The environment that we construct affects both humans and our natural world in myriad ways. There is a pressing need to create healthy places and to reduce the health threats inherent in places already built. However, there has been little awareness of the adverse effects of what we have constructed-or the positive benefits of well designed built environments.This book provides a far-reaching follow-up to the pathbreaking Urban Sprawl and Public Health, published in 2004. That book...

Are you ready to step into a joyful and liberating new adventure of life, leaving behind the feeling of being trapped within a small story? In this groundbreaking book, you will embark on a transformative inner journey, navigating the realms of your psyche with cutting-edge practices and advanced soul play, unlocking the stabilizing forces of your consciousness and shaping your reality with deep meaning.Join us on this captivating transformative inner journey and e...

Are you sick of the arguments? The misunderstandings? The conflict, anxiety and lack of intimacy?Are you frustrated that your relationship is missing the fire and excitement that you know it could have? Do you want to know how to restore the passion that both of you used to feel?Do you wish that someone understood what it’s like dealing with different languages, customs, traditions, family beliefs, religions, food, sex practices and attitudes?If you...

Have you ever longed for a journey that could unlock the boundless realms of Joy and Freedom within you? Look no further than "The Seed: Journeys of Joy and Freedom, Volume 1." This groundbreaking playbook by Gwen Juvenal holds the key to a transformative experience that bridges ancient wisdom with modern insight.How can one embark on a voyage of self-discovery, echoing the practices of shamans and plant medicine, while developing skills for a truer connection to one's inner source...

Have you been searching for an answer to your gut health issues but found the path scientific and hard to understand?Are you sick and tired? Are you experiencing unexplained weight gain, bloat, gas, a foggy mind, an irritable bowel and strange moods?Have you tried countless diets and even spoken to professionals but the feeling in your gut just doesn't seem to settle?Would you like to finally understand what's happening to you?Solving your g...

Looking for a way to approach the subject of adoption with your child?An adopted girl travels to Haiti to meet her biological family for the first time. Escorted by her adoptive parents, she is filled with many fears.Why didn’t her birth parents keep her?Was there something wrong with her?Was she so different that she could not stay with them in Haiti?Why does she live in a different country?What will h...

From a complicated Haitian life to heart surgery to homelessness, Cynthia Josaphat’s struggles to survive her new life in the United States seem endless.After she’s taken from the only home she’s ever known by a domineering yet distant father, Cynthia’s life takes a sudden turn towards despair. Away from her mother for the first time, the Haitian teenager resolves to make the best of a difficult transition to America. Life in Haiti wasn’t perfect, but it was the on...

Mommy, I Need My Wheels is a children's picture book about learning to ride a bike like a big kid.Eddy wants to ride his bike, but the training wheels are gone! Daddy took them off so Eddy could learn to ride without them, but Eddy is used to riding with the training wheels, and he is upset.Who knew riding a bike could be so hard?When Eddy crashes his bike and falls off, he is ready to give up.Will ...

Clark always sleeps with the little dragon, but tonight the little dragon is nowhere to be found! There are so many places to look. Is he under the bed? In the closet? Maybe Clark will never find his friend. Where can Little Dragon be?

Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment (LVIA) can be key to planning decisions by identifying the effects of new developments on views and on the landscape itself.This fully revised edition of the industry standard work on LVIA presents an authoritative statement of the principles of assessment. Offering detailed advice on the process of assessing the landscape and visual effects of developments and their significance, it also includes a new expanded chapter on cumulative effects a...

Sustainable design is booming, but the men and women dedicated to reducing their carbon impact have lost sight of what they are trying to save: the natural world. Author Neil Chambers has been at the forefront of cutting-edge, sustainable architecture for years, and Urban Green is his revolutionary vision for bringing the power of the conservation and design movements together. He advocates looking to nature for the missing components of the green revolution: oysters that can clea...

Global warming is changing the world as we know it. Climate change can have catastrophic impacts in numerous cities across the world. It is time for us to react – quickly and effectively. The European Community (EC) has been leading the fight against climate change, making it one of its top priorities. We have introduced the most ambitious targets of their kind, known as the “20/20/20 by 2020” initiative within the “Climate Action and Renewable Energy Package.” As a result, European Member...