Seagulls is an eclectic collection of short, shorter and micro stories by GJ Maher which takes us from the refugee trails of Africa to Charles Dickens' country studio, from a monkey writing his first story to a jetty somewhere in coastal Australia where they sell, of all things, ideas.From politics to travel, word games to love poems, campfire conversations to polemic - if you're a sucker for exotic locations and unexpected encounters, this is the collection for you. GJ Maher draws...

What if doing everything "the right way" still left you with nothing?When Maher arrived in the United States as a legal immigrant, he carried more than a suitcase. He carried a lifetime of hope. He believed in the American promise that hard work, education, and integrity would open doors. He earned his MBA, built a career, paid his taxes, and followed every rule. But after 9/11, one employer's negligence and a broken immigration system shattered that dream. Overnig...

No one tells you that loving a child is a fire.To be a parent is to love someone you will, again and again, be unable to protect. That is not a sign you are doing it wrong. It is the price and the meaning of the love itself.This is a book for the real parent - the one who loses their temper and lies awake with the guilt of it, who hears their own mother or father come out of their mouth, who holds everyone and wonders who is holding them. Nine chapters. Not tips: practices....

There is a fire that comes only late, and it is the slowest of them all.It arrives not as an event but as a season: futures quietly closing, the body changing, friends going before you, a whole life to reckon with. Our culture turns its face from it. This book does not.Eight chapters for the elder as they really are, not as the advertisements show them - each fire named truly, with something real to do. There is still time. There is exactly as much as there is.What ...

For the one in the fire right now. For the broken who choose to heal.This is not a guide for the curious - it is for the desperate, for those who have looked at the alternative and chosen to burn consciously instead. For those who have felt everything, carried everyone else's pain, and slowly disappeared in the process. For those who know, with absolute certainty, that something must change.From the other side of the burning comes this witness: what breaks you open is not t...

Moon Over the Mediterranean' is the fascinating story of Alexander, a conscientious objector in 1960s Holland. He embarks on a lifetime adventure, travelling the hippie trail through Greece, India, Nepal, Kashmir, Afghanistan, Iran, Israel and beyond. He keeps his sketch pad at hand, always has a good book to enjoy and engages in deep philosophical discussions with fellow travellers, as well as falling in and out of love along the way.As he matures, Alexander becomes more involved ...

A dictionary tells you what a word means. A lexicon of a living language tells you what a people have found it necessary to say.Every real body of work grows its own language. This is the vocabulary of The Necessary Fire, gathered and set down: the fire and the descent, the witness and the return, the thin places, the keen, what cannot be burned. Words the work uses precisely, and which mean nothing much until they are given their full weight.It comes in tw...

There is a fire that comes for everyone.Sometimes it comes large: grief, collapse, the ending of a life you thought was yours. More often it comes small: the conversation you avoid. The truth you do not say. The fear in the morning, before the day begins. None of them can be gone around. Each asks to be gone through — face to face, with courage.Nine essays, written beside a lake in east Clare, ask what the fire is, why it burns, and what it makes of us....

Something is burning, or has burned, or is about to.You may not call it fire. You may call it the loss, or the ending, or the year everything came apart. You may have no word for it at all — only a heaviness you carry from room to room, a weather that will not lift.This is a book for that.A Companion for the Long Way Through walks the nine fires of The Necessary Fire slowly, in short chapters made to be taken one at a time — a page...

Based on the work and contributions of 46 scientists, managers, and policymakers, Ecological Assessment of Selenium in the Aquatic Environment documents the state of the science and explores how to use this information when assessing and managing the environmental effects of Se. A focused discussion on the fate and effects of Se in aquatic ecosyste

Provides a comprehensive review of best practice in sugarcane cultivation across the value chain from planting through to post-harvest operationsAssesses alternative uses of sugarcane for bioenergy and other applicationsAssesses the environmental impact of sugarcane cultivation

Whilst crop models have made significant progress in recent years, different models still diverge and struggle to predict the complex effects of genetic, environmental and management (G x E x M) variables in optimising crop production in the face of climate change.Current crop models: State-of-the-art and future developments provides a comprehensive overview of the major crop models and the ways they address these challenges. The book explores the development of major crop...