Alike in many aspects of their histories, Australia and the United States diverge in striking ways when it comes to their working classes, labor relations, and politics.Greg Patmore and Shelton Stromquist curate innovative essays that use transnational and comparative analysis to explore the two nations’ differences. The contributors examine five major areas: World War I’s impact on labor and socialist movements; the history of coerced labor; patterns of ethnic and class identifica...

Consumer co-operatives provide a different approach to organizing business through their ideals of member ownership and democratic practice. Every co-operative member has an equal vote regardless of his or her own personal capital investment. The co-operative movement can also be an important force in promoting development and self-sufficiency in poorer areas, particularly in non-industrialised countries.This book explores in depth the fortunes of the Berkeley Consumer Co-operative...

Co-operatives provide a different approach to organizing business through their ideals of member ownership and democratic practice. Every co-operative member has an equal vote regardless of his or her own personal capital investment. The contemporary significance of co-operatives was highlighted by the United Nations declaration of 2012 as the International Year of Co-operatives.This book provides an international perspective on the development of co-operatives since the mid-ninete...

Toric's Dagger is just another religious relic.Until it's stolen.Twins Belwynn and Soren lead a team tasked with its retrieval. Drawn into a world of danger and treachery, they must rely on Soren's magical abilities, and on the telepathic bond they share.Now, as kingdoms and empires start to fall, the twins confront the dark forces that threaten them. They must not let the Dagger fall into the wrong hands. But when mercenar...

By the good offices of Riptide Publishing, KJ Charles' new entertainment:Wanted, a Gentleman, or Virtue Over-Rated.The grand romance of Mr. Martin St. Vincent - a merchant with a mission. Also a problem, Mr. Theodore Swann - a humble scribbler and advertiser for love.Act the first: the offices of the Matrimonial Advertiser, London, where lonely hearts may seek one another for the cost of a shilling.Act the second: a pursuit to Gretna Green ...

I’m used to demons and voodoo.What I was not prepared for was my life turning into a fairytale, complete with the Wicked Step Mother.My awful step mother is the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans. She’s always hated me for being a Succubus. It just got a hundred times worse after my father died mysteriously. I inherited the family company, but I can’t remove her as VP because she’s made the entire board into her zombies. After another board meeting goes her way instead of mine, I decide to...

Escape to the magic of the Regency era in this best-selling series! The Series of Elements follows the Ashbury triplets you adored in the Loring-Abbott series on their own journeys to find their happily-ever-afters. Join the adventure as the triplets Fire, Wind and Ice finally meet their matches, then continue on with their Descendants!When two people have walked through fire, can love bring the healing and help they need?Spurned b...

**The explosive first novel in the Hidden Norfolk series from the million-copy bestselling British author, JM Dalgliesh.The darkest secrets often hide in plain sight…**When a body is found on a lonely cliff top path, the angelic face of a murdered teenager lies facing the rising sun. Strangled by the hands of an unknown killer, it falls to DI Tom Janssen and his fledgling team to find out how she came to be there. Destined for a career in medicine, one to rival tha...

Bolivar’s Sword is the fabled weapon of the greatest hero of the Krykker race.And Rabigar needs it.There’s just one problem. Rabigar has been exiled from his homeland, never to return, on pain of death.Belwynn has escaped from the clutches of Ishari. But her brother Soren, and her friends, have not been so lucky. Who will help her in a rescue attempt that seems certain to fail?Meanwhile, the armies of Ishari are on ...

Jason has spent 3,000 years looking for Helle. Now he has finally found her. Unfortunately, so has Sam …Ask Helle Madsen what she thinks about reincarnation and she’ll laugh in your face. Besides, Helle has other stuff to handle, what with her new, exciting job in London and her drop-dead but seriously sinister boss, Sam Woolf.And then one day Jason Morris walks into her life and despite never having clapped eyes on him before, she recognizes him immediatel...

The untold story of Bletchley Park’s key role in the success of the Normandy campaignSince the secret of Bletchley Park was revealed in the 1970s, the work of its codebreakers has become one of the most famous stories of the Second World War. But cracking the Nazis’ codes was only the start of the process. Thousands of secret intelligence workers were then involved in making crucial information available to the Allied leaders and commanders who desperately needed it.Using p...

Few remain to resist the implacable advance of the dark forces unleashed by Diis.In the ice wastes of distant Halvia, Rabigar must locate the spear of the legendary Giants.In the vast expanse of the Lantinen Sea, Soren must search for the lost race of the Asrai.In Kalinth, Belwynn must hold back the armies of the vengeful Lord of Ishari. As time runs out, she knows she must face her greatest test. Can she confront a god, and win?