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What does it mean to truly see another person? Fellow Human Beings is a collection of deeply human stories drawn from years of walking alongside people living with intellectual and developmental disabilities, mental illness, trauma, and profound vulnerability. These are not case studies or clinical success stories. They are lives—messy, resilient, and contradictory. Through the journeys of real people facing serious challenges, this book explores what happens at the intersection of care, power, dignity, and love.

An outrageous miscellany of serious and light-hearted lies, myths, untruths, fibs and fabrications that tells the tall tale of South Africa. The fibs come thick and fast, like a burst sewerage pipe: Why everything we've learnt about Shaka Zulu, 'Africa's Napoleon', is a pack of lies. Back in the darkest of ages (the 1970s!), citizens were told that there were satanic messages if you played some of The Beatles songs backwards. National icon Hansie Cronje was a paragon of virtue and integrity … until he wasn't.

Highnest, an ancient ash tree in Willowmere, has sheltered sparrows, wrens, finches, squirrels, and many other creatures for generations. Its branches are shared according to need, and no single flock claims the right to rule. That peace ends when Vark and his black crows seize the highest limbs, mark nests, demand food, block crossings, and declare that strength alone decides who may belong. The sparrow flock cannot defeat the crows through force.

Life can often feel overwhelming. When we are surrounded by darkness— whether it is the physical battle of cancer, the silent grief of miscarriage, the weight of mental health, the sting of divorce, or the chains of addiction and abuse—it can feel as though the light has been extinguished forever.

The Accord was built to keep the city stable. After the Collapse, stability became more than a public promise. It became the foundation of civic life. The Behavioral Stabilization Authority monitored volatility, reduced conflict, and helped the city avoid another descent into chaos. Cael believed in that work. As a systems technician, he reviewed behavioral anomaly flags, confirmed automated responses, and trusted that human oversight still mattered. Then he finds a field that should not exist. CSE. Consolidation Suppression Event.

Don't Let The Past Haunt Your Futures. Dangerous creatures, peculiar disappearances, mysterious urban ruins; it was easy for David Andrews to be entranced by Juniper Valley's legends. But when his obsession causes the death of his closest companion, David's entire life becomes derailed. Years later, an alarming incident leads him and an estranged friend into the depths of their town's chilling history. A startling discovery lies in wait that will force them on a frantic journey across the multiverse.

Lucius Cornelius Sulla is no stranger to war or its quieter cousin, politics. His current dual siege of Athens and Piraeus is just simply part of a long line of struggles that have characterized his whole career. But nothing could prepare him for his sudden reversal of fortune in Roma. Nor for...

Are you new to a board and have no idea what’s expected of you? Do you know what a board’s seven key responsibilities are? Do you know what your relationship with the Executive Director should be? If not, this book is for you. So many board members – especially of small nonprofits – want...

Instant National Bestseller From the award-winning and bestselling author of The Berry Pickers, an unforgettable novel of family, legacy and secrets, following one woman as she confronts buried truths, lost love and the fragile future she alone must protect “My mother died pushing me into the...

There is no easy road to riches in the stock market. But there are many profitable paths – if you have the right guide. Trading is a serious business that, when approached properly, can provide you with unlimited opportunities for success and growth. Unfortunately, many start their journey ill...

Investment advisors face two challenges. First, the portfolios that we offer clients leave investors vulnerable to severe economic events and emotional stress. Second, the way that we educate investors about their portfolios isn’t effective at helping them curb biases. The Behavioral Portfolio...

'The story of a disease that plunged its victims into a prison of viscous time, and the drug that catapulted them out of it' – Guardian Hailed as a medical classic, and the subject of a major feature film as well as radio and stage plays and various TV documentaries, Awakenings by Oliver Sacks...

'A mine of treasures, a source of visions, a microcosm of human experience and suffering, the philosopher's stone: Migraine is a remarkable achievement' - Sunday Telegraph. Migraine is an age-old – the first recorded instances date back over two thousand years – and often debilitating...

This audiobook is read by Alicia Keys, with special guest appearances by family and friends, including Oprah Winfrey, Jay-Z, and Michelle Obama. In her intimate memoir, More Myself, Alicia Keys shares her quest for truth: about herself, her past, and her shift from sacrificing her spirit to...

Oliver Sacks, the bestselling author of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, is most famous for his studies of the human mind: insightful and beautifully characterized portraits of those experiencing complex neurological conditions. However, he has another scientific passion...

Uncle Tungsten radiates all the delight and wonder of a boy’s adventures, and is an unforgettable portrait of an extraordinary young mind. Oliver Sacks evokes, with warmth and wit, his upbringing in wartime England. He tells of the large science-steeped family who fostered his early...

As with his previous bestseller, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, in An Anthropologist on Mars Oliver Sacks uses case studies to illustrate the myriad ways in which neurological conditions can affect our sense of self, our experience of the world, and how we relate to those around us...

'Through sharply drawn characters, Rossi achieves a clear-eyed and poignant view of a family in crisis' - Sydney Morning Herald A fatal car crash. A young boy orphaned. Who should now become his parents? Nicholas and April are driving home from a party when their car crashes on an empty road...

‘Oliver Sacks is a perfect antidote to the anaesthetic of familiarity. His writing turns brains and minds transparent’ - Observer When Oliver Sacks, a physician by profession, injured his leg while climbing a mountain, he found himself in an unusual position – that of patient. The injury...

'Seeing Voices is both a history of the deaf and an account of the development of an extraordinary and expressive language' – Evening Standard Imaginative and insightful, Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks offers a way into a world that is, for many people, alien and unfamiliar – for to be...