Biology of Plant Metabolomics is an exciting new volume in Wiley-Blackwell's highly successful Annual Plant Reviews series. Concentrating on the biology and biological relevance of plant metabolomics, each chapter, written by internationally-acknowledged experts in the field from at least two different research groups, combines a review of the existing biological results with an extended assessment of possible future developments and the impact that these will have on the type of ...

Two popular American Buddhist teachers provide an overview of insight meditation, offering a “skillful blend of pragmatic instruction, psychological insight, and perennial wisdom” (Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence)In Seeking the Heart of Wisdom, Joseph Goldstein and Jack Kornfield present the central teachings and practices of insight meditation in a clear and personal language. The path of insight meditation is a journey of unders...

TEMPERS FLARE IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT……And the wrong move, the wrong word, even the wrong look can set off any man or woman already driven past their boiling point. A Hot and Sultry Night for Crime, edited by bestselling author Jeffery Deaver, features 20 stories of people dealing with not just the torrid weather, but all different kinds of heat. From a retired police chief pitching in on a missing dog report that leads to him solving a murder to...

Communicating Mental Health: History, Contexts, and Perspectives explores mental health through the lens of the communication discipline. In the first section, contributors describe the major contributions of the communication discipline as it pertains to a broader perspective and stigma of mental health. In the second section, contributors investigate mental health through various narrative perspectives. In the third and fourth sections, contributors consider many applied contexts such as...

Mental Health among Higher Education Faculty, Administrators, and Graduate Studentsaddresses how many academics who experience mental distress or mental illness are afraid to speak out because of cultural stigma and fears of career repercussions. Many academics’ reluctance to publicly disclose their struggles complicates attempts to understand their experiences through research or popular media, or to develop targeted mental health resources and institutional policies. This volume builds o...

Enduring Motives examines tradition and religious beliefs as they are expressed in landscape, the built environment, visual symbols, stories, and ritual.Bringing together archaeologists and Native American experts, this volume focuses on long-lived religious traditions of the native peoples of the Americas and how religion codifies, justifies, and reinforces these traditions by placing a high value on continuity of beliefs and practice.Using clues from the archaeol...

The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives.But finding a starting point can be overwhelming, even off-putting, so in this series we offer up our Top 10 classic poet...

Fact or Fiction? You Decide is a rare and powerful spiritual work that dares to challenge the deepest assumptions of human existence. Drawing from more than fifteen years of daily immersion in A Course in Miracles, Robert Hall distills the Course's most profound metaphysical teachings into a clear, accessible, and transformative journey. This book is not simply read - it is experienced. It invites the reader to question the nature of reality itself, to look beyond the surface of l...

What if the world you see, the body you inhabit, and the fears you carry have never been real at all? What if the universe itself began not with a cosmic explosion of matter, but with a single mistaken thought in the mind of Christ - a tiny instant of curiosity that seemed to separate the Son from the Source of all Love? And what if every moment of suffering, conflict, guilt, and death has been nothing more than a dream we are destined to awaken from?This manuscript is a sweeping, ...

A breathtaking spiritual journey through miracles, near‑death experiences, divine communication, and the collapse of time itself. When Lana-seventy‑five, wise, humble, and radiant with faith-was diagnosed with terminal pulmonary fibrosis, doctors gave her a year to live. Instead, she experienced a healing so profound it left medical professionals stunned. Later, during two separate near‑death experiences, she left her body, stood beside Jesus, and witnessed the vastness of creation-from th...

This is not a book about God. It is a book that dismantles everything you thought you knew about God, the universe, the soul, and your own identity - and then rebuilds it with a clarity that feels both ancient and shockingly new.In these pages, Robert Hall takes readers on a journey that begins with the deepest human pain - loss, tragedy, impossible survival - and rises into a breathtaking exploration of metaphysics, consciousness, and the true nature of existence. Drawing from dec...

Though fiction, The Triptych is firmly based on incidents in the lives of three ordinary men from the Hall family. Spanning nearly a century, this vivid narrative interweaves the fates of three generations caught in the tumult of three key historical events: the 1855 Siege of Sebastopol during the Crimean War; the Expedition to rescue General Gordon in 1884–85; and the fierce Dodecanese Campaign of 1943. While these stories form the triptych of the title, they are linked via the fate of a ...