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The only way for Willow to defeat an oppressive faerie queen is to make six villains remember they're obsessed with her, except...One hates her.One confuses her.One distrusts her.One is encased in stone.One rejects her, and,One thinks she's a dangerous...

When winter comes to the Court of Dreams, the war against the Subterranean of Nightmares freezes. To celebrate, the faerie queen holds a tournament where mortals compete for the prize of a dream come true. For outsider Willow Nightstalk, it's the only...

'Shattered ...'  'Broken beyond repair ...' Choosing not to believe this and facing the very things that tear you apart ... Georgette Noëllat is a fighter. Her weapons of choice? Love, Hope, and Humour. During the highs and...

The story of Hatsuko Takara-Kalabula is one of a Japanese woman who decided to visit Zambia back in the 1970s, fell in love with the country and its people, and chose to stay. It is also an inspiring story about the power of love to break racial...

When Angela met Jack on a dark night in Sydney, she thought her luck had finally changed. She couldn't have been more wrong.What began as a romantic encounter, ended with her running for her life. If she did not run far enough away, one of these days,...

To understand modern-day Iraq is to appreciate its formative years. How are we to understand the state of modern-day Iraq, which for many observers appears - in various ways - broken, divided, and beholden to deep structural ailments? The famed Iraqi...

This memoir is a life's journey which started with a happy childhood spent on the rural farm in the Philippines in the 1950's.Nora's idyllic life turned into a constant struggle when her father left them. Their family was reconciled, but the journey was...

Have you ever longed for a bedtime story that not only soothes your soul but also transports you to a magical world of hope and healing?Welcome to Bear and Girl, a heartwarming tale set in the majestic Canadian Rockies. This is the extraordinary story of...

Something Bigger Than Ourselves uses short, socially relevant essays to explore a variety of viewpoints on the topic of race in America. Each reflection works to keep human beings (warts and all) compassionately centered throughout its narrative. The...

In Embracing Your Past to Empower Your Future, descendants of four prominent Black families whose ancestors were enslaved, tell readers what life was like for those ancestors, and how their experiences shaped and influenced future generations. The...

When the Goddess of War and Witchcraft decides to play matchmaker, you know things are gonna get messy. I was used to my fire magic causing trouble, but three mysterious strangers ignited something in me I'd never felt before. An eternal Soul Bond gifted...

What can the lived experiences of performing artists in Java, Indonesia tell us about the production and negotiation of gender and local identity?Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Malang, East Java, author Christina...

How is the Philadelphia Punk Rock scene defying gender stereotypes and empowering women to push boundaries and transform their lives?Drawing on personal experience and interviews, this book explores the important part women play in the Philadelphia Punk...

Social media has revolutionised journalism and wider society, for good and bad. Journalists have powerful tools - but are watching the collapse of a newspaper industry failing to compete with social media platforms. Individuals can make their...

The history of postwar German cinema has most often been told as a story of failure, a failure paradoxically epitomized by the remarkable popularity of film throughout the late 1940s and 1950s. Through the analysis of 10 representative films, Hester Baer...

Latin American cities have always been characterized by a strong tension between what is vaguely described as their formal and informal dimensions. However, the terms formal and informal refer not only to the physical aspect of cities but also to their...

Josef von Sternberg's 1930 film The Blue Angel (Der blaue Engel) is among the best known films of the Weimar Republic (1919-1933). A significant landmark as one of Germany's first major sound films, it is known primarily for launching Marlene Dietrich...

Gender, especially masculinity, is a perspective rarely applied in discourses on cinema of Eastern/Central Europe. Masculinities in Polish, Czech and Slovak Cinema exposes an English-speaking audience to a large proportion of this region's cinema that...

Under the current cartographies of globalism, where frontiers mutate, vacillate, and mark the contiguity of discourse, questioning the Spanish border seems a particularly urgent task. The volume engages a wide spectrum of ambivalent regions-subjects that...

As we enter the 21st century, it becomes increasingly difficult to envisage a world detached from religion or an anthropology blind to its study. Yet, how people become religious is still poorly studied. This volume gathers some of the most distinguished...

Culture and the arts played a central role in the ideology and propaganda of National Socialism from the early years of the movement until the last months of the Third Reich in 1945. Hitler and his followers believed that art and culture were expressions...

With the increasing worldwide problems of migration, research into its causes and effects become ever more urgent. This volume takes stock of recent advancements that social science research in both Europe and the United States has made to understanding...

In the Sitapurdistrict of Uttar Pradesh, an agricultural region with high rates of infant mortality, maternal health services are poor while family planning efforts are intensive. By following the daily lives of women in this setting, the author...

Following the detection of the first HIV infections in the early 1980s, by the 1990s Thailand was routinely depicted as having the world's fastest moving HIV/AIDS epidemic. However, by the early 2000's the bulk of scholarly and medical AIDS literature...

