With cities striving to meet sustainable development goals, circular urban systems are gaining momentum, especially in Europe.This research-based book defines the circular city and circular development. It explains the shift in focus from a purely economic concept, which promotes circular business models in cities, to one that explores a new approach to urban development. This approach offers huge opportunities and addresses important sustainability issues: resource consum...

A beautifully written love story, The Song draws the reader into a provocative epic of self-discovery, a tightly layered tale of joy and sorrow, remorse and renewal.Mayeve Taylor embarks on life in a three-stoplight Southern town in the fifties. In the dead letter that is her life, she discovers a friend who changes her view of the world—Champ, a black youth with knowledge of things beyond his years. In spite of the times, Champ and Mayeve forge a devoted friendship. When Mayeve's ...

How will the world end? Or will it? The Reverend Eve Webster is about to find out. Behold the Dawn offers a radical counter, a metaphysical alternative to the evangelical take of the Left Behind series.As a series of catastrophes paralyzes the world, Eve Webster follows compelling intuition that she is to be instrumental in a pivotal transition for humankind. But first she must make an agonizing choice. Her fiance, Owen Brodie, refuses to leave his successful law practice in Charlo...

God created a perfect world and pronounced it "good." Where has that world gone? The standard answer is that we have sinned, fallen short of the glory of God, and royally screwed it up. Yet is man capable of putting asunder what God wills and creates perfect? Some will find the hypothesis in Miracles: Take the FreeWay blasphemous. Some will find it a source of unprecedented hope. No one who reads it will ever see the world again in quite the same way.Our current rationale and approa...

One Thought from Heaven unfurls the epic tale of one man's journey from victim to victor. Orphaned at two years of age, Seth Smith finds little connection in life beyond his his daily vigils as an ER nurse in Manhattan. His only "night life" is an on-going Internet chat with a heart-stoppingly beautiful young woman in Seoul, Korea. Then an encounter with best friend Pearlie Stamper's assailant hurls him into the mystic world of the Gullah, where he meets a couple of eccentric elders who le...

Set against the context of a changing professional landscape, this book examines the journey of the authors, Jo and Diana, as they transitioned from working in the National Health Service (NHS) to setting up an independent practice following redundancy. Highlighting both the benefits and challenges, the authors outline the steps they took to move from survival mode and crisis management to a position of stability and success.This book provides readers with a wealth of practical adv...

Speech and language impairment can have a huge impact on cognitive development. Identifying what is going wrong - and what effective intervention looks like - can be daunting. Short of retraining you as a speech and language therapist, this thorough guide will give you everything you need to change that.An essential resource, the book contains a wide variety of online resources, including phonological and sound awareness documents, assessment tools, and recording forms that can be ...

This book explores the importance of effective multi-agency and multi-disciplinary partnership work for the mental health of children and young people in care and adoption. It takes an overall systemic perspective, but the co-authors contribute different theoretical approaches. It focuses on practice, showing how practitioners can draw on their varied theoretical approaches to enhance the way they work together and in partnership with carers and with professionals from other agencies. The ...

“ No one really thinks about the person beside the bed. The caregiver is like an empty chair – visitors focus on the person in the bed, and the caregiver becomes invisible.In the United States over fifty million family caregivers provide forty billion dollars in unpaid, informal care annually for adult family members and friends with chronic illnesses or conditions.Informal caregiving can be highly stressful and exhausting. Within the pages of The Person Beside the Bed, aut...

The covid-19 pandemic has affected all of our lives in different ways. In this audiobook I will take you on an experience of how my family was affected by the pandemic. This is a story of love, separation, tragedy, and endurance through tragedy. This is also a story of hope. The diamonds in this book are for you to take with you. These powerful diamonds in this book will get you through hard times.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. No one really thinks about the person beside the bed. The caregiver is like an empty chair – visitors focus on the person in the bed, and the caregiver becomes invisible.In the United States over fifty million family caregivers provide forty billion dollars in unpaid, informal care annually for adult family members and friends with chronic illnesses or conditions.Informal caregiving can be highly stressful and exhausting. Within th...

Develop curious minds. Empower every learner. Shape the future.How can we prepare students for a world where data-driven decision-making shapes nearly every aspect of life? Data Minds: How Today’s Teachers Can Prepare Students for Tomorrow’s World helps K–8 educators infuse data literacy into everyday lessons across disciplines, without overwhelming existing curricula. Data literacy is an ability and willingness to engage with and...