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The practice of ecological restoration, firmly grounded in the science of restoration ecology, provides governments, organizations, and landowners a means to halt degradation and restore function and resilience to ecosystems stressed by climate change and other pressures on the natural world. Foundational...

Advances in Poultry Welfare provides a targeted overview of contemporary developments in poultry welfare. The reviews in the volume address topical issues related to poultry welfare research and assessment, with a focus on identifying practical strategies for improvement as well as information gaps...

Famous: How Celebrity Lives Affect Our Own explores the effects celebrities have on their impressionable audience's lives, from copycat suicides, to postfeminist hypersexuality, to taking questionable celebrity health advice, and more. Celebrity advocacy and philanthropy are analyzed as contributors...

Separately Together: Ethnographic Engagements of the City, contributors focus on theorizing the notion of “the city” as a communicatively constituted cultural space, drawing on situated, reflexive ethnographic examinations of “the city” to show the complex and varied ways in which cities produce social meaning.

'The authors who have contributed to this book bring a wealth of expertise and a wide range of research findings. This gives the reader the opportunity to link theory with practice in a helpful and illuminating way' - Early Years Update Praise for the first edition: `...represents an...

Featuring stunning photographs and clear step-by step instructions, Hamlyn All Colour Cookbook: 200 Light Sugar-free Recipes is a great choice if you want to lower your sugar intake yet still enjoy the sweeter things in life. Recipes range from Scallops wrapped in Parma ham, Potato pizza margerita...

Written by a collection of experts in the field, this important new text provides a critical and constructive analysis of the ways in which service users and carers engage with health and social care services. Covering topics such as the importance of terminology, wellbeing and resilience and...

Guide For Awakening and Understanding Psychic & Spiritual Gifts allows the reader to explore the collective consciousness around us to delve into the psychic forces. The importance of embracing intuition and identifying few relevant colors act as the building blocks to engage with the psychic...

Discover the Gift presents a simple roadmap to a journey of self-discovery that will undoubtedly change your life forever. Sharing their own heartfelt personal stories of tragedy and redemption, Demian and Shajen introduce us to eight fundamental steps that will help you discover the gift within you...

À 17 ans, Amber Borden a un sens de l’orientation vraiment nul — tellement nul qu’elle prend un mauvais virage lorsqu’elle revient de son expérience de mort imminente. Elle se retrouve dans le corps de la fille la plus populaire de l’école, qui vient tout juste de tenter de se suicider....

Fifteen short stories set in old Travancore of the fifties: The narratives range from an elopement which turned out to be a blessing in disguise, friendship with an imaginary ghost, tragic death of a poor girl to a brave old lady who tames a rogue elephant. There is a chase by a lone tusker and hunt...

The Perfect Candidate Former foster kid Lauder Tolson is running for North Carolina state senate, but his bachelor status makes him look less than family oriented. He needs a lady love—just for the campaign. The ideal candidate is childhood nemesis Willow Dawson. But he once broke the beauty’s...

Jake, a middle-aged man, has a beautiful home, a well-paying job, a wife he dearly loves, and two teenage daughters, both of whom he adores. He is a very happy man and hardly ever remembers the bad thing he did when he was a teenager. The bad thing happened in nearly total darkness and was the result...

The pain of it all, what do you know about back pain until you feel it yourself. You cannot truly know anything, yet according to statistics, the majority of people in the world suffer some degree of back pain. Some people go through pain. Yet, these people have never survived injuries. Yet others...