The top seven things I wanted to do with my life... 1. Meet ‘The One’ 2. Convince ‘The One’ that I’m not a mentalist 3. Get him to propose before he finally figures it out 4. Have best wedding EVER 5. Live happily ever after on post-wedding high 6. Have attractive female child who I can regale with tales of ‘mummy’s big day’ 7. Re-evaluate my priorities What human people are saying about this book... “This is a SPLENDID book and made me laugh so much I leaked. Feel free to use that quote on the cover, Rach...” My Editor “I had a lovely day out” Grandma “What do you MEAN you didn’t enjoy your wedding?” Mum “Who are you and why do you keep talking to me?” Mother at school gate “I did not enjoy this book” Sister “What do you MEAN you didn’t enjoy our wedding?” Husband “If I’d written a book it would have been much better” Anon
The top seven things I wanted to do with my life... 1. Meet ‘The One’ 2. Convince ‘The One’ that I’m not a mentalist 3. Get him to propose before he finally figures it out 4. Have best wedding EVER 5. Live happily ever after on post-wedding high 6. Have attractive female child who I can regale with tales of ‘mummy’s big day’ 7. Re-evaluate my priorities What human people are saying about this book... “This is a SPLENDID book and made me laugh so much I leaked. Feel free to use that quote on the cover, Rach...” My Editor “I had a lovely day out” Grandma “What do you MEAN you didn’t enjoy your wedding?” Mum “Who are you and why do you keep talking to me?” Mother at school gate “I did not enjoy this book” Sister “What do you MEAN you didn’t enjoy our wedding?” Husband “If I’d written a book it would have been much better” Anon
This Volume belongs to a series on Oceanography. It is designed so that it can be read on its own, or used as a supplement in oceanogrphy courses. After a brief introduction to sea-floor sediments, the book shows how the activities of marine organisms cycle nutrients and other dissolved constituents within the oceans, and influence the rates at which both solid and dissolved material is removed to sediments. It goes on to review the carbonate system and shows how sediments that come from continental areas may be transported to the deep sea, explores what sea-floor sediments have taught us about the history of the oceans, and describes the biological and chemical processes that continue long after sediments have been deposited on the deep sea-floor. * Covers the basics on the occurrence, distribution, and cycling of chemical elements in the ocean * Features full-color photographs and beautiful illustrations throughout * Reader-friendly layout, writing, and graphics * Pedagogy includes chapter summaries, chapter questions with answers and comments at the end of the book; highlighted key terms; and boxed topics and explanations * Can be used alone, as a supplement, or in combination with other Open University titles in oceanography
Take a journey through London, discovering the unique places and people associated with all things scientific, from museums to bars, statues to plaques, each landmark has a story behind it just waiting to be discovered. London has seen many scientific discoveries and engineering feats in its history. Scientists have made their home and studied in the metropolis, while the city is a hub for medical and scientific collections displayed in quirky and engaging museums. From Michael Faraday to Rosalind Franklin and William Harvey, London’s scientists have inspired people to find out more, study, and innovate. This book takes you on an area by area journey through London to discover places and people associated with science, and even see and experience scientific phenomena. From museums and bars associated with science, and behind the scenes engineering tours, scientific genius is all over the city. Each statue and plaque has a story behind it, waiting to be discovered. This unique book can be used as a guidebook on a physical journey through London, or as a collection of intriguing and often obscure stories and information for science lovers to enjoy wherever they are. Whether you are an aspiring scientist, are home schooling, attending a conference in London, or simply love science, this book has ideas to inspire you.
