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The loss of a parent is a personal and unique emotional event for any individual. However, such a loss is also a virtually universal situation that we will all experience at some point in our lives. This book sets out one such story surrounding the loss of the author's parents over the period 2006 to 2012, yet brings a certain comfort in the knowledge of people's commonality and universality. It is interspersed with retrospective reflections and views, providing thoughts and options for coping with the associated traumas. An epilogue is also included with more generic reflections and wider...

Welcome to Sleepyville, where counting sheep helps children sleep. Every evening, the sheep clock in at 8 p.m. sharp, ready to be counted. 1...2...3...4...but where is number 5? One sheep is missing

Number 5, Woolard Wooliam Woolbur Smith the fifth, is tired of being counted and has left his flock for greener pastures. Maybe, with the help of a costume shop, he can be happy as a duck or a pig or a cow. Meanwhile, his flock of sheep try to find a replacement, but it's no use. They need their number 5 back. Working together, the sheep set out to search for Woolard. Will they find...

Welcome to Sleepyville, where counting sheep helps children sleep. Every evening, the sheep clock in at 8 p.m. sharp, ready to be counted. 1...2...3...4...but where is number 5? One sheep is missing

Number 5, Woolard Wooliam Woolbur Smith the fifth, is tired of being counted and has left his flock for greener pastures. Maybe, with the help of a costume shop, he can be happy as a duck or a pig or a cow. Meanwhile, his flock of sheep try to find a replacement, but it's no use. They need their number 5 back. Working together, the sheep set out to search for Woolard. Will they find...

This series is designed to bring to North American readers the once-unheard voices of writers who have achieved wide acclaim at home, but are not recognized beyond the borders of their native lands. With special emphasis on women writers, Interlink's Emerging Voices series publishes the best of the world's contemporary literature in translation or original English.

In 1884, John Compton Pyne, a British soldier, having finished his tour of duty in India, decided to make a detour on his trip home in order to spend three months crossing Persia unaccompanied except for the local muleteers. Among his accouterments he packed a small leather-bound sketchbook in which he not only wrote a journal but also added beautiful and charming watercolor illustrations. This edition reprints his adventurous journal alongside an introduction that contextualizes this trip against the background of the Persian influence in British culture, and sets this influence as a driving...

From climate change to GM foods, we are increasingly confronted with complex, interconnected social and environmental problems that span disciplines, knowledge bases and value systems. This book offers a transdisciplinary, open approach for those working towards resolving these 'wicked' problems.

It is an exciting time to be in the food industry Not only are the customers more informed than ever, but the demands they place on their retailers of choice include personalization, lifestyles, and connectivity. When will they run out of their favorite product? When do their demands change throughout their lives? When do they want you to help them, and when do they want you to back off? All are questions at the top of every food retailer's mind. In this text, we will take the reader from the origin of the science we call Category Management, through to the best practices and Category...

New York is the city that never sleeps. This luminous book peels back the cover of darkness over the city as it hums along in the night, revealing a hidden world populated by the thousands of women and men who work and live the nightshift. Written with beauty and grace, Nightshift NYC weaves together cultural critique, vivid reportage, and arresting photographs to trace the inverted logic of the city at night. Russell Leigh Sharman and Cheryl Harris Sharman spent a year interviewing and shadowing fry cooks and coffee jockeys, train conductors, cab hacks, and dozens of others who keep...