For many years, Ana Maria Spagna has stayed put, mostly, in a small mountain valley at the head of a glacier-carved lake. You’re so lucky to live there, people say. She is lucky. But she is also restless. In Uplake she takes road trips, flies to distant cities, fantasizes about other people’s lives, and then returns home again to muse on rootedness, yearning, commitment, ambition, wonder, and love. These engaging, reflective essays celebrate the richness of it all: winter floods and summer fires, the roar of a chainsaw and a fiddle in the wilderness, long hikes and open-water swims, an injured bear, a lost wedding ring, and a tree in the middle of a river. Uplake reminds us to love what we have while encouraging us to still imagine what we want.

Popular account of the author's trip as superintendent of Forestry for Canada, down the Athabasca, Slave, and Mackenzie rivers and up the Yukon River to Skagway.

Living off-the-grid in coastal British Columbia, where mountains drop into the sea and people practice self-reliance and a different sense of purpose. Float cabin lifestyles on Powell Lake, BC. Travel by boat, kayak, bicycle, and all-terrain vehicle. Contrarian views of the people and places of coastal British Columbia.

For just a hundred dollars, 16-year-old Becca Williamson will break any couple's relationship into smithereens. One night she receives a mysterious offer to break up her school's most popular couple. To succeed, she'll have to plan her most elaborate scheme to date.

Since its emergence in the 1990s, the field of Urban Political Ecology (UPE) has focused on unsettling traditional understandings of the ‘city’ as entirely distinct from nature, showing instead how cities are metabolically linked with ecological processes and the flow of resources. More recently, a new generation of scholars has turned the focus towards the climate emergency. Turning up the heat seeks to turn UPE's critical energies towards a politically engaged debate over the role of extensive urbanisation in addressing socio-environmental equality in the context of climate change. The collection brings together theoretical discussions and rigorous empirical analysis by key scholars spanning three generations, engaging UPE in current debates about urbanisation and climate change. Engaging with cutting edge approaches including feminist political ecology, circular economies, and the Anthropocene, case studies in the book range from Singapore and Amsterdam to Nairobi and Vancouver. Contributors make the case for a UPE better informed by situated knowledges: an embodied UPE that pays equal attention to the role of postcolonial processes and more-than-human ontologies of capital accumulation within the context of the climate emergency. Acknowledging UPE’s rich intellectual history and aiming to enrich rather than split the field, Turning up the heat reveals how UPE is ideally positioned to address contemporary environmental issues in theory and practice.

The stories in this book are organized by age level, but we think they are timeless and enjoyable no matter how old you are. -- Page 5.

After finding out that Ever’s organization was involved in his mother’s murder, how could Benny forgive her? Ever has been off her game since the fall-out between her and Benny, taking on more missions than before and trying to mask the pain within. Will she allow her hurt from her breakup to be her downfall, or will she bounce back? Taylor’s life hasn’t felt as perfect as it has with Lake and Ava in it. Motherhood has come naturally to Taylor, and she has gained more than a boyfriend. With all the drama going on, she tries to keep her peace and happiness, but not everyone is happy for Taylor and her new family. Kim, Lake’s baby’s mother, has vowed to make their life a living hell. Taylor gets hurt badly trying to save the one she loves, but will love be enough for her to survive, or will something from her past awaken her? Raye is still struggling with her memory loss and finds herself remembering more and more each day. She and Tru are just enjoying each other and letting down their guards, but she still has an ex-boyfriend coming around and causing problems. Is Raye really ready to make things official with Tru, or will she be too late? Lake loves his new life. With his girl and daughter to look after, he finds a sense of family. Still, he is torn between his loyalty toward Benny, who he considers a brother, and his girl. He hopes it never gets to a point where he has to choose between the two. What if he couldn’t? Tru has never taken a woman seriously until Raye. With her, Tru finally realizes why his bros love being in a relationship. After finding out Raye’s true identity, it does little to change how he feels about her, but with new possibilities in his future, could he and Raye make it through their secrets? Will these relationships survive all the lies, hurt, and pain? Will they all fall? Or will the each realize that they need to boss up?

For nearly 25 years, Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune has been reviewing all parts of the popular music world: from indie up-and-comers and underground hip-hop artists to arena-filling rock-and-rollers and celebrity pop superstars. Turn It Up: A Guided Tour Through the Worlds of Pop, Rock, Rap and More is the first-ever collection of Kot's Tribune articles, covering the years of 2000–2013. Beyond informative and entertaining features, concert recaps, and album reviews, Turn It Up covers major issues associated with music and the music industry since the turn of the millennium. Kot delves deeply into issues that matter regarding the essential acts of the 21st century, the business of music as a whole, and the Chicago music scene in particular. With chapters grouped by genre—pop, rock, and rap—and a catch-all final chapter containing insights on digital music, record labels, and the evolving "music biz," Turn It Up is an easy-to-follow guide to where the music world has come from and where it is going. Kot's deep knowledge of the subject matter and unpretentious writing will make this a fascinating read for his longtime local fans, as well as music lovers far and wide.