Rising like a limestone fortress from the deep blue Tyrrhenian Sea, the island of Capri has captivated travellers for millennia. Once the seat of Roman imperial power — where Emperor Tiberius ruled the known world from his cliff-top palace — Capri is far more than a destination for chic boutiques and luxury yachts. It is a living museum of ancient engineering, medieval history, and timeless natural wonder.Capri: Big Adventures on a Little Island is a pocket guide designed for visit...

LEARN ADOBE WITHOUT THE OVERWHELM. NO EXPERIENCE. NO STRESS. NO CONFUSION.You open Photoshop. Or Illustrator. Or any Adobe app.Panels everywhere.Tiny icons.Menus you’ve never seen.Your confidence drops.You close the app.Sound familiar?That stops here.This book is your step-by-step mentor inside every Adobe app.No jargon.No guessing.No wasted tim...

Here, between the realms of the Sky Father and Earth Mother, hellhounds race, ghosts drift aimless, and the taniwha stalks. Home fires drive them back, at the same time sparking stories and poems that traverse seconds, eons, and parsecs. Tales of gatekeepers, cloak wearers, and secret keepers. Of pigs with AK-47s or ruby-hued eyes, of love-struck moa, and unruly reflections. Stark truths, and beautiful possibilities…* WINNER * Sir Julius Vogel Award 2019 (SFFANZ) for Best C...

Can a Necromancer save a dying world?The Viiminian Empire rots from within, its dominion mere walking corpses and fading memory. Everyone knows its glory is gone. Everyone except Rhea Phuul.Confronted with the painful decay of the once-mighty Empire, Rhea has taken up the mantle of the Eternals: the restoration of her society and its ancient faith. Only when long-forgotten duties are carried out might the Empire again find renewal.But Rhea must conv...

This book addresses the sustained failure to properly fund local government in England. While there has been plenty of rhetoric and policy initiatives around devolution of power to local authorities in recent decades, continuing recently with the English Devolution Bill, there has been far less attention paid to how these endeavours will be practically delivered and, most importantly, funded. In this context, the motivation in this book is to consider how local government in England could ...

Learning to Be Human is a multidisciplinary educational series that explores the skills, perspectives, and experiences that shape human growth and well-being. Combining personal development, psychology, community engagement, systems thinking, and reflective practice, the series helps readers understand themselves, their relationships, and their role within society.Written for youth, educators, families, and lifelong learners, each volume examines a different aspect...

Learning to Be Human is a multidisciplinary educational series that explores the skills, perspectives, and experiences that shape human growth and well-being. Combining personal development, psychology, community engagement, systems thinking, and reflective practice, the series helps readers understand themselves, their relationships, and their role within society.Community Comeback is the third book in the series and explores the role of relationships, belonging, cooperation, and ...

Learning to Be Human is a multidisciplinary educational series that explores the skills, perspectives, and experiences that shape human growth and well-being. Combining personal development, psychology, community engagement, systems thinking, and reflective practice, the series helps readers understand themselves, their relationships, and their role within society.Written for youth, educators, families, and lifelong learners, each volume examines a different aspect of the human exp...

Dr. William Hobbys is a riveting medical romp through the War of the Roses, filled with lusty romance, intrigue, and the answer to a centuries old mystery. Written with historical and scientific accuracy, Dr. William Hobbys chronicles the lascivious adventures of a pioneer in medicine as he stumbles through one of the most dynamic times in western history.

The remote Scottish Islands. Beautiful wild bleak friendly isles cloaked in mist and ancient history. And the little people. Beautiful islands of bizarre brutal murders, a promiscuous academic on St Kilda, tourists executed by ancient barbaric rituals in the Orkneys, British soldiers castrated and murdered in the Shetlands, all in the ruins of an ancient civilisation. A fascination for historic ruins may be a dangerous occupation.

Wilfred, an Anglo-Saxon youth of the old Druid faith. Survives a Viking massacre and prolonged depression.. Becomes an expert herbalist and protects the natural environment.. Seeks a cure for cancer among the old Anglo-Saxon nine herbs charm ..He becomes an expert but reluctant swordsman cures King Alfred's bowel disease and fights in his shield wall to conquer the Danes....Finds unexpected romance...

Hekate and Diana. Odin and Apollo. Freyja and the Witch-Lord. Eternal Haunted Summer was born in the late summer of 2009. It was created as a place where Pagans and polytheists and witches (and non-Pagans with a love of the old myths) could feature their short stories and poems and essays with those of a like mind and similar beliefs and practices. EHS has grown steadily over the years, due entirely to the wonderful contributors whose works fill its digital pages. Without their creativity ...