Felicity Meakins was awarded the Kenneth L. Hale Award 2021 by the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) for outstanding work on the documentation of endangered languages Australia is known for its linguistic diversity and extensive contact between languages. This edited volume is the first dedicated to language contact in Australia since colonisation, marking a new era of linguistic work, and contributing new data to theoretical discussions on contact languages and language contact processes. It provides explanations for contemporary contact processes in Australia and much-needed descriptions of contact languages, including pidgins, creoles, mixed languages, contact varieties of English, and restructured Indigenous languages. Analyses of complex and dynamic processes are informed by rich sociolinguistic description.

“Will resonate with any readers interested in understanding American landscapes where white, evangelical Christianity dominates both politics and culture.” —Publishers Weekly In the wake of the 2016 election, Lyz Lenz watched as her country and her marriage were torn apart by the competing forces of faith and politics. A mother of two, a Christian, and a lifelong resident of middle America, Lenz was bewildered by the pain and loss around her—the empty churches and the broken hearts. What was happening to faith in the heartland? From drugstores in Sydney, Iowa, to skeet shooting in rural Illinois, to the mega churches of Minneapolis, Lenz set out to discover the changing forces of faith and tradition in God’s country. Part journalism, part memoir, God Land is a journey into the heart of a deeply divided America. Lenz visits places of worship across the heartland and speaks to the everyday people who often struggle to keep their churches afloat and to cope in a land of instability. Through a thoughtful interrogation of the effects of faith and religion on our lives, our relationships, and our country, God Land investigates whether our divides can ever be bridged and if America can ever come together. “God Land, Lyz Lenz’s much-anticipated debut book, is a marvel. Not only is it a window into the middle America so many like to stereotype but fail to fully understand in all of its complexity, but it mixes reportage, memoir, and gorgeous prose so seamlessly I wanted to know how she did it.” —Sarah Weinman, author of The Real Lolita

The work of the mature person is to carry grief in one hand and gratitude in the other and be stretched large by them. As seen on All There Is with Anderson Cooper Noted psychotherapist Francis Weller provides an essential guide for navigating the deep waters of sorrow and loss in this lyrical yet practical handbook for mastering the art of grieving. Describing how Western patterns of amnesia and anesthesia affect our capacity to cope with personal and collective sorrows, Weller reveals the new vitality we may encounter when we welcome, rather than fear, the pain of loss. Through moving personal stories, poetry, and insightful reflections he leads us into the central energy of sorrow, and to the profound healing and heightened communion with each other and our planet that reside alongside it. The Wild Edge of Sorrow explains that grief has always been communal and illustrates how we need the healing touch of others, an atmosphere of compassion, and the comfort of ritual in order to fully metabolize our grief. Weller describes how we often hide our pain from the world, wrapping it in a secret mantle of shame. This causes sorrow to linger unexpressed in our bodies, weighing us down and pulling us into the territory of depression and death. We have come to fear grief and feel too alone to face an encounter with the powerful energies of sorrow. Those who work with people in grief, who have experienced the loss of a loved one, who mourn the ongoing destruction of our planet, or who suffer the accumulated traumas of a lifetime will appreciate the discussion of obstacles to successful grief work such as privatized pain, lack of communal rituals, a pervasive feeling of fear, and a culturally restrictive range of emotion. Weller highlights the intimate bond between grief and gratitude, sorrow and intimacy. In addition to showing us that the greatest gifts are often hidden in the things we avoid, he offers powerful tools and rituals and a list of resources to help us transform grief into a force that allows us to live and love more fully.

The hidden brain is the voice in our ear when we make the most important decisions in our lives—but we’re never aware of it. The hidden brain decides whom we fall in love with and whom we hate. It tells us to vote for the white candidate and convict the dark-skinned defendant, to hire the thin woman but pay her less than the man doing the same job. It can direct us to safety when disaster strikes and move us to extraordinary acts of altruism. But it can also be manipulated to turn an ordinary person into a suicide terrorist or a group of bystanders into a mob. In a series of compulsively readable narratives, Shankar Vedantam journeys through the latest discoveries in neuroscience, psychology, and behavioral science to uncover the darkest corner of our minds and its decisive impact on the choices we make as individuals and as a society. Filled with fascinating characters, dramatic storytelling, and cutting-edge science, this is an engrossing exploration of the secrets our brains keep from us—and how they are revealed.

