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Through divergent experiences of working-class poverty, country house privilege, and the trenches of WWI, a boy comes of age in a rapidly changing world in an epic novel by the author of The Palace at the End of the Sea and The Room of Lost Steps.London 1910. Adam Raine is a boy cursed by misfortune. Following his mother’s tragic death, he moves north to Scarsdale, a hard-living coal-mining town, where his father finds work as a union organizer. B...

Your children are always on the move, and keeping up with the best treatment for their bumps and scrapes, fevers and colds, is a challenge for even the most experienced parents. This book is an essential resource for parents and grandparents of all skill

The Creative AI Handbook is a practical, accessible guide to the rapidly evolving world of AI-powered creativity. With nothing more than a few words and the click of a button, today's tools can generate striking images, complete songs, and polished writing—but knowing how to use them makes all the difference.This book bridges the gap between raw technological capability and real creative results. It explains not just what today's leading AI platforms can d...

Does the ethical heart of the world's great traditions lead to a common human wisdom?In a world increasingly divided along religious and cultural lines, Michael Simon Baker poses a provocative question: What if the world's great wisdom traditions—despite their theological differences—share a core set of ethical teachings that transcend boundaries of time, culture, and belief?Drawing on decades of study and personal experience living at the intersection of multiple faith com...

We have a choice in how we look at the events that happen in our lives. We can choose to view the events in our life as a series of failure, employing blame and guilt. This is the Failure Road.Or we can look at life as a journey of experiences, and no matter the outcome, there will always be a lesson to learn. And if we learn even one thing from the experience, we have succeeded! This is the Experience Road. It is a path that embraces success and optimism.In The Two Roa...

This is a book that every parent, grandparent, family member, social worker, childcare provider and educator must have. It presents, reviews and discusses the serious dark side of pediatrics, children and adolescents with psychiatric and mental health iss

The Pruning Principle offers a groundbreaking approach to educational leadership, drawing inspiration from horticulture to address the chronic issues of overwork and inefficiency in schools. The authors, Dr Simon Breakspear and Michael Rosenbrock, propose a radical shift from the culture of "doing more" to one of strategic subtraction, arguing that by carefully pruning away non-essential tasks and initiatives, schools can achieve better outcomes with less strain on resources and s...

As a lieutenant at the Fool's Pass Fire Department and a single father, Easton Kooper's life revolves around his children. When he receives an urgent call from his son's doctor, it upends Easton's world. With no idea of what to do or where to turn, he's never felt more lost. And then in walks the answer he didn't know he needed: a gorgeous fae with an angelic smile, bearing grand promises to turn the Kooper family's life right side up again.Finch knows the rules: don't fall in love...

You do not need a title, money, influence, or extraordinary talent to offer kindness. You need only willingness, willingness to care, to notice, to pause, to see humanity in places the world overlooks.Kindness as a Way of Life is an invitation to live this way, not perfectly, not saintly, but intentionally. To make kindness not an afterthought but a foundation. To let it shape the way we lead, the way we learn, the way we love, and the way we move through an often-overwhel...

In the realm of quirky behaviors, few things can spark a chuckle quite like the discreet pick. While the act of picking one's nose is often regarded as a taboo, it presents an interesting case study in the intersection of humor and social etiquee. The truth is, many of us have fallen victim to the itch that simply cannot wait until we znd a restroom. Yet, it's how we navigate these moments that can either lead to embarrassment or a good laugh, depending on our approach and the context ...

The idea behind this book is to produce a fully comprehensive and highly illustrated “how to” technical reference manual, demonstrating surgical procedures in a step by step manner. This book also covers assessment and investigations, but focuses on the surgical and non surgical management of all aspect of maxillofacial trauma.It will include most, if not all, of the surgical approaches and techniques used, for all injuries. This volume includes emergency procedures and the various...

This pioneering, interdisciplinary work shows how rituals allow us to live in a perennially imperfect world. Drawing on a variety of cultural settings, the authors utilize psychoanalytic and anthropological perspectives to describe how ritual--like play--creates "as if" worlds, rooted in the imaginative capacity of the human mind to create a subjunctive universe. The ability to cross between imagined worlds is central to the human capacity for empathy. Ritual, they claim, defines the bound...