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This is the story of a Temiar community in the Kelantan hinterland. Never before has it been told in such detail and clarity, even though anthropologists have been intrigued with the Temiars for over a hundred years. It is a story of their survival in the deep rain forest of the Malayan Peninsula, from time immemorial to the present, living according to a ritual and social system taught to them through dreams, whereby they could placate the ad...

Love hurts-is a second chance worth the risk? Over a decade after breaking up with the love of his life, 42-year-old Jackson Knox has given up on finding anyone new. Breaking things off had been for the best for both of them, and Jackson has learned to live with the heartache. As he prepares to start a new job at a well-respected music school far from the place where he and Noah Santiago fell in love, he unexpectedly bumps into him again. Is i...

Du glaubst, Mobbing betrifft dich nicht? Schön wär¿s. Vielleicht wurdest du schon einmal gemobbt, vielleicht kennst du jemanden, der zum Mobbingopfer wurde oder vielleicht hast du in der Vergangenheit gesehen, wie andere etwa in der Schule so richtig mies behandelt wurden. Und das nicht nur einmal, sondern immer wieder. Mobbing ist hässlich und vor allem grausam für alle, die davon betroffen sind. In diesem Ratgeber erfährst du, woran du Mobbi...

Whilst things have arguably moved on in the last decade, the church continues to discriminate against people on the grounds of disability, economic power, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, learning disability, mental health, neurodiversity, or sexuality. Drawing from ten years of lectures and essays from leading figures associated with the movement such as Loretta Minghella, Anthony Reddie, and Michael Jaggesar, this book marks the 20th an...

Yutaka Ogawa was born in Yokohama, Japan on July 10, 1938. In April 1945, I entered the National Elementary School in Dalian, China at the end of the Pacific War, and finally graduated from the Yokohama National University, Department of Mechanical Engineering. After that, I worked for the Oval Corporation on the design and development of flowmeters for about 40 years. I became a director and head of the research division in 1990. In 1977, I r...

The Silent Beggar When the sexual desires of a clergyman in a village lead to a tragic incident, it is only a brave 12-year-old boy who defies all odds and stands against the powerful clergyman, his own brother, and the villagers. The story takes on a richer dimension when Abbas, the son of a wealthy landlord from Churcheh and Asyeh's neighbor, takes an interest in Asyeh's well-being and becomes her protector. Sattar and Abbas, whose families ...

In Open Your Mouth Jasmine Gray mixes the elegance of Joan Didion with the inventive spirit of Anne Carson. Gray moves with fluidity and style around her chosen subjects: Amy Winehouse, the Catholic Church, feminism, creeps. Open Your Mouth is a pamphlet full of vivid, intense and sensuous poetry, every phrase sparkles with the gleam of a newly minted coin. Jasmine Gray is a brilliant young writer, who wishes to be "delighted by what enters [h...

In his first book in over a decade, Instead of an Alibi proves that Geoff Hattersley has lost none of the sharp wit and incisiveness that has defined his brilliant and unique poems to date. Instead of an Alibi is a sharp and vital poetics of the lives of working-class Britain in a post-industrial, post-capitalist landscape.

Elly Dotseth, a passionate truth-seeker and inspiring storyteller, invites you on an extraordinary journey of self-discovery in her riveting memoir, "Making Connections." Nearing her 70th birthday, Elly's world is turned upside down when a DNA test reveals a long-hidden family secret: the father who raised her is not her biological father. As the COVID-19 pandemic engulfs the globe, Elly delves into the complex world of donor conception, grapp...

Running from a dark past takes Emma further into the shadows. Nightmares, doctors, and the concerns of friends and family plague Emma. All she wants is peace and to forget her troubles. A servant's position opens up in the town of Restless Hills. Her time for escape has come. Except, the town and its people aren't as they seem. Edgar, an enigmatic man with a hidden connection to her employer, befriends her while keeping her at a distance. ...

The book explores the encounter of the self with situations of crisis from diverse disciplinary and cultural perspectives from antiquity to contemporary times. A crisis is at once a historically situated phenomenon and a recurring idea of endangerment or a breakdown in creaturely living. By making our choices stark and difficult, crisis opens up the possibility for genuinely fresh and unexpected beginnings. At the most fundamental level, crisi...

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Czaerra Galicinao Ucol blends emotion, wit, and water sign wisdom in their debut collection, Pisces Urges. They reckon with the hard-earned blessing of being known, the tumult of friendship in all of its forms, and the universal truth that the love found in community is water, deep as any. With praise that echoes like a prayer, Galicinao Ucol intertwines sci-fi and anime, gallivanting, and thrifted barongs, with the joy of being gay, the prote...

An exploration of PTSD, depression, and feelings in varied poetic forms. This book is part of an effort to eliminate the stigma that surrounds mental illness and help people to seek treatment. The book will also help those who are curious about mental illness to learn more about it. This book also includes poetry in the Japanese style and original artwork.

Liora King dreams of becoming a professional ballet dancer. She leaves her small hometown to pursue her dream, but she meets trouble along the way. That trouble's name is Penelope Reyes. Penelope is already one of the best in Chicago and the lead of the troupe Liora wishes to join. They butt heads every chance they get as they rival for the starring role in their troupe's performance of The Nutcracker. They continue to fight until slowly but s...

Jane had a good life until she mysteriously died. The afterlife, Mauge, is full of magic and wonder. Memories can be recalled and relived in perfect detail. Fairytale environments can be created and experienced from places real or imaginary: castles, ethereal forests, fantasy lands, etc. Mauge is hardly someplace to complain about, but something is wrong. Jane is completely alone. Isolation begins to drive her mad. Then, she meets Abigail. The...

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What is sweeter than the special times a parent and child spend together? In this picture book, Molly and her father sit on the porch as a summer day moves into evening. They're waiting for fireflies. The reader shares Molly's excitement and delight as first one and then more of the glowing insects appear. Molly has questions about fireflies, and her father does his best to answer. And then it's time to get ready for bed. After she's finally...

What is sweeter than the special times a parent and child spend together? In this picture book, Molly and her father sit on the porch as a summer day moves into evening. They're waiting for fireflies. The reader shares Molly's excitement and delight as first one and then more of the glowing insects appear. Molly has questions about fireflies, and her father does his best to answer. And then it's time to get ready for bed. After she's finally...