Finding My Feet - An anthology of poetic voices Second Edition is an MPU publication and a poetry anthology that speaks of the human heart. In a world tethered to screens and sounds from headphones, poets pause. In that stillness they begin the ancient work of getting to "Know Thyself", observing what connects us and what pulls us apart. From this awareness, poets speak their truth with love, compassion and courage, reminding us of our shared humanity and what truly matters - life. In this edition, you will find poetry by: Hani Abdile, Yvonne Adami, Marki Alamidis, Elyas Alavi, Jordie Albiston, Amanda Anastasi, Kontilo Armatas, John Armstrong, Kay Arthur, Julian Assange, Cassandra Atherton, Peter Bakowski, Magdalena Ball, Farhad Bandesh, John Bartlett, Eric Beach, Dinka Bednjacic, Gad Ben-Meir, Elis Bilal, Omar Bin Musa, Tony Birch, Rosemary Blake, Jan Bond, Kevin Bonnett, Brendan Bonsack, Behrouz Boochani, Avril Bradley, Kylie Brickhill, Laura Brinson, Andrew Brion, Kevin Brophy, Eddy Burger, John 'Mukky' Burke, Christine Burrows, Michelle Cahill, Josh Cake, Sandy Caldow, Gayelene Carbis, Lella Cariddi OAM, Anne M Carson, Coral Carter, Eddie Caruso, Santo Cazzati, Enza Centorrino-Natalizio, Hidayet Ceylan, Libby Charlton, Mary Chydiriotis, Marie Clear, Emilie Collyer, Jennifer Compton, Cally Conan-Davies, Angela Costi, Di Cousens, Eddie Creaney, Nathan Curnow, Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon, Charles D'Anastasi, Hamish Danks Brown, Binod Dawadi, Joel Deane, Josie Deane, Ferah Dervish, Barry Dickins, Brett R. Dionysius, Brett Ditchfield, Joe Dolce, Dr Konstandina Dounis, Jane Downing, Tug Dumbly, Paul Dunell, Dr Marietta Elliott-Kleerkoper, Anne Elvey, Tim Evans, Gabrielle Everall, Jeltje Fanoy, David Farnsworth, Anna Fern, Uili Fiaui, Wendy Fleming, Es Foong, David Francis, Peter Frankis, Declan Furber Gillick, Janet Galbraith, Sriharan Ganeshan, Claire Gaskin, Tina Giannoukos, Kevin Gillam, Ross Gillett, Lisa Gorton, Rhiannon Hall, Jennifer Harrison, Dominique Hecq, Kris Hemensley, Kristin Henry, Stephen House, Maria Hristova, Andy Jackson, Ross Jackson, Anna Jacobson, Helen Jarvis, John Jenkins, Mary Jones, Steve Jones, Larissa Joonas, Kit Kavanagh-Ryan, Julia Kaylock, Antigone Kefala, Judy Keighran, David Kelly, Hugo Kelly, Alana Kelsall, James Knight, Ella Kurz, Michael Leach, Jeanine Leane, Luka Lesson, Michael Leunig, Jonathan Lewis, Laurelle Lewis, Ioanna Liakakou, Tim Loveday, John Lowe, Virginia Lowe, Rose Lucas, Myron Lysenko, Mohammad Ali Maleki, Gershon Maller, Madalsa Mamgain, Terry Manion, Carolyn Masel, David Mason, Ian McBryde, John McKelvie, Aidan McLindon, Maurice McNamara, Viki Mealings, Mick Mezza, Robert Mihajlovski, Scott-Patrick Mitchell, Sabaa Mohamed, Imran Mohammad Fazel Hoque, Marty MonStar, Richard Mudford, David Munro, Peter Murphy, Helen Nickas, Litsa Nikolopoulou-Goga, Jenni Nixon, Damen O'Brien, Sean O'Callaghan, Brendan O'Reilly, Esther Ottaway, Eliz Ozden, Allan Padgett, Tony Page, Vasilka Pateras, Robyn Peck, Simone Pereira, Indrani Perera, Dorothy Poulopoulos, Stephanie Powell, Joan Ray, Dr Homer Reith, Fotoula Reynolds, Michael Reynolds, Chris Ringrose, Evgenia Rits, Shoshanna Rockman, Judith Rodriguez, Abdul Samad Haidari, Michael Sargeant, Michele Seminara, Leon Shann, Laura Jan Shore, Fee Sievers, Paul ?kec, Alex Skovron, Steve Smart, Ken Smeaton, Nicole Smede, Stephen Smithyman, Alicia Sometimes, Beth Spencer, Christina Spry, Angelina Stanton, Fiona Stuart, Sharon Lee Szova, David T Terelinck, Karen Throssell, Phu-Linh Tran, Mark Tredinnick OAM, Melpomene Tsalkos, Dimitris Tsaloumas, Blaise van Hecke, Lin van Hek, Lyndon Walker, Chris Wallace-Crabbe OAM, James Walton, Ania Walwicz, Alice Wanderer, Alice White, Rhonda Wilson, Mark Wingrave, Cheung-Ling Wong, Jena Woodhouse, Ouyang Yu, Arnold Zable, Komninos Zervos, Bogumi¿a Zngö¿owicz.

