Two kingdoms, two royals, and a curse that threatens to destroy the fragile peace between them.Prince Isanfier and Princess Skiansy have returned from the war with heavy hearts, but their battles are far from over. Fidal's curse looms over Isan's head and he knows Icaria is still out there, plotting to finish what King Frost and Darkenier started.Dealing with the fallout of the King's death is a difficult dance, and to make matters worse, the Council has called a Festival of Honour, in hopes of choosing the next Queen and Prince Consort of Summer. Marriage is the furthest thing from Isan's mind as he struggles with his unpredictable newfound magic, his tenuous alliance with Asmund, and a controlling Captain of the Guard who judges his every move.When disaster strikes, Isan discovers he's not the only one keeping secrets, and is forced to seek refuge in the Edgewood. Echo may be his saviour once again, but the stakes are high and time is running out.Will Isan learn to control his magic in time to save his kingdom or will the wrath of Winter reach him first?
Two kingdoms, two royals, and a curse that threatens to destroy the fragile peace between them.Prince Isanfier and Princess Skiansy have returned from the war with heavy hearts, but their battles are far from over. Fidal's curse looms over Isan's head and he knows Icaria is still out there, plotting to finish what King Frost and Darkenier started.Dealing with the fallout of the King's death is a difficult dance, and to make matters worse, the Council has called a Festival of Honour, in hopes of choosing the next Queen and Prince Consort of Summer. Marriage is the furthest thing from Isan's mind as he struggles with his unpredictable newfound magic, his tenuous alliance with Asmund, and a controlling Captain of the Guard who judges his every move.When disaster strikes, Isan discovers he's not the only one keeping secrets, and is forced to seek refuge in the Edgewood. Echo may be his saviour once again, but the stakes are high and time is running out.Will Isan learn to control his magic in time to save his kingdom or will the wrath of Winter reach him first?
Some say there's not much in Haven City left to fight for, but to the Resistance and the Assassin's Guild, the war is far from over. In a future world, the skyscrapers of Haven City have crumbled and the government of today is no more. Death lurks around every corner and tomorrow is not promised. The Resistance and the Assassin's Guild fight for control of the city, but after decades of a silent war, no one expects victory.In this lawless city, enemies are abundant, but three people are feared above all: the Charger, Black Death, and the mysterious assassin called Silent Night.Silent Night has spent her whole life clawing her way to the top of the assassin list and has reached second place at the age of 18. She is days away from becoming Agent One when the tables are turned and a horrible truth is revealed.The next day, Silent Night seeks out the Resistance, to aid in the destruction of the Assassin's Guild.Silent Night expects hatred and mistrust from her former enemies, but one boy will surprise her and that boy might just be the end of her.
Some say the assassins have disappeared, but Quinn knows better than to believe it.Haven City is a warzone. The streets are burning, paranoia is rampant, and death is more prominent than ever. The Resistance has retreated and the Assassin's Guild seems to have faded into nothing, but the war has only just begun.The Charger will not give up easily, not now that he's gotten into Silent Night's head.Quinn is ready to leave Silent Night in the past and embrace her future with the Resistance, but not until the Charger pays for the wrongs he's dealt, not until the Guild is dust under her feet.Victory is easier said than done as unexpected consequences from her previous battles force Quinn to the sidelines once again. Relationships, old and new, test her resolve, and trust seems as out of reach as ever.As truths unfold and her life spirals out of her control, Quinn will find solace in the notion that she is not the only monster in Haven and will put every effort into ending the Charger, even if it kills her.
Some say the war is over, that the assassins have won, but the Resistance will not die quietly.Haven City is fading. The streets are empty, the dead are many, and fear clings to those few who still remain. The Assassin's Guild has brought the Resistance to its knees in a brutal massacre, but the fight isn't over yet.The Charger has one last sinister plot to fulfill before he sends Haven City and everyone in it to the grave.Quinn escaped her father once again, but now the lethal Demon's Breath serum is coursing through her veins, making her question her every move. It won't be long before Silent Night wakes up and threatens everything Quinn has worked so hard to achieve.In a desperate attempt to save the ones she loves from the monster lurking beneath her skin, Quinn will return to the Guild one last time, to destroy it from within.The virus might kill her when it's all said and done, but Quinn will do everything in her power to take her father down with her. May the best assassin win.
Two kingdoms, two seasons, and a feud as old as the realm itself. Prince Isanfier and Princess Skiansy of Summer were four years old when their parents were murdered in their sleep. Twelve years have passed since, but the tragedy has not lost its sting, and Isan is determined to avenge them. He suspects the assassin hails from within the icy clutches of Winter, a kingdom that has always wanted to bring Summer to its knees. When his uncle, King Arkenier, declares war, Isan sees it as the perfect opportunity to give Winter what it deserves, while his sister fears it will plunge the entire realm into chaos. Isan is willing to do whatever it takes to get revenge, but he is unprepared for the challenges he will face along the way. His quest will test his strength - both mental and physical - as he braves the Edgewood, fights battles on snow covered fields, and learns of a curse that threatens to destroy everything he holds dear.How far will Isan's vengeance take him and will he even recognize himself in the mirror when it is all said and done?
