After a kidney stone, every meal can feel like a test. You leave the clinic with advice to drink more water and avoid spinach, but no 1 tells you what to put in your cart tomorrow for a family of 4. This guide replaces fear with a cart you can actually push. Built for the 1 in 10 adults who will face a stone, it turns prevention into 101 foods and simple recipes you can cook on a Tuesday night in 20 minutes or less.The science is direct. Dilute urine, controlled sodium, adequate ca...

As the only journalist on the island of Hopeless, Maine, Frampton Jones has seen terrible things. His quest for the truth exposes him to strangeness at every turn. Now someone is leaving him messages written with the remains of fish. The island's spoon thief may be using his home as their hideout. His camera is probably possessed by something unspeakable. Trying to make sense of the things he encounters is an ongoing flirtation with madness. A Semblance of Truth is set at about the same ti...

Bob thought moving three states away would be the fresh start he needed.Instead, he finds himself living a quiet, anonymous life in a cramped apartment, working long hours at a factory where no one knows his name. His new city is filled with strangers, and each evening ends the same way.Everything changes when he meets the women across the hall.Sarah and Maya are intelligent, graceful, and effortlessly welcoming. Their apartment feels more like a sanctuary than a ho...

Winner of the Garden Media Guild's Practical Book of the Year 2025, this is the ultimate guide to gardening under glass.Thinking of buying a greenhouse but aren’t sure what to grow in it, or how? Or maybe you've inherited a garden with a greenhouse, but haven’t got a clue what to do with it? Whatever your journey to growing under glass, this book gives a clear, inspiring, and brilliantly illustrated approach to all things greenhouse.A protected growing envi...

When a stressed and overworked adult named Jay finds himself spiraling in life with a loss of job. An unexpected advice opens the door to a radical new beginning.Through gentle but firm guidance, Jay is introduced to a world where adult responsibilities are stripped away and replaced with structure, nurture, and regression. As Jay transitions into his new role as a "baby," he slowly surrenders control and discovers comfort, identity, and belonging in a way he never imagined. Time f...

A Small Town Inspirational Novel About Faith and the Quiet Power of KindnessThe day Bobby Fields lost his family, he stopped believing in purpose.A husband, a son, a brother, gone in a single crash that left him with nothing but silence and a settlement he couldn't bear to touch. Years later, Bobby trades the classroom for a carpet wand, scrubbing away other people's stains because he can't erase his own. What begins as work soon becomes worship.Acr...

Britain's most important relationship, between civil servants and ministers, has reached breaking point. Drawing on interviews with former government ministers and Permanent Secretaries – including Vince Cable, Caroline Flint, Rory Stewart, Philip Rutnam, Simon McDonald and Una O'Brien – The Mind of the Minister provides expert guidance and recommendations for how this vital relationship can improve.Centuries of carefully built trust and mutual understanding have been unde...

This edited collection offers the first system-wide account of the impact of COVID-19 on crime and justice in England and Wales. It provides a critical discussion of the challenges faced by criminal justice agencies (prison, probation, youth justice, courts, police), professionals and service users in adapting to the extraordinary pressures of the pandemic on policy, practice and lived experience.The text integrates first-hand narrative and artistic accounts from a variety of key s...

Film is made of moments. In its earliest form, the cinema was a moment: mere seconds recorded and projected into the darkness. Even as film has developed into today's complex and intricate medium, it is the brief, temporary and transitory that combines to create the whole. Our memories of films are composed of the moments we deem to be crucial: touchstones for our understanding and appreciation. Moments matter.The 38 specially commissioned essays in Film Moments examine a wide sele...

The biographical film or biopic is a staple of film production in all major film industries and yet, within film studies, its generic, aesthetic, and cultural significance has remained underexplored. The Biopic in Contemporary Film Culture fills this gap, conceptualizing the biopic with a particular eye toward the "life" of the genre internationally. New theoretical approaches combine with specially commissioned chapters on contemporary biographical film production in Ind...

Going through this world in relationship with other people inevitably creates connections in our inner being called soul ties. When these relationships are loving, supportive, and nurturing, positive soul ties are created. But if the relationships become abusive or manipulative, or cause rejection, they create a toxic brokenness within our soul that we carry with us, even long after the relationship ends. If these toxic inner soul ties are not severed, we will experience failure, ...

This innovative and timely collection offers a wide-reaching critical evaluation of performance in television, mapping out key conventions, practices and concerns while introducing performance theory and criticism to the established field of television studies. Chapters from leading scholars move through a range of examples from different styles and genres, from Game of Thrones to America's Next Top Model. Individual performances are analysed in close detail as the author...