WELCOME TO THE ENCHANTING ADVENTURES OF MOONIE BUG AND FRIENDSWhere Learning Meets Imagination!Inside this delightful collection, young readers will discover four charming, rhyming tales: Moonie Bug, Lady Bug, Silly Monkey, and Can You Help Me Find My Mouse? Filled with vibrant characters and playful adventures. The Enchanting Adventures of Moonie Bug and Friendsis designed to spark a lov...

Communication at the Heart of the School introduces a simple, practical approach for communication development in schools, with a specific focus on children with Severe Learning Difficulties (SLD) or Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties (PMLD).The tried-and-tested framework offers a shared approach to communication development between teachers and speech and language therapists, moving through three crucial stages: the communication assessment, the communication pat...

Harlequin Intrigue brings you three full-length stories in one collection! Dive into action-packed stories that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Solve the crime and deliver justice at all costs.This box set includes:DISRUPTIVE FORCE (A Declan’s Defenders Novel)By NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Elle JamesAssassin CJ Grainger has insider knowledge about the terrorist organization Trinity after escapin...

'...Without surpriseI see him now in evil company.A wicked face – but oh those eyes could charm –Heart, sudden heart, don’t beat me to my knees.'Long hidden in an attic, vivid and revelatory poems shine a new light on the life and loves of Iris Murdoch.*As seen in the Guardian***With an introduction by Booker-shortlisted author Sarah Hall, and an essay from the...

Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81) was one of the most important political figures in 19th century Britain. However, before rising to political prominence he had established himself as a major literary figure. This set takes a critical look at Disraeli's early work. Volume 4 includes The Wondrous Tale of Alroy (1833).

Cohabiting couples and those entering religious-only marriages all too often end up with inadequate legal protection when the relationship ends. Yet, despite this shared experience, the linkages and overlaps between these two groups have largely been ignored in the legal literature.Based on wide-ranging empirical studies, this timely book brings together scholars working in both areas to explore the complexities of the law, the different ways in which individuals experience and nav...

Emerging Aesthetic Imaginaries considers aesthetic imaginaries as they constitute and are constituted by and in our shared realities. With contributions from twelve scholars working in the fields of literary studies, visual studies, anthropology, cultural studies, and digital culture, this book takes a multidisciplinary approach to “aesthetic imaginaries,” which tests the conceptual potential from an array of perspectives and methodologies. It probes into the continuous creation and re-cre...

Once associated only with the wealthy and privileged in Latin America, lifelong illnesses are now emerging among a wider cross section of the population as an unfortunate consequence of growing urbanization and increased life expectancy. One of these diseases is the chronic autoimmune disorder lupus erythematosus. Difficult to diagnose and harder still to effectively manage, lupus challenges the very foundations of women’s lives, their real and imagined futures, and their carefully constru...

Some of us are dealt real difficulties in life. We just need to make the best of them.From The Chaos is an inspiring and thought provoking collection of thoughts and lessons – learned the hard way. Anne Miles and her two children are survivors of many of life’s real challenges, yet as a family they are bonded closer together than ever, live with genuine gratitude and appreciation, and have tackled life head-on (and still are).Instead of wishing for life to be easier, Anne kne...

Ann Miles has been chronicling life in the Ecuadorian city of Cuenca for more than thirty years. In that time, she has witnessed change after change. A large regional capital where modern trains whisk residents past historic plazas, Cuenca has invited in the world and watched as its own citizens risk undocumented migration abroad. Families have arrived from rural towns only to then be displaced from the gentrifying city center. Over time, children have been educated, streetlights have made...

Transnational migration is a controversial and much-discussed issue in both the popular media and the social sciences, but at its heart migration is about individual people making the difficult choice to leave their families and communities in hopes of achieving greater economic prosperity. Vicente Quitasaca is one of these people. In 1995 he left his home in the Ecuadorian city of Cuenca to live and work in New York City. This anthropological story of Vicente's migration and its effects o...

Bucky, the old deer king, is in trouble. It is Christmas and his front leg is swollen; he cannot run or leap, and he can hardly walk. Still, B.B., one of the squirrels, does not want him at the kind Food Lady's feeding area. B.B. does not want to share with Bucky, and he thinks all the Christmas treats, all the apples, nuts and birdseed, are for Bucky, not himself or the other animals and winter birds. B.B. decides to bury the apples in the snow. He does not care what Coonie or Jerome, the...