Transform Your Relationship With Tech (Without Breaking Things Off Completely)It’s no secret that we often use our tech mindlessly. In fact, digital innovations increasingly make it so that we barely need to think at all. Streaming services tell us what to watch next. Influencers tell us what to buy next. The GPS tells us where to turn next. But the more we allow algorithms, apps and artificial intelligence to guide our behavior, the less control we have over who w...

Part folklore, part adventure and part fantasy, Alan Garner’s Elidor is a modern children’s classic. When Roland opens a door in a derelict church, he unleashes the wonders of Elidor and the grave challenges that this troubled world presents. Drawing on Welsh, Irish and English mythology, the book chronicles the trials and hardships of a group of young teenagers as they attempt to fulfill a prophecy from another world, and fight a terrible evil.

Experience The Resurrecter, a slow-burn supernatural thriller that builds from a deceptively quiet beginning to a shocking, twist-filled conclusion you’ll never see coming.“Stay away from the cemetery.” Five years ago, Mandy Carter received that warning from her friend Zeke. Even after Zeke disappeared from her life, she always followed his cryptic advice. Who wants to wander around in a graveyard, anyway?Then a chance meeting brings Mandy and Zeke...

This book tells a new story of the royal castle of Lincoln in the north of England, how it was imposed on the late Anglo-Saxon town, and how it developed over the next 900 years in the hands of the English king or his aristocratic associates, leaving us a surviving monument of three great towers, each with its own biography. Led by FAS Heritage, archaeologists, architectural historians and a large cohort of the general public have combined to produce a revealing and accessible account of t...

How the World Listens explores our everyday and professional interactions with sound. The book aims to uncover the human relationship with sound across the world and to reveal practical ways in which a better understanding of listening can help us in our daily lives.This book asks how sound is perceived, expressed, and interacted with in both remarkably similar and dramatically different ways across the world. Using findings from a new scientific study, conducted exclusive...

Now hard to believe, Eilean Donan Castle was once one of the largest castles in the west Highlands, known to have featured seven towers, the remains of which lie buried on the island. This book provides a refreshed view of the lost medieval guise of the castle, of its 13th-century origins and form, and of who was responsible for building it, allowing the castle to be positioned accurately in the complex dynamics of powerholding and display of the earls of Ross and associated militarized ki...

From the dimly lit bars of Columbus,Ohio to the glittering light of Las Vegas, “Vida Nocturnal” is an evocative and deeply personal memoir of Jonathan “JB” Blackwell, who navigates his tumultuous life with equal parts charm and self-destruction.Baker, a young black man, finds himself caught in the nocturnal world of bars and nightclubs, donning the roles of manager, bartender, and therapist- the “whatever-is-needed” guy. Amidst the haze of alcohol, drugs, easy money and casual rela...

DON'T LET YOUR WRITING HOLD YOU BACK.When you're fumbling for words and pressed for time, you might be tempted to dismiss good business writing as a luxury. But it's a skill you must cultivate to succeed: You'll lose time, money, and influence if your e-mails, proposals, and other important documents fail to win people over.The HBR Guide to Better Business Writing, by writing expert Bryan A. Garner, gives you the tools you need to express ...

From the dimly lit bars of Columbus,Ohio to the glittering light of Las Vegas, “Vida Nocturnal” is an evocative and deeply personal memoir of Jonathan “JB” Blackwell, who navigates his tumultuous life with equal parts charm and self-destruction.Baker, a young black man, finds himself caught in the nocturnal world of bars and nightclubs, donning the roles of manager, bartender, and therapist- the “whatever-is-needed” guy. Amidst the haze of alcohol, drugs, easy money and casual rela...

Alan Garner’s exciting and atmospheric tale of magic and evil which began with The Weirdstone of Brisingamen continues with The Moon of Gomrath. Colin and Susan are not safe from the evil Morrigan and once more find themselves back in Fundindelve with the wizard Cadellin.

After hearing scratches in the attic, Alison discovers a dinner service covered in an intriguing floral owl pattern, and a series of events are set in motion that will change her life forever. Alison, her step-brother Roger and Welsh boy Gwyn are forced into a cyclical replay of the tragic Welsh legend of Blodeuwedd, in which a woman is turned into an owl as a punishment for betraying her husband. The Owl Service is a fabulous, multi-layered book of mystery and suspense, but also a contemp...

‘The heart of the magic was sealed with Firefrost, the Weirdstone of Brisingamen … should Nastrond destroy the stone, then the magic will die away.’ When Colin and Susan are pursued by eerie creatures across Alderley Edge, the Wizard Cadellin Silverbrow takes them to safety deep in the caves of Fundindelve. Here he watches over the enchanted sleep of one hundred and forty knights, awaiting the fated hour when they must rise and fight. But the Weirdstone of Brisingamen is lost and the force...