Rachael Hanel’s name was inscribed on a gravestone when she was eleven years old. Yet this wasn’t at all unusual in her world: her father was a gravedigger in the small Minnesota town of Waseca, and death was her family’s business. Her parents were forty-two years old and in good health when they erected their gravestone—Rachael’s name was simply a branch on the sprawling family tree etched on the back of the stone. As she puts it: I grew up in cemeteries. And you don’t grow up in cemeteries—surrounded by headstones and stories, questions, curiosity—without becoming an adept and sensitive observer of death and loss as experienced by the people in this small town. For Rachael Hanel, wandering among tombstones, reading the names, and wondering about the townsfolk and their lives, death was, in many ways, beautiful and mysterious. Death and mourning: these she understood. But when Rachael’s father—Digger O’Dell—passes away suddenly when she is fifteen, she and her family are abruptly and harshly transformed from bystanders to participants. And for the first time, Rachael realizes that death and grief are very different. At times heartbreaking and at others gently humorous and uplifting, We’ll Be the Last Ones to Let You Down presents the unique, moving perspective of a gravedigger’s daughter and her lifelong relationship with death and grief. But it is also a masterful meditation on the living elements of our cemeteries: our neighbors, friends, and families—the very histories of our towns and cities—and how these things come together in the eyes of a young girl whose childhood is suffused with both death and the wonder of the living.
Discover a self-affirming practice that “takes [you] on a complete journey from the depths of chaos to true empowerment” (Becca Anderson, author of Prayers for Hard Times). By practicing affirmations each day, you become stronger emotionally and psychologically. Writing letters to yourself can be a powerful affirming process that will give you the courage to face adversity and help you develop resilience that can get you through anything. Letters from a Better Me provides unique tools and practices to help you become the very best and strongest you can be. After recognizing the issues and trauma we deal with, it is essential to move into a place of forgiveness and gratitude. When we decide to be grateful for the hard times, rather than resent them, we open ourselves up for positive transformation. This motivational book shows us how to build our self-worth and leave fear behind so we can welcome a more loving and compassionate focus. You’ll find: Letters that promise to inspire and empower you to pursue positive change Guides at the end of each chapter for writing your own letters A chance to grow from difficult times and write your way back to who you want to be
All three books in one boxed set! Get ready to read all night long! The Bachelor meets The Property Brothers: Love, property, and construction. What could possibly go wrong? From international bestseller Rachael Herron, comes a series too delightful to put down: Liam Ballard is good at buying houses, fixing them up with his brothers, and flipping them for a profit. When Felicia from the network shows up to offer them a reality show (the brothers renovate a house while one of them dates the buyer), the pay is too good to turn down. With it, they'll finally be able to open the after-school program for at-risk youth to honor the man who raised them. But when the very LA-like Felicia decides she'll be the buyer of the property (and his date), Liam wonders for the first time what set of keys he'll want to pass over to her, and will one of them unlock his heart? A heart-warming, laugh-out-loud series in the small town you love to visit. Scroll up to Click Buy!
The gate lay closed and dormant for centuries; that is until Violet's luck goes from bad to worse as the gate awakens and drags her to an entirely different world. Never quite finding her place in her own, she's dropped into a crazy whirlwind of magic, mystical creatures, and power-hungry mages, and finds an ally in the young king of Ceredoria, Hudson, who's stuck in his own impossible situation. Smart, cunning, and slightly impulsive, the last thing on Hudson Partire Del Cere's mind is finding a queen, but with growing pressure from his court and advisers, it seems he has no choice. With time rapidly running out and no choice made, the gate comes to life before him, bringing a mysterious woman who could be the answer to his problems. Now with danger around every twist and turn, Violet and Hudson have to navigate their way through a confusing maze of events, avoid deadly spells, and find a way to get what they both want. However, nothing is ever as easy as it sounds, especially when magic is involved and the past is unknown.
Aubryanne Harrison wants nothing more than to take care of her son, Graham, and lead a quiet life away from the ugly scrutiny and suspicions in the aftermath of her husband’s questionable police methods and murder. Graham is disabled and keeps having “accidents” at school. The bruises and bumps aren’t serious, but as Graham’s fears of school and of his teacher escalate, Aubryanne believes he is actually being abused. She will do anything to protect Graham from the man she believes is hurting him, but when he turns up dead she becomes the primary suspect! Aubryanne struggles to see God’s hand and purpose in the turmoil that her life has become as she and Graham become targets of an evil no one saw coming. Shane McCloud is an Army Ranger turned police detective bent on continuing the mission of taking out the world’s garbage. The evil in the world isn’t his only battleground, as the issues of his past tend to feed on the difficulties of the present. His integrity and professionalism are questioned when a criminal he apprehends ends up in the hospital with serious injuries. If God really cared, then how could he let these things happen? There is a new player in the drug scene in Darien, Georgia. He is more dangerous and motivated than your typical thug selling pills in the shadows. He has his own demons to overcome, but they fuel his desire for power and control. No one will stand in his way.
