Beyond Screen Time Guilt: The Role of TV and Video in Early Child Development by Cary Bazalgette offers a fresh and insightful perspective on babies’ and toddlers’ relationship with moving image media. Forget the guilt-inducing screen time rules and dire warnings about developmental harm – this book reveals what’s really happening when your little one is captivated by their favourite show.Drawing on meticulous observational research and 35 years of media education expertis...

A British officer recounts his harrowing years as a POW in Thailand, including his time as the camp commandant, in this WWII memoir.Colonel Cary Owtram served with the 137th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, and the 11th Indian Infantry Division in Malaysia. After being captured by the Japanese in Singapore, he was transported to the infamous Burma railway. He went on to spend the next three and a half years in grueling captivity in Thailand, first in Ban Pong Camp a...

Driverless cars race to kill in a thriller from "Gridlock Sam" Schwartz, who "knows everything about how cars and people don't get along", with Cary Pepper ( The New York Times Book Review )."An expert in traffic jams has a scary idea: what if the cars turn on us? Sam Schwartz, a former New York City traffic commissioner, thinks autonomous vehicles are the future. But his book, Autokill

Finalist for the 2014 Silver Birch Express AwardDanny finds himself stranded at the bottom of a giant construction hole, armed with nothing but his school backpack, his wits — and the company of a poetry-spouting mole …Danny’s parents have always been a bit flaky, but this time they have gone too far. Now his mother wants to bake cheesecakes in the mountains, and his father wants to be an opera singer. That means Danny and his older brother will spend half ...

Despite the varieties of impressions, interpretation and opinion expressed by Wilhelm, Jung and Cleary, the meditation technique described by The Secret of the Golden Flower is a straightforward, silent, multileveled technique designed and expressed as the progressive integration of some inner mandala rising inside some "golden palace" or "chamber" ; the book's description of meditation has been characterized as 'Zen with details'. The meditation technique, set forth in poetic language, re...

Learn that there is another way to live than collecting more stuff, burning through cash on things we don't need and filling our lives with time duties that we aren't enthusiastic about just to stay "occupied."Minimalism is tied in with living a purposeful, essential and satisfying life through settling on conscious decisions. It implies less mess, fewer time responsibilities, less pressure, nervousness and belonging; additional time, space, and vitality f...

From actor Cary Elwes, who played the iconic role of Westley in The Princess Bride, comes the New York Times bestselling account of the making of the cult classic film filled with never-before-told stories, exclusive photographs, and interviews with costars Robin Wright, Wallace Shawn, Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest, and Mandy Patinkin, as well as author and screenwriter William Goldman, producer Norman Lear, and director Rob Reiner.The Prin...

They wake up with hours gone. Marks they cannot explain. A memory that only arrives later—and may not be a memory at all.For seventy years, people have reported the same sequence: light, paralysis, grey figures, a procedure, then a hole in the night. Betty and Barney Hill put it on the map. Hopkins, Jacobs, and Mack built careers on what came after. Implants, hybrids, missing time, Men in Black. The story is consistent enough to haunt. The proof is not.Alien Endgame does not ask you to bel...

BLACK HAND follows the Pentagon's most classified UAP work through whistleblower testimony, special-operations retrieval pilots, declassified fragments, and the gaps those records were built to leave behind. What they recovered was not dead metal. It was living technology that answers to attention. What they built around it was worse: psychic assets used as human lures, minds conditioned as joysticks, and a breakaway system running in parallel with ordinary government. Across ten documenta...

The charming and larcenous Gulley Jimson has an insatiable genius for creation and a no less remarkable appetite for destruction. Is he a great artist? a has-been? or an exhausted, drunken ne'er-do-well?Originally published in 1944, The Horse's Mouth is acclaimed Irish author Joyce Cary's third instalment in his First Trilogy and sequel to Herself Surprised (1941) and To Be A Pilgrim (1942). It follows the adventures of Gulley Jimson, an artist who would exploit his friends and acqu...

It walks on two legs. It has a wolf's head. Witnesses say it is six to ten feet tall, and it does not behave like a dog that got lost.From Michigan's Upper Peninsula to the Ozarks, the Great Lakes woods, and older stories that never used the word Dogman, people keep reporting the same wrong animal: bipedal, coarse-furred, glowing-eyed, strong enough to own the tree line. Some freeze. Some run. A few say it watched them like it was deciding.Jack Cary does not ask you to believe in a monster...

Longlisted for the 2012 Scotiabank Giller PrizeCary Fagan began his career writing short stories before moving on to novels as well as numerous books for children. Yet he has never given up his love for the story form. Here are ten new stories whose characters are funny, serious, peculiar, and absorbing — as only Cary Fagan can write them.Covering a wide range of human experience with humour and grace, My Life among the Apes is a testament to Cary Fagan’s mastery o...