An atmospheric collection of new poems about the sea and earth by poet Judith Nicholls, beautifully illustrated by Judy

Mindful Educational Leadership unpacks the literature of mindfulness as it applies to K12 school leadership. Crossing disciplinary and theoretical boundaries, scholar and mindfulness coach Sharon Kruse explores mindfulness in three complementary research and philosophical traditions--contemplative, cognitive, and organizational--and applies it to school leadership. This book explores how these perspectives

Will Mracek is forced to flee to Prague when he witnesses his boyfriend, powerful security magnate Jean Claude la B te, commit murder. On the run, and with help from his cousin John, Will becomes an English teacher named Max Knight and does everything he can to blend in. Meeting Hadrian Walls, however, changes everything. Max falls in love with the grumpy ex-RAF, now bartender, and Hadrian finds himself

So what Trudi\'s only just turned five? Somehow or other she always manages to get close to the action. Too close for her own good in this story, as she ends up getting kidnapped not once but twice. Happily, because she\'s as irresistible as she is resourceful, she either escapes from or wins round her

A surprising look at how Rousseau defended the philosophic life as the most natural and best of lives. Dreaming of Justice, Waking to Wisdom reveals what could be thought of as the capstone of Rousseau\'s thought, even if that capstone has been nearly invisible to readers. Despite criticizing philosophy for its corrosive effects on both natural goodness and civic virtue, Rousseau, argues Laurence

A woman is reincarnated as the villainess in a retro otome game...where she has to navigate the incoming Great Recession of 2008! When an exhausted career woman is reincarnated as Keikain Runa, the villainess of an otome game born in the 1990s, she\'s determined to win at any cost. She may lose the love interest\'s heart, but she refuses to be ruined. Armed with the foreknowledge of the economic crash

Madeleine Ekezie has done everything right: good job, a step on the housing ladder, successful friends. But she\'s lost, miserable and deeply lonely. When she discovers the story of The Body - a maybe mythical, definitely magical being who feeds the hungry and soothes the hurt - Maddy blows her life up to find it. She quits her job to hunt through old zines, ignores her parents to pick through abandoned

For centuries fairy tales have been a powerful mode of passing cultural values onto our children, and for many these stories delight and haunt us from cradle to grave. But how have these stories become so powerful and why? In When Dreams Came True, Jack Zipes explains the social life of the fairy tale, from the sixteenth century on into the twenty-first. Whether exploring Charles Perrault or the

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER \"Take my word for it, James Reece is one rowdy motherf***er. Get ready!\" --Chris Pratt, star of the #1 Amazon Prime series The Terminal List \"They\'re great, man. They lock you in. They\'re gripping.\" --Joe Rogan, on the Terminal List series The fourth thriller in the \"so powerful, so pulse-pounding, so well-written\" (Brad Thor, #1 New York

\'Every woman clutched her child, and every man turned pale at the very name of Doone\' John Ridd, an unsophisticated farmer, falls in love with the beautiful and aristocratic Lorna Doone, kidnapped as a child by the outlaw Doones on Exmoor. Ridd\'s rivalry with the villainous Carver Doone reaches a dramatic climax that will determine Lorna\'s future happiness. First published in 1869, Lorna Doone

Tia Lugo has a deadly secret. Tia Lugo considers herself an ordinary thirteen-year-old girl. She just wants to enjoy the end of summer, which means hanging out with her best friend and neighbor, Julius, and ignoring her Puerto Rican grandmother\'s embarrassing reliance on creepy candles, weird-smelling herb bundles, and eerie statues--all available for sale at the nearby botanica. But when Tia witnesses

In tellng the story of his youth, Maurice O\'Sullivan uses a style derived from the folk tales he learned from his grandfather, and sharpened by his own lively imagination. Though he wrote simply for his own pleasure and for the entertainment of his friends--without any thought of a wider audience--O\'Sullivan now enjoys a devoted following of readers who appreciate what E.M Forster praised as the

The 10th novel in Anne Rice\'s internationally bestselling Vampire Chronicles is an erotic tale of immortal loveThe dazzling vampire Lestat was once the epitome of

The Bottom Billion is an elegant and impassioned synthesis from one of the world\'s leading experts on Africa and poverty. It was hailed as \"the best non-fiction book so far this year\" by Nicholas Kristoff of The New York

A visitor: one Cedric Charlton, Her Majesty\'s inspector of taxes is visiting to find out why junk-dealer Pop hasn\'t paid his tax. Mariette takes a shine to \'Charley\' - as Pop calls him - and before long the family have introduced him to the delights of country living. In fact, soon Charley can\'t see any reason to return to the office at

This Milano Softone edition of the Gold-Medallion-winning New Inductive Study Bible (over 700,000 sold) is now available in the trusted English Standard Version. This Bible is based entirely on the inductive study approach, leading readers directly back to the source and allowing God\'s Word to become its own commentary. Its many exceptional features include... the 2011 ESV text, an essentially literal

Designed for classroom and independent study, our Revise Key Stage 2 Revision Practice Papers provide simple, brilliantly smart support to Year 6 learners practising for the National Curriculum

The combat cameramen of the British Army Film and Photographic Unit (AFPU) were responsible for recording most of the events and key historical figures of World War II. It is their material, often collected at great personal risk to themselves, which is most often used by film and television program makers today, however, little credit has ever been been afforded to the actual cameramen themselves.