This book examines the language of the varied types of graffiti and street art while uncovering the contemporary uses and purpose behind our need to tag out our existence through letters and images on buildings and city blocks.Graffiti is as much about our need for art as expression-providing voice for the voiceless-as it is our need for beauty, social criticism, or civil disruption in our environments. This book takes an approach to understanding the ways in which...

What Remains of Absence is a deeply reflective literary work about longing, emotional distance, and the quiet process of healing. Through tender and poetic prose, the book explores the traces people leave behind, the ache of unspoken endings, and the strength it takes to live with what is gone. It is a gentle companion for readers who have loved, lost, and slowly learned how to carry absence without being consumed by it.

Mindful ResilienceRebuilding Yourself After Life's Greatest TransitionsLife is filled with change some expected, many unexpected, and some that completely reshape who we are.Loss, uncertainty, emotional breakdowns, identity shifts, and life transitions can leave us feeling lost and disconnected from ourselves.But within every transition lies something powerful:the opportunity to rebuild yourself stronger, wiser, and more grounded than before....

The Healing Paws: How Pets Affect Their Owners' Health dives into the remarkable ways pets improve our mental, emotional, and physical well-being. This book explores scientific research and real-life stories, revealing how pets can lower stress, combat loneliness, and even promote heart health. With insights into the human-animal bond, it showcases the powerful role pets play in enriching and transforming lives. Whether you're a pet owner or simply curious, this book provides a heartwarmin...

A concise and unique guide to attracting ideal customers to your business.Do you dream of a bigger business, leaving your W-2 for your own thing or advancing your marketing or sales career? Customers are the Answer to Everything unravels the mystery of getting customers. This book explores and brilliantly illuminates the happy point where customers understand why they should choose you . . . over and over. Here are just a few discoveries in Customers ar...

Bert Coombes settled in south Wales in 1909, where he worked as a miner for more than forty years. He was motivated to write after witnessing the death of two work mates underground, and he determined to tell his truth about the lives of miners and their families. His first book These Poor Hands was acclaimed by critics such as J. B. Priestley and Cyril Connolly and is considered to be among the most authentically vivid accounts ever written about mining. It describes with moving simplicit...

A radical thinker and humanitarian employer, Owen made a major contribution to nineteenth-century social movements including co-operatives, trade unions and workers' education. He was a pioneer of enlightened approaches to the education of children and an advocate of birth control.

A teacher is hurt by a hit and run driver in the parking lot after January exams. His schedule has to be filled by others. The protagonist, Claire Hébert, the inveterate planner, gets a last minute timetable change. The same day her boyfriend has given her a puppy, which she only reluctantly to accepted because she already felt overwhelmed by schoolwork. She struggles to do her best with the new workload, but she’s a workaholic and it causes problems in her personal life. As the term progr...

Viktor Frankl, an Auschwitz survivor, once said that to be human is to suffer. Suffering is an unavoidable part of life, but how do we engage our suffering in a culture that teaches us to avoid suffering at all costs? Through the telling of two stories, the horrific death of his parents and the exiled Judeans of the sixth century BCE, Chris Williams offers a way of engaging suffering that questions the dominant voices of popular culture. Perhaps hope is not found in avoiding suffering at a...

When life feels overwhelming, faith can be a source of strength-but it can also become tangled in distress and doubt. The Christian CBT Companion offers a practical, evidence-based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) approach that integrates and builds upon Christian faith, helping you understand why you feel as you do, what you can change, and how to take steps toward recovery.Inside you'll find:Clear explanations of how thoughts, feelings, and actions int...

"These Poor Hands: The Autobiography of a Miner Working in South Wales", was first published in June 1939. It was an instant bestseller, and its fame catapulted its author into the front rank of 'proletarian writers'. B. L. Coombes, an English-born migrant, had lived in the Vale of Neath since before the First World War, but only turned to writing in the 1930s as a way of communicating the plight of the miners and their communities to the wider world. "These Poor Hands" presents, in a docu...

Now in its fifth edition, the highly commended Overcoming Depression and Low Mood uses the tried-and-tested Five Areas® educational life skills model of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) to help people work out why they feel as they do, and then plan changes in their life using cleverly designed workbooks and worksheets.Accessible and approachable methodEffective and cost-effective in researchComes with a license to photocopy workbooks and workshe...