Dreadful winter cold gave way to ominous spring growth, and now the heat threatens to obliterate all: the third volume of the In the City series has arrived, and veteran editors R. B. Wood and Anna Koon have curated another impressive lineup of international talent in Summer in the City .The scorching sun heats concrete, glass, and steel nearly beyond human tolerance.The oppressive heat of Summer sits like a woole...

A killer call. A murder close to home. A case only DCI Matilda Darke and her team can solve.No one wants to be the first one to die…***'Matilda Darke is the perfect heroine’ Elly Griffiths‘A master of horror and suspense’ ★★★★★***A KILLER CONFESSIONWhen journalist Danny Hanson answers a call from someone with blood on...

Amid nineteenth-century America’s fierce battles over slavery and freedom, few proslavery partisans argued more vehemently for the supremacy of the white race than John Van Evrie (1814–96). A New York–based propagandist, writer, book publisher, and editor of the New York Day Book, Van Evrie leveraged the era’s rapidly expanding media and communications landscape to advance his cause. Throughout his career, he promoted pseudoscientific justifications for racism, proclaimed slavery ...

In the middle of an unexpected experience that impacted everyone across the world; a new audio-only app burst on the social media scene and connected people from all genders, ethnicities, and social status in a way no one thought possible.Celebrities, influencers, CEOs, authors, politicians, artists, stylists, and leading entrepreneurs emerged as dynamic voices that freely shared their wealth of knowledge and experiences with people who were suddenly faced with the ...

A killer call. A murder close to home. A case only DCI Matilda Darke and her team can solve.No one wants to be the first one to die…***'Matilda Darke is the perfect heroine’ Elly Griffiths‘A master of horror and suspense’ ★★★★★***A KILLER CONFESSIONWhen journalist Danny Hanson answers a call from someone with blood on...

Encounter with God is Scripture Union's daily Bible reading guide designed to lead you to a deeper understanding about what God is saying to you and to his world today. You'll find its thorough and energetic investigation of the whole Bible inspiring and stimulating. And you'll discover that its biblical exposition is complemented by pastoral warmth from a strong field of writers and contributors. As well as daily content, feature articles provide insights into Christian spirituality, tack...

What is “piddling”?What does it mean, and does it really matter?And what does it have to do with ants?By reading this book, you will learn a very simple truth that can have a significant impact on your life. (By the way, the author was piddling when he wrote this book.)

Michael A. Woods has been digging into core precepts that define leadership for the past thirty years.As a young man in the Navy, he was perplexed by the random distribution of leadership talent. Sailors lined up to follow some leaders, while others with the same rank could not motivate a crew of subordinates to sweep a deck.While teaching lessons on Biblically based leadership, the author discovered the story of David and Goliath, recognized many leadership core concepts d...

From the bestselling author of the DCI Matilda Darke series, comes a brand new standalone to keep you on the edge of your seat.***‘A powerhouse of a book… Incredible’ Jane Casey'Tense, atmospheric… A first-class crime novel that already feels like a classic’ Elly Griffiths‘Unputdownable… Michael Wood [is] a force to be reckoned with’ Sophie Hannah‘Michael Wood’s books are the gold standard of crime w...

Carl Jung's concept of individuation helps us understand the journey of life from birth to death and the psychological growth that ensues across the lifespan, and through each of life's stages. This analysis of Steven Erikson's ten-book fantasy series, The Malazan Book of the Fallen, explores how Erikson has applied the notion of individuation to his characters throughout the story, depicting and working through the individuation journey and its stages. In this rendering, Erikson ...

One Health, the concept of combined veterinary and human health, has now expanded beyond emerging infectious diseases and zoonoses to incorporate a wider suite of health issues. Retaining its interdisciplinary focus which combines theory with practice, this new edition illustrates the contribution of One Health collaborations to real-world issues such as sanitation, economics, food security and vaccination programmes. It includes more non-infectious disease issues and climate change discus...

Two murders. Twenty years. Now the killer is back for more…DCI Matilda Darke has returned to work after a nine month absence. A shadow of her former self, she is tasked with re-opening a cold case: the terrifyingly brutal murders of Miranda and Stefan Harkness. The only witness was their eleven-year-old son, Jonathan, who was too deeply traumatized to speak a word.Then a dead body is discovered, and the investigation leads back to Matilda's case. Suddenly the past and prese...