Jo Castle, Londoner and thirty-something firefighter, wants to save the world by being the opposite of Jack Reacher. She starts with care – care for her friends and family, care for community, care for the planet. Together with best friend Miranda, step-brother Mike and ex-boyfriend Robert, Jo turns a giant music festival on an island in the River Thames into the living city of Visco. Visco is a ‘carnival of care’, a radical experiment that challenges the very bedrock of capitalism. The st...

Consumers in Britain face a curious mix of taxes and duties that are messy, opaque and out of date. They are also unfair: the poorer you are, the more of your income goes on paying these taxes. At the same time, we are ceaselessly bombarded by marketing information that is very one-sided. The foods that make us fat, for example, are promoted a great deal more than the foods that could keep us healthy – and again it is mainly the poor who bear the brunt. This book draws on insights from beh...

The book fans have been waiting for! A sequel to the acclaimed animal fantasy novel The Sight.With the same bold storytelling that has made The Sight a cult favorite, David Clement-Davies tells the story of Fell, the black wolf whose betrayal of his family in The Sight almost led to the enslavement of all wolves by the evil Morgra. Wandering alone in the forests of Transylvania, lost in the pain of his sister Larka's death, Fell rejects t...

Black Night Fell is a gritty, fast-paced crime thriller that plunges readers into the murky depths of a corrupt small town where justice is hard-won and danger lurks in every shadow. At its center is Bubba Ricks, a no-nonsense private investigator with a sharp mind, a bruised heart, and a relentless drive to protect those who can't protect themselves.When Ricks steps in to rescue a woman escaping an abusive marriage, he unwittingly uncovers a deadly secret that str...

By the spring of 1969, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) had reached its zenith as the largest, most radical movement of white youth in American history—a genuine New Left. Yet less than a year later, SDS splintered into warring factions and ceased to exist.SDS's development and its dissolution grew directly out of the organization's relations with the black freedom movement, the movement against the Vietnam War, and the newly emerging struggle for women's liberation. For a m...

Cast your mind back to the mid-1990s. The Premiership was shiny and new, England weren't terrible at football, and exciting foreign players like Gianfranco Zola, Eric Cantona and Georgi Kinkladze were lighting up our game. In an industrial town in the north-east of England, a little Brazilian magic was the catalyst to thrust a previously provincial, middle-of-the-road club into the full glare of the global footballing spotlight. The Little Fella: How Middlesbrough Fell in Love with Jun...

Überall sind sie zu finden, leben mitten unter uns und auch Sie sind bereits einem derlei wundersamen Wesen begegnet. Gut getarnt hinter Pullundern und Nickelbrillen warten Nerds, Gamer und Streberinnen darauf, dass ihre Sternenzeit beginnt.Entdecken Sie mit diesem Buch eine neue Galaxis: Als Enzyklopädie der Nerdigen, Fibel der Fabelhaften und Handbuch für Anhalter berichtet es sagenhafte Abenteuer aus der Welt der Geeks und Klugscheißer. Zusammengetragen von poetischen Wissenscha...

Across thousands of years, people have described one of the most astonishing of all human phenomena: the near-death experience (NDE), the subjective experience of an Afterlife, a place where we apparently survive death. The more powerful the NDE, the more profound the after effects. The ambitious reset their priorities. Atheists change their values. Doctors rethink their beliefs. But what if the after effects of an NDE were undeniable? What if someone suddenly developed the ability to prod...

It's the undetermined but near future. America's population is plunging, beset by a mysterious plague that robs individuals of their mental faculties before causing catastrophic respiratory failure. One by one, the institutions of society are also failing. Electric power, media, and law enforcement have become nearly non-existent. Only a small force, of military origin but exhibiting strange behavior and superhuman abilities, seems to be functioning.Amid this dark and disturbing wo...

When a shooting star takes a tumble and lands right in Maya's polka-dot teacup, it loses its glow and its way home. Maya, a small girl with big curiosity, sets off on a moonlit adventure to help her new friend. Through the whispering garden and up the steepest hill in town, Maya discovers that sometimes, the best way to reach the sky is by looking inside your own heart.

By the spring of 1969, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) had reached its zenith as the largest, most radical movement of white youth in American history-a genuine New Left. Yet less than a year later, SDS splintered into warring factions and ceased to exist.SDS\'s development and its dissolution grew directly out of the organization\'s relations with the black freedom movement, the movement against the Vietnam War, and the newly emerging struggle for women\'s liberation. For ...

Black Night Fell is a gritty, fast-paced crime thriller that plunges readers into the murky depths of a corrupt small town where justice is hard-won and danger lurks in every shadow. At its center is Bubba Ricks, a no-nonsense private investigator with a sharp mind, a bruised heart, and a relentless drive to protect those who can't protect themselves.When Ricks steps in to rescue a woman escaping an abusive marriage, he unwittingly uncovers a deadly secret that str...