**Learn how to achieve the happiness you deserve"A guide to sustaining your newfound contentment." —Psychology Today"Lyubomirsky's central point is clear: a significant portion of what is called happiness . . . is up for grabs. Taking some pages out of the positive psychology playbook, she coaches readers on how to snag it." —The New York Review of Books**You see here a different kind of happiness book. The How of Happiness is a comprehens...

The resources offered in this workbook are an evidence-based toolbox that will equip veterinary professionals, students and teams to meet the challenges of caregiving in a practical, relevant, and hopeful way.Your Veterinary Wellness Journey builds on the essential work begun in the author's first book, Creating Wellbeing and Building Resilience in the Veterinary Profession, which introduced the care-giving challenges that may impact wellbeing, especially those un...

Three inspirational stories of women who risked everything for love and traveled thousands of miles to the western frontier.Part 1The Mismatched Widowed Bride & The BabyBroken, alone and pregnant**,** twenty-one year old former dancer, Lola has lost everything.Now widowed… Lola believes that no man would ever want to marry her. That is… until she hears about the Perfect Match program.Lola r...

The bestselling author of The How of Happiness reveals how to find opportunity in life’s thorniest momentsFocusing on life’s biggest, messiest moments, Sonja Lyubomirsky provides readers with the clear-eyed vision they need to build the healthiest, most satisfying life. Lyubomirsky argues that we have been given false promises—myths that assure us that lifelong happiness will be attained once we hit the culturally confirmed markers of adult success. This b...

In this pioneering work, a renowned happiness scientist and a top relationship researcher draw on the science of happiness, love, and human connection to offer a powerful framework to help readers appreciate and nurture what makes them feel truly loved.We can be loved—and still not feel loved. Many people believe that if they behave the right way, say the right things, or make themselves more lovable, they will feel more loved. But this kind of reflexive t...

Three inspirational stories of women who risked everything for love and traveled thousands of miles to the western frontier.Part 1: The Shamed Big Beautiful Indian BrideMeet Kimi Brandon, a determined young woman of mixed Indian and white blood who has been living with prejudice for years and had been shunned by society.Part 2**: The Crippled & Shunned Indian Bride**Meet Nadie Brandon- daughter of a white father and Indian m...

Some ruins should stay buried.Leslie Kicklighter used to chase adventure for a living. Now she just wants to put her life back together, and a guided jungle tour seems harmless enough.But a millionaire CEO has decided to make this trip ambitious, including a visit to ancient ruins no one was ever meant to see. He will pay any price to reach the end of his journey.What they wake in the Amazon jungle is far older than greed.An Inca god, obsess...

How can humanity navigate the environmental crisis beyond the pursuit of economic growth? Drawing on diverse philosophical and political traditions and from ecological economics to environmental social sciences, this book offers a bold alternative: relational degrowth, which recognises people, communities, and nature as fundamentally interconnected.Through conceptual analysis and real-world examples, the book explores how to reshape economic and cultural systems and demonstrates wh...

From the author of Echo Loba, Loba Echo comes another thought-provoking blend of memoir, science, and cultural history.Dive into a mesmerizing exploration of the ocean's depths and the intricate web of life it sustains. Red Sky in the Morning is more than just a book; it's a journey into the heart of our planet's most vital ecosystem. With lyrical prose and keen insight, the author blends personal stories, scientific research, and Indigenous wisdo...

Three inspirational stories of women who risked everything for love and traveled thousands of miles to the western frontier.Part 1: The 'Blind' Cowboy, The Blemish Bride & The Indian BabyViola Van Horn has lost her fiancé and fears she will never find another man who wants to marry her because of a blemish that covers her face. It seems her fate is to become a spinster…

Who hasn’t dreamed about making a movie? We'll show you how to navigate the world of independent filmmaking, from script to screen. The Digital Filmmaking Handbook will help you make the movie you've been dreaming about.For this edition, we’ve focused on soft skills: developing a project, writing a compelling story, working with actors, the special challenges of directing. After all, these are the things that really matter in the end—skills that help you t...

Three inspirational stories of women who risked everything for love and traveled thousands of miles to the western frontier.Part 1: The Crippled Bride and The Ambitious MinerMeetAva with a heartbreaking past, and a crippling injury. She's always had everything she needed financially, but now this has changed. Being crippled, she has lost everything and she hated politician.