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from poet bonnie tobias comes this stunning debut collection that gently invites each reader to find themselves within the words. touching upon themes of aging, relationship complexity, childhood exposure to parental depression, silencing, anxiety, and the pull of things, place, and memory, bonnie's poetry is a showcase of understated brilliance and quiet intensity best savored slowly-and then again.

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Justin Ebberson lived and worked on Roa Island, near Barrow-in-Furness, and he had spent the last two years grieving over the death of the love of his life, Jean Baxter. Joining the Territorial Army was meant to help him get over his loss, but eventually he yearned for a new partner, which led to a love triangle, or was it lust? Would he find his way out of this?

In another northern community, namely Workington, John Seeton had a marriage that he wanted to protect, and his connection with a brass band wasn't helping. As if that wasn't enough, John found himself on the fringe of another love triangle that involved his ex-wife. Could his marriage survive?

Whilst these two northern communities played out their own dramas, they were interconnected, and a link between Justin and John influenced their individual fortunes.

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'Let's Look After the Worth of the World' is a brilliantly written book about politics and economics, arguing from a left-wing perspective that modern life is unsustainable. This book is a wake-up calla wake-up call for absolutely everybody in the whole world. We live in a world where most of the wealth is controlled by a few people, where we are all renting our existences from forces that control everything, and where they tell us to own nothing and be happy. Is this right? Add to this the negative effects of colour television and the media, and we have a world where it seems we are accelerating ever faster towards a cliff edge.

In this book Majid Salim 'sounds the alarm'; he argues, with technical skill and heartfelt language, that something must change. It needs to be read by every decision-maker in every country. It is an inspiration for change, a justification for thinking differently. Everyone who reads it will start demanding action from their leaders and sympathising with the radical leftists who say our planet needs root and branch reform. 'Let's Look After the Worth of the World' will change you  it taps into the widely felt, but almost totally unrepresented, feelings the public have about radical Left solutions.

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Summer is the best time of year, especially when it means heading to Grandma and Grandpa's house at Elkhart Lake. From the long car ride filled with snacks and laughter, to the fresh air and sparkling blue waters, every moment is an adventure. Whether it's playing with the golden retriever Abbey, racing through the water, or cheering on race cars at Road America, each day brings something new and exciting. With the love of family, the joy of new friends, and the thrill of racing, this story captures the heartwarming essence of summer, where every moment is filled with fun, laughter, and unforgettable memories. Perfect for readers of all ages who cherish the simple joys of summer and family traditions.

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A Memoir of Secrets, Love and Reinvention

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"TODAY WAS THE MOST WONDERFUL DAY OF MY LIFE," HE SAYS. "TODAY, MY LIFE STOPPED BEING HARD." THAT'S IT. I HANG UP AND CRY. 

When Gila Svirsky moves to Uganda to follow her wife's new job, she is drawn into the lives of a group of mostly parentless teenshungry to stay in school, desperate to carve out a future. As her plan to provide them with support takes shape, they slowly become her extended family, opening their hearts and lives to her. But she carries a dangerous secret: she is married to the woman posing as her sister. In Uganda, being gay is a felony, and even knowing but failing to report a gay person carries a harsh prison sentence.

From the front lines of peace activism in Israel to the uncertain paths of Uganda's rural teenagers, this is a memoir of reinvention by PEN Prize winner Gila Svirsky. It's a story of seeking purpose in unfamiliar places, of risking the consequences of discovery, and of the unexpected ways resilience, trust, and quiet determination reshape all their lives.

"Svirsky's story is a testament to the grace of lives lived with commitment, empathy, and purpose. Thanks to her engaging literary voice and endearing humor, this inspiring memoir comes to vibrant life on the page."

 Letty Cottin Pogrebin, author and founding editor of Ms. Magazine

"This brilliant memoir is a tribute to what is possible, to the idea that all of usregardless of faith, race, nationality, gender, economics, or sexual orientationcan participate in the much-needed work of making this a better world."

 Ruth Messinger, former Manhattan Borough President
and past president of the American Jewish World Service

"This is an engaging and powerful memoira travelogue equal parts hilarious and inspiring. It is the account of a woman who, while changing the lives of a group of Ugandan teenagers, transforms her own. A testament to the power of quiet activism and enduring connection."