Anthropologists who are employed to change the worlds they are researching find themselves in a potentially contradictory position. Combining the various roles and expectations involved in working with Gypsies and local government at the same time as...

Romania has a larger Gypsy population than most other countries but little is known about the relationship between this group and the non-Gypsy Romanians around them. This book focuses on a group of Rom Gypsies living in a village in Transylvania and...

People travel as never before. However, anthropological research has tended to focus primarily on either labor migration or on tourism. In contrast, this collection of essays explores a diversity of circumstances and impetuses towards contemporary...

Sartre Today is a tribute to Jean-Paul Sartre on the centenary of his birth (1905-2005). With twenty-two contributions from leading Sartre scholars in North America and the United Kingdom, this volume will greatly enhance Sartre scholarship in the...

It is 2022. What can Katja and her five friends, all students at a university in Bath, do to turn the tables and save life on Earth from imminent destruction?Is technology the solution, or our downfall? The past and present are intertwined as the six...

The history of sexual morality in Ireland has been traditionally associated with repression. In the last two decades, however, repression seems to have given way to its exact opposite. But where did this "repression" originate? And how can we account for...

For several decades, a political discourse, which incites exclusion and hatred againt those who are perceived as different, has been gaining ground, most notably in affluent and developed countries. Focusing on the growth of racism in large cities and...

Our world enables the sexual abuse of children.Children of all ages are abused in every country in the world, by members of every society, culture, religion, and socio-economic class. About 120 million children under twenty, or one child in ten, report...

���� **The Lady: Apparitions, Miracles & Messages** *Medjugorje, Lourdes, Fatima, and Guadalupe* ✨ **Experience the Divine Encounters that Changed History** ✨Journey through the most powerful Marian apparitions in modern history with *The Lady:...

This book contains a memoir written by Miriam Lawrence describing the extraordinary voyage she made in 1848-50 aged 20. She had accompanied her husband, Captain Alexander Lawrence, on the maiden voyage of the Charlotte Jane, a wooden 3 mast merchant...

Don't Fall In Love, Sam is a series of short personal essays, which takes the reader on a journey of a young, gay man's exploration of self, body/image, identity, sex, sexuality, and existing as a real person in the digital age. It resonates with the...

WHY PUNISH ME? A first-hand account of clerical child abuseMichael Moloney tells the story of how, as a vulnerable altar boy, he was psychologically and physically abused by Catholic priests. He traces the origins of clerical abuse all the way back to...

Jane Austen is known as the beloved author of Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and other witty and romantic novels. What is less known is that Jane was a deeply religious person, and was devoted to God. She wrote beautiful, heartfelt prayers to read with her...

They shouldn't want me.I rejected them and ran...and I'll find a way to escape again.I grew up knowing three important facts.One, my parents hated Nexus shifters.Two, I was taught everyone should be scared of me, and they should be.Three, I'm a monster...

During the 1940s, Greece experienced some of the most significant moments in the contemporary history of the country, defining the socio-political environment to this day. Greece in the 1940s presents a deep dive into this time in history, as...

 Born in Leicester in 1947, Anna has led a busy life raising her three children and enjoying her nine precious grandchildren.For the past 22 years, she has made Bedfordshire her home, where she enjoys her retirement from nursing and teaching. Her...

Andy Clewer is a successful self-made businessman and entrepreneur who likes the high life. The company he founded is a leader in the production and sale of alternative medicines and is highly profitable. However, Andy treats it as his extended bank...

Consumption studies are underrated in the social sciences. Drawing specific attention to this need for further analysis, this latest volume of Comparative Social Research presents a rich collection of chapters offering an up-to-date view of the sociology...

Geo-politics shifted dramatically with the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. This major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which had started in 2014, drew in the United States, most of Western Europe, and their allies around the world...

These works, collected together for the first time, provide intriguing insights on everything from day-to-day job planning to enhancing quality, fostering teamwork, and becoming a genuinely outstanding leader.All of these publications have a profound...

Interest in true crime as a form of popular entertainment has sky-rocketed in recent years. Drawing on this current popularity and its significance in the context of digital culture, Gender, True Crime and Criminology challenges traditional...

Religion, Race, Multiculturalism, and Everyday Life takes a spirited conceptualist look back into the history of our development. The book sets out to explore the ways in which a punditry of human equality continues to lock in unassailably assured...

Digging Earth: Extractivism and Resistance on Indigenous lands of the Americas is a collection of essays and artists' contributions that documents the practices of extractivism on indigenous lands of the American continent, and the opposition to the...

This book shows the impact of cinema on individuals across the globe, from the 1890s to the present day. It analyses and celebrates the audience's point of view, shaped by time, experience and place, providing a rich, entertaining portrait of a medium...