Scott Stephens received his first set of roller skates at age six in 1966 – and soon he was staging Roller Derby games in his backyard. Growing up in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s, it was impossible not to have heard about Roller Derby and the Los Angeles Thunderbirds, whose games were televised. In fact, many of the T-Birds were just as popular as those on traditional sports teams such as the Dodgers, Lakers, and Rams. When Stephens started training at the new T-Bird Rollerdrome in P...

Why is public debate increasingly polarised - and what can we do about it?Is our democracy corroding? In this original, eloquent essay, Waleed Aly and Scott Stephens explore the ethics and politics of public debate - and the threat it now faces.In a healthy society we need the capacity to disagree. Yet Aly and Stephens note a growing tendency to disdain and dismiss opponents, to treat them with contempt. This toxic partisanship has been imported from the United States, wh...

Slavoj iek is one of the worlds foremost cultural commentators: a prolific writer and thinker, whose vividly adventurous, unorthodox and wide-ranging writings have won him a unique place as one of the most high profile thinkers of our time. Covering psychoanalysis, philosophy and popular culture and drawing on a heady mix of Marxist politics, Hegelian dialectics and Lacanian psychoanalysis, the writings collected in Interrogating the Real reflect not only the remarkable extent ...

When veteran journalist Chip Jeffries publishes an explosive investigation into Saudi Arabia's oil reserves, he expects controversy. He doesn't expect global financial markets to collapse within hours. What begins as a routine exposé quickly spirals into an international firestorm. Stock exchanges freeze, diplomatic phone lines burn, and somewhere in the shadows, powerful figures begin to move. As Chip races to uncover the full truth, he finds himself drawn into a tangled world of espionag...

'From where will we draw the moral energy to stay true to justice?' For more than three decades the incomparable voice of Raimond Gaita has been summoning us to new conversations that deepen our understanding of what matters most to human life and awaken the sense of our common humanity. For Gaita, we are never more fully alive than when we are fully present to one another in conversation. In a time when modes of communication tend to superficiality and self-promotion, when political debat...

Interrogating the Real is the first volume of the collected writings of Slavoj Žižek - undoubtedly one of the world's leading contemporary cultural commentators, and one of the most inspiring, provocative and entertaining cultural critics at work today. Drawing upon the full range of his prolific output, the articles here cover psychoanalysis, philosophy and popular culture, reflecting the remarkable breadth and depth of Žižek's interest in politics, culture and philosophy, and al...

Slavoj Žižek is one of the world's foremost cultural commentators: a prolific writer and thinker, whose adventurous, unorthodox and wide-ranging writings have won him a unique place as one of the most high profile thinkers of our time. The Universal Exception brings together some of Žižek's most vivid writings on politics. Bringing together high theory, popular culture and passionate engagement with politics, Žižek here brings us startlingly new perspectives on such topics as mult...

Chemical dependency among the adult population in America has reached epidemic proportion. An estimated 30 million people abuse themselves daily with alcohol and drugs. For every chemically-dependent adult, at least five others are directly affected: children, spouses, parents, siblings, etc. America is intimately involved with a full-blown pandemic. This pandemic is the disease of addiction and family dysfunction. These letters to Sarah represent a strong warning of the insidious nature o...

The New Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day: Revised and Updated with New Recipes - The Revolutionary Quick and Easy Way to Make Nutritious Whole Grain Artisan Bread, Perfect for Foodies and Bakers!In this fully revised and updated edition of their bestselling cookbook, Jeff Hertzberg and Zoë François prove once again that homemade yeast dough can be stored in the refrigerator and used whenever you need it. They've adapted their groundbreaking method for w...

The New Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day is a fully revised and updated edition of the bestselling, ground-breaking, and revolutionary approach to bread-making--a perfect gift for foodies and bakers!With more than half a million copies of their books in print, Jeff Hertzberg and Zoë François have proven that people want to bake their own bread, so long as they can do it easily and quickly. Based on fan feedback, Jeff and Zoë have completely revamped the...

'An auditor is a person who watches the battle from the safety of the hills and then comes down to bayonet the wounded.' The best way to prove this often repeated quote wrong is to study your new profession, learn its best practices, immerse yourself in its history, and its future direction. This six-step guide will set new entrants to the internal audit profession on the right path.

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry has been widely acclaimed since the publication of its first edition in 1997(originally titled Child Psychiatry). Each chapter has been designed to present the key facts, concepts and emerging facets of the area, drawing on clinical experience as well as the latest research findings. These guiding principles are followed in the third edition, which has been updated to reflect the varied advances in research and clinical practice that inform...