Claudius's invasion of Britannia was achieved almost unopposed. The few pockets of credible resistance were ruthlessly crushed by the machine that was the Roman army. What followed was a tense but relatively peaceful co-existence, even some merging of cultures. That peaceful life was shattered by greed and oppression, when the new Emperor, Nero, forces a change in hierarchy in the province. Paulinus, a brutal Governor, and Catus, the mercilessly greedy Procurator, badly misjudged the mood ...

Frank has a habit of throwing himself against the floor to ceiling windows in his 38th floor office. He does this to emphasize the importance of risk-taking. When George and Frank see a couple having sex against the window in an adjacent office building, Frank again throws himself against the window to demonstrate how safe it is. This time the window comes out. Marcia is at street level when Frank lands. She had been rushing to meet him in an empty office to continue their affair. George a...

"An impressive achievement. Much more than a cautionary tale or a back-to-the-land parable, Simon Heath's trilogy of novels is foremost a warm, generous meditation on an abiding truth underpinning individual lives and societies alike. Always, there are challenges and upsets; always, love, family, and community sees us through the worst of it, and shows us the best."—Charles Foran, author of Mordecai and Planet Lolita"When Everything Falls Apart is a hyper-realistic account o...

After arriving at their off-grid house in the country, Brian, Karen and Robin must adjust to a new life in the country: a new baby, new neighbours and the world’s electrical grids still down. The second installment of the trilogy follows the family and their new community as they struggle to survive in a world without power. With no electricity, no gasoline, no internet, no grocery stores or doctors, the community must learn how to care for themselves. They also have to learn how to get al...

After a year without power, Toronto has changed. Brian, Karen, Robin and Grace make the return journey from their house in the country to see what's left of their former home. They find a devastated city struggling to get back on its feet. When Brian and Karen decide to help rebuild the infrastructure, they are sucked into a world that shakes them to the core. When Everything Falls Apart, Book Three: The Beginning is the final chapter in this family's epic journey to build a new future.

**Wall Street Journal BestsellerNew York Times bestselling author Dan Heath explores how to prevent problems before they happen, drawing on insights from hundreds of interviews with unconventional problem solvers and showing how leaders, teams, and organizations can shift from reaction to prevention****.So often in life, we get stuck in a cycle of response. We put out fires. We deal with emergencies. We stay downstream, handling one problem after another, ...

The New York Times bestselling authors of Switch and Made to Stick explore why certain brief experiences can jolt us and elevate us and change us—and how we can learn to create such extraordinary moments in our life and work.While human lives are endlessly variable, our most memorable positive moments are dominated by four elements: elevation, insight, pride, and connection. If we embrace these elements, we can conjure more momen...

2025 PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY OPRAH DAILY, ADAM GRANT, CHIEF EXECUTIVE MAGAZINE, AND MORE •** A revolutionary guide to fixing what’s not working—in systems and processes, organizations and companies, and even in our daily lives—by identifying leverage points and concentrating resources to achieve our goals.Changi...

A clear, practical, first-of-its-kind guide to communicating and understanding numbers and data—from bestselling business author Chip Heath.How much bigger is a billion than a million?Well, a million seconds is twelve days. A billion seconds is…thirty-two years.Understanding numbers is essential—but humans aren’t built to understand them. Until very recently, most languages had no words for numbers greater than five—anything from six to infinity was...

In the continuing debates about the cultural dimensions of globalization, the question of 'literature' has been something of a poor relation. This volume seeks to redress the balance. It takes as its starting point Goethe's idea of Weltliteratur, from which it then travels out to various parts of the globe at different historical junctures. Among its many concerns are the legacies of Goethe's idea, variable understandings of the term 'literature' itself, cross-cultural encounters,...

A witch for hire.A mysterious disappearance.A dark conspiracy to birth an evil new power…Gosha Armitage—34 and a mother of two—struggles to make ends meet in 1980s Cheyne Heath, London's most supernatural borough. Blacklisted from the world of fashion and pop music by her vindictive ex-husband, she is forced to support her family with handouts and favors from the grateful neighbors she helps with her Craft while fending off her ex's attempts to win cu...

A lonely witch.A haunted house.Can kindness and compassion save them both?In Cheyne Heath, London's most dangerous and supernatural borough, Agnieszka, a widow, fills her days helping visitors to her kitchen with charmed candles, magic teas, and readings from her witches' telling deck. On her dead husband's birthday she would rather have a quiet night with her knitting in front of the television, but an intriguing reading and an invitation to dinner l...