Jan Merete Weiss’s Italy comes to life as Captain Natalia Monte of the Naples Carabiniere returns to investigate a murder committed at the heart of the great city’s art community.When the bodies of two men are found, shockingly posed, in the garden of an elderly countess, Captain Natalia Monte of the Carabiniere is assigned the case. Soon she finds herself shuttling between Naples’s decadent art galleries and violent criminal underworld. If she is to succeed in sol...

In the Italian city of Naples, senior police officer Captain Natalia Monte is called to investigate the theft of a painting from the medieval Church of San Domenico Maggiore. No sooner is the investigation underway than the city is rocked by a much graver crime: the murder of a talented and much-loved female violinist, known across the city and beyond.As Captain Monte and her fellow Carabinieri interview close friends and family of the victim, they sense all around them the dark fo...

Sometimes feelings get so big, they feel like a balloon ready to pop.Henry is having a very big feeling.When his mom returns home from a quick trip to the grocery store, she finds Henry sitting alone and crying. He cannot explain exactly why he is upset, and his siblings do not understand either. But Mom knows that sometimes children experience feelings that are simply too big to put into words.With patience, understanding, and a loving heart, Mom h...

GENECAUST HomeLand 1st in a series of Technothrillers, is a 135,000 + words Novel about a massive biochemical attack in the Middle East.This upgrade has an enhanced closing and is a much lower foot print. We removed more than 100 graphics from chsapters to reduce band-width and shipping cost for Paperback copies. The new cover sets a darker tone, and urgency befitting a Hard ascience fiction - Technothriller. .To find the people behind the plot, SA...

This open access book illustrates how systemic theory, as both a meta-theory and a relational organic theory, can be a suitable framework for understanding and appreciating the new horizons of systemic practice with children and families in their various contexts. The different chapters shed light on how systemic perspectives, as they are presented in their varying contexts, promote hope by giving room for reflections on uncertainty, change, opportunities, interconnections, and differences...

DescriptionSmart Killing Virus, a Techno Hard - Science -Thriller is the second book in the Meret Mather Mystery Series.In this sequel to Genecaust, Meret is Driven by the invention of CRISPER, the first Toolbox for programming Genome. She continues her efforts to protect the possible plethera of advances in genomic medicine from those who would use the power of CRISPER to the Dark Side and develope malware for ransom or assignation. "Their Mantra is" What ...

A collection of poems about the love women feel for their horse, and other poems about life, death and many things in between. Illustrated with beautiful photographs.

This comprehensive volume brings together a diverse set of scholars to analyse candidate nomination, intra-party democracy, and election violence in Africa. Through a combination of comparative studies and country-specific case studies spanning much of Sub-Saharan Africa, including Kenya, Zambia, and South Africa, the authors shed light on violence during candidate nomination processes within political parties. The book covers several cases that vary significantly in terms of democracy, pa...

This book explores the various applications of systemic understanding in practice. Each chapter covers diverse working contexts and existential life dilemmas, tackling subjects such as: systemic work with individuals, single session family therapy, experiences of adult longing, the therapeutic relationship as a form of love, working systemically with experiences of marginalisation, cultural difference and diversity, the integration of recent neuroscience developments with systemic therapy ...

The Routledge International Handbook of Relational Pedagogy provides a vision that foregrounds dialogic, nurturing, inclusive relationships underpinning children and students' wellbeing and growth, offering an alternative educational vision to the neoliberal discourse dominant in education worldwide.With eminent contributors from across the globe, it provides a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art of theoretical, conceptual, empirical, and practice-based tensions...

Today, it often seems as though Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) have reached a stage of normalization, at least in some countries and among certain social groups. Apparently some practices – for example in vitro fertilization (IVF) – have become standard worldwide. The contributors to Assisted Reproduction Across Borders argue against normalization as an uncontested overall trend.This volume reflects on the state of the art of ARTs. From feminist perspectives, th...

When the bodies of two men are found shockingly posed in the garden of an elderly countess, Captain Natalia Monte of the Carabiniere is assigned the case. Soon she finds herself shuttling between Naples' decadent art galleries and violent criminal underworld. If she is to succeed in solving the heinous crime, Natalia must deal with not only her own complicated past and allegiances but also those of the city as a whole. A Few Drops of Blood is a riveting and poetic exploration of t...