How to Become a Nonfiction Author: Tips to Writing & Self Publishing Without Losing Your F*cking MindA rebels proven framework to help clever minds get published this yearYou want to become an author and raise your authority. You are aware that benefits from writing a nonfiction book go way beyond book sales. In fact, you know a book will be the single most important asset you'll ever create in your business. And you know you can write a great b...

This international bestseller shows why the Danes are happy and how we can be, too.For decades Denmark has ranked at the top of the world’s happiness surveys. How is it that these 5.6 million Danes are so content when they live in a country that is dark and cold nine months of the year and where income taxes are at almost 60 percent? At a time when talk across the Western world is focused on unemployment woes, government overreach, and anti-taxation lobbies, our Da...

How to Become a Nonfiction Author: Tips to Writing & Self Publishing Without Losing Your F*cking MindA rebels proven framework to help clever minds get published this yearYou want to become an author and raise your authority. You are aware that benefits from writing a nonfiction book go way beyond book sales. In fact, you know a book will be the single most important asset you'll ever create in your business. And you know you can write a great book...

Curatorial Challenges investigates the challenges faced by curators in contemporary society and explores which practices, ways of thinking, and types of knowledge production curating exhibitions could challenge. Bringing together international curators and researchers from the fields of art and cultural history, the book provides new research and perspectives on the curatorial process and aims to bridge the traditional gap between theoretical and academic museum studies and museum...

The outbreak of COVID-19 radically transformed our daily lives, altering not only our habits and social relations, but also our most fundamental mental processes, most notably memory. This book explores how the pandemic affected autobiographical memory, changing the way we remember, feel and organise our experiences of the past and our visions of the future.From a multidisciplinary and multicultural perspective, the seven chapters in this volume analyse the effects of stress, anxie...

This book offers a critical examination of existing cycling structures and the current policy and practices used to promote cycling. An international range of contributors provide an interdisciplinary analysis of the complex cultural politics of infrastructural provision and interrogate the pervasive bias against cyclists in city planning and transport systems across the globe.Infrastructural planning is revealed to be an intensely political act and its meaning variable according t...

Anna reaches Hrafnheim, an unknown parallel world full of gods, demigods, and creatures. There she is picked up by soldiers of the ruler Ragnara, but a renegade officer of the army, Rorik, frees Anna. Together they set off to free her twin sister Serén, who had been captured by Ragnara. The road to the capital city of Sént is full of deadly dangers, and the vision of her own murder plagues Anna incessantly. She begins to realize more and more that Ragnarök, the end of the world, is directl...

Fantasy, crime, and Norse gods come together when it emerges that a series of bestial murders is connected with an ancient prophecy about the end of the world. Anna can see events from the past, and one night she glimpses an old and horrible murder: a red-haired girl is killed and a rune carved into her back. Shortly afterward, someone begins killing red-haired girls in the same manner, and the rune is found on all of them. Suddenly the little town is full of strangers. They have mysteriou...

This edited collection is based on comparative ethnographic research and explores the concept of riverine rights in Aotaroa New Zealand, Colombia and India where rivers have been declared legal persons: the Whanganui River, Río Atrato, the Ganga and the Yamuna.The cases drew significant attention from academia and the wider public, as examples of the rights of nature in practice. This book contributes with in-depth empirical research carried out by a highly interdisciplinary team o...

A visual journey of Caribbean art profiling more than 60 contemporary Caribbean artists, curated by award winning multidisciplinary artist and textile surface designer, Malene Barnett.Through powerful interviews with more than 60 artists and designers of Caribbean heritage, accompanied by gorgeous photographs, Crafted Kinship takes readers on a unique journey through the world of Black Caribbean creativity. Each maker crafts a kinship with the land, the pe...

This book provides an in-depth analysis of a performance-based pay initiative and crystalizes the design issues and implementation challenges that confounded efforts to translate this promising policy into practice. This story has much to say to academics and policymakers who are trying to figure out the combinations of incentives and the full range of resources required to establish incentive programs that promote an adequate supply and equitable distribution of capable and committed educ...

'A quietly elegant book . . . the poems in Gather collect images and thumbnail narratives, but hold their secrets close to their chests, their delicate mysteries blooming in beauty' VICTORIA CHANG, Forward Prize-winning author of Tree of Knowledge'Malene Engelund's poems are bright with elemental beauty. To read this collection is to enter into new relationship with a charged world in which love 'breaks and finds a new form', each poem rad...