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While animals have played a central part in human society over the years, when it comes to the social sciences they have largely been neglected. However, interest in Human–Animal Studies (HAS) has grown exponentially in recent years, giving rise to university and college courses around the world specifically on this compelling and vital subject. Considering topics ranging from the human–animal bond, meat eating, and animals in entertainment, this book presents key concepts in simple and easy-to-understand ways as it covers the breadth of empirical work currently being done in the field.

Queen of Non Sequiturs In this groundbreaking collection, Nik Nicholson presents a masterful exploration of poetic experimentation and cultural resonance. The collection represents years of artistic evolution, featuring poems that sometimes approach the same themes from different angles—each version capturing a distinct moment in the poet's development. These carefully curated pieces showcase not just different periods of writing but different voices, different techniques, and different ways of seeing. Nicholson's work demonstrates particular mastery of the Kwansaba, a seven-line poem ...

The Speakmans have helped countless clients ditch the self-doubt and move on from their social anxieties and self-esteem issues. In Everyday Confidence, the best-selling authors tackle common confidence saboteurs from old behavioural patterns to negative people and toxic situations. In every case, they remind you that you have more power than you think: confidence is an inside job.

I’m Thomas Goreman, a big-ass Las Vegas a cop on a mission. I’ll bust those sleeze-ball drug-dealing bikers I’ve been watching for months and get the recognition I deserve. Unfortunately, the bust of a lifetime goes sour and a kilo of coke turns out to be a 1937 Harley oil pump. After that fiasco, I spend the rest of the day in a local bar. Half drunk go home and without meaning to, I beat my wife silly. It’s not a good day. After I make bail, get kicked out of my own house and get suspended from the force I proceed to binge my way through the next few days in a crappy hotel.

Abandoned by her husband of twenty-two years, not quite destitute, Donna Hendricks finds a little red hardbound in a San Francisco used bookstore for a quarter. Sure that this ancient looking volume is worth a lot, she buys it without looking inside. Later, when she opens it, the book is blank except for the first page that word for word tells of Donna finding a little red hardbound in a used bookstore for a quarter, sure that it is worth a lot and later opening the book. . . The last sentence printed suggests what Donna should do next.

The book offers a concise insight into both fundamental and niche issues concerning modern capitalism and democracy and an internal conflict between them. The assortment of topics is aimed at highlighting their malfunctioning, Achilles heels and possible solutions. On top of that, a reader will gain introduction into how business world works, its mindset and will acquire enough basic knowledge for understanding the core issues and for initial acquaintance with various aspects for further study. If you wonder why the world has gone crazy, you may find an answer here.

Nik Xandir Wolf's bestselling debut novel is a first-rate thriller filled with 80's nostalgia and is a "page-turner, engaging and raw,” Says Kirkus Reviews. With plot twists, you won’t see coming! It’s 1988 and Heath Walker bartends and sells weed to keep the lights on for his ailing foster mom. But when Heath helps his beautiful paramore, Rori Burk, escape the clutches of an evil drug dealer, he kicks off a series of events that leaves his beloved mother and a crooked cop, dead. On the run from the law, and a very gifted bounty hunter, they run to Mexico where a cartel forces them ...

The CyBio Corporation has always been on the cutting edge of augmentation development for the Neon Boulevard, and with its latest technology set to be announced, they aim to change the world once more. The day before the announcement, CyBio's CEO is murdered, triggering events that put a rogue AI and a serial killer on a collision course that could destroy life in the city forever.

There exists an entire world around us that cannot be seen. The human eye sees only about 2.5 per cent of the electromagnetic spectrum, so a number of people have questioned what is there, and are exploring the invisible world around us. Trevor James Constable began this work in the California desert in the 1950s, photographing what he considered to be UFO-type objects and biological creatures traversing the skies in the infrared part of the spectrum. Inspired by this work, Nik Hayes has taken it even further by recording both in the infrared and ultraviolet realms, along with converting a ...

