Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.How do we hold onto friends and communities in a world that feels increasingly fragmented?This timely collection explores how social connection unfolds across personal, physical, community and digital spaces. From loneliness to belonging, the collection explores the broader social forces that shape our interactions. Packed with fresh insights and accessible research, the contributors bridge theory and practice.

In an era of rapid urbanization, peri-urban areas are emerging as the fastest-growing regions in many countries. Generally considered as the space extending one hundred kilometres from the city fringe, peri-urban areas are contested and subject to a wide range of uses such as residential development, productive farming, water catchments, forestry, mineral and stone extraction and tourism and recreation. Whilst the peri-urban space is valued for offering a unique ambiance and lifestyle, it ...

Peri-urban landscapes are some of the world’s most vulnerable areas. Although they are often thought of simply as land awaiting development, these landscapes retain important natural resources and make valuable contributions to agriculture, water use, biodiversity conservation, landscape preservation and human well-being. Billions of people use them and enjoy their natural values. Their continuing loss threatens to alter our relationships with nature and have a negative impact on the envir...

Lose weight, save money, live wellYou don't need to be wealthy to be healthy! Bestselling diet and fitness author and personal trainer Andrew Cate shows you how to lose weight on a budget: • smart, practical tips on fat loss, food and fitness • the latest scientific findings on the best ways to lose weight • budget-friendly recipes and a list of superfoods this easy-to-follow weight-loss plan will reward you with savings. You can calculate how much weight you could lose, and how muc...

Imprint: VolumesOfValue $0.99 Kobo 3.69This edition features• a linked Table of ContentsThe Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, Commonly Called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'Rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte; for a Conspiracy, in the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall, on Wednesday the 8th, and Thursday the 9th of June, 1814: with the Subsequent Proceedings in the Court o...

Popular children's author Artie Bennett penned this loving tribute to the rear end to shed some light on an oft-neglected body part. From human butts, to giraffe butts, to dog butts and more, The Butt Book celebrates them all with zany rhymes that will keep young listeners giggling for hours.

This open access book examines how policymakers respond to natural hazards in the wake of global climate change. Through a series of five case studies it assesses how changing patterns of natural hazards collide with established patterns of spatial planning, and how alternative strategies could be operationalised in local policy practice. Due to global warming, wildfires and floods are occurring in regions where they had previously been virtually unknown. Yet local public policy for immedi...

Infected, is a fun tale from Joe KING, with horror, humour/humor, and a very strange story of why rules are sometimes not meant to be broken. This story will make you think twice before going off for a secluded skinny dip!Nature has a funny way of doing things sometimes, and it only takes a slight change in an Ecosystem and everything can go to pot. Take parasites for example, they have developed themselves over millions of years, and even use us humans for their own ends. Like the...

Cake Icing, Butt Budder and Tea Lids has been described as Sweet Home Alabama, the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Practical Magic and Steel Magnolias all rolled into one. "In the South, if a woman isn't married by age twenty-five, it's time for an intervention." This is the basis behind Delilah and Edna Thibodeaux's dogged determination to make sure their beloved Jezze doesn't end up an old spinster, like her mother and aunt.But what happens when the eccentric antics of the young girl's crazy C...

Kick Butt is a special collection of aging cartoons from the Ballard Street cartoon panel. The droopy people of Ballard Street have an unmistakable, if not energetic, approach to aging that's sure to elicit a chuckle from even the moodiest of birthday honorees.Van Amerongen sees "each cartoon panel as a little movie scene, and we're looking at a single frame from a small piece of film—something happened prior to our peek, and something's going to happen afterward.""Most carto...

"Helen and Brett have been neighbors a long time and though attracted to each other neither has ever had the courage to give voice to desire. When a disastrous evening lands Helen on Brett's doorstep emotions run high and turn to passion."

Divorced three years, Jayne decides she's ready to date again. She's horny as hell. After one date, she comes home a bit tipsy that gives her the guts to hit on the man she happens to see everywhere and here he is again, asking if she's alright. Oh what a night they have together.