LGBTQ+ Healthy Ageing
Populations are growing older in a public health climate where brittle public services are struggling to cope with the demands associated with ageing populations. LGBTQ+ populations also continue to grow in line with these trends but receive much less attention in the scholarly debate. This short work offers a theoretical and practical exploration of LGBTQ+ ageing in the UK, drawing on a blend of public health and occupational therapy theory, and phenomenology. Based on original primary evidence gathered through a survey and interviews, Fox and Hannis kickstart a new and much-needed discourse in the literature about hidden populations during the WHO's Decade of Healthy Ageing. Advancing the discourse on ageing by applying multiple theoretical bases to explain how minority ageing populations interact with, and are shaped by, their environments over the life course, Fox and Hannis unveil how specific social determinants over the life course impact the health outcomes and engagement with healthy ageing practices of older LGBTQ+ populations. As we navigate the intersection of queer history, public health, and ageing, LGBTQ+ Healthy Ageing serves as a vital resource for scholars, practitioners, and anyone committed to promoting healthy ageing for all.
Full Gas Forever
'What Ed Clancy doesn't know about cycling isn't worth knowing' - Sir Chris Hoy'Unless you've worked out how to stop time, you're going to need this book' - Ned Boulting 'A timely reminder that age is no reason to slow down' - Tour de France winner Geraint Thomas AN EXPERT GUIDE FOR ROAD CYCLISTS LOOKING TO DEFY THE YEARS AND RIDE FASTER AND FURTHER Getting older does not mean getting slower. Improving your performance is achievable despite the advance of the years. If you are a midlife rider who wants to ride faster and for longer, Full Gas Forever provides the complete guide. Ed Clancy OBE, a three-time Olympic gold-medal winning cyclist and fitness writer, flexibility expert and midlife cyclist Lexie Williamson, are the ideal people to guide you through the strategies, training, benefits and pitfalls of going full-gas in your fourth or fifth decade. Mixing anecdotes, insights and personal experiences from their own sporting lives, you will find practical guidance on the following: - exercises to enable riders to work on this area of fitness.- off-bike preparation- ride fuelling through a nutritionally focused diet- recovery strategies- injury prevention as well as advice on avoiding overtraining.- dealing with injuries and adapting your training plan accordingly- specifically designed programmes to smash the sprints and outlast the others in a test of endurance. Whether you're looking to scale those peaks, smash those sprints or outlast the others in a test of endurance, this book shows just how it can be done.
Keep Love
FROM THE HOST OF THE #1 WE NEED TO TALK PODCAST 'Paul's book is a game-changer - honest, insightful, and full of passion. The perfect guide to creating love that lasts and keeps the spark alive.' - DAVINA MCCALL Keep Love is your relationship bible combining cutting-edge research, case studies and self-help tools. Paul outlines all the key myths, issues and challenges that couples will likely experience in their partnerships and arms you with the simple tools, know-how and emotional intelligence to manage them. Through honest and open communication, mutual respect, problem-solving ability, intimacy, and a shared sense of purpose, Keep Love shows us how anyone can build strong foundations for long-lasting love. 'Paul is a true relationship expert - KEEP LOVE brilliantly demystifies the secrets to fostering long-lasting connections in this insightful and practical guide. It's essential reading for everyone.' - DR TARA SWART
All about Love: The Deluxe Collector's Edition
Now available in a special hardcover Deluxe Collector's Edition featuring beautiful new packaging, including cloth over board one-piece case with gifty trim, case stamping with red foil, red-colored endpapers, red sprayed edges, and sewn-in red ribbon bookmark! A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation" trilogy. All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Here is the truth about love, and inspiration to help us instill caring, compassion, and strength in our homes, schools, and workplaces."The word 'love' is most often defined as a noun, yet we would all love better if we used it as a verb," writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, renowned scholar, cultural critic, and feminist bell hooks offers