**"Who knew that saving the world could be so much fun?"—Daniel Gilbert, author of Stumbling on HappinessHow to make an impact on climate change by taking actions that bring you joy**What if the most effective ways to fight climate change made you happy?Psychologist Elizabeth Dunn and climate behavior scientist Jiaying Zhao challenge everything we think we know about sustainable living. While most climate advice demands self-denial—eat less, travel less, wa...

'Improve your happiness and wellbeing while also reducing your carbon footprint? Many would argue that this is too good to be true; Dunn and Zhao expertly show us that it is not' Hannah Ritchie, author of Not the End of the WorldWhat if the most effective ways to fight climate change made you happy? What if we could make ourselves, and our planet, happier at the same time?Psychologist Elizabeth Dunn and climate b...

**"Who knew that saving the world could be so much fun?"—Daniel Gilbert, author of Stumbling on HappinessHow to make an impact on climate change by taking actions that bring you joy**What if the most effective ways to fight climate change made you happy?Psychologist Elizabeth Dunn and climate behavior scientist Jiaying Zhao challenge everything we think we know about sustainable living. While most climate advice demands self-denial—eat less, travel less, wa...

The rich history of Egypt has provided famous examples of board games played in antiquity. Each of these games provides evidence of contact between Egypt and its neighbours. From pre-dynastic rule to Arab and Ottoman invasions, Egypt's past is visible on game boards.This volume starts by introducing the reader to board games as well as instruments of chance and goes on to trace the history and distribution of ancient Egyptian games, looking particularly at how they show contact wit...

The ethnographies collected here offer a surprising and compelling picture of change in Russia and Eastern Europe found in no other book to date. Looking at the everyday processes by which individuals and groups forge new lives, the authors challenge the idea that we can understand this transformation by the predictable models-whether capitalism, post-socialism, modernity, or postmodernity.The collection brings together a wide-ranging group of authors from sociology, anthropology, ...

In Concord, Louisa May Alcott farms pigs after success with Little Women, but as New England's freezing winter approaches, death isn't far away. Concord's Misses, armed with wit and elegance, money and secrets, are present when Miss Emily Collier dies at her forty-second birthday party. Louisa is embroiled in the intrigue. They will lie to her, set traps, and blackmail to avoid justice. And Louisa is now an outsider in what was once her home.To test her mettle, local Justi...

When Valerie's boyfriend goes missing she's determined to find him. Since there isn't much that can take down a 250-year-old vampire she knows the search will be dicey at best.As a witch/vampire hybrid she's confident that her search will be successful.But, will her abilities be enough to go up against magic gone wrong, were-creatures, shapeshifter and more vampires than she ever feared to be around? And, can her heart survive the betrayal thrown her way or the desires for ...

Recent research has shown that group learning is a method of classroom organisation with which many teachers feel uncomfortable. Yet well done it can produce greater independence, greater cooperation and better quality work from children of all abilities. Talking and Learning in Groups , like the rest of the Leverhulme skills series attempts to identify in general terms the competencies and strategies which are needed for this aspect of class management and to guide teachers in discovering...

Half witch / half vampire, Valerie Hannigan was still trying to wrap her head around the fact that she was matednever mind that she was mated to a beautiful blond-haired, blue eyed dragon-shifting man who actually loved her. There was nothing she would have wanted more than to focus on him alone, but her aunts were fighting to save a dying dragons life, an Enclave dealing with a bitchy dragons insults and overtures toward her mate, and one dragon who posed more than a passing threat now as...

Half-vampire, half-witch, Valerie Hannigan thought she had a pretty sweet life. With a full vampire boyfriend and a job (hunting rogue vampires), she had happily walked away from the sorrow that swamped her home life. But dark magic rose and along with it are years’ worth of lies, a family member in danger, a father she’d never known, and a love she’d never imagined. Now with her family ensconced in the midst of two hundred fifty shifters and were-creatures, her new mate edging into his fe...

With Trey taken from her and the challenges for control over the enclave rising, Valerie Hannigan is fighting for her life, her love, and her family in more ways than she believed could exist. Though surrounded by friends and family, Valerie is isolated by her own pain of loss, fears for the future, and a secret she can’t hide forever. Join Valerie on this dark and dangerous journey as she carves out her place in the world she has chosen to be a part of and does whatever it takes to bring ...

When Valerie's boyfriend goes missing she's determined to find him. Since there isn't much that can take down a 250 year old vampire she know the search will be dicey at best. As a witch/vampire hybrid she's confident that her search will be successful.But, will her abilities be enough to go up against magic gone wrong, were-creatures, shape shifter and more vampires than she ever feared to be around? And, can her heart survive the betrayal thrown her way or the desires for a dange...