Discover how to create and use natural remedies from home-grown herbs to enhance your health and well-being.As more people seek natural alternatives for general health and specific ailments, this comprehensive guide provides expert advice on safely growing, harvesting, and processing herbs to create natural remedies and use them in cooking.In this edition, Amanda J Watson has combined the latest scientific research with traditional and folklaw uses of plants.This bo...

Who is the juggling mother, the woman who quietly flicks dried cereal off her blazer while running a corporate empire? The Juggling Mother explores this figure of contemporary mothering in media representations: a typically white, middle-class woman on the verge of coming undone because of her unwieldy slate of labours.Mothers who frantically juggle paid and unpaid work demands do not threaten the way labour is organized. In fact, as Amanda Watson demonstrates, th...

This is the complete Men of Burly Bear series bundle, which includes all four books in the collection:Book one: The Mountain Man’s TemptationAn isolated mountain man rescues a young woman in danger. A very familiar young woman...Book two: The Loner’s ObsessionA lonely older man rescues the object of his obsession.Book three: The Billionaire’s NannyA jaded ...

I never forgot her. Sweet little Katie Baxter. Beautiful. Innocent. Completely off-limits. Or she used to be—eight years ago. I was twice her age then, old enough to know better than to fall in love with a teenager. But loving her was unavoidable. Raw. Real. All too right to be so wrong.Cutting myself off from the world and leaving my life behind was the only way to leave her untouched. It’s why I live the way I do now, secluded up in the ...

I’ve always been the good girl. The follower of rules. The believer of fairy tales. Sheltered, yet hopeful. Quiet, but...imaginative.Truth be told, I probably would’ve stayed the reserved brainiac simply settling all her life if not for him. Professor Theodore Whitman West. My brilliant mentor and personal Lord Byron fantasy come to life.I’ve been his student for most of my college career now, but I’ve yet to unravel the mystery be...

Catholic religious sisters in Canada occupy a complicated position as they endeavour to live out their vocations while simultaneously representing and confronting a patriarchal and colonial institution that has caused harm. For some this navigation has been painful; for others it has been impossible.Resisting Orders brings to light these women’s untold stories of resistance against religious doctrine and societal norms that contradict their feminist and social justice conv...

A red hot bully duet...Broken by the Bully:Asher Hansen began tormenting me our freshman year, not long after my father kicked him and his older brother off the compound with nothing but the clothes on their back.Maybe that’s why I took it whenever Asher called me Cult Barbie and teased me mercilessly, saying the filthiest, most outrageous things. But that doesn't explain why his words always made me feel.....

For four years, Jackson Hansen has done his best to make my life a living hell. Even when I finally agree that his brother is good for my best friend, Emma, he won’t give me a break.He mocks me, mortifies me, and worst of all...makes out with me in the backs of taxis when we’ve both had a few too many beers.He’s the last person I want as my plus one for a destination wedding.If only I hadn’t made that stupid bet or promised to be his sweet, obedient...

Politics in Australia is in a dire state. The Coalition government is led by its third prime minister in four years, two of whom were toppled by their own party. Before that, the Labor government ousted two prime ministers. Voters' trust in politicians is at an all-time low, there is policy inertia on key issues, and ideology and internal politics too often trump good government. We have the diagnosis, but what's the cure? In this collection of essays, the country's best academic minds loo...

Twenty years ago scientists made some remarkable discoveries with genetics and the ability to perfect the babies we gave birth to.Ten years ago the governments of the world made a hard choice: earth or people.Nine weeks ago the choices they made came full circle.Fourteen days ago the truth of their mutations leaked out into the borderlands and other areas.Yesterday the worst thing they ever made learned about what she was.Today she's coming for them,...

For Richer or For PoorerThe Five Money Personalities has returned in this revised edition by the new Money Couple: Taylor and Megan Kovar.Every couple argues about money. It doesn't matter if you've been married for forty years or dating for four months, money touches every decision you make as a couple. And when the two of you don't see eye to eye on spending and saving, disagreements turn into toxic fights that leave both feeling hurt and angry.

In this heart-wrenching exploration of unconditional love, what a mother finds in the aftermath of her son’s death could put her family back together—or tear them apart for good.In the wake of her son’s sudden death, Margaret Dobrescu struggles to keep it together in the face of her grief…and her guilt. She can’t help but blame herself for Kyle’s own lifelong struggles—namely, the alcoholism that plagued him.But within mere days of his funeral, secrets and ...