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What If?

The book that started it all! A vintage 90s romcom from #1 bestselling author Shari Low. 1999. Carly Cooper is 30, single, and after coming close to saying ‘I Do’ to six different men, she’s wondering if she accidentally said ‘goodbye' to Mr Right.But there is a problem.Her ex-boyfriends are scattered all over the world and Carly lives in 1999; an era before Facebook, Google, smartphones, 4G and Broadband, when it was impossible to track people down with a few clicks of a mouse.On a mission to discover if she walked away from her 'happy ever after' , Carly quits her job, her flat, her whole life and sets off on a quest to track down all the men she has ever loved.Her Mr Right is out there, but can she find him?And what if he’s moved on from the ex-girlfriend who said goodbye?

Gloria (TCG Edition)

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

&ldquo;The bitingly funny and fierce Gloria is one of the year&rsquo;s best shows&hellip;Gloria is an adrenaline rush of a show, but it also makes you think. Let&rsquo;s just say it hits the bull&rsquo;s-eye.&rdquo; &mdash;Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Post &ldquo;Funny, blistering tragicomedy&hellip;along with a delightfully omnipresent, biting wit&hellip;You&rsquo;ll be unsettled by Gloria, perhaps even haunted.&rdquo; &mdash;Peter Marks, Washington Post An ambitious group of editorial assistants at a prestigious Manhattan-based literary magazine are each chasing the same dream: a life as successful writers&mdash;and to get out of their cubicles before they turn thirty. When a regular day at the office suddenly becomes anything but, the stakes for who will get to tell the career-making story are higher than ever.

Queer Transgressions in Twentieth-Century Polish Fiction

Jack J. B. Hutchens

Throughout the twentieth century in Poland various ideologies attempted to keep queer voices silent—whether those ideologies were fascist, communist, Catholic, or neo-liberal. Despite these pressures, there existed a vibrant, transgressive trend within Polish literature that subverted such silencing. This book provides in-depth textual analyses of several of those texts, covering nearly every decade of the last century, and includes authors such as Witold Gombrowicz, Marian Pankowski, and Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature. Jack J. B. Hutchens demonstrates the subversive power of each work, showing that through their transgressions they help to undermine nationalist and homophobic ideologies that are still at play in Poland today. Hutchens argues that the transgressive reading of Polish literature can challenge the many binaries on which conservative, heteronormative ideology depends in order to maintain its cultural hegemony.

Charles H. Thompson on Desegregation, Democracy, and Education

Louis Ray

The goals of achieving equal citizenship rights for African Americans and international respect for human rights inspired Charles H. Thompson to focus his attention on ending segregation as public policy in the United States. As editor of The Journal of Negro Education, from 1932 to 1963, Thompson tirelessly championed equal educational and economic opportunities for African Americans and other targets of discrimination. Charles H. Thompson on Desegregation, Democracy, and Education captures the evolving struggle for civil rights from the perspective of an education insider, brilliant scholar-activist, and arguably the leading dean in African American higher education between 1938 and 1963. This study focuses on Thompson's efforts, between 1953 and 1963, to mobilize his readers, including African American teachers, to support the civil rights movement including voter registration drives, boycotts, the sit-ins, as well as the NAACP litigation campaign. He encouraged them to support principled, African American leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and their campaigns for social justice. Thompson remained confident that they and their allies would prevail so long as they adhered to the ethical principles that informed their movement and applied political and economic pressure intelligently. The desegregation of public education and the strengthening of African American higher education, for Thompson, served as wedges for extending democracy in the US.

Gourd to Death

Kirsten Weiss

This Halloween, pie shop proprietor Val Harris must patch together clues to solve a murder by pumpkin . . .   As the owner of Pie Town, Val’s been tapped to judge the pie making contest at the annual pumpkin festival in the coastal California town of San Nicholas. Things could get sticky though—her boyfriend, cop Gordon Carmichael, is entering the competition with his “special” family pumpkin pie recipe. But Val’s got bigger problems than a conflict of interest when she and her flaky piecrust-maker Charlene discover another contestant crushed under an enormous pumpkin.   When grudge-holding Chief Shaw comes up with a half-baked reason to toss Carmichael off the case and onto the suspect list, it's up to Val and Charlene to find the tricky killer. But as they dodge lethal pumpkin cannons and follow the clues into a figurative and literal maze, the pie pals are in for the scariest Halloween of their lives—and it may be their last . . .[i][/i]

