The nerve of the vagus... You heard about it, did you? It's an incredible nerve that links our brain to our body, also known as "The Wanderer" The nerve starts in the medulla oblongata (the part of the brainstem that regulates involuntary processes such as chewing, digestion, and heart rate), branches up into the brain, crosses the digestive tract through the mouth, branches off into the lungs and heart, and goes down to the esophagus, uterus, liver, kidneys, and intestines. I know you are...

In this, the first full-length treatment of the child in Spanish cinema, Sarah Wright explores the ways that the cinematic child comes to represent ‘prosthetic memory’. The central theme of the child and the monster is used to examine the relationship of the self to the past, and to cinema.Concentrating on films from the 1950s to the present day, the book explores religious films, musicals, ‘art-house horror’, science-fiction, social realism and fantasy. It includes reference to Er...

Following a relational, Indigenous-led approach grounded in 25 years of collaborative work, this book looks to weather and climate, tracing the embodied, emplaced and affective ways weather co-constitutes people, place and time/s raising critical questions of ethics, politics and becoming.Becoming weather leads the reader through a reflexive engagement with weather, seeking to shed light on pressing issues around climate change and its entanglements: from the body where contours of...

Kestrel lives to inspire others, but has her own mysterious past that remains a ghost story. She is the co-founder of Thriving Through Seasons Ministries, an organization that heals the broken and teaches them how to heal other broken souls. With her fellow characters (Andreya, Andra, and Eijaz), she finds peace and love through Jesus Christ, despite their tragic circumstances. Join Kestrel as she experiences suffering, loss, illness, abandonment, tragedies, and deception. Her journey delv...

Kestrel lives to inspire others, but has her own mysterious past that remains a ghost story. She is the co-founder of Thriving Through Seasons Ministries, an organization that heals the broken and teaches them how to heal other broken souls. With her fellow characters (Andreya, Andra, and Eijaz), she finds peace and love through Jesus Christ, despite their tragic circumstances.Join Kestrel as she experiences suffering, loss, illness, abandonment, tragedies, and deception. Her journ...

"[An] exploration of the black experience from a woman's perspective, anticipating fiction by writers like Toni Morrison and Alice Walker."— The New York TimesOriginally published in 1969 to broad critical acclaim, This Child's Gonna Live is an unsurpassed testament to human endurance in the face of poverty, racism, and despair. Set in a fishing village on Maryland's Eastern Shore in the 1930s, this story has as its main character the unforgettable...

This accessible guide explores how our brains react to stress and offers a fresh perspective on how we define "trauma." Probing how the words we use can influence our understanding of distress, this text focuses on expanding awareness of excess stress and reducing judgment of its potential impact on relationships and day-to-day life.Helpfully split into three parts, the book introduces the terms "cortisprinkled," "cortisaturated," and "cortisoaked" and provides a rationale for why ...

This thought-provoking Handbook explores the spatially and socially differentiated nature of climate change vulnerability. Expert authors discuss the ways that climate change vulnerability is materially and discursively produced as well as the agency, capacity and resilience of affected communities.Interdisciplinary in scope, this book features both leading and emerging international academics, offering diverse perspectives. Chapters delve into the conceptual origins and theoretica...

Being Zen(ish) is what we call it - and it's the ish that we endorse!Teresa Palmer and Sarah Wright Olsen, two moms from opposite sides of the world, are doing their best to raise happy, empathetic children while working, traveling, and maintaining their sanity. With seven kids between them, the founders of the much-loved Your Zen Mama blog know as well as anyone that motherhood doesn't exist in the highlight reel of life, and that finding even a fleeting semblance...

Comfort your little one through separation anxieties big and small. From actress, mother of four, and podcast host Sarah Wright Olsen comes When I Am Not with You, a dreamy, rhyming picture book that shows whether it’s across the room or across the world, you and your little one are always together in your hearts and minds.When I am not with you, where will I be?In your heart, I will warm you. In your head, you’ll see me.

We're all ageing, all of the time. As a society we're getting even older, but we seldom seem to stop and think about the huge mental and physical changes that happen to us as we get old, or what it's like to live as an old person. The Emma Press Anthology of Age is a collection of poems which challenge, celebrate and give age a voice, finding humour amidst the heartbreak and comfort within the pain.

Her happily-ever-after just fell apart. Can she find the courage to write a new one?After discovering her fiancé tutoring his college student in bed, Marin Beckett is done with love. The only problem? She’s a romance author, and her next novel is way overdue. When her estranged parents come together to offer her an escape to tiny Seasalter, England—the setting of her father’s famous memoir and the last place her family was whole—she seizes the chance to un...