Could lines like, "ooh it's hot in here" really get you laid? Christmas is over: the presents have been opened and tired of, the brandy had been downed and hangover is a distant memory. Sophie is alone with nothing but vat of posh hot chocolate, her right hand and a secret porn collection to keep her happy. It’s not that she doesn’t want to have sex, it’s just that the nice boys she meets aren't the type to pin her down and ravish her. When she does drag a boy home, she has fun toying with...

Verse drama is not a dead form, but very much alive on the contemporary stage. Drawing on plays from throughout the English-speaking world, including the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, and the Caribbean, Staging the Lyric seeks to explain the 21st-century resurgence of Anglophone verse drama, tracing it back to an experimental impulse that is present in the modernist verse drama of a century ago.Covering major writers including Derek Walcott, Seam...

How the original ELIZA chatbot transformed ideas about AI and society’s response to them.As we reach the 60th anniversary of ELIZA’s public debut, Inventing ELIZA offers the first comprehensive critical analysis of Joseph Weizenbaum’s groundbreaking chatbot system through the lens of critical code studies. Drawing on extensive archival research at MIT, Stanford, and UCLA, this book presents the rediscovered original source code of ELIZA alongside previousl...

Long considered ground zero for global climate change in the United States, Florida presents the perfect case study for disaster risk and prevention. Building on the idea that disasters are produced by historical and contemporary social processes as well as natural phenomena, Amanda D. Concha-Holmes and Anthony Oliver-Smith present a collection of ethnographic case studies that examine the social and environmental effects of Florida’s public and private sector development policies. Contrib...

Love, second chances and new beginnings…When Kim Reynolds learns how unhappy her daughter is, she realises the perfect remedy is a completely fresh start.Giving up the corporate job she’s worked towards her entire life, Kim is determined to make Berry Grove Bed & Breakfast a success, but more importantly, she’s determined to support her daughter Mia as she settles into her new life.But when Danny, Kim’s childhood sweetheart, turns up, buried feelings and a complic...

Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime to England.Discover popular and off the beaten track experiences from climbing the mighty Scafell Pike in the Lake District, to punting past exquisite architecture in Cambridge, and digging into platters of fresh seafood on the North Norfolk Coast.Build a trip to remember with Lonely Planet's

Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime to Great Britain.Discover popular and off the beaten track experiences from enjoying a dram at Talisker, Skye's oldest distillery; to roaming the honey-hued lanes and bridges in the Cotswolds' Bourton-on-the-Water; and exploring the Forbidden Corner at the edge of the Yorkshire Dales.Build a trip to remember

When Stisele of Imlen's royal cousin appoints her governor of a conquered province with brutal orders to enforce, in the hope that the locals will kill her, Stisele defects. Casting her lot with the people she was sent to rule, who are far more complicated and need her far less than she imagined, forces her to get over her vision of herself as a savior and to face what it really costs to turn on the nation and kin she used to serve.

Make all your middle schoolers confident and competent mathematicians with this book, your accessible guide to teaching math to every learner in Grades 6-8. Focused on knocking down roadblocks to learning, this reader-friendly resource shows you how to use multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS)—a powerful, widely adopted framework for meeting each student's individual needs. You'll learn how to deliver high-quality, evidence-based math instruction; combine your instruction with meaningful ...

In early 2012, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh claimed that Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown University law student who advocated for insurance coverage of contraceptives, "wants to be paid to have sex." Over the next few days, Limbaugh attacked Fluke personally, often in crude terms, while a powerful backlash grew, led by organizations such as the National Organization for Women. But perhaps what was most notable about the incident was that it wasn't unusual. From Limbaugh's venomous atta...

Northumberland, 1786Amid the upheaval of his newfound title, young Adam Boyce, now the Duke of Kielder, finds solace in the care of Robbie, his loyal nursemaid. Troubled by his past and bound by societal expectations, Adam finds his journey taking a hopeful turn when he’s welcomed into the embrace of Lord and Lady Jonquil at their esteemed estate, Brier Hill.Within the serene surroundings of Brier Hill, Adam and Robbie encounter Howard Simpkin, a charismatic gardener whose ...

Despite the velocity and scale of the cumulative changes of immigrant integration and receptivity infrastructures in fast growing regions of the United States, less research has focused on the new and evolving experiences in these regions in recent years. Editors Paul N. McDaniel and Darlene Xiomara Rodriguez and the contributors in Integration and Receptivity in Immigrant Gateway Metro Regions in the United States fill this gap through case studies of different types of immigrant...