The author of the phenomenally popular Modern Girl’s Guide to Life, Jane Buckingham is back with The Modern Girl’s Guide to Sticky Situations, a helpful handbook for surviving headaches, pickles, jams, and everyday emergencies. The president of the innovative marketing and media consulting firm Trendera and a regular contributor to Cosmopolitan Magazine, Jane Buckingham dispenses savvy solutions to life’s myriad little annoyances with warmth, great wit, and impeccable wisdom.Think ...

Suspense—Secrets—BetrayalsAn action-packed thriller that keeps you guessing until the endBoyfriend cheating? A bully wreaking havoc? A classmate plagiarizing? Don’t get mad. Get @Revenge. At Milford High, if you’ve got a problem, message @Revenge, and they will take care of it with an embarrassing public comeuppance. But when the school’s star basketball player falls victim to a dangerous prank orchestrated by Revenge, the consequences are ...

On February 28, 1905, Mrs. Jane Stanford died at the Moana Hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii of apparent strychnine poisoning.Was Stanford University's report that she died by natural causes a cover-up? Could it have been murder? Did her brother mastermind her death to collect his inheritance? Did the Stanford University president need to be rid of her? Perhaps her personal secretary was not as loyal as she appeared? Or did Jane Stanford choose to join her beloved late husband and son in th...

From the 1600s, enslaved people, and after abolition of slavery, indentured labourers were transported to work on plantations in distant European colonies. Inhuman conditions and new pathogens often resulted in disease and death. Central to this book is the encounter between introduced and local understanding of disease and the therapeutic responses in the Caribbean, Indian and Pacific contexts.European response to diseases, focussed on protecting the white minority. Enslaved labou...

In the wake of financial meltdown and environmental disaster, employers increasingly demand that managers have an understanding of ethical decision making, corporate social responsibility and values-based management. Business ethics is therefore increasingly being taught in business schools and is a rapidly developing research topic. Managing Responsibly explores the limitations of the thinking that dominates Western corporate and business culture. Contributors then draw on non-Western tra...

This book explores the impact of globalisation and new technologies on youth cultures around the world, from the Birmingham School to the youthscapes of South Korea. In a timely reappraisal of youth cultures in contemporary times, this collection profiles the best of new research in youth studies written by leading scholars in the field.

The Indian diaspora in Australia and New Zealand represents a successful ethnic community making significant contributions to their host societies and economies. However, because of their small number—slightly more than half a million— they rarely find mention in the global literature on Indian diaspora. The present volume seeks to remedy this oversight. Charting the chequered 250-year-old history of both the ‘old’ and the ‘new’ diaspora in the antipodes, the chapters narrate the stories o...