Izzy Finds Her Brave is a heartwarming story about Izzy, a gentle German Shepherd who loves her family but struggles with being shy. When an unexpected challenge puts her in the spotlight, Izzy must find the courage to step outside her comfort zone. With the support and encouragement from her best friends, Sadie and Benji, Izzy discovers confidence, courage, and the brave heart that was insider her all alone.Perfect for your readers ages 3-8, this charming adventur...

This book is the first ethnography of the little-known world of clozapine clinics in Australia and the United Kingdom. Anthropologist Julia Brown engages with the narratives of people living in extreme health circumstances to challenge some of the assumptions made about clozapine treatment and to explore what it means to be diagnosed with ‘treatment-resistant schizophrenia.’Clozapine is a gold standard but controversial treatment for psychosis that requires lifelong monitoring to r...

**Contains Trigger & Content Warning 18+**AMAZON BEST SELLERS#1 in Erotic Suspense#1 in Erotic Thrillers#1 in Erotic Horror#2 in KidnappingSet in Hastings in the UK.In the serene setting of Lucy's neighbourhood, an eerie presence looms right next door.George, the seemingly ordinary nei...

A personal, practical, and inspirational guide to written and oral STEM communications for scientists and technical professionals.In Sharing Our Science, scientist-turned-writing teacher Brandon Brown offers an eminently useful guidebook for STEM practitioners looking to communicate their technical work to either a technical or a broader audience. Professionals are increasingly required to communicate their work through blogs, podcasts, and newsletters and...

These provocative essays offer a bold vision of the benefits of reading that challenges contemporary trends, reintroducing neglected works of fiction and memoir.For readers curious to learn about both novels that have been neglected and ideas that are becoming endangered – because they challenge contemporary tastes and values – Reclamations provides fresh readings of a curated selection of books from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Reading a wide range...

This book explores the link between the Food-Water-Energy nexus and sustainability, and the extraordinary value that small tweaks to this nexus can achieve for more resilient cities and communities. Using data from Urban Living Labs in six participating cities (Eindhoven, Gdańsk, Miami, Southend-on-Sea, Taipei, and Uppsala) to co-define context-specific challenges, the results from each city are collated into an Integrated Decision Support System to guide and improve robust decision-making...

A beautiful blonde hairdresser marries in haste, and regrets her actions, her radical solution sparks off a whole catalogue of crimes, of national importance. That goes right to the corridors of power, This is a gritty story of passions and prejudice, with some sex, humour and real places the reader can relate to. This is my first novel, and I hope you enjoy it, I have enjoyed writing it, and would appreciate any feed back

The photographers discussed in this book probe the most contentious aspects of social organization in Mexico, questioning what it means to belong, to be Mexican, to experience modernity, and to create art as a culturally, politically, or racially marginalized person.By choosing human subjects, spaces, and aesthetics excluded from the Lettered City, each of the photographers discussed in this volume produces a corpus of art that contests dominant narratives of social and cultural mo...

The great historical and economic transformations of the late twentieth-century city are vividly reflected in John Schlesinger’s oeuvre. In films of the early sixties ‘A Kind of Loving’ and ‘Billy Liar’, the city was imagined as industrial and residential, with the characters confronting life on the local and familial level. In ‘Darling’, ‘Midnight Cowboy’ and ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’, films made from 1965 to 1971, the city had become cosmopolitan, ruled over by international finance and riv...

The city, with its manifold distractions and violence, its invitation to intoxication and dream, had long served to represent the experience of modernity in works of art at the time John Schlesinger made his acclaimed urban documentary ‘Terminus’ in 1961. To be a reader of the city was to be a reader of modern life, and Schlesinger was a discriminating, at times relentless, reader of the city throughout his career, especially in his three greatest films, ‘Midnight Cowboy’, ‘Sunday Bloody S...

The great historical and economic transformations of the late twentieth-century city are vividly reflected in John Schlesinger’s oeuvre. In films of the early sixties ‘A Kind of Loving’ and ‘Billy Liar’, the city was imagined as industrial and residential, with the characters confronting life on the local and familial level. In ‘Darling’, ‘Midnight Cowboy’ and ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’, films made from 1965 to 1971, the city had become cosmopolitan, ruled over by international finance and riv...

Examines how the president balances the competing demands of leading his political party and leading the nation.Throughout their time in office, American presidents are often forced to choose between leading the nation and leading their party. In an earlier time when the major parties were less polarized, this leadership dilemma, while challenging, was not nearly as vexing as it is today. American presidents now find themselves with little room to maneuver, compell...