Their friendship is about to get very complicated when his best friend reveals their one spontaneous night had consequences… Find out what happens in the latest Harlequin Romance by Rachael Stewart! Best friends… until one night changes it all! Top criminal defense lawyer Brendan is used to getting everything he wants. The only thing he can’t have? Best friend Hannah Rose. Until one night forbidden passions unexpectedly ignite and the barriers they put in place years ago are impulsively put aside. Now, determined to recover their friendship, Brendan tries to forget about their spontaneous encounter—until Hannah reveals it had consequences… From Harlequin Romance: Be swept away by glamorous and heartfelt love stories. Billionaires for the Rose Sisters Book 1: Billionaire's Island Temptation Book 2: Consequence of Their Forbidden Night
This thoroughly revised second edition covers the major areas of research, theory, and practical application in health communication. This textbook takes an in-depth approach to health communication by analyzing and critically evaluating research conducted across multiple paradigmatic perspectives and focusing on translational application of research findings. Using the story of the Montgomery family, a biracial, multigenerational family, and their health experiences as a case study, chapters explore topics including patient–provider communication, health communication in the media, ethical issues, and public health crises. New chapters cover the potential for communication to address discrimination in healthcare settings, health information seeking, social support and caregiving, and the relationship between health and environmental communication. Chapters offer pedagogical features that will prove useful to students and instructors of health communication, such as summary boxes, theory tables, suggestions for in-class activities, discussion questions, and lists of additional resources. Developed for use in advanced undergraduate and master’s level health communication and public health courses, this text represents the breadth and depth of health communication theory and research as it exists today. Online resources for instructors including additional theory tables, PowerPoint slides, test questions and assignments, sample syllabi, and lists of additional resources are available at https://www.routledge.com/9781032100470.
With a growing population, rising housing costs and housing providers struggling to meet demand for affordable accommodation, more and more people in the UK find themselves sharing their living spaces with people from outside of their families at some point in their lives. Focusing on sharers in a wide variety of contexts and at all stages of the life course, Shared Housing, Shared Lives demonstrates how personal relationships are the key to whether shared living arrangements falter or flourish. Indeed, this book demonstrates how issues such as finances, domestic space and daily routines are all factors which can impact upon personal relationships and wider understandings of the home and privacy. By directing attention towards people and relationships rather than bricks and mortar, Shared Housing, Shared Lives is essential reading for students and researchers in fields such as sociology, housing studies, social policy, cultural anthropology and demography, as well as for researchers and practitioners working in these areas
Presenting the law of tort as a body of principles, this authoritative textbook gives an incisive understanding of the subject. Each tort is carefully structured and examined within a consistent analytical framework that guides students through its preconditions, elements, defences and remedies. Clear summaries and comparisons accompany the detailed exposition, and further support is provided by diagrams and tables which clarify complex aspects of the law. Critical discussion of legal judgments encourages students to develop strong analytical and case-reading skills, whilst key reform proposals and leading cases from other jurisdictions illustrate different potential solutions to conundrums in tort law. Ten additional chapters on more advanced topics can be found online, completing the learning package. This new edition has been updated to take account of important cases, legislative developments and law reform studies since July 2015.
There's so much silence around suicide in the church that it is quite literally killing us." --Rachael Keefe Would you know how to respond if the person sitting next to you in your pew was contemplating suicide? Every year, millions of people engage in suicidal activity, including men, women, and young people in our faith communities. Yet the Church remains largely silent around the topics of mental health, depression, and suicide prevention. How can you and your faith community be prepared to recognize and respond to those struggling for their very lives in your church? In The Lifesaving Church, pastor Rachael Keefe shatters the taboo of suicide by sharing her own painful story of life-long depression and suicidality--and how her various faith communities responded, for better and for worse. Opening a window into her suicidal behaviors as a young person, Keefe helps us recognize the signs and struggles of those who suffer silently. Reminding us of the Church's call to be the Body of Christ for each other, Keefe empowers us to recognize the hurting in our communities and recover the lifesaving message of the Gospel-- forgiveness, acceptance and love--that helped her to heal. With chapters on how to educate your church in suicide prevention, group study reflections around the common questions surrounding suicide, and specific resources, scriptures, and prayers for clergy, suicide loss survivors, and those struggling with suicidality, The Lifesaving Church is critical reading for faith communities seeking abundant life for all of its members.
