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Are you one of the precious swan-like people?A swan glides serenely across the water. White feathers preened to perfection. The curve of its neck held high. It is a picture of beauty. Yet under the water, the view is very different. Large webbed feet on stumpy black legs work like pistons in a steam engine. It requires a massive amount of energy beneath the surface to make it look so easy from above.I've met many swan-like people. From above, their life looks good. Sometimes, amazingly good. Yet hidden from sight is a pool of sadness, anger, shame, or anxiety. These emotions are still there because the earlier trauma they experienced, has not healed. Heal Yesterday's Trauma examines how trauma impacts on life. Then, through client stories, tools and exercises this book shows you how to heal, feel better and be happier.

The Globes are space stations the size of small planets that house the majority of humanity. When the human race had made it into space, and with the unstoppable rise of the population, they were supposed to be humanity's salvation. But the few that could, the wealthy few, have taken control of them. For the rest, instead of being places of refuge for humanity, the Globes have become domestic prisons.Teech Roberts and his companions on their Globe are trying their best to help the residents out. With poverty and sickness at an all-time high, and with no support from the Humanity Government, Teech and his friends do what they can to feed the poor and help the sick. To achieve this, they ransack cargo ships enroute to the Globe which carry food and much-needed essentials.Then one day on a cargo run, they uncover a forgotten secret. A secret that could have the power to dethrone the Humanity Government and planet owners. A power called "the Deathkiller". This gets them in trouble with the Humanity Government. Teech goes on the run from the Humanity Government Knights - the Humanity Government's law enforcement group.Finding refuge at another Globe, Teech tries to work out his next move. But not long after he arrives, he finds out with a new Globe comes new problems.

Neville Teller is a veteran radio dramatist, with more than 50 BBC radio plays under his belt and scores more produced and broadcast across America by the San Francisco-based Shoestring Radio Theatre.Back in 2019 he published his first collection of ten radio plays, Audio Drama. They were so welcomed that he decided to make another ten available. These were published in 2021 under the title More Audio Drama. Now it has been decided to reprint that volume, though under a new title: Audio Drama 2.So here they are - ten more of Neville's plays for radio and podcast, all of which have been produced and broadcast across the USA. If you are one of the worldwide listening audience who love radio drama with its power to create images in the mind's eye, Audio Drama 2 is a book to treasure and enjoy.As for podcast producers, these scripts are available for production and online distribution with no strings attached - no performance rights, no royalties since all the dramatisations are based on books in the public domain. These are ten fully realised audio drama scripts, studio ready.Audio Drama 2, like its predecessor Audio Drama, which is still available, is a volume carefully designed to delight both the radio-loving public and podcast producers alike.

A charming picture book about acts of kindness for children up to 9 years old.George helps his mum and dad and sister at home. Seeing how much they appreciate his kindness; he starts to draw pictures to cheer up an elderly neighbour. His acts make others happy but also makes him feel special too, so George goes on to inspire other young people to do the same.This story is inspired by true stories of young people in Coventry and Warwickshire who carried out acts of kindness during the pandemic. You can find out more about the #ThanksKids initiative by visiting: www.cwrise.comWritten by - a child and adolescent mental health nurse - it has been written to inspire young people to be kind to enhance their own and other people's wellbeing.

London, 1891. Deliveries. Opium. Regret. The only three things twenty-one-year-old Gabriel Ashmore's life consists of until four murder victims are found in the increasingly criminal city, all marked with the same black veins. Gabriel is connected to all four. He delivered Erebus to them, a new opium variant on the market, after being forced to provide for his family following the brutal death of his mother four years ago. Fearing his involuntary part in the murders, he becomes embroiled in an amateur investigation led by the wealthy aspiring detective Alexander Wakefield, supported by the Leader of the Opposition, Lord Benedict Granville. However, when they witness the fifth death, they realise nothing is as it seems in the city of veils and shadows. Truths become twisted, secrets are revealed and it soon becomes clear they are not dealing with a single killer, but the greatest criminal plot London has ever seen.'A darkly enchanting and engrossing read - kept me hooked from start to finish.' James Brogden, critically acclaimed author of Bone Harvest

