Keeping pets has always been around, but keeping exotic animals has gained momentum in recent decades.

From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson. From Theodore Roosevelt to John F. Kennedy.

Many had a predilection for exotic pets, especially exotic birds.

With their beautiful colors and outspoken characters, they make themselves loved by young and old who can be enjoyed for years to come. Unfortunately, several species are already extinct or can only be found in captivity.

In the current cli...

Hermine, a 20-year-old Armenian woman who goes to her mother country Armenia to study art. Her parents immigrated to Iraq in 1917 because of the Armenian genocide, and have lived there so far. Going there to study, she meets Tigran, a 26-year-old Armenian who has always lived freely. He falls in love with Hermine as soon as he sees her, and that's where their love story begins. A love story filled with tragedies, pain, love and miracles. Hermine gets to know his past, and Tigran will have da...

Generally speaking books on creativity are of two kinds. Those that tell us how to become creative by changing the situation, and those that tell us to become creative by changing ourselves. Then follows practical advice as to the ways and means in which creativity may be attained.

This series does not want to do either! By our very nature we are creative but more or less unaware of that. So instead of giving lots of practical advice, it questions our routine ways of looking and interpreti...

Among refugees is a particularly vulnerable group: unaccompanied children. They left their country of origin without their parents. Sometimes they are accompanied by a family member, for example, a grandmother or an adult brother, but they do not have an adult with them who has parental authority. In other words, no one is legally responsible for them during their flight and subsequent stay in Europe.

This guide is for all those involved in the guidance and support of unaccompanied children. ...

One day, one moment, can flip your life upside-down, that is the reality that Delilah Reyes is being forced to confront. She finds herself being thrust from the normalcy of her life, as the gunfire rains down upon her and her son Bobby. Coming home to a drop-dead gorgeous man who was hired by the two people she hated most in this world, his job, to protect her son. As she flees from the criminals that want to kill her and ex-in-laws that would like to steal her child from her, Delilah must fi...

On average, mankind uses 1.7 Earths each year for raw materials, food and energy. Many countries even more. Most green initiatives call for action, but do not address the over-consumption and its causes. This manifesto shows our true escape: stop doing, degrowth and help Mother Earth to regenerate. Work with nature, not against it. The knowledge is still here.

People are doers and always call for action. But doing is exactly the root cause of the ecological problems we now face. All of our do...

Aftermath is the debut poetry collection by Tom Melsen (The Netherlands). Aftermath is divided into four sections. Each section focuses on a specific topic. Section I: poems about love and intimacy. Section II: poems about heartbreak and unfulfilling desires. Section III: poems about violence, death, and grief. Section IV: poems about kindness, hope, and nature. Aftermath is a charming and beautiful written collection by a new up-and-coming poet.

This book is a spiritual biography. When I was 7 years old, some new playmates I just met almost buried me alive. When everything turned dark and I was lost in panic, my spirit detached itself from my body in order to find help.

Through experiments with hypnosis, out-of-body experiences and past life regression, it became more and more clear to me that body and mind are separate components, connected in a temporary way.

Besides this, I was fascinated to discover how by means of alternative...

After running away from her life as a secret agent for the G.S.S.O., Celia Carter is soon pulled back to complete a new assignment. A mysterious object has been stolen and needs to be returned to it’s rightful place before it falls into the wrong hands. An object that has the potential to destroy the world as we know it.

Diving into the Inca history, Celia finds herself drawn to her previous assignment and she is forced to face her demons once again. Unfortunately, the hidden souls are not ...

Gafouré is an ancient river spirit from the Niger river delta. Since times immemorial he has been the guardian of all living creatures in this earthly paradise.

However, when two of his protégés get captured by slave traders and are being sold to work on plantations in the America's, his world gets torn apart. He decides to follow them to the other side of the world.

Three generations later he manages to help them escape to the young Kingdom of the Netherlands, but even here they remain ha...