Love songs and Hollywood romances make it all sound so simple: You find your soul mate, move in together, get married, never stray from the path of monogamy, and live happily ever after. But real life tends to be more complicated. Many couples pursue alternative living arrangements, and some even pursue alternative loving arrangements.The twenty-nine personal essays in this collection offer a variety of perspectives and experiences with nontraditional relationships and forms of coh...

Intellectual Frontiers in the Humanities and Applied Social Sciences – Volume 3 brings together interdisciplinary studies that explore philosophy, law, public administration, culture, and education through critical and contemporary perspectives. The volume highlights the connections between ethical reflection, institutional challenges, and social transformation in increasingly complex societies. The collection revisits philosophical debates on morality and human existence, while also exami...

As he announces his retirement, relive the story of one of the greatest to ever play the game - Rafael Nadal. This winning memoir, in Rafa's own words, gets to the heart of his major achievements on and off court, and is a fascinating insight into the making of a champion.'A winner' Independent'A terrific sporting memoir, full of memorable anecdotes' New Statesman

All Francis Fische has ever wanted is love and acceptance.His mother died the day he was born, leaving his father emotionally absent. Raised by a grandmother whose love comes with quiet control, Francis searches for something that always feels just out of reach.But life begins to change when he meets Mitch, a loud and reckless friend who pulls him from the lonely world he lives in. And when Mitch's cousin, Eve, enters his life, Francis experiences feelings he doesn't yet und...

Angels Before Man: Revised and ExtendedA Queer Retelling of Satan's FallIn an eternal paradise, the most beautiful angel, Lucifer, struggles with shame, identity, and timidity, with little more than the desire to worship his creator.It isn't until the strongest angel, Michael, comes into his life that Lucifer learns to love himself. Along the way, their friendship begins to bloom into something else. Maybe the first romance in the history o...

On a school sleepover at the museum, massive farts bring the dino exhibits to life! Now the powerful superhero Fart Boy and his friends must stop the rampaging reptiles—and his nemesis Professor Gravypants' evil plan—before it's too late. A hilarious sequel from the New York Times bestselling author of Mighty Dads.Fart Boy and his friends have found themselves in the midst of a dino-size disaster.Thanks to a potent combination of garbanzo beans and...

'If, like me, you're interested in what comes after the war, what sins and saints it begets, this is the book you want this year' C. L. CLARK'A dark fairytale of epic proportions' J.T. GREATHOUSE'A gothic love letter to high seas, deep love, and the epic stakes of a world at risk. The spirit of Poe infused with Samantha Shannon, and perfect for fans of both' R.R. VIRDI'The most beautiful book I have read in a very l...

Thirty seconds. One voice. A life undone.Michael Osei is a man of no particular consequence. Thirty years old, single, living in a small apartment with a squeaking ceiling fan and a habit of burning his toast. He works at a print shop. He walks the same streets every day. He is, by his own admission, quietly invisible.Then, on an ordinary Thursday in October, he hears a woman’s voice in a crowded market. Low. Unhurried. Warm in a way that bypasses the ears and goes...

Widely referred to as the "bible of stage makeup" and now in its 12th edition, Stage Makeup addresses principles and techniques in the use of makeup for the contemporary performer including new trends and allied fields.Stage Makeup is an extensive exploration of the application and use of stage makeup and allied performative venues. It covers all aspects in detail and contains over 2000 photographs, drawings, and diagrams demonstrating step-by-step procedures. Tho...

Some cases don't just cross lines. They erase them.Homicide detective Kyle Rodriguez left Brooklyn for a fresh start in South Florida. Lower rent, better weather, less blood. But when a predawn phone call drags him to Dania Beach, he finds something that makes the worst of New York look tame. The victim, a suspect in a string of child murders Kyle was days away from arresting, has been destroyed. Not stabbed. Not shot. Torn apart with a force that ...

Four books of the occult and other more everyday forms of female superiority over the male from the pen of Rafael Menton.CONTAINS:"A SHOCK TO HIS SYSTEM"; "A LONG AND PERMANENT FALL"; "ADHIRA KHATRI"; and "HIS CHINESE VENUS".Rafael Menton is a UK-based Professor of English Literature with a retro passion for the early to mid-twentieth-century fiction of mystery, crime, suspense, and horror & romance with erotic female-led undertones. Mr Menton’s literary tastes rang...

His eye, fixed in cold command upon the boy, compelled obedience. And the lad, more out of awe of that glance than out of any desire to contribute to the saving of Hogan, mutely consented to keep up this pretence. But in his soul he rebelled. He had been reared in an atmosphere of honourable and religious bigotry. Hogan was to him a coarse ruffler; an evil man of the sword; such a man as he abhorred and accounted a disgrace to any army—particularly to an army launched upon England under th...