This volume features a set of distinct, compelling, and intentionally disparate case studies that shed much needed attention on the varied ways in which local cultural, social, and political dynamics inform and mitigate the veritable roadmap toward palpable and meaningful progress with respect to enabling the goals of environmental sustainability. The volume includes contributions from notable academics – including some based in Southeast Asia - with ‘on the ground experience,’ and thus th...

Megalopolis is a vitually crime-free city. That's great for the citizens of Megalopolis, but not for its superheroes. Now superheroes must compete against each other for work and no one is more affected by this plight than The Justice Purveyors. Led by Electrolyte, The Justice Purveyors' primary stock and trade has been chasing reckless jaywalkers, dealing with drunk and disorderlies, scofflaws and general cases of moral turpitude.To everyone's surprise The Justice Purveyors beat o...

Issue #6 saw a sea change in the magnitude of Electrolyte's powers!Electrolyte grew to Godzilla-size and stopped Conniption and Honey Badger from kidnapping Sparkler and Finneus. Then the mayor of Megalopolis strong-armed Electrolyte into searching for the villainous mastermind named ThinkTank. Electrolyte traveled into The Catacombs in search of ThinkTank and teamed up with a new ally, Pell Mell, only to be caught in ThinkTank's web.There is no sleep for Electrolyte as Thi...

This title was first published in 2003. This text explores the "dark, pessimistic truth that pervades the pages of modern texts", setting a theme of Dante's "Inferno" against the work of modern authors including Dostoyevsky, Hardy, Conrad, Wharton, Kafka, Camus, Waugh and Flannery O'Connor. The author's thesis is that these writers exhibit a hostility towards the reader, an anger that the reader should continue to be so deludedly happy when the writer has become so mortifyingly enlightened...

Irish rugby as you've never seen it before -- from the man who got the job every rugby lover would love to have.'Rala has a gift for making people feel at ease and special at the same time' Paul O'ConnellPatrick 'Rala' O'Reilly has been bagman for the Irish rugby team for over twenty years. In that time he's witnessed many highs and lows. But for him rugby has always been about the people, the places and the experiences.Here, with hi...

A collection of poetry written on the theme of personal loss and recovery.

It has often surprised me that in order to study the subject of obstructive uropathy, it is necessary to search through various sections of several urological, surgical and radiological textbooks rather than turn to one work on the subject. It is also true that, even now, many descriptions tend to concentrate on the causative conditions rather than their relationship to the proximal outflow tract, in a way which is predominantly structural and anatomical rather than functional and urodynam...

INSTANT TOP 10 IRISH BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR IRISH BOOK AWARDS NOVEL OF THE YEARAN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVELIST‘A triumph … the funniest novel I've read in years’ SALLY ROONEY‘A brilliant and bittersweet ode to young love’ IRISH TIMES'One of my favourite books of the year’ JULIA ARMFIELD‘A funny and frank coming-o...

Since technology has made it easy to access, share, and distribute company data, many managers avoid live interaction, instead relying on emails, text messages, web-based seminars to manage their employees. But although technology has changed, people have not. There is still a need for managers who can communicate effectively face-to-face, and in order to do so, a managers need to have the ability to ask the right questions and use the answers to find solutions. Questions That Get Results ...

Handbook of Canadian Foreign Policy is the most comprehensive book of its kind, offering an updated examination of Canada's international role some 15 years after the dismantling of the Berlin Wall ushered in a new era in world politics. Tackling recent developments in Canadian foreign policy, the authors of this work spotlight Canadian idiosyncrasies within a global context that are defined by wrenching juxtapositions. The specialists who have contributed their expertise to this book prov...

Stops what you're doing! Wait, if you're reading this...then keep reading.But stop everything else you're doing! You could be reading Isue #8 of the most original series in comics today.Issue #7 introduced Squiggle to the world as she used her unique pwers to stage a jailbreak not yet seen in comics to date. But Squiggle's efforts proved futile as ThinkTank captured Electrolyte again this time with the aid of Conniption and Honey Badger.Get ready as Electrolyte stee...

In the last issue Electrolyte and The Justice Purveyors locked horns with Electrolyte's nemesis, the powerful and sexy Cottonmouth.Cottonmouth worked with Jack Wales to capture Electrolyte but when that situation looked like it might not pan out Wales hire Super 8 as a contingency plan. Jack Wales won't stop until he steals Electrolyte's powers like he did in Issue #1.