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Drinking in the Lincolnshire Fens is not Matt Crowther’s idea of a good stag night. But when you include the whims of a capricious child, the wrath of an American General, and mysterious games in a far-flung Indian restaurant, this promises to be an evening like no other. Throw in belligerent clowns, mutated tree frogs, hallucinogenic insects, pan-dimensional jellyfish, and an errant goat, and even Crowther might agree that he has taken a few too many drugs. But this is what you get on a n...

"With the birth of information theory and cybernetics in the late 1940s and early 1950s," writes John Johnston, "a decisive step was taken toward the immense techno-scientific transformation of the world into coded bits of 'information' and machinic assemblages." Beginning with Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49, the novels that have reflected this transformation have similarly assembled disparate bits of information and narrative into fictions saturated with data and transcrib...

If you asked her parents, teachers and psychiatrists, they would all say that Francis Kelly is a deeply troubled young lady. However, as far as Francis can see, this is unfair, as they are not that well-adjusted, either. But even she can recognise that things are not going well at home and school, and with friends like Billy Rowley, she could do without her numerous enemies. Thankfully for Francis, when you can manipulate time, your problems have solutions.

The day starts like any other, venturing into spider-bear territory to rescue Bennie’s sister.Turns out there’s a lot of space that the Peacekeepers don’t go near, go figure spider-bear territory is on that list.And that’s just the start of their adventure. Things get interesting, quick!By interesting, I mean horrifying of course.Their old friend Xarrix calls with a job. A job that sounds straightforward and easy. That shoul...

Hired to bring a tech team to a remote planet.They had no idea what was waiting for them.Wil and the crew of the Ghost show up to find a nearly deserted research outpost on a frozen world.Nearly deserted…Oh, and Maxim has been abducted and with the crew busy elsewhere there’s only one being who can rescue him, Bennie.What could go wrong? Will the crew of the Ghost reunite? Will they freeze on a desolate ice world?There are monsters in the ice...

The Rebel Yell gathers forty Civil War soldier memoirs into a capacious, often contradictory record of Confederate military experience. Ranging from formal recollection and campaign narrative to cavalry adventure, naval testimony, prison memory, and reflections on defeat, the volume illuminates both battlefield immediacy and the retrospective shaping of war. Accounts of major operations, irregular warfare, command, endurance, and home-front loyalties reveal the variety of literary register...

Fundamental Constructs in Mathematics Education is a unique sourcebook crafted from classic texts, research papers and books in mathematics education. Linked together by the editors' narrative, the book provides a fascinating examination of, and insight into, key constructs in mathematics education and how they link together. The choice of constructs is based on (some of) the many constructs which have proved fruitful in research and which have informed choices made by teachers.

Once the most deeply cherished book in English-speaking households other than Bible itself, John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress is the allegorical tale of Christian the pilgrim on his journey to the Celestial City. Along the way, Christian encounters both worthy companions and dreadful adversaries. Although this book was written more than three hundred years ago, this stirring spiritual narrative still bears the power to challenge and encourage readers on their own spiritual jour...

According to some estimates, at least 1.7 billion people do not have an adequate supply of drinking water and as many as 40% of the world's population face chronic shortages. Yet water scarcity is more than a matter of terrain, increased population, and climate. It can also be a byproduct or end result of water management, where the building of dams, canals, and complicated delivery systems provide water for some at the cost of others, and result in short-term gains that wreak long-term ec...

Winner of the Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson Awards: "Twenty insanely inventive, hauntingly atmospheric and flat out coo coo for Cocoa Puffs stories" ( Hellnotes).A World Fantasy Award nominee, "this anthology . . . is a collection of some of the most talented horror and speculative fiction authors writing today" ( BuzzFeed). It includes all-new stories by Laird Barron, Pat Cadigan, Brian Evenson, Jeffrey Ford, Caítlin R. Kiernan, Garth Nix, Mich...

This book provides a critical exploration and assessment of public sector innovation, challenging conventional assumptions about the ways in which innovation is generated and how it may succeed or fail.Focussing on the local level of public sector, the book systematically reviews the multidisciplinary nature of public sector innovation through an intersectional lens that considers mounting issues of public sector complexity, transparency, and accountability for innovative governanc...

JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. THE GOLDEN YEARS.From the bestselling masters of the classic Western comes a blazing new series that proves that old cowboys only get wiser, bolder—and crazier—with age …They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. But old cowboys? That’s a different story— especially when those cowboys are trail-hardened cattlemen like Casey Tubbs and Eli Doolin. When these longtime buddies learn that their bosses are getting out of the beefbusiness, they figur...