 Jessie Montell, former Executive Director, Hamoked: Center for the Defense of the Individual,
 and recipient of France's National Order of Merit.

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The awakening of a young child's distrust in her beloved father and the turmoil of a wife betrayed. This story of suspicion, intrigue and deception takes place in a quiet suburb of North London in 1948, when the world still seemed young, even with a second world war just behind them.

Max behaves as a single man without thought of the effects of his actions on his wife, Eleanor, or his daughter, Frances. Always a man of action, from his army service in bomb disposal in India through to raids in France during the war, Max's actions now take place in liaisons with other women. His life is woven through the shadier parts of London, where deals are done and silence is preferred.

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Lasers: Innovation in Care, An issue of Clinics in Perioperative Nursing Care

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Lasers: Innovation in Care, An issue of Clinics in Perioperative Nursing Care, E-Book

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In this inaugural issue of Clinics in Perioperative Nursing Care, guest editor Vangie Dennis brings her considerable expertise to the topic of Lasers: Innovation in Care. Laser technology has transformed modern medicine and healthcare disciplines using lasers to perform precise procedures, but with these advances are risks to patients and professionals. In this issue, top experts address eye safety; development of a departmental laser program; administrative aspects of a laser program; third-party services: maintaining safety in the perioperative care environment; and much more.
- Contains 12 relevant, practice-oriented topics, including overview of laser use in surgery and laser systems; laser safety within the perioperative setting; upper airway guidelines for laser safety; perioperative considerations and safety measures for patients; the hazards of surgical smoke in the perioperative setting; and more
- Provides in-depth clinical reviews on lasers: innovation in care, offering actionable insights for clinical practice
- Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews

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Provide superior oral care to children of all ages! Pediatric Dentistry: Infancy through Adolescence, 7th Edition, provides comprehensive coverage of oral care for infants, children, teenagers, and children with disabilities and chronic health conditions. The text covers examination, diagnosis, and treatment planning, as well as topics such as the prevention of oral disease, orthodontics, pulp therapy, oral trauma, and behavioral management. This edition includes new treatments, techniques, and evidence-based guidelines, plus expanded case studies in the enhanced ebook included with every print purchase. From a team of accomplished authors and contributors led by Arthur J. Nowak, this book also prepares you for success on the INBDE and other exams.
- Comprehensive coverage of current trends and challenges emphasizes the prevention of oral diseases and reflects pediatric dentistry as it is practiced today
- Evidence-based focus includes topics such as local and systemic diseases, pediatric physiology, cariology, pain control, and medical emergencies  all core concepts for both the dental student and the practicing dentist treating children
- More than 1,000 full-color photos and illustrations show oral conditions and treatments
- Diverse contributor pool includes expert perspectives from all over the world
- Enhanced ebook version, included with every new print purchase, features videos and case studies with review questions, plus digital access to all text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud on a variety of devices

- NEW content covers emerging concepts within pediatric dentistry, including management of unique patient populations, updates in technologies and materials, and pediatric dentistry for the practicing general dentist
- NEW! Updates on caries risk assessment in children reflect the evolution of evidence-based oral health care
- NEW and expanded case studies are included in the enhanced ebook

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Arthur J. Nowak, John R. Christensen, Matthew Geneser, Janice Alisa Townsend, Martha H. Wells

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Trauma, Body and Politics in the Hebrew Bible

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We can no longer read biblical texts that include explicit and implicit depictions of violence without awareness of trauma. In Esther Keeps the Score, Alexiana Fry challenges conventional interpretations of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament book of Esther. Fry offers a full treatment of the violence found within, seen through a trauma-informed lens, acknowledging the many shifting contexts and power structures that create significant effect on the characters in the story. Through an analysis of gender and ethnic minoritization in diaspora settings, as well as how this shows itself in emotional and somatic compulsive responses, the book of Esther can be read afresh with empathic eyes. Understanding Esther with a holistic view on how oppression creates, sustains and perpetuates trauma, in both individuals and collectives, should cause readers to consider ways to break the cycle, both in the book and in their own worlds and lives. A must-read for Old Testament and trauma scholars, preachers, as well as anyone seeking to better understand how trauma operates in biblical narratives, Esther Keeps the Score reshapes our understanding of Esther's story and its implications for survival in a hostile world of patriarchy, sexism, misogyny and racism.

