where Fleet begins, with elusive histories and lost voices. The title suggests imperial power, conquest, traffic in commodities (which in the nineteenth century included vast numbers of exotic bird...

The only nonprofit orientation to coaching skills available, Coaching Skills for Nonprofit Leaders will provide nonprofit managers with an understanding of why and how to coach, how to initiate coaching in specific situations, how to make coaching really work, and how to refine coaching for long-term success.Coaching Skills for Nonprofit Leaders offers practical steps for coaching leaders to greatness and complements the academic and theoretical work in nonprofit ...

As the inner healing movement continues to grow and expand, it can be overwhelming to know what is actually available, and to find what works best for you. For the first time ever, 12 pioneering voices have come together to create a one-of-a-kind resource to help you find your way to freedom. They are the generals who represent the main headwaters from which many of today's inner healing streams flow. In these pages, you will find:A theological foundation for inner healing

Health and Physical Education provides readers with the knowledge, understanding and skills required to successfully teach health and physical education in Australia. With emphasis on the development of movement competence and health literacy from the early years to secondary, this book brings together research, theory, curriculum and pedagogy in an engaging introduction for pre-service teachers. Now in its fourth edition, Health and Physical Education has been thoroughly updated, and feat...

This volume examines the evolution of the concept of diaspora since the advent of Diaspora Studies in the 90s, specifically vis-à-vis other concepts: transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, creolization. The essays depict the discontinuities of diasporic experience, but also its ongoing negotiations. Building on transatlantic, gender studies and queer theory, they address the theoretical turn when sexual difference is taken into account and gender troubled. Allying theory and case studies, cove...

This book presents an ideal introduction to the full range of the works of Charlotte Smith, whose Romantic sensibility is an expression of a specifically female experience, from her influential sonnets and poems for children to extracts from her French Revolution poem.

Eighteen-year-old Johnny Moore was an energetic, self-confident private first class when he entered combat with a heavy-weapons platoon in Korea. Four and a half months later, after surviving heavy attacks on the Pusan Perimeter and in one of the forward units of the western column advancing on the Yalu River, he was captured by the Chinese infantry.Moore and other American POWs suffered from starvation rations, bitter cold, and mental torment. Although the intense Chinese efforts ...

POETRY BOOK SOCIETY CHOICEThe Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile, Alice Oswald's first collection of poems, announced the arrival of a distinctive new voice. Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, the book introduced readers to her meditative, intensely musical style, and her breath-taking gift for visionary writing.'The poetry of Alice Oswald arrives like a zephyr . . . a fresh and exciting first collection.' Kathleen Jamie, Times Literary Supplement'an...