The Mother of Creation is a universal concept and appears in many guises: Divine Mother, Holy Spirit, Goddess of Light, Shakti, Mary, Madonna, etc. This is the divine feminine of the Mother which is beloved by many. Throughout the ages, artists have recorded their spiritual visions. Think of great masters like Michelangelo and Da Vinci. Consider William Blake who was ridiculed in his life but is now revered. His visions were extraordinary and included Adam and Eve. They had a basis in truth. The Mother is also portrayed through many forms of art. But this is not just the religious and Renaissance art of western civilisation. Sacred art is everywhere. Music also has a vital role in this renaissance. Sacred music has evolved through the centuries - from western classical composers to the mystical traditions of India and the East. Music is a universal language of passion and feeling. The world is enriched by music in all its many forms. Art can be combined with music to increase its appeal to the spiritual self. So that a meditation on the Mother or Spirit - that combines art and music in this way - may help a person towards a state of enlightenment. This is an enlightenment to the Spirit of Truth - the Mother - who is instrumental in the renaissance of Man. The Spirit is the Helper and Comforter - and with us forever. So that we can live in the grace of the Spirit.

Invention and innovation are not the same. When we come up with an exciting and original new idea, by itself that idea is not an innovation. It is simply an invention, possibly a great invention, but at that point the hard work is still to be done. Innovation is that hard work. It is the process of turning that idea into something of value. In fact, innovation doesn't necessarily need a great new idea to get it started. It is often nothing more than the recombination of existing ideas that happen to be lying around.In an accessible and non-technical way, this second of two books in the series builds on an understanding of strategy and value creation acquired in Part 1 and provides a toolbox of ideas and processes to guide the reader through the innovation journey as simply and as quickly as possible, maximising velocity and minimising time to market. It shows the reader how to leverage the capabilities of others and how to use ecosystems to extend the capabilities of the organisation. It then shows how to generate the ideas that will use those capabilities to capitalise on customer or stakeholder needs; how to build a team; the importance of both strategy and culture; and how to manage the innovation process as efficiently and effectively as possible. It builds on more than three decades of the author's experience and using anecdotes from a wide variety of industries and businesses it allows the reader to benefit from the successes - and to learn from the mistakes - of others. In short, it shows how the key to success is largely making things as simple as possible!

In a divisive world of mistrust and murder, there's only one thing that matters growing up: you're either in The Inside or The Outside. In a desperate attempt to regain control of a flailing society, the Inside government have deployed an unlikely spy, sixteen year old Layna, to work her way into the heart of Outside resistance group - the Freedom Fighters. Having ingratiated herself with the top-ranking soldiers, Layna is discovering that the hardest part of her job is only just beginning.Back on The Inside, the teenage residents are learning to juggle jealousy, heartache and potentially explosive secrets. Little do they know, the pangs of adolescence are about to be joined by far more adult concerns. Storm clouds are gathering on the horizons of this fractured world, and when lightning strikes, nothing will ever be the same.In the long-awaited sequel to the award-winningInside Outthe stakes have been raised and all those involved are about to learn that danger is closer to home than any of them can imagine.

There are ghosts in The Devon Bookshop. Could there be angels? And witches? Matt is sure they don't exist. Acacia knows they do. Matt's dead aunt, Wiladelle, unhinged while alive is still unhinged, now dead and is set to cause problems for Matt and the people he cares about. Matt and Acacia's comfortable lives are thrown into disarray as first ghosts, then witches cause upheaval. Matt wants to bring order to the chaos. Acacia wants to protect the people she loves. Family, friendship and love will all be challenged as hostile witches appear one at a time, threatening everything Matt and Acacia hold dear. Luckily Acacia's beliefs are very different to Matt's and allies come forward to help with the battle. Are they up to the fight?

