· Publishers Weekly 'Listen Up' Award Winner · ForeWord Magazine's 'Audiobook of the Year' Winner · AFIM Indie Award Winner · Independent Publisher Magazine’s ‘IPPY Award’ Finalist. Epic--a mountaineering term that evokes a sense of treacherous disaster. The climb that went wrong: fighting blinding snowstorms and horrific avalanches; days spent tentbound running low on food, water and oxygen; surviving broken bones and shattered spirits. With writing from Greg Child, David Roberts, Stephen...

Paratuberculosis, also referred to as Johne's disease, affects principally cattle, goats, sheep, buffalo, deer and other ruminants. It is common worldwide and responsible for significant economic losses in the ruminant livestock industries. A timely follow up to the first book on Paratuberculosis, this new edition is still the only comprehensive text providing both historical context and the latest developments in the field. Examining the epidemiology of paratuberculosis, the organism that...

LIFE ISN’T FOR THE FAINT-HEARTED – NOR IS LIVING WITH CHRONIC ILLNESS.Grief, acceptance, loneliness, friendship, small joys, healing moments, new perspectives: here are forty-one short poems that offer bite-sized comfort and connection, for anyone in need of a tonic.A. K. Davidson's debut poetry collection includes helpful resources for Long Covid.‘Brave, thoughtful, funny at times and almost unbearably poignant at ...

An unstintingly honest and surprisingly humorous memoir that charts a couple’s parallel diagnoses of Parkinson’s and Lewy body dementia.In 2011, Leslie Davidson and her husband Lincoln Ford were enjoying retired life to the fullest as ardent outdoor enthusiasts, energetic travellers, and soon-to-be grandparents. But when Lincoln’s confusion became a concern and Leslie began to experience a hesitant leg and uncontrollable tremors in one arm, a devastating d...

Stalk Kill Howl ̶ a horror mystery.Northern Ireland 1981. Having survived the bloodiest years of the Troubles during the '70s the people of Northern Ireland pray that the '80s will bring better times. Newry CID welcomes a new Detective Inspector, but Harry Reid has little idea of the fresh horror he and his Royal Ulster Constabulary colleagues will be forced to confront. Paramilitaries are being targeted by a new type of vigilante; a ferocious killer more wolf than human. Harry's de...

Alternatively titled - "Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java,Singapore, Australia and China", published in London in 1846, was written by the author G.F. Davidson of Hull, England during a ship passage from Hong Kong to England.The book is a personal narrative of the author's journeys to Java,Singapore, Australia and China over the course of 21 years spent in the Far East during the last century, with particular emphasis on the trade and commercial activities of these c...

Magical illustrations enhance evocative text in a delightful blend of cultural diversity, geography, science, rich language and gratitude.A gentle and poetic board book about weather systems across the world. Young readers will enjoy meeting children from around the globe and experiencing the phenomena of the sky as each child thanks Mother Earth for bringing the sun, wind, rain, snow, lightning and thunder to them.The sun is a shine, that wakens the da...

One of the world's renowned centres of culture, Barcelona is also one of the capitals of modernist art given its associations with the talents of Dali, Picasso, and Gaudi. Jazz Age Barcelona focuses the lenses of cultural studies and urban studies on the avant-garde character of the city during the cosmopolitan Jazz Age, delving into the cultural forces that flourished in Europe between the late 1910s and early 1930s. Studying literary journalism, photography, and the city of Barc...

Cynthia F. Davidson came of age in the vibrant city of Beirut, Lebanon, once known as the Paris of the Middle East. But when civil war breaks out in 1975, this young American woman and her expatriate family are caught in the crosshairs. After her sister is shot and her father kidnapped, the violence makes it impossible for Cynthia to return to Lebanon and reconcile her losses there.On a quest to understand Beirut's demise, Cynthia moves to Paris, France in 1984. There, she attempts...

Redrawing the map and resetting the clock of the Age of RevolutionsIn 2015, Bryan Banks and Cindy Ermus launched Age of Revolutions, a website offering critical reconsideration of the foundational concept of revolution and centered on three key questions: What was the Age of Revolutions? Where was the Age of Revolutions? And are we still living in an Age of Revolutions? This collection represents the best of scholars’ answers to these expansive, urgent questions. T...

North of Ballantrae incorporates a modern view of an expatriate who remains in touch with his Scottish homeland through poetic verse epistles. William Davidson’s work is positive and upbeat, blending lyrical beauty with themes that touch on the realities of a changing world. Each poem is imbued with integrity, truth, and a sense of the importance of words and poetry in an era increasingly dominated by artificial intelligence. In North of Ballantrae, Davidson holds fast to the notion that p...

This book seeks to present biblical Christianity apart from its syncretistic integration with American politics, religion, and culture.Whereas this topic has been explored ad nauseam, with emphases on political, historical, and racial aspects, this tome, though it references cultural issues prevalent throughout American history, attempts to highlight the biblical perspective.The four essays: A Christian Nation, American Christianity, Relationships, and Truth, are self-conta...