Enchant the Night

Amanda Ashley

In the arms of a centuries-old vampire, a woman awakens to newfound passion—and magical powers of her own.   Hungarian vampires are born, not made—and can breed with mortal females. Being one of the oldest of his kind, Quill Falconer has honed his skills at hunting just the right kind of prey, which is why his latest victim confounds him. She shouldn’t remember his drinking her blood. And he shouldn’t still be craving more . . .   Callie Hathaway’s life is as normal as it can be after the death of the beloved grandmother who raised her. Until one night, feeling foggy and fatigued, she realizes that a strangely sensual encounter with a dark, handsome man didn’t occur only in her imagination.   As Callie and Quill’s unique connection draws them together, an ancient order of knights seeks Quill’s destruction. Being together puts Callie in mortal danger—until she uncovers a magical family legacy. Side by side they’ll fight for survival, and for each other, as the brotherhood of vampire hunters gather for one final showdown.

Crisis and Challenge in the Roman Catholic Church

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This volume explores the historical, theological, sociological, and ethical dimensions of the current issues threatening the two thousand-year-old Roman Catholic Church. The interdisciplinary analysis contained within the volume exposes the destructive convictions and actions of the Roman Catholic clergy that has produced the current institutional crisis while suggesting options for moving forward. Documenting the cases that constitute the many crises currently surrounding Catholicism, the volume aims to provide clarity and conscience. At the same time, with a constructive vision of an ethics and religious practice rooted in integrity and transparency, the authors offer a path towards holistic and holy reformation by and for Catholics.

Beyond the Master's Tools?

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This book provides a compendium of strategies for decolonizing global knowledge orders, research methodology and teaching in the social sciences. The volume presents recent work on epistemological critique informed by postcolonial thought, and outlines strategies for actively decolonizing social science methodology and learning/teaching environments that will be of great utility to IR and other academic fields that examine global order. The volume focuses on the decolonization of intellectual history in the social sciences, followed by contributions on social science methodology and lastly more practical suggestions for educational/didactical approaches in academic teaching. The book is not confined to the classical format of research articles but moves beyond such boundaries by bringing in spoken word and interviews with scholar-activists. Overall this volume enables researchers to practice a reflexive and situated knowledge production more suitable to confronting present-day global predicaments. The perspectives mobilise a constructive critique, but also allow for a reconstruction of methodologies and methods in ways that open up new lenses, new archives of knowledges and reconsider the who, the how and the what of the craft of social science research into global order.

Toward Sustainable And Economic Smart Mobility: Shaping The Future Of Smart Cities