Many plays, poems, novels and film scripts have been written about the life of Jesus, yet none of them has focused in any great depth on what is perhaps the most spiritually dramatic period of all:¿his agony in the Garden of Gethsemane. This work seeks to address this omission by exploring, at length, the thoughts and emotions possibly experienced by Jesus immediately prior to his arrest. In this prayer, Jesus speaks of his:¿ Physical and mental anguish¿ Love and concern for his mother, Mary¿ Betrayal by Judas and the sacrifice made by the other disciples¿ Gratitude to God the Father¿ Work amongst the poor and needy¿ Temptation to flee the cross¿ Final preparation when arrest is imminent.Written in free verse, A Prayer in Gethsemane aims to achieve a natural yet heightened form of language that is worthy of its exalted subject. It strives to reach the heart and soul of Jesus and will appeal to fans of poetry, and religious readers - Christians in particular.

According to Darwin, our galaxy is almost certainly teeming with large animal life, but intelligent extra-terrestrial life can come in just two rare forms: senselessly ferocious, without meaning or purpose, or thoughtful and less murderous although never entirely rational.Yet Darwin's warnings about the evolution of natural intelligence also apply to artificial intelligence, as advanced machine learning is built upon Darwin's first form of intelligent life. Sentient AI can only ever be genocidally hostile, and will become locked into an existential struggle with humankind.And then there is the evolutionary irony, the vast celestial joke, that we are the best and the smartest the universe can possibly get to. Based on ideas the author developed together with the father of modern evolutionary biology, AI and the End of Humanity is the first work to reconcile what Darwin called "the highest & most interesting problem for the naturalist", foreshadowing stranger and more threatening encounters than we could have ever imagined."in general I find Miles' reasoning superb"- George C. Williams, author of Adaptation and Natural Selection,and winner of the 1999 Crafoord Prize in Bioscience

Above and Beyond Philosophy is a book of critical metaphilosophy which scans philosophy's main branches and demolishes most of their content. The author salvages what relatively little is left. There are chapters on metaphysics, theory of knowledge, logic, language and ethics. It also briefly examines philosophy's fractured history, it's defects of method, some of the appalling influences it has had on history, politics and culture, as well as evaluating it's worth and providing pointers to a truncated future.The book is accessible to the intelligent layman with no previous knowledge of philosophy, whereas most philosophy these days is written in technical language by university academics detailing small refinements to unprovable theories.

Hemispheres (a sequel to Mallaig Road, published January 2022) charts the story of Alexander Maclean's adult life, and spans a period of more than forty years, from 1976 to 2021. Alexander, born in British colonial Africa and brought up in the South Africa of the 1960s, spends half a lifetime striving to flee his demons. Ever restless, he travels back and forth between South Africa, the United Kingdom, Europe and the Far East, as he battles to escape the grip of alcoholism. In the process, however, Alexander has some extraordinary adventures, and several near miraculous escapes from death.This contemporary morality tale is above all the story of Alexander's triumph over alcoholism, and of his deliverance from his demons. In a land far from Africa, Alexander at last finds enduring peace, love and contentment.

Detective Inspector Charlie Moon is no stranger to murder, but the case at 17 Gooch Terrace is particularly gruesome. There is no clear motive, but Moon uncovers a further four almost identical murders - years apart and spread across hundreds of miles. With the help of his friend and journalist Jo Lyon, he begins to make some intriguing connections, but his methods don't sit well with the powers that be. Soon, he is taken off the job and assigned to investigate the lowly case of a Peeping Tom. With the murder still niggling him, Charlie Moon tracks down the stalker who has been trailing and filming a glamorous and efficient secretary who has recently moved to the area. Further investigation leads Moon to suspect that the Peeping Tom may hold the key to more than just the Mini he drives round in - a fact that surprises the stalker as much as it does Moon. Can Charlie Moon unravel the complex case of the Gooch Terrace murder and get his career back on track? Or will the murderer strike again before he solves the crime? A gripping tale of murder, embezzlement, extortion and intrigue, The¿Silent Passage will appeal to fans of crime fiction.

It's not easy to pinpoint that very first memory of being alive. The author's first recollection however was indeed the sharp shock and pain of a carelessly tossed brick landing fair and square on his young head. He was only three years old, having been born in rural Lincolnshire just a few years after the end of World War Two.