This book focuses on Ireland’s lived experience of tuberculosis as represented in the nation’s fiction; not surprisingly, the disease both manifests and conceals itself with devastating frequency in literature as it did in life. It seeks to place the history of tuberculosis in Ireland, from 1800 until after its virtual eradication in the mid-Twentieth Century, in conversation with fictional representations or repressions of a condition so fearsome that until very recently it was usually referred to by code words and euphemisms rather than by its name.
The study of languages was crucial to colonial power in 18th and 19th-century South Africa. This important book examines representations of the South African Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu, revealing the ways in which colonial linguistics contributed to both the making of the colonial order and to instabilities at the heart of the project.
What would you think about going to live in Paris?' In 2003, having returned to the UK unexpectedly, Rachael Gurney was looking through the thousands of slides that her father had taken in the sixties and seventies. Trying to work out when and where they had been taken, she turned to the scrapbooks she had made as a child. Apart from the usual postcards, the scrapbooks were full of plane and boat tickets, and as a indication of things to come, lids cut out from cheese boxes, and labels lovingly soaked and dried from bottles of wine her parents had drunk. This helped her place many of the slides, and re-awakened fond memories of childhood, family holidays. Wanting to preserve these memories she started writing about them. However, it didn't stop there as she was enjoying the writing process so much and continued with further travelling tales. The result is part biography, part travel guide. It tells of some wonderful highs, counteracted by those disasters which make travelling so interesting. It also acts as a personal travelogue from places as diverse as Mexico, Slovakia and Singapore, and an insight into living and working in a number of counties, including Poland and Portugal.
Get all knotted up! This fun guide has all the information you need to make your own jewelry using knotting techniques. You’ll learn how to evaluate, select, and care for pearls and gemstones; how to select findings and tools; the pros and cons of different stringing materials; and much more. Clear step-by-step, fully illustrated instructions show you exactly how to knot between beads and attach various types of clasps and finishes. You’ll soon be crafting beautiful, ready-to-wear pieces.
Every recipe has a story and every story has a secret. For folks in Tatatonka, Iowa, the best recipes in town, and therefore the best secrets, have long been kept in the coveted recipe book of local cooking legend Trudie Melody. When Trudie becomes ill, her granddaughter, successful (at least by Tatatonka standards) garden gnome maker Margot, decides it's no time to be timid and boldly asks for the recipe book. Thinking she's secured the book for herself, Margot's life goes into a tailspin when, after her grandma's death, a crooked probate lawyer determines the book will go to Sheryl, Margot's shrewd first cousin, who needs the book to bail out her flailing career. Margot's only recourse is to sue Sheryl before she can take possession of the treasured book. The courtroom takes on a voyeuristic and carnival-like atmosphere when the Judge rules to have the recipe book read aloud in order to determine the rightful owner
This book examines the different forms that honour-based abuse crimes take and analyses the discretionary police practices employed when responding to these incidents. Honour-based abuse is an incident or crime involving violence, threats of violence, intimidation, coercion or abuse committed in order to protect or defend the honour of an individual, family and or community for a perceived breach of their code of behaviour. Based on unique UK police data, it includes examination of one hundred honour abuse cases and interviews with fifteen predominantly detective specialist police officers that investigate this crime. This book recognises the challenges encountered when policing honour-based abuse and offers recommendations for addressing them. It will particularly benefit police forces in England and Wales, the Home Office, scholars in gendered violence and policing, and non-government organisations (charities supporting victims) by highlighting some of the issues associated with policing, partnership working arrangements and safeguarding victims of honour-based abuse crimes.
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