Two kingdoms, two seasons, and a feud as old as the realm itself. Prince Isanfier and Princess Skiansy of Summer were four years old when their parents were murdered in their sleep. Twelve years have passed since, but the tragedy has not lost its sting, and Isan is determined to avenge them. He suspects the assassin hails from within the icy clutches of Winter, a kingdom that has always wanted to bring Summer to its knees. When his uncle, King Arkenier, declares war, Isan sees it as the perfect opportunity to give Winter what it deserves, while his sister fears it will plunge the entire realm into chaos. Isan is willing to do whatever it takes to get revenge, but he is unprepared for the challenges he will face along the way. His quest will test his strength - both mental and physical - as he braves the Edgewood, fights battles on snow covered fields, and learns of a curse that threatens to destroy everything he holds dear.How far will Isan's vengeance take him and will he even recognize himself in the mirror when it is all said and done?
Some say the war is over, that the assassins have won, but the Resistance will not die quietly.Haven City is fading. The streets are empty, the dead are many, and fear clings to those few who still remain. The Assassin's Guild has brought the Resistance to its knees in a brutal massacre, but the fight isn't over yet.The Charger has one last sinister plot to fulfill before he sends Haven City and everyone in it to the grave.Quinn escaped her father once again, but now the lethal Demon's Breath serum is coursing through her veins, making her question her every move. It won't be long before Silent Night wakes up and threatens everything Quinn has worked so hard to achieve.In a desperate attempt to save the ones she loves from the monster lurking beneath her skin, Quinn will return to the Guild one last time, to destroy it from within.The virus might kill her when it's all said and done, but Quinn will do everything in her power to take her father down with her. May the best assassin win.Trigger Warning: This book contains content/themes that may not be suitable for all readers, including: death, graphic violence, suicide, scenes of intimacy, strong language, abuse, manipulation, alcoholism, family trauma, loss of a child, childbirth, and mental health issues. Please read at your own discretion.
Some say there's more to a story than what's written between the pages of a book...Have you ever wondered what really happened the day Jax's mom died? Or where Natalie was during Sacred Ruse? Or even how Sephtis felt when Kuen walked away from the Guild? Well, look no further than Assassins Below, a collection of short stories that will shed light on the hidden moments of the Guild Trilogy and give you a taste of how our beloved characters are doing after Solemn Vow.So curl up in a comfy chair, grab a warm cup of coffee and a kleenex box, or two, and prepare to return to Haven City where villains lurk around every corner and trust is as fleeting as the summer breeze.
Some say there's more to a story than what's written between the pages of a book...Have you ever wondered what really happened the day Jax's mom died? Or where Natalie was during Sacred Ruse? Or even how Sephtis felt when Kuen walked away from the Guild? Well, look no further than Assassins Below, a collection of short stories that will shed light on the hidden moments of the Guild Trilogy and give you a taste of how our beloved characters are doing after Solemn Vow.So curl up in a comfy chair, grab a warm cup of coffee and a kleenex box, or two, and prepare to return to Haven City where villains lurk around every corner and trust is as fleeting as the summer breeze.
ACT for Psychosis Recovery is the first book to provide a breakthrough, evidence-based, step-by-step approach for group work with clients suffering from psychosis. As evidenced in a study by Patricia A. Bach and Steven C. Hayes, patients with psychotic symptoms who received acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) in addition to treatment as usual showed half the rate of rehospitalization as those who did not. With this important guide, you'll learn how a patient's recovery can be both supported and sustained by promoting acceptance, mindfulness, and values-driven action.The journey of personal recovery from psychosis is immensely challenging. Patients often struggle with paranoia, auditory hallucinations, difficulties with motivation, poor concentration and memory, and emotional dysregulation. In addition, families and loved ones may have trouble understanding psychosis, and stigmatizing attitudes can limit opportunity and create alienation for patients.True recovery from psychosis means empowering patients to take charge of their lives. Rather than focusing on pathology, ACT teaches patients how to stay grounded in the present moment, disengage from their symptoms, and pursue personally meaningful lives based on their values.In this groundbreaking book, you will learn how to facilitate ACT groups based on a central metaphor (Passengers on the Bus), so that mindfulness and values-based action are introduced in a way that is engaging and memorable. You will also find tips and strategies to help clients identify valued directions, teach clients how to respond flexibly to psychotic symptoms, thoughts, and emotions that have been barriers to living a valued life, and lead workshops that promote compassion and connection among participants.You'll also find tried and tested techniques for engaging people in groups, particularly those traditionally seen as "hard to reach"-people who may be wary of mental health services or experience paranoia. And finally, you'll gain skills for engaging participants from various ethnic backgrounds.Finding purpose and identity beyond mental illness is an important step in a patient's journey toward recovery. Using the breakthrough approach in this book, you can help clients gain the insight needed to achieve lasting well-being.
