New Releases by Gavin Brown

In the depths of the ocean, the sorcerer Zambrano and his intern, Bryce, discover Rex, the ancient Demon King--and ex-husband of the demon duck Seraphex--imprisoned in a trap that has slowed time to a standstill. In order to prevent the duo from releasing the Demon King to exact his revenge, Seraphex makes an unbreakable vow to embark on the most dangerous and unfamiliar adventure of all: friendship. With a supporting cast that includes a foolhardy Indian graduate student, the ancient sorcerer Laio Ling, the deadly Leviathan, and some deeply exasperating druids, our heroes will face the Demon King--and hopefully save the world. Probably save the world. Look, they''re definitely going to give this world-saving thing a go, if they can stop arguing for like five minutes and figure out a plan, in the second installment of this humorous fantasy series.

A supernaturally inept student lands himself an internship with the world''s most infamous sorcerer in the first book of this humorous fantasy series. Bryce Alexander isn''t exactly on a path to wizardly renown. In fact, his latest rejection from the Arcane Arts program at the Kotodama Institute has pretty much guaranteed his dream of attending magical college is over. But rather than give in to despair and join the manager training program at Samba Smoothies, he does something incredibly daring, unexpected, and . . . stupid. He sneaks into the Queens warehouse where the Dark Sorcerer Zambrano has recently been spotted and offers up his service as an apprentice. The good news is Bryce is somehow so unattuned to magic that he isn''t even affected by the literally crushing effects of Zambrano''s defenses. The bad news is Bryce is somehow so unattuned to magic that he has literally zero chance of ever becoming a sorcerer. Still, Zambrano is convinced Bryce''s mystical maladroitness could be an asset when it comes to infiltrating the hiding places of his enemies, and he enlists him as an intern to assist him in his supposedly nefarious causes. Suddenly, Bryce has gone from slinging protein shakes to navigating a world of preternatural grudges, cursed objects, demonic power plays, and FBI plots. Because interning for the Lord of Havok isn''t taking memos and running out for coffee; it''s engaging in an otherworldly battle, in which Bryce''s total lack of supernatural skills could spell the difference between life and apocalypse . . . Filled with fast-paced action and side-splitting banter, The Dark Sorcerer''s Intern is the first installment of a contemporary fantasy guaranteed to keep you laughing and guessing to the very last page.

Provides students with the essential knowledge to navigate and leverage the transformative power of emerging technologies in finance.

A unique take on how to survive and thrive in the process your PhD, this is a book that stands out from the crowd of traditional PhD guides. Compiled by a leading UK researcher, and written in a highly personal one-to-one manner, How to Get Your PhD showcases the thoughts of diverse and distinguished minds hailing from the UK, EU, and beyond, spanning both academia and industry. With over 150 bitesize nuggets of actionable advice, it offers more detailed contributions covering topics such as career planning, professional development, diversity and inclusion in science, and the nature of risk in research. How to Get Your PhD: A Handbook for the Journey is as readable for people considering a PhD as it is for those in the middle of one: aiming to clarify the highs and lows that come when training in the profession of research, while providing tips & tricks for the journey. This concise yet complete guide allows students to “dip in” and read just what they need, rather than adding to the mountain of reading material they already have.

Habitant du Stetriol, Zérif est un homme mystérieux aux alliances troubles. Alors qu''il se prétend ami des Capes-Vertes et spécialiste des Bêtes Suprêmes, il s''est, en réalité, mis très tôt au service du Dévoreur, une puissance millénaire revenue dans le monde de l''Erdas pour s''emparer des talismans de toutes les Bêtes Suprêmes et anéantir le Royaume. Depuis, Zérif traque sans merci les Bêtes Suprêmes. Son but : détruire les liens qui les unissent à leurs humains et voler leur pouvoir qu''il capture dans la petite fiole noire dont il ne se sépare jamais. Voici comment il a réussi à dompter plusieurs Bêtes Suprêmes pour les asservir. Histoire 1 - Halawir, l''aigle Histoire 2 - Rumfuss, le sanglier Histoire 3 - Suka, l''ours polaire Histoire 4 - Kovo, le singe Histoire 5 - Gerathon, le serpent

The convergence of Algorithms, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ABC) has the potential to fundamentally disrupt the current world of work. This book investigates the effects of this on the worker, the organisation and the economy, by considering a future where the traditional power relationships between workers and firms no longer apply.

A trio of friends set out to catch monsters and foil a nefarious plot in this hilarious adventure by Josh Baxter Levels Up author Gavin Brown. There is only one thing seventh graders Tommy Wainwright, Colleen "Spike" Hernandez, and Karin Khalil want to do -- go on adventures and catch monsters! And in a world where monsters -- big and small -- roam, someone has to keep these creatures in check, right? Luckily, this is the iPhone era, and that means anyone can use the brand-new app, AppVenture ("It''s like Uber for monster-slaying!"), to hire their very own adventurer to stop the beasts.So when Tommy, Spike, and Karim find a way to become registered "Independent Adventure Contractors" for the new app, they couldn''t be more thrilled. At first, being full-fledged adventurers is a blast. But when the trio embark on their second quest, they stumble upon a secret: It seems AppVenture has been releasing monsters into the wild in order to generate more business. Now the three friends find themselves on the run from a venture-backed startup that will do anything to make sure our heroes don''t live to reveal the truth...

From April 1986 until just after Nelson Mandela’s release from prison in February 1990, supporters of the City of London Anti-Apartheid Group maintained a continuous protest, day and night, outside the South African Embassy in central London. This book examines how and why a group of children, teenagers and young adults made themselves ‘non-stop against apartheid’, creating one of the most visible expressions of anti-apartheid solidarity in Britain. Drawing on interviews with over ninety former participants in the Non-Stop Picket of the South African Embassy and extensive archival research using previously unstudied documents, this book offers new insights to the study of social movements and young people’s lives. It theorises solidarity and the processes of adolescent development as social practices to provide a theoretically-informed, argument-led analysis of how young activists build and practice solidarity. Youth Activism and Solidarity: The Non-Stop Picket Against Apartheid will be of interest to geographers, historians and a wide range of other social scientists concerned with the historical geography of the international anti-apartheid movement, social movement studies, contemporary British history, and young people’s activism and geopolitical agency.

Through a series of interdisciplinary case studies, this topical collection is the first to focus on protest camps as unique organisational forms that transcend particular social movements'' contexts. The book offers a critical understanding of current protest events and will help better understanding of new global forms of democracy in action.

Video game lover Josh Baxter knows that seventh grade at a new school may be his hardest challenge yet, but he''s not afraid to level up and win! Josh Baxter is sick and tired of hitting the reset button. It''s not easy being the new kid for the third time in two years. One mistake and now the middle school football