*SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2025*'Remarkable... entertaining... deft... moving... refreshing'Daily Telegraph'A richly rewarding account of a resonant cultural moment'Guardian'Textured literary portraits of the masculine mind and body'Raymond Antrobus, author of The PerseveranceIn 1960, James Baldwin...

'Maximum Vitality' reveals the invisible. Vital energy is the most important resource of all. High energy intensity brings health and a joyful, successful life. Our life energy can flow freely when blockages are dissolved. Resolving the most significant root causes of these blockages and entanglements, leads to faster personal growth. High energy intensity in the surroundings helps healing us and Earth. Dr. Ralf W. Otterpohl has over 30 years experience in geomancy and psycho-kinesiology a...

A small nation on the Baltic Sea. A history stretching back ten thousand years.Estonia is easy to overlook on a map, with a population barely over 1.3 million and a footprint smaller than many countries barely notice. Yet beneath its forests, medieval streets and more than two thousand islands lies one of the most resilient national stories in Europe.For centuries, Danish kings, German crusaders, Swedish monarchs and Russian emperors fought over this land. Armies marched ac...

A gang that shot their way across the West, looting and robbing, comes to an end by a campfire at the edge of the Badlands. As the consipirators go their seperate ways we get a view into how they're changed by the land, the people, the money, the cost their betrayal demands... What is the price of revenge? Discover how the post Civil War West comes alive in this study of character and villany and ultimately: humanity and redemtion under the big sky of the Old West.

A devastating novel of World War II and the final months of a war that forever darkened the souls of the civilians who lived through it – from the award-winning author of To Die in Spring.‘Shattering stuff, but Rothmann is tender towards his characters and this book is as memorable as his last.’ - The Times, ‘Historical Fiction Book of the Month’As the Second World War enters its final stages, millions in Germany are force...

What does it mean to be Irish? The answer is more complicated, more painful, and more remarkable than the shamrocks and pub sessions of popular imagination suggest.The Pride Series explores the identity of nations one country at a time, celebrating what makes each one unique while preserving the heritage that defines it. This volume turns to Ireland: a small island whose influence on the wider world has never matched its size, and whose story is one of the most dramatic in European...

'Smart, strange, coping with death through Light' Margaret Atwood'Extraordinary, wise, funny, adventurous' A. L. Kennedy'So utterly startling and inventive, it's almost an act of resistance' Miriam Toews'I couldn't put it down. A cult following seems certain' Literary Review'Refreshing as well as disconcerting to read a novel that sets aside convention so resolutely' Guardia...

'Ralf Webb's debut novel is a finely wrought interrogation of bisexuality, social class, art-making and obsession -- I read it compulsively'JESSICA ANDREWS, author of Milk TeethBounced back to his coastal hometown after university, a young man feels trapped by his narrow horizon and his brother's mental health crisis. Digging into his overdraft, he books a cheap room in Paris and escapes.There, while working shifts at a book...

This open access book explores how digital tools and social media technologies can contribute to better participation and involvement of EU citizens in European politics. By analyzing selected representative e-participation projects at the local, national and European governmental levels, it identifies the preconditions, best practices and shortcomings of e-participation practices in connection with EU decision-making procedures and institutions. The book features case studies on parliamen...

Roy & Al is the first English-language book by Europe’s most popular gay cartoonist, Germany’s Ralf König, whose collections have sold over 250,000 copies and have been translated into five languages. Roy & Al is a hilarious, erotically charged series of gay comics starring two dogs whose owners are dating. Al, a purebred, is rather fey, and treats the unsophisticated with disdain, while Roy, a mongrel, is coarser and more down-to-earth (and a tad overweight). Any similar...

The digital world opens up a vast number of spaces such as immersive virtual reality, digital book corners, and discourses marked by hashtags. In this volume, we argue that digital spaces and textualities should play a more central role in English language teaching and learning (ELT), emphasising their multimodal and interactive nature as a means of engaging with different layers of meaning in the target language. Digital spaces function as contact zones where readers and writers communica...

This research-based book takes an organization-wide perspective to describe the governance and governmentality for projects in organizations. Governance of projects defines and directs the ways managers of projects, programs, and project portfolios carry out their work. Governmentality is the way the managers of these managers present themselves to those they lead.Governance and Governmentality for Projects starts with introducing existing theories, models and paradigms for governa...