"I found the book very interesting, and will consider it as a supplement for my graduate statistics course, Managerial Statistical Analysis. This book covers a number of topics that graduate students need, but which we currently do not cover in our present format, such as questionnaire design, validity and reliability."--Stanley A. Taylor, School of Business Administration,California State University, Sacramento"The author uses plenty of examples and the text is wel...

New! From Bloomsbury Spark, a sunny story of discovery and sisterhood.A road trip. A singing competition. And super-hot cowboys.What could be better?For Charlie, a post-high school road trip isn't just a vacation, it's life changing. While her parents think she's helping a friend move, a chance at fame is the real reason to grab her best friends and drive to L.A. But when her super annoying, uber-responsible, younger sister, Lucy, has to tag along, it isn't quite th...

NikoMy life is great. I love my job, have awesome friends, and a great family.Women love me, even if they know it’s just for a night.I always thought love at first sight was bullshit. Then she came storming into my life.She tore through my every rule, rocked my world, and knocked me on my ass.There’s only one problem...she lied.Turns out my best friends little sister isn’t so little anymore.Everly...

Tourism and Wellness: Travel for the Good of All? enhances academic understandings and analyses of tourism as a social and worldmaking force by situating broad questions of well-being, health, and equity within the scaffolds of critical tourism studies. Contributors touch on power and politics, space and place, reflexivity and relationships, values and affect, and inequality and equity as viewed through critically informed and social justice perspectives. This collection of cutting-edge, c...

This second issue of Heartlines Spec has poignancy running throughout. It's in the powerful stories that fill the space in your heart. The poems that grip your hand and whisper to you. The essays that lean forward, elbows on the table, to tell you something vital. It's a feeling of something that's not forlorn, not sad, not fluffy, but poignant—pain in the chest, funny flipflop heartbeat, and wistful smile with a shimmer of comfort.Editorial by Heather ClitheroeShor...

Be careful what you wish for…Lyra has always been ahead of the curve. Top of her class in school, a budding astronomer, and with a best friend like Darren she barely has time to miss the mother who abandoned her family years ago. She's too busy planning to follow in her father's footsteps, and to become the youngest astronomer at Space Exploration and Discovery.When a star goes missing Lyra is determined to get to the bottom of it only to discover her braniac dad i...

Wynona and her team are back...but she's not exactly happy about it.Wynona's sister, Celia, is at the top of Wynona's list of least favorite people.But when one of Celia's friends ends up dead...Wynona can't bring herself to let it go.Despite having a little sleuthing experience under her belt at this point, Wynona is completely out of her comfort zone as she's surrounded by the some of the most powerful witches in Hex Haven, trying to pretend she's...

He wasn't meant to be on my radar, he was definitely the off-limits guy.My brother's best friend, my friend's ex, but most of all he was my boss.Hawk Carnage resembled one thing, and one thing only. Sex.He used it, he knew it, he lived it. Hawk owned the largest lingerie company in the world, and I was his leading lady.In business.But now business and friendship were about to be crossed. The lines blurred, and I was ready to dip my toes in the forbid...

This romance from the author of Geekerella and Heart of Iron is the hilarious and heartwarming story of a classic-rock girl and a pop-star boy . . .America's favorite pop band, Roman Holiday, is done, dead, and so totally last year. For eighteen-year-old rockoholic Junie Baltimore, this is music to her ears. But when she discovers their sexy ex-lead singer hiding out on the boardwalk, her summer vacation becomes the cover story of the year.

The third installment of the Something So series.Max HortonThey call me an outcast like it's a bad thing.An asshole byproduct of a shitty upbringing. I don't care about anything except myself and my little sister. I will always protect what’s mine.With one year left on my hockey contract I'm keeping my head down and my eyes on the goal. A collision, with her, changes my entire existence.Allison GrantNever fall in love with a sports star....

For seventeen-year-old Bria Hale, image is everything. She's a militant vegan with purple hair, Doc Martens and a permanent scowl. Kissing captain of the football team Ben Harris? Definitely not part of that image.Now with each secret kiss, she's falling deeper for the boy every girl at Oceanside High is crushing on. Throw in a few forbidden bacon cheeseburgers and she's facing one major identity crisis.Ignoring Ben should be easy, but when a flashy display of artistic spir...

Baseball is life, the rest is just details.Everyone who’s played the game has heard those words a time or two. But Hancock has heard them his entire life from his parents. His family has lived and breathed baseball even before he started little league.Hancock “Parts” Peters has a name that inspires grins across many faces, but the moment those faces get their first look at him, those grins slide away.Hancock is gruff, filterless, and doesn’t give a crap who he offen...