An inventive collection of stories by one of the most prominent and acclaimed writers in Hungary today. The Birth of Emma K., a collection of twelve short stories rich with magic, introduces English-language readers to one of the most vibrant and original voices in contemporary Hungarian literature. Zsolt Lang's new collection opens with God sitting on a bench looking over Budapest; later, a Hungarian man who has stumbled into a Romanian music theory class suddenly finds he is able to speak expertly about Hungarian composer Bela Bartok-and in perfect Romanian; and even later, against all odds, the embryo of Emma fights for her future life from within the womb. Drifting between melancholic and witty, in sentences that are winding, subtle, and colloquial, Lang's stories are deeply rooted in Transylvanian culture and history. Reminiscent of the best writings of Irish modernist masters such as Samuel Beckett and Flann O'Brien, The Birth of Emma K. presents an unforgettable collage of human nature.
The first book to map William James’s preoccupation with medical ideas, concerns, and values across the breadth of his work. William James is known as a nineteenth-century philosopher, psychologist, and psychical researcher. Less well-known is how his interest in medicine influenced his life and work, driving his ambition to change the way American society conceived of itself in body, mind, and soul. William James, MD offers an account of the development and cultural significance of James’s ideas and works, and establishes, for the first time, the relevance of medical themes to his major lines of thought. James lived at a time when old assumptions about faith and the moral and religious possibilities for human worth and redemption were increasingly displaced by a concern with the medically “normal” and the perfectibility of the body. Woven into treatises that warned against humanity’s decline, these ideas were part of the eugenics movement and reflected a growing social stigma attached to illness and invalidism, a disturbing intellectual current in which James felt personally implicated. Most chronicles of James’s life have portrayed a distressed young man, who then endured a psychological or spiritual crisis to emerge as a mature thinker who threw off his pallor of mental sickness for good. In contrast, Emma K. Sutton draws on his personal correspondence, unpublished notebooks, and diaries to show that James considered himself a genuine invalid to the end of his days. Sutton makes the compelling case that his philosophizing was not an abstract occupation but an impassioned response to his own life experiences and challenges. To ignore the medical James is to misread James altogether.
The first book to map William James’s preoccupation with medical ideas, concerns, and values across the breadth of his work. William James is known as a nineteenth-century philosopher, psychologist, and psychical researcher. Less well-known is how his interest in medicine influenced his life and work, driving his ambition to change the way American society conceived of itself in body, mind, and soul. William James, MD offers an account of the development and cultural significance of James’s ideas and works, and establishes, for the first time, the relevance of medical themes to his major lines of thought. James lived at a time when old assumptions about faith and the moral and religious possibilities for human worth and redemption were increasingly displaced by a concern with the medically “normal” and the perfectibility of the body. Woven into treatises that warned against humanity’s decline, these ideas were part of the eugenics movement and reflected a growing social stigma attached to illness and invalidism, a disturbing intellectual current in which James felt personally implicated. Most chronicles of James’s life have portrayed a distressed young man, who then endured a psychological or spiritual crisis to emerge as a mature thinker who threw off his pallor of mental sickness for good. In contrast, Emma K. Sutton draws on his personal correspondence, unpublished notebooks, and diaries to show that James considered himself a genuine invalid to the end of his days. Sutton makes the compelling case that his philosophizing was not an abstract occupation but an impassioned response to his own life experiences and challenges. To ignore the medical James is to misread James altogether.
Despite ongoing challenges to the criminalisation and surveillance of queer lives, police leaders are now promoted as allies and defenders of LGBT rights. However, in this book, Emma K. Russell argues that the surface inclusion of select LGBT identities in the protective aspirations of the law is deeply tenuous and conditional, and that police recognition is both premised upon and reproductive of an imaginary of' 'good queer citizens'—those who are respectable, responsible, and 'just like' their heterosexual counterparts.Based on original empirical research, Russell presents a detailed analysis of the political complexities, compromises, and investments that underpin LGBT efforts to achieve sexual rights and protections. With a historical trajectory that spans the so-called 'decriminalisation' era to the present day, she shows how LGBT activists have both resisted and embraced police incursions into queer space, and how—with LGBT support—police leaders have re-crafted histories of violence as stories of institutional progress. Queer Histories and the Politics of Policing advances broader understandings of the nature of police power and the shifting terrain of sexual citizenship. It will be of interest to students and researchers of criminology, sociology, and law engaged in studies of policing, social justice, and gender and sexuality.
Rehabilitation Outcome Measures is a comprehensive review and comparison of measurement instruments in rehabilitation. It includes a high-level section on professional practice in physiotherapy and an introduction to the World Health Organisation's (WHO) International Classification of Health. For those who wish to learn more about the relevance of reported measurement properties, the text focuses on how this knowledge can assist clinical decision-making. Additionally, the book reviews a range of measurements in neurological rehabilitation as well as mobility, fatigue, physical activity and patient satisfaction. Rehabilitation Outcome Measures is directed at students preparing for clinical practice, as well as researchers and practitioners seeking information about a range of measurement instruments. Provides details on how to manage a project and select an outcome measure Introduction to WHO's International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health Boxes with specific links to clinical decision-making Easy format for review of measurement possibilities in each domain Clear review of 36 measurement instruments
