Throughout life, everyone has opportunities to experience some form and depth of love and romance, and most people have experienced, at one time or another, a broken heart. Love, Romance, and the Broken Heart is intended to be a deep expression of feelings that emanate from the heart of every human being and is also intended to illustrate the fragility of love in its human form. Love, Romance, and the Broken Heart is an outpouring of the soul, a probing of the mind, and an exploration of h...

Titles open doors. They cannot sustain trust, resilience, or character when the pressure gets real.In Strong CORE, executive advisor, leadership coach, and keynote speaker Christopher Thompson invites you into the work most leaders avoid: the inner work that shapes who you become while everyone is watching what you do.Drawing on more than two decades of coaching leaders across finance, healthcare, higher education, technology, and faith com...

Tracing the Origins of Digital Poetry Before the Web RevolutionFor the last five decades, poets have had a vibrant relationship with computers and digital technology. This book is a documentary study and analytic history of digital poetry that highlights its major practitioners and the ways that they have used technology to foster a new aesthetic. Focusing primarily on programs and experiments produced before the emergence of the World Wide Web in the mid-...

Graduate employability is a significant concern for most higher education institutions worldwide. During the last two decades, universities have attempted to implement their employability agendas to support their students to enhance employment outcomes. However, within today’s globalized labour markets, employability has gone far beyond the notion of obtaining stable and permanent employment. This book explores graduates’ experiences in developing and utilizing employability capitals for c...

It is common to hear heavy metal music fans and musicians talk about the “metal community”. This concept, which is widely used when referencing this musical genre, encompasses multiple complex aspects that are seldom addressed in traditional academic endeavors including shared aesthetics, musical practices, geographies, and narratives. The idea of a “metal community” recognizes that fans and musicians frequently identify as part of a collective group, larger than any particular individual....

Delaney is back! Chris Thompsons third novel is the long-awaited sequel to The Io Incident. Richard Delaney must return to Jupiter and face the unknown. What he finds is astonishing and more terrifying than anyone had ever imagined. A vessel of immense size and complexity emerges from the Jovian clouds. Crewed by machines that bring a messagea message that all life is about to become extinguished. Who can be trusted, and who must be sacrificed for the good of all? And why have they chosen ...

In Chris Thompsons second sci-fi novel, we find ourselves on the peace-loving world of Correlia, at the heart of the galaxy. The gentle existence of this ancient world is about to be torn apart by savage invaders bent on dominating a vast empire. Unable to defend themselves against the might of the warriors, the fate of Correlia depends upon a young scientist who has discovered the ability to traverse time itselfwith unexpected results! Can anything stop the galaxy from being plunged into ...

The long awaited fourth book from sci-fi author, Christopher Thompson is an exciting collection of eight mind-blowing stories into the unknown. Previously unpublished works including, Neutral Ground in which it is possible for people from anywhere in the world to meet through an ageing stasis system. The World That Wasn’t There, a mystery planet threatens the safety of Earth and those who go to investigate its sudden and unexplained appearance. Ghost Ship finds eighteenth century sailors e...

FOUR HUNDRED MILLION MILES FROM EARTH, Richard Delaney is in trouble. Disaster and chaos have befallen his first voyage, and now it is a fight just to survive. In the shadow of Io, he discovers that something else is going on!

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of According to Yes, the hilarious new novel by Dawn French. Read by Dawn French, Jennifer Woodward, Garrick Hagon, Christopher Thompson and Tom Judd.The Foreign Land of the Very Wealthy - otherwise known as Manhattan's Upper East Side - has its own rigid code of behaviour. It's a code strictly adhered to by the Wilder-Bingham family.Emotional displays - unacceptable.Unruly behaviour - definitely not w...

Brought to you by Penguin.A gripping novel set inside a cult, where the obedient daughter of the Pastor is the only survivor of a tragedyPerfect for fans of Louise O’Neill, Girl A and Good me, Bad Me by Ali LandA fire burns Abigail’s parents’ house to the ground. Takes her parents too.She’s the only survivor.The congregation of South Carolina’s New America Baptist Church rallies roun...

Based on the characters and universe created by Clive Barker.An all - new, original tale of Hellraiser.