Matthew Ross Smith is an author, teacher, and musician. He is also the Founder of The Spaces Between Your Fingers Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing free biographers for individuals with Alzheimer's disease.
Social psychiatry was a mid-twentieth-century approach to mental health that stressed the prevention of mental illness rather than its treatment. Matthew Smith offers a history of the rise and fall of social psychiatry that also explores the lessons this largely forgotten movement has to offer today.
At the close of the Age of Harmony, began the Age of Division...
When Grant Falloon's dreams of winning the Babblemoney Games are hindered by his parents' alternative lifestyle, he creates his own Internet country to get back into the competition. --
Jim Henson's The Storyteller is a beloved celebration of fairy tales and folklore.
Set in rural Maine, Bjarki, Not Bjarki is an expansive book. It is a standard work of journalism, describing with nuance and humanity the people and processes that transform the forest into your floor. It is also a meditation on what it means to know another person and to connect with them, especially in an increasingly polarized America.
It's not the stories you tell, but how they are told.
The popular all-ages reimagining of 2000 AD's classic characters returns! Cadet Dredd stars in three action packed adventures! Judge Anderson restores mayhem to the streets of Mega-City One! Johnny Alpha the teenage mutant bounty hunter goes undercover! All this and more in the second volume of 2000 AD's celebrated all-ages series!
Set in Mega-City One in 2080, the story follows Judge Joe Dredd during his inaugural year as a full-eagle Judge. Although he is well-prepared and trained in law, Dredd is still finding his footing in the role. The narrative unfolds through three distinct tales that showcase his early adventures and challenges as he upholds justice in a chaotic future. An introduction by the Mighty Tharg adds an extra layer of insight into this iconic character's journey.
Waking from thirty years of cryogenic sleep, John Parker finds himself on an alien planet, guided by a robotic AI. Stripped of his memories, he embarks on a journey to uncover the mysteries surrounding his arrival and the strange world he now inhabits. As he navigates this unfamiliar terrain, he must piece together the truth of his past and the purpose of his awakening.
In the divided world of Dastross, the Nepharia tribe has long battled The Darkness, led by Drogoth. After two years of lurking in the shadows, a new conflict looms. A prophecy reveals the existence of five Pariahs, the Elementals of Nepharia, who possess the power to manipulate Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and Space. United, these Elementals hold the key to halting Drogoth and restoring peace to their fractured land.
