Through personal anecdote and expert insight, Claire Thompson invites you on a mindful journey to enjoy, and learn from the magnificent beauty, and diversity of the avian world. As an experienced mindfulness teacher, as well as a leader of impactful workshops and retreats, Claire Thompson knows that birds can do wonders for our hearts and minds--if we simply pay them attention. With Mindfulness in Birdwatching, she reveals how the practice of mindfulness enriches our birdwatching experiences--and explores how birds are, in turn, the ideal inspiration for the practice of mindfulness. Enjoy the magnificent diversity of colors, songs, flight patterns, and behaviors displayed by birds, while reaping the benefits of mindfulness: &nbsp; <ul> <li>Increased concentration</li> <li>Increased creativity</li> <li>Increased vitality</li> <li>Reduced stress and anxiety</li> <li>Better overall physical and emotional well-being</li> <li>Better sleep</li> </ul> Bird flight is a symbol of freedom to soar through life without constraint, and mindfulness similarly enables us to invite freedom and happiness into our own lives. Find even more ways to practice mindfulness with the Mindfulness series: Mindfulness in Wild Swimming, Mindfulness in Gardening,&nbsp;and more.

Mindfulness in Bird Watching: Meditations on Nature & Freedom (Mindfulness series)

Thompson, Claire

Religion & Spirituality

Leaping Hare Press

This book examines the social inequalities relating to food insecurity in the UK, as well as drawing parallels with the US. Access to food in the UK, and especially access to healthy food, is a constant source of worry for many in this wealthy country. Crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, have coincided with a steep rise in the cost of living, meaning household food insecurity has become a reality for many more households. This book introduces a new framework to examine the many influences on local-level food inequalities, whether they result from individual circumstances or where a person lives. The framework will allow researchers new to the field to consider the many influences on food security, and to support emerging research around different sub-topics of food access and food security. Providing a thorough background to two key concepts, food deserts and food insecurity, the book documents the transition from area-based framing of food resources, to approaches which focus on household food poverty and the rise of food banks. The book invites researchers to acknowledge and explore the ever changing range of place-based factors that shape experiences of food insecurity: from transport and employment to rural isolation and local politics. By proposing a new framework for food insecurity research and by drawing on real-world examples, this book will support academic and applied researchers as they work to understand and mitigate the impacts of food insecurity in local communities. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of food and nutrition security, public health, and sociology. It will also appeal to food policy professionals and policymakers who are working to address social inequalities and improve access to healthy and nutritious food for all.

Food Deserts and Food Insecurity in the UK (Routledge Focus on Environment and Sustainability)

Business & Money

Smith, Dianna

Economics

Routledge

All Doms expect submission. This Master demands more... Having lost the man who was her world to the war in Afghanistan, Talia doesn't believe she'll ever find love again. But as time passes, she finds she not only craves, but needs the erotic release of complete submission. When The Compound offers her a position as a staff slave-owned by all-she accepts. Getting her needs met without the expectations of a relationship seems like the perfect solution. Though Ethan enjoys his job as a trainer at a private BDSM club in Miami, he's itching for a change. When he's asked to start up some new training programs for The Compound, an ultra-exclusive facility in New York, he jumps at the chance. Drawn to the strong, quiet submissive assigned to serve as his assistant, he thrills at putting her through her paces within the confines of his course. When an acquaintance lures Talia into a dangerous situation, it's up to Ethan to rescue her, not only from that man's clutches, but from her own fears... And if Ethan has to conquer a few of his own along the way...so be it. Coming Home is Book 3 of The Compound Trilogy. While this is a stand-alone novel, your experience will be enhanced if you read the books in order.

Coming Home: The Compound Trilogy - Book 3

Romance

Contemporary

Independently published

Immerse yourself in a classic tale of erotic abduction and redemption. Follow the adventures of Laura Sidel, from her induction as slave number seven, through a harrowing journey of intensive training and sexualization. Laura is prepared for the highest echelons of a secret society dedicated to producing the finest slaves money can buy. Through each stage of her training, Laura is taken deeper into the dark world of control and submission. Finally deemed ready for auction, she is sold to the highest bidder, who gives her an ultimatum she cannot refuse. Presented as a gift, Laura is forced to walk a delicate, dangerous balance between subjugation and a growing attraction to the man who would own her. As the lines blur between enslavement and freedom, Laura is faced with the greatest risk of all—love.

Golden Angel: Unwilling Sex Slave

Literature & Fiction

Erotica

BookSurge Publishing

A dark exploration of sensual obsession, dominance and control. Submerge yourself in a dangerous, erotic journey of self-discovery between Master and slave.

