Fascinating look at the highs, lows and riches that follow promotion to the Premier League, from the inaugural 1992/93 season to 2023/24 told with special insight from chairmen, managers, players and fans. From the author of the widely acclaimed Fields of Dreams and Broken Fences. Dubbed the most valuable single football match in the world, the Championship play-off final doesn't just secure a place in the illustrious Premier League. It offers lucrative financial rewards. This compelling b...

In the electrifying third novel of the Empire of Shadows trilogy, Jack Mercer is drawn into a final, devastating confrontation with the hidden powers that have manipulated nations, financed covert wars, and trafficked in forbidden secrets since the ashes of World War II. What began as a hunt through ledgers, lies, and Cold War betrayals now leads to a chilling revelation: a clandestine brotherhood of elites seeking not merely power, but escape from death itself. Pursued across Europe's hau...

A Sprinkle of Magic tells the fascinating stories of non-league clubs who defied the odds and dared to dream big in the world's oldest cup competition.When August rolls in, so do the qualifying rounds of the FA Cup as non-league sides from across the land bid to make the first round proper and pick up a potential dream tie.Stretching back to the 2009/10 season, the stories include FA Cup runs from Bath City, Redbridge, Blyth Spartans, Chesham Unite...

Part lampoon, part satire, and part surreal comedy, A WEF of Cabbage is a razor-sharp send-up of current events and the figures who dominate them. Here, statesmen return from the grave to lecture tech billionaires, NATO generals are distracted by golf clubs shaped like vegetables, and the World Economic Forum's glossy promises collapse under the weight of absurd reality.At once a parody of geopolitics and a playful jab at the culture of control, this novel transforms recognizable h...

Explore the Depths of Humanity in Modern Times: Vivid Poetic Expressions of Hope, Judgment, and Politicized Emotions. An Artistic Journey Inviting Personal Interpretation and Reflection.In The Raven and The Dove 2, the author invites readers on a profound journey through the complexities of the human experience in our contemporary world. This second collection of poems is a testament to the author's ability to articulate the intricacies of life, offering a...

The Ontario Municipal Board is an independent provincial planning appeals body that has wielded major influence on Toronto’s urban development. In this book, Aaron A. Moore examines the effect that the OMB has had on the behavior and relationships of Toronto’s main political actors, including city planners, developers, neighbourhood associations, and local politicians.Moore’s findings draw on a quantitative analysis of all OMB decisions and settlements from 2000 through 2006, as we...

World War II is enshrined in our collective memory as the good war - a victory of good over evil. However, the bombing war has always troubled this narrative as total war transformed civilians into legitimate targets and raised unsettling questions such as whether it was possible for Allies and Axis alike to be victims of aggression. In Bombing the City, an unprecedented comparative history of how ordinary Britons and Japanese experienced bombing, Aaron William Moore offers a major new con...

Weaving together chapters on imperial Japan's wartime mobilization, Asia's first wave of postwar decolonization, and Cold War geopolitical conflict in the region, Engineering Asia seeks to demonstrate how Asia's present prosperity did not arise from a so-called 'economic miracle' but from the violent and dynamic events of the 20th century. The book argues that what continued to operate throughout these tumultuous eras were engineering networks of technology. Constructed at first f...

This edited volume assembles a wide array of writings by Hirabayashi Hatsunosuke, one of 20th-century Japan's foremost intellectuals, translated for the first time into English.It begins with an introduction by the editors, Seth Jacobowitz and Aaron William Moore, that contextualizes Hirabayashi's significance as a non-doctrinaire Marxist cultural critic, visionary thinker, and much-beloved popular fiction writer. The 'Short Stories', features a selection of Hiraba...

Cal's back, and his arrival changes everything.Lauren knew it was coming, but what she didn't think he'd bring with him was an ultimatum. A choice. One that Lauren feels trapped under. A choice she's unsure will make a difference but could possibly change everything.Cal doesn't just have an ultimatum; he has answers. The ones Lauren so desperately craves. But the truth won't only affect the lives of Cal and Lauren but everyone around them . . . and not everyone wants the tr...

Lauren Brooks fell in love with Cal Scott at twenty-one, married him at twenty-two, and had her heart broken at twenty-three when he walked out of their marriage. At twenty-five, while raising their daughter on her own, Lauren is finally moving on with her life . . . until she learns the reason for Cal's abandonment. The walls she had carefully built around her begin to collapse.The day she meets Chris, all those feelings she thinks she has bottled up tightly come spilling out. She...

For Ayana Outerbridge, a biracial fourteen-year-old girl, summer vacations on the evergreen Pacific Northwest coastline had once been a time of play and relaxation. But now her father is dead, and all that was bright is now dark. Until one day she finds a strange and startlingly beautiful seashell...Just offshore, the river otter Sleek has broken the Law. He has entered the forbidden Garden to retrieve a mind-elevating gift for his true love Gloss, headstro...