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During the last decade, developments in smart cars, mobile devices, internet of things and vehicular communications are revolutionizing the future of smart cities. With the rapid integration of these smart devices into our surroundings, we are heading to a new era of a highly connected and environmentally friendly ecosystem.This book offers a unique opportunity for the reader to explore state-of-the-art developments in applications, technologies (e.g., Big Data and artificial intelligence), services and research trends in smart mobility for smart cities. It also provides a reference for professionals and researchers in the areas of smart mobility (e.g., autonomous valet parking, passenger trajectory data, smart traffic control systems) and recent technical trends on their enabling technologies. The materials have been carefully selected to reflect the latest developments in the field with many novel contributions from academics and industry experts from around the world.Contents: <ul><li>Preface</li><li>About the Editors</li><li>Acknowledgments</li><li>Smart Mobility: Challenges and Trends (Ruizhi Liao)</li><li>Big Data and Artificial Intelligence for Communications in Smart Mobility (Liang Zhao, Lexi Xu and Jiaxing Shang)</li><li>Adapting Future Vehicle Technologies for Smart Traffic Control Systems (Dominic J Hodgkiss and Vinh Thong Ta)</li><li>Application of Mobile Signaling in Highway Traffic Network Monitoring (Hongrun Gang, Li Fu and Yuting Luan)</li><li>Passenger Trajectory Generation Using Modern Datasets (Xiaoyan Xie and Fabien Leurent)</li><li>Towards Autonomous Valet Parking: A Broader Prospective (Muhammad Khalid, Yue Cao, Kezhi Wang, Piyush Dhawankar and Mohsin Raza)</li><li>Mobile Data Offloading for Smart Mobility in Heterogeneous Network (Tong Wang, Xibo Wang, Guang Xin Yang and Yue Cao)</li><li>Exploring the Scalable Event-driven Load Balancer Using Hybrid Intelligence for Smart Paradigms (Soumya Banerjee, Philipp Brune and Youakim Badr)</li><li>A User-Demand Privacy-Preserving Framework Based on Association Rules and Differential Privacy in Social Networks (Chunliu Yan, Ziyi Ni, Bin Cao, Rongxing Lu, Shaohua Wu and Qinyu Zhang)</li><li>Index</li></ul> Readership: Professionals and researchers in the areas of Smart Mobility (e.g., autonomous valet parking, passenger trajectory data, smart traffic control systems), general public interested in technological advances. Smart City;Smart Mobility;Traffic Control;Traffic Monitoring;Big Data;Intelligent Transport System (ITS);Internet of Things (IoT);Vehicular Communications;Network Optimisation;Autonomous Vehicles;Smart Parking;Security;User Privacy0Key Features:<ul><li>This book is brought to you by authors from different backgrounds in academia and industry from around the world</li><li>The materials have been carefully selected to reflect the latest developments in the field with many novel contributions from the contributors</li></ul>

