International economic integration can in many ways be seen as one of the everyday consequences of globalization. As communication lines grow shorter, more and more countries are seeing the use in hacking down trade barriers. This edition deals with this topic.[...]

Stephen Greenblatt is the most important exponent of 'new historicism', a dynamic critical movement which rejects the traditional reliance on individual canonical texts, exploring a multitude of other, more marginal works and voices. Questioning not just literary but social, political and cultural a[...]

Speed up your Chinese is an innovative resource that identifies and explains the common errors that English-speaking learners of Chinese repeatedly make. Speed up your Chinese organizes the major categories of Mandarin grammar into areas that are problematic for English native speakers. Each subsec[...]

Towards the end of the fifth century BC Ctesias of Cnidus wrote his 23 book History of Persia. Ctesias is a remarkable figure: he lived and worked in the Persian court and, as a doctor, tended to the world's most powerful kings and queens. His position gave him special insight into the workings of P[...]

Celia Wird and her three sisters are just like other 20-something girls--with one tiny exception: they're products of a backfired curse that has given each of them unique powers that make them, well, weird...
The Wird sisters are content to avoid the local vampires, werebeasts, and witches of th[...]

Examines the rights to expression and equality, and the restraints on government power, as they both limit and allow control of our personal choices of attire and grooming.[...]

Francis of Assisi (1181/82-1226) was one of the most vibrant and colourful personalities in the Middle Ages. The life of this remarkable reformer of the medieval Church was celebrated in art, drama, poetry, music, the new vernacular literature and architecture. His ideal was to enter into a restorat[...]

In a distant future in which humankind has engineered itself into new forms capable of spaceflight, terraforming, and deep ocean exploration, an interstellar voyage comes face to face with an alien technology that reveals a terrifiying and previously unrealized new dimension. Original. 17,500 first [...]

Facilitating is increasingly being seen as the best way to manage change and to ensure continuous improvement. This book aims to teach facilitating. The first part deals with the nature of facilitating and why those involved need to understand the basis of human behaviour, and the second covers the [...]

Lila Black is going to Hell. Ever since the Quantum Bomb of 2015 things have been different; the dimensions have fused and suddenly our world is accessible to elves, demons, ghosts and elementals ...and their worlds are open to us. Special Agent Lila Black has been different too: tortured and magic-[...]