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The Mental ToolboxYour mind isn't broken—it's just overloaded. Stress, anxiety, brain fog, and overthinking? They're signs your brain has been pushed too hard for too long. The Mental Toolbox is your practical stress management guide for getting back in control and building real mental resilience—without having to overhaul your entire life.Look, we're all dealing with too much these days. This book gives you actual solutions that work in the real world. It's written by some...

Workshop Machining is a comprehensive textbook that explains the fundamental principles of manually operating machinery to form shapes in a variety of materials. It bridges the gap between people who have traditional toolmaking skills and those who have been trained in programming and operation of CNC machines in a focused production environment, rather than general machine shop.Using a subject-based approach, David Harrison intuitively guides readers and supplies practica...

Warning! May Contain Nuts!For Maude Appleby, award-winning cupcake maker and bakery owner, the tragic deaths of a sugar-crazed juvenile delinquent and his victim spells the end of her livelihood. The British government steps in to restrict the sale of sugar, closing the oven door on her baking business. In retaliation, Maude forms the Granny Cartel, an underground criminal enterprise that smuggles illegal confectionery to the masses. With the notorious Baker’s Dozen as her muscle, ...

Johnny Appleseed was an important historical figure, well known for planting apple orchards across the new frontier. But he was also a master storyteller! In his own folksy voice, Johnny Appleseed tells his story to a couple of entranced children in this fictionalized Step 2 title. Readers learn how he started planting apple trees—and about some of the myths and true stories of his life.

An eclectic collection of poems written over the last fifteen years, representing a journey from an early childhood in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, to emerging adulthood in London suburbia, through life in Kent to a voluntary ‘exile’ in New South Wales. A journey that took me from accepting Sunday school Christianity, through scepticism and atheism to faith. A journey in which I was accompanied and encouraged for the last fifty-one years by the remarkably lovely June.

Sometimes, Scripture will only mention an individual's name and not much else; such is the case with Salmon. Yet, as we let God’s Word speak, He will reveal to us amazing insights into the lives of some extraordinary individuals. Similarly, if we pay attention, we can delight in Rahab’s salvation story, and so much more.As I stood in worship at church this morning, an image crossed my mind of Rahab, Salmon, and me, standing side by side, singing our hearts out, looking at each othe...

The Next 60 Seconds: The Urgency of Knowing What’s NextBy David O. HarrisonWhat happens the moment after you take your last breath?Life is unpredictable. Accidents, illnesses, and unforeseen events can change everything in an instant. But one certainty remains—every person will face their final 60 seconds. The question is: Are you ready for what comes next?In The Next 60 Seconds, David Harrison explores one of life’s most cri...

This book explores the role of expectations within the modern capitalist system. Through looking at how they are formed and develop, the impact of events that lead to a collapse in expectations, such as a major financial crisis, is examined to highlight the precarious and unstable nature of the economic system. With a particular focus on the UK and USA, it is also considered how public policy and institutions can shift the balance away from speculation and back towards enterprise.T...

When Jesus challenges us, “If you love me, obey my commands.” I believe he is looking for a paradigm change to occur within each of us. What may initially be considered ‘an act of obedience’ will one day become instinctive to us. When that happens, we will truly be conformed to His likeness.I recalled the moment when Jesus challenged Peter three times, “Do you love Me?” Jesus confronts us with a conditional statement, “If you love Me, obey My commands.” Could He be challenging us i...

Nordheim: a medieval world of constant battle. Where war is the only currency that matters and the only person who wants the war to end is the very man who started it.Banou, heir to the blood-soaked homeland known as the Drift, has never stopped searching for her stolen family enslaved by a ruthless raider. She now fights alongside the ageing warrior known as the Teacher in a war between the usurper King Moralles and the rightful Prince Marco. Yet beneath the spectacle lies a darke...

"David Harrison writes very well, and presents a good, well-balanced and perceptive appraisal of current perspectives."--"Times Higher Education Supplement"This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information.Visit our eBookstore at: www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk.

It is commonly agreed by linguists and anthropologists that the majority of languages spoken now around the globe will likely disappear within our lifetime. The phenomenon known as language death has started to accelerate as the world has grown smaller. This extinction of languages, and the knowledge therein, has no parallel in human history. K. David Harrison's book is the first to focus on the essential question, what is lost when a language dies? What forms of knowledge are embedded in ...