A pregnancy test should have been simple joy—until Hudson realizes the due date falls right after Wolf-Star Night, the one night the sky "names" which newborns will become werewolves. Their daughter arrives minutes too late to be ordinary, and by her first transformation she's pulled into the Dark Forest, renamed, and marked by a voice that stops time and whispers a single promise: become the first female Wyatt—or lose everything. But when prophetic dreams start bleeding i...

An award-winning poet’s second collection asks: how might grief serve as a tunnel into the liberated world?A reflective work exploring grief, home, and artistic responsibility in the wake of the death of a father, medical difficulties in the family, and the ongoing US-Zionist genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, George Abraham’s work exists in spectral kinship with queer ancestor Etel Adnan’s Arab Apocalypse.Radiant with a tenderness that is only...

This book focuses on developing a holistic sustainability assessment model for built environment that can help in identifying sustainability issues and parameters for the built environment. It covers a wide range of sustainable built form issues in the local and regional contexts.The volume identifies significant built form sustainability indicators, criteria and sub-criterion while highlighting the importance of incorporating sustainability principles and assessment of sustainabil...

This book discusses the role and significance of symbols and symbolism in graphical communication toward the establishment of meaningful architecture. It explores how these are effectively applied in architectural education for the empowerment of learners in various cultures around the world. The volume examines the developments in graphic representations while recognizing the importance of cognition and its perception in spatial terms. In a scenario where architectural education is at cro...

A love letter to Palestinian ancestors, their descendants, and their land, to all anti-colonial and anti-imperialist struggles, to a history that will never be forgotten, and to a future in which there thrives a free, free Palestine.Poetry has always served as a mode of resistance in Palestinian culture. In defiance of dispossession and decades of military siege, of a nakba that never ended, of historical and cultural obfuscation, of unrelenting violence and thousa...

Readers' Choice Award WinnerThe level of injustice in the world is staggering. The church can respond.International Justice Mission (IJM) has rescued thousands of people from oppression and violence.IJM also partners with thousands of churches to help them live out the mandate of Isaiah 1:17: to seek justice, rescue the oppressed and care for orphans and widows. Christians need to be equipped and mobilized to be the hands and feet of Jesus ...

This book is not an intellectual book. Nor is it thought provoking. It is meant to be a hoot. It has no plot, no love story, no crime, no conspiracy. It is stark in its simplicity. In as much as I mean for it to transport the readers like a time machine, back into the fifties and sixties, I hope it will also help to prove the theory that a Malayalee can be found anywhere on Earth, even on the edges of the forests of a little-known place called Perlis in Malaya.This book is about the...

A galaxy of voices. A universe of belonging.The innovative fictions in Infinite Constellations showcase the voices and visions of 30 remarkable writers, both new and established, from the global majority: Native American/First Nation writers, South Asian writers, East Asian writers, Black American writers, Latinx writers, and Caribbean and Middle Eastern writers. These are visions both familiar and strange, but always rooted in the mystery of huma...

The book is a compilation of history more from the social perspective over the years written without any ideological baggage or political agenda for anyone who is interested in the history of Cochin and Central Kerala and its evolution. The book also briefly covers the geography of Kerala, literature, customs, culture, and religion. Kerala’s culture is a composite and cosmopolitan culture to which several people and races have made their significant contributions. In fact, the secret of th...

Stretching across nearly the entire width of peninsular India, the Vindhya Range symbolically divides the North and South. South of the Vindhya range lies a triangular-shaped mass of ancient rock, the Deccan Plateau, which slopes gently eastward towards the Bay of Bengal. Godavari, Krishna and the Cauvery are Southern rivers that originate in the rain-soaked peaks of the Western Ghats.The Western Ghats Mountain Range or the Sahyadri Range begins South of the Tapti River, close to th...

“This is the Land of One of the oldest living culture of the world, the Dravidians! They defined culture through their living! A culture which attracted innumerable people to this magical land, who live here, enmeshed through great teachings and scripted Epics that evolved a way of life.”The History of the World has seen Men and Women born to change the course of our lives through their personalities. We call them role models. Time will honor them as Greats and Legends.

“Religions must have evolved as a way of life, doctrines may fade as we move towards spirituality on the road to truth, which is bright as the day light”In this simple compilation I have thought about a few lives, I hope have showed us some light to carry us through in the dark pervasive days of human lives.I believe in merciful God who sends his messengers to take up missions dedicated and delicate as they deal human minds.There are a many more in the shadows working...