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Fifteen essays that offer inspiration, encouragement, and advice from accomplished writers with ADHD. A rising number of ADHD diagnoses, particularly among adults, is not only confirmed by medical studies and mainstream reporting but also borne out across social media and elsewhere among people who'd been privately coping with persistent, often inexpressible challenges. Many of the contributors to this collection can attest to how a later-in-life diagnosis radically demystified the patterns, impulses, and impasses that had affected their lives and their writing. The essays in Chaos, Creativity, Completion reflect the ways poets, novelists, memoirists, filmmakers, and others have come to understand and engage the relationship between their ADHD and their creative practices. These essays consider how writers can embrace rather than mask their neurodifference, offering multiple ways of finding writing practices that work for ADHD brains--including techniques that often look quite differ

Are YOU ready to fly through the storm?Evil is stirring in the Glimmerstone Mountains, and YOU are the only person who can stop it.As a messenger who flies from peak to peak delivering the post on your giant bird, you're used to spectacular views and perilous missions.But this time, you're about to set off on a journey like no other... a desperate race against time and a battle against a terrifying enemy.Can you make the right choices, crack the fiendish picture puzzles and win your battles to fly your way through to the final showdown?With atmospheric illustrations, a pulse-quickening story full of twists and turns, and lots of secrets and mysteries to uncover, this interactive adventure will keep you gripped from beginning to end.- Perfect gamebook for children aged 9+- Dice-based combat system (complete with QR code to an online dice-roller)- Keeps children engrossed for hours

From unicorn mazes in enchanted woods and crystal caves, to spotting differences and completing dot-to-dots, children will enjoy all kinds of unicorn-themed activities in this gorgeously illustrated book. There are also step-by-step unicorns to draw, pictures to colour and magical scenes to complete with the stickers provided. Eight sheets of press-out activities include stand-up unicorn figures, masks and dangling decorations to make, a double-sided jigsaw puzzle to solve and matching games to play.

This vibrant book is full of farm animals and other things to spot, match, count and talk about. Animals in each scene invite readers to look for specific things, such as a cat driving a tractor, while picture clues with text and number prompts offer further suggestions. There is a little white mouse to spot in each picture too. Younger children will enjoy sharing this book with older children or adults, while additional details enable grown-ups to make up further questions of their own.

This vibrant book is full of butterflies, bees, beetles and other bugs to spot, match, count and talk about. Animals in each scene invite readers to look for specific things, such as a bee on a bicycle or a bug wearing boots, while picture clues with text and number prompts offer further suggestions. There is a little white mouse to spot in each picture too. Younger children will enjoy sharing this book with older children or adults, while additional details enable grown-ups to make up further questions of their own.

Come and spend a fun-filled day on the farm. Meet a noisy cockerel, muddy pigs and some hungry cows that chew hay all day long. Follow a sheepdog as she herds sheep and alpacas, and see an enormous combine harvester at work. Then visit the petting zoo and say hello to the baby goats who love to jump and climb. With five fantastic pop-ups, this book will take you on an exciting behind-the-scenes tour around a busy farm.

This scratch activity book is filled with amazing butterflies and inviting patches to scratch, along with colouring, puzzles and interesting facts about the real-life species.Using the wooden scraper provided, scratch off whole patches to reveal hidden details, or scratch lines and patterns to create your own designs.- Every scratch art page has a facing page of butterfly-themed colouring and puzzles.- Easy and relaxing, with satisfying results guaranteed.- Double-ended wooden scraper tool included.

Babies who've grown up with the bestselling touchy-feely books will love That's not my... Activity Books!Discover zoo-themed things to spot, pictures to finish, shapes to trace and words to learn - all packed into the pages of this fun first activity book. Don't forget to spot little white mouse on every double page!- Perfect for children aged 2 years and above- Helps develop vocabulary and fine motor skills- Bright, bold, eye-catching illustrations support visual development- Keeps children entertained on-the-go- Discover more in the series, from favourite animals to exciting vehicles

Enjoy hours of creative play with this sweet magnet book. With 12 farm animal magnets and 5 inviting scenes to explore, children can play over and over again. From fields and paddocks to the farmhouse and barn, let their imaginations run wild as they choose, place and move the magnets to tell their own stories.

Go on a sensory adventure with everyone's favourite touch and feel baby book series!Four delightful jigsaws specially designed for little hands are embedded in the pages of this sturdy board book. Each jigsaw piece has touchy-feely textures which will help to develop sensory awareness and the concept of matching.- Bright, bold, eye-catching illustrations support visual development- Fuzzy, furry, smooth and soft touchy-feely patches on every page for sensory development- Designed for shared storytime, That's not my... books build communication skills- Repetitive text to encourage call and response for developing language- The little white mouse to spot on every page encourages observation skillsWith so many titles to choose from, there's a That's not my... book for everyone.

Black Queer Girlhood on the Musical Theatre Stage offers a new perspective on the creativity of contemporary Black women musical theatre artists, their representations of Black girlhood, and the Black queer feminist spectators who engage with their work. Creating a new model for Black queer feminist praxis, La Donna L. Forsgren engages with musical theatre scholarship, Black queer feminist criticism, reception studies, Black girlhood studies, and film and television studies, critiquing the gaps and silences within these fields. Each chapter uses Black queer feminist criticism and audience reception theories of popular culture to understand what meaning and pleasure Black queer spectators find in popular musical performances created by Black women. Through resistant readings of twenty contemporary musical theatre productions--from Broadway hits such as The Color Purple and the televised broadcast of The Wiz Live! to the less studied but popular gospel musical Mama, I Want to Sing!--Fors

This biography focuses on Anne of Cleves, fourth wife of King Henry VIII, most famous for being the wife that Henry divorced after only six months of marriage and allegedly no consummation. Popularly she is thought to be ugly and stupid, unable to keep the king's attention. This biography retells Anne's early life, focusing on her time in England, and offering an overview of her legacy for the last 500 years.Re-evaluating many of the misconceptions around Anne, including her religion, the fateful week of her marriage, her life during Mary's reign, and her legacy in history, the book brings together historiography and the most recent research on Anne, including her relationship to books and foreign reputation. Also, for the first time, it thoroughly investigates Anne's relationship with Mary Tudor. Rather than being a traditional biography, the book combines a breakdown of events with chapters that are thematic in nature, examining the political landscape that led to her queenship, her

The utterly addictive new YA thriller from the queen of twists, Kate Francis. For fans of The Traitors, Karen M. McManus and E. Lockhart.In the middle of the night, Liv Walker is kidnapped from her bedroom by two masked figures. As she's dragged into an unmarked van, she's met with an even more horrifying sight: her family are waving goodbye.Camp Smiling Skies is a wilderness therapy camp for "troubled teens". At least, that's what it says in the brochure. In truth, it's filled with dark secrets, cruel counsellors and no chance of escape.Things seem as bad as they can get...until, one by one, people start to die.Liv has already been betrayed by her family, but it seems like they're not the only traitors in her life.There's a murderer in the camp, and everyone's a suspect.Praise for CIRCLE OF LIARS:"Incredibly tense and beyond gripping." Ravena Guron, bestselling author of THIS BOOK KILLS"Fast paced, gripping and very, very twisty... This book is guaranteed to give you sleepless nights

International Booker shortlisted literary sensation Mieko Kawakami serves us a thrilling, stylish noir of buried secrets and shocking acts.'With Sisters in Yellow, [Kawakami] proves she is still the most exciting Japanese novelist at work today' The TimesDeluxe Hardback editionFrom the International Booker Prize-Shortlisted author of Heaven and Breasts and EggsHana has nothing but she’s hopeful. She’s fifteen years old. She lives in a tiny apartment in a suburb of Tokyo with her young mother, a hostess at a local dive bar. They have no money, no security. Then Kimiko appears.Kimiko is older, a bright light in Hana’s dark world. Together they set up Lemon, a bar that, despite its shabby setting and seedy clientele, becomes a haven for Hana. Suddenly Hana has a job she loves, friends to share her days with, and the glittering promise of money. She feels like a normal girl. She feels invincible.But in the narrow alleys of Sangenjaya, nothing is as it seems. Soon all of Hana’s hope, her op

From the bestselling creators of The Gruffalo and The Baddies, an enchanting lift-the-flap board book series featuring the charming animal characters, satisfying rhyming stories, and a reveal on every spread!Poor Fox has lost his socks! How will he get dressed without them? Are they under the stairs... in the cupboard... under the mat? Lift the flaps and find out!From the bestselling creators of The Gruffalo and Room on the Broom, the Tales from Acorn Wood series will delight the youngest readers with charming animal characters, sturdy flaps on every spread, and rhyming stories that are a joy to read aloud.

From the bestselling creators of The Gruffalo and The Baddies, an enchanting lift-the-flap board book series featuring the charming animal characters, satisfying rhyming stories, and a reveal on every spread!Welcome to Acorn Wood, where tired Rabbit can't get to sleep. Can you help her find a quiet place to nap? Lift the flaps to find out!From the bestselling creators of The Gruffalo and Room on the Broom, the Tales from Acorn Wood series will delight the youngest readers with charming animal characters, sturdy flaps on every spread, and rhyming stories that are a joy to read aloud.

The future of precision health care is being driven by the increasingly rapid evolution of technologies. Over the past century, health care has benefited tremendously from the steady introduction of new tools, such as imaging, vaccines, immunology, biochemical analysis, and drug development; more recently, emerging technologies have arisen rapidly, undergone swift validation, and experienced prompt application. However, these technologies and their results have uncertainties and impact all facets of precision patient management. Uncertain Precision: Managing Health Care with Personalized Technologies provides an in-depth overview of precision medicine and its relationship with new technology, examining its current scope, benefits, and limitations. While new medical technologies can identify many individual traits that establish diagnoses, predict the course of illness, and recommend therapies, the tools and their results have uncertainties that the health care professional must anticip

The origins of the legendary Black Axe and its first mouse wielder revealed for the first time! Eisner Award-winning creator David Petersen joins forces with Eisner-nominated artist Gabriel Rodr璲uez to bring a brand new prequel chapter in the epic Mouse Guard saga to life--just in time to celebrate the series 20th anniversary! Set at the earliest point in the series' timeline, this epic reveals the origin of the legendary weapon and the courageous mouse to first wield it--Bardrick. As darkness encroaches and monstrous serpents threaten the fragile peace of the Territories, Bardrick must rise to a duty greater than himself and embark on a perilous journey of sacrifice, bravery, and legacy. But with such immense stakes at hand, can the first Black Axe survive the toll of his quest? Featuring stunning sequential art from Rodr璲uez paired with colors by Petersen himself, this hardcover volume beautifully expands the Mouse Guard mythos with the untold history of its earliest heroes. Collects

Federated Learning for the Metaverse: Applications in Virtual Environments provides readers with insights into how federated learning, a decentralized machine learning paradigm, can be strategically applied to address critical aspects of the metaverse. The book covers a wide range of topics, including privacy-preserving personalization, security, collaboration, adaptive learning environments, real-time communication, decentralized governance, language understanding, immersive learning experiences, avatar customization, and dynamic scene rendering.

Wednesday Addams joins forces with her new roommate to win the Poe Cup in this Step 3 Step into Reading leveled reader based on the hit TV series Wednesday! Wednesday is a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams' time as a student at Nevermore Academy. But Wednesday Addams also insists on fair play, so she reluctantly joins forces with her far-too-cheerful roommate Enid Sinclair in an effort to win the prestigious Poe Cup and best her cheating rival Bianca Barclay in this Step Into Reading Step 3 leveled reader based on the dark world of the Wednesday TV series.Step 3 Readers feature engaging characters in easy-to-follow plots about popular topics. For children who are ready to read on their own.

The gap between who designers and developers imagine their users are, and who those users really are, can be the biggest problem with product development. Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner's Guide to User Research, Third Edition helps readers bridge that gap to understand what users want and need from your product, and whether they'll be able to use what you've created.Filled with real-world experience and a wealth of practical information, Observing the User Experience presents a complete toolbox of techniques to help designers, developers and other stakeholders see through the eyes of their users. The book is organized into three parts. Part I discusses the benefits of end-user research and the ways it fits into the development of useful, desirable, and successful products. Part II presents techniques for understanding people's needs, desires, and abilities, providing a basis for developing better products, whether they're Web, software or mobile based. Part III explains

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Little children can experience the magic of a moonlit night and meet owls, foxes and bats with the beautifully illustrated jigsaws and simple story in this atmospheric book. There are three 9-piece jigsaws, each featuring an enchanting night-time scene, which can be taken out of the book to complete and, once finished, slotted snugly back in for safekeeping.