Thora's no ordinary girl. She's got scales on her legs, purple feet, and a blowhole that squirts water from the top of her head. Thora's a half-mermaid, and as mermaid law commands, Thora must spend ten years at sea and ten years on land. In a houseboat called the Loki, Thora sails the seas with her mermaid mother, Halla, and her guardian, Mr. Walters. But when Thora returns to the seaside town of Grimli, where her father grew up, she encounters fat-cat tycoon Frooty de Mare, who will stop at nothing to expand his Tooty Frooty enterprises. With the help of new friends and her pet peacock, Cosmo, Thora has her work cut out thwarting Tooty's evil plans - not to mention doing a bit of exploring into her own Grimli roots. But, despite being half mermaid, this exceptional young heroine somehow always manages to land on her feet...
A unique collaboration between an ADHD psychiatrist and an author-illustrator with ADHD explaining this disorder using case studies, sound medical information, nuanced insights and humorous illustrations.Discussion around ADHD has exploded in recent years. On TikTok alone, #adhd appears 30 billion times a month! Yet understanding remains elusive. Its symptoms are all too often missed or misunderstood, especially among girls and women.Heightened awareness has led to more people seeking help, but it has also created a cacophony of voices - from sceptics and advocates alike. In an era of information overload, it's crucial to have a reliable source.Amid the turbulence, this book offers a much-needed anchor to help women make informed choices about their mental health, bringing clarity to a muddled conversation. The good news is that ADHD is treatable, in fact, it's one of the most treatable conditions in psychiatry as the seven women in the book's case studies discover.This unique book brings empathy, a passion to help and a uniquely readable and visual style. This is an intimate, humorous and relatable exploration of the disorder that will be a go-to survival guide for women with ADHD.
When a man loses one of his favourite pair of socks at the laundromat, he sets out on a quest to find out what happens to lost socks, and why every sock drawer contains a plethora of single socks. On his eventful journey, he discovers why you always lose the sock you love, visits a sockiatrist who teaches him about the Planet of Lost Socks, and eventually finds his perfect partner at a puppet show. A wryly sweet story of love, loss and destiny.
Philip Bobbitt; Gillian Clark; Christopher Coker; Carlos Escudé; Richard J. Evans; Jonathan Fenby; Jessica Frazier; David Goodhart; Freddy Gray; Steven Grosby; Janne Haaland Matláry; Tom Holland; Lawrence James; Jeremy Jennings; Josef Joffe; Rob Johnson; Robin Lane Fox; Charles S. Maier; Tim Marshall; Iain Martin; Simon Mayall; Lucy Riall; Larry Siedentop; Lars Trägårdh; Maurizio Viroli; Peter H. Wilson; Harvey Whitehouse; Martina Winkelhofer
Med det kalla krigets slut och globaliseringens segertåg trodde många att nationalism hörde till historien. Men det visade sig vara tvärtom. Idag ser vi hur nationalismen sprids över hela världen. Samtidigt växer sig populistiska och anti-demokratiska rörelser starka. Att höra hemma någonstans tycks bli allt viktigare i en tid av ekonomisk och social osäkerhet. I en globaliserad värld förknippas därför identitet, medborgarskap och tillhörighet med födelseort och en fast plats att bo på. Essäerna i denna antologi är baserade på Engelsbergsseminariet 2017 där olika former av identitet knutna till olika samhällsbildningar granskades. Hur uppstår en nation? Hur skapas enighet i ett imperium med en mångfald av folk?Huvudredaktör för denna illustrerade antologi är Kurt Almqvist.
This report presents an analysis of a range of defense institution building (DIB) programs and activities, recommends a set of goals and objectives for achieving them, identifies partner nation and DIB activity selection criteria, develops a strategy for coordinating DIB activities, and recommends procedures for achieving accountability and assessment.
This report examines the 14-year experience of U.S. special operations forces in the Philippines from 2001 through 2014 and the activities and effects of special operations capabilities employed to address terrorist threats in Operation Enduring Freedom Philippines through training and equipping Philippine security forces, providing operational advice and assistance, and conducting civil military and information operations."
