The Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) is best known for its athletic and youth programs, a heritage that draws on its origins in 1844 to provide wholesome recreation to urban youth away from the moral decay of industrialized urban living. Before long, that uplift mission found a place in the American Civil War, and soon the Y had spread all over the world by the early twentieth century, and in every major war thereafter as well. The YMCA at War: Collaboration and Conflict during the...

The war is tearing our world apart. Instead of big armies with tanks in the field, the Vampire War is fought in the streets, neighbor against neighbor, family against family. Anyone can turn at any time. The blood hunger can suddenly appear in the middle of a kiss. The person who sleeps next to you every night could wake up in the dead of night … hungry. So hungry.V Wars: Night Terrors collects all-new stories from the reporters embedded with the beats (humans) and the blo...

It's been one year since a virus triggered junk DNA and people all over the world started changing, becoming something else, craving blood. It's been ten months since the word vampire stopped being something from old monster stories and Hollywood movies. It's been six months since our world and theirs erupted into war, two since an uneasy peace was signed, and one hour since that peace was shattered. The war is here again—the vampire war. Our world will burn; our world will bleed....

Zac Power is the blockbuster chapter book series for boys. Zac Power is boy spy who has 24 hours to save the world, and get home for dinner! In Frozen Fear, Zac is sent to the Great Icy Pole, a freezing, deadly place where your fingers can snap off from the cold! And if Zac misses his helicopter ride back, he'll be stuck there all winter...

Zac Power is the blockbuster chapter book series for boys. Zac Power is boy spy who has 24 hours to save the world, and buy a birthday present! In Shock Music, has Zac's favourite band turned evil? On his latest mission, Zac will have to use all his awesome rock star skills to work out what's going on...

Book 4 in of the interlinked Zac Power Extreme Mission Super Series! The final piece of IRIS is hidden deep in the ocean, protected by an underwater minefield. Zac is running out of time to rescue his family and take IRIS before his enemies do. The whole world is at stake, and it all comes down to Zac…

Slow Cures and Bad Philosophers uses insights from the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein to rethink bioethics. Although Wittgenstein produced little formal writing on ethics, this volume shows that, in fact, ethical issues permeate the entirety of his work. The scholars whom Carl Elliott has assembled in this volume pay particular attention to Wittgenstein’s concern with the thick context of moral problems, his suspicion of theory, and his belief in description as the real aim of ...

Another thrilling Zac Power adventure! There's a sinister invention at Shark Park that's about to be unleashed! Zac's spy senses are on high-alert. He must ride the scariest roller-coaster, stop the invention and save the world.

Another thrilling Zac Power adventure! A GIB agent has gone missing in the mysterious Black Triangle deep underwater. Can Zac find him among the sea of shipwrecks before it's too late?

Another thrilling Zac Power adventure! A piece of top-secret GIB technology has been stolen, and Zac Power has to get it back. Blasting off towards a secret hide-out in the sky, he faces his strangest enemy yet...

Another thrilling Zac Power adventure! Masses of gold ingots are being stolen from the world's most secure bank vault. Intelligence reports suggest the evil spy agency BIG is involved. Can Zac find out how the hold is being stolen and get it back? There's no telling what crimes BIG could commit with all that gold...

Another thrilling Zac Power adventure! When Zac's latest mission briefing sends him to a secret volcanic island in the middle of the ocean, he knows that something isn't quite right. The he discovers a secret that GIB has been trying to uncover for years...