How does one find the path from barely surviving to thriving?Make yourself a cup of tea and gently enter a world where Tegan, Jonathan, and Lawrence navigate the ups and downs of their mental health. The paths of childhood friends, work colleagues, and exercise buddies intertwine their stories.Their stories will look to comfort. To help just one feel a little less alone in the world, hearing someone else's story and sharing the thoughts and emotions. Injury strips Tegan of ...

Have you ever wondered how your actions shape the world around you?Settle in with a warm cup of tea and step into a world where Arthur, Henry, and Louise go on a journey of inner growth.Their stories will look to serve. To see beyond one's contribution and the impact it has on others. Arthur finds himself balancing newfound responsibilities with the personal sacrifices they demand.Their stories will look to provide connection. To see beyond one's inhibitions and emb...

Have you ever wondered how your actions shape the world around you?Settle in with a warm cup of tea and step into a world where Arthur, Henry, and Louise go on a journey of inner growth.Their stories will look to serve. To see beyond one's contribution and the impact it has on others. Arthur finds himself balancing newfound responsibilities with the personal sacrifices they demand.Their stories will look to provide connection. To see beyond one's inhibitions and emb...

Medical microbiology concerns the nature, distribution and activities of microbes and their impact on health and wellbeing. In spite of the introduction of many antimicrobial agents and immunisations, we continue to face major challenges in combatting infection, not least the gathering crisis in antimicrobial resistance. Now in a fully revised and updated 19th edition, Medical Microbiology provides comprehensive coverage of infection from the microbial perspective, combining a clear introd...

Addressing a need for LGBTQ+ affirmative counselling in training, this meticulously crafted book is designed for graduate counselling students, new practitioners, and cross-disciplinary professionals. Authored by top researchers and clinicians, this collection synthesizes best practices in training and intervention, presenting a blueprint to seamlessly integrate affirmative counselling into academic curricula. Individual chapters cover topics including history, culture, assessment, treatme...

The coconut palm (Cocos nucifera L.) is one of the world's most important palms, and contributes significantly to the income and livelihood of many people in tropical countries. Widely referred to as the 'tree of life', coconut has been used as a source of food, drink, oil, medicine, shelter and wood for around 500 years. Every part of the coconut palm can be utilized. The demand for coconut fruit and its products has increased recently as people have become aware of its nutritional and he...

Sign & Breath is a new critical anthology that takes a different approach to exploring these questions: What is poetry? What defines voice? Featuring a range of contemporary artists, many of whom work across different mediums and genres, Sign & Breath introduces the reader to one page that sings in any genre – prose, fiction, poetry, spoken word, hybrid forms, and song – across diverse traditions. Rather than define poetry as a genre with conventions, traditions, codes, a...

‘Brilliant, vulnerable and hilarious. Sashi Perera has given us a comedy, a tragedy, a memoir, a polemic and an instruction manual on self-forgiveness. I laughed and cried, often at the same time.’ SHANKARI CHANDRAN'This book is chaos. This book is laughter and love. This book is a friend. Give it to someone who struggles, to someone you love, someone who needs to forgive themselves. Give it to you. I adored it.' FREDRIK BACKMAN'Thi...

This is the story of one of the most distinctive aircraft of its time, known simply as Concorde. This iconic supersonic airliner made its mark in the field of commercial air transport and was the result of a remarkable collaboration between the governments and aviation industries of Britain and France.It charts how the aircraft was taken from the early drawing board ideas after World War II to the prototype versions built at the production lines of Filton and Toulouse. Concorde wen...

Sri Lanka is a tropical island in the Indian Ocean known then as 'Serendipity' or the 'Pearl of the Indian Ocean' to the ancient travelers of the west. Since that time Sri Lanka has been famous for spices, tea, coconut, and precious gems. Its mystical beauty that spreads from the golden beaches to the hills with tea plantations gives a natural diversity to the native foods. This collection of recipes, passed down for generations, show how tasteful dishes could be made using coconut milk, h...

Khalid, a fifteen-year-old Muslim boy from Rochdale, is abducted from Pakistan while on holiday with his family. He is taken to Guantanamo Bay and held without charge, where his hopes and dreams are crushed under the cruellest of circumstances. An innocent denied his freedom at a time when Western boys are finding theirs, Khalid tries and fails to understand what's happening to him and cannot fail to be a changed young man.

Cooking Seafood is a short collection of authentic Sri Lankan recipes which include crab curry, shrimp curry, yellow fish curry, yet it's bolstered with mouth-watering innovations such as fried anchovies and deviled salted dried fish. These simple straightforward recipes and stories of Sri Lankan life will help cooks all over the world bring their families together around the table throughout the year.Sri Lanka is a tropical island in the Indian Ocean known as 'Serendipity' or the ...