It has been well-established that many of the injustices that people around the world experience every day, from food insecurity to unsafe labor conditions and natural disasters, are the result of wide-scale structural problems of politics and economics. These are not merely random personal problems or consequences of bad luck or bad planning. Confronted by this fact, it is natural to ask what should or can we do to mitigate everyday injustices? In one sense, we answer this question when w...

This book offers historical and contemporary international analysis of fraud and corruption in sport, including a diverse range of cases from the sporting world including football, cricket, horse racing and boxing.

Hi, my name is Valentine.Well, it's Valentine Maria Sofie Brooke… the First. Now, my life isn't exactly what you would call normal. I live in a palace out in the middle of nowhere. It's a great place to be in. But, it gets lonely at times. I come from a long line of royalty. My dad's a king and he is also the deadliest creature on the face of the Earth. Overall, he's a pretty nice guy, though. Some people say that I am a pretty girl. I don't really think that's true. I think they j...

9.0/10 — The BookLife Prize“The prose balances emotion with a grittier edge, while natural character exchanges give the relationships credibility. Brooks varies the pacing effectively, with certain chapters unfolding with the immediacy of film scenes.”— The BookLife PrizePhotographer Austin Roberts and his friend Helen Ramirez set out on a road trip, leaving their small East Texas town for New York City. In Brooklyn, they open a photography...

Times are changing at historic house museums and no one is more aware of this than the fourteen contributors to Interpreting Historic House Museums. These respected museum professionals consider the history of house museums and the need to look at familiar issues from new perspectives and using new methods. If your site isn't using a comprehensive interpretive plan, how can you create one? While doing so, how do you address contemporary issues like race and gender? Don't forget the physica...

An accessible introduction to cybersecurity concepts and practicesCybersecurity Essentials provides a comprehensive introduction to the field, with expert coverage of essential topics required for entry-level cybersecurity certifications. An effective defense consists of four distinct challenges: securing the infrastructure, securing devices, securing local networks, and securing the perimeter. Overcoming these challenges requires a detailed understanding ...

For many of the women who visit The Club, no-strings excitement is exactly what they are looking for and what they get. For others, however, with emotions running high, one night of sex changes their lives in ways they couldn't have imagined.For Lou, her weekly visits enable her to set aside her shyness and loneliness and feel intimacy, however briefly. Kath, who cares for her mother at home, finds The Club a welcome escape from her everyday toil; while Max needs distraction from h...

"Petals Plucked from Sunny Climes" by A. M. Brooks is a captivating exploration of the human experience, weaving together themes of love, loss, and the beauty of nature. The narrative unfolds through vivid imagery and poetic language, inviting readers to immerse themselves in a world where emotions bloom like flowers. Brooks' ability to capture the essence of fleeting moments and the intricacies of relationships makes this work a poignant reflection on life’s transient beauty, encouraging ...

In this book, Robert A. Brooks and Jeffrey W. Cohen provide a concise, targeted overview of the major criminological theories to explain the phenomenon of school bullying, bringing to life what is often dense and confusing material with concrete case examples. Criminology Explains School Bullying is a valuable resource in criminology or juvenile delinquency classes, as well as special-topics classes on school violence, bullying, or the school-to-prison pipeline. Charts, critical t...

Ambition is not the problem. Our failure to understand it is.It is the most fundamental human force there is. The desire to make tomorrow better than today. The energy that builds things, changes things, and creates the future.The problem is that most of us never examine it. We let it run, driving us forward toward destinations we chose without thinking, at a speed that leaves no room for questions.Life Force, the first part of Ambition, be...

After losing her parents at a young age, Lily Adams was taken in by her father’s best friend, Ethan—a man of few words and unshakable loyalty. In the quiet shelter of his home, she found a sense of safety she never questioned. Years later, now grown and chasing dreams that no longer feel like hers, Lily returns to the place she once called home. But Ethan isn’t the same. Time has weathered his smile, and something unspoken hangs in the air between them.What begins as a gentle reunio...

The Border is a racy drama set against the backdrop of southern Africa’s border wars in the 1980’s. This is a tale of intertwined lives; hatred, trauma and the horror of war forcing each to strangle some sense, some purity out of the world they now find themselves in while teetering on the border of their own sanity. An ordinary soldier fights for survival. A family torn apart by the brutality of war. Two women’s struggle to overcome the horrors they have experienced at the hands of the te...