Greed Gone Good: A Roadmap to Creating Social and Financial Value brings the how-tos of impact finance to a broad- based audience of investors, from the individual to the institutional. Written in an engaging, jargon-free style and loaded with practical advice, it explores the pitfalls and potential of the burgeoning impact revolution—the increasingly widespread belief that business and financial leaders should weigh social value as well as financial value in all of their decision...

• 30 menus, each from a different country with 100 recipes in total.• All recipes are vegetarian. Many are vegan (such as blueberry cashew cheesecake or that holy grail, the vegan mac and cheese) or vegan adaptable.• Easy-to-follow recipes with suggestions for substitute ingredients.• Recipes in US measurements, written and fully-tested by experienced vegetarian food writer and editor of The Vegetarian (UK Vegetarian Society).• Ideal for themed parties ...

Hilary’s poems describe life in its fullness – its beauty, its pain, its purpose. Through the highs and lows of life’s journey the author openly expresses the deep emotions and questions faced by her, but also an eternal hope that keeps her moving forwards.Here are fifty-five pieces, varied in length and focus. Some are raw and restless, others sentimental, whimsical or quirky and yet others a pouring out of love from the heart and from God. The author’s hope is they will inspire r...

How will making friends with death inform our lives? Gignoux invites us to see into this great mystery as we relate to a friend. She has assembled stories that people have been telling one another over many centuries about the mysteries of life, death and beyond.

Prayer is a strange thing. Simple yet profound. How does it work? We don’t know. But God hears and loves us to talk to Him and to sit in His presence. Even in the darkness of night, when all the world seems to rest but you, there is a cry from the heart to a listening and understanding Father.GASP! is a fervent and arresting response to a fast-changing world, the joy of creation and connection, and the goodness found in people. The poems ask pertinent and hard questions about life,...

"Gignoux has written a fascinating account; tender and joyful, distressing and sad. Reading these stories will be time delightfully spent" - Lt. Colonel Dan Hall, USAF Ret. "This is not just a memoir; it is a revelation of how the power of spirit has guided and guarded Gignoux from childhood onward. A real treat." - Richard Schiffman, Journalist, author of What the Dust Doesn't Know

This delightful, romantic debut follows a sophisticated Manhattanite who trades her fast-paced Wall Street life for the English countryside, and unexpectedly becomes a nanny to the children of a widowed British lord. Who is as infuriating as he is intriguing...Jordy Greene has it all—the high-powered job, the high-octane New York lifestyle, the powerful lover—until she’s suddenly forced to flee the city. Running to avoid false charges of illegal trading and a destr...

Perfect for fans of Jennifer Weiner, Emily Giffin, and Jane Green.How would it feel to wake up one morning and discover that you’re married to James Bond? Shelley has always believed that her husband is a mild-mannered management consultant—but then one morning his picture appears on CNN above the headline “CIA Spy David Harris is Source of British News Leak.”Quiet, self-possessed David a spy? Impossible! But while Shelley is still reeling from the first re...

Developing Nursing Practice with Children and Young People explores the context of children's nursing in light of recent policy changes, and looks at contemporary issues and emerging roles within the field. Divided into four parts, Part One focuses on the emergence of children's nursing in healthcare, detailing events and developments that have shaped the role of children's nurses. Part Two examines many aspects of practice for registered practitioners in nursing, ranging from acu...

Supporting People with Dementia at Home details a groundbreaking study of an intensive care management scheme designed for older people with dementia that are at risk of entry into residential care. The authors use a quasi-experimental approach to compare how the individuals on the mental health team in one community were matched to a similar community without the service. They analyze the evidence focusing on the eventual placement of the individual suffering, the quality of care they rec...

A spine-chilling play by Hugh Janes, based on several original ghost stories by Charles Dickens.In an ancient, crumbling mansion, sheltering from the howling winds that tear across the surrounding desolate moorland, two men stumble across a dark and terrifying secret that will change both of their lives.When a young book dealer, David Filde, is employed by a former associate of his uncle to catalogue a private library, he finds an incredible array of rare and antiquated boo...

One of the problems of using plants in environmental studies is finding current information. Because plants play a key role in environmental studies, from the greenhouse effect to environmental toxicological studies, information is widely scattered over many different fields and in many different sources. Plants for Environmental Studies solves that problem with a single, comprehensive source of information on the many ways plants are used in environmental studies. Written by experts from ...