**A Vogue Best Book of the Year"What Ferrante did for female friends—exploring the tumult and complexity their relationships could hold—Spiegelman sets out to do for mothers and daughters. She’s essentially written My Brilliant Mom." —SlateA memoir of mothers and daughters—and mothers as daughters—traced through four generations, from Paris to New York and back again.**For a long time, Nadja Spiegelman believed her mother was a fairy. More than her...

Why do diets fail? Is it because of genetic disposition? A sluggish metabolism? An underactive thyroid?A behavioural psychologist reveals the truth about dieting, including how she lost over 100lb in one year.After years of failed diets Dr Nadja Hermann weighed over 23 stone at the age of 30. All her life, she had heard and read about hundreds of reasons why diets wouldn't work for her. But when her weight started to seriously affect her he...

In the heart of Scarborough sits the Nap-Away Motel, a hunched building providing hidden worlds for its occupants. Within its derelict walls, Suleiman longs to rebuild his broken family, Tiffany creates a fantasy world to escape from her mother’s neglect and Ori plans a search for their run-away twin brother. While they grapple with the challenges of mental health, addiction, and grief, the three dwellers manage to forge a friendship over a litter of stray kittens. Together, they find joy ...

In Managing Change in Organizations, Stefan Sveningsson and Nadja Sörgärde explore a broad range of perspectives on change management, encouraging critical reflection and making sense of a complex field of theories. Their unique approach based around three key perspectives of change will help students understand:How change is accomplished – the tool perspectiveWhat change means for those involved – the process perspective

Bodily Matters explores the anti-vaccination movement that emerged in England in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth in response to government-mandated smallpox vaccination. By requiring a painful and sometimes dangerous medical procedure for all infants, the Compulsory Vaccination Act set an important precedent for state regulation of bodies. From its inception in 1853 until its demise in 1907, the compulsory smallpox vaccine was fiercely resisted, largely by members ...

Guidance for teachers on two pressing problems in student mental health.Anxiety and depression are two of the most common mental health problems for young students, and can be particularly hard to detect and support. In this book, the first of its kind for teachers, Nadja Reilly lays out with richly detailed examples the signs to look for so educators can direct their students to help and ensure emotional wellness in the classroom. Grounded in recent psychological ...

First Aid Seamstress tells the story of two single mothers. After they become best friends,their love for each other blooms but then seems to wither with neglect. Felicity appears assertive yetcraves approval. Clarissa shows fragility, but cannot accept deceit, in any form. As we exploreFelicity's past, her future also starts to unravel, with intricate parallels of ideas of life, death, andchoices.Nadja Fernandes attempts to depict and contrast the a...

A beautifully illustrated step-by-step guide to twisting, weaving and wrapping wire jewellery.In Twisted, wire artist Nadja Shields encourages you to twist, wrap and weave your way to a treasure trove of stunning jewellery. Featuring 15 step-by-step projects, you can use copper, steel, silver or even gold wire and embellish your pieces with sparkling gems or beads.Before embarking on your first project, discover the techniques used for various weav...

Multilingual Communications Surveillance In Criminal Law highlights the vital yet overlooked roles of Intercept Interpreters and Translators (IITs) in criminal justice operations. Nadja Capus, Cornelia Griebel and Ivana Havelka conduct an interdisciplinary investigation, exploring IITs navigation of complex legal, linguistic and translational challenges. They advocate for improved practices to ensure quality, fairness and integrity in investigations within criminal proceedings whe...

An astonishing debut story collection about the interconnection between humans and animals navigating love, loss, and healingCreatures swim, slither, and soar their way through this stunning short story collection about the inextricable nature of humans and animals that celebrates and bears witness to our fellow creatures and to the complex emotional terrain of our own lives.A woman's personal trauma and anxiety are intertwined with the lives of the feral d...

Centuries ago, Budai walked through the world with very little.A robe, a staff, a smile, and a cloth sack over his shoulder. He did not seem important in the way the world measures importance. He owned almost nothing, had no fixed destination, and carried no visible ambition. Yet people remembered him. They felt something in him—lightness, kindness, presence, and a quiet joy that did not depend on possessions.That is why Budai still touches somethinin us.His bag was...

Alright, let's get into it. This isn't your typical self-help book, with a bunch of "shoulds" and impossible goals. It's a collection of honest conversations and thoughts I wish I knew earlier. Twenty chapters of words that all start with the letter "S," but have a bigger connection to real life than we realise. Inside, you'll find stories, ideas, and thoughts I wrote while figuring out my own mess, my own growth. Sometimes confusing, sometimes weird, but always real. Maybe one chapter pok...