"I can't recommend this beautifully written book enough! We were fortunate to have access to its contents at a time of great need & later utilized it for outreach seminars. It has brought healing to many and transformed broken lives into wholeness." -Pastor Davis, M.Div. "After multiple losses, "Flying Free" brought clarity in confusion and hope in despair. A real life-saver!"-David Erikson This treasure of a book by Rev. Dr. Mary Johnson offers invaluable practical guidance on how to transform grief and loss into renewal. Written from the heart by an experienced clinical counselor, pastor, and psychotherapist, "Flying Free" comprehensively covers ways to heal emotions, body, mind, spirit, and soul after traumas of loss and grief."Flying Free: Transforming Grief And Loss Into Renewal" brings both healing and hope in times of loss, death, grief, and bereavement. This compelling book offers proven and successful recovery methods from a large variety of losses including not only death and bereavement of those we love but divorce, separation, unemployment, loss of health, etc. If you have ever experienced a significant loss, this book is a "must read"! It provides comprehensive yet practical perspectives that bring healing, understanding, comfort, recovery, and transformation. Specific ways and vital steps to achieve Healing and Recovery from the most devastating losses are comprehensively addressed in detail including: loss of relationships, health challenges, unemployment, and loss of spouse, children, siblings, pets, friends, etc. It includes both nitty-gritty experiential reality and effective approaches to bring healing from grief and loss. While written from a Christian perspective, viewpoints of other faith systems are presented with respect and appreciation. "Flying Free" is an invaluable resource for personal or public libraries with a Study Guide, original illustrations, charts, diagrams, massive Annotated Bibliography, large Index, and invaluable Grief Support Group materials also provided. It is packed with extensive information, practical resources, and addresses multitudes of vital issues usually ignored in most books about grief/loss and bereavement. This impressive work is not only a real bargain but invaluable resource for care givers, counselors, pastors, teachers, therapists, and any who have experienced loss. The information and topics addressed is so thorough it would take multiple books on grief recovery to even begin to cover the comprehensive materiel included. "Flying Free" is a real pioneer work in the field of Healing from Grief and highly recommended! The author, Rev. Dr. Mary Johnson, offers a superbly crafted book with decades of diverse experience in Clinical & Grief Counseling and Pastoral Ministry. She has served as a pastor in Methodist, AG, Congregational, and Independent Churches and is a skilled psychotherapist with earned credentials as a Nationally Certified Pastoral Counselor and Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor. She has been included in "Who's Who Among Human Services Professionals" and "Who's Who in Religion" and holds a D.Min. in Clinical Psychology from Andover Newton and Th.M., cum laude, from Boston U. School of Theology. Dr Johnson served on the Clinical Staff of New England Memorial & Middleton Pastoral Counseling Centers and worked in Chaplaincy at various hospitals while also training chaplains. She served as Executive Director of Good News Specialized Ministries, Inc. and has been appointed to Adjunct Faculties of Antioch New England, UNH, Gordon Conwell, Keene State, and Goddard. She is an acclaimed author published in the AAPC Journal "Journeys" & Keene Sentinel. Her other highly rated previously books are available on the Amazon bookstore including: "Visions Of Hope: Voices Of Americana," "Healing Streams," "Love In Action: The Healing Heritage Of The Counseling Ministry Of The Church, &"Following The Angel Trail: In The Steps of Jesus."

Renewal Coaching provides a series of personal assessments that will guide individuals and teams through the seven stages of renewal. Each assessment includes both survey and narrative responses, and readers can use the journal pages in the text or convenient on-line formats to respond. The Renewal Coaching framework consists of these seven elements: Recognition?Finding patterns of toxicity and renewal; Reality?Confronting change killers in work and life; Reciprocity?Coaching in harmony; Resilience?Coaching through pain; Relationship?Nurturing the personal elements of coaching; Resonance?Coaching with emotional intelligence; Renewal?Creating energy, meaning, and freedom to sustain the Journey.

Many people today do not have a traditional or formal way to address grief. Yet people who experience the death of a loved one crave emotional support and ways to work through their grief and loss. The Grief Train provides a gentle, spiritual, non-religious approach to grief. You never know when The Grief Train will stop at your station, however you can be ready and accepting when it arrives.