***SILVER MEDALIST - GLOBAL BOOKS AWARD 2023***If you’re worried, if you’re stressed, if you’re scared…that just means you know what’s coming next.This book isn’t going to help you stop worrying about climate change. We should all be worrying.But if you are the type of person who feels that action is the cure for anxiety, this book is for you.What do we really need to worry about? How can we actually prepare? And how can we take pos...

***SILVER MEDALIST - GLOBAL BOOKS AWARD 2022***You've decided to make a hobby of supporting these miniature marvels. Way to go! We all benefit from strengthening our connection with nature.Whether you are designing a hummingbird haven in your backyard, bringing some life to your apartment window, or just learning about the wild world around you, Attracting Hummingbirds will help you in the first days of planning, and as your experience and curiosity grows....

Gardening and cooking are two wonderful ways to express your creativity, and lifelong skills anyone can learn.So whether you are designing your perfect herb garden, looking for the best way to use a windowsill, or trying to refresh your recipes, The Essential Herb Gardening Handbook will be there every step of the way.Starting with basic principles and techniques any beginner can master, and progressing to more advanced skills like companion planting, plant propa...

Take control of your fear.This book isn't going to help you stop worrying about climate change. We should all be worrying.This book will give you the tools to transform all of your negative thoughts, anxiety, and stress into positive actions that prepare you for the future, and help you make a real difference.In this book you will discover:How to prepare for the 10 most likely climate-related emergenciesMe...

In a remarkable career spanning more than six decades, Philip W Anderson has made many fundamental contributions to physics. As codified in his oft-quoted phrase 'More is Different', Anderson has been the most forceful and persuasive proponent of the radical, but now ubiquitous, viewpoint of emergent phenomena: truly fundamental concepts that can and do emerge from studies of Nature at each layer of complexity or energy scale. Anderson's ideas have also extended deeply into other areas of ...

Migration is the most volatile sociopolitical issue of our time, as the current escalation of discourse and action in the United States and Europe concerning walls, border security, refugee camps, and deportations indicates. The essays by the international and interdisciplinary group of scholars assembled in this volume offer critical filters suggesting that this escalation and its historical precedents do not preclude redemptive counterstrategies. Encoded in narratives of affiliation and ...

Authorizing Superhero Comics examines the comic book superhero as a lasting phenomenon of US popular serial storytelling. Moving beyond linear- or creator-centered models of genre development, Daniel Stein identifies authorization conflicts that have driven the genre’s evolution from the late 1930s to the present. These conflicts include paratextually mediated exchanges between officially authorized comic book producers and, alternatively, authorized fans that trouble the distinct...

Music Is My Life is the first comprehensive analysis of Louis Armstrong's autobiographical writings (including his books, essays, and letters) and their relation to his musical and visual performances. Combining approaches from autobiography theory, literary criticism, intermedia studies, cultural history, and musicology, Daniel Stein reconstructs Armstrong's performances of his life story across various media and for different audiences, complicating the monolithic and hagiograph...

***GOLD MEDALIST - GLOBAL BOOKS AWARD***Safe. Secure. Sustainable.Taking control of your water supply is a wise choice; now, it's also an easy choice.Whether your goal is saving the planet, cutting down your expenses, or preparing for an emergency, harvesting rainwater is the perfect way to prepare for the future. Anyone can collect clean water that hasn't been chemically disinfected, pumped from an unreliable well, or shipped in ...

Grow plants. Grow food. Grow flavors.Whether you are designing your own perfect herb garden, looking for the best way to use a windowsill, or refreshing your favorite recipes, The Essential Herb Gardening Handbook will cut down costs in the kitchen while boosting your culinary creativity.Starting with basic principles and techniques anyone can master, and gradually progressing to more advanced skills like companion planting, propagation, and flav...

***SILVER MEDALIST - GLOBAL BOOKS AWARD***If you’re worried, if you’re stressed, if you’re scared…that just means you know what’s coming next.This book isn’t going to help you stop worrying about climate change. We should all be worrying.But if you are the type of person who feels that action is the cure for anxiety, this book is for you.What do we really need to worry about? How can we actually prepare? And how c...

You’ve decided to make a hobby of supporting these miniature marvels. Way to go! We all benefit from strengthening our connection with nature.Whether you are designing a hummingbird haven in your backyard, bringing some life to your apartment window, or just learning about the wild world around you, Attracting Hummingbirds will help you in the first days of planning, and as your experience and curiosity grows.In this book you will discover...