As ageing populations continue to grow worldwide, the increased need for adequate housing and social care comes into stark focus. This multi-disciplinary book explores how emerging citizen-led innovations in Collaborative Housing and care are challenging mainstream ways of living and ageing.Combining academic theory with practice, the book demonstrates the far-reaching impacts Collaborative Housing with care can have on independence, agency and wellbeing in later life. With contrib...

Care is fundamental to our individual and collective well-being, but it is also deeply implicated in historical and present-day injustices.Taking seriously the darker potentialities of care as a relation of exploitation and domination, this edited collection interrogates the social and governance infrastructures that variously shape, expropriate, necessitate and unravel care at the ‘private’ interpersonal level.Combining rich empirical analysis and theoretical rigour, the c...

What's more Canadian than this?A beaver that's lost its tail, dancing moose and canoe trips are just the beginning. There are also haunted islands, mystical ferry crossings, giant mosquitos, shifters, lake monsters, aliens, super heroes, and icons of the past.Come drive vast distances, drink coffee at Tims, laugh at the Leafs, and celebrate the joys of new Canadians.This collection of new Canadian tall tales is sometimes nostalgic, often funny, and ...

A shapeshifter who spies for the fey conquerors of the mortal world fights her urge to help an oppressed human child. Her duty points one way. Her inclination, another. How will she choose?The only elf able to stand in for the big guy—Santa himself, away on sabbatical—can’t be found. His cohorts hire an elf PI plus partner—Diz and Dee—to track down the necessary missing fellow.A faie knight, banished from the realm under the knowe, loves the bright world and the mortals who...

Claire Templeton escaped the horror of life on Butcher Harbor after graduation from high school. Now a fashion designer in New York City, Claire has to put her future on hold to return to Butcher Harbor when her mother attempts suicide. Thrust back into the world she grew up in, her past catches up with her quicker than she hoped.The ghost of Templeton House are waiting for her.They want her back!