Between Brothers is a poignant scientific drama about identical biracial twins whose lives diverge in heartbreaking ways. Kevin, a gifted athlete exploring his identity and choices, contracts AIDS, while Tevin, the academically driven brother on the path to becoming a biologist and medical doctor, is thrust into a desperate race against time. As Kevin's health declines, Tevin channels grief, guilt, and love into a relentless search for answers, determined to find a cure and honor his broth...

"The Last Heir" is an engaging and thought-provoking novel that delves into the world of corporate and family dynamics. The protagonist, the young woman, must navigate the complex and often conflicting interests of the family members, employees, and the community as she works to implement her vision for a sustainable future.The book explores themes of legacy, responsibility, and the power of one person's actions to bring about change. It also touches on the importance of balancing f...

Edinburgh, Scotland is one of Europe’s most breathtaking cities. With beautiful architecture, the city’s Old Town has ancient, labyrinthine cobbled streets and small alleyways. On the other hand, New Town has a happening shopping and nighttime entertainment scene. Edinburgh attracts four million tourists each year to the city’s famous festivals, city attractions and green landscapes.  In the past decade Glasgow has flourished and emerged as one of Scotland’s top tourist destinations. ...

Augmenting recent developments in theories of gender and sexuality, this anthology marks a compelling new phase in queer scholarship. Navigating notions of silence, misunderstanding, pleasure, and even affects of phobia in artworks and texts, the essays in this volume propose new and surprising ways of understanding the difficulty—even failure—of the epistemology of the closet. By treating "queer" not as an identity but as an activity, this book represents a divergence from previous approa...

The ‘quintessentially English’ Cotswolds is a gentle hilly countryside region of southcentral England. This popular tourist destination is spread over 790 square miles and is close to the cities of Gloucester, Bath, Oxford, and Stratford-upon-Avon. The Cotswolds has been designated an English ‘Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty’ (AONB) since 1966 and stretches across six counties (Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, Wiltshire, Somerset, and Worcestershire).  The Forest of Dean...

Ireland's capital city of Dublin is a thriving international centre of culture, music, food and nightlife. In Dublin you can drink Guinness at its source, bask in the splendour of ancient cathedrals and enjoy the lively spirit at a local pub in Temple Bar.  Cork is Ireland’s southern-most and largest county with lovely villages, verdant green hills and a varied coastline has rocky inlets.  On the west coast lies County Galway. The Connemara National Park and the west has mountain...

Leeds in West Yorkshire is one northern England’s largest cities. The city rose to prominence in the 19th century as a major hub of manufacturing and commerce.  Its importance during the Industrial Revolution brought jobs, people, and construction to Yorkshire, some of which exists today which gives the city great architectural character. Two hundred miles to the northeast of London is the medieval, walled city of York. The ancient city is located amidst the beautiful green moors and ...

The AIDS epidemic soured the memory of the sexual revolution and gay liberation of the 1970s, and prominent politicians, commentators, and academics instructed gay men to forget the sexual cultures of the 1970s in order to ensure a healthy future. But without memory there can be no future, argue Christopher Castiglia and Christopher Reed in this exploration of the struggle over gay memory that marked the decades following the onset of AIDS.Challenging many of the assumptions behind...

This bold, globe-spanning survey is the first book to thoroughly explore the radical, long-standing interdependence between art and homosexuality. It draws examples from the full range of the Western tradition, including classical, Renaissance, and contemporary art, with special focus on the modern era. It was in the modern period, when arguments about homosexuality and the avant-garde were especially public, that our current conception of the artist and the homosexual began to take shape,...

This bold, globe-spanning survey is the first book to thoroughly explore the radical, long-standing interdependence between art and homosexuality. It draws examples from the full range of the Western tradition, including classical, Renaissance, and contemporary art, with special focus on the modern era. It was in the modern period, when arguments about homosexuality and the avant-garde were especially public, that our current conception of the artist and the homosexual began to take shape,...

From humble beginnings Liverpool has become one of the United Kingdom’s most vibrant cities. Liverpool has changed for the better over the past decade. With new, state-of-the-art, city-centre shopping malls and flashy tourist attractions in Albert Dock, Liverpool is attractive and modern. The city of Manchester is located in the northwest of England, and is sometimes referred to as the second city of the United Kingdom. The city is known to millions around the world as the home of the lege...

Oxford is a beautiful and historic city in the south of England. With one of the world’s most famous universities, the city has no less than nine hundred buildings that are listed as having architectural or historical merit, and most of them are located within one square mile! The High Street has been described as the most scenic in Europe. Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire is a historic town on the river Avon. It is most well known as the birthplace of the English playwright and poet, W...