With more than fifty contributors, Indigenous Critical Reflections on Traditional Ecological Knowledge offers important perspectives by Indigenous Peoples on Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Indigenous value systems. The book aims to educate and inspire readers about the importance of decolonizing how Indigenous Knowledges are considered and used outside of Native communities. By including the work of Indigenous storytellers, poets, and scholars from around the globe, editor Lara Jacobs and chapter authors effectively explore the Indigenous value systems-relationships, reciprocity, and responsibility-that are fundamental to Indigenous Knowledge systems and cultures. Indigenous languages and positionality statements are featured for each of the contributors to frame their cultural and geographical background and to allow each Indigenous voice to lead discussions and contribute critical discourse to the literature on Indigenous Knowledges and value systems. By creating space for each of these individual voices, this volume challenges colonial extraction norms and highlights the importance of decolonial methods in understanding and protecting Indigenous Knowledges. Indigenous Critical Reflections on Traditional Ecological Knowledge is an essential resource for students, academics, members of Tribal, state, and federal governments, Indigenous communities, and non-Indigenous allies as well as a valuable addition to environmental and Indigenous studies collections.Contributors include: Melinda M. Adams, Joe Anderson, Coral Avery, Andrew Kalani Carlson, Kathryn Champagne, Brandie Makeba Cross, Joanna M. DeMeyer, Jonathan James Fisk, Pat Gonzales-Rogers, Celina Gray, Rhode Grayson, Zena Greenawald, Jennifer Grenz, Joy Harjo, Mandi Harris, Jessica Hernandez, Victor Hernandez, David Iniguez, Michelle M. Jacob, Lara A. Jacobs, Lydia L. Jennings, Eileen Jimenez, Stephanie Kelley, David Lewis, TomAs A. Madrigal, Tara McAllister, Kat Milligan McClellan, Lauren Wendelle Yowelunh McLester-Davis, Angeles Mendoza, Todd A. Mitchell sw?lItub, Don Motanic, 'Alohi Nakachi, Kaikea Nakachi, Kobe , Natachu, Jennifer R. O'Neal, Lily Painter, Britt Postoak, Leasi Vanessa Lee Raymond, Anamaq Margaret H. C. Rudolf, Ululani Kekahiliokalani Brigitte Russo, Oral Saulters, Sam Schimmel, Paulette Steeves, Joni Tobacco, Angelo Villagomez, Vivi Vold, Margaret Palaghicon Von Rotz, Luhui Whitebear, Joseph Gazing Wolf, Monique Wynecoop, and Cherry YEW Yamane.

Ray Milland (1907-1986) was the inaugural Welshman to win the Best Actor Academy Award, as well as a performer boasting a rich and varied oeuvre from the silent era in 1920s Britain to New Hollywood in the 1980s. Despite being one of the most prolific actors in cinema history who left behind a legacy of almost 180 film and television appearances across seven different decades, Milland remains a somewhat forgotten figure of cinematic history. Ray Milland: Identity, Stardom, and the Long Climb to "The Lost Weekend" fills this void in scholarship by offering a detailed examination of Milland as one of Hollywood's most durable and fascinating performers of the studio era.The volume begins by exploring Milland's unique Welsh identity in Hollywood, which was essentially erased by the studios. It then turns to his underexplored early career at MGM prior to signing with Paramount Pictures, where he remained for over two decades. Author Gillian Kelly discusses his early roles as a stereotypical "Brit" in Hollywood as well as his "stardom years" at Paramount where he often provided support for the studio's leading ladies, including Claudette Colbert, Dorothy Lamour, and Paulette Goddard. A chapter is dedicated to his Oscar-winning performance in The Lost Weekend, and important later films like Dial M for Murder and Love Story also receive detailed analysis. Overall, Ray Milland provides a reappraisal of Milland's earlier career and situates his performances within the broader tradition of star studies.

