'We don't live alone ... We are responsible for each other'A policeman interrupts a rich family's dinner to question them about the suicide of a young working-class girl. As their guilty secrets are gradually revealed over the course of the evening, 'An Inspector Calls', J. B. Priestley's most famous play, shows us the terrible consequences of poverty and inequality. The other powerful plays in this collection - 'Time and the Conways', 'I Have Been Here Before' and 'The Linden Tree...

Fire doesn't like being trapped, and Solvei will do anything in her power to keep her freedom in the second installment of this fantasy adventure.After nearly dying within the all-encompassing Void Fog, Solvei—the fire elemental—returns to a war-devastated New Vetus to find the invading army slaughtered. She quickly leaves the country, soaring through the skies in her hawk form, searching for the friends she was separated from, and discovering a new reason to kindl...

"I spent more than half my life, when I ought to have been enjoying myself, arguing and planning and running around like a maniac, all to sell a lot of things to people I didn't know, so that I could buy a lot of things that I didn't have time to use. Sheer lunacy. And it took nothing less than an atom bomb to blow me out of it.”Following a devastating nuclear war which has seen Britain bombed back into the pre-industrial past, Stephen Dawlish and his family live a quiet rural life...

Born from fire, Solvei must learn to harness her power in order to survive in a world determined to extinguish her, in this fantasy adventure.Ten-year-old Solvei and her tribe of fire elementals, the áed, are on the run from those who hunt their kind, when an encounter with a Titan—a monster larger than mountains—leaves everyone but Solvei dead. Now alone, she makes her way into unknown lands where the skies pour down a fire elemental's greatest weakness: water.

**In 410 A. D., King Alaric and the Visigoths besieged and sacked Rome.“The eternal city”, which had been the centre of one of greatest empires ever to have existed, had been taken by Rome’s enemies and her wealth plundered.**But although Rome had fallen, this was not the end of the Roman Empire.Instead the Empire, which had already moved its focus away from the Western Mediterranean towards the East, continue to thrive.J. B. Bury, the eminent classical scho...

Even today, thirty years after the legal battles to save the endangered snail darter, the little fish that blocked completion of a TVA dam is still invoked as an icon of leftist extremism and governmental foolishness. In this eye-opening book, the lawyer who with his students fought and won the Supreme Court case—known officially as Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill—tells the hidden story behind one of the nation's most significant environmental law battles.The realities of the dar...

A haunting true crime story of a family's disappearance and the decades-long search for answers in the Pacific Northwest.In December 1958, the Martin family vanished, leaving behind a mystery that gripped Oregon for decades. J.B. Fisher meticulously reconstructs the events surrounding their disappearance, drawing on police reports, witness interviews, and the notes of Detective Walter E. Graven. Was it a tragic accident, or a sinister crime involving family secrets...

A study of the fictious world in Hardy's novels in relation to real places and Hardy's real-life experiences.Thomas Hardy's Wessex is one of the great literary evocations of place, populated with colourful and dramatic characters. As lovers of his novels and poetry know, this 'partly real, partly dream-country' was firmly rooted in the Dorset into which he had been born.J. B. Bullen explores the relationship between reality and the dream, identifying the plac...

Who or what are angels, and what are we supposed to believe about them? Are they of relevance today? This little eBook explains the Church's teaching and belief about angels, untangling many common misunderstandings. The angels of the Scriptures and of early Church writings, the hierarchy of angels, the place of Lucifer, and the feasts dedicated to angels are all set out here in the wider context of a pilgrim faith. The phenomenon of New Age beliefs are also examined and clearly distinguis...

Brought to you by Penguin.We are using up the planet at almost double the rate it can regenerate. To support our economies, we're told we must shop now like we've never shopped before. And whilst we can do it more responsibly, the scale of our consumption remains the biggest factor in the ruination of the planet. Yet our reliance on stuff continues to grow.But what would our world look like if we stopped? Would civilisation collapse? Would the planet's ecol...

13 plays and dramatisations of the works of the influential playwright, novelist and essayist J. B. Priestley - plus bonus programmesJ. B. Priestley was one of Britain's most significant writers. His output was prodigious: in his lifetime, he penned 26 novels, 39 plays and hundreds of essays. He enjoyed great success on stage, notably with Dangerous Corner, Time and the Conways and An Inspector Calls, which experimented with narrative str...

Examines the state of research of online and blended learning in business disciplines with the intent of identifying opportunities for meaningful future research and enhancing the practice of online teaching in business schools. The book evaluates research from business disciplines such as accounting, economics, finance, information systems (IS), management, marketing, and operations/supply chain management. The author reports on topics attracting interest from scholars in the respective d...