Once in a great while, as the New York Times noted recently, a naturalist writes a book that changes the way people look at the living world. John James Audubon’s Birds of America, published in 1838, was one. Roger Tory Peterson’s 1934 Field Guide to the Birds was another. How does such insight into nature develop?Pioneering a new niche in the study of plants and animals in their native habitat, Field Notes on Science and Nature allows readers to...

The complete secret correspondence of one Miss Elizabeth Bennet, and another, Mr Fitzwilliam Darcy, during quarantine lockdown of 1812; she from the confines of Hunsford Parsonage with the Collinses, he within the bounds of Rosings Park, with his Aunt, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Cousin Anne and Colonel Fitzwilliam. As months pass, our esteemed couple-to-be unleash themselves with greater familiarity as tensions rise, old antipathies come to a head and feelings can no longer be restrained.

The complete audio play of Charles Dickens' glorious festive classic 'A Christmas Carol.' Ebenezer Scrooge is spending Christmas Day alone, in his Counting House, as usual. Or so he thinks. After decades of generally being rather a mean old misery, he’s built up quite an escrow of karmic debt. Enter the ghost of old Jacob Marley, our hero’s former partner in skin-flinting, who has arranged the opportunity of a lifetime for his friend; a visit from three different Spirits - Christmases Past...

A relentless bounty hunter. A reporter chasing the story of a lifetime. A warrior paying the price for every battle fought.These stories and more are featured in the third short story anthology for the System Apocalypse, continuing the saga of survival in a world transformed by the arrival of the System. Humanity has adapted to a new reality filled with Classes, magic and monsters, but the struggle for life, love and purpose never ends. This anthology brin...

While the COVID-19 pandemic overshadowed all else and would quickly have a lasting impact on our daily lives, other events related to the radical right in 2020 soon surfaced. From terrorist attacks in Germany and India to anti-mask protests across the U.S. and Europe, radical right violence escalated in the midst of circulating conspiracy theories and disinformation. The yearbook draws upon insightful analyses from an international network of scholars, policymakers, and practitioners who e...

What if you wake up tomorrow morning and realise that you do not see your reflection in the mirror, but everyone else does?Would seeking for your reflection make you less and less of what you really are? Maybe you would become more of something else. Something that would make you discover your true self, that the mirror has always hidden behind its reflection.In this story, your absence becomes its own character and will constantly alter, dealing with myste...