"Water" was the theme of the 176th Anniversary Annual Meeting of the Philosophical Society of Texas, which was held February 14-16, 2014. The Proceedings include a list of Society members and board members in 2014, a summary of the weekend's activities, transcriptions or summaries of meeting sessions, and biographical information on speakers and members who passed the previous year. President Ron Tyler organized the program with assistance from William W. Meadows and Andrew Sansom. The speakers discussed water policy, law, and regulation, and their applications and challenges. Sessions included "The Texas Water Plan," "Water Conservation," and "Conflict between Ground and Surface Water in Texas Water Law. Participants included: Ed Archuleta, Carole Baker, Carolyn Brittin, Fernando Costa, Greg Ellis, Robert Glennon, Karen Guz, Stephen M. Harrigan, Russell Johnson, Ron Kaiser, Mary Kelly, Ken Kramer, Schuyler Marshall, Tom Mason, William W. Meadows, Carlos Rubinstein, Andrew Sansom, Evan Smith and Ron Tyler.

There is no limit to what constitutes heritage. By definition, heritage is the use of the past for present purposes. Yet, to any given group or population, heritage can be a multitude of things and can serve a variety of purposes. Based on shared memory, heritage can be tangible or intangible, boundless in variety and scope: it can be, for example, objects, landscapes, food or clothing, music or dance, sites or statues, monuments or buildings. Importantly, however, heritage also has many and varied uses and powers. It can be used to control, to unite, to engage, and to empower people, communities, and nations. ¿¿ In this interdisciplinary volume, authors from around the world explore how different communities, nations, and groups intentionally and creatively use heritage, both tangible and intangible, in a wide variety of ways to positively address social and environmental issues. Significantly, these studies demonstrate how heritage can be an exceptionally valuable tool for political, economic, and social change. Insightful studies are presented pertaining to heritage as social memory, including the nationalistic political use of heritage, heritage as resistance to political powers, traditional knowledge as environmental science, heritage for legal and community action, heritage for building peace, heritage for Indigenous and minority empowerment, and heritage for exploring the past through phenomenological methods. The goal of this volume is to move beyond seeing heritage as only social memory, a mere interpretation of static past events, people or places, and instead explores critically the variety of ways heritage is engaged in the present and can be in the future.

Odin has no interest in worthless wolves... Which suits me just fine. I'm a dancer, a college student-not a warrior. I'll leave the battle against mythological monsters to Robbie and the other fighters in my pack. I don't even have my wolf yet. But then the fight finds me, and it turns out, I'm not so worthless after all. Odin does want me-and my magic. Except, if I'm so valuable, why does Robbie-my fated mate-still want me to leave? My wolf insists Britta is ours... But I'll fight fang and claw to set her free. My mate's going to conquer the dance world, not bury her dreams in the Montana mountains, like my mother did. Fighting psychotic wolves who want to end the world is my calling, not hers. But then her wolf rises, and everything changes. Now, I'll have to battle both desire and destiny to keep her safe-even if it kills me. ***If you love fated mates, sassy heroines, and growly, protective Alpha heroes, you'll adore Wolf's Kiss-a standalone, action-packed, friends-to-lovers paranormal romance set in the contemporary fantasy world of the Norse gods! Praise for Wolf's Kiss: "Once again Madelyn has knocked it out of the park with this tale." -Diana K., Booksprout Praise for Wolf's Reign: "Fascinating, sexy, and thoroughly satisfying." -Marie Harte, New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author "An epic start to what promises to be a wild adventure. I loved it!" -Vivian Arend, New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author "Norse mythology and wolf shifters? Yes, please!" -Seana Kelly, USA Today bestselling author of the Sam Quinn series "A refreshing, cool new spin on a werewolf tale! Lots of heat, mystery, and action. I loved it!" -Terry Spear, USA Today Bestselling Author, Christmas Wolf Surprise

