In Flight Attendant Joe, Joe hands his readers a boarding pass into the turbulent world of the airline industry. This book immediately takes off with chaotic delays, irate passengers, crazy pilots, and egos big enough to destroy friendships. There is nothing off limits in this comical collection of true-life drama that occurs at 38,000 feet, on layovers, in airports, or anywhere else Joe happens to find himself.

In his debut book, 'Fasten Your Seat Belts And Eat Your Fucking Nuts', Joe Thomas — aka Flight Attendant Joe — takes you on an inappropriate storytelling journey about what really happens while you sit comfortably (unless you are in a middle seat, in that case — he's sorry) onboard a climate controlled airplane while sucking down cups of soda, snacking on unsalted peanuts, and playing dumb when you get caught smoking in the lavatory.Have you ever wondered what happens behind the sc...

From the thousand-year-old statues celebrating fertility, to the odalisques of the modern painters, erotic art has always held a prominent place in societies, whatever their morals or cultural references. This work assembles one thousand images of erotic art, from all times and all continents, to illustrate how the representation of these pleasures of the flesh testifies to the evolution of different civilisations and their histories. While eroticism abounds today in advertising and in the...

Joe invites readers to tag along on his day to day experiences as a flight attendant. Inspired by his journal entries, Joe sheds light on what he thinks about the airline industry. As he juggles dramatic co-workers, self-involved passengers, and unreliable management, he finds himself burnt out and wondering if layovers in Las Vegas, wandering around Mexico City, and snorkeling with turtles in Barbados are enough to keep him flying the not-so-friendly skies.

First Class Cocktails with Flight Attendant Joe is a collection of all-new short stories, and each is accompanied by a delicious cocktail recipe. Author Joe Thomas is back with his fourth book of flight attendant stories, but this one comes with a boozy twist. Joe provides his readers with a first-class storytelling experience, from flight attendants misbehaving to celebrity sightings and beautiful island layovers to drunken passengers. Nothing says first-class more than fancy cocktails an...

In Bad Catholic, Joe Thomas strips away the secrets of a life defined by an unwanted adoption by a predatory stepfather and a mother who retreated into an alcoholic haze to deny the undeniable. It is the raw account of a boy forced to balance the innocence of childhood and the pressures of being a teenager with the "house of horrors" he returned to every night.From the grit of late-night bars to the blood-stained kitchen floor of his childhood home in Conn...

'Brilliant' The TimesMario Leme is a low-ranking detective in the Sao Paulo civil police. Every day on the way to work he sets off early and drives through the favela known as Paraisopolis - Paradise City. It's a pilgrimage: his wife Renata was gunned down at an intersection here a year ago, the victim of a stray bullet in a conflict between drug dealers.One morning, parked near the place where Renata died, he sees an SUV careen out of control and ...

Guardian Best Book of 2020Irish Times Best Crime Fiction of 2020Times Book of the MonthMail on Sunday Thriller of the MonthThe Spectator Crime Fiction of the MonthCrime Time Book of the Year 2020'Vivid, stylish, funny' Mick HeronThe first time I met Harold C...

This book examines how emerging environmental challenges are situated within existing International Relations (IR) theoretical understandings of ‘security’. As governments in the Global South undertake policy interventions to mitigate the impact of increasing climatic changes and yearn to achieve human-nature harmony, one can observe similar patterns of responses chiefly due to the ecology-economy dichotomy in these states and their societies. In this context, it brings to the readers vari...

This is no ordinary book of poetry. It’s about two people in love who later got married and continued to share their thoughts and emotions with us. I appreciate so many of you sharing your thoughts with me. The possibilities are limitless. I thank God for my lovely wife, companion, and best friend, Karen. Many of the poems are about her. Beware, some of the poems may contain adult language, but not like TV or the movies. All the poems were written before and after our marriage. For several...

'BRAZILIAN PSYCHO is a riveting and explosive masterpiece of political crime fiction that deserves to share the shelf with AMERICAN TABLOID, THE POWER OF THE DOG and A BRIEF HISTORY OF SEVEN KILLINGS, and confirms Joe Thomas as one of our very best contemporary crime writers.' David Peace**'**Complex and compelling, and shot through with moments of horror and beauty, BRAZILIAN PSYCHO is a magnificent achievement.' The Times Crime Club...

After a century-long hiatus, honor is back. Academics, pundits, and everyday citizens alike are rediscovering the importance of this ancient and powerful human motive. This volume brings together some of the foremost researchers of honor to debate honor’s meaning and its compatibility with liberalism, democracy, and modernity. Contributors—representing philosophy, sociology, political science, history, psychology, leadership studies, and military science—examine honor past to present, from...