SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 CHARLES HATFIELD BOOK PRIZE FROM THE COMICS STUDIES SOCIETYBorn in the South Bronx to Puerto Rican parents, artist and writer George Pérez (1954–2022) cut his teeth in the 1970s as an artist at Marvel who worked on lesser titles like The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu and Creatures on the Loose, and then mainstays like Fantastic Four and The Avengers. In the 1980s, Pérez jumped ship to DC where he helped turn

Among the many challenges confronting the liberal arts today is a fundamental disconnect between the curricula that many institutions offer and the training that many students need. Discipline-specific models of teaching and learning can underprepare students for the kinds of interdisciplinary collaboration that employers now expect. Although aware of these expectations and the need for change, many small colleges and universities have struggled to translate interdisciplinarity into progra...

Winner, John G. Cawelti Award for the Best Textbook/Primer, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, 2019MPCA/ACA Book Award, Midwest Popular Culture Association / Midwest American Culture Association, 2020Taking a multifaceted approach to attitudes toward race through popular culture and the American superhero, All New, All Different? explores a topic that until now has only received more discrete examination. Considering Marvel, D...

A pitch-black comedy set in London overshadowed by the looming threat of the Second World War, Patrick Hamilton's Hangover Square. London, 1939, and in the grimy publands of Earls Court, George Harvey Bone is pursuing a helpless infatuation. Netta is cool, contemptuous and hopelessly desirable to George. George is adrift in a drunken hell, except in his 'dead' moments, when something goes click in his head and he realizes, without a doubt, that he must kill her. In the darkly comic Hangove...

This dazzling anthology includes epic interstellar adventures, tales of space and wonder, from some of the brightest names in science fiction. Authors includeKage BakerStephen BaxterGregory BenfordTony DanielGreg EganPeter F. HamiltonGwyneth JonesJames Patrick KellyNancy KressKen MacleodPaul J. McAuleyIan McDonaldRobert ReedAlastair ReynoldsMary RosenblumRobert SilverbergDan SimmonsWalter Jon Williams

Rope by Patrick Hamilton is a taut psychological drama that unfolds within the intimate confines of a stylish London flat, where two clever and self-assured young men host a peculiar social gathering. Beneath the polite small talk and refined atmosphere, a chilling sense of dread emerges, fueled by an unsettling secret that threatens to unravel at any moment. As their guests—drawn from a circle of friends and acquaintances—grow gradually uneasy, the play's tension tightens, exposing the sh...

Some love stories begin long before the first kiss.They know each other well—friends, confidants, a safe place to land. But when unspoken feelings rise to the surface, the line between friendship and forever becomes impossible to ignore.This collection of friends to lovers romances delivers the tension, heat, and hard-fought happily-ever-afters you love.Includes:True Blue: When Gabe North’s best friend, Lexie, is left at the altar, he whisks...

NOSES ARE FOR BREATHING, MOUTHS ARE FOR EATING“Many people believe that taking a deep breath increases body oxygenation. The opposite is the case.” — Patrick McKeown, bestselling author of The Oxygen AdvantageImagine a breathing technique that can increase oxygen uptake and delivery to the cells, improve blood circulation, and unblock the nose. Perhaps it can help open the airways of the lungs, enhance blood flow and oxygen deliver...

Rope by Patrick Hamilton is a chilling and suspenseful stage play that explores the psychology of murder, moral arrogance, and the illusion of intellectual superiority. Inspired by the infamous Leopold and Loeb case, the play centers on two young men who strangle a fellow student simply to prove their belief in their own intellectual dominance—and then host a dinner party with the victim’s body hidden in the same room. Set entirely in a single apartment over the course of one evening, Rope...

Rope by Patrick Hamilton is a masterfully crafted psychological thriller that delves into the darkest recesses of the human psyche. Set against the backdrop of a seemingly ordinary evening, Hamilton weaves a taut and suspenseful narrative that unravels the chilling consequences of arrogance, manipulation, and moral corruption. The story revolves around two young men whose shared fascination with intellectual superiority leads them to commit a heinous act, driven by a twisted desire to prov...

Emilia Fox (Silent Witness, Rebecca, Merlin) stars as troubled newly wed Bella Manningham in this brand new full cast audio production of the classic thriller Gaslight. Despite seemingly having every advantage and an outwardly doting husband, Bella is being driven slowly mad... but can the cause of her madness truly be her husband? What is the dark, terrible, secret lurking in his past, and where does he disappear to each evening? Left alone in her dingy parlour with the gaslight periodica...

The surprise attack within the Auriga Star System was worse than brutal; it was heinous, leaving the US Navy's 3rd Fleet decimated.Thousands of crew are reported dead, including the ship's captain. Reluctantly, the young XO, Galvin Quintos, will be taking command of the fleet's crippled dreadnaught, the USS Hamilton, while doing his best to bring fleet survivors back to Earth. To make matters worse, there's a murderer running loose on board the ship, criti...