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Welcome to Magnolia Lane. It’s not exactly a little slice of heaven, but in the backwater town of Creekside, Kansas, it’s the best a jobless supermarket clerk like Andrew Morrison can do. After sacrificing a normal childhood, a decent education, and true love to look after his alcoholic mother, he’s finally breaking free and living his own life — but in the squalid house he’s sharing with a former childhood friend, the living isn’t exactly easy. Plus, there’s something about the chipper, all-American couple next door that’s just downright creepy. However, that doesn’t keep Drew from accepting a job as their handyman — or surrendering to the wiles of perfect housewife Harlow Ward, a woman who always gets what she wants. Drew, like a string of hapless young men before him, doesn’t realize he’s dancing with a devil — one dressed to the nines in high heels and pearls.

Este volumen reúne ocho piezas maestras de la crónica mexicana que recorren los laberintos de la cultura de masas, las herencias familiares, el aislamiento digital y la supervivencia extrema. A través del ensayo de costumbres y el periodismo narrativo, los autores desnudan las pasiones mundanas y las paradojas que definen la vida cotidiana en México.

Recruited by the Magical Usage Council, Phlox—who is now Agent Frost—is a pixie with a mission, and he's not afraid to place himself in mortal danger to eradicate the latest pixie trafficking ring. Despite being King Lucroy Moony's second-in-command, Leon McMillan's second life has become dangerously monotonous. For a vampire, boredom is as deadly as a stake to the heart. Three hundred years of existence has taken a mental toll—one that will eventually lead Leon into the sun's deadly embrace. Leon needs a life raft; he just never imagined it in the form of a pushy pixie.

What's the Use? asks why there is such a vast gulf between public perceptions of mathematics and reality. It shows how mathematics is vital, often in surprising ways, behind the scenes of daily life. How politicians pick their voters. How an absurd little puzzle solved 300 years ago leads to efficient methods for kidney transplants. How an Irish mathematician's obsession with a new number system improves special effects in movies and computer games. How SatNav relies on at least six mathematical techniques.

As globalization creates increasing challenges to established marketing practices, marketing efforts need to reposition and adapt continuously to maintain an organization's ability to reach potential customers. This Very Short Introduction provides a general overview of the function and importance of marketing to modern organizations. Kenneth Le Meunier-FitzHugh discusses how marketing remains central to creating competitive advantage, and why it needs to be forward looking and constantly reinventing itself in line with new developments in the marketplace.

The 20th century saw a remarkable upsurge of research on drugs, with major advances in the treatment of bacterial and viral infections, heart disease, stomach ulcers, cancer, and metal illnesses. These, along with the introduction of the oral contraceptive, have altered all of our lives. There has also been an increase in the recreational use and abuse of drugs in the Western world. This Very Short Introduction, in its second edition, gives a nontechnical account of how drugs work in the body.

Dive into an exhilirating true crime narrative of an unsolved 1969 murder at Harvard and an obsession and love for a girl who dreamt of rising among men. "A tour de force of investigative reporting." —Ron Chernow, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Alexander Hamilton "Exhilarating and seductive...

Enter the haunting, beautiful and provocative world of Yukio Mishima, one of Japan's greatest writers, whose extraordinary life ended as dramatically as his fiction Considered one of the greatest Japanese writers of the twentieth century, Mishima fused traditional Japanese aesthetics with modern...

When the deep-space vessel Covenant encounters an impossible planet where none should exist, xenobiologist Rowan Hale knows something is wrong before the alarms ever sound. The anomaly doesn’t just pull them off course. It responds.

A kingdom in danger. A marriage born of duty. A love neither expected. Eadlyn's homeland teeters on the brink of ruin. After years under her father's violent, indulgent rule, Essix is fractured and vulnerable—an easy target for enemy kingdoms. With her younger brother newly crowned and the...

Isaveth Breck is brave, loyal and zealous in the pursuit of justice; especially after her father is wrongfully arrested. Quiz, the eccentric eye patch-wearing street boy who befriends her, swears he can't resist a good mystery. Together they set out to solve the magical murder of one of...

Citizens’ assemblies bring the shared wisdom of ordinary people into political decision making on the climate and ecological crisis. They are increasingly being used at local, national and even global levels. But with what impact? Can they take us beyond the shortcomings of electoral and partisan politics? Can they make a real difference? This book explains why climate assemblies have captured the imagination of governments and activists alike, exploring the ways they can have a meaningful impact on climate politics.

Youths disappearing from the streets. Smashed bodies ejected into the River Aire. And CSI Eddie Collins is about to find out how they died. Abandoned by a malicious wife and tormented by a hateful boss, the only thing keeping CSI Eddie Collins sane is his job. When a dead youth is found on a...

This Very Short Introduction answers four basic questions: what is geography, how do geographers work, why is geography important, and where is the discipline of geography heading? Geography has always been important, though it has had only a short history as an academic discipline and is much...

When you buy a mill, you buy more than just a physical structure. You buy history. You buy heritage. You buy the responsibility to care for something that predates your existence by a thousand years. You are but a speck in the life of a water mill that has ground corn since Alfred the Great was king of England. I was, at first, oblivious to these obligations when I set sight on this derelict mill in the eccentrically named village of Nether Wallop in southern England. The burbling Wallop Brook, a chalkstream, flowed around, under and beside the mill.

The Healing Hierarchy is a guide for people who have been doing everything right with their health and still not getting better. Written by naturopathic doctor Jarrod Cooper, founder of Advanced Functional Medicine Australia, it introduces a four-level clinical framework for sequencing recovery correctly, addressing what the body needs first so that what comes next actually works. Most people who struggle with chronic illness are not failing because of lack of effort. They are failing because of sequence.

China today is never out of the news: from international finance to human rights controversies, global coverage of its rising international presence, and the Chinese "economic miracle". It seems to be a country of contradictions: a peasant society with some of the world's most futuristic cities, heir to an ancient civilization that is still trying to find a modern identity. This Very Short Introduction audiobook offers the listener an entry to understanding the world's most populous nation, giving an integrated picture of modern Chinese society, culture, economy, politics, and art. 

Large-scale organizational transformations usually don't work. What originally starts as a way of improving an organization becomes an all-consuming distraction, a value-destroying set of activities that, even as it becomes clear they will fail, must be completed at any cost. But there is a better way: becoming an Octopus Organization.

The world we once described as volatile and uncertain has shifted into something far more chaotic: BANI, or brittle, anxious, nonlinear, and incomprehensible. In Navigating the Age of Chaos, Jamais Cascio, the originator of the visionary BANI framework, unpacks the tools and perspectives needed to navigate our increasingly turbulent era.

He's a professional. She's an amateur. There can be only one victor... Bird enthusiast Lark Fernside will stop at nothing to prove she has a place in the male-dominated, bird-observing community. When the chance comes to prove her worth by joining an excursion across England, she jumps at the...