SECOND OPINION follows grief counsellor Mara Voss, a woman who has spent eleven years helping people survive loss. She believes in psychology, in clinical reasoning, and in the fragile ways the human mind copes with death. But when a new patient arrives describing her daughter's final moments before a sudden unexplained death, Mara begins noticing disturbing similarities across her cases.Again and again, the bereaved describe the same impossible thing.A presence in the corn...

The once derided musical hybrid that is 1970s Jazz Fusionhas since become one of the most influential genres of music in jazz, rock, soul, and hip-hop.The once derided musical hybrid that is 1970s Jazz Fusion has since become one of the most influential genres of music in jazz, rock, soul, and hip-hop. This book is a celebration of one of the most adventurous but unappreciated eras in popular music, wherein the traditional sounds of jazz were melded and mashed up w...

Deep in the cellar of somewhere, secrets lurk.Somewhere challenges perceptions of paradise and power in this gripping tale of longing and reckoning with the sins of our ancestors.Lee Thompson, a recent college graduate, finds himself in rural Missouri, a place he never imagined calling home. However, despite its storybook charm-friendly neighbors, quaint shops, and lively festivals-the town guards macabre secrets that defy explanation.Stran...

This book investigates the emergence of organic food and farming as a social movement. Using the tools of political sociology it analyzes and explains how both people and ideas have shaped a movement that from its inception aimed to change global agriculture. Starting from the British Empire in the 1930's, where the first trans-national roots of organic farming took hold, through to the internet-mediated social protests against genetically modified crops at the end of the twentieth century...

If you want to understand how Bitcoin works and trade cryptocurrency like a market wizard, then keep reading!Bitcoin had taken the world by storm once again when it crossed $60,000 per BTC in October of last year. Immediately, as happened in 2017, many people started trying to improvise themselves as professional investors. While some of them have made decent returns in the past few months, there is no doubt they will give them back to the market once prices stop going parabolic. T...

If you want to discover the strategies to turn the market into a cash cow, keep reading!Bitcoin had taken the world by storm once again when it crossed $20,000 per BTC in December of 2020. Immediately, as happened in 2017, many people started trying to improvise themselves as professional traders. While some of them have made decent returns in the past few months, there is no doubt they will give them back to the market once prices stop going up. After all, there is no need to be a...

If you want to learn how to find the next 100x projects, keep reading!Once Bitcoin broke $60,000 in October 2021, everyone became a cryptocurrency expert overnight. People who had never bought a single coin before in their life began preaching how they had always been crypto enthusiasts. That is fine; it is part of the general hype around this world, contributing to the development of the sector.However, if you want to truly understand what cryptocurrencies are, you need to...

As a literary agent, Joy Eggerichs Reed sees book proposals that, unfortunately, she writes off after about sixty seconds of skimming.While that may sound harsh, there are specific things she looks for that show her immediately how seriously a writer takes their goals of getting published.Even though the first steps of writing and figuring out how to publish a book can feel daunting, this book will not only give you everything you need for an incredible pro...

In this marriage of memoir and manifesto, Elizabeth May reflects on her extraordinary life and the people and experiences that have formed her and informed her beliefs about democracy, climate change, and other crucial issues facing Canadians. The book traces her development from child activist who warned other children not to eat snow because it contained Strontium 90 to waitress and cook on Cape Breton Island to law student, lawyer, and environmentalist and finally to leader of the Green...

With an election looming and criticism of the ALP now a national pastime, Mark Latham considers the future for Labor. The nation has changed, but can the party?With wit and insight, Latham reveals an organisation top-heavy with factional bosses protecting their turf. At the same time Labor’s traditional working-class base has long been eroding. People who grew up in fibro shacks now live in double-storey affluence. Families once resigned to a lifetime of blue-colla...

A new generation of food activists has come to believe that "sustainable farming" and "eating local" are the way to solve a host of perceived problems with our modern food supply system. By combining healthy eating and a high standard of environmental stewardship, these locavores think, we can also deliver important economic benefits and increase food security within local economies.But after a thorough review of the evidence, economic geographer Pierre Desrochers and policy analys...

Climate chaos and pollution, deforestation and consumerism: the crisis facing human civilization is clear enough. But the response of politicians has been cowardly and inadequate, while environmental activists have tended to favour single-issue campaigns rather than electoral politics. The No-Nonsense Guide to Green Politics measures the rising tide of eco-activism and awareness and explains why this event heralds a new political era worldwide: in the near futurethere will be no o...