Born in a mainly working-class area of North Tyneside in 1951, Gordon Sumner would become one of the world’s best-selling music artists. Known professionally as Sting, he was the lead singer for the band The Police from 1977 to 1984, before launching a hugely successful solo career. The foundations of Sting’s creativity and drive for success were established in the region of his birth, with vestiges of his ‘Northern Englishness’ continuing to emerge in his music long after he left the area...

The billionaire predators of Silicon Valley always get what they want.Now someone is giving them what they deserve."Fans of Michael Crichton... will be hooked." - Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)"Daring, exciting, and utterly unpredictable." - Kathy Wang, author of Imposter SyndromeJournalist Lou McCarthy has spent her career exposing powerful predators in Silicon Valley....

LLIAM, which groceries should I buy?LLIAM, should I apply for that promotion?LLIAM, should I kill my wife?LLIAM's AI-generated answers power society - but today, he went offline. Stocks fell, stores shuttered, planes were grounded. And Kaitlan Goss, CEO of LLIAM's parent company StoicAI, has to fix it.Then the letters arrive: identical white envelopes on every continent, containing people's darkest secrets - affairs, family secrets, ...

*A Guardian crime and thriller book of the year for 2025**A New Scientist best new science fiction book of November 2025*LLIAM, what do I want for dinner?LLIAM, how can I get a better job?LLIAM, should I kill my husband?'Superb.' Guardian'An absolute belter.' Sarah Pinborough'Clever, fast-paced, and deeply unsettling.' Guy Morpuss, author...

A 2020 SPE Outstanding Book Award Honorable MentionMany people believe that “education” has a disproportionately negative effect on them and those close to them. With so much wealth, technological prowess, innovation, and economic development, why do we still have marginalization, social inequalities, conflict, mass incarceration and generational poverty?The connection to democracy, Ed...

The billionaire predators of Silicon Valley always get what they want.Now someone is giving them what they deserve."Fans of Michael Crichton... will be hooked." - Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)"Daring, exciting, and utterly unpredictable." - Kathy Wang, author of Imposter SyndromeJournalist Lou McCarthy has spent her career exposing powerful predators in Silicon Valley. Her crusade has cost her everything: Her apartment, friends, relationships, and any h...

What does it mean to evoke a sense of home through song, or intentionally utilize nostalgia in songwriting?This book explores a neglected aspect of scholarship surrounding the study of song-its relationship with nostalgia and notions of 'home,' in the broadest sense. Each essay in this collection studies these factors from the perspective of 'production', 'text' and 'reception,' either individually or in combination. Making use of frameworks such as Marxism, critic...

Are you a writer yearning to see your book among the top bestsellers/ Do you dream of someday seeing your name on the big screen following the words “based on the book by…” Is writing a book something you have on your “bucket list”?  These may seem lofty images—especially if your ideas are still brain-bound and you’ve yet to put pen to paper or log on to your computer. Or perhaps your manuscript is done and it’s buried beneath a pile of rejection slips ...

Anyone who is touched by public education – teachers, administrators, teacher-educators, students, parents, politicians, pundits, and citizens – ought to read this book, a revamped and updated second edition. It will speak to educators, policymakers and citizens who are concerned about the future of education and its relation to a robust, participatory democracy. The perspectives offered by a wonderfully diverse collection of contributors provide a glimpse into the complex, multilayered fa...

This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2013.There is a widespread, but mainly untenable, assumption that education in Western societies (and elsewhere) intuitively and horizontally aids the democratic development of people. An argument could be made that in contemporary liberal democracies, education was never designed for the well-being of societies. Instead of the full inclusion of everyone in educational de...

What is the meaning of peace, why should we study it, and how should we achieve it? Although there are an increasing number of manuscripts, curricula and initiatives that grapple with some strand of peace education, there is, nonetheless, a dearth of critical, cross-disciplinary, international projects/books that examine peace education in conjunction with war and conflict. Within this volume, the authors contend that war/military conflict/violence are not a nebulous, far-away, mysterious ...

As the title of this book suggests, how we understand, perceive and experience democracy may have a significant effect on how we actually engage in, and with, democracy. Within the educational context, this is a key concern, and forms the basis of the research presented in this volume within a critical, comparative analysis. The Global Doing Democracy Research Project (GDDRP), which currently has some 70 scholars in over 20 countries examining how educators do democracy, provides the frame...