Economic Empowerment Of Women In The Islamic World: Theory And Practice

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The book, Economic Empowerment of Women in the Islamic World, discusses the economic, social, and political rights and status of women in Islam, which is theoretically given by the Islamic Jurisprudence (Shariah law). The chapters in this volume will address historical practices in comparison to the status of women in the contemporary Muslim world. Men and women in Islam, regardless of their age, social class, and education, are equal as citizens and individuals, but not identical in their rights and responsibilities. It can be observed from Islamic history that in the early age of Islam, women were given full confidence, trust, and high responsibilities in leadership, educational guidance, and decision-making.This volume will try to clarify the confusion in the status of the women in Islam that is presented by the media, as it is assumed that theoretical Islamic empowerment of women bears little relation to the real conditions of women in modern Muslim societies. It has been widely claimed in the media that Muslim women suffer more than men in Muslim societies and communities in terms of insecurity, domestic abuse, and low access to education and medical care. It is also stated in the press and media that absence of good governance also results in gender inequality and violation of the rights of Muslim women.This volume also aims to provide the solutions for the empowerment of women in the Islamic world. We assumed that without good governance, the status of women is not likely to improve. Muslim women have the potential to play a fundamental role in curbing corruption, social ills, violence, and crime in the Muslim world. This volume will make the case that in order to achieve stability and prosperity, the government must ensure a platform for women to participate in decision-making and hence benefit from the rights they are accorded in Islam.By covering a range of perspectives on the economic lives of Muslim women around the world, it hopes to shed light on the problems faced and to offer possible solutions to the empowerment of women in the Islamic world.Contents: <ul><li>Empowerment of Women in Islam: An Introduction (Toseef Azid and Jennifer Ward-Batts)</li><li>Theoretical Issues:<ul><li>Economic Empowerment of Women in Islam (Abdul Azim Islahi)</li><li>Women Empowerment and Leadership in Islam between Myth and Reality (Noor Mohammad Osmani, Mohammad Omar Farooq and Abu Umar Faruq Ahmad)</li><li>The Prophetic Vision of Women Empowerment: Evidence from Prophet Muhammad's (pbuh) Family (Mohammad Abdullah)</li><li>The Role of Women in Business and the Life of Khadija (Irum Saba and Khadija Bari)</li><li>Women in the Workplace: Shari'ah and Contemporary Perspectives (Mohammad Hashim Kamali)</li><li>Navigating between Patriarchal Fundamentalism and Islamic Feminism: A Critical Islamic Appraisal (Nabil Yasien Mohamed)</li><li>Women's Rights: The Qur'anic Ideals and Contemporary Realities (Elmira Akhmetova)</li></ul></li><li>Development Perspectives:<ul><li>A Relational Well-Being (Maslaha) Index of Gender Development in Socio-Economic Development Sustainability (Masudul Alam Choudhury, Ari Pratiwi, Mohammad Shahadat Hossain and Faezy Adenan)</li><li>Women Empowerment and Globalization Evidence from the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Countries (Muhammad Tariq Majeed)</li><li>Islamic Paradigm of Women's Socio-Economic Empowerment: Ideals and Realities (Muhammad Iqbal Anjum)</li><li>Is Press Freedom an Effective Tool to Empower Women? Empirical Evidence from Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Countries (Muhammad Tariq Majeed)</li><li>Islamic Nano-Finance for the Very Poor by Women: Hopes for Addressing the Islamic Microfinance Gap (Khairunnisa Musari)</li></ul></li><li>Country Studies:<ul><li>The 'Islamic Women's' Movement: Transition from the Private Domain to the Public Sphere (Ömer Çaha)</li><li>Women of Aceh: The Struggle for Peace and Justice (Asna Husin)</li><li>Social Values and the Female Labor Force Participation in Turkey: A Historical Evaluation from Ottoman Empire to the Present (Kadir Yildirim)</li><li>The Socio-Economic Conditions of Women in Iran (Mohammad Soleimani and Hasan Kiaee)</li><li>Women's Involvement in Developing Waqf in Malaysia (Farhana Mohamad Suhaimi and Asmak Ab Rahman)</li><li>State of Women in Pakistan (Irum Saba and Khadija Bari)</li><li>Gender Relations in Singapore Malay (Muslims) Dual-Income Households: (Un)changing Views and Practices (Suriani Suratman)</li><li>Does the Dower Equate to Economic Security for Muslim Women in Malaysia? (Raihanah Azahari, Zalina Zakaria, Asmak Ab Rahman and Hasbi Muh Ali)</li><li>The Complexity of Measuring Women Empowerment and its Role in Nutritional Status of Bangladeshi Children (Rana Ejaz Ali Khan and Muhammad Ali Raza)</li><li>Does Parents' Education Matter in Inter-Generational Transmission of Human Capital? — A Case of Female Population in Saudi Arabia (Toseef Azid and Sara Aldowsari)</li><li>Women in OIC Countries: State of Participation, Freedom and Supportive Legislation (Salman Ahmed Shaikh)</li><li>Compulsory Schooling in Turkey, Educational Attainment, and the Gender Gap (Jennifer Ward-Batts and Kaitlin Nowacki)</li><li>Women Empowerment Through Islamic Microfinance Schemes in Bangladesh (Abul Hassan, Salah Al Shalhoob and Yaser Ahmad Fallatah)</li></ul></li><li>Special Issues:<ul><li>Wife Beating in Islamic Law: Re-Evaluating the Illocutionary Force of the Imperative Verb in Qur'an 4:34 (David Solomon Jalajel)</li><li>Dimensions of Women Empowerment and Gender Inequality: A Muslim World Perspective (Toseef Azid and Jennifer Ward-Batts)</li></ul></li></ul> Readership: Students and professionals interested in Islamic Economics and Finance theories and practices, how they are applied in daily life in countries across Asia and the Middle East.Islam;Gender Studies;Women Studies;Quran;Sunnah;Female Empowerment;Shariah;Prophet Muhammad;Business in Islam;Patriarchal Fundamentalism;Secular Feminism;Women's Rights;Human Rights;Aceh;Gender Empowerment Measure;Globalization;Press Freedom;Organisation of Islamic Cooperation;Education;Arab World;Nanofinance;Microfinance;Labour;Ottoman Empire;Iran;Waqaf;Waqf;Malaysia;Pakistan;Singapore;Dual-Income Households;Bangladesh;Food Security;Human Capital;Saudi Arabia;Turkey0Key Features:<ul><li>This book is potentially the first of its kind in studying and emphasizing on specifically the economic aspects of Muslim women's lives</li><li>The book discusses both theoretical and simultaneously practical issues, and is cross-disciplinary, covering issues on economics and its relations to Islamic studies, gender studies, political science, and sociology</li></ul>