Every day I watch my farm burn. Day after day, the sky is a relentless, empty blue. As our land dries up, all my hopes have turned to vapour, lost in that wide, blue yonder. And so begins Doug Avery’s story of emotional resilience in the face of what at times seemed a hopeless situation. The South Island farmer suffered terribly during eight years of drought. His farm was depleted and so was he, to the point of severe depression. The Resilient Farmer is ...

Are you experiencing a tempestuous, relational impasse at work or a critical business deal you felt was going to sink you? Every Meal Has a Silver Lining: Developing Long-term Relationships Over Food and Drink by new author Douglas A. Avery navigates those stormy waters with twelve chapters designed to hone your relational-building skills over breakfast, lunch, dinner, or even drinks. How do you discreetly celebrate the personal, nutritional, or religious uniquenesses of others around the ...

Every day I watch my farm burn. Day after day, the sky is a relentless, empty blue. As our land dries up, all my hopes have turned to vapour, lost in that wide, blue yonder.And so begins Doug Avery's story of emotional resilience in the face of what at times seemed a hopeless situation.The South Island farmer suffered terribly during eight years of drought. His farm was depleted and so was he, to the point of severe depression.The Resi...

An essential guide to restoring our children’s behavioral health and wellbeingOver the past decade, children’s mental health challenges have reached epidemic levels—stress, anxiety, childhood depression, and suicide are at unprecedented high rates. Amid high-stakes pressure for kids to succeed, parents and teachers have never needed a road map to healthy child development more urgently. And as psychologist and educator Doug Bolton explains in this eye-opening and p...

The first in-depth look at the burgeoning legal cannabis industry and how the “new green economy” is shaping our countryThe nation’s economy is in trouble, but there’s one cash crop that has the potential to turn it around: cannabis (also known as marijuana and hemp). According to Time, the legal medicinal cannabis economy already generates $200 million annually in taxable proceeds from a mere two hundred thousand registered medical users in just fourteen ...