Welcome to the End of the World...and more importantly, what comes after.Disasters have occurred around the country and the world, but we're "getting through it", as Kiwi are apt to do. She'll be right. Life moves on, in some form.Things were bad here in Aotearoa, but in our isolation down under, we've escaped most of the chaos around the world. In fact, we might be the last bastion of humanity on the planet - anybody else home out there? R...

"I'll huff, and I'll puff, and I'll blow your house in!” Revisit the classic tale of three clever pigs and one relentless wolf through Daniel Howarth’s playful artwork.

From USA Today best-selling author Jane Anthony comes a seductive second-chance stand-alone rock-star romance.Ainsley Daniels wasn't the first girl to crawl out of my bed; she's just the first one I was dying to drag back in.As lead singer of the most notorious rock band in the world, people kiss the ground I walk on. I could have anyone I want. Any time. Any place.But I want her. And I'm going to have her.It's been more than a year since I first laid eyes o...

These essays propose "a new and richly detailed engagement between Judaism and the political" ( Jewish Book World ).Judaism, Liberalism, and Political Theology provides the first broad encounter between modern Jewish thought and recent developments in political theology, arguing in opposition to impetuous associations of Judaism and liberalism and charges that Judaism cannot engender a universal political order. Th...

Ready for the PENULTIMATE book in Rose and Caleb's story?"A timeless barrier has been broken. Things will never be the same for the human world again..."A new dawn has risen over The Shade. No longer one of weakness, but of strength. Desperate, the black witches are on a blood hunt more pernicious than ever before.Now it's no longer the island's inhabitants who are in jeopardy. It's the world around them.A Fall of Secrets is the penultimate book in Rose and Caleb's ...

"Love. It's a flickering flame. So easily swayed by doubt..." ?Unwilling to even grant the two white witches a reception, Derek orders Mona to expel them from the island the moment he hears of their arrival.But will that be enough to rid themselves of their presence?Meanwhile, Rose and Caleb have met with an unexpected hurdle in returning to The Shade. A hurdle that could threaten to crush Rose's dreams into dust.Who will Caleb choose?

"We need to discover what the twins have. Before it's too late."With a black witch hard on their heels, Caleb and Rose embark on a race against time to escape the heart of the Amazon and make it back to The Shade.Little do they know how much more hangs in the balance than their own survival...

Miracles can and do happen— when one does the footwork. Dr. Walter Turnbull dreamed of creating opportunities and better lives for the children of Harlem, and Lift Every Voice is the inspirational story of how he realized his dream. Dr. Turnbull shares the hard-bought wisdom he learned throughout his life— from his impoverished childhood in backwoods Mississippi to his experiences as founder and director of the Grammy Award-winning Boys Choir of Harlem. Turnbull shares insights on...

Providing a much needed overview of the growing field of digital sociology, this handbook connects digital media technologies to the traditional sociological areas of study, like labour, culture, education, race, class and gender. Rooted in a critical understanding of inequality as foundational to digital sociology and is edited by leaders in the field. It includes topics ranging from web analytics, wearable technologies, social media analysis and digital labour. This rigorous, accessible ...

Digital technologies, digital media, and mobile technologies now shape the experience of everyday life in the Western world, yet the way our quotidian lives are enmeshed with these technologies is far from clearly understood.Through studies of the digital everyday, sociologists are beginning to reinvigorate the sociological imagination in light of digitization. Chapters in this Byte cover topics such as designing a research framework and how to work ethically as a digital researche...

“Expect to be spellbound” by Patricia Briggs’s #1 New York Times bestselling series starring Mercy Thompson.Being a lowly “walker” in a world of vampires, werewolves, and fae once kept her safe. But Mercy’s bark–and bite–are not so harmless any more…Though Mercy can shift her shape into that of a coyote, her loyalty never wavers. So when her former boss and mentor, Zee, asks for her help, she’s there for him. A series of murders has rocked a fae reservation, and Zee needs h...

In the early days of the internet, we assumed that digital technologies would allow us to escape embodiment and its accompanying entanglements. Yet now our embodied selves are often targeted for abuse and harassment online. As we move into the Internet of Things, the digital is increasingly on and in our bodies. The pieces in this Byte raise important questions about what it means to bring our embodied selves into contact with digital media technologies.Read alongside one another, ...