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Mouse is a curious nine-year-old orphan who seeks freedom from a children's home but finds something more when he escapes and hides on a church property. Longing to be adopted, will his prayer be answered to join a loving family before his tenth birthday?

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By examining the PMUs self-positioning as a pillar of Iraqs defence infrastructure, this book offers a critical perspective on the prospects for Security Sector Reform (SSR) and highlights the limitations of externally driven Disarmament, Demobilisation, and Reintegration (DDR) efforts. It speaks to scholars of Iraq and the Middle East, as well as diplomats, security actors, and SSR practitioners. The book is also a valuable teaching resource for undergraduate and postgraduate courses on conflict, security, identity politics, terrorism, and peacebuilding. Its unique fieldwork methodology offers guidance for researchers engaging with armed non-state and para-state actors in post-conflict settings. Altogether, the book addresses a strong academic and policy demand for evidence-based analysis of the PMUs complex identity - offering a flexible framework for studying hybrid security actors with transnational connections and domestic ambitions.

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Prosecuting God and the Falsehoods of Religion

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What if the divine stood trial for complicity?

In Prosecuting God, Paul Landrum Drummond invites readers into a daring courtroom of conscience, where scripture, history, and lived experience converge to interrogate the sacred. This is not a book of easy answers. It is a summons to wrestle with the paradoxes of scripture, faith, justice, and divine silence, if he existed, in the face of suffering. Yet this is no mere indictment. Through poetic argument, symbolic ritual, and communal imagination, Prosecuting God opens a path toward reckoning and renewal.

Blending prophetic rage with contemplative depth, the book dares to ask, What kind of God survives the crossfire of indifference?

Whether you're a theologian, activist, seeker, or skeptic, Prosecuting God offers a framework for confronting the divine not as an abstract idea but as a contested presence in our most urgent struggles. It is a book for those who refuse to separate belief from accountability and who long to transform inherited faith into embodied liberation.

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By many standards, Katy Girard's life is the stuff of dreams: An apartment overlooking Central Park, a Wall Street career paying well over six figures, enviable beauty and confidence in abundance.

Why is she so miserable?

Bringing friend Miranda Stevens to an exclusive resort, Katy hopes to reconnect and find comfort or relief, but rarely do such plans ever go smoothly. More rarely does anyone find themselves in the answers.

Just ask Templeton O'Rourke, who literally crashes the friends' two-week respite. A chance meeting with an older married couple brings the trio insights to happiness.

Read about two weeks during which three people experience their lives being upended, rearranged and forever changed with hummingbirds' guidance and approval.

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Chasing the Hummingbird's Universe is author G. E. Russell's debut novel. He has previously published two collections of short stories and novellas: Broken Windows: Renovated Souls and Deferred Redemptions: Stories of Change.

Each of these stories kept me intrigued until the end. This book, the first I've read by this author, did not disappoint.

-Bookish Fame Reviews, Broken Windows: Renovated Souls, 2024

I thoroughly enjoyed this collection. The author's fluid and powerful storytelling vividly captures a range of emotions, immersing readers into the characters' lives.

-Sassy Reviews Deferred Redemptions: Stories of Change, 2024

Website: authorgerussell1951.com

Facebook: Author G. E. Russell

Front Cover Photograph by G. E. Russell A2025

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A groundbreaking journey celebrating natures diversity, family ties, and female power, and lamenting both our human and environmental losses.

Maurya Simons twelfth volume of poems, The Blue Bridge, is a literary tour de force that bears witness to the twenty-first centurys dire and lasting dangers brought about by human folly and greed. At the same time that it laments species loss, it honors the enduring lives of small creatures, and the perseverance and adaptability of larger animals. Simon also charts the journey of her own life in an America that is increasingly marked by violence and division, as well as by the ameliorating and lasting ties between people. At turns philosophical, playful, irreverent, and passionate, this book showcases a poets work at the peak of her powers, as she illuminates how the bonds between spirit and flesh, and each other, sustain us.

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Zadie Smiths fiction reimagines subjectivity, relationality, and the conditions of contemporary life.

