This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In But Football is Great, Isn't It?, Patrick Glass takes readers on a witty and heartfelt journey through the unexpected power of football in everyday life. Whether you're a die-hard fan or someone who simply appreciates a good chat about the beautiful game, these stories show how the world of football can serve as a lifeline in the most unlikely of places — from the office to the boardroom, and everywhere in between.In...

A writer in self-imposed exile in London receives a call from the Prime Minister of his former country, inviting him to return to write the Prime Minister's biography. As he embarks from his small flat in west London to the modern Caribbean island he once called home, he immediately finds himself thrust into a world of exceptional wealth, power, and corruption.In the midst of this turmoil the writer falls deeply in love. As the love affair advances, the writer's passion for the isla...

From Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka, an innovative cocktail book that caters to a growing trend—mocktails for nondrinkers that are just as delicious and fun as their cocktail counterparts—in a joyful combination of seventy elevated, perfectly paired alcoholic and nonalcoholic recipes that let everyone raise a glass.Neil Patrick Harris loves cocktails. So much that he created the Black Magic Margarita, which is currently served at La Cava Del Tequila in Epcot ...

The appearance of this self-portrait by Patrick White is a literary event for which his readers and admirers have long hoped. He explains how on the very rare occasions when he re-reads a passage from one of his books, he recognizes very little of the self he knows. This ‘unknown’ is the man who interviewers and visiting students expect to find, but ‘unable to produce him’, he prefers to remain private – or as private as anyone who has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature can ever b...

There are other ways to end a career. As the head of a southern congregation, Pastor Damon has always tried to be all things to all people. Thus far, he hasnt lived up to his own expectation of what it means to be perfect for the job. When his own inner demons vie for his attention, Pastor D has some decisions to make. Things really start to teeter out of balance on the day he meets Taylor, a nurse who feels trapped in a tumultuous marriage, both as a wife and as mother of five. Damon feel...

The transformation of the Venetian glass industry during the Renaissance was not only a technical phenomenon, but also a social one. In this volume, Patrick McCray examines the demand, production and distribution of glass and glassmaking technology during this period and evaluates several key topics, including the nature of Renaissance demand for certain luxury goods, the interaction between industry and government in the Renaissance, and technological change as a social process. McCray pl...

About sixty years ago, the anomalous magnetic response of certain magnetic alloys drew the attention of theoretical physicists. It soon became clear that understanding these systems, now called spin glasses, would give rise to a new branch of statistical physics. As physical materials, spin glasses were found to be as useless as they were exotic. They have nevertheless been recognized as paradigmatic examples of complex systems with applications to problems as diverse as neural networks, a...

The ad promised you’d be able to see into the spirit world. But they couldn’t work for real . . . could they? A short story from Guys Read: Thriller, edited by Jon Scieszka.

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Focusing on material and social forms of infrastructure, this edited collection draws on rich empirical details from cities across the global North and South. The book asks the reader to think through the different ways in which infrastructure comes to be present in cities and its co-constitutive relationships with urban inhabitants and wider processes of urbanization.Considering the climate emergency, economic t...

"Just do it all ready, you idiot, he thought, No one cares and no one will. You'll be the laughing stock of the school if you go back. He reached for the gun but something was stopping him and he couldn't figure out what. He had no real friends except one and that guy would be better off without him." Ever wonder what life would be like without you? Feel as though there's nothing left worth living for, that no matter what you do from this point forward you will be a failure and worthless? ...

Have you ever reflected on how love infuses every sense? The way poets have understood forover. Gazing at the way her face brightens when she sees him. Hearing the melody of his voice as he whispers in her ear. The intoxicating scent of the perfume she wears only for him. The taste of salt on his skin when she kisses him after he has worked a long day. And, of course, the magic that courses through them when they touch.Could two people still fall in love without that? And what woul...

Jane Urquhart’s stunning new novel weaves two parallel stories, set a century apart.Sylvia Bradley was rescued from her parents’ house by marriage to a doctor whose care has both nourished and imprisoned her. When she meets Andrew Woodman, a historical geographer, her world changes through their devastating and ecstatic affair.A year after Andrew’s death, Sylvia tells this story to Jerome McNaughton, a young artist whose discovery of Andrew’s body unlocks a secret in his ow...