Product Description: Information overload is a subject of vital, ubiquitous concern in our time. The Poetics of Information Overload reveals a fascinating genealogy of information saturation through the literary lens of American modernism.Although technology has typically been viewed as hostile or foreign to poetry, Paul Stephens outlines a countertradition within twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature in which avant-garde poets are centrally involved with technologies of communication, data storage, and bureaucratic control...read more

Product Description: How many times have you missed and opportunity because fear held you back? Have you buried your talent? Will you end up looking back at life and feeling regret because you played it safe? We all know that timidity can keep us from life’s greatest adventures...read more

Product Description: Faced with an unsolved murder and no clues, Detective Sergeant Mary Miller risks her career by trusting Michael Slade, the eccentric shop worker who seems to know more than he should about the case. There’s more to Michael than meets the eye – but does that include being a killer who gets his kicks by playing games with the police? “A rattling good read...read more

Product Description: Become a sudoku-solving whiz! Sudoku guru Paul Stephens (Mastering Sudoku) has devised a skill-building workbook that can take you from average to confidently advanced in no time. His comprehensive how-to features a selection of foolproof techniques, along with 150 hand-picked puzzles (self-generated from his own computer program) specially chosen to provide practice in key strategies...read more

Product Description: Sudoku has become an addiction for millions—and that?s great, because mind games help keep our brains in good working order. But even though the rules are simple, many solvers need some help when cracking the more complicated grids...read more

Product Description: This book is designed specifically for the new A, AS Levels and AVCE in Social Policy, Sociology, and Health and Social Care. It is widely used by students progressing to further study. It covers all the main areas of Social Welfare, including classic themes and debates, and the New Labour approach to social policy and social welfare provision...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book combines academic rigour with a refreshingly student-focused writing style. It is fully up-to-date, with the latest developments in sociological thinking and examples of recent research. Exercises test knowledge and understanding, developing skills of interpretation, application and evaluation...read more

Product Description: Tafia leaves the reservation with her best friend and aunt to attend her first pow-wow, and through her experiences along the way, gains an understanding of what being an Indian is all about. "A good, readable story." - Toronto Star "Now, thanks to Christel Kleitsch's vivid and convincing storytelling, young readers can get to know the people of Spirit Bay...read more