Solve a mermaid's problem…Step off the edge of a roof…Dig up a grave at midnight…Take advice from a fortune cookie…Visit the last library…Meet a bridge troll…And more…In one instant, like a bolt of lightning, a single impossible event changes a person's life. And like the trace of lighting in the sky, each is unique and interesting.These wildly different flash stories delight, astonish, scare, and inspire. Enjoy 64 delightfully ecle...

The classical Bildungsroman charted an idealized path of human development: the harmonizing of individual desires and societal norms in the formation of a well-rounded liberal subject. But what happens when this Enlightenment blueprint for self-cultivation runs up against the particularities of a colonial society riven by nationalism, revolution, and uneven modernization?The Irish Bildungsroman provides the first comprehensive study of how this quintessentially bourgeois a...

Is there a voice inside you that knows that there is so much more for you and that you have incredible potential just waiting to be realised?Then it's time to learn how to back yourself. Believing in yourself is an incredible force of power that starts with you. Whether you want to change the world, invent an incredible product, take on the big brands, inspire people, take your business global, start a movement or dream bigger in any way it's time to follow that calling!Thi...

Late nineteenth-century Britain experienced an unprecedented explosion of visual print culture and a simultaneous rise in literacy across social classes. New printing technologies facilitated quick and cheap dissemination of images—illustrated books, periodicals, cartoons, comics, and ephemera—to a mass readership. This Victorian visual turn prefigured the present-day impact of the Internet on how images are produced and shared, both driving and reflecting the visual culture of its time.

Drei Erzählstimmen für drei starke Frauen, die im Untergrund Londons auf Verbrecherjagd gehen. Fünf junge Frauen verschwinden spurlos in London. Die drei Privatdetektivinnen Isla Wright, Abigail Walker und Emma Ferguson nehmen die Ermittlungen auf und folgen den spärlichen Spuren tief in die Sprayer-Szene. Dort lauert eine Wahrheit auf sie, die tödlicher ist, als sie ahnen. Drei Privatdetektivinnen ermitteln in London. Wo die Polizei längst aufgibt, bleiben sie dran - selbst wenn sie dabei...