The music of the 1980s left an indelible mark on pop culture. Thanks to the dawn of MTV and the increasing affordability of synthesizers, a generation of innovative artists took the world by storm to create one of the last great glory eras of pop music. To get to the heart of what made this decade so special, music journalist Jim Beviglia weaves a narrative of the stories behind the pop music phenomenon.

Marijuana Botany presents the scientific knowledge and propagation techniques used to preserve and multiply vanishing Cannabis strains. Also included is information concerning Cannabis genetics and breeding used to begin plant improvement programs. The book presents scientific and horticultural principles, along with their practical applications, necessary for the breeding and propagation of Cannabis

A modern twist on Groundhog Day from a new voice in commercial women\'s fiction, perfect for anyone who has ever wanted a do-over (and for fans of In Five Years and Mhairi

Colleges and universities are richer than ever--so why has the price of attending them risen so much?As endowments and fundraising campaigns have skyrocketed in recent decades, critics have attacked higher education for steeply increasing its production cost and price and the snowballing debt of students. In Wealth, Cost, and Price in American Higher Education, Bruce A. Kimball and Sarah M. Iler reveal

Lama Zopa Rinpoche, one of the great living masters of Tibetan Buddhism, guides us through one of the core practices of the bodhisattvas, using a classic, revered text as a guide. \"Shantideva was like us, but he worked on his mind until he became completely free from delusions . . . A Guide to the Bodhisattva\'s Way of Life has inspired countless people since it was written over thirteen hundred years

This book develops principles of adjudication to facilitate accountability for violations of Economic and Social Rights.Economic and Social Rights engage with areas relating to social justice and their violation tends to impact on the most vulnerable members of society. Taking the UK as a case study, the book draws on international experience and comparative practice, including progressive reform at

Collected essays honoring the work of British professors Carole and Robert Hillenbrand. Carole and Robert Hillenbrand are legendary British professors, both of whom have made immense contributions to the fields of Islamic history and art history, and they are highly respected and beloved by the academic community. For these two volumes, editors Melanie Gibson and Ali Ansari have gathered an eclectic

Introducing a supremely hilarious graphic novel featuring an unstoppable, super-swine hero who boldly fights for justice . . . in between taking mud baths and eating tasty sandwiches. Gary Yorkshire was your perfectly average, fuzzy pink pig who loved tasty sandwiches, video games, mud baths, and hanging out with his friends Carl the fish and Brooklyn the bat. Until one day . . . a radioactive bat

A genre-defying page turner that fuses thriller and speculative fiction with dark fantasy in a hidden world in the heart of Cold War Europe. THE TRUE COLD WAR IS FOUGHT ON THE BORDERS OF THIS WORLD, AT THE EDGES OF THE LIGHT. It\'s 1965 and Christopher Winter is trying to carve a new life, a new identity, beyond his days in British Intelligence. Recruited by London\'s gangland he now finds himself

Raymond Carver\'s complete uncollected fiction and nonfiction, including the five posthumously discovered \"last\" stories, found a decade after Carver\'s death and published here in book form for the first time. Call If You Need Me includes all of the prose previously collected in No Heroics, Please, four essays from Fires, and those five marvelous stories that range over the period of Carver\'s

This book tells the story of Louis Pasteur covering his early years and his family life and his superhero contributions to the world of

Dazzling space battles, intergalactic politics and rogue AI collide in the third and final book in this epic space opera series by award-winning author Megan E.

Leslie Odom Jr., burst on the scene in 2015, originating the role of Aaron Burr in the Broadway musical phenomenon Hamilton. Since then, he has performed for sold-out audiences, sung for the Obamas at the White House, and won a Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical. But before he landed the role of a lifetime in one of the biggest musicals of all time, Odom put in years of hard work as a singer

A man sets out to Mexico to avenge his father\'s death in this western in Ralph Compton\'s USA Today bestselling series. Nathan Stone, the man they called The Gunfighter, lay dead in the dust of an El Paso street. The Sandlin gang kicked up that dust as they rode back laughing into Mexico, where the U.S. law couldn\'t touch them and local law didn\'t want to. Behind him Nathan Stone left his horse,

Individual Differences and Personality, Fourth Edition provides a comprehensive overview of research regarding what personality is and how and why it differs between people. This book begins with a description of the study of personality and then presents basic principles of personality measurement, the concept of personality traits, and the major dimensions of personality variation. Further chapters

Moving abroad means having to settle into a new host country. This book enables expats and those who support them to create intercultural connections and friendships both within and outside the workplace.Having left behind a large part of their social network, expats need to make local friends to really settle in. This book shows you how this works, and that breaking out of the expat bubble and making

Little Whale is learning to share. But sharing can be hard. It\'s not fair!Can Little Whale discover the joy and importance of sharing? Maybe with a helping fin from her friends . .

This truly epic adaptation of Kieron Gillen\'s Loki series spans the nine realms as the reborn trickster struggles to walk the hero\'s path and save the universe from an epidemic of fear. THE GOD OF LIES HAS BEEN REBORN. CAN YOUNG LOKI BE ASGARD\'S SAVIOR? When Earth is plagued by an epidemic of fear, ancient prophecy says only Thor can stop the monstrous threat of the Serpent, but without help from

A journey through a variety of tools and technologies from vlogging to drone cinematography to considerations of time, editing and sound design, Material Media-Making in the Digital Age offers professionals, scholars and students alike the chance to re-think how they engage with new media technology, about media and its place in the world. 17 b/w