Embark on a journey of discovery with "Crystal Clarity: A Beginner's Guide to Healing Stones: Harnessing the Power of Crystals for Wellness." This comprehensive guide offers a wealth of knowledge on how crystals can improve your physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. It's your key to understanding and applying the ancient practice of crystal healing."Crystal Clarity" takes you on a captivating journey through the history and science of these mysterious stones. Learn how the un...

We are often told that mean welfare is what the public wants. Whether or not that's true, this book encourages us to at least be honest about what that entails.It explores how diverse welfare users navigate the personal and practical hurdles of Australia’s so-called social security system, where benefits are deliberately meagre and come with strings attached. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in a region of Sydney known for ethnic diversity and socio-economic disadvantage, Emma Mitch...

Emma Mitchell has suffered with depression—or as she calls it, "the grey slug"—for twenty-five years. In 2003, she moved from the city to the edge of the Cambridgeshire Fens and began to take walks in the countryside around her new home, photographing, collecting, and drawing as she went. Each walk lifted her mood, proving to be as medicinal as any talking therapy or pharmaceutical.In Emma's hand-illustrated diary, she takes us with her as she follows the paths and trails around he...

Little Gwendolyn never expected a boring day to be anything else but boring. But when she finds herself in a mysterious forest, what adventures will she find around the corner? Join Gwendolyn as she meets new friends and discovers an enchanted place in the clouds.

Read by the author, Nancy Birtwhistle.Simple swaps and innovative ideas for cleaning and maintaining your home that won't cost the Earth – from tricky stains to descaling kettles.This engaging guide with 101 hints and sustainable, natural cleaning tips and hacks will help you take small steps that have a massive positive environmental impact.In Clean & Green, Great British Bake Off winner and Sunday T...

Care is fundamental to our individual and collective well-being, but it is also deeply implicated in historical and present-day injustices.Taking seriously the darker potentialities of care as a relation of exploitation and domination, this edited collection interrogates the social and governance infrastructures that variously shape, expropriate, necessitate and unravel care at the ‘private’ interpersonal level.Combining rich empirical analysis and theoretical rigour, the c...

Bringing to mind rockers and royals, Buckingham Palace and the Scottish Highlands, Britain holds a special interest for international audiences who have flocked in recent years to quality exports like Fish Tank, Trainspotting and The King's Speech. A series of essays and articles exploring the definitive films of Great Britain, this addition to Intellect's Directory of World Cinema series turns the focus on England together with Northern Ireland, Scotlan...

In this book international geography educators discuss the ways in which geographical knowledge is recontextualised in schools and consider effective approaches to facilitate, improve and advance geography education in research and practice. It addresses key topics in recontextualising geography such as the epistemic relationships between the university discipline and the school subject, designing and evaluating the geography curriculum, the role of students in the transformation of knowle...

Audie Awards 2022 Finalist in the Mystery categoryA THRILLING NEW SERIES FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER CAROLINE MITCHELL'Twisty, tense and creepy as hell... I loved it!' - K.L. SLATER**'**Will keep you on the edge of your seat' - ALICE HUNTER_______'I remember the day I died quite clearly.'Blackhall Manor has witnessed many dark crimes, long before five teenage girls...

Introducing the Wilder Brothers.Ten sexy, built, slightly overprotective brothers.Ten women who won’t back down in order to protect those they love.When the Wilder brothers return home after leaving the military and the lives they fought to build, they’ll have to start from scratch and create roots when they had none before. They’re moving to a new state, a new town, and with a new set of problems they never expected. Falling in love along the way isn’t in the cards, but th...

When hundreds of birds fall from the sky into Slayton's lake in a terrifying freak event, the waters are dredged - revealing a dark, long-held secret.An old pram is pulled from the depths, with the bones of a baby still strapped inside.It's the moment that new mother, Cora, has been dreading since she moved to Slayton - because someone knows, and is going to make her pay.With the help of forensic anthropologist Sophia Hudson, and th...

Written by a team of leading experts working in different second language acquisition (SLA) specialisms, this fifth edition is a clear and concise introduction to the main theories of SLA from multiple perspectives, comprehensively updated to reflect the latest developments in SLA research.The book covers all the main theoretical perspectives currently active in SLA and sets each chapter within a broader framework. Chapters examine the claims and scope of each theory and how each v...