a proactive new ethic for a society bereft with lovelessness--not the lack of romance, but the lack of care, compassion, and unity. People are divided, she declares, by society's failure to provide a model for learning to love. As bell hooks uses her incisive mind to explore the question "What is love?" her answers strike at both the mind and heart. Razing the cultural paradigm that the ideal love is infused with sex and desire, she provides a new path to love that is sacred, redemptive, and healing for individuals and for a nation. The Utne Reader declared bell hooks one of the "100 Visionaries Who Can Change Your Life." All About Love is a powerful, timely affirmation of just how profoundly her revelations can change hearts and minds for the better. "Each offering from bell hooks is a major event, as she has so much to give us." -- Maya Angelou
A Mere Reflection of My Mother
A deeply emotional memoir of one woman's decision to take care of her mother with cancer while juggling everyday life as a mom of two.At four years of age, Anne's mother drops her off at her father's place and drives away with her new boyfriend in a battered white pickup truck. Through the rest of her childhood and youth, she only sees her mother a handful of times. Life with her father is difficult, but she manages to build a successful life and career, eventually becoming a mother herself.What do you do when the mother you don't know well falls ill?Right after Anne turns forty, she learns her mother has stage four lung cancer. As the only person who can provide care, she is faced with a difficult choice: continue living her life at a safe distance, or step in and care for the mother who didn't care for her.Told with raw honesty, A Mere Reflection of My Mother confronts the complexities of nearly estranged mother-daughter relationships and addresses the realities of being an unexpected caretaker while managing a career and a family as a single parent.
How to End a Love Story
���� Discover the path from heartbreak to wholehearted freedom ✨ What if the end of a love story could mark the beginning of your most powerful chapter yet? ���� This guide offers an honest and compassionate journey through the realities of a breakup-helping you not just survive the pain, but rise with clarity, courage, and strength. �������� Inside, you'll find: ���� Practical tools to reclaim your mental space & set healthy boundaries���� Smart strategies for handling social media triggers���� Journaling prompts to release emotions and gain perspective���� Guidance on recognizing red flags & embracing green ones in love���� Tips to avoid rebound traps and build lasting, meaningful connections Instead of feeling stuck in the shadows of your past relationship, you'll learn how to: ���� Rediscover your true self���� Rebuild self-trust and confidence���� Create a future where you set the standards for love and happiness Whether you're navigating heartbreak for the first time or seeking deeper wisdom after many lessons, this book is your beacon of hope and healing. ���� It's time to claim your peace, honor your worth, and step boldly into new beginnings-because the best love story is the one you write for yourself. ❤️����
These Two Wrongs
The universe must really hate me.Rhys Astor, the guy with a deadly smirk and devil-may-care attitude, is the sole witness to one of the most embarrassing moments of my life. But even worse, now he's suddenly intrigued by me, which is confusing because until now, he couldn't be bothered to remember my name.Dorothy, Donatella, Danielle...no, it's Delilah, you unhinged prat.I don't want his attention. If I had my way, we'd go on avoiding each other for the rest of our lives, but again, the universe is conspiring against me. Rhys is the captain of the fencing team, and I'm the new manager. That means we're stuck together everyday for practice, tournaments, and long, long bus rides to away matches.Our shared bus rides lead to heated bickering.That bickering leads to hate-kissing...and not-so-hate kissing.And somehow, those few stolen kisses lead to sexy tutoring sessions, where Rhys is an extremely enthusiastic student.He shows me with every single touch, kiss, and whispered word how much he appreciates my rounded curves. And in return, I show him what it means to truly be cared for.But I have a feeling Rhys is hiding something. That his motives might not be what they seem.I've never wanted to be wrong about anything more than I do about these nagging suspicions.Because if I'm right, then there's nothing but heartbreak waiting for me.
