Driven and efficient businesswoman Vivienne Alexander reluctantly finds herself at a speed-dating night after her friend buys her a ticket. It'll probably be a waste of time anyway, she tells herself. She doesn’t need a relationship to make her whole.So, when an alluring stranger with bright smiles and a riot of auburn hair predicts Vivienne will be in her bed by the end of the night, she’s not sure which is more surprising: the sheer cockiness or the thrill that shoots through her...

Will a flighty free-spirit and a rugged Irish bartender have their second chance at love this festive season?Evie Parata breezed out of her small town as a teenager to see the world and never looked back. But lately, the years of constant motion have weighed on her, and with her first Christmas without her mother approaching, she’s lonelier than ever. Going home to regroup seemed like a great plan. Getting stranded outside her ex’s bar? Not so much.While Da...

Will a flighty free spirit and a rugged Irish bartender have their second chance at love this festive season?Evie Parata’s luck has run out. Her supposedly new car just broke down outside her gorgeous ex’s bar on Christmas Eve. It’s raining, the car leaks, and she has nowhere to go.When Davy knocks on her window and invites her in, she wants to say no, but with none of the local mechanics available to fix her vehicle, she doesn’t have many options. The prob...

She thought she knew what she wanted, he thought he’d had his one shot at love. In each other they found more than they could possibly imagine…Vanessa thought her life was perfect. An awesome career as a food writer, traveling the world and doing whatever she wanted. But then everything changes.Her assignment goes wrong. She gets stranded in an old villa in the middle of Italy, and an unexpected letter digs up emotions she’s worked damn hard to bur...

She thought her work would help her forget; his work still haunts his nightmares. Can they leave their painful pasts behind and come home to each other’s hearts?Agata Selvaggio left the family law firm for good reason and is now the proud owner of a thriving cafe at the heart of her village. She knows her family’s judgment is the price she’s paid for her independence, and all she wants to do is forget and move on. That’s not as easy as it sounds, especially when an...

Two creatives clashing on a joint project...surely it’s too cold to shut each other out, especially on Christmas Eve?Finally home for the holidays, Caterina Boraldo is ready to strut her stuff. A new job at a swanky interior design firm and a new look. But back home, is she so different from that awkward teenager desperate to escape working class drudgery. She’ll keep smiling regardless and it’s hard to not smile with gorgeous Antonio around.She’s only home...

Comment le mouvement Black Lives Matter a-t-il pu naître sous le mandat du premier président noir ?Une plongée dans l’histoire du racisme aux États-Unis, écrite par une universitaire et militante membre du mouvement Black Lives Matter.Réédition avec une préface qui actualise ce classique sur le renouveau des luttes contre le racisme aux États-Unis à l’aune de l’évolution des luttes sociales au cours de la dernière décennie.Cet essa...

Avec L’Âge séculier (2007), Charles Taylor couronnait une œuvre consacrée à la genèse de la modernité et à la pensée du multiple. Il reconstituait la diversité des moments et des réflexions qui menèrent à un âge séculier, aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Mais loin de constituer une synthèse humaniste, laissant derrière lui l’âge théologique, celui-ci éclate à son tour aux XIXe et XXe siècles, par un « effet supernova » comme Taylor l’a joliment appelé, en une multitude de galaxies nouvelles, o...

How, in a context of prolonged economic and political crisis, do city dwellers reinvent the means of their survival in Kinshasa? This book answers that question. Through fine-grained ethnography, it shows how micro-social arrangements enable small-scale traders to provision the city and ordinary citizens to keep living, immersing the reader in the many forms of “resourcefulness” that organize small-scale trade across Kinshasa’s markets.The book moves beyond the formal/informal bina...

This book is the first systematic study examining depictions of Roman Britain in fictional film and television, exploring the varying interpretations of the rich history and myths that emerge from the clash of cultures between Romans and Britons.The book proceeds chronologically through four hundred years of Roman occupation, starting with the Claudian invasion in ad 43 as featured in the television drama Britannia, before examining numerous works on Boudica’s rebellion (Warrior Qu...

Reinventing Governance in a Volatile World addresses public governance worldwide, identifying challenges and innovative ways to improve the lives of those governed.Based on their work on the Governance Cluster of the international think-tank Global Forum/Shaping the Future, the authors analyse successful strategies and key findings that help governments and institutions promote engagement and involve a broader set of stakeholders in decisions and governance, as well as the...

Workers Without Companies contributes to the debate on the future of work in a productive landscape that is now global, while ways of working diversify at an unprecedented pace.Faced with several decades of mass unemployment in Europe and the activation of self-employment—especially through intermediary platforms—this book examines the transformation of the wage system not only in traditional salaried sectors but also in self-employment, agriculture, and the field of scien...