In a dazzling piece of short fiction, a thief and common drag on society gets his comeuppance.

WINNER OF THE THE GREEN STORIES PRIZE 2023Fairhaven – A Novel of Climate Optimism traces the lives of a group of innovators, engineers, and visionaries as they struggle against the odds to bring climate solutions to Southeast Asia and to the world.Grace Chan, a young Malaysian working at the Fairhaven infrastructure project in Penang, is terrified of what the future might bring. She reluctantly comes to terms with the role that she and her colleagues will play in addressing...

Is disaster inevitable? Defying Futility offers sixteen stories by the authors of the award-winning climate fiction Fairhaven – A Novel of Climate Optimism that offer a definitive answer to the question, with a range of creative, heartwarming tales that showcase how real disasters in history might have gone differently.Instead of a “Black Mirror” future, the stories are a “Green Mirror” alternative. Defying Futility and Fairhaven are perfect for ...

What social change has been achieved over the past 30 years?What have been the main barriers to progress?What great achievements can we identify and celebrate today?Marking Jessica Kingsley Publishers' 30th year of publishing books on social and behavioural issues, this book gathers together over 30 leading thinkers from diverse disciplines - from autism specialists and social workers through to trans rights activists and complementary therapists.Contributors ...

A long-married couple are returning home from a summer visit to their daughter in California. The vacation makes the wife question what happened to their adventurous younger selves.

Jack Reacher ska bara ta en kaffe, köpa sig en varmare jacka och gå på en konsert. Sedan tänker han lämna Baltimore. Men av en slump stör två personer hela hans plan. En är en före detta underrättelseman i den amerikanska armén, som gör det av högst befogad rädsla för sitt liv. Den andre är en hemlighetsfull person som också har militära kopplingar – mörka men lukrativa sådana. Och han är beredd att gå över lik för att säkerställa dem.Som av en händelse hinner Reacher knappt dricka...

We started as strangers. Fifteen days later, we'd created memories and friendships that will last a lifetime.At the end of April 2023, ten travelers from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States set off on an Intrepid tour to explore a country as old as time. Steeped in European and Asian influences, we quickly discovered that Türkiye (Turkey) is one of the most stunning countries in the world. We walked the streets of ancient cities, stayed i...

Jack Reacher vaknar upp ensam i mörkret, fastkedjad vid en säng. Hans arm är svårt skadad och alla hans saker är borta. Han förstår inte alls hur han hamnat där. Det sista han minns är att han liftade och att bilen prejades av vägen.Föraren dog i olyckan, men de som tagit Reacher till fånga verkar tro att de två var i maskopi med varandra. De tar hand om hans skador, men uppenbarligen bara för att få honom att prata.Reacher vet ännu mindre än de, men är fast besluten på att...

A must for the parents of unusually bright and active children!The Indigo Child is a boy or girl who displays a new and unusual set of psychological attributes, revealing a pattern of behavior generally undocumented before. This pattern has singularly unique factors that call for parents and teachers to change their treatment and upbringing of these kids to assist them in achieving balance and harmony in their lives, and to help them avoid frustration.In th...

Åtta framstående personer har hittats döda på olika platser runtom i USA. Alla dödsfall ser ut som olyckor och verkar inte ha någon koppling till varandra. Ända fram tills ett offer – resultatet av ett olyckligt fall från ett sjukhusfönster – drar blickarna till sig.USA:s försvarsminister intresserar sig för fallet och ber Jack Reacher att utreda saken närmare. Reacher må vara en utomordentlig soldat, men att nysta i andra människors hemligheter är inte ha...

The concept of Greater Tibet has surfaced in the political and academic worlds in recent years. It is based in the inadequacies of other definitions of what constitutes the historical and modern worlds in which Tibetan people, ideas, and culture occupy. This collection of papers is inspired by a panel on Greater Tibet held at the XIIIth meeting of the International Association of Tibet Studies in Ulaan Baatar in 2013. Participants included leading Tibet scholars, experts in international l...

Now in its second edition, Parenting Culture Studies seeks to understand how parenting is taken as a particular mode of childrearing that reflects broader social trends. Ten years after the initial volume's groundbreaking publication, the authors once again closely examine how the main aspects of parenting have been established, explored, and critically evaluated. Chapters revisit phenomena such as intensive parenting and politics around parenting, as well as controversial issues including...