Finding Yourself After Divorce
Reclaim Your Power. Rediscover Your Joy. Rewrite the Rest of Your Life. Divorce may feel like an ending, but it can also be the beginning of a powerful new chapter. If you feel lost, broken, or unsure of how to move forward, you are not alone-and you don't have to stay stuck. Finding Yourself After Divorce is your compassionate guide to healing your heart, reclaiming your confidence, and creating a life filled with strength, peace, and joy. Inside this empowering book, you'll discover: ✅ How to heal from the pain of divorce and release emotional baggage✅ Tools to rebuild your self-worth and rediscover who you truly are✅ Strategies for finding your voice, your boundaries, and your independence✅ Steps to move from heartbreak to hope with clarity and courage✅ How to rewrite your story and create a life that excites and inspires you With practical insights and soulful encouragement, this book helps you not just survive divorce-but thrive beyond it. Whether you're navigating grief, loneliness, or the challenges of starting over, you'll find the support, inspiration, and confidence to reclaim your power and rewrite your future. ✨ Perfect for women who want to heal, grow, and embrace life after divorce with resilience and joy. Your story isn't over. It's just beginning.
Prepper Ultimate Friendship FIltering
In a world where trust is as valuable as food, water, or ammunition, Prepper Ultimate Friendship Filtering by Beau Radcliff delivers the survival bible no grid living communities have been waiting for. This is more than just another entry in the shelf of real life survival books - it's a friendship survival guide and friendship selection manual designed for the harshest realities.Packed with insights from survival authors who know the stakes, Radcliff's system shows how to filter allies, eliminate liabilities, and build a network that lasts. Through lessons drawn from preppers in books and lived experience, you'll learn to apply prepper projects and preppers projects directly to your social circle. Whether you're drawing up your preppers list or creating an ultimate prepper survival crew, this book gives you the tools to act.Inside you'll find: How to evaluate trust with the same rigor you apply to food storage or shelter (survival guide making friends).Prepper action strategies for building a crew with skills that match preppers needs in real crises.Case studies and scenarios pulled from preppers ultimate survival stories and modern failures.A step-by-step framework that doubles as a no grid survival bible for group dynamics.A practical survival book reference for anyone assembling the ultimate preppers team.Blending psychological resilience with hands-on tactics, Radcliff shows why social filtering belongs alongside water systems, food caches, and defense drills. If you want to stop wasting time with the wrong people and start building the crew that ensures you thrive, this book is your survival & emergency preparedness blueprint.No other book combines friendship survival guide wisdom with prepper list rigor like this one. Prepper Ultimate Friendship Filtering is the missing piece for readers of real life survival books who know gear isn't enough without people you can trust.
Date Like a Brand
One hundred years ago, our great-great-grandparents simply married the girl or boy next door. Compatibility and true love didn't always play into the equation. Today's expanded dating world should make finding the ideal partner easier than ever. Somehow, though, the task of finding the right mate has become more difficult instead. Modern dating is a marketplace-one where attraction, perception, and positioning matter just as much as compatibility. Yet, most people approach dating with no real strategy, leading to confusion, mismatches, and wasted time.But how might things change if you could apply the proven principles of brand management to your love life? The world's most successful brands don't rely on chance. They analyze, position, and optimize to achieve their goals. Date Like a Brand will help you apply the Six Ps of Strategic Dating.Pre-Assessment will help you understand yourself and the dating landscape.Purpose defines what love and partnership mean for you.Positioning empowers you to present yourself authentically and attractively.Prime Prospecting lets you identify and engage with high-potential matches.Performance Dating teaches you how to test, learn, and adjust based on real experiences.Partnership Marketing for Marriage builds and sustains a thriving, long-term relationship.Develop Your Own Strategic Marketing Plan for Finding and Keeping the Love For Your Life Today
Love Rebels
Balancing a devotion to activism with personal relationships can be incredibly difficult. Kitty Stryker shares her experience as an activist, street medic and relationship educator to help others pursue the important work while maintaining healthy relationships and without burning out. Both a call to action and a candid memoir, Stryker is open about what she has learned and her perceived limitations. Recognizing that it can feel overwhelming to know how to effectively make change, she encourages readers to consider how they can best advocate for causes they believe in, presenting different types of activism and urging readers to honestly examine their own hesitations. She also emphasizes that without taking care of our interpersonal relationships, many people burn out of activism at the very time when we need more people on the ground, and offers practical strategies to avoid this and to encourage healthy relationships.
