SHORTLISTED FOR SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2025'Made me laugh and cry' Chris Kamara'A rollicking whip through [Jeff's] life, like the show itself it offers a consistently entertaining read' Telegraph'Such an enjoyable book' Ally McCoist'Jeff's autobiography is a riot of humour and nostalgia. A great read' Phil Thompson**'*...

***** DO NOT USE WHILE DRIVING ***** At its core, Om is harmony made audible—a timeless sound of the universe that carries no tension, no expectation, and no need for resolution. Here, it unfolds within a gentle pentatonic landscape—pure, balanced, and naturally soothing—woven from soft synthesized instruments and human voices that intone the sacred Om at precisely tuned vibrational frequencies. The effect is subtle, enveloping, and deeply calming. Yet Hypnotic Om goes far beyond music. Em...

In this new Chris Ryan adventure, the best soldiers in the world come together to fight Al-Qaeda. It is the early days of the war in Afghanistan. SAS hero, Jock, has never fought alongside America's select Tier 1 Operators before now, but when their mission goes pear-shaped, he will find out just what they are made of... Battling against overwhelming odds in unknown territory, and with the enemy well dug-in, even the most elite soldiers with the most advanced weaponry at their disposal are...

A wide-ranging volume featuring contributions from some of today's leading thinkers and practitioners in the field of men, masculinities and development.Together, contributors challenge the neglect of the structural dimensions of patriarchal power relations in current development policy and practice, and the failure to adequately engage with the effects of inequitable sex and gender orders on both men's and women's lives.The book calls for renewed engagement in efforts to c...

Throughout the world, the number of festivals has grown exponentially in the last two decades, as people celebrate local and regional cultures, but perhaps more importantly as local councils and other groups seek to use festivals both to promote tourism and to stimulate rural development. However, most studies of festivals have tended to focus almost exclusively on the cultural and symbolic aspects, or on narrow modelling of economic multiplier impacts, rather than examining their long-ter...

Giving voice to the lived experiences of people with dementia across the globe, including Australia, Canada, Sweden and the UK, this critical and evidence-based collection engages with the realities of life for people living with dementia at home and within their neighbourhoods.This insightful text addresses the fundamental social aspects of environment, including place attachment, belonging and connectivity. The chapters reveal the potential and expose the challenges for practitio...

The Cathars thrived in Languedoc, now part of south-west France. They were vegetarians and pacifists who believed in reincarnation and equality for women. In the 13th century, Crusaders were sent by the Roman Catholic church to wipe them out. Today, much of the tourist industry of south-west France is based upon the region's associations with the Cathars. In 1987, Chris Ratcliffe and Elaine Connell spent several months cycling around the mountains and valleys of the area. Their aim was to ...

Recipient of three National Endowment for the Arts grants and with works exhibited at the prestigious Biennale de Paris, New York’s Whitney Museum, the de Menil Collection in Houston, and other venues, Bob “Daddy-O” Wade started “keeping it weird” in 1961 when he arrived in Austin with his ’51 custom Ford hot rod and his slicked-back hair. Primed to study art at the University of Texas, Wade’s coif and dragster earned him his trademark moniker, and the abstract, welded sculptures he fashio...

While federal agent Artemis Hood begins to enact a plan to enter the urban dystopia known as Subdivision Nine, the machinations of the masked cyborg and Foolish Sister are interrupted by a visit from a group of enforcers who serve a vicious gangster known as the King of Van Nuys. It would seem the king is quite angry and even though the masked cyborg has proven himself formidable thus far, how will he fare against a particularly dangerous group of werewolves and assassins lead by a mysteri...

The woman now known as Foolish Sister led a much more normal life before Halloween night of 2052. On that night, she risked everything to dedicate herself to a unique man, a man who toppled the first domino in a cataclysmic chain that would change the world forever. On that night, she rescued him, and over twenty years later, she now finds herself rescuing him again.They call him Mister Sevens and when we last saw him, he was being savagely beaten by a murderous monster known as Sno...

Where do thousands of people in wigs, jumpsuits and fake Priscilla eyelashes go each January to swelter in 42-degree heat as they celebrate The King?Parkes, of course 365 kilometres west of Sydney for the annual Parkes Elvis Festival. But how, and why, did this sleepy town get all shook up by Elvis?Written by two long-time fans of the festival, Outback Elvis introduces the local characters, the lookalikes, the impersonators and the tribute artists and the town that...

'They're outside. Even if you write down what I tell you and you get the world to read the book, I don't think they'll be bothered. They're not frightened of the truth. What hope have we got?Chaotic, fast, and furious, Zero is the new play from multi award-winning Theatre Absolute. Written by Chris O'Connell, the play is an explosive and anarchic stare at the ethics of torture, and the curse of censorship.Twenty years from now, in the face of a feast of unabated ni...