Dee Vansickle, who later becomes Sandy Ruth Shore, is targeted due to her DNA based on a history she does not even know. She is forced into pregnancy by a man named Roger, who was carefully selected and hired by the Madison-Grant foundation to father a young boy they name Gabriel, in honor of founder' s father. Unwanted covers the life and awakening of Sandy: her pursuit to find her son and help him leave this evil plot behind. Gabriel is born to lead and carries a political career that wi...

THE QUEEN OF THE MORTIFACTS! It’s a no-holds-barred brawl on the strange alien artifact that’s trapped Flash Gordon and his allies in deep space! That’s right—Flash is stuck on a manufactured, planet-sized object of unknown origin that’s hurtling forward on an impact path toward Earth, and that’s not his biggest problem! Their equipment keeps disappearing—and now PEOPLE are missing. Will Flash discover the horrible truth behind the Mortifacts’ survival in time to save his fellow Terrans? P...

A captivating biography of Slipknot by acclaimed music writer, Dan Franklin, to coincide with the 25th Anniversary of Iowa: an album that redefined metal.Slipknot is one of metal's most iconic and recognisable bands. In late August 2001, Slipknot released their extraordinarily brutal second album, Iowa. With it, nine masked maniacs from the American Midwest captured the zeitgeist and reimagined the genre. The album's emotional intensity and aggres...

An interdisciplinary and international roster of contributors explore the theory, design, and player practices surrounding video game reward systems, arguing for the importance of understanding trophies and achievements as a central aspect of video game design and play.As PlayStation Trophies, Xbox Achievements, and other similar built-in reward systems have become widespread in the video game landscape, this volume asks critical questions about how these systems a...

Th****e superstar series full of facts, stats and stories so you can decide which Premier League football legend is the Greatest Of All Time!Written by Matt Oldfield, the multi-million bestselling author of ULTIMATE FOOTBALL HEROES and UNBELIEVABLE FOOTBALL, and Seth Burkett, EX PROFESSIONAL PLAYER.In this epic clash, legendary Premier League icons, past and present, go head-to-head… It’s a tough competition – are you ready to VOTE FOR THE GO...

Say hello to Virgil van Dijk, the rock at the heart of Liverpool's defence! This fun, fully illustrated unofficial picture book is part of the amazing Football Superstars series. Inside, young readers will discover how Van Dijk went from playing football in the Netherlands to becoming a world-class defender and captain. A must-read for every young Van Dijk fan!

Meet Marcus Rashford, one of England's brightest football heroes! This brilliant, fully illustrated unofficial picture book comes from the hit Football Superstars series. Inside, young readers can follow Rashford's amazing journey from kicking a ball on the streets of Manchester to scoring goals for Manchester United and England. It's the ideal read for any young Rashford fan!

A fantastic junior fiction sports series that will entertain young readers, inspire kids to be active and healthy, and encourage them to find fun and friendship in sport, by All-Australian AFL Sydney Swans superstar Isaac Heeney.From one of the AFL's highest-flying footballers comes a terrific junior fiction series that celebrates the love of the game and the importance of learning from mistakes.Little Isaac loves playing footy especially when his team wins...

A brilliant sports series that will entertain young readers, inspire kids to be active and healthy, and encourage them to find fun and friendship in sport, by All-Australian Sydney Swans AFL superstar Isaac Heeney.From one of the AFL's most-loved and high-flying elite footballers comes a terrific junior fiction series that celebrates the joy of sport, the thrill of teamwork, the importance of learning from mistakes and the love of the game.Little Isaac LOVE...

George Jones is fed up and hungry for change. She' s stuck on an island with a bunch of compliant suckers who all live in fearful deference to Old Bertie, a Giant Squid. Old Bertie devoured George' s mother, leaving her father an emotional mess and George a social reject. But George' s world changes when a mysterious stranger washes ashore. Fernandez is the first person to ever enter Old Bertie' s watery domain and live to tell the tale. If Fernandez was spared by the Great Beast, could he...

Originally published in 1978, Aggression in the Schools: Bullies and Whipping Boys is widely considered to be the first scientific study of bullying. This was an investigation of a largely hidden and neglected problem in schools at the time – some children, whipping boys, were exposed over long periods of time to violence perpetrated by other children, bullies.Based on five separate empirical studies involving approximately 1,000 boys 12–16 years old, thi...

Set in the Arkansas Delta, Dustopia is a debut poetry collection that confronts the brutal contradictions of Southern life with unflinching honesty and lyrical precision. Dan Russell writes from within a landscape shaped by poverty, memory, violence, and quiet endurance, where gospel hymns echo through histories of exploitation, and survival is measured in what can be carried from one day into the next.Throughout, Russell documents working-class experience with a witness-d...