The popularity and profile of African dance have exploded across the African diaspora in the last fifty years. Hot Feet and Social Change presents traditionalists, neo-traditionalists, and contemporary artists, teachers, and scholars telling some of the thousands of stories lived and learned by people in the field. Concentrating on eight major cities in the United States, the essays challenges myths about African dance while demonstrating its power to awaken identity, self-worth, ...

This book is addressed to “lovers of paradoxes” and we have done our utmost to assemble a stellar cast of Neapolitan and American scholars, intellectuals, and artists/writers who are strong and open-minded enough to wrestle with and illuminate the paradoxes through which Naples presents itself. Naples is a mysterious metropolis. Difficult to understand, it is an enigma to outsiders, and also to the Neapolitans themselves. Its very impenetrableness is what makes it so deliriously and irresi...

Comprehensive review of the effectiveness of particular agroforestry practices, from riparian forest buffers and filter strips, windbreaks and contour buffers to alley cropping, silvopasture and forest farmingSummarises current research on ecosystem services delivered by agroforestry, from promoting biodiversity and soil health to water quality and managementAssesses research on best practice in tree planting and management as well as optimising agroforestry produ...

OVER 4 MILLION COPIES SOLDA Showtime/Paramount+ series starring Ewan McGregor as Count Alexander RostovFrom the number one New York Times-bestselling author, a beautifully transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel'A wonderful book' - Tana French'This novel is astonishing, uplifting and wise. Don't miss it' - Ch...

THE INSTANT NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFROM THE AUTHOR OF RULES OF CIVILITY AND A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW'Deserves a place alongside Kerouac, Steinbeck and Wolfe as the very best of the genre' OBSERVER'An absolute beauty of a book. As soon as I finished it, I wanted to read it again' TANA FRENCH'Welcome to the enormous pleasure that is The Lincoln Highway . . ....

For fans of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's, this a witty, elegant fairytale of New York, set in 1938.In a New York City jazz bar on the last night of 1937, watching a quartet because she couldn't afford to see the whole ensemble, there were certain things Katey Kontent knew:· how to sneak into the cinema, and steal silk stockings from Bendel's· how to type eighty words a minute, five thousand an hour, and nine million a year

READERS LOVE GEMMA'S DARK, ITCHY WORLD 'If you are after something that is both shocking and horrifically beautiful then take a journey and discover this little atrocity for yourself' 'I kept telling myself I really should turn off the light and get to bed now, eyes dry, head heavy, but every sentence in this book commands the reader keep turning the pages and press onward...' 'Gemma pulled me...

Have YOU ever had a bad week? The hilarious new series taking the world by storm.He’s been naked in front of the whole school, survived a marooning, a kidnapping AND a giant sinkhole, and every one of these cringe inducing moments has gone mega viral! Justin Chase is having the WORST WEEK EVER!Time for nice relaxing weekend, right? WRONG! As Justin must face his spookiest challenge yet… zombies! No, really! And these aren’t just any zombies… he liv...

READERS LOVE GEMMA's DARK WORLD'If you are after something that is both shocking and horrifically beautiful then take a journey and discover this little atrocity for yourself'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'I kept telling myself I really should turn off the light and get to bed now, eyes dry, head heavy, but every sentence in this book commands the reader keep turning the pages and press onward...' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Gemma pulled me in wi...

Brought to you by Penguin.Two brothers venture across 1950s America to New York in the absorbing new novel by the author of the bestselling A Gentleman in Moscow.In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter.With his mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm forec...

Have YOU ever had a bad week? Start Monday with a bang in the hilarious new series taking the world by storm.His mum just married a vampire, his dad is driving a giant toilet on wheels, and his cat’s been abducted by aliens (probably). Justin Chase is having the WORST WEEK EVER! And that’s all before he’s even started his first day at a brand-new school.At least he has the perfect chance to show off his prowess in the swimming pool, right? Maybe not... As r...

All I want is peace and purpose. Instead, I get chaos in the form of a persistent cat and the hot volunteer who's supposed to be minding her.Every shift at the mall, I find this fluffy orange cat napping in our yoga pants. No matter how many times I return her to the pet adoption center, she comes back. Finn, the main volunteer, thinks it's fate. I think he's just trying to pawn this troublemaker off onto me.My life isn't nearly together enough to adopt a c...