Obsession - Girl Abducted: Formerly The Stalker - Revised and Expanded

Marissa finds herself in a splendid mansion, where she has been sent by her wealthy lover for a two-week training in the art of erotic submission. Nicknamed the Slave Castle by its owners, submissive men and women are sent for their own specially crafted tours of intensive training in submission, bondage and discipline. Though Marissa enjoys a good spanking and some bondage play to get her hot, she really isn't submissive at all. At first she agrees to go just to hold onto her lover, whom she sees as her entrée into 'the good life.' What she discovers excites and frightens her, but she chooses to stay, having signed a contract that lays out the terms of the two-week internment. She is a stubborn woman, and her interest is piqued by the trainer, an Englishman named Aaron who takes her on a sensual journey of erotic submission that leaves her breathless and longing for more. What ensues is a tangle of misplaced love of Shakespearean proportions, as Marissa's lover discovers his truly submissive soul mate quite by accident, while at the castle, Marissa is falling more and more under the spell of Aaron, whose heart is surrounded by ice that Marissa is determined to melt…

Slave Castle

Elloras Cave Pub Inc

Slave Gamble "He won me in a card game." Yes, it sounded crazy to Zoë too, but when David Turner won an evening with the lovely young woman, it was one she wouldn't soon forget. With gentle dominance, David was to take Zoë on a journey of erotic submission that would leave her breathless and begging for more. It was a gamble she wouldn't take lightly, but the winning hand was more than she ever dreamed of. A real D/s love story. Face of Submission Kate would do anything to please her dominant lover, Kevin. When he wants to invite an old flame to "play", things take an unexpected turn. The past lover is a dominant bisexual man named Mark, who is used to taking just exactly what he wants. Kate goes along, not knowing what to expect, but fascinated with the homoerotic interplay between the two men. Both men take her to submissive levels she never dreamed herself capable of. In the process, Kate tries not to be jealous of Mark's attentions toward her lover. Ultimately Kate is forced to examine her own willingness to submit in the face of increasing danger from a Dom out of control. True love is tested on all sides as these three lovers come together in a decided twist on the classic love triangle. Jewel Thief Elena was a gorgeous jewel thief with a mission-to rob the home of one of the most eligible bachelors in Westchester County, Jack London. Slated to be out of town during the break-in, his unexpected return put a rather severe crimp in her burglary efforts. Jack offered the beautiful woman a choice-be handed over to the authorities and face certain prison time, or submit sexually for one week to him. Elena understood the terms, or thought she did, of sexual favors as a bribe for silence. What she didn't expect was a crash course in erotic submission and BDSM. Forced to submit to humiliating acts, bound and whipped, chained and used, Elena comes face-to-face with her own unexplored submissive yearnings. The man who begins as her captor and tormentor evolves into something much more as the two of them discover secrets about themselves that will either tear them apart or forge something unexpected and powerful between them. A rather classic love story with a very unorthodox twist.

Slaves to Love

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Vampire Julian Gaston has restlessly roamed the earth for three hundred years, taking his pleasure in the arms of lovely women and at the throats of his human prey. His nature compels him to take the blood of innocent humans, even as his compassion for fragile human life tempers his greed. Rich, handsome and powerful, Julian slips from place to place, yet loneliness is an overriding theme for a man nearly immortal and isolated from his own kind. Grace Davis has always known there was something "wrong" about her-she has a secret fascination with all things vampire and an unrequited longing for the sweet taste of blood. Abandoned at birth, she doesn't yet know her true nature. When Julian appears in her life, he offers delicious passion and dark discovery. Julian wrenches Grace from her safe but lonely humanity into something dark and dangerous, yet overwhelmingly sensual and explicit. The whisper of true love beckons but it comes wrapped in blood-soaked cruelty, gossamer sweetness and sizzling passion. Grace is led into sensual submission to a vampire who demands obedience and returns a pure passion in a fiery exchange of power

Sacred Circle

Turning Tricks By Claire Thompson When Greg found the homeless, drug-addicted young woman, he appeared to be Ashley's savior. But the rescuer turned into a jailer, forcing Ashley into a life of prostitution and degradation. Any protest was met with brutal punishment and Ashley learned to retreat into herself, more lost than before he had found her. A romance novel at the supermarket counter gave Ashley a glimmer of hope that life could be different. When she met Andrew at her favorite bookstore, the romance of her beloved novels seemed to be offering itself in real life and finally gave her the courage to escape from a lifestyle that was ultimately destroying her. At her own insistence, Andrew slowly introduced Ashley to the erotic possibilities of romantic submission. Sexual servitude at the hands of a pimp is contrasted to the luscious, sensual intensity of a loving D/s lifestyle in this sometimes harrowing but ultimately romantic novel. With honesty and courage, together the lovers explore the passionate possibilities of a BDSM lifestyle. Ashley takes to heart the lessons of her beloved romance novels, drawing from them the universal message that in the end it is love which redeems us.

Turning Tricks

Club de Sade By Claire Thompson Carly's out of a job and needs one bad, especially living in expensive New York City. When her commiserating friend shows her the ad for a "Professional Dominatrix" at a local S&amp;M club, she thought, how hard could it be? Leather, whips and chains… Oh, my! Using false pretense and her cute looks, she convinces the harried club manager of her "extensive" experience at being a Professional Domme. Now Carly has one week to learn her new craft. Luckily for her, she discovers a BDSM 101 seminar being conducted by the darkly seductive Jesse Hernandez. Carly's smitten—and confused. Could this whole D/s scene be more than a moneymaking gig? Carly discovers her own submissive nature even as she "Doms" men for money and finds herself falling in love with a man who would claim her for his own. When tragedy strikes, only Jesse can save Carly from being convicted of a crime she didn't commit in a dark underworld she doesn't fully yet understand. Immerse yourself in a story of intense romance intertwined with the risky and sometimes dangerous sadomasochistic games played at the Club de Sade.

Club De Sade

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