Realist Evaluation: Principles and Practice offers a comprehensive exploration of contemporary realist evaluation, showcasing how skilled practitioners navigate diverse fieldwork contexts.Authored by experts spanning academia and evaluation backgrounds across five continents in fields including climate change, criminology, health, and international development, the book provides a rich tapestry of perspectives. Covering participatory approaches, digital and visual data col...

Two pasts. One town. Zero room for the truth.Madalyn has spent years building walls—around her heart, business, and carefully controlled life in the snow-covered town of Snow Valley. But when Jamie appears, so does the heat she buried deep in the ice.Their union sparks more than feelings—it ignites secrets, and betrayal, and threatens to unravel everything.As hidden agendas come to light and new temptations twist what's real, Madalyn must decide: tr...

A story as dark as the narcissistic souls who have gathered together unfolds in a single, transformative night …Anna is on the brink of a revelation that echoes through the silver birch corridors of the infamous Narcissus Gardening Club. Tonight, she is ensnared in a dangerous game where alliances are as fragile as its members.The club comprises of peculiar combination of people, the members are affectionately nicknamed the queen, the princess, the general, fetch, the jeste...

Rather than juggling the two worlds of career and life, what if you could create a third alternative, your own, new, evolved world: one that works for you rather than against you? Breaking the Gender Code not only unpacks why women feel the constant pressure to keep so many balls in the air but also where this pressure comes from. In the process, this comprehensive and easy-to-read book:• reveals how the Gender Code unintentionally creates pressures, holds women back and limits pot...

The Stone Soup Annual brings together the complete versions of every issue of the magazine in 2017, in one publication. In addition to the year's eight edited collections of poetry, stories, art and reviews, the Annual includes bonus materials--blog posts, music and contests--from the year on our website, stonesoup.com. Contributing authors and artists are all aged 8-13 years.Stone Soup, the magazine by and for kids, has been in print since 1973, publishing the best in children's w...

What happens when the man I love to hate becomes the man I must pretend to love?I can’t seem to escape Thayden Walker and his infuriating charm.Even his mother and his Great Dane seem bent on playing matchmaker.But I’m totally immune.Until I'm presented with an offer that puts my ability to withstand him to the test.If I marry Thayden, all my student debt goes poof, and he'll take over the family firm.There’s so much more at ...

Stephen Fry narrates this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the famous Victorian comic novel.Orphan Becky Sharp and wealthy Amelia Sedley are best friends at Miss Pinkerton's Academy for Young Ladies. On leaving school, ambitious, social-climbing Becky looks for a rich man to support her, while the sweet-natured Amelia meets her old friend Dobbin, who is instantly captivated.Becky takes a job in the service of Sir Pitt Crawley, and uses her charm to hook his dashing so...

'A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life' This edition provides a clear and accessible introduction to Shakespeare's enduring tale of ill-fated lovers. Hannah August pays particular attention to the dramatic function of the famous prologue and the significance of the play's ending. August also explores ways of reading the play as a text that queries rather than validates the tenets of heterosexual romantic love, proving that at multiple points throughout the play's f...

This collection brings together history, science, philosophy and comedy to explore our age-old search for meaning. We live in an age of self-improvement and self-examination - lifehacking, wellbeing, self-care, mindfulness retreats - but this seemingly very modern phenomenon is a pursuit that dates back for millennia.Join comedian Robin Ince to explore how the ancient Greeks aimed to get happier, healthier and richer.Will Self asks some of Britain's key scientists, philosoph...

Multicast NarrationFive friends travel back to the 1990s to solve the brutal murder and disappearance of two of their high school peers in this thrilling debut novel from a promising new voice in horror—a murderous, nightmarish romp that is nostalgic, terrifying, and impossible to put down.Shop ’til you drop . . . deadColleen’s life feels as hollow as the abandoned Beechnut Mall—the 90s hangout where neon lights and endless...

Translation and the Arts in Modern France sits at the intersection of transposition, translation, and ekphrasis, finding resonances in these areas across periods, places, and forms. Within these contributions, questions of colonization, subjugation, migration, and exile connect Benin to Brittany, and political philosophy to the sentimental novel and to film. Focusing on cultural production from 1830 to the present and privileging French culture, the contributors explore interactions with o...

Adam Bede is the first novel by English author George Eliot, first published in 1859. The novel is set in the fictional community of Hayslope—a rural, pastoral, and close-knit community—in 1799. It revolves around a love "rectangle" among the beautiful but self-absorbed Hetty Sorrel; Captain Arthur Donnithorne, the young squire who seduces her; Adam Bede, her unacknowledged suitor; and Dinah Morris, Hetty's cousin, a fervent, virtuous, and beautiful Methodist lay preacher.