GLORY GARDENS C.C. can\'t resist a challenge and this time they\'re going for gold in a World Cup competition! with teams from Barbados and South Africa visiting the area at the same time, it\'s a brilliant opportunity for the club to make its mark worldwide. It\'s not long before the thrills and spills of cricket spark off sporting drama, temper tantrums and practical jokes. So as Australia do battle

Carlo Rovelli, Italian physicist, says that \"the world is not a collection of things, it is a collection of events.\" Poet Diane Louie thinks of prose poems as little events. They are happening and happenings. They draw on experience, image, metaphor, and all the properties of language to create little worlds-in-motion: spinning while orbiting, actively shifting our point of view. More genus than

Adapting what may be the most popular of graphic novels, by the edgy Hard Case Crime author, adding layers and exploring the nature of morality. Faced with overwhelming poverty and a pregnant wife, a tragic, struggling comedian is forced to turn to crime. In his first heist, he is immersed in toxic chemicals that disfigure him bizarrely, driving him mad and thus giving birth to The Joker. For years,

Though North Korea holds the attention of the world, it is still rare for us to hear North Korean voices, beyond those few who have escaped. Known only by his pen name, the poet and author Bandi stands as one of the most distinctive and original dissident writers to emerge from the country, and his work is all the more striking for the fact that he continues to reside in North Korea, writing in secret,

A powerful tale of grief, love\'s enduring bonds, and secrets of the past from #1 New York Times bestselling author and master storyteller Stephen King. Four years after the sudden death of his wife, bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is still grieving. Unable to write and plagued by vivid nightmares set at the western Maine summerhouse he calls \"Sara Laughs,\" Mike reluctantly returns to the lakeside

In July 1956, Marilyn Monroe arrived in London, on honeymoon with her husband Arthur Miller, to make The Prince and the Showgirl with Laurence Olivier. It was meant to be a happy time, but it didn\'t turn out that

I am the man, wrote Artaud, who has best charted his inmost self. Antonin Artaud was a great poet who, like Poe, Holderlin, and Nerval, wanted to live in the infinite and asked that the human spirit burn in absolute freedom. To society, he was a madman. Artaud, however, was not insane but in luciferian pursuit of what society keeps hidden. The man who wrote Van Gogh the Man Suicided by Society raged

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa

Friedman probes a chain of mysteries that concern the presence or absence of God, including the connection between Nietzsche and Dostoevsky who each independently developed the idea of the death of

The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a gripping account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies. When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback titled The Double Helix on her bed. She

Safety-I is defined as the freedom from unacceptable harm. The purpose of traditional safety management is therefore to find ways to ensure this \'freedom\'. But as socio-technical systems steadily have become larger and less tractable, this has become harder to do. Resilience engineering pointed out from the very beginning that resilient performance - an organisation\'s ability to function as required

An innovative approach to standing up for your values in the workplace--inspired by a popular program from the Aspen Institute \"In business and in life, we often know what is the right thing to do, but we have trouble implementing it. This book, developed in conjunction with the Aspen Institute\'s Business and Society Program, shows how we can all give voice to values and make the right things happen.

A heartbreaking and poignant novel of love and loss from the #1 bestselling author of While My Eyes Were

THE NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER \"Kai-Fu Lee believes China will be the next tech-innovation superpower and in AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order, he explains why. Taiwan-born Lee is perfectly positioned for the task.\"--New York Magazine In this thought-provoking book, Lee argues powerfully that because of the unprecedented developments

This substantial collection brings together short stories written over a span of forty years, including those first published in the highly-rated Song for Simone (1986) and A Way to Catch the Dust (1999) and more than a dozen new stories. The previously published pieces have been extensively revised. They range from stories set in Grenada at different periods from the 1970s onwards, to several set

Sloane and Amelia\'s investigation at an amusement park quickly turns ominous when they come up against a cohort of villains determined to stop them in this third book in the Tangled Mysteries middle grade series perfect for fans of The Book Scavenger and Lemons. Sloane and Amelia\'s amateur detective agency has landed their first paid gig! After seeing their YouTube documentary series, eccentric millionaire

This volume in the venerable Papers of Benjamin Franklin covers March 16 through September 12, 1785, Franklin\'s final days as minister to France and his voyage home This volume covers Franklin\'s final months as minister to France and his voyage back to America. He received his long-awaited permission from Congress to return home; accepted the king\'s parting gift of a miniature portrait surrounded

A completely updated guide to engineering and construction project managementThis up-to-date guide presents highly effective strategies for managing engineering and construction projects from the initial conceptual stage, to design and construction, all the way to completion. Reorganized to mirror the chronology of a real-world job, Project Management for Engineering and Construction: A Life-Cycle