After the Tuscan Sunset is the brutally funny and sharp-witted counter-narrative to the romanticized Italian dream popularised by books such as, Under The Tuscan Sun.

Part memoir, part self-help, and all truth, this book charts one man's journey from deep trauma through survival to something more vital: thriving.Told with unflinching honesty and laced with dry humour, Ian Johnstone dismantles the clichés of academic and pseudo psychology that promotes the commercial recovery culture and survivor identity. Instead, he offers readers grounded tools for facing the past without being defined by it. Through personal stories, often visceral commentary...

From 1960 to 1990, islands across the Pacific gained independence or self-government. In the years following this, Ian Johnstone and Michael Powles interviewed the Pacific people in key leadership positions in the lead-up to and achievement of independence, many of whom became well-known in the Pacific and more widely. This book presents a nation-by-nation history of this change from being colonial subjects to citizens of Pacific nations from the point of view of the leaders involved. Acco...

Marie is still giving Ahearn [Douglas] cryptic clues to what might take place in his life. She has still not given him a direct yes or no to any of his questions and is leaving him more confused after appearing to clear his mind than he was before she appeared.Lady Lindsay will not allow Andrew or Kevin to investigate new buildings without her being there with them. Kevin is still messing up most of Andrew's theories to his annoyance, and Andrew is now visiting Lady Armstrong most ...

Lord Douglas Ahearn Stuart (Ahearn = Scottish Gaelic for Lord of the horses) has now turned thirty but still at war with the bad part of the Clan Douglas. James Douglas is in prison but his three cousins that Ahearn crossed and lost them their jobs are still out for vengeance. They once again pick on Morag (Lady Stuart) dragging her name through the mud, but she has a general fighting her case that surprises Ahearn.Andrew is still translating the diary of the first Lord Douglas Ahe...

Peace had arrived once more to the port and village of Hippolyta. The rogue Vandal army had been destroyed, and Vinzenz the evil commander in the Vandal army had been burned at the stake the previous night. Queen Echephyle and Queen Hippolyte had started their punishment for defying Hippolyta, Queen of all Amazons. They almost got Danilo the barbarian and Queen Andromache killed by not affording them an escort when returning from the imminent battle in the east.As it was every morn...

Law and Practice of the United Nations: Documents and Commentary combines primary materials with expert commentary, exploring the interaction between law, policy, and practice in the United Nations, as well as the challenges and opportunities global multilateral institutions face in a fast-changing global climate. The third edition of this renowned volume, used by teachers, practitioners, and scholars around the world, begins with a section on why the UN remains relevant in an era...

Ian Johnstone didn't just survive childhood trauma —he dismantled it.Victim, Survivor to Thriver is not a memoir dressed up as inspiration. It's raw, darkly funny, and brutally honest.A lived account of what it takes to move from victim, to survivor, to something stronger. No clichés. No soft edges.Just practical tools, hard truths, and a clear path forward —for anyone ready to stop Surviving and start taking control.

Hippolyta was a great Queen and a much-feared warrior, enslaving men to serve her and her army of Amazon women, and leading the army against anyone who threatened to disrupt her realm in the true traditions of her ancestors whose exploits had become legendary. Respected and feared by all, she was furious to hear that a large detachment of Attila the Hun's army was looting and pillaging her villages.As she set about tracking down the evil Hun, she was startled to come across a small...

Examining legal argumentation by states and other actors in the settings where it mostly transpires - outside of courts, Talking International Law challenges the realist assumption that legal argumentation is largely inconsequential. Addressing a gap in scholarship within international law and international relations theory, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of why it occurs, how, where, and to what effect by exploring the phenomenon in a range of issue areas, from secur...

Douglas was a Stuart, from a long line of Stuarts, and proud of it. Living with his adoptive parents Lord and Lady Stanley, his mother's cousins, after losing his mother when he was only three years old, Douglas had everything he could possibly need, and more.Not only were his adoptive parents wealthy, but also Douglas had inherited substantial assets himself, which came under his control as soon as he was eighteen. More interestingly, his mother had left him a small wooden box ful...

The Cameron men had abused women for centuries, and bullied and assaulted anyone else standing in their way. But ever since 1830 when one of them was executed in France for assaulting and murdering a young woman, they had been under a curse. Now, the end of the family line was in sight and the curse was about to become active. The remaining men of the family would suffer. Supernatural forces were at work, taking them again and again as they slept to suffer pain and torment at the hands of ...