Join everybody’s favourite flat boy for another magical adventure – It’s Jeff Brown’s Flat Stanley.Stanley’s Christmas AdventureSanta Claus is fed up. No one appreciates Christmas any more, so why should he deliver any presents? Santa's daughter, Sarah Christmas, asks the Lambchops for help. They have to find a way to save Christmas – and if anyone can, it's Stanley!Jeff Brown’s world-famous character Flat Stanley continues to charm half a century a...

The classic adventures of everybody’s favourite flat boy – It’s Jeff Brown’s Flat Stanley.Stanley Lambchop is an ordinary boy with an extraordinary problem. One night, a giant pinboard falls on top of him leaving him completely flat. At first, Stanley enjoys the benefits of his strange predicament – it can be fun going in out of rooms simply by sliding under the door. And it's a hoot being posted to your friends in California for a holiday. But it's not always easy being different,...

Flat Stanley goes north!Stanley Lambchop and his family are in British Columbia, Canada, for some skiing and winter fun. But when Stanley and his new friend Nick go snowboarding – with Stanley as the snowboard, of course – they take a midair tumble just as the wind picks up … and find themselves floating in an amazing Canadian cross-country journey that might just be Stanley's wildest adventure yet!Published in the USA as Flat Stanley: The Intrepid Canadian Expedition

In its assessment of the current "state of play" of ethnographic practice in social anthropology, this volume explores the challenges that changing social forms and changing understandings of "the field" pose to contemporary ethnographic methods. These challenges include the implications of the remarkable impact social anthropology is having on neighboring disciplines such as history, sociology, cultural studies, human geography and linguistics, as well as the potential ‘costs’ of this suc...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Discover the invisible mental scripts silently running your thoughts, decisions, and behaviors without your conscious awareness. This groundbreaking audiobook exposes the childhood conditioning, cultural programming, and societal influences that have shaped your mind since birth. Through fascinating psychological research and real-world examples, you will learn how advertising, education systems, and media have installed automatic thought patterns...

Ambivalent Europeans examines the implications of living on the fringes of Europe. In Malta, public debate is dominated by the question of Europe, both at a policy level - whether or not to join the EU - and at the level of national identity - whether or not the Maltese are 'European'. Jon Mitchell identifies a profound ambivalence towards Europe, and also more broadly to the key processes of 'modernisation'. He traces this tendency through a number of key areas of social life - g...

There's no place on Earth a flat kid can't go!Stanley's not the only flat one…When a flat skull is discovered in Africa, Stanley Lambchop decides to travel there with his brother, Arthur, and their father, George. Maybe studying the skull will give them clues to Stanley's flatness. But once in Africa, the Lambchops are in for more adventure than they bargained for. From lions to zebras to elephants, it's the safari of a lifetime!

For many today, marriage is a nice thing, but not necessary. I . . . Do? is a book to help you reconsider the central importance of marriage, not simply for the couples involved, but for all of us. Plenty of research suggests that a good marriage encourages health, wellness, and happiness and that the goodness of marriage extends into our communities. To this, the retort comes quickly--well that's the result of a good marriage. Yet instead of nurturing good marriages, we are throwing the b...

'May you live in interesting times’ was made famous by Sir Austen Chamberlain. The premise is that ‘interesting times’ are times of upheaval, conflict and insecurity - troubled times. With the growing numbers of displaced populations and the rise in the politics of fear and hate, we are facing challenges to our very ‘species-being’. Papers in the volume include ethnographic studies on the ‘refugee crisis’, the ‘financial crisis’ and the ‘rule of law crisis' in the Mediterranean as well as ...

Willow Harper has spent most of her life alone. After all, it's easier to be alone when you've already lost everything. Content in the quiet town of Whispering Pines, she immerses herself in her art.Then Caleb Foster shows up. Tall, handsome, and annoyingly intrusive. Willow wants nothing to do with him.Caught between curiosity and caution, Willow finds herself watching Caleb and wondering where he goes at night. He sticks out like a sore thumb during the day, but ...

Willow Harper thought she was finally beginning to understand the world she'd been thrust into—a world where she's connected to the enigmatic shifter Caleb Foster. But Caleb has vanished, leaving Willow vulnerable and alone.The longer Caleb stays away, the more dangerous his absence becomes—not just for him, but for her. Other shifters, drawn to her for reasons she can't explain, are closing in.She knows severing their bond may be her only hope, yet the deeper thei...

In this compelling history, award-winning journalist, Jon Mitchell, traces how the islands of Okinawa have been annexed by Japan, occupied by the United States and now menaced by China. In response, Okinawans have developed one of the world's most resilient – yet overlooked – pacifist movements.Once a wealthy kingdom, Okinawa was seized by Japan in the late-19th century and, after World War II, abandoned to US colonial rule. For twenty-seven years, ...