A Father’s rare blood disease cannot be healed by evangelical faith in the early 1980’s. As he leaves for treatment on the AIDS wing of the National Institutes of Health, his young son Finn goes to live in the homes of strangers in the rural South. Carrying his red fireman’s bag as a metaphor for his Father’s disease, Finn listens to his emotions about who is Good and who is Evil—conflicted as to why a loving God will not provide a miracle of healing, or heat, or food, or the love of a Mot...

Resistance to German-led Axis occupation occurred all the way across the European continent during the Second World War. It took a wide range of forms – non-cooperation and disinformation, sabotage, espionage, armed opposition and full-scale partisan warfare. It is an important element in the experience and the national memory of the peoples who found themselves under Axis government and control. For over thirty years there has been no systematic attempt to give readers a panoramic yet det...

A collection of twenty-nine tales of the Old West featuring previously unpublished stories by such classic Western writers as James Reasoner, Douglas Hirt, McKendree Long, and Michael R. Ritt. Edited by award winning author, L. J. Washburn. Western Fictioneers is the only writers' organization devoted solely to traditional Western fiction, and this huge collection will take readers from the dusty plains of Texas to the sweeping vistas of Montana and beyond.Western Fictioneers was f...

Advertising & Media has a curiosity crisis.It’s a rarely acknowledged but widely known problem: many people in the advertising industry, and new and prospective entrants,feel uncomfortable showing curiosity about key knowledge areas in advertising and media. And as advertising and media becomes more complex, the challenge of insufficient ‘information transfer’ is becoming even greater. This book shares the lessons learnt, research uncovered, creative break...

London is about to be drunk dry.A gritty pub crawl from the streets of South London to the hallways of vampire royalty. Blood Drunk is a pitch-black urban fantasy for fans of Slow Horses and Jim Butcher's Dresden Files.**‘I literally couldn't put it down’– Catriona Ward, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Last House on Needless Street and Nowhere BurningFred...

Germany’s 1941 seizure of Yugoslavia led to a bloody insurgency, and the Wehrmacht waged a brutal campaign in response—massive reprisal shootings, destruction of entire villages, and huge mobile operations against civilians. Terror in the Balkans explores the reasons behind Germany’s extreme security measures in southern and eastern Europe.

London is about to be drunk dry.A gritty pub crawl from the streets of South London to the hallways of vampire royalty. Blood Drunk is a pitch-black urban fantasy for fans of Slow Horses and Jim Butcher's Dresden Files.**Includes an audio exclusive interview with the author Ben Shepherd and the narrator David John.‘I literally couldn't put it down’– Catriona Ward, Sunday Times be...

For decades after 1945, it was generally believed that the German army, professional and morally decent, had largely stood apart from the SS, Gestapo, and other corps of the Nazi machine. Ben Shepherd draws on a wealth of primary sources and recent scholarship to convey a much darker, more complex picture. For the first time, the German army is examined throughout the Second World War, across all combat theaters and occupied regions, and from multiple perspectives: its battle performance, ...

The global financial crisis triggered a broad reassessment of economic integration policies in developed and developing countries worldwide. The crisis-induced collapse in trade was the sharpest ever since World War II affecting all countries and all product categories. A huge shock to the trading system combined with severe macroeconomic instability makes it natural for policymakers to call into question the basic underlying assumptions of trade liberalization and openness. In particular out...

Blood & Sugar is the thrilling debut historical crime story from Laura Shepherd-Robinson.June, 1781. An unidentified body hangs upon a hook at Deptford Dock – horribly tortured and branded with a slaver’s mark.Some days later, Captain Harry Corsham – a war hero embarking upon a promising parliamentary career – is visited by the sister of an old friend. Her brother, passionate abolitionist Tad Archer, had been about to expose a secret that he believed could cause ir...

A psychological thriller about love and identity by Ben Lewis.Karen's counting down the days to her wedding. But when a scrawny-looking stranger turns up, her happy life begins to fall apart.Starring Nicola Stapleton as Karen, with Samuel Roukin as Vinnie, Freddy White as Stuart, Catherine Shepherd as Siobhan, Sandra Voe as Jean, and Ben Lewis as Dave. Director: Kirsty Williams.©2013 AudioGO Ltd (P)2013 AudioGO Ltd

Within tourism studies, the cosmopolitan potentials of tourism have often been situated within a broader conversation about globalization, an approach that implies that cosmopolitanism is a predictable by-product of globalization and becoming more cosmopolitan should be the goal of travel. And yet a fundamental value of a cosmopolitan outlook—namely, to not only to be “at home in the world” but also to experience the world in an authentic sense—depends on the culturally embedded, parochial...