Moving beyond progress reports, clinical assessments and practical goals, this book brings to life the reflective aspects of music therapy. The result of a collaboration between New Zealand music therapists, it invites the reader to share their encounters in the therapy room through a wide variety of writings, including short stories, poetry and personal reflections. The addition of poems by a music therapy client adds a rare and innovative dimension to this book.Grounded in clinic...

This third edition of Designers’ Guide to Eurocode 4: Design of composite steel and concrete structures – EN 1994-1-1 provides comprehensive guidance in the form of design aids, indications for the most convenient design procedures and worked examples to Eurocode 4.It reveals how to deal with problems that can arise in applying the code and offers background information and references to enable users of the code to understand the origin and objectives of its provision.This ...

Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912-1990) is an Australian composer whose full significance has only recently been appreciated. Born in Melbourne, Australia, she transcended the gendered expectations of her upbringing and went on to become a fine composer and a highly influential figure in the vibrant musical life of New York after the Second World War. Following early composition studies with Fritz Hart in Melbourne, Glanville-Hicks moved to London where she studied with Ralph Vaughan Williams, t...

This book is ment to encourage you through scripture. It was a dream of Roger Hicks to write a devotional. He was very blessed in the ability to interpret scripture and memorize the Word of God. A "Fresh Page is the devotional for you if you are looking for material that is written to draw you into His Word. May it be used of God in your life to spark the fire of your soul to be drawn into His powerful Presence.

Winston Clarke swore he'd never move back when he left Hicksville, Indiana. But after a "successful retirement" followed by a self-inflicted relapse, he checks out of a two-week rehab stint only to be absconded by his agricultural billionaire aunt on her private jet. Her mission? Drag him home to the land of pickup trucks and passive aggression to take his rightful place in the sacred soybean dynasty he thought he'd ditched forever.Back on the homefront, Win is knee-deep in secrets...

A book that encourages, entertains, inspires and motivates church choir directors and their choirs.Forty engaging, oftentimes humorous stories drawn from the author's extensive multi-denomination church music career - with supporting practical applications and images. Example stories include: The Soprano Fell Out of the Choir Loft; and When the Choir Stole Our Toothbrushes.The author also addresses the challenges faced by choirs and their directors during the COVID-19 pande...

There is no shortage of explanations for the longevity of Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, which has been interpreted as both religious allegory and frontier myth, with Crusoe seen as an example of the self-sufficient adventurer and the archetypal colonizer and capitalist. Defoe’s original has been reimagined multiple times in legions of Robinsonade or castaway stories, but the Crusoe myth is far from spent. This wideranging collection brings together eleven scholars who suggest new and u...

Within these pages await tales of misfortune, of harrowing battles, and cruel mistakes, of joy and relief, and of just desserts, of romance and fear, and all things between.From twelve authors with Hubble Bubble on the brain, we once more welcome you to our world of the strange, the mysterious, the unusual, and the inexplicable. Witches, centaurs, ghosts, ghouls, vampires, fairies, merfolk, magic trees, and all that lies between hide within. What lurks behind the mundane, what goin...

Thirteen stories of magic and mystery reveal things that exist if you're prepared to scratch the surface of reality. Within these words, you will find witches, demons, ghosts, vampires, angels, werewolves, centaurs, dragons, and creatures of the night, it's a monstrous menagerie to cause delight.From thirteen different authors, we bring you tales of those things that walk among us. The inexplicable, the strange, and perhaps deranged. What lies behind the everyday mundane reality th...

Is the universe fine-tuned for complexity, life, or something else? This comprehensive overview of fine-tuning arguments in physics, with contributions from leading researchers in their fields, sheds light on this often used but seldom understood topic. Each chapter reviews a specific subject in modern physics, such as dark energy, inflation, or solar system formation, and discusses whether any parameters in our current theories appear to be fine-tuned and, if so, to what degree. Connectio...

The heat is oppressive and storms are brewing in Brighton in the summer of 1982. Little Gold, a boyish girl on the brink of adolescence, is struggling with the reality of her broken family and a home descending into chaos. Her only refuge is the tree at the end of her garden.Into her fractured life steps elderly neighbour, Peggy Baxter. The connection between the two is instant, but just when it seems that Little Gold has found solace, outsiders appear who seek to take advantage of...

When the light fades and the shadows whisper, do you ever ask yourself if it's something sinister?As the veil of night settles across the land, can you imagine things you can't quite understand?There are worlds of wonder beyond our reckoning, worlds where reality is torn asunder...and they beckon...From fifteen different authors, we bring you tales of those things that walk among us. The inexplicable, the strange, and perhaps deranged, are all contained within the p...