Are you tired of people walking all over you and brushing you aside?Maybe, you struggle to be assertive and dominant in meetings at work, and you never get the respect and attention from your peers that you deserve.Maybe, you find it hard to approach women, take charge in relationships, and form deeper, more meaningful connections.Or, maybe, you simply lack self-confidence, and you are seeking out ways to feel more empowered and in control of your...

Graphic Lives is a series of highly engaging graphic novels for young people who may need counselling and psychotherapy. Each book introduces the difficulties faced by a teenage character and follows them as they travel on their therapeutic journey with a skilled and creative therapist. The key aims of these books are: to demystify counselling and psychotherapy so that it is more appealing and accessible to young people; to destigmatise emotional and mental health problems so that young pe...

This book is a thoroughly up-to-date treatment of all the available technologies for biomass conversion. Each chapter looks at the viability and implementation of each technology with examples of existing equipment and plants. In addition, the text addresses the economics of biomass processing. The book could also be used as a supplementary text for senior undergraduate courses on biomass processing.

DonovanWhat’s a little marriage of convenience between best friends?I’ve always worked hard to keep the friendship line firmly in place when it comes to Eric. I’m gay, and he’s straight. We’re best friends and nothing more. But he’s my person, and there’s nothing I wouldn’t do for him. Which is why when I find out he’s struggling financially and doesn’t have medical insurance, I blurt out six friendship-altering words: I want you to marry me.

Not every fairytale has a happy ending…do you dare to dive into the dark depths of your favorite childhood stories?This spine-chilling anthology weaves together real fairy tales cultures across the globe, unmasking the eerie and unsettling narratives that have been whispered through generations. From the chilling depths of the classic Brothers Grimm's from Germany to the haunting tales of Japan, Philippines, Russia, Inuit folklore and more.Not meant for the...

A collection of autobiographical, fantastical and odd essays, short stories and columns, it's rites of passage narrative is unsettling, upsetting, darkly humorous and oddly uplifting, and charts a deeply personal course that, at times, it's audience will be intimately familiar with and instantly able to relate to.The central strand running through a lot of the book is punk, with the odd foray into science fiction.The second book from the fevered and over-wrought mind of Tim...

The first book in which people discuss their own spiritual emergencies and share what helped them through. Our authors are the experts of their own experience, and they share their wild journeys with courage, insight and poetry. There are fascinating parallels in their experiences, suggesting minds in extremis go to similar places. These are beautiful postcards from the edge of human consciousness, testaments to the soul's natural resilience. Our authors have returned from their descent wi...

All five series of Simon Evans’ BBC Radio 4 show explaining economics through comedyHow do you make money funny? How do you put the comedy in commodity? In this BBC radio show, Simon Evans sets himself the challenge of making economics entertaining through comedic lectures, with the help of special guests including investment gurus, financial journalists and economists.In Series 1 and 2, he examines the chequered social and economic histories of eight impor...

Liz: I’m an 18-year-old high school graduate who has just experienced my first...well, everything.I would give anything to hold on to Cooper, but we made a decision. After 30 hours of falling in lust, we’re parting ways. I’m starting college and can’t be distracted. Besides, he has his own life to get back to.Cooper: The moment I saw her, I knew she was the one, but what my heart wants, it doesn’t get.I know how life works. I’ve been fighting most of my life. My dad...

Not every fairytale has a happy ending…do you dare to dive into the dark depths of your favorite childhood stories?This spine-chilling anthology weaves together real fairy tales cultures across the globe, unmasking the eerie and unsettling narratives that have been whispered through generations. From the chilling depths of the classic Brothers Grimm's from Germany to the haunting tales of Japan, Philippines, Russia, Inuit folklore and more.Not meant for the...

A wildflower alone is all the more beautiful for the barrenness from which it grows. A single note more glorious for the silence around it.She is a void, the empty balance of magic.When the Grand Vizier seeks to humiliate a man who has crossed him, a woman of the humblest origins becomes entangled in political webs far beyond her understanding, and bound into a marriage she cannot escape. She does not know who is an ally, and who is an enemy. But she does k...

"All magic is beautiful...and terrible. Do you not see the beauty in yours, nor the terror in mine? You can stop a heart, and I can stop your breath."She is heir to a Sultanate that once ruled the world. He is an unwanted prince with the power to destroy. She is order and intellect, a woman fit to rule in a man's place. He is chaos and violence and will stop at nothing to protect his people.His magic answers hers with shadow for light. They need each other,...