Netherbound is a narrated horror anthology podcast delivering three original short stories per episode, each one darker, stranger, and more unsettling than the last. Inspired by classic pulp horror and the eerie intimacy of midnight radio, Netherbound explores haunted towns, cursed objects, vanishing people, and the voices that speak through static. From forgotten signals to mirrors that don't reflect quite right, every tale draws you deeper into the spaces just beneath our own—where things are lost, buried, or waiting to return. Grounded in psychological and paranormal dread, Netherbound ...

Every month, Dustin and Nik rip the Scarlet Letter off some unfairly maligned movies and salvage them from the discount dump bin of cinema history. From Howard the Duck to Waterworld, Masters of the Universe to Grease 2, Cherry Bombs is an unironic celebration of the outcast movies we love. Subscribe today and never apologize again for the movies you love!

The podcast dedicated to conversations and stories about sobriety, alcohol and creativity within and beyond the LGBTQ+ community.

NextUs Podcast with Nik Wood We are living at a moment that requires more of us — individually and collectively. The NextUs Podcast exists to have the conversations that help us get there. Each episode brings together thinkers, builders, healers, and visionaries to explore what a life well lived looks like, what a future worth building requires, and how we close the gap between where we are and where we need to be. Hosted by Nik Wood — coach, mentor, and founder of the NextUs ecosystem — the show covers the full terrain: purpose, direction, relationships, inner work, health, finances, ...

The History Of...For people who were bad at history but not too proud to Google it now. This isn’t the history podcast for experts. It’s for the rest of us: the curious, the confused, the ones who zoned out during school but still wonder who invented the fork or why people used to put arsenic in their face cream. Each episode takes one thing an object, a place, a job, a trend and unpacks the weird, messy, often ridiculous story behind it. Just history for people who ask questions late at night and want answers that don’t feel like homework. You might actually enjoy it, and it's enough to...

Every week comedians Nik Oldershaw, Isaac Hirsch and Daniel Cabral invite you to join their polycule. Welcome to LA.

Nine stories as hot and sweet as steaming cocoa on a December night! Collecting the erotic holiday "gift" stories from Circlet Press into one anthology, Jingle Balls has a little something for everyone, some gay, some straight, some lesbian, some kinky, some out of the (gift) box, with stories by Laura Antoniou, Kal Cobalt, Andrea Dale, Roxanne Rhoads, Elizabeth Schechter, and more!

After decades of war, the brutal Tathadann Party restored order to shattered Eitan City by outlawing the past and rewriting history. Memory is a commodity - bought and sold, and experienced like a drug. Henraek works as a Tathadann memory thief, draining citizens' memories. Everything changes when Henraek harvests a memory of his own wife's death, in the hidden rebellion that once tore apart their city. Now he will do whatever it takes to learn the truth - even if it means burning Eitan City to the ground.

The challenge with most companies' talent intelligence is that it is just not that intelligent. Written by Nik Kinley and Shlomo Ben-Hur - two experts in the field - this audiobook draws on the latest research to show how businesses can transform the value and impact of their talent intelligence to make sure they get the right people in the right roles. When that happens, all their talent management and development activities are built on an accurate understanding of the talent available to them.

Twice a month sisters Nik and Donna will transport you through time, across oceans, or maybe even right around the way from you. Join in as they review romance novels & movies of all flavors and give you their honest opinions. Be prepared for quirky and unique perspectives that will have you joining in the fun. Send your recommendations for reviews to ravishedpodcast@gmail.com and check us out on IG and Twitter @RavishedPodcast

The first stand-alone short story based in the Neon Helix Universe. Salem had quit the world six years ago. His unique skills forcing him to escape the reality of the Neon Boulevard and into the complete isolation of a virtual world. Until, an old debt forces him back into the world, kicking and screaming, to repay a debt and find the missing daughter of an old friend. Along with his assigned guardian Bella, Salem will have to throw himself back into the gritty world of the Boulevard to pay off his debts.