If alarms didn’t exist, I’m afraid I would never wake up.Performance captures moments of despair, insecurity, and wisdom through poems, songs, and drawings. In her debut collection, Jul pulls back the curtain and invites the reader on her path of growth, sharing intimate experiences of grief, jealousy, anger, and heartbreak. Inside these pages, readers will delve into how we all put on a performance when we feel like we can’t act as our most authentic selves, highlighting ...

Gerry, the little boy who finds it difficult to make friends, provides an insight into his life. The lovingly illustrated book, vividly sketched for children and adults, describes the male characteristics of Asperger's syndrome. As the title suggests there are no two children with Asperger syndrome that are ever alike...

Gerdi, the fun-loving girl with Asperger's syndrome provides an insight into her live. The lovingly illustrated book, vividly sketched for children and adults, describes the female characteristics of Asperger's syndrome. As the title suggests there are no two children with Asperger syndrome that are ever alike...

This early work by Jul. Regis was originally published in 1927 and we are now republishing it as part of our Cryptofiction Classics series. 'The Paradise of the Ice Wilderness' is a short story about a group of friends in a village inn that ask a sea captain for a tale and he obliges. The Cryptofiction Classics series contains a collection of wonderful stories from some of the greatest authors in the genre, including Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Jack Lond...

Violent Extremism: A Nordic Outlook illuminates the global issue of violent extremism, with a particular focus on Sweden and the Nordic countries. This concise volume leverages empirical research to uncover the mechanisms and dynamics driving violent extremism, setting itself apart in a field often criticized for a lack of data-driven analysis. The contributors employ unique Nordic data to offer insights on violent extremism, examining its organization, the evolution of extremist ...

Travelling to the northern state of Wisconsin, Lucky Luke finds a population deeply depressed by a beer shortage that has caused all saloons in the area to close. Desperate, the inhabitants of New München beg Luke to talk to the brewers of Milwaukee. But the cause of the shortage is a strike, and the cowboy is more used to chasing outlaws in the Great Plains than to forcing negotiations between unions and bosses in a city where the first skyscrapers are already sprouting …

"Ukrainian Woman in the USA with a Mission: From Tragedies and War to Millions of Hearts" is an honest and profound story of a young woman who went from a small Ukrainian town to a new life in America, where her voice has become a source of strength for hundreds of thousands of people.This book contains no made-up plots or fairy tales. It's reality: a childhood in a post-Soviet country, the first steps toward a dream, failures and victories, war, moving abroad, losing loved ones, a...

If alarms didn't exist, I'm afraid I would never wake up.Performance captures moments of despair, insecurity, and wisdom through poems, songs, and drawings. In her debut collection, Jul pulls back the curtain and invites the reader on her path of growth, sharing intimate experiences of grief, jealousy, anger, and heartbreak. Inside these pages, readers will delve into how we all put on a performance when we feel like we can't act as our most authentic selves, high...

Constructive resistance occurs when people start to build the society they desire independently of and in opposition to the dominant structures already in place. Through case studies and illustrative examples from around the world, this book explores how people working for a more just, sustainable and peaceful future combine construction and resistance. The book provides students and practitioners of resistance with tools to detect, critically discuss and evaluate cases of constructive res...

Great Britain in the swinging sixties–The Beatles are taking the music charts by storm, the pop-culture revolution has gripped the nation’s youth…and human and fairies live uneasily, side-by-side.

Arriving in Cattle Gulch, Lucky Luke runs into an unexpected scene: an apparent crackpot called Ovid Byrde is about to get lynched. The man’s revolutionary opinions – animal welfare and the sanctity of life – aren’t particularly well-received in this town full of ranchers and cowboys! After Luke intervenes, though, the locals simply ignore Byrde … until he suddenly finds gold, and a pack of unscrupulous bandits take advantage of the poor idealist to establish a vegetarian dictatorship!

All those who enter the pastoral ministry desire to succeed. Yet they all find, surprisingly, that a number of key issues come up for consideration. Most pastors find that most of these issues appear during the first ten years of pastoring. During those years the pattern is determined, which will point to the success or to the development of habits that will reduce effectiveness and produce stumbling. In this warm, personal, from-the-heart book, a long-time pastor not only identifies twent...