Fast paced, funny and fiercely topical, #spotted on Kindle is the first novel to be bundled with exclusive access to a bespoke companion website. Immerse yourself in the #spotted world with satire that blurs the lines between fiction and reality. Go on. One little click won't hurt... Set in the enticing world of celebrity and popular culture, #spotted tells the tale of Alex Gaines, a cruise ship entertainer whose life suddenly hits the rocks. Ironically, it's only then that his career star...

Spies in Disguise hits the big screen on December 25, 2019. The all-star cast includes Will Smith, Tom Holland, Karen Gillan, Rashida Jones, and DJ Khaled!Spies in Disguise: The Junior Novel retells the exciting, hilarious movie and features a full-color section with action-packed art!Super spy Lance Sterling and scientist Walter Beckett are almost exact opposites. Lance is smooth, suave and debonair. Walter is... not. But what Walter lacks in social skills he makes up for ...

The fight over immigration reform and immigrants’ rights in the U.S. has been marked by sharp swings in both public sentiment and official enforcement. In 2006, millions of Latino immigrants joined protests for immigration reform. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, a policy granting work permits and protection from deportation to undocumented immigrants who entered the country before age 16, was enacted in 2012, despite a sharp increase in deportations during the Bush and Obama admini...

Sometime around 1500 AD, an African farmer planted a maize seed imported from the New World. That act set in motion the remarkable saga of one of the world’s most influential crops—one that would transform the future of Africa and of the Atlantic world. Africa’s experience with maize is distinctive but also instructive from a global perspective: experts predict that by 2020 maize will become the world’s most cultivated crop.James C. McCann moves easily from the village level to the...

When people have the freedom to further their own personal interests in politics, the results may be disastrous. Chaos? Tyranny? Can a political system be set up to avoid these pitfalls, while still granting citizens and politicians the freedom to pursue their interests? Republic at Risk is a concise and engaging introduction to American politics. The guiding theme is the problem of self-interest in politics, which James Madison took as his starting point in his defense of representative g...

Grandpa Stories is a collection of stories. My stories. I take today's readers back to a time that seems so long ago now. The fact is that it really hasn't been that long ago. It only seems so because of how much change has occurred just since I started creating and collecting my stories. So its not the ticking of clock that makes our stories interesting, its the changing of background or context that makes solutions like "pop-tops" and "jukeboxes" fascinating to us now. It was also a time...

Twelve-year-old Arthur loves his summers in Birch Bay, a quirky seaside village where he spends all of his time with his best friend Lea. They play video games together, hang out at the beach and explore on their bikes.This year is different, though. First, Arthur learns it will be Lea's last summer in Birch Bay. Then their freedom is threatened by the Immortals, the swim team who torments all the local kids.Lea and Arthur decide to take a stand. Using their video-game netw...

After a nightmarish disease brings the dead back to life, Ethan finds himself alone with nothing but his notebook of memories and a machete. Determined to survive, he gathers unlikely rivals and strangers to defend their resources. In the End Times, zombies are the least of their worries.However, personal conflicts make it impossible for Ethan and his friends to work together. Worse, Ethan hides a secret that threatens their tenuous alliance—and their lives. Unfortunately, secrets, ...

Malaria is an infectious disease like no other: it is a dynamic force of nature and Africa’s most deadly and debilitating malady. James C. McCann tells the story of malaria in human, narrative terms and explains the history and ecology of the disease through the science of landscape change. All malaria is local. Instead of examining the disease at global or continental scale, McCann investigates malaria’s adaptation and persistence in a single region, Ethiopia, over time and at several con...

After losing yet another tae kwon do tournament, Jinho gives in to his anger and breaks his opponent's fingers. While this gets him barred from competing at his dojang, it also gets him scouted by Austin, a trainer for an underground mixed martial arts club. At first the prospect of fighting without boundaries appeals to Jinho, but the more involved he gets, the more disturbing he finds it and the harder it is to find a way out. Unlike legal MMA, which has rules and regulations, undergroun...

Africa’s art of cooking is a key part of its history. All too often Africa is associated with famine, but in Stirring the Pot, James C. McCann describes how the ingredients, the practices, and the varied tastes of African cuisine comprise a body of historically gendered knowledge practiced and perfected in households across diverse human and ecological landscape. McCann reveals how tastes and culinary practices are integral to the understanding of history and more generally to the...

2018 was a tumultuous year in global politics. Starting with the rise of the Lega Nord in Italy and ending with the election of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, it has never been such a pertinent time to study the radical right. This yearbook pulls together the best commentary and analysis from an international consortium of expert scholars examining the ebb and flow of radical right movements from around the world. Starting with a concise analysis of key definitions of the radical right and hist...