Alike in many aspects of their histories, Australia and the United States diverge in striking ways when it comes to their working classes, labor relations, and politics.Greg Patmore and Shelton Stromquist curate innovative essays that use transnational and comparative analysis to explore the two nations’ differences. The contributors examine five major areas: World War I’s impact on labor and socialist movements; the history of coerced labor; patterns of ethnic and class identifica...

Consumer co-operatives provide a different approach to organizing business through their ideals of member ownership and democratic practice. Every co-operative member has an equal vote regardless of his or her own personal capital investment. The co-operative movement can also be an important force in promoting development and self-sufficiency in poorer areas, particularly in non-industrialised countries.This book explores in depth the fortunes of the Berkeley Consumer Co-operative...

Co-operatives provide a different approach to organizing business through their ideals of member ownership and democratic practice. Every co-operative member has an equal vote regardless of his or her own personal capital investment. The contemporary significance of co-operatives was highlighted by the United Nations declaration of 2012 as the International Year of Co-operatives.This book provides an international perspective on the development of co-operatives since the mid-ninete...

Welcome to Purgatory 2.0. We’ll be with you shortly.Every battle needs a battlefield, especially in the eternal struggle between good and evil. But the unfortunate souls who are sent here don’t bide their time meekly awaiting judgment—they fight for their souls.Victor Goodspeed is a businessman, taken at the back end of his prime. He wasn’t a bad man, but he was a businessman, which didn’t tip the scales of morality in his favor.Now, he must fight for his life—his a...

By the good offices of Riptide Publishing, KJ Charles' new entertainment:Wanted, a Gentleman, or Virtue Over-Rated.The grand romance of Mr. Martin St. Vincent - a merchant with a mission. Also a problem, Mr. Theodore Swann - a humble scribbler and advertiser for love.Act the first: the offices of the Matrimonial Advertiser, London, where lonely hearts may seek one another for the cost of a shilling.Act the second: a pursuit to Gretna Green ...

I’m used to demons and voodoo.What I was not prepared for was my life turning into a fairytale, complete with the Wicked Step Mother.My awful step mother is the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans. She’s always hated me for being a Succubus. It just got a hundred times worse after my father died mysteriously. I inherited the family company, but I can’t remove her as VP because she’s made the entire board into her zombies. After another board meeting goes her way instead of mine, I decide to...

Toric's Dagger is just another religious relic.Until it's stolen.Twins Belwynn and Soren lead a team tasked with its retrieval. Drawn into a world of danger and treachery, they must rely on Soren's magical abilities, and on the telepathic bond they share.Now, as kingdoms and empires start to fall, the twins confront the dark forces that threaten them. They must not let the Dagger fall into the wrong hands. But when mercenar...

Escape to the magic of the Regency era in this best-selling series! The Series of Elements follows the Ashbury triplets you adored in the Loring-Abbott series on their own journeys to find their happily-ever-afters. Join the adventure as the triplets Fire, Wind and Ice finally meet their matches, then continue on with their Descendants!When two people have walked through fire, can love bring the healing and help they need?Spurned b...

The weapon takers have bought themselves some time to complete their quest.But when their enemies return, they are more ruthless and terrifying than ever.In the steppe lands of the far north, Soren must seek out the bow of the Jalakh tribes.In Kalinth, Belwynn must face a mysterious evil disguised as a friend.And in the high mountains of his Krykker homeland, Rabigar must learn a bitter lesson: nowhere is safe.

Jason has spent 3,000 years looking for Helle. Now he has finally found her. Unfortunately, so has Sam …Ask Helle Madsen what she thinks about reincarnation and she’ll laugh in your face. Besides, Helle has other stuff to handle, what with her new, exciting job in London and her drop-dead but seriously sinister boss, Sam Woolf.And then one day Jason Morris walks into her life and despite never having clapped eyes on him before, she recognizes him immediatel...

The untold story of Bletchley Park’s key role in the success of the Normandy campaignSince the secret of Bletchley Park was revealed in the 1970s, the work of its codebreakers has become one of the most famous stories of the Second World War. But cracking the Nazis’ codes was only the start of the process. Thousands of secret intelligence workers were then involved in making crucial information available to the Allied leaders and commanders who desperately needed it.Using p...

For bastard-born Robert FitzStephan, being given Eleanor d’Outremer in marriage is an honour. For Eleanor, this forced wedding is anything but a fairy tale.Robert FitzStephan has served Edward Longshanks loyally since the age of twelve. Now he is riding with his king to once and for all bring Wales under English control.Eleanor d’Outremer—Noor to family—lost her Castilian mother as a child and is left entirely alone when her father and brother are killed. W...