\'I drew my first breath on the 28th of January 1935, which was quite a good time for a future writer to be born in England...\' The only child in a lower-middle-class London family, David Lodge inherited his artistic genes from his musician father and his Catholic faith from his Irish-Belgian

Platform capitalism is coming for the money in your pocket Wherever you look, money is being re-placed by tokens. Digital platforms are issuing new kinds of money-like things: phone credit, shares, gift vouchers, game tokens, customer data--the list goes on. But what does it mean when online platforms become the new banks? What new types of control and discrimination emerge when money is tied to specific

This book focuses on the Indo-Pacific region\'s growing prominence as the world\'s major powers gravitate toward this space to expand their influence. With dynamic shifts taking place in the globe\'s most strategically volatile region, Indo-Pacific Strategies aims at clarifying the geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific, expounded both as a strategic concept and nascent region, thus contributing to the burgeoning

After the acclaimed indie film Save the Date and the bestselling all-ages humor book Darth Vader and Son, graphic novelist Jeffrey Brown (Clumsy, Unlikely) returns to the autobiographical work that first made his reputation. In A Matter of Life, Jeffrey Brown draws upon memories of three generations of Brown men: himself, his minister father, and his preschooler son Oscar. Weaving through time, passing

To Be Human presents Krishnamurti\'s radical vision of life in a new way. At the heart of this extraordinary collection are passages from the great teacher\'s talks that amplify and clarify the nature of truth and those obstacles that often prevent us from seeing it. Most of these core teachings have not been available in print until now. Besides presenting the core of Krishnamurti\'s message, the

The Long Wave This little book of poems will bring you love and comfort, reassurance and hope. It will lighten your saddest moments and enhance those happiest memories. Surely, some of these poems will make you smile at life\'s sillier

In 2016, Google announced it was getting into the home assistant business with Google Home. The smart device allowed users to essentially have a computer controlled by their voice. Google was just getting started. In 2017, Google released two more devices: the Google Home Mini and Google Home Max. Finally, in 2018, Google announced that its smart speaker would get a whole lot more visual with the Google

Ron Marz and Ron Lim return to the Sentinel of the Spaceways with a new tale of cosmic adventure set during their classic 1990s SILVER SURFER run! When the Reality Gem is stolen from safekeeping by an unknown antagonist, the resulting chaos attracts the attention of Thanos - and the Mad Titan seeks the aid of the Surfer to recover the gem! As reality fractures around them, Norrin must do the unthinkable

The second volume of this series details these constructions as well as the fortifications that were affected by major sieges: Fushimi, Tanabe, Otsu and Ueda in 1600, and Osaka in 1614/15. The author explains the sophisticated siege techniques and countermeasures employed by samurai armies of the period, and the Japanese artillery of the

This book is a comprehensive textbook of linear algebra and intends at presenting new approaches for existing concepts and applications. The book starts with a quick review of basic literature on groups, rings and fields--the essential components for defining a vector space over a field--and ends with the applications of linear algebra in analytical geometry and numerical methods in its last two chapters.

Mastermind by Jerry Moffatt is a guide to mental training for climbers. Drawing on his own personal experiences, as well as inspiring stories from the current elite of the sport including Alex Megos, Adam Ondra and Barbara Zangerl, Jerry invites climbers and other sportspeople to explore and maximise their mental

The modern vision of the world as one dominated by one or more superpowers begs the question of how best to understand the world-system that existed before the rise of the first modern powers. Janet Abu-Lughod\'s solution to this problem, in this highly influential work, is that Before European Hegemony, a predominantly insular, agrarian world was dominated by groups of mercantile city-states that

Psychotherapy across distance and time, from Freud\'s treatments by mail to crisis hotlines, radio call-ins, chatbots, and Zoom sessions. Therapy has long understood itself as taking place in a room, with two (or more) people engaged in person-to-person conversation. And yet, starting with Freud\'s treatments by mail, psychotherapy has operated through multiple communication technologies and media.

A celebration of one of the greatest gardens of our time, Highgrove, now 30 years

The Merchant of Venice is perhaps most associated not with its titular hero, Antonio, but with the complex figure of the money lender, Shylock. The play was described as a comedy in the First Folio but its modern audiences find it more problematic to categorise. The vilification of Shylock \'the Jew\' can be very uncomfortable for a post-holocaust audience and debates continue as to whether Shakespeare\'s

In 2011 when Alice Feiring first arrived in Georgia, she felt as if she\'d emerged from the magic wardrobe into a world filled with mythical characters making exotic and delicious wine with the low-tech methods of centuries past. She was smitten, and she wasn\'t alone. This country on the Black Sea has an unusual effect on people; the most passionate rip off their clothes and drink wines out of horns

With her trademark wit, Grace Burrowes brings us a delightful marriage of convenience in the final novel of the New York Times bestselling Windham Brides

This book is packed with beautiful images and reassuring words as a mother bunny tells her baby bunny how much she loves

John Allen spent more than thirty years in the Cairngorm Mountain Rescue Team. in his mountaineering classic Cairngorm John, he shares stories of life and death, alongside discussions of hypothermia, first aid, new technology and rescue dogs. A must-read for anyone who spends time in the great

A smart self-help guide to thriving with ADHD by the creator of the wildly popular YouTube channel How to