A billionaire, an athlete and a drag queen walk into a bar ….The only daughter of a billionaire industrialist and the last child of six, Kaitlin is done being treated as the least among them. The one who doesn't matter.Tomorrow's the most important day in her life, so why is she in a smoky dive bar in Montego Bay, Jamaica, allowing herself to get sucked in by a huge pair of sea-green eyes? The man's a drifter with a bad case of bedhead, playing com...

Feng Shui for Architecture is an easy-to-use manual to incorporate Scientific Feng Shui into the design, renovation, and decorating of your home. The final goal is to support your well-being, as well as your family's, in all aspects of life. It is also particularly useful during a real estate pre-acquisition inspection, for it offers examples of bad Feng Shui (to avoid), good Feng Shui (to desire), and how to correct any overall problems. This will help you to evaluate the...

For fans of The Nightmare Before Christmas, this rhyming Christmas audiobook from #1 New York Times–bestselling author Dan Gemeinhart follows an abominable gingerbread cookie wreaking havoc in the North Pole. Is this beastly cookie trying to create a holiday disaster . . . or does it simply long for a family to share the season with?This program features music and special effects—listen along and enjoy the fun! It also includes a recipe at the end ...

A new theory about the origins of consciousness that finds learning to be the driving force in the evolutionary transition to basic consciousness.What marked the evolutionary transition from organisms that lacked consciousness to those with consciousness—to minimal subjective experiencing, or, as Aristotle described it, “the sensitive soul”? In this book, Simona Ginsburg and Eva Jablonka propose a new theory about the origin of consciousness that finds learning to ...

A meditative, reflective poetry that tells simple and honest stories, especially of fragile people, with humility and humanity, thus highlighting the dignity of every human being.Alexandro Acevedo's strong sense of human rights, of freedom, equality, justice, was certainly strengthened by his profession as a lawyer, as well as by having endured the dark years of the Pinochet dictatorship, which oppressed Chile for seventeen years, from September 1973 to March 1990. While the natural...

The fashion industry has long exploited animals for their materials, whether fur, leather, silk, wool or feathers – so how can we find other ways of working with, or without, animals in the production of clothing? This volume in the Fashion in Action series of short books, which champion change on global issues in fashion, introduces and challenges our problematic reliance on animal products in fashion, calling for more caring practices that work towards post-anim...

*As I watch you prance around,I can’t help but smile.You remind me of a creaturefrom the woods, my child.You have a deer fawn’s timid stepsinto the unknown.But your steps have gotten biggeras you’ve learned and grown.*With tender words and lush illustration, this sweet board book compares a child's movements and mannerisms to creatures from the woods. From the fox to the bear to the bunny, each baby animal explores the world around ...

Essential Reads on Family Offices is your essential resource featuring insights from the world’s foremost experts on the most pressing topics facing family offices and their advisers today. Containing a collection of authoritative materials dedicated to providing family offices and their advisers with the most informative and thought-provoking contributions on key themes, the content focuses on: • Family office profiles: profiles of leading family offices from around the world, highlightin...

It Doesn’t Have to Be This WeirdWhen it comes to relationships between men and women, we have more questions than answers:How do we keep relationships with the opposite sex healthy—and still hug each other after small group?Is it possible for married men and women to be friends with people of the opposite sex?What does it mean to be a woman if you’re not a wife, or a man if you’re not a husband?Jesus’ pattern for chu...

Deep in the forest, in the warm-wet green, 1 almendro tree grows, stretching its branches toward the sun. Who makes their homes here?2 great green macaws,4 keel-billed toucans,8 howler monkeys,16 fruit bats,32 fer-de-lance vipers,64 agoutis,128 blue morpho butterflies,256 poison dart frogs,512 rusty wandering spiders,1,024 leafcutter ants.Count each and every one as life multiplies again and again in this lush a...

Shedding new light on the understudied Italian Renaissance scholar, Andrea Cesalpino, and the diverse fields he wrote on, this volume covers the multiple traditions that characterize his complex natural philosophy and medical theories, taking in epistemology, demonology, mineralogy, and botany.By moving beyond the established influence of Aristotle's texts on his work, Andrea Cesalpino and Renaissance Aristotelianism reflects the rich influences of Platonism, alchemy, Gale...

Much has been written about the transformation of China from being a clothing-manufacturing site to a fast-rate fashion consuming society. Less, however, has been written on the process of making Chinese fashion. The expert contributors to Fashion in Multiple Chinas explore how the many Chinese fashions operate across the widespread, fragmented and diffused, Chinese diaspora. They confront the idea of Chinese nationalism as `one nation', as well as of China as a single reality, in revealin...