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1) Feminism Is
It didn't just start with #MeToo. Today's feminism is more diverse than ever before and asks all kinds of questions. Feminism Is...tackles topics including intersectionality, the gender pay gap, the male gaze, and mansplaining.
Find out what equality for women really means, get a short history of feminism, and take a look at...
Big economic ideas, simply explained for young adults.
Does money make the world go round? Can money buy happiness? What would happen if a bank simply printed more money? Heads Up Money introduces economic theories to everyday life for young adults.
From the pennies in our pocket to the global financial boom, Heads Up Money puts theory into practice and explains the important issues surrounding all areas of economics including the market,
Celebrate Pride with DC’s LGBTQIA+ Superheroes.
Written and curated by DC expert Jadzia Axelrod, The DC Book of Pride profiles more than 50 LGBTQIA+ characters in detail, including Harley Quinn, Superman, Nubia, Robin, Batwoman, Aqualad, Dreamer, Green Lantern, and...
4) Politics Is
How do ideas make the world go round? What are the political left and right? What's the difference between capitalism and communism, or democracy and dictatorship? Who really holds the power? Can activism stop climate change, and can pacifism...
What is philosophy? It's the issues and theories that are most intriguing and relevant to curious teen minds—questions like: what is knowledge, identity, human nature, right and wrong, faith, freedom, and justice? are all addressed, offering big ideas, simply explained.
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Gain an insight into the issues that matter today, such as who owns the media, who decides what is news, and the super-rich. This is the ultimate tool to help you get to grips with sociology in time for exams, from gender and identity to welfare and consumerism.
Sociology is the study of how societies are organised and what helps them function or go wrong. Why do people commit crimes?...
When Carthenne Rel first came to Nyaesh, she feared the A'ras. Now she trains with them, struggling to use the magic they teach, and cut off from the shadow blessing within her. Isolated for her differences, she has only a few friends among the other students. When the strange and powerful Master Invar offers to teach her to access the powers warring within her, Carth is isolated even more.
As the deadly Reshian attack the city, Carth discovers
...8) Shadow Born
Carthenne Rel survived the Hjan attack on the A'ras and has left the north, the only place she ever really known. Now she travels to better understand what it means that she's shadow born.
Stranded by storms in a dangerous port city, she's captured while helping rescue a young girl from slavers. Discovering her mysterious captor's agenda forces her to play his games in order to escape, only to realize she hasn't finished with the Hjan.
...Exiled by his family. Claimed by thieves. Could his dark ability be the key to his salvation?
Rsiran is a disappointment to his family, gifted with the ability to Slide. It is a dark magic, one where he can transport himself wherever he wants, but using it will only turn him into the thief his father fears.
Forbidden from Sliding, he's apprenticed under his father as a blacksmith where lorcith, a rare, precious
10) Shadow Cross
After surviving the blood priests, Carth heads south with a renewed focus, determined to learn more about the Hjan before they gain too much strength and violate the accords.
They reach Asador as one of her crew suffers from a mysterious illness. Finding answers leads her deeper into an underworld she knew existed but had not expected to find so easily. Now she needs to help not only her friend but the many others within Asador who have
...11) Shadow Lost
Carth has forged the accords, but she fears the tenuous peace, and travels throughout the north expecting the Hjan will violate it, all while knowing it is nothing more than an excuse to avoid another task she should complete.
When she finds evidence of attacks along coastal villages, Carth wonders if peace has already failed, though not because of the Hjan. Discovering the reason for the attacks leads her to an old master who finally coaxes
...Exiled by his family. Claimed by thieves. Could his dark ability be the key to his salvation?
Rsiran is a disappointment to his family, gifted with the ability to Slide. It is a dark magic, one where he can transport himself wherever he wants, but using it will only turn him into the thief his father fears.
Forbidden from Sliding, he's apprenticed under his father as a blacksmith where lorcith, a rare, precious
13) The Guild Secret
No longer forced to hide his ability, Rsiran now Slides openly throughout the city as he helps it recover from the recent attack. Requirements of his time continue to mount, not only as he tries to help his friends, but new responsibilities to the guild force him to interact with the Elvraeth, where he discovers the uneasy alliance that exists between the guilds and the council.
When one of the great crystals goes missing, that alliance
14) Shadow Found
Carth has begun to develop her network, and offers her protection to the women of Asador, but not all are pleased with what she has done. When an assassin kills someone close to her, Carth leaves the city in pursuit. What she finds reveals that her plans have been inadequate, and the game she thought she had been playing might have been another entirely. If she doesn't adapt, those she's vowed to protect will be in danger, and a greater threat
...Fresh off a victory against the Forgotten, and with unexpected allies, Rsiran knows that the war is far from over.
An attack on someone close to him in the city leads to a search for answers, and he once again must confront the secrets hidden by his family. When he discovers a part of his people's history long forgotten, he realizes it might hold the key to what Venass really wants... and possibly the means to stopping them.
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