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."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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Hailed as 'superb', 'thorough', and 'contemporary', this is the essential orthodontics text for all staff involved in orthodontic treatment, whether they are dental students, orthodontic therapists, postgraduate students at the beginning of their career, or more experienced clinicians wanting an evidence-based, concise update on the foundations of contemporary orthodontic care. With over 700 illustrations and plenty of case studies, An Introduction to Orthodontics, Fifth Edition i...

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...

When it comes to adopting evidence-based approaches, does the size of an organization really matter? This practical guide brings leading police and sociology experts together to demonstrate how police forces of all sizes can successfully embed evidence-based methods by using their strengths and limitations to their advantage. Drawing on experiences of policing in North America, it proposes new ways of strategizing and harnessing the talents of ‘change champions’. Building on the authors’ w...

103 Challenges will change the way you look at corporate wellness. Traditional corporate wellness programs focus on making employees more well. 103 Challenges suggests an alternate approach—a focus on improving managers, leading to an improved work environment, resulting in increased employee well-being—simply due to the improved environment, independent of employee-targeted well-being efforts. To this end, the book includes 103 manager-specific activities that are ready to plug into your ...

Rebel-in-a-smock-dress Barri Brown has spent years slaving away as an English teacher in Guernsey, covering for colleagues with kids and barely tolerating the unhygienic staffroom etiquette. With a distant family and a husband who has just vanished along with her life savings, Barri dreams of escape.Her wild plan? Pretend she’s having a baby and use the paid year off work to start over somewhere new. And so Barri tells the school she’s pregnant, orders seven bumps ...