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This book is a theoretical and practical guide to ecological work in the field, focusing on concepts, issues, and practical applications in animal ecology. By highlighting examples, it provides students, researchers, and professionals with the tools to develop ecological questions and corresponding ...
Wandering Meanderings is a memoir-in-essays by a man between homelands, Catholic by anchor, boundless by culture, who keeps a passport in one pocket and notebook in the other. From Kraków trams, Viennese Mass, and Westminster corridors to nameless winter streets, these essays track how love, friend...
Unlock the secrets to a fulfilling and purpose-driven life with The Art of Everyday Wisdom by Michael Hailu. This inspirational book is a treasure trove of life lessons, designed to empower readers to embrace self-improvement, cultivate a success mindset, and find personal success in the face of mod...
When you attend a live classical music concert, have you noticed that the players are both younger and older musicians? The younger members are clearly competent players having received their position in the orchestra after a series of auditions and a trial period, but what about the older players? ...
This volume takes readers on a journey into a central aspect of life in China, so-called “self-development.” Whether prompted by the cultural values of educational success, capitalist competition for wealth, or the Chinese Communist Party’s prescriptions for “good” citizenship, few people ...
Health Anxiety and the Quest for Safety critically examines how psychological and sociocultural processes influence anxiety and safety-seeking behaviour concerning perceived health risks in globalised information societies. It provides insights into how people respond to uncertainty and perceived th...
A comprehensive guide that empowers parents with the knowledge and strategies to keep their children safe from human trafficking and cults. Our digital age is bringing unprecedented challenges to child-rearing. Predators lurk online and in the real world, exploiting children from all walks of life. ...
Purdy Crawford's name is synonymous with Canadian business and law. But even after education at Mount Allison and Harvard, Purdy arrived on Toronto's Bay Street as an outsider, the son of a coal miner from tiny Five Islands, Nova Scotia. So how did young Purdy ascend so quickly and so far to become ...
Discover a Deeper Truth Behind the Pursuit of Joy What if the relentless chase for happiness is actually holding you back? This eye-opening book peels back the glossy veneer of false positivity to reveal the hidden costs of insisting on constant cheerfulness. Instead of fostering genuine well-being,...
A culture of excellence is one where every person in the organization—not only leadership—is committed to delivering exceptional results. It’s a matter of creating an environment where individuals feel empowered to innovate, problem-solve, and continuously improve. Excellence is one of those w...
Being creative is a key component and necessity in public relations and within creative industries to target business challenges, create briefs and to meet targets. Creativity in PR and Communications is a textbook for all PR students and anyone taking creative communication courses looking to enhan...
Capturing all the pain and glory of this incredible family saga, Surf’s Up is the definitive tribute to a remarkable band - and the genius who made it all possible. If any man in pop history deserved the tag of genius, it was Brian Wilson. As leader, producer and chief composer of the Beach Boys, ...
The “extraordinary life story” (Publishers Weekly) of the billionaire businessman Jimmy Lai, a leading Hong Kong democracy activist fighting for freedom of speech who became China’s most famous political prisoner. Jimmy Lai escaped mainland China when he was twelve years old, at the height of ...
Can Christians today read the great classics of Greco-Roman pagan literature for spiritual formation and growth in the virtues? Classical scholar Nadya Williams responds with an unequivocal "Yes!" Even in the Late Roman Empire Christian readers, like Augustine and Boethius, did just this. But readin...
When most of us think of Charles Lindbergh, we picture a dashing twenty-five-year-old aviator stepping out of the Spirit of St. Louis after completing his solo flight across the Atlantic. What we don't see is the awkward high school student, who preferred ogling new gadgets at the hardware store to ...
The essential role that the oldest literary technology—books—played in making computers popular and pervasive. In README, historian Patrick McCray argues that in order for computers to become ubiquitous, people first had to become interested in them, learn about them, and take the machines serio...
This book delves into the past and examines the origins of activism against child labour. It addresses a hitherto under-examined question: how and why did child labour develop into a key concern between the 1880s and 1930s? Who were the protagonists who first raised the issue of child labour as a gl...
Stephen King’s “The Life of Chuck” is a “phenomenal” (USA TODAY) tale of life and legacy—now a feature film directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Tom Hiddleston, Mark Hamill, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Karen Gillan—available for the first time in a beautiful stand-alone edition with a new ...
In the reality TV show The Running Man, the only objective is to stay alive. This “slam-bang action suspense” (Gilbert Cruz, Vulture) from Stephen King is now a major motion picture coming from Paramount on November 7, 2025. Ben Richards has no job, no money, and a young daughter who urgently ne...
On the first day of May, 100 teenage boys meet for an event known throughout the country as "The Long Walk." If you break the rules, you get three warnings. If you exceed your limit, what happens is absolutely terrifying. Reissue.