It's OK Not To Be OK is a powerful bullying awareness book from Inspiring Futures Media, exposing the real impact bullying has on confidence, identity, behaviour, and long-term mental health. This emotionally raw story explores emotional harm, isolation, fear, and what happens when bullying is normalised, ignored, or brushed aside—especially when a young person feels trapped in silence.How far can ...

It's OK To Struggle is a hard-hitting mental health awareness and grooming awareness book from Inspiring Futures Media, exposing the dangerous link between bullying, peer pressure, manipulation, and silence. It reveals how emotional harm can hide in plain sight, how coercion can look like trust, and how control grows when warning signs are ignored.Told through the eyes of a vulnera...

Dopamine & Devotion is a powerful self-help book from Inspiring Futures Media, exploring mental health and the emotional harm caused by addiction to validation, people-pleasing, and the constant pursuit of external approval. It exposes why so many people keep chasing highs through phones, attention, relationships, and reassurance—only to feel emptier afterwards—and why peace can feel uncomfortable when you've been trained ...

It's Okay to Struggle is the second book in The Cost of Silence series. This is a raw, unflinching and emotionally charged novel that exposes the dark realities of grooming, manipulation and broken trust, told through the eyes of Kyle, a vulnerable teenager drawn into a world he doesn't fully understand until it is almost too late. This powerful second instalment in the Cost of Silence series plunges the reader into Kyle's fractured home life, where the e...

While critical race theory is a framework employed by activists and scholars within and outside the confines of education, there are limited resources for leadership practitioners that provide insight into critical race theory and the possibilities of implementing a critical race praxis approach to leadership. With a continued top-down approach to educational policy and practice, it is imperative that educational leaders understand how critical race theory and praxis can assist them in uti...

While critical race theory is a framework employed by activists and scholars within and outside the confines of education, there are limited resources for leadership practitioners that provide insight into critical race theory and the possibilities of implementing a critical race praxis approach to leadership. With a continued top-down approach to educational policy and practice, it is imperative that higher education leaders understand how critical race theory and praxis can assist them i...

I know everything about you.And you know everything about me... exceptWHO I AM.Andi met Camilla at university. Instantly best friends, they shared everything together. Until their long-planned graduation celebration ends in tragedy...Years later, Andi is living a seemingly perfect life on the rugged Cornish Coast with her loving husband, happy children and dream home. Yet Andi is haunted by a secret she though...

2022 PROSE Award FinalistDrawing on narratives from hundreds of Black, Latinx, and Indigenous individuals, Ebony Omotola McGee examines the experiences of underrepresented racially minoritized students and faculty members who have succeeded in STEM. Based on this extensive research, McGee advocates for structural and institutional changes to address racial discrimination, stereotyping, and hostile environments in an effort to make the field more in...

In the vein of Flowers in the Attic, this is a heartbreaking and astonishing novel about siblings Lochan and Maya, their tumultuous home life, and the clandestine and taboo relationship they form to get through it.Seventeen-year-old Lochan and sixteen-year-old Maya have always felt more like friends than siblings. Together they have stepped in for their alcoholic, wayward mother to take care of their three younger siblings. As de facto parents to the littl...

"Outstanding . . . it presents a comprehensive state of the field, and it explores the role of sociological research in guiding higher education practice." — ChoiceIn this volume, Patricia Gumport and other leading scholars examine the sociology of higher education as it has evolved since the publication of Burton Clark's foundational article in 1973. They trace diverse conceptual and empirical developments along several major lines of specialization and a...

An incisive study showing how cultural ideas of merit in academic science produce unfair and unequal outcomes.In Misconceiving Merit, sociologists Mary Blair-Loy and Erin A. Cech uncover the cultural foundations of a paradox. On one hand, academic science, engineering, and math revere meritocracy, a system that recognizes and rewards those with the greatest talent and dedication. At the same time, women and some racial and sexual minorities remain underrep...

From acclaimed author A.M. Arthur comes a tender, sexy cowboy romance, the first in her Woods Ranch series.Two cowboys will have to risk their hearts—again—to find a home on the ranch.Hugo Turner's boots haven't touched Texas soil in almost a decade, and he's not sure they should now. Being in the state is complicated, but Hugo can't resist going back for a job working with his teenage crush. His best friend's hot older brother is now the ranch's foreman, s...