With more than 450,000 copies in print, When Helping Hurts is a paradigm-forming contemporary classic on the subject of poverty alleviation.Poverty is much more than simply a lack of material resources, and it takes much more than donations and handouts to solve it. When Helping Hurts shows how some alleviation efforts, failing to consider the complexities of poverty, have actually (and unintentionally) done more harm than good.But it look...

The Lunar Inspector is dead.Luke must urgently find the killer. But he's a wanted man himself...Nuclear fuel from Lunar Three has brought Earth's two superpowers to the table. For the first time in thirty years, peace is within reach.But rumors of a new bioweapon could spark war. The Moon has become the covert battle ground for a conflict bigger than anyone could possibly know…“Action-packed, with humor throughout, it had me from the f...

A wealthy man sells his last golden egg and wonders what to do next.The owner of a sculpture gallery insists that her date close his eyes before she takes her mask off.The secret masters of Hell debate popular culture.And eight more."What I've always loved about Brendan's writing is the headlong immediacy of it. This is important, it's happening right now, and you are going to pay attention."BL Sichling, creator of The Beauty of Poppies

The evacuation was a trap. The life rafts are sinking and their bodies are mutating. A new species is being born, in pain and confusion, in the midst of a vast ocean.Hidden from the world, their fate lies in Keala’s hands. But as she tries to reach the mainland, hunters discover her trail. They can’t allow the truth to escape…Meanwhile, across the waves stands a laboratory. Unmarked and unregistered, reports of its activities have been ruth...

She betrayed her family, her country, and her gods. Her only regret is not doing it sooner.Pabla was born of the forest, and her home is under attack. She's a skilled warrior, but the ancestral ways can't win a modern war. Her enemy won't stop until they've wiped every one of her kind out.Luke Remini is an under-developed man from an over-developed country. Crude, inept, and woefully misguided, he's the knight in whining armor that nobody asked for.

With contemporary approaches based on theory and the lived experience of dementia, Occupational Therapy and Dementia is written using an occupational justice lens. It examines how core elements of how occupational therapy may support the person living with dementia through valued activity in continuing engagement in their lives, sustaining their identity and sense of purpose. This edited collection critically analyses traditional thinking about dementia practice from over 40 contr...

A mutilated body in a shop doorway. Someone on the force wants the case buried.Still recovering from the crash that nearly ended his career, Irish DCI Brendan Moran is called to the savage murder of a young man. But when a Catholic priest is found dead in his own confessional, the case veers into far more sinister territory.As tensions rise and a fellow officer disappears, Moran uncovers signs of a disturbing cover-up—one that points straight back to his own department. And...

This book explores the emergent and internationally widespread phenomenon of precariousness, specifically in relation to the home. It maps the complex reality of the insecure home by examining the many ways in which precariousness is manifested in legal and social change across a number of otherwise very different jurisdictions. By applying innovative work done by socio-legal scholars in other fields such as labour law and welfare law to the home, Law and the Precarious Home offer...

A secret buried beneath the chapel. A killer who’s waited decades to strike.DCI Brendan Moran shouldn’t be back on duty. The Irish detective is barely holding it together after a crash that nearly killed him—when a body is discovered in the chapel at Charnford Abbey.The monks won’t talk. A centuries-old relic has vanished. And when another man turns up dead, it’s clear someone will kill to keep the past hidden.But Moran has problems of his own. A new sergeant who mi...

A missing woman. A vanished body. A village that closes ranks.DCI Brendan Moran heads to the West Country for a quiet break, but Cernham is no ordinary village. When one woman disappears and another is found dead—only for the body to vanish—Moran’s instincts won’t let him walk away.The locals are evasive. The woods press in. And as Moran digs deeper, he uncovers a troubling pattern of past disappearances no one wants to revisit. Meanwhile, back in Berkshire, his own team fa...