If alarms didn’t exist, I’m afraid I would never wake up.Performance captures moments of despair, insecurity, and wisdom through poems, songs, and drawings. In her debut collection, Jul pulls back the curtain and invites the reader on her path of growth, sharing intimate experiences of grief, jealousy, anger, and heartbreak. Inside these pages, readers will delve into how we all put on a performance when we feel like we can’t act as our most authentic selves, highlighting ...

If alarms didn't exist, I'm afraid I would never wake up.Performance captures moments of despair, insecurity, and wisdom through poems, songs, and drawings. In her debut collection, Jul pulls back the curtain and invites the reader on her path of growth, sharing intimate experiences of grief, jealousy, anger, and heartbreak. Inside these pages, readers will delve into how we all put on a performance when we feel like we can't act as our most authentic selves, high...

Violent Extremism: A Nordic Outlook illuminates the global issue of violent extremism, with a particular focus on Sweden and the Nordic countries. This concise volume leverages empirical research to uncover the mechanisms and dynamics driving violent extremism, setting itself apart in a field often criticized for a lack of data-driven analysis. The contributors employ unique Nordic data to offer insights on violent extremism, examining its organization, the evolution of extremist ...

Constructive resistance occurs when people start to build the society they desire independently of and in opposition to the dominant structures already in place. Through case studies and illustrative examples from around the world, this book explores how people working for a more just, sustainable and peaceful future combine construction and resistance. The book provides students and practitioners of resistance with tools to detect, critically discuss and evaluate cases of constructive res...

This early work by Jul. Regis was originally published in 1927 and we are now republishing it as part of our Cryptofiction Classics series. 'The Paradise of the Ice Wilderness' is a short story about a group of friends in a village inn that ask a sea captain for a tale and he obliges. The Cryptofiction Classics series contains a collection of wonderful stories from some of the greatest authors in the genre, including Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Jack Lond...

This book analyses how humour in political activism contributes to facilitating outreach, mobilisation and the sustaining of cultures of resistance. Drawing on examples of attention-grabbing stunts from around the world, Humour in Political Activism demonstrates how they succeed in turning relations of power upside down.The ambiguity and unpredictability of humour, Sørensen argues, makes it difficult to respond to this form of political activism when it is performed in pub...

Team Three was built for danger: elite covert missions, hostage rescues, and threats that demand precision and firepower. They trust their training. They trust each other. But when a routine operation spirals into chaos, they're targeted by an enemy who knows their every move—and wants them dead.For Beth and Rachel, trust has always been hard. Once battlefield rivals, they clashed fast and often—until shared missions and near-death moments forged an unbreakable bond. Somewhere in t...

All those who enter the pastoral ministry desire to succeed. Yet they all find, surprisingly, that a number of key issues come up for consideration. Most pastors find that most of these issues appear during the first ten years of pastoring. During those years the pattern is determined, which will point to the success or to the development of habits that will reduce effectiveness and produce stumbling. In this warm, personal, from-the-heart book, a long-time pastor not only identifies twent...

This gorgeous picture book is your A-Z guide to tapping into your heart centre and living your life with an abundance of love. Inspiring illustrations and loving words of guidance make this book a delight to the senses. This book aims to gently awaken the love within and encourage you to open your heart, while supporting you to create more love in your life and flowing the energy of love to ripple out into our beautiful world. “Be The Love" will gently guide you on this journey, allowing y...

A delightful 31-day Christian devotional guide for the nature lover in all of us. Drawing on twenty-five years experience in forestry, Christian camping and youth ministry, the author utilizes nature analogies and personal stories to reveal and apply scriptural insights. The thirty-one chapter devotional can be used for individual reflection or group study. Appealing to all ages, the material incorporates subjects such as the gypsy moth, invasive species, why some acorns don’t sprout, and ...