This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Picture the school dance. Not the dancing — the edge of it. Your teenager standing there, wanting in, held back by noise and unwritten rules everyone else already has a copy of.Laura Mitchell wrote Navigating the Teenage Years: Autism & Adolescence for that exact edge — and for everyone standing near it. Parents bracing for puberty, IEP meetings, and the first fights about independence. Teachers trying to reach...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Somewhere in Osaka right now, a mother is being told for the third time that her son doesn't meet the threshold for a diagnosis. Somewhere in rural Nigeria, a grandmother is certain her granddaughter's silences are the work of a spirit. Somewhere in São Paulo, a teenager is learning, in fragments, what the word "autistic" means for him. Same neurology, everywhere. Completely different story, depending only on where in the world you ...

Healthy Living Essentials - Practical Tips for a Balanced Life is a comprehensive guide designed to help you achieve harmony in every aspect of your well-being. In today’s fast-paced world, maintaining a balanced lifestyle can be challenging, but this book provides simple, actionable tips to help you prioritize your physical, mental, and emotional health. Covering topics like nutrition, fitness, stress management, and self-care, Healthy Living Essentials offers practical advice to integrat...

Overcome the isolation of chronic pain and medical gaslighting with this empowering guide to true emotional healing. If you are exhausted by navigating undiagnosed pelvic discomfort or feeling dismissed by care providers, this compassionate listen offers the deep validation your reality demands.Stop letting cultural silence and systemic shame fracture the innate trust you hold in your own physical perception. By combining trauma-informed frameworks with grounded reassurance, this s...

This book of poetry does not read like a novel because of its rhyme, brevity and omission of detail. However, it is meant to teach, inspire, and awaken, opening eyes, ears and hearts to help examine ourselves, see who we as a people are, where we are headed and where we are taking our children, families, communities and nation, and what we can to do to help bring aboutor restorewholeness in our lives and the lives of others.The first poem in the collection...

**Read brilliantly by Laura Aikman (**Gavin and Stacey)HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO FOR A YEAR OFF WORK . . . ?'The comedy gold standard' – Stylist'This book will make you guffaw out loud' – Prima'It’s one that’s sure to have you laughing and crying in equal measures' – ExpressMeet Barri Brown. Respected teacher. Upstanding citizen...

Empires and their aftermaths were massive planning institutions; in the past two hundred years, the natural and social sciences emerged—at least in part—as modes of knowledge production for imperial planning. Yet these connections are frequently under-emphasized in the history of science and its corollary fields.The Planning Moment explores the myriad ways plans and planning practices pervade recent global history. The book is built around twenty-seven brief case studies t...

This edited volume offers an accessible avenue for improving health and well-being by demonstrating the power of narrative in advocating for yourself, your family, and your community. Leading scholars of health communication draw on a variety of perspectives, theories, and methodologies and incorporate their own personal experiences of narratives to demonstrate the compelling reasons why narratives should be studied and applied in a wide range of health contexts. Each cha...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice."Why does it feel like I'm finally starting to understand myself after all these years?" That question shows up quietly in a lot of autistic adults somewhere around forty, fifty, or sixty — often right after a diagnosis nobody expected this late, or a moment of recognition that arrives with no diagnosis at all.Laura Mitchell wrote Aging & Autism: Thriving in Midlife and Beyond for that exact mo...

Before the invention of smartphones, navigating a new city required building a mental map. We looked for landmarks, estimated distances, and actively engaged with our physical environment. Today, we simply stare at a glowing blue line on a screen and follow auditory commands. We arrive at our destination, but we have absolutely no idea how we got there. This reliance on GPS is a prime example of "cognitive offloading"—outsourcing our mental processing to an external device. While incredibl...

This open access book brings together scholars in the fields of management, public policy, regional studies, and organization theory around the concept of resilience. The aim is to provide a more holistic understanding of the complex phenomenon of resilience from a multi-sectorial, cross-national, and multidisciplinary perspective. The book facilitates a conversation across diverse disciplinary specializations and empirical domains. The authors contribute both to theory testing and theory ...

Design and create neural networks with deep learning and artificial intelligence principles using OpenAI Gym, TensorFlow, and KerasKey FeaturesExplore neural network architecture and understand how it functionsLearn algorithms to solve common problems using backpropagation and perceptronsUnderstand how to apply neural networks to applications with the help of useful illustrationsBook DescriptionNeural networks play a very imp...