Almost as soon as it was built, London suffered the first of many acts of violent protest, when Boudica and her followers set fire to the city in AD 60. Ever since, the capital's streets have been a forum for popular insurrection. Covering nearly 2,000 years of political protest, this is a riveting alternative history of past and present conflict.

Uncanny Histories in Film and Media brings together a stellar lineup of established and emergent scholars who explore the uncanny twists and turns that are often occluded in larger accounts of film and media. Prompted by fresh archival research and new conceptual approaches, the works included here probe the uncanny as a mode of historical analysis that reveals surprising connections and unsettling continuities. The uncanny stands for what often eludes us, for what remains unfamil...

Victoria's Madmen is the story of those who were outcasts by temperament and choice; the non-conformists of the Victorian Age. Clive Bloom's readable account of the dark underbelly of Victoria's Britain captures the unrest bubbling under the surface of strait-laced Victorian society.

Every bite you take could be a step toward health or a leap toward illness. The foods you consume daily might be more harmful than you realize, especially if you've recently been diagnosed with cancer. Continuing to eat unhealthy foods can fuel the disease, compromising your body's ability to fight back. It's time to make a life-saving choice.A cancer diagnosis is a life-altering event, but it also offers a unique opportunity to take control of your health like never before. By ado...

***One of TIME magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2024** A New Yorker Best Book of the Year*An eloquent and** intimate debut memoir about navigating the gap between expectation and reality in modern motherhood**.**I Cannot Control Everything Forever is Emily Bloom’s journey towards and through motherhood, a path that has become, for the average woman, laden with data and medical technology. Emily faces decisions rega...

After the success of The Monkey Goes Bananas, the silly monkey is back for another adventure. This time, he finally has his banana, but he doesn't want to share when a playful bumblebee wants a bite! The monkey tries to swat away the bee and enjoy his banana in peace, but in the process finds himself with a much bigger problem on his hands: he's awakened an angry lion! Will the monkey and the bee work together to escape the king of the jungle?Full of energy, surprise, and s...

What do you do when you wake up in bed next to an Adonis god with a wedding band on your finger and no recollections of the night before?Except for maybe one single memory where you lost a hand of cards to the sexy stranger and agreed to marry him. Seriously, how drunk was I?!Well, whatever the case, you sure as hell do not agree to stay married to the Greek God and be his wife!I mean what if he had a crooked dick or something. There was bound to be...

She’s a romance writer burned out on love. He’s her famous baseball star ex-husband. The last man she wants to be forced to work with is the one who broke her heart.Rom-com writer Gracie Parker hasn’t written a bestseller since she and her husband, a major league baseball star, divorced five years ago. On thin ice with her publisher―and with a looming deadline―Gracie couldn’t have picked a worse time for a painful injury that has her flat on her back. At this point...

She’s perfectly content leading a quiet life in her small hometown. He’s an adventurer with unquenchable wanderlust. The two couldn’t be any more opposite if they tried. But a tandem bicycle and a 500-mile road trip just might change all that.After a failed engagement and her mother’s battle with cancer, Charlotte Carter’s life is finally turning around now that she’s landed a dream job teaching music. What she didn’t see coming was the imminent closure of the school’s music progra...

This is absolutely not how they pictured their summer going.McKenna Boston is feeling stuck. She’s spent years growing her photography skills only for her career to hit a wall. She’s ready to move on—and she will—just as soon as she helps her sister’s boyfriend stage the perfect proposal. But when her best laid plans go awry and a handsome stranger accidentally ends up with the heirloom ring, McKenna hops on a flight to retrieve it. Piece of cake, right?Nate Lambert was hop...

Never get so drunk that you end up posting on social media that you want your best friend to marry you. You might get kidnapped and flown away in a private jet to get hitched to said best friend.The best friend who took your V-card in college and promised to marry you if you were still single in ten years . . . The best friend who made you come so Unicorntastically that it ruined you for all other men . . . The best friend you did not talk to in ten years and is now a big a$$ billi...

We are sworn enemies, but she's having my baby.How, you ask?Well, I'm also wondering the same thing.How the hell do people in that stupid fertility clinic mistake my sperm and inject it into the wrong woman . . .The same woman I fired just the day before for running her mouth off at me.Contains mature themes.