Authors Brittany Eden and Brigitte Cromey have collaborated as co-editors to bring you Crowns, a royal-themed anthology, which features a fantasy romance novella by Brigitte Cromey and a curated collection of short stories, flash fiction, poetry, photography, and art. ¿¿AUTHORS | Brigitte Cromey, Ava Lauren Grayson, Hannah Carter, Amber Kirkpatrick, Robin Rakkeby, Hope Bolinger, Kristen Bazen, Annee Clark, Hailey Huntington, Cassandra Hamm, Abigail Falanga, J.M. Hackman, Yakira Goldsberry, Danielle Robertson, Liz Koetsier, Katie Fitzgerald, Abby Johansen, Megan Miles, Kaitlyn Carter Brown, S.M. Jake, AJ Skelly, C. Ash POETS | Sara Anderson, Anne J. Hill, Brittany Eden, Brooke J. Katz, Amelia E. Clawford PHOTOGRAPHERS & ARTISTS | Marie Lynch, C. Ash, Ruth Lumpkin, Sarah Harmon, Benjamin Cromey, Shannon Alldredge ¿THE FEATURED NOVELLA | GUARDIAN'S OATH BY BRIGITTE CROMEY Guard the princess. Save the kingdom. Stay alive. Princess Talianna has gotten used to being invisible. As the only child of the royal line, she swears to become the best possible ruler for her people-even if it means no one will ever see the girl behind the crown. When fate reunites her with the knight who was once her best friend, she must hold to her promise-and leave the dreams of childhood behind. Sir Gavin of Andel has never forgotten the princess with a smile as brilliant as the sun. When he's assigned to guard her after being separated for ten years, he swears to protect her with his life against all enemies-an oath that may prove as deadly in success as it would in failure. They're bound to their oaths, but fulfilling them may cause their own hearts to break.

As a pro-cheerleader, dating a football player is forbidden- so there's no way I'm telling anybody I drunkenly married one in Vegas. One night of fun turns into a morning of regret when I wake up hungover, fully clothed, and next to muscle-bound wide receiver Ty Matthews... and a phone full of evidence of our Elvis ordained nuptials. Talk about bad choices: I can be kicked off the team for talking to a football player, much less marrying one. But after a night of spilling my darkest secrets, even playboy Ty knows exactly how to persuade me to stay married to him- he promises to fund my small business dreams if I convince his parents we're together. Our so-called agreement is already off to a crazy start: I don't want to lose my coveted spot on the cheer team, and we have to work to keep it a secret from almost everyone. Just when I start to think I can have it all: the money for my business, cheering for a pro-football team, and even an accidental husband who treats me like gold... the cracks begin to show. I don't just stand to lose my spot on the team, either, because losing Ty Matthews might break my whole heart.

My life should be fantastic, but my dream job comes with a nightmare boss, my awesome apartment has a creepy landlord, and my friends are all too busy for us to do much of anything. So when my car breaks down on a lonely back road just as a freak snowstorm hits the Philly area, it's the icing on the cake. And who should show up but my college grump of an ex-boyfriend: Jacob Matthews, star tight-end for the Wilmington Beavers. For all his faults, I still trust Jacob to get me somewhere safe before the storm blows through. I wasn't expecting to have to stay at his house until the roads were clear, with only each other for company... and warmth. I know how this story ends, though- Jacob's always put football first, and I chose my career over following him all over the country. Except, all the years apart have changed us both. And I'm starting to think that maybe we're better together, against the odds.

Nothing is spookier than a second chance at love. I'm done juggling dead-end jobs and deadbeat boyfriends. It's time to nail down my goal of owning a hotel - and fix my friendship with my ex-best friend, Jack Colson. He's a big shot investor, and I'm going to need one. Nailing him barely crosses my mind. I might actually get my life in order, especially if I snag the deep (and deeply weird) discount for staying an entire weekend at my dream property. It's hard not to fall in love with the place. Though I could do without the creepy doll that lives there, the noises Jack insists are raccoons, and the eerie AF abandoned hotel I'd need an even spookier amount of money to renovate. The worst part is, I'm falling for Jack... again. He'll never invest if he finds out I have feelings for him. But as we work through the phantoms of problems past, we'll have to figure out if the property is infested with rodents - or something else that goes bump in the night.

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