Turn a dusty old van into your dream home on wheels—step by step, tool by tool, and screw by screw.Whether you're chasing weekend adventures, building a mobile office, or embracing the full-time vanlife lifestyle, Van Conversion Playbook is your complete roadmap from blank canvas to fully functional campervan.Written for beginners with big dreams and little experience, this hands-on guide walks you through every phase of a successful van build—from the very first sketch to ...

Over the past 20 years the global political economy has experienced its most profound shifts since the onset of the industrial revolution. In South Africa and the World, Mills Soko reflects on some of the salient issues that have pervaded public discourse during this time, analysing them within the context of the contemporary South African political economy and of the country's position in the world. Arranged thematically, the essays were all written during a defining period in recent hist...

"A Tyrant in the Classroom" is a compilation of 8 sexy and funny BL stories by Soko Ikeda.In the first chapter, A Tyrant in the Classroom, Kaido first recognized his student, Kaoru Ninomiya as a perfect doll-like top student that is loved by everyone.. Until he was suddenly forced to have sexual relations with him. But, why couldn’t Kaido resist from Ninomiya? And why did he feel pain when Ninomiya finally left after Kaido told him to stop?

"I really enjoyed the book's gung-ho style." - Simon Broughton— Songlines, London-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"Gleefully blunt." - Daniel Spicer— The Wire, London-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"This book is going to be mined for raw material by Balkan culturolo...

South Africa is facing an extraordinary ‘polycrisis’. The dimensions of this crisis include an energy collapse; a failing rail network; weak education outcomes; an interrupted water supply; and the effects of decades of endemic corruption that have brought much of government to a halt.But the country also has incredible assets: a wealth of sought-after minerals; an enviable Constitution that protects rights and advocates social inclusion; an advanced financial and services sector; ...

Born in 1964, Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh grew up in the midst of the Khmer Rouge’s genocidal reign of terror, which claimed the lives of many of his relatives. After escaping to France, where he attended film school, he returned to his homeland in the late 1980s and began work on the documentaries and fiction films that have made him Cambodia’s most celebrated living director.The fourteen essays in The Cinema of Rithy Panh explore the filmmaker’s unique aesthetic sensi...

This book examines the COVID-19 pandemic through socioeconomic lens that draw on history, approaches to state-market relations, and public policy perspectives In 2020, the world experienced the worst pandemic since the outbreak of the Spanish Flu of 1918, which continues to have far[1]reaching implications for the global economy and triggered macro-economic dislocations that severely affected the most vulnerable countries and segments of society. This book was conceived as a response to th...

A sequel to Tomita’s A Bibliographical Catalogue of Italian Books Printed in England 1558-1603, this volume provides the data for the succeeding 40 years (during the reign of King James I and Charles I) and contributes to the study of Anglo-Italian relations in literature through entries on 187 Italian books (335 editions) printed in England. The Catalogue starts with the books published immediately after the death of Queen Elizabeth I on 24 March 1603, and ends in 1642 with the closing of...

Through entries on 291 Italian books (451 editions) published in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, covering the years 1558-1603, this catalogue represents a summary of current research and knowledge of diffusion of Italian culture on English literature in this period. It also provides a foundation for new work on Anglo-Italian relations in Elizabethan England. Mary Augusta Scott's 1916 Elizabethan Translations from the Italian forms the basis for the catalogue; Soko Tomita add...

Everybody loves Novice to Master! As you'll see in the glowing endorsements and reviews included below, this modern spiritual classic has been embraced by readers of all types.In his singularly humorous and biitingly direct way, Zen abbot Soko Morinaga tells the story of his rigorous training at a Japanese Zen temple, his spiritual growth and his interactions with his students and others. Morinaga's voice is uniquely tuned to the truth of the condition of the human mind an...

Among the writings from the Dunhuang Caves, discovered in the mid-twentieth Century, are the Zen equivalent of the Dead Sea Scrolls--ancient texts unknown for centuries. The Ceasing of Notions is one such text. It takes a unique form: a dialogue between two imaginary figures, a master and his disciple, in which the disciple tenaciously pursues the master's pity utterances with follow-up questions that propel the dialogue toward ever more profound insights. And these questions prov...

Whatever’s happened before is in the past. Just do your thing.Don’t fight yourself, because that will make you more frustrated than anythingAt the end of the day, it’s the small gestures that speak the loudestOvie Soko won hearts all over the world during his time on Love Island UK with his openness and wise insights. Now, he has a message for everyone:YOUAREDOPE