Robert J. Currie; Donald K. Piragoff; Gillian MacNeil; Joseph Rikhof; Michael Nesbitt; Christopher Ram; Leah West; Robin Parker; Peter M. German; James Cohen; Sanaa Ahmed; Michelle Gallant; Joanna Harrington; W. Michael G. Osborne; Kathryn Zedde; Stephen Schneider; Frédéric Mégret; Jeffrey G. Johnston; Amélie Aubut; Adelina Iftene; Olivia Genge; Fraser M. Kelly; Elizabeth Bennett
The time of globalization has seen an onslaught of criminal activity that crosses borders. The legal suppression and prosecution of transnational and cross-border crime raise unique and complex legal issues, and law enforcement, lawyers, and judges have struggled to keep up. Transnational & Cross-Border Criminal Law: Canadian Perspectives fills a pronounced gap in Canadian legal literature. Written by subject matter experts, each chapter exposes and analyzes a current and pressing issue in this realm and is designed both to serve as a resource for researchers and to provide cutting-edge insight on front-burner issues. The group of authors -- made up of prosecutors, defence lawyers, government counsel, academics, and civil society advocates -- take on a variety of subjects, including terrorism, financial crime and corruption, jurisdiction, extradition, money laundering, trafficking, maritime enforcement, cross-border evidence-gathering, and the international transfer of prisoners. This unique collection will help to advance general understanding of one of the most pressing public policy issues of our time.
Two broken hearts collide on the path to redemption... After being given to a wealthy man in a faro game, Gillian Netty Stone flees Virginia for the safety of Independence Missouri. On the edge of civilization, the town borders a vast prairie, and the promise of freedom for so many-including Gillian. But trouble always has a way of intruding, and she is on the run again, sneaking aboard a stranger's wagon, as he prepares to join a group of settlers heading west on the Oregon Trail. Cole Clarkson is stunned to find a young woman in his wagon, hiding amongst crates of provisions. Being with Gillian reminds him of the past and all that he's lost-a family he will never see again. Opening his heart is far too great a risk, but the winsome brunette breaks through each of his defenses, weakening his resolve to never fall in love again.
U.S. Marshals & CIA agents Gillian Louise Douglas & Lorraine King return in a grand tale of astonishing coincidences & events spanning nearly 50 years & involve multiple cold cases. The thermonuclear blond codenamed Tombstone plans on destroying the Russian mob in the U.K. Follow the sordid history of the Jersey City Slasher from high school to the present day & the saga of an abused victim who seeks vengeance against twelve bullies through the decades. A tragic event is followed by a brief, joyful discovery as the wheels of fate & justice grind to a series of exciting conclusions when Marshal Douglas becomes involved in the Slasher cold case. Jill Douglas conceives & executes her private black op codenamed "Blitzkrieg" to decimate the Russian mobs and to execute a traitor in MI6 in the heart of London. Suspenseful & gripping, two millennia in the making, & witnessed by Jill's beloved Cecily of the Hadoo to secure an incredible future - in future - for Jill & her family as Galactic Marshals on Cecily's world.
From the author of the 2-million- copy international bestseller You Are What You Eat comes the essential guide to health and nutrition The celebrated clinical nutritionist, author of the internationally bestselling You Are What You Eat, and host of the BBC America show of the same name offers a comprehensive and fully illustrated guide to the health effects, uses, and benefits of the foods we eat and how nutrition affects our general health, aging, ability to fight disease, and quality of life. Gillian McKeith's Food Bible is as user-friendly as it is thorough, featuring food based treatments for common illnesses and diseases, from arthritis to diabetes and chronic fatigue syndrome to migraines. For example: - Almonds can assist in weight loss. - Wild yams help promote fertility. - Berries, spinach, romaine lettuce and broccoli combat dry skin by stimulating oil and collagen production. - Tomatoes contain an antioxidant that can help prevent cancer. Gillian provides cutting-edge Food Action Plan Prescriptions incorporating the right foods, herbs and quick tips for over 100 everyday ailments. The solutions in this book are tried and tested and based on more than 15 years of consulting with clients in private practice. Gillian McKeith's Food Bible will completely change the way you think about food.
As president of the Human Rights Commission, Gillian Triggs advocated for the disempowered, the disenfranchised, the marginalised. She withstood relentless political pressure and media scrutiny as she defended the defenceless for five tumultuous years. How did this aspiring ballet dancer, dignified daughter of a tank commander and eminent law academic respond when appreciative passengers on a full airplane departing Canberra greeted her with a round of applause? Speaking Up shares with readers the values that have guided Triggs' convictions and the causes she has championed. She dares women to be a little vulgar and men to move beyond their comfort zones to achieve equity for all. And she will not rest until Australia has a Bill of Rights. Triggs' passionate memoir is an irresistible call to everyone who yearns for a fairer world.
