Deceit... Our lives are full of deceit, from the little white lie or a lie of omission to the world spouting untruths.Deceit can come packaged as protection to deception to harm another. Countries involved in covert to overt manipulation attempts to change their status or political influence revealed every day by the press, bloggers, social influencers. The thing is, can you trust them? But the little things each of us do sometimes are intentional, sometimes not, how can tell?

Just because she's sixty-three, cynical, and a church musician, Emily Rauch is hardly done with life—or love. Now that she's traded in her old barn of a place for a tiny house in the hills, Emily's ready for a new start. Throw in one enormous pipe organ, two ghosts, a pot dealer named Santa Claus, the reappearance of Emily's bad-boy college squeeze, and a blizzard ... what could possibly go wrong?

G.B. Crane and Associates is an elite team of private investigators. Business is brought to an abrupt halt when the ninety-year-old mother of the head of the firm is found to be turning over large sums of money to a fake Indian holy man. It appears a fraud ring led by the bogus swami is expert at separating old ladies from their cash.Gilbert Bishop Crane refuses to accept any new cases until his precious mother–a ghastly, ill-tempered old hag—is rescued from Alam Naresh, a smooth-a...

Emergent Masculinities in the Pacific focuses on the plasticity and contingent nature of Pacific Island masculinities over the course of colonial and postcolonial histories. The several case histories concern the use of sports to recuperate but also refashion past masculinities in the name of contemporary masculine pride; the effects of market participation on younger males; how urbanisation and migration set the stage for experimenting with male gender and sexuality; the impacts ...

This book offers detailed strategies, methodologies, approaches, practice guidelines, and policy implications effective for professional coaching on the individual, group and organizational level. It details empirical research-based and theoretical perspectives on coaching psychology as well as elaborates upon the fundamentals within multi-cultural contexts. First delivering a general introduction to coaching psychology before going on to examine specific psychological approaches towards c...

Reimagining Political Ecology is a state-of-the-art collection of ethnographies grounded in political ecology. When political ecology first emerged as a distinct field in the early 1970s, it was rooted in the neo-Marxism of world system theory. This collection showcases second-generation political ecology, which retains the Marxist interest in capitalism as a global structure but which is also heavily influenced by poststructuralism, feminism, practice theory, and cultural studies...

"Autumn - an anthology" is a collection of short stories from ten writers, some new, some veterans. They will make you laugh, perhaps cry, even have chills crawl up your spine.This first entry, in a four-part series dedicated to the seasons, focuses on the time of year that ushers in rest from the heat of the beating sun, pumpkin spice, sweater weather, back-to-school days, and the start of some of our favorite holidays.

A Knowledge-At-A-Glance Mind Map Book"Whilst being an ideal manual for the non-professional home-prescriber, the compliation is an invaluable source of information for the formal student of homeopathy and for the profressional and medical homeopath.The mind maps provide a quick and ready means to refresh one's knowledge of well-known remedies and a practical, desk-top reference book to be consulted when in practice.Writing as a seasoned homeopath wi...

Halloween, 1982. MTV is new, poodle perms are the rage, and life just might be getting better for Alma Kobel. Her ugly divorce is final at last. Her new job as chef at Bright Day School's gorgeous old estate is actually fun. But the place is haunted—and so is Alma's apartment.Bartholomew Addison Jenkins' ghost has been invisibly watching Alma for months. When he materializes one night, Alma discovers Bart—as he likes to be called—has talents she couldn't have imagined … and a horri...

"The Ontario High School Reader" by Aletta E. Marty is an educational anthology designed to develop reading and comprehension skills for high school students in Ontario, Canada. This reader includes a carefully curated selection of classic literature, poetry, historical speeches, and essays that expose students to a variety of literary genres and writing styles. Each piece is chosen for its educational and moral value, aiming to inspire critical thinking, cultural awareness, and appreciati...

The shift from government to governance has become a starting point for many studies of contemporary policy-making and democracy. Practices of Freedom takes a different approach, calling into question this dominant narrative and taking the variety, hybridity and dispersion of social and political practices as its focus of analysis. Bringing together leading scholars in democratic theory and critical policy studies, it draws upon new understandings of radical democracy, practice and interpr...

Peatlands provide globally important ecosystem services through climate and water regulation or biodiversity conservation. While covering only 3% of the earth's surface, degrading peatlands are responsible for nearly a quarter of carbon emissions from the land use sector. Bringing together world-class experts from science, policy and practice to highlight and debate the importance of peatlands from an ecological, social and economic perspective, this book focuses on how peatland restoratio...