Building Resilient Futures

Whether a community struggling to keep its members buoyant, a business trying to stay solvent, or a nation fighting to protect its citizens, adversity and crisis impact us all. The resilient are able to pick themselves up, dust themselves off, and not only bounce back but also bounce forward.

This book looks at what resilience means at times of crises as well as the in-between periods. It examines the various types of resilience, such as emotional, organisational and societal, and offers valuable insights on how to manage the consequences of upheaval and trauma.

The author brings together contributors to deliver a real mix of theory, case-study evidence and anecdote in a way that is both approachable and thought provoking. It is a timely and necessary addition to a crucial topic. Very simply, professionals, practitioners, students, government ministers, and business leaders should read this now. It might be a safer, better world if people read the book and acted on it.  

Bullying and Mobbing in Schools and Workplaces

Considering the fact that bullying and mobbing in schools and workplaces has become a worldwide problem where tens of million people are getting hurt, many of them marked for life and even lose their lives mainly because most societies from across the world failed to protect its people, the present book is a great eye-opener on this very important matter. The uniqueness of this book lies in the author’s attempt to make a very accurate X-ray of the degrading world society, from which bullying, cyberbullying and mobbing spring. We believe that the democracy of today’s societies has moved too far away from the ethical and moral values that underlie a healthy society and this is the cause of all iniquities. That is why, in almost all countries, issues such as bullying, cyberbullying, and mobbing are only symptomatically addressed. However, let us not lose hope because there are also a couple of countries that have impressive results because they approach issues very effectively from an ethical and moral point of view. All of this is described in the contents of this book.

Bumpkin the Goblin

The author wrote this storyverse for his son, Andrew, to help him make friends with 'bumps in the night!' It takes us on an easy journey with Bumpkin as he enters the boy's world and finds out what he's been missing…

Bun Bun's Adventures

Bun Bun and Ella go everywhere together, they are best friends. So what will Ella do when she leaves her best friend at nursery over night? What magical things will Bun Bun get up to and who will he meet?

Burnout and the Mobilisation of Energy

Burnout and the Mobilisation of Energy is a radical new book. Its main objective is to help working individuals or organisations to get out of burnout and keep out of it. Further, it helps them to activate or mobilise energy.

If you are burnt out or on the slippery slope to burnout, this book will transform you. If your organisation is blocked in terms of energy, this book can transform your organisation.

It is based on research, theory and practice. It clearly describes what burnout is and what it is not. It is not depression, stress, depersonalisation or anxiety. It is, however, based on a key symptom: an extreme form of energy depletion.

Two concepts explain the core findings: a Gestalt concept called an ‘introject’, and another that Carl Jung called ‘enantiodromia’. These elaborate terms help us identify what burnout is, what causes it and how to get out of it.

The book also focuses on mobilisation of energy in the organisation. Using a psychological framework, it illustrates what happens when organisations get psychologically mixed up. This leads to a feeling of spinning wheels and crossed wires.

Burst Your Bubble

When your dreams become bigger than the ability to achieve them,

When your heart, body, and soul, feel numb,

When you are lost in the darkness, suffering, failure, and regret,

When you feel like the world for you is in huge debt,

Burst the bubble that has you imprisoned,

Seek me out in the book, and every answer will be given,

I will help you see the truth that lies beneath the mask that we wear,

Choose this book, and you shall see what you had lost in despair.

Busy Bumble Shares His Joy

Busy Bumble Shares His Joy is a story about a loveable character called Busy Bumble who awakes from the long winter season to look for a beautiful flower, a sign of spring's awakening. This happy-go-lucky bee while flying in the garden comes across Wormy Grumble, very well known for being a lonely fellow (earthworm), who had already found a rare beautiful flower while enjoying the radiant beauty unfolding in the garden. Wormy Grumble has a problem considering the need of others and is forced to face the reality that everyone needs somebody and that there is great blessing in working as a team. This story teaches about friendships and trust and that all have the ability to change. And that change can help us grow in ways that can help us achieve our goals and reach for the sky. This story has multiple levels for children of all ages and even adults can appreciate the depth of its meaning.

But I Don't Want a New Room

Abbie was a beautiful baby growing too big for her room, but the idea of leaving felt far too soon. Everything in her current room is familiar and old, and the new room created by her beloved parents doesn’t quite have her sold.

Follow Abbie on the age old journey of life, growth and change as she develops from a baby tiny and small, to a toddler who is building her confidence and growing up tall.

But That’s Not What Harry Saw

When all you can do is muster a trip to the park, a visit to a shop or a walk outside, that’s OK. What can seem little to you can be HUGE to someone little.

Let your child’s imagination run wild with a simple trip to the park in this fun and charmingly illustrated book.

Butterflies in My Soup

With most of her friends married, Sylvia at 23 can find no good reason for turning down her boyfriend’s proposal of marriage. In her heart, though, she knows that she longs to be free to see more of the world before settling down to what she feels would be a humdrum life of a domestic city in the early 1960s. Having been dissuaded from accepting a teaching job in the USA, she continues her quest for an overseas posting until one day, she finds exactly what she's been looking for. A boarding school in Lushoto, a township in the Usambara Mountains, Tanganyika (Tanzania) needs a teacher.

With scant information about her destination, other than that African violets grow wild in the Usambara, Sylvia flies off to East Africa leaving her anxious family and a fiancé whose determination to wait for two years for her will be severely tested.

Nothing could prepare Sylvia for the amazing life that she was to lead, with experiences, friendships, and challenges that she could never have imagined, and with memories that she would cherish and try to recapture on a return visit many years later.

Butterfly Macabre

A train, a mask, and a woman with stardust in her soul.

Enter the mysterious and fantastical world of Butterfly Macabre, where an alien named Yulia, haunted by a past she can’t escape and fuelled by a desire for adventure, comes crashing to Earth. Here she meets Marshal, whose world is turned upside down as he’s exposed to the wonders of the universe. But as a deadly fate looms and a sinister voice begins to poison Yulia’s mind, she must navigate a treacherous path between trust and instinct. As secrets are revealed and a plan spanning eons unfolds, the lines between good and evil, life and death, past and future become blurred. With a cast of complex characters, including the enigmatic Cherry, Butterfly Macabre will keep you guessing until the very end.

Button's Christmas

Button was confused about her party dress and her wishes on Christmas. She wanted Santa to grant her gifts to other children because she already had it all. She is looking forward to Christmas and hopes to meet Santa, but will she?