British artist Gillian Wearing, winner of the 1997 Turner Prize, uses photography and video to explore the intimacies and complexities of everyday life. Borrowing from popular culture, her work is disturbing and confessional. In 1992 she began the acclaimed series Signs that say what you want them to say and not Signs that say what someone else wants them to say', in which random passers-by are photographed holding messages they've written, such as the mild-mannered young businessman whose sign unexpectedly reads 'I'm Desperate'.Wearing's work borrows from familiar forms of popular culture to produce direct, revealing records of deep-seated human trauma and emotion, often adopting the methods of television documentaries for her 'fly-on-the-wall' view of people's lives. Her videos can be alarming, as in Confess All ... in which masked individuals confess their darkest secrets, or humorous, as in (Slight) Reprise - a sampler of adults playing 'air guitar' in the fantasy rock stadium of their bedrooms. Her art can be disconcerting or uplifting: an honest portrait of the many sides to contemporary life.With exhibitions in Britain, the US, Europe and Japan, Wearing is among the best-known and most internationally recognized of the recent generation of British artists. This is the first publication ever to survey this remarkable young artist's gripping work in its entirety.Russell Ferguson of UCLA's Hammer Museum contextualizes Wearing's work in relation to historical precedents in painting, photography and video art. Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art Donna De Salvo discusses with the artist her collaborative approach towards her work and its subjects. London-based critic John Slyce focuses on Wearing's work 10-16, a remarkable video installation that charts our transition from childhood to adolescence. The artist has selected transcripts from director Michael Apted's acclaimed British television documentary series Seven Up, an important influence on the process Wearing uses in her own work. Published here for the first time in full are the transcripts of the artist's video works.
Taking on the Political is a series of monographs that offer new perspectives on contemporary political theory. Books in the series 'take on'the political in accordance with the ambivalent colloquial sense of the phrase - as both an acceptance and a challenge The series interrogates received accounts of the relation between political thought and political practice, criticizes and engages with the contemporary political imagination, and reflects on the ongoing transformations of politics. The texts are concise and polemical. They are oriented towards critique, developments in Continental thought, and the crossing of disciplinary borders.
Gillian and the Golden Rings is a modern fairy tale. Kept safe by fairies, two of the Season Rings have been lost. Or have they been stolen?On a late winter's morning, Gillian and her two dogs-Oliver and Remy-come across two gold rings submerged within an icy, muddy puddle. Gillian recovers the rings, but inadvertently leaves them outside on her patio. In the pre-dawn hours the next morning, she-along with two fairies-find the rings have gone missing again. Where have the rings gone? And who took them? These questions lead Gillian and her companions on an adventure they could never have imagined. From following the trail of the lost or stolen rings to their recovery, the characters she meets along the way, and the danger she finds herself in, make for a wonderful tale steeped in imagination and belief.
Fear isolates her. Desire sets her free.Forced to sell her island resort after a messy divorce, Gillian Foster must now teach new owner Daylin Quinn how to run it. But someone resents Daylin's presence on the island more than Gillian does and will stop at nothing to run him off-even if it costs Gillian her life.A gripping story of love, lust, greed, and envy.Read this thrilling romance today
Explores how Armstrong's films re-work conventions about literary adaptation, biography and realist storytellingExamines Armstrong's work in light of new media scholarship and philosophies, including feminist cinematic ethicsSituates Armstrong's achievements in the context of Australian film policies and historyProvides an examination of never-before-studied elements, including Armstrong's short filmsIncludes anever-before-utilised oral history project with ArmstrongA commercially successful Australian director of over eighteen feature films and documentaries, including My Brilliant Career (1979), Gillian Armstrong is an early, notable example of a woman director connecting with mass audiences. Armstrong's films are unique in their aesthetic expression and in the ethical relationships that they depict, framed through the language of gender inclusivity and due in part to her foregrounding of original, complex and nuanced female characters. This important book fills a gap in the literature on women screen practitioners and is a long overdue response to demands for new insight into the work of this significant director.
A commercially successful Australian director of over eighteen feature films and documentaries, including My Brilliant Career (1979), Gillian Armstrong is an early, notable example of a woman director connecting with mass audiences. Armstrong’s films are unique in their aesthetic expression and in the ethical relationships that they depict, framed through the language of gender inclusivity and due in part to her foregrounding of original, complex and nuanced female characters. This important book fills a gap in the literature on women screen practitioners and is a long overdue response to demands for new insight into the work of this significant director.
