Social Justice and the Modern Athlete: Exploring the Role of Athlete Activism in Social Change is an edited volume in which editor Mia Long Anderson and various contributors identify and discuss athletes who have been at the forefront of social movements to lead change in distinct areas of society, including politics, gender equity, and mental health.Contributors analyze how this activism speaks to the impact that athletes can have on raising awareness and...

Ray Smith is a Canadian best-selling author who discovered his forte in science fiction, Ray Smith hits light speed with alien adventure and world espionage series. Shifts in Time goes beyond James Bond™, X-Files™, and Star Trek™ in a sci-fi saga that enters the fourth dimension and aims to unleash a superhero that the world has never seen. These alien shapeshifters race against time and themselves to save their planet and ultimately their species. Shifts in Time 1: The Escape is ...

Ray Smith is a Canadian best-selling author who discovered his forte in science fiction, this second book of his series, explores a hybrid alien boy who is half human. This young alien does not know who he is, nor what he is. He is a shapeshifter born on Earth but his father came from a far away galaxy. Time travel, espionage, and the fourth dimension adds an intense story line and deep developed characters. Be sure to pick up the next one in the series. 'Are you a Superhero'. The...

Primrose Primary has a new pupil - Mei Li, a friendly, but shy Chinese girl. Arabella invites Mei Li to her birthday party, but she fails to turn up. Then on a school visit, two horrid Chinese thugs try to kidnap Mei Li, but Arabella flies to her rescue and fights them off.Why are Mei Li and her family being threatened by a nasty Snakehead gang? What is really going on at Mr Ho's house? And are Arabella and her best friend Lucy, wonderful Great Aunt Agatha, and new pal Alex, embark...

At nine and a half, Arabella Parker is a quite extraordinary girl. For one thing she can fly, an ability that she seems to have inherited from her Great Aunt Agatha.Her parents, being terrible snobs, are more concerned with what the neighbours might think.Ghastly Lady Gilbert-Thomas, Chairperson of the School Governors, and her equally untrustworthy husband, Sir Sidney Gilbert-Thomas, Chairman of the County Council, want to sell the school so that a megastore can be built.