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What if the success you've worked so hard for is the very thing dimming your light?You've built the life you thought you wanted-career milestones, accolades, a full schedule-but deep down, something feels off. You're performing instead of living. Striving instead of thriving. And a quiet question keeps rising: Is this really it?In Shine Brighter, transformation guide and executive recruiter Laura King shares the powerful truth she uncovered after interviewi...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. The dead are everywhere in family life. From a great-grandmother's recipe made time and again, to a dog-eared black-and-white photo of a family on a beach, and from a carefully curated family bible to a much-told story of a family fleeing their home many decades a...

Showcasing cutting-edge research in a dynamic area, this authoritative volume explores how people navigate psychological experiences that are fundamentally about the nature of existence. In 65 compelling chapters, preeminent editors and contributors describe the field's conceptual foundations, methods, and contemporary findings. The Handbook is focused on issues of "being and becoming" in mental and social life, including: time, aging, and death; freedom, authenti...

Fathers are often neglected in histories of family life in Britain. Family Men provides the first academic study of fathers and families in the period from the First World War to the end of the 1950s. It takes a thematic approach, examining different aspects of fatherhood, from the duties it encompassed to the ways in which it related to men's identities. The historical approach is socio-cultural: each chapter examines a wide range of historical source materials in order to analys...

Donna Bevan-Lee had a tough childhood. When her father was feeling playful, he roped her by the foot like a rodeo calf, yanking her to the ground every time the rope connected. In darker moods, he did far worse, his brutality excused by a complicit church. The abuse she suffered had profound and lasting consequences.Too many adults have similar histories. Roughly a quarter of American children experience complex trauma resulting from abuse, neglect, catastrophic illness, or other a...

Four masked men. Two best friends. One night."Kitten, we're always on the hunt... And you're our prey."Delilah has always played it safe. Not that it was her choice. Her father, a formidable figure and power-hungry businessman, always seems to cast a long shadow over her decisions. No matter what she does, Delilah can never seem to escape her father's control.When Delilah's best friend Cora drags her out of her house to attend a costume party, she d...

Shadow Crown is a spicy fantasy romance novel that continues the story of Fiaa as the sequel to Fox Fire. We follow the story of Fiaa as she navigates a world that is foreign to her, full of unknown magic and untapped potential. She has the ability to break a long-withstanding curse, which comes at a great personal cost. The use of her magic to its extremes, paired with her recovery from extremely traumatic events, leaves her exhausted and feeling as if she lacks autonomy...

Investigates how discourse spills from language to action, generating, obfuscating, and perpetuating violence while also offering the words, principles, and practices that may interrupt itWe are continually catching up with and being caught by words, especially words that hurt. These collected essays probe the interaction of violence and words across time, place, and circumstance. Often cited as the core source of violence, religion’s capacity for coordinating idea...

An ancient war between light and dark, good and evil.When Fiaa turns 21, strange things begin to happen. A chance meeting with a stranger has her seemingly normal life spiraling out of control. This stranger, Ryker, Prince of Faerie, finds something magical and unique with this mortal girl. With one look she has entranced him, but with one touch she sees right through his glamour. Taken to another world, Fiaa's eyes are open to the magical realm of Faerie, where more secrets seem t...

A gorgeously illustrated picture book biography about John Bonner Buck: from his childhood curiosity about why fireflies flash to the consequential discoveries he made as a scientist.When John Bonner Buck was a boy, he'd lie on the grass in his backyard and wait for the fireflies. First, one pinprick of light would appear and then another. Soon the entire sky sparkled with fireflies. Why do fireflies flash? John wondered.John always had a curiosity about th...

They are ours to do with as we please.Those are our direct orders: to make her, them, ours. And by the time we're done with them, they'll do anything and everything we ask.In twenty-four hours, Delilah's life took an unexpected turn. When she and her best friend Cora decided to have a night of fun with four hot masked men, they never expected what would come next.Now? The two women wake to everyone's worst nightmare. They're being held captive by th...

‘A Broken Kingdom novella, a part of the Fox Fire trilogy.’Five years since the realms were brought together.Three years of peace. The darkness the queen eradicated barely a whisper.But Malikye, General of the Shadows, feels an unease in the bridging kingdoms of Faedom.Malikye, General of her armies. Elijah, the royal guard to the queen, always acquaintances but nothing more until they cross paths on a night of feral desire.Chaos erupts when...