Book one of the Indigo Skies series...---In one slick move, Violet pivoted, pulling the gun from her ruined jeans & aiming it perfectly between the pack alpha's eyes. His yellow stare widened, freezing as quickly as the two men behind her."Underestimate me again & it will be at your peril," Violet spat.---A detective with a secret. Werewolf hitmen. An unintentional time traveller.& nobody to trust…I...

Rated as a top 10 book about the COVID-19 pandemic by New Statesman: https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2021/07/best-books-about-covid-19-pandemicEPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC- NDIt has been claimed that we are ‘all in it together’ and that the COVID-19 virus ‘does not discriminate’.This accessible, yet authoritative book dispels this myth of COVID-19 as an ‘equal opportunity’ disease, by showing how the pandemic is a syndemic of disease and i...

In 1888 the name Jack the Ripper entered public consciousness with the brutal murders of women in the East End of London. The murderer was never caught, yet film and television depicts a killer with a recognisable costume, motive and persona. This book examines the origins of the screen presentation of the four key elements associated with the murders – Jack the Ripper, the victims, the detective and Whitechapel. Nineteenth-century history, art and literature, psychoanalytical theories of ...

First Published in 2002. Environmental Physics is a comprehensive introduction to the physical concepts underlying environmental science. The importance and relevance of physics is emphasised by its application to real environmental problems with a wide range of case studies. Applications included cover energy use and production, global climate, the physics of living things, radioactivity, environmental remote sensing, noise pollution and the physics of the Earth. The book makes the subjec...

Winner of the 2026 Richard Titmuss Book Award.Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Health inequality has reached a crisis point. Your income or hometown can have a devastating impact on how well and how long you live. This injustice, exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic, continues as the cost of living rises and other sources of inequity grow. What can be done to make things better?This book, written by the authors behind the award-winning T...

Environmental Physics is a comprehensive introduction to the physical concepts underlying environmental science. The importance and relevance of physics is emphasised by its application to real environmental problems with a wide range of case studies. Applications included cover energy use and production, global climate, the physics of living things, radioactivity, environmental remote sensing, noise pollution and the physics of the Earth. The book makes the subject accessible to those wit...

Old flames burn the brightest in the dark...Georgina is on the trail of her troubled brother, but memories of the previous year still taunt her dreams. Trying to make it as a lone werewolf is harder than she'd thought possible. Especially with the claim of her former lover hanging over her & the contempt of male werewolves everywhere.Will she finally prove them wrong once & for all?Book Three of the Alpha Wolf series.

Wellness has become a mainstream concept, yet we have limited sociological understanding of how wellness functions in contemporary Western culture. Researching Contemporary Wellness Cultures is the first collection to bring together scholars examining wellness practices within various sociological sub-disciplines across and in related fields including anthropology, cultural studies, and internet studies.Investigating the growing field of wellness practices and practitioner...

If I die… If I turn into a wolf now… I won't find Nathan. & I'm not going to fail him after everything.I'm a strong woman. I can do this.Texas is the one place she never expected the temperature to plummet…Georgina won't give up without a fight. She's vowed to rescue her werewolf lover no matter the danger, but when she finds him are the flames between them still burning strong or has captivity turned him to another?And what other secrets w...

How dominant patriarchal structures permeated the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic—and women’s multiple and varied experiences of and resistance to these structures.Feminism and COVID-19 explores different but common themes related to women’s experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic. Julia Smith and Clare Wenham bring together a unique multicentered, multidisciplinary, and transnational author team, covering nine case studies from Bangladesh, Brazil, C...

Nationalism has recently been the focus of considerable interest, but relatively little is known about nation-building and competing identities in Spain and Portugal. In examining the roots of Iberian nationalism, and the conflicts and tensions which have come to the fore in the twentieth century, this timely collection offers a broad interdisciplinary base and socio-historical context through which to understand the region's nationalist challenges. Topics include:- how nationalism is cons...

This is what it is to survive. You find what floats and you hold on. Even if it is smaller than you.Holding on is all fourteen-year-old Stephanie Clare Smith can do when she’s left home alone in New Orleans during the summer of 1973. As she seeks to ease her solitude through her summer school algebra class, her wandering in the city, and her friendship with a streetcar operator, adults—particularly men—fail her again and again, with devastating consequences.Dreamli...