What's the word that describes the process of making supportive noises when you're listening to someone? What is syntax and how does it differ from grammar? Do you know what a morpheme is? And did you know that it's not only an atom that has a nucleus? The Babel Lexicon of Language is an entertaining and accessible introduction to the key terminology involved in the study of language. It defines over 500 terms and uses contemporary language examples, explaining complex issues in an easy-to...

How do we know whether a particular drug, therapy or operation really works, and how well? How reliable is the evidence? Are clinical trials truly unbiased? And is current research focused on the real needs of patients? Such timely and pressing questions are raised and addressed in this probing enquiry into modern clinical research, with far-reaching implications for daily medical practice and patient care.Aimed at both patients and professionals, Testing Treatments builds a lively and tho...

"Improve Communication Skills" is a comprehensive guide to improving your communication skills in all areas of your life.Whether you are looking to improve your professional or personal relationships, this book will provide you with the tools and strategies you need to effectively communicate with others.Here are some key topics covered in the book:...

Welcome to the first year’s worth of stories from the new online magazine ZNB Presents published by the small press Zombies Need Brains. In these pages, you will find original science fiction and fantasy stories of awe and wonder, darkness and light, ranging through all of the subgenres, including urban fantasy, alternate history, space opera, fairy tales, and more. They come from the most talented authors in the field today—new voices as well as trusted and familiar names. Join us as we e...

A and O are best friends. They move through the night together-between clubs and gallery openings, hungover mornings and shared glances that say more than words. When something suddenly breaks in O, a fissure opens between them. A can no longer reach her, O withdraws, and eventually she is admitted to a psychiatric ward. As life itself trembles on the edge, A is forced to confront a painful question: what is a friendship, if you cannot save each other?Clouds is a novel abo...

At no point in recorded history has there been an absence of intense, and heated, discussion about the subject of how to conduct relations between women and men.This Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to these omnipresent issues and debates, mapping the present and future of thinking about feminist theory.The chapters gathered here present the state of the art in scholarship in the field, covering:Epistemology and marginalityLiterary, visual and cultura...

Available open access digitally under CC BY-NC-ND licence.‘Desistance’ - understanding how people move away from offending – has become a significant policy focus in recent years, with desistance thinking transplanted from the adult to the youth justice system in England and Wales. This book is the first to critique this approach to justice-involved children, many of whom are yet to fully develop an identity (criminal or otherwise) from which to ‘desist’.Featuring voices fr...

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE ALTA FIRST TRANSLATION PRIZEIntimate and devastating, a luminous debut novel about untimely grief and the resilience of the human heart, inspired by the author's own experiences**'Three in the bed. One not yet born, another dead, and I'm alive'Puk is 26 years old, preparing for the birth of her second child, when her husband has a heart attack while out running. She leaves their toddler with a friend and dashes to the hospital...

This book analyses the ways in which twenty-first century detective fiction provides an understanding of the increasingly complex and often baffling contemporary world — and what sociology, as a discipline, can learn from it.Conventional sociological accounts of fiction generally comprehend its value in terms of the ways in which it can illustrate, enlarge or help to articulate a particular social theory. Evans, Moore, and Johnstone suggest a different approach, and demonstrate tha...

'Erotic Chronicles #2: A Selection of the Hottest Erotica curated by LUST' is a collection from LUST with over 180 stories exploring a range of pleasures, desires, fantasies, and kinks.From foreplay, bondage, and sex in public places to taboo, forbidden relationships, and seasonal erotica, this curated selection will fulfil every reader's needs no matter what time of year it is.

Tip started licking her clitoris. Sweet, unbearable rushes coursed through her quivering spleen. Everything trembled. She consisted only of desire, it was as if nothing existed but her tongue and her impatient, hungry body."Merete met Tip before she was to take part in a debate against prostitution. Afterwards she couldn't stop thinking about him. Without really knowing how it happened, she lied to her husband about where she was going and ended up at Tip's who gave her a satisfactory rece...

**Brought to you by Penguin.Intimate and devastating, a luminous debut novel about untimely grief and the resilience of the human heart, inspired by the author's own experiences**'Three in the bed. One not yet born, another dead, and I'm alive.'Puk is 26 years old, preparing for the birth of her second child, when her husband has a heart attack while out running. She leaves their toddler with a friend and dashes to the hospital, where Lasse lies unresponsiv...