This is the story of an anxious, depressed kid who grows up to be a comedian and speaker, and discovers that mental health isn't about being cured, it's about learning to thrive anyway.Part comedic memoir, part survival guide, and part love letter to anyone who's ever felt like they're barely holding it together -- this book is packed with laugh-out-loud moments, raw honesty, and the hard-won tools for rebuilding your life when your brain seems to be working against you.Thi...

Your ability to manage your money directly affects your ability to build the life you want.Reading this introductory book on personal finance will teach you the skills that have changed not only my life, but the lives of hundreds of thousands of people over the course of my career.To keep it enjoyable even to those of us who would not be interested in reading a finance book, I've added wagonfuls of sugar (organic, unrefined, and sustainably-harvested of course) to help the ...

Your ability to manage your money directly affects your ability to build the life you want.Reading this introductory book on personal finance will teach you the skills that have changed not only my life, but the lives of hundreds of thousands of people over the course of my career.To keep it enjoyable even to those of us who would not be interested in reading a finance book, I’ve added wagonfuls of sugar (organic, unrefined, and sustainably-harvested of course) to help the ...

In this collection of short stories, Colin Ryan, an Irish-language writer from Australia, makes his own of the language and gives it a unique Australian twist. The stories touch on travellers, criminals, soldiers, the dead, people who have gone missing, people who are searching for others, and those who are being searched for. Like a dream, or a surreal alternate universe, never really sure where we stand and our only option is to look again and revisit these perceptive stories. Ionmholta ...

This lyrical bilingual collection of poetry, presented in Irish and English side by side, embodies poems that touch the heart, soul and mind. Colin Ryan brings us on a mystical journey, depicting place and person, wrapped in evocative imagery of the Australian landscape and surroundings. Julie Breathnach-Banwait carries the reader through reflective memories with profound and powerful themes, blending images and perspectives of both Ireland and Australia. Both present a rich tapestry of in...

From Zach Berman and Ryan Slater--the longtime friends behind Vancouver's wildly successful Juice Truck--comes an accessible, informative and fresh book on the popular and healthy juicing and cleansing lifestyle.There are lots of juice books out there, but few get it right. In The Juice Truck, Zach and Ryan make it their mission to make juicing approachable, fun, imaginative and healthy. Their obsession with juicing began when they took a trip to the Himal...

Edited by Lisa Cassidy and Mianna Lotz, Philosophies of Adoption: Perspectives and Reflections explores contemporary philosophical analysis of adoption, providing insight into new and underexplored topics in the field. Three scholarly developments are central to the emerging philosophical discourse on adoption explored in this volume: a problematizing of the adoption triangle or "triad", a critique of the so-called “bio-normative family", and an attention to specific issues in tra...

Two students arrive in Edinburgh full of hopes and dreams...and secrets. Their relationship sends them down a path they never imagined.What if your dreams really could come true?Dao and Sunny both grow up in Bangkok, but that's where the similarities between the two end. Dao's family are well-off and worldly, full of ambition for their daughter. Sunny's father, meanwhile, wants only for his son to take over the small grocery shop he runs and stop causing trouble. When both ...

Building on the work of Daniel Kahneman (Thinking Fast and Slow), Dan Ariely (Predictably Irrational), Shaw and Hamilton provide a new understanding of how people behave, explain what it means for organizations who really want to understand their customers, and show you what to do to create exceptional customer experiences.

From APALA-winning author and Guggenheim Fellow Kao Kalia Yang, a middle-grade debut about a Hmong American boy's struggle to find a place for himself in America and in the world of his ancestors.Malcolm is the youngest child of Hmong refugees, and he was born over a decade after his youngest sibling, giving him a unique perspective on his complicated immigrant family.In the first part of the story, we meet Malcolm as an elementary school kid through the ey...

Sebastian is shipwrecked! He and his two best friends are stranded on a desert island, with no way of getting home. So they make a plan. They will try to survive, look after the island’s baby turtles and have fun. But they can’t plan for challenges like jellyfish stings, burnt bums and an out-of-control goat! And when dangerous pirates arrive, the friends must use their new survival skills to save the turtles, and themselves…

Romantic Ecocriticism: Origins and Legacies is unique due to its rare assemblage of essays, which has not appeared within an edited collection before. Romantic Ecocriticism is distinct because the essays in the collection develop transnational and transhistorical approaches to the proto-ecological early environmental aspects in British and American Romanticism. First, the edition’s transnational approach is evident through transatlantic connections such as, but are not limited to, comparis...