A staggering 10% of our population are gay, covering all sectors of society and all nationalities. Although things are improving, there is still a huge element of bias and homophobia amongst us. This book is a lesson to parents on how NOT to cope with your gay child. The book is intended as a self-help text and the author only hopes that it will be of benefit to other parents and their gay offspring, by emphasising the mistakes made by the main characters in the book. The final section rec...

If you are a curious wanderer, a seeker of hidden treasures, and an adventurer craving to unlock the secrets of foreign cities, then "Abroad in the Street: A Guide to Navigating and Thriving in a Foreign Urban Landscape" is your essential companion on the journey of a lifetime.Embark on a captivating exploration guided by an author who understands the exhilaration and challenges of being immersed in unfamiliar streets. Drawing from years of traversing the globe and navigating urban...

An adventure story, with a touch of fantasy, involving the finding of a bottle on a beach. A telepathic link develops between two teenagers on opposite sides of the globe, one of whom is in trouble. Their strange communication channels lead to a rescue mission.Truly novel ideas are introduced in this book, such as the existence of 'telepathic wormholes' and Yin Yang characters that exist in the subconscious mind. It is written with the teenage/young adult market in mind and could p...

The New York Times –bestselling financial advisor shows you how to handle your investments and grow your wealth with minimal effort and no worry.Do you worry that you're not paying enough attention to your investments? Do you feel left out when you hear about the clever things other investors seem to be doing? Relax. You don't have to become an investment genius to protect your savings. Distilling the wisdom of his thirty...

Celebrity philanthropy comes in many guises, but no single figure better encapsulates its delusions, pretensions and wrongheadedness than U2's iconic frontman, Bono-a fact neither sunglasses nor leather pants can hide. More than a mere philanthropist-indeed, he lags behind many of his peers when it comes to parting with his own money-Bono is better described as an advocate, one who has become an unwitting symbol of a complacent wealthy Western elite.The Frontman reveals ho...

This book is a critique of the public sphere, both as the centrepiece of some liberal theory about political communications, and as a description of actually existing media practice in Ireland and beyond – in traditional commercial news media and in social media. Written in an accessible style, it is a call to more and deeper critical thinking about media, old and new, as well as a consideration of the communicative needs of a present and future movement for transformative political and ec...

In this luminous memoir, Rita Moreno shares her remarkable journey from a young girl with simple beginnings in Puerto Rico to Hollywood legend—and one of the few performers, and the only Hispanic, to win an Oscar, Grammy, Tony and two Emmys.Born Rosita Dolores Alverio in the idyll of Puerto Rico, Moreno, at age five, embarked on a harrowing sea voyage with her mother and wound up in the harsh barrios of the Bronx, where she discovered dancing, singing, and acting as ways to escape ...

Ours is a nation in the grip of a strange kind of mania. Why after President Reagan was shot was there virtually no handgun legislation? Why after the Columbine massacre in Littleton, Colorado, was nothing done to regulate the tools that children most frequently use to kill one another? Why was there no legislative response after a six-year-old in Flint, Michigan, shot a classmate with a .32 caliber "pocket rocket"? Tragedy follows tragedy, with twelve children shot dead every day in Ameri...

Depuis quinze ans, la guerre de sécession est terminée mais les blessures subies ont rendu les hommes susceptibles, coléreux. L’alcool et le manque de femmes font le reste. Au pied des montagnes, en Arizona, dans une région de colons ranchers, une communauté d’éleveurs va vivre une semaine terrifiante. Une série de malentendus et de présomptions alimentées par l’envie et la jalousie vont grossir en un conflit violent impliquant une cinquantaine de ranchers

Rechtsanwalt Dr. Bommer kommt bei einem Verkehrsunfall ums Leben. Er arbeitete für eine arabische Großfamilie, die verschiedensten Geschäften nachgeht. Nasser Al-Sharif, Clanchef der Familie, glaubt nicht an einen Unfall. Bommers Aktentasche mit wichtigen Papieren ist bei dem Unfall verschwunden. Er fordert von Hauptkommissar S.H.Koslowski eine alte Schuld und soll herausbekommen, wer hinter dem vermeintlichen Unfall steckt. Das Geschäft ist hart, die Konkurenz groß. Albaner, Russen, ander...

This study offers a succinct analysis of a critical period in Spain's history. It assesses the causes and course of the Civil War and covers Franco's New Spain. For the Second Edition there is a fuller examination of the politics of the Second Republic and the regional and social bases of Spain's political parties. There is also a more detailed account of the military conduct of the war and of the extent of international involvement.

On the worst day of his life, Peter meets the man who could change his world forever. Is he brave to take a second chance at love?Peter walks away with from his marriage with two things: a suitcase and Hairy Harry, the family pet. When Harry becomes ill, Peter is faced with one of the hardest decisions he's ever had to make... saying goodbye to his best friend.Evan is the kind locum vet who attends to Harry. It doesn't take long for Peter to realise they're both lo...