This book offers a timely reassessment of her work, addressing identity, urban experience, and the category of the human. Moving beyond postcolonial and multiculturalist readings, it brings psychoanalytic, historical, symptomatic, and cultural materialist perspectives to bear across her novels, stories, essays, and plays. The collection explores how Smiths characters, shaped by diverse backgrounds and settings, challenge fixed ideas of Britishness and personhood. It argues that her writing opens up a new ontological spacedefined by fluid identities, shifting subjectivities, and evolving forms of relationality.

By reconsidering both the human and the spatial in Smiths work, the book makes a valuable contribution to contemporary literary criticism and to current thinking on narrative, identity, and urban life.

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Socialist things, environments and affects

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Soviet materialities explores how material transforms our understanding of Soviet culture, from the textures of domestic space in 1960s apartment blocks to Gulag labour on the Moscow canal, and from avant-garde literary theory in the 1920s to conceptual art under perestroika. It starts from the ethos that the material world shapes people and society. Taking a material approachor a range of material approachescan therefore illuminate aspects of the cultural production and lived experiences of Soviet socialism that are not reflected in other kinds of historical records. This edited volume brings cutting-edge research by emerging scholars together with the established voices who have broken the ground in this sub-field over the last twenty years and promises to make a major intervention in the study of Soviet history and culture.

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Mollie Arbuthnot, Christianna Bonin, Gabriella A. Ferrari

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Surrealist women artists and mental illness

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Female mental illness has been a prominent and complicated theme in surrealist cultural traditions, including the idealization of women with mental illness in works such as Andre Bretons Nadja (1928). Art historians have examined this tendency before, but to date there has been no comprehensive study of the lived reality of women surrealist artists with mental illness. How did womens experience and their work intersect with this romanticized vision? Was the masculine dream of feminized, mad genius prohibitive or productive for these women artists? After establishing the ideological field within which these women worked, the book turns to case studies of well-known and some lesser-known artists, including Angeles Santos, Leonora Carrington, Dora Maar, Claude Cahun, Frida Kahlo, Meret Oppenheim, Sonja Sekula, and Unica Zurn. This collection of essays contains a wide range of responses, revealing surrealisms generative as well as restrictive force.

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Translating the Iconicity of Classical Chinese Poetry

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This open access book offers a groundbreaking exploration of how iconicity: language's resemblance to its referentsis central to classical Chinese poetry and how it intersects with the visual expressiveness of English digital poetry. Drawing on semiotic theory and phenomenological aesthetics, this study proposes a translator-centered approach to rendering lexical, syntactic, and textual iconicity in poetry. It analyzes the iconic roles of lianzi (c14a), wenju (a), lvju (a34a), aoju (a), and yimai (e), offering practical insights for translators. Inspired by digital poetry's visual and sonic dimensions, the book argues for the integration of Chinese ideograms into programming languages to enhance poetic expression. Bridging comparative literature, semiotics, and digital art, this is a timely contribution to translation studies and the evolving field of digital poetics.

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Biological chemistry is a major frontier of inorganic chemistry. Three special volumes devoted to Metal Sites in  Proteins and Models address the questions: how unusual ("entatic") are metal sites in metalloproteins and metalloenzymes compared to those in small coordination complexes? and if they are special, how do polypeptide chains and co-factors control this? The chapters deal with iron, with metal centres acting as Lewis acids, metals in phosphate enzymes, with vanadium, and with the wide variety of transition metal ions which act as redox centres. They illustrate in particular how the combined armoury of genetics and structure determination at the molecular level are providing unprecedented new tools for molecular engineering.

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How Health Insurers Drive Inequality in the United States

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In the aftermath of the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December 2024, everyday Americans took to social media to share stories of the challenges they'd faced trying to navigate the American health insurance system. Why did this event strike such a nerve with the American public? For a topic as central to the lives of Americans as health care, there is no book that examines the impact of coverage denial, whereby health insurers decide whether to cover health services that appear to be within the scope of a plan's benefits  not until now. In Coverage Denied, health policy professor Miranda Yaver offers a sobering account of the ways in which coverage denials damage patient health and exacerbate inequalities along income, education, and racial lines. Combining rich interview material with original survey data, Yaver draws critical attention to the tens of millions of medical claims denied by health insurers every year, shining a necessary light on our inequitable health care system.