The work of queer autistic scholar Nick Walker has played a key role in the evolving discourse on human neurodiversity.Neuroqueer Heresies collects a decade's worth of Dr. Walker's most influential writings, along with new commentary by the author and new material on her radical conceptualization of Neuroqueer Theory.This book is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the foundations, terminology, implications, and leading edges of the emerging neurodiv...

A comprehensive guide to effective, ethical, and affirming practice with neurodivergent clients, across therapy modalities.The neurodiversity paradigm is a rapidly emerging framework that is reshaping psychotherapy, education, health care, and public policy. This paradigm recognizes that variation in neurocognitive functioning is a natural and valuable form of human diversity. Rather than treating differences in cognition as deficits to be corrected, it emphasizes ...

Using pictures sourced from policemen and police forces all over the country, this book illustrates the way in which policing gradually became more and more motorised over the years, and illustrates the many and extremely varied vehicles - mainly British, but not always so - which were used from earliest days through to the Seventies.

Cross a road, take a train, or get on an airplane and you put your life in the hands of a stranger -- every bit as screwed up, every bit as fallible and as human as you are. Then the person turns out not to be a stranger at all, and suddenly it's much worse.In America and Britain and the sky in between, an apparently disparate group of people is connected, whether intimately or by chance, to the tragic death of a stowaway on board flight AF266.As the action veers across cou...

The full eBook version of Guitar Basics Teacher's Book in fixed-layout format. Guitar Basics Teacher's Book presents accompaniment parts for over 60 pieces in the best-selling Guitar Basics pupil's book, plus helpful notes and tips for teachers. These materials were previously available on the pupil's book ECD. Guitar Basics is a landmark method for young guitarists. It starts at absolute beginner level and progresses to Initial/Preparatory Grade. The method is set out in sixteen stages an...

The full eBook version of Guitar Basics in fixed-layout format with downloadable audio and additional resources. This landmark method for young guitarists starts at absolute beginner level and progresses to Initial/Preparatory Grade. The method is set out in sixteen stages and contains original pieces and traditional tunes in an array of styles including classical, folk and world music as well as well-known favourite film and TV themes such as James Bond, Batman and The Flintstones. There ...

Chase SoriaEvery budding actor knows acting is a difficult gig. There will be grueling auditions and punishing rejections. If you’re lucky, there’ll be roles that pay the bills and even roles that won’t.Roles we don’t believe in.But that’s what acting is—acting as if we do believe in them.So when the semester’s production project is announced and I’m cast as one of the leads, I’m ecstatic. A lot of responsibility, a lot of work, but...

Two years since Atrous disbanded and the spotlights have long faded to black, Blake Acosta has been coasting on the status quo. And after a reluctant week away, he comes home to find his best friend Luke Dougherty having a meltdown.He takes Luke to the cabins, just the two of them, to rest and regroup, and Blake thinks things were going well. Until it isn’t, and Luke ends their friendship.Blake is sent reeling and has no choice but to deal with the aftermath solo. Forced to...

Book three in the Thomas Elkin seriesDesigning homes is easy. Finding home is something else entirely.Thomas Elkin and Cooper Jones finally have the support of their families, and their love grows stronger every day. Now living together, they think nothing can stand in their way.But there are outside influences trying to pull them apart.Cooper encounters a man, closer to his age and with connections high up the property development ...

“The strange and terrible saga of Clay Dillon begins with the books Nothing Is Right and Imaginary Friends, and also includes Defiant (which takes place when Clay is 30 years old). The whole saga should be required reading for anyone who works in any capacity with the sort of young people who are often described as gifted, disturbed, troubled, oppositional, defiant, or exceptional…In a way, Clay himself is an “imaginary friend” to the ad...

Book one in the Thomas Elkin seriesGeneration versus generation, traditional versus contemporary, these men are about to learn a lesson in architecture and love. Can they prove that the old and new can be the perfect design?A successful New York architect, Thomas Elkin almost has it all. Coming out as gay and ending his marriage before his fortieth birthday, he needed to start living his life. Now, four years later, with his relationship with his s...

When he started looking for someone to help heal his broken heart, Wilson Curtis never dreamed he’d find two someones.After Wilson Curtis was publicly outed, his restaurant business left in tatters, and dumped by his closeted boyfriend, he goes to Key West alone. There he meets Simon Stanford and Adam Preston. Fascinated by this couple, he is soon invited into their bed for some holiday fun.But once isn’t enough, and the offer is extended for the remainder of his s...