Substance misuse and its pervasive problems is a constant challenge for social work, health and related professionals today. With heightened political and policy emphasis on all aspects of substance misuse, it is paramount that professionals remain up-to-date on current issues and their responsibilities. Based on research and evidence, this book provides a sound basis for grounded and innovative practice.Leading international contributors outline holistic and specialist approaches ...

The motivation behind this important volume is to weave together two distinct, but we think complementary, traditions – the philosophical engagement with race/whiteness and Buddhist philosophy – in order to explore the ways in which these traditions can inform, correct, and improve each other. This exciting and critically informed volume will be the first of its kind to bring together essays that explicitly connect these two traditions and will mark a major step both in understanding race ...

All's fair in love and war . . . until you set up the man you love with another woman.The realization that you've fallen for your best friend is, for me, pretty scary.It's not that Reid is all the way in the stratosphere out of my league, it's more like I want to get it together so I'm not the one who feels so inadequate.But when I take ten steps forward, I'm shoved twenty steps back and left wondering if we'd be a good match in the end. And I want ...

Detective's Dossier: 46 Classic Novels for the Crime Story Lover offers an intricate tapestry of mystery and intrigue, capturing the evolution of the detective genre. This anthology encompasses a wide array of literary styles, ranging from the cerebral deductions familiar to golden-age crime aficionados to the pulse-quickening chase scenes of more contemporary thrillers. Across its pages, the reader encounters timeless puzzles and morally complex narratives, each contributing to a broader ...

Our 85th issue is quite the treat—three original tales by three top authors, a time-travel story, a fantasy bar story, two novels, and more! I leave it to you to explore this issue and find out what’s what, which is whose, and whodunit. (Or did they?) It’s a fun issue and one of our best.Acquiring Editor Barb Goffman is still on leave (she’ll be back in May), so again Michael Bracken is filling in for her. And we hope to have a new selection from Acquiring Editor Cynthia Ward short...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE • A gripping return to Gilead, The Testaments exposes the regime’s inner decay through the intersecting stories of three women whose choices could ignite its downfall.Now a Hulu Original series starring Ann Dowd, reprising her role as Aunt Lydia, Chase Infiniti as Agnes, and Lucy Halliday as Daisy.The Testaments can be read on its own or as a sequel to Margaret Atwood’s classic,

Black Cat Weekly #86 features 3 original stories: a sequel to Edgar Allen Poe's "The Casque of Amontillado" by Phyllis Ann Karr, and mysteries by K.L. Abrahamson and Andrew Welsh-Huggins. Plus series stories from Robert E. Howard (Solomon Kane) and Hal Meredith (Sexton Blake). Plus novels from Zenith Brown (writing as David Frome) and Edgar Rice Burroughs (a "Lost World" tale).. Plus tales by Bryce Walton and George O. Smith. Plus a solve-it-yourself mystery from Hal Charles. Hour...

All six episodes of the gloriously gritty comedy crime dramaTaggart meets A Touch of Cloth in this parody police procedural featuring DI Bob Boxer and his sidekick DC Shona Doberman. They're an unlikely couple of cops - he's grizzled, old-school and wears a cardigan; she's young, instinctive and wields a Blackberry. But together they tackle cases so tough, they'd make Frost flinch and Rebus run away...In Headless in Glasgow, a ser...