Why settle for average when you can shoot for the moon and live your best life?Do you want more out of life, but you’re stuck in a humdrum existence that you can’t escape?You’re not alone.Most people know they could be so much more than they are and yet do the bare minimum just to get by.Take the first step, and the rest will follow easily and naturally.The sky’s the limit to what you can do when you put these core principles of se...

Here’s how to break free from the bonds of codependency so you can become your best self and thrive in life.Do you give too much in your relationships that you’ve started to lose your sense of self?Does your loved one always rely on you for help, but refuse to reciprocate your efforts whenever you need them?Do you care so much about their feelings to the point where it impacts your life choices?These are just some of the signs that you mig...

Resistance to Slavery in Africa: Past and Present offers a sweeping, accessible overview of how African individuals and communities have challenged slavery across centuries. Bringing together insights from Anglophone, Francophone, Lusophone, Arabic and Ottoman scholarship, this volume presents a truly pan-African perspective on resistance movements from the precolonial era to the digital age.The collection traces resistance across diverse geographical regions—from West and...

The Developing Human Brain: Growth and Epidemiologic Neuropathology presents the analyses that study the conditions and events of pregnancy, labor, and delivery as they relate to neuropathological outcomes. This book reviews the weaknesses and strengths of epidemiologic methods applied to autopsy populations and provide the details of the neuropathologic sample. Organized into three sections encompassing 27 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the hypotheses about the relationshi...

The idea that an external force can enter an individual and possess their body is prevalent in most cultures across the globe and throughout history. This possession can last for varying lengths of time, and its effects can be considered positive--when a "spirit" provides the individual with powers, abilities, knowledge, or authority--or negative--when the individual suffers and the "spirit" should ideally be cast out, usually through a ritual performed by someone with a designated role. T...

The Nine Saints of Ethiopia: and The Transformation of African Christianity.In the late fifth century, nine refugee monks fled religious persecution in the Byzantine Empire and arrived in the ancient Kingdom of Aksum, bringing with them sophisticated theological knowledge, monastic organizational skills, and a vision of Christianity that would transform an entire civilization. This comprehensive historical account reveals how these figures—known as the Nine Saints—...

Bringing together an interdisciplinary team of scholars, this book illustrates how and why cities are comprised by a mosaic of vulnerable human and ecological communities. Case studies ranging across various international settings reveal how 'urban vulnerabilities' is an effective metaphor and analytic lens for advancing political ecological theories on the relationships between cities, nature and development. Contributions expand upon conceptions of vulnerability as a static condition and...

The Heavenly Kingdom: The Taiping Rebellion and China's Bloodiest Civil WarThe Heavenly Kingdom tells the complete story of this forgotten catastrophe, from Hong's mystical visions in a Guangdong village to the apocalyptic fall of Nanjing that ended the rebellion. Drawing on Chinese sources, Western missionary accounts, and modern scholarship, this narrative history reveals how genuine grievances against poverty and corruption transformed into revolutionary violenc...

Join the WittaWattas for a full day of fun, counting, laughter, and surprises at the park!From flying colorful kites, sailing toy boats, getting ice cream and helping find Raffi's hidden dog bones, every page invites kids to search, count, and giggle along.With colorful illustrations and a playful story, children will love helping Willa, Wally, Raffi and Starlight explore, share, practice kindness and use good manners.Perfect for ages 0-6, this heartwarming story he...

Uniting scientists who study music, child language, human psychoacoustics, and animal acoustical communication, this volume examines research on the perception of complex sounds. The contributors' papers focus on finding a common principle from the comparison of the processing of complex acoustic signals. This volume emphasizes the "comparative" and the "complex" in auditory perception. Topics covered range from communication systems in mice, birds, and primates to the perception and proce...

This book presents international experiences in urban network learning. It is vital for cities to learn as it is necessary to constantly adapt and improve public performance and address complex challenges in a constantly changing environment. It is therefore highly relevant to gain more insight into how cities can learn. Cities address problems and challenges in networks of co-operation between existing and new actors, such as state actors, market players and civil society. This book prese...

Over the past several years, many investigators interested in the effects of man-made sounds on animals have come to realize that there is much to gain from studying the broader literature on hearing sound and the effects of sound as well as data from the effects on humans. It has also become clear that knowledge of the effects of sound on one group of animals (e.g., birds or frogs) can guide studies on other groups (e.g., marine mammals or fishes) and that a review of all such studies tog...