"The Last Heir" is an engaging and thought-provoking novel that delves into the world of corporate and family dynamics. The protagonist, the young woman, must navigate the complex and often conflicting interests of the family members, employees, and the community as she works to implement her vision for a sustainable future.The book explores themes of legacy, responsibility, and the power of one person's actions to bring about change. It also touches on the importance of balancing f...

Dripping Water is a poignant near-future novella about quiet resistance, community resilience, and the human cost of algorithmic governance. Set in a technologically advanced "breathing city" governed by artificial intelligence, the story follows Aria Venn, an urban planner fighting to implement a green corridor in neglected parts of the metropolis. Guided by the memory of her mother's bulldozed garden and the proverb "persistent effort can wear down resistance," Aria chal...

What happens when influence becomes currency, and vanity is more dangerous than violence?In the seductive, high-gloss world of modern celebrity, lives are curated in real time for public consumption. Followers are amassed like armies. Captions are crafted like poetry. But beneath the surface of filtered perfection, something much darker stirs. Like to Die is a psychological thriller that dives deep into the toxic intersection of technology, fame, and contr...

Morris and his two friends are garden hero's in this story of how they save a wilting flower patch. They learn through problem solving the best way to help the flowers recover. Team work allows each participant to bring their unique talents, skills and experience. Felicity fly fetches water in conical leaf cups she made. Morris the Worm, breaks open the dry ground allowing air and water to easily get to the flower roots. G-Slide Snail finds rotten fruit, which is broken up into smaller pie...

This bold, globe-spanning survey is the first book to thoroughly explore the radical, long-standing interdependence between art and homosexuality. It draws examples from the full range of the Western tradition, including classical, Renaissance, and contemporary art, with special focus on the modern era. It was in the modern period, when arguments about homosexuality and the avant-garde were especially public, that our current conception of the artist and the homosexual began to take shape,...

Augmenting recent developments in theories of gender and sexuality, this anthology marks a compelling new phase in queer scholarship. Navigating notions of silence, misunderstanding, pleasure, and even affects of phobia in artworks and texts, the essays in this volume propose new and surprising ways of understanding the difficulty—even failure—of the epistemology of the closet. By treating "queer" not as an identity but as an activity, this book represents a divergence from previous approa...

The ‘quintessentially English’ Cotswolds is a gentle hilly countryside region of southcentral England. This popular tourist destination is spread over 790 square miles and is close to the cities of Gloucester, Bath, Oxford, and Stratford-upon-Avon. The Cotswolds has been designated an English ‘Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty’ (AONB) since 1966 and stretches across six counties (Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, Wiltshire, Somerset, and Worcestershire).  The Forest of Dean...

Leeds in West Yorkshire is one northern England’s largest cities. The city rose to prominence in the 19th century as a major hub of manufacturing and commerce.  Its importance during the Industrial Revolution brought jobs, people, and construction to Yorkshire, some of which exists today which gives the city great architectural character. Two hundred miles to the northeast of London is the medieval, walled city of York. The ancient city is located amidst the beautiful green moors and ...

The AIDS epidemic soured the memory of the sexual revolution and gay liberation of the 1970s, and prominent politicians, commentators, and academics instructed gay men to forget the sexual cultures of the 1970s in order to ensure a healthy future. But without memory there can be no future, argue Christopher Castiglia and Christopher Reed in this exploration of the struggle over gay memory that marked the decades following the onset of AIDS.Challenging many of the assumptions behind...

This bold, globe-spanning survey is the first book to thoroughly explore the radical, long-standing interdependence between art and homosexuality. It draws examples from the full range of the Western tradition, including classical, Renaissance, and contemporary art, with special focus on the modern era. It was in the modern period, when arguments about homosexuality and the avant-garde were especially public, that our current conception of the artist and the homosexual began to take shape,...

Manx McCatty is a hard boiled feline detective prowling the back alleys of San Francisco in search of a killer ghost. With his mysterious friend, Fiddler, he searches through the foggy nights, tracking down a phantom killer who's leaving a trail of blood in his wake. As rumors spread that a mythical demon has emerged from the underworld, Manx comes whisker to whisker with a horrifying truth that may cost him his own life.

Challenging clichés of Japanism as a feminine taste, Bachelor Japanists argues that Japanese aesthetics were central to contests over the meanings of masculinity in the West. Christopher Reed draws attention to the queerness of Japanist communities of writers, collectors, curators, and artists in the tumultuous century between the 1860s and the 1960s.Reed combines extensive archival research; analysis of art, architecture, and literature; the insights of queer theory; and ...