Date Like a Brand
What if you could transform your search for love from luck to a strategy?For decades, dating has been an emotional guessing game, filled with conflicting advice and unclear expectations. But what if it wasn't? What if, instead of relying on luck, you could approach dating like a world-class brand-strategically, intelligently, and with a proven framework?In Date Like a Brand, Fortune 500 C-suite marketer and author Vince Hudson introduces a groundbreaking approach to modern relationships. By applying marketing's most powerful strategies, Vince redefines the basics of dating. The world's best brands don't leave their success to chance-they analyze, position, and optimize to win in the market. Now, you can do the same in your love life.Learn how to measure a person's dating value in the same way brands assess their market worth.Get insight on how to evaluate attraction, compatibility, and relationship potential, and stop wasting time on Mr. or Mrs. Wrong.Discover the KPIs-Key Performance Indicators-of dating that will give you the advantage of knowing when to stay in the relationship and when to walk away.Whether you're searching for the right person, evaluating your current relationship, or optimizing your approach to love, Date Like a Brand will become your playbook to making clearer, more strategic, and ultimately, more successful dating decisions.Dating success doesn't need to be random or left to luck. Find and keep your Love For Life. Implement the Ultimate Dating Strategy starting today.
Silence, Not For Sale
April's memoir is a battle cry for survivors, proving age is no barrier to true healing and time cannot silence the truth. She spent her whole life thinking she was the only victim, but after she turned 60, she unearthed horrifying new truths about her father.From her quiet life in Essex, where she cherishes family moments with her daughters and grandchildren, she writes of a journey of confronting childhood sexual abuse by her biological father Frank Humphreys, a man many knew publicly, but few truly knew and advocating for those who believe they've waited too long to be heard. April demonstrates that even amidst a full and joyful life, the past demands reckoning, and healing is always still possible.
Nineteen
For fans of Suzanne Heywood's Wavewalker and Cea Sunrise Person's North of Normal comes Leslie Johansen Nack's emotional follow-up memoir about her battle with addiction following a traumatic childhood--and her inspiring journey toward healing and happiness. In the mid-1970s, Leslie Nack's family returned from sailing to French Polynesia and began the integration process into American life again, which included being tossed back and forth between an alcoholic, mentally ill mother and an abusive, overbearing father. To find love and acceptance, Leslie chases a myth that throws her into the path of nefarious older men, where she eventually falls into drug and alcohol addiction. Her father dies in his plane in the jungles of Mexico when Leslie is nineteen, but his abuse lingers in her psyche. She spirals, her only solace her next fix--until, somehow, she finds the grace, despite her abjectly dysfunctional family background, to believe in her worth. This newfound self-love changes everything for her, and finally she is able to find her way to sobriety and recovery. Raw and intense but ultimately hopeful, this sequel to the popular memoir Fourteen tells the rest of Nack's turbulent--and incredible--story.
Such a Pretty Picture
For readers of I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy and The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls, a candid and heart-wrenching memoir about child abuse, family secrets, and the healing that begins once the truth is revealed and the past is confronted. Andrea is four and a half the first time her father, David, gives her a bath. Although she is young, she knows there is something strange about the way he is touching her. When her mother, Marlene, walks in to check on them, she howls and crumples to the floor--and when she opens her eyes, she is blind. Marlene's hysterical blindness lasts for weeks, but her willful blindness lasts decades. The abuse continues, and Andrea spends a childhood living with a secret she can't tell and a shame she is too afraid to name. Despite it, she survives. She builds a life and tells herself she is fine. But at age thirty-three, an unwanted grope on a New York City subway triggers her past. Suddenly unable to remember how to forget, Andrea is forced to confront her past--and finally begin to heal. This brave debut offers honest insight into a survivor's journey. Readers will feel Andrea's pain, her fear, and her shame--yet they will also feel her hope. And like Andrea, they will come to understand an important truth: though healing is complicated, it is possible to find joy and even grace in the wake of the most profound betrayals.
