In an era of interlocking planetary crises, how can we kindle an imagined future that is better than today? Feminist Dream Labs invites scholars and activists to reflect on their own daily practices and to articulate their dreams of better caring relations that centre community and build the resilience to thrive in times of crises.The result is a critical compilation that examines how we enact care in a post-Covid era and contemplates alternatives. Contributors analyze car...

Discover how to create and use natural remedies from home-grown herbs to enhance your health and well-being.As more people seek natural alternatives for general health and specific ailments, this comprehensive guide provides expert advice on safely growing, harvesting, and processing herbs to create natural remedies and use them in cooking.In this edition, Amanda J Watson has combined the latest scientific research with traditional and folklaw uses of plants.This bo...

The fact is, we all have some level of empathy for other people. However, if you are unable to regulate your empathy and always feel the need to "fix" other people, you are well aware of how excruciatingly annoying this trait can be.Empaths are frequently overcome by other people's emotions, they experience other people's feelings, and they have a deep understanding of other people's minds. Because of this, empaths are only concerned about other people. Negative people who wish to ...

She’s been off-limits from the moment I laid eyes on her. Stranded on the side of the road, she became more than that beautiful woman I saved one night. She became my obsession. Even though she’s only 19, and I’m nearly twice her age.I’ve basically become her stalker, but I can’t help it. Months ago, her big sister, Katie, was almost the victim of a serial killer during a first date gone wrong. Nothing like that is ever going to happen to my Chrissie.Keeping her safe is all...

I’m the girl most people peg as a future librarian. Shy. Nerdy. Excellent at hiding. Innocent with a capital I. Aside from being an overachiever who gained the freshman fifteen all in one semester, I know I’m not exactly doing college right. I don’t date, don’t flirt. Plus, I spend all my free time working.But if you were a nanny to the sweetest infant in the world, you’d get it. And if her incredible adoptive father were your hot, older boss, you’d really...

I’ve always been the good girl. The follower of rules. The believer of fairy tales. Sheltered, yet hopeful. Quiet, but...imaginative.Truth be told, I probably would’ve stayed the reserved brainiac simply settling all her life if not for him. Professor Theodore Whitman West. My brilliant mentor and personal Lord Byron fantasy come to life.I’ve been his student for most of my college career now, but I’ve yet to unravel the mystery be...

Catholic religious sisters in Canada occupy a complicated position as they endeavour to live out their vocations while simultaneously representing and confronting a patriarchal and colonial institution that has caused harm. For some this navigation has been painful; for others it has been impossible.Resisting Orders brings to light these women’s untold stories of resistance against religious doctrine and societal norms that contradict their feminist and social justice conv...

Asher Hansen began tormenting me our freshman year, not long after my father kicked him and his older brother off the compound with nothing but the clothes on their back.They blamed Dad for their mother taking her own life. To be honest, I think I did, too.Maybe that’s why I took it whenever Asher called me Cult Barbie and teased me mercilessly, saying the filthiest, most outrageous things.But that doesn't explain why his wo...

Politics in Australia is in a dire state. The Coalition government is led by its third prime minister in four years, two of whom were toppled by their own party. Before that, the Labor government ousted two prime ministers. Voters' trust in politicians is at an all-time low, there is policy inertia on key issues, and ideology and internal politics too often trump good government. We have the diagnosis, but what's the cure? In this collection of essays, the country's best academic minds loo...

Twenty years ago scientists made some remarkable discoveries with genetics and the ability to perfect the babies we gave birth to.Ten years ago the governments of the world made a hard choice: earth or people.Nine weeks ago the choices they made came full circle.Fourteen days ago the truth of their mutations leaked out into the borderlands and other areas.Yesterday the worst thing they ever made learned about what she was.Today she's coming for them,...

For Richer or For PoorerThe Five Money Personalities has returned in this revised edition by the new Money Couple: Taylor and Megan Kovar.Every couple argues about money. It doesn't matter if you've been married for forty years or dating for four months, money touches every decision you make as a couple. And when the two of you don't see eye to eye on spending and saving, disagreements turn into toxic fights that leave both feeling hurt and angry.

In this heart-wrenching exploration of unconditional love, what a mother finds in the aftermath of her son’s death could put her family back together—or tear them apart for good.In the wake of her son’s sudden death, Margaret Dobrescu struggles to keep it together in the face of her grief…and her guilt. She can’t help but blame herself for Kyle’s own lifelong struggles—namely, the alcoholism that plagued him.But within mere days of his funeral, secrets and ...