Lucy Honeychurch is a zesty young English woman living in the confines of Edwardian Britain. Whilst travelling in Italy, she meets the quirky George Emerson, who opens her eyes and arouses conflicting feelings.E. M. Forster’s 1908 A Room with a View explores themes of class, societal expectations, and the transformative power of true love, culminating in Lucy’s choice to embrace her heart over tradition.The comedic story introduces a wealth of colorful characters s...

A time-tested, landmark approach to health promotion and communication projects and everything that goes into making them successful.For more than 40 years, the PRECEDE-PROCEED model, developed in the early 1970s by Lawrence W. Green and first published as a text in 1980 with Marshall W. Kreuter, Sigrid G. Deeds, and Kay B. Partridge, has been effectively applied worldwide to address a broad range of health issues: risk factors like tobacco and lack of exercise, so...

Since Duck Prints Press was founded in January 2021, we have published over 200 stand-alone short stories by dozens of authors. Most of these short stories are available for purchase individually from our webstore or are only available to people who back our Patreon... until now! With Ducks in a Row: A Curated Collection of Short Stories, we dip into our vault, anthologizing general imprint stories we published from 2021 to 2023 into an all-new collection of 22 stories as diverse and uniqu...

What is Buddhist meditation? What is going on—and what should be going on—behind the closed or lowered eyelids of the Buddha or Buddhist adept seated in meditation? And in what ways and to what ends have the answers to these questions mattered for Buddhists themselves? Focusing on early medieval China, this book takes up these questions through a cultural history of the earliest traditions of Buddhist meditation (chan), before the rise of the Chan (Zen) School in the eighth centur...

Since Duck Prints Press was founded in January 2021, we have published over 200 stand-alone short stories by dozens of authors. Most of these short stories are available for purchase individually from our webstore or are only available to people who back our Patreon... until now! With Ducks in a Row: A Curated Collection of Short Stories, we dip into our vault, anthologizing general imprint stories we published from 2021 to 2023 into an all-new collection of 22 stories as diverse and uniqu...

The Restless Feminine Mind – 3 Classic Psychological Novels is a compelling anthology that navigates the intricate intersections of gender, psychology, and narrative form. This collection showcases a variegated landscape of literary styles, from the intricate thriller to the immersive psychological journey, embodying the turning tides of societal changes as interpreted by astute literary minds of the 19th and early 20th centuries. With each work, the reader is drawn into the complexity of ...

The Restless Feminine Mind – 3 Classic Psychological Novels is a profound anthology that traverses the intricate landscapes of psychological introspection and feminine agency. Encompassing a diverse array of narratives, this collection captures the delicate interplay between societal roles and inner consciousness. The stories collectively unravel the tensions and freedoms found within the intellectual journeys of their female protagonists. Skillfully curated, the book showcases a spectrum ...

In the past, disease pattern mapping depended on census tracts based on political units, such as states and counties. However, with the advent of geographic information systems (GIS), researchers can now achieve a new level of precision and flexibility in geographic locating. This emerging technology allows the mapping of many different kinds of ge

Watching While Black Rebooted: The Television and Digitality of Black Audiences examines what watching while Black means in an expanded U.S. televisual landscape. In this updated edition, media scholars return to television and digital spaces to think anew about what engages and captures Black audiences and users and why it matters. Contributors traverse programs and platforms to wrestle with a changing television industry that has exploded and included Black audiences as a new an...

In the early 400s, numerous Indian and Central Asian Buddhist “meditation masters” (chanshi) traveled to China, where they established the first enduring traditions of Buddhist meditation practice in East Asia. The forms of contemplative practice that these missionaries brought with them, and which their Chinese students further developed, remained for several centuries the basic understanding of “meditation” (chan) in China. Although modern scholars and readers have long...

They came to our world a hundred years ago. Before we knew it they overran the world, destroyed our infrastructure and now we live in habitats. That's the best we can call our living accommodations. They terraformed the world…What remains of humanity whispers about a plan to evacuate some of us. They claim that scientists hid away in a bunker somewhere where they retro-fitted one of their spaceships.We don't know if it's true, but as we watch them lead away groups of humans...

"99 Science Fiction Short Stories" brings together some of the finest sci fi short stories ever crafted. Featuring gems from masters of the genre, such as H.G Wells , Robert Barr , PKD, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Norton, and many, many more!