A celebration of all the weird and wonderful books to be found at an antiquarian bookshop.Books have the power to enrich the soul, to enliven the senses, to expand our horizons… and others are simply mad. This wonderful celebration of the oddest books ever published is a treat for all bibliophiles, booksellers and fans of the bizarre. It is an exploration of the most eccentric titles and covers from our past, that have inexplicably fallen out of print but should ne...

Romancing the King is a description of God’s yearning for relationship and intimacy with you.  Like Esther in the Bible, you are permitted to enter the King’s presence because you have been invited—the King desires you.   Intimacy with your Lord is a close, personal relationship where you can openly share with each other private information. To gain access to the splendor of His Kingdom, you must establish ...

Finally break free from insecurity and fear, and gain the confidence to be who you really are in any relationship.Do you overanalyze every text or missed call from your partner, wondering if it means they're losing interest?Do you find yourself wanting to please your family at all costs, even if it means neglecting your own needs and boundaries?If this sounds familiar, you're not alone.Millions struggle with...

The Challenge of Attachment for Caregiving describes a theoretical model for the development of caregiving that complements and also extends attachment theory. The model highlights the conditions under which adult caregivers can remain in a state of arrested development, impairing their own ability to give care and resulting in attachment problems for those who seek care from them. It shows how insecure attachment in childhood and adolescence impedes the development of caregiving and how, ...

This is a revised edition of an important title originally published in 2009. It is written primarily for psychotherapists and other practitioners and describes a new and effective form of dynamic therapy designed for working with adults and with adolescents. The theory, on which the new form of therapy is based, is centred in a paradigm that extends and crucially alters the paradigm for developmental psychology opened by the Bowlby/Ainsworth attachment theory. It describes a pre-programme...

In the era of big data, organizations are turning to data lakes as a powerful solution to store, manage, and derive valuable insights from vast and diverse datasets. "Data Lakes" is your essential guide to understanding, implementing, and optimizing data lakes for success in the complex landscape of data architecture."Data Lakes" is your indispensable companion on the quest to harness the transformative power of data lakes, offering practical insights, expert guidance, and a roadma...

If someone had told Dawn Chadwick that she’d be attending a play put on by children on a dragon-shifter’s land a year ago, she would’ve said they were mad. However, her daughter Daisy has slowly worn Dawn down about her prejudices and she ends up volunteering to help with the play. She’s to assist a recluse dragonman with the special effects. What she didn’t count on was her daughter’s meddling.Blake Whitby prefers working in a lab to being around people. He’s a rare white dragon w...

“Data Lake: Strategies and Best Practices for Storing, Managing, and Analyzing Big Data” is a comprehensive guide to understanding and implementing a data lake architecture. With the increasing volume, velocity, and variety of data being generated, organizations need to be able to store and analyze large amounts of data to gain insights and make informed decisions.This book covers the key concepts and principles of data lakes, including data ingestion, data transformation, and data...

Nearly a year ago, an injured human female showed up on Stonefire’s land carrying a flash drive full of information stolen from the Dragon Knights. However, before Zain Kinsella could interrogate her, she fell into a coma and hasn’t awoken since. After his initial anger fades, he wonders if the thin, pale girl will ever wake again. When she does, it’s up to him to help guard her and make her strong enough to face some questioning. He most definitely shouldn’t notice her delicious heat or t...

Join Finn and Arabella as they host the clan leaders, their mates, and their children from Stonefire, Skyhunter, Snowridge, Northcastle, and Glenlough. Not only will Finn and Arabella deal with a surprise of their own, readers will enjoy updates from some of their favorite past couples. Also, the clan leader mates have some mischief up their sleeves; Asher King watches as Connor MacAllister talks with his sister Aimee; and other little tidbits happen over the course of the gathering.

Finally divorced and free of her bastard ex-husband, Sarah MacKintosh Carter looks forward to living with the Scottish dragon clan and attempting a normal life. However, a letter arrives and says she has thirty days to mate a dragon-shifter, or she has to return to a human city. If she leaves, she knows her former in-laws will be determined to take custody of her sons. So the countdown begins on finding a dragonman to mate her. There’s just one rule: no falling in love so she can protect h...

Over the last year, Jake Swift has constantly thought of the one-night stand he had with a beautiful dragon-shifter, one who slipped away silently into the night. Determined to see her once more, he finally manages to arrive in Scotland at Clan Lochguard’s gates and asks to see Sylvia. She’s as sexy and kind as he remembers, but he soon learns her secret—he’s a father, and they have a daughter together.Sylvia MacAllister has done her best to be a single mother to her surprise daugh...