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  Bedtime Stories for Adults -...

  Andy Benson

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  Bedtime stories aren’t just for kids anymore… 
  Do you struggle with insomnia, no matter how hard you try to deal with it? Is anxiety or depression preventing you from sleeping constantly? If you find that bedtime is nothing but struggles, then you are in the right spot… This book will help you!  
  As you read through this book, you will first be introduced to the idea of utilizing bedtime stories, even as an adult. Through using stories and mindfulness, you will find that you can drift off to sleep with ease. 
  In this collection of adult bedtime stories, you will first be introduced to the idea of using mindful meditation so you can relax yourself. Then, you will be given several different bedtime stories that involve various adventures (and sometimes misadventures) of Sophie Rogers, a young woman living in the Pacific Northwest, and her German shepherd pal, Bella. Together, they enjoy life and everything that it has to offer with their friends. As you read their stories, you can find yourself beginning to soothe into a state of relaxation yourself in which you will begin to prepare for a full night of sleep yourself. Each story is meant to be fun and engaging.  
  Finally, at the end of the book you will be given two traditional guided meditations that are meant to trigger mindfulness to help yourself begin to relax enough to drift off to sleep. So, what are you waiting for? Join Sophie as she explores the world. As you read, you will find:  
  A guided meditation in which you explore time and space, learning to distance yourself from the struggles of your daily life 
  A guided meditation in which you explore a new, peaceful paradise and see the world in a different light 
  If you’re ready for a good night’s sleep, you can get it! All that is standing in your way is scrolling up to click on BUY NOW today!

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  The Voice of Animals

  Pilar Badía, Diego J. Hernández

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  The most common way we come to know animals is usually by rote learning the specific features that certain kind of animals have according to a textbooks. We learn that they are mammals, birds or fish; but at school we rarely mention that they have a personality of their own and even less do we analyze whether we treat them well or badly. Have you ever wondered how animals actually feel?
  Have you thought about how they are treated in our society?
  The Voice of Animals promotes reflection through critical thinking on different issues related to animal ethics. By raising questions it paves the way to analyze the most common themes that emerge in adolescence regarding the lives of animals, both free and captive.

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  Talking About Death Won’t Kill...

  Dr. Kathy Kortes-Miller

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  This practical handbook will equip readers with the tools to have meaningful conversations about death and dying
  		 
  Death is a part of life. We used to understand this, and in the past, loved ones generally died at home with family around them. But in just a few generations, death has become a medical event, and we have lost the ability to make this last part of life more personal and meaningful. Today people want to regain control over health-care decisions for themselves and their loved ones.
  		 
  Talking About Death Won’t Kill You is the essential handbook to help Canadians navigate personal and medical decisions for the best quality of life for the end of our lives. Noted palliative-care educator and researcher Kathy Kortes-Miller shows readers how to identify and reframe limiting beliefs about dying with humor and compassion. With robust resource lists, Kortes-Miller addresses
  		
  		advance care plans for ourselves and our loved ones
  		how to have conversations about end-of-life wishes with loved ones
  		how to talk to children about death
  		how to build a compassionate workplace
  		practical strategies to support our colleagues
  		how to talk to health-care practitioners
  		how to manage challenging family dynamics as someone is dying
  		what is involved in medical assistance in dying (MAID)
  		
  		 
  Far from morbid, these conversations are full of meaning and life — and the relief that comes from knowing what your loved ones want, and what you want for yourself.

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  Oil Beach - How Toxic...

  Christina Dunbar-Hester

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  Can the stories of bananas, whales, sea birds, and otters teach us to reconsider the seaport as a place of ecological violence, tied to oil, capital, and trade? 
    
  San Pedro Bay, which contains the contiguous Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, is a significant site for petroleum shipping and refining as well as one of the largest container shipping ports in the world—some forty percent of containerized imports to the United States pass through this so-called America’s Port. It is also ecologically rich. Built atop a land- and waterscape of vital importance to wildlife, the heavily industrialized Los Angeles Harbor contains estuarial wetlands, the LA River mouth, and a marine ecology where colder and warmer Pacific Ocean waters meet. In this compelling interdisciplinary investigation, award-winning author Christina Dunbar-Hester explores the complex relationships among commerce, empire, environment, and the nonhuman life forms of San Pedro Bay over the last fifty years—a period coinciding with the era of modern environmental regulation in the United States. The LA port complex is not simply a local site, Dunbar-Hester argues, but a node in a network that enables the continued expansion of capitalism, propelling trade as it drives the extraction of natural resources, labor violations, pollution, and other harms. Focusing specifically on cetaceans, bananas, sea birds, and otters whose lives are intertwined with the vitality of the port complex itself, Oil Beach reveals how logistics infrastructure threatens ecologies as it circulates goods and capital—and helps us to consider a future where the accumulation of life and the accumulation of capital are not in violent tension.

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  Birdhouses of the World

  Anne Schmauss

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  View a stunning collection of beautiful birdhouses, plus design specifications and tips to buy your own and what your future feathered tenants will need. 
   
  Birds love houses as much as humans do. Well, not all birds—mainly the cavity nesters, which are just as comfortable inside a “house” hanging from a branch or mounted on a pole in someone’s backyard as they are inside the trunk of a tree. 
   
  In Birdhouses of the World, author Anne Schmauss offers readers a collection of beautiful, whimsical, fantastical, stop-you-in-your-tracks-amazing birdhouses created by designers and bird lovers around the world. Schmauss starts off with a brief history of human-made birdhouses, then moved right into descriptions and photos of more than forty birdhouses found in the United States, Canada, England, Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany, Egypt, Turkey, Lebanon, and Japan. Most important in her selection is the wow factor. These birdhouses are spectacular in their creativity, ingenuity, and sheer originality. With styles ranging from sleek and modern to elaborate Victorian to hobbit style, they’re as varied as human houses and illustrate the variety of designs found throughout the world. Also included are specifications for each birdhouse, a nesting chart listing the most common cavity nesters in North America and their birdhouse needs, and a guide to what to look for when buying a good birdhouse. 
   
  Birdhouses of the World offers a captivating look at the creativity that can result when a functional structure is infused with a love birds. 
   
  Praise for Birdhouses of the World 
   
  “[Author Anne] Schmauss searched the world to showcase the “coolest” birdhouses and tell their stories. And what birdhouses she has found.” —Los Angeles Times 
   
  “A fascinating, “stop-you-in-your-tracks” tour of birdhouses crafted by designers and bird enthusiasts all around the world.” —Mother Nature Network 
   
  “To judge from the imaginative birdhouses in Birdhouses of the World, some birds are inhabiting stylish architecture of the sort most of us can only dream about.” —The Santa Fe New Mexican

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  Unsettled - Lord Selkirk’s...

  Robert Lower

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  The fascinating story of the Red River Settlement, now Winnipeg, in the years 1813 to 1816, told with archival journals, reports, and letters
  		 
  Unsettled tells the story of two hundred Highlanders who flee the Scottish Clearances in 1813 to establish a settlement on the Red River in what eventually became Winnipeg. They are sponsored by the Earl of Selkirk, a man who has never been west of Montreal. Families who have never left their Highland crofts take an epic journey over ocean, up wild rivers, and through boundless wilderness, surviving disease and brutal winter only to face the determined opposition of fur barons who want no sodbusters threatening their trade and are prepared to stop at nothing to destroy their dream.
  		 
  The “empty” land they’ve been promised is also anything but, already occupied by First Nations bands and the beginnings of that proud nation soon to be called Métis, whom they must befriend or fight.
  		 
  Unsettled takes you inside the experience, relying on journals, reports, and letters to bring these days of soaring hope, crushing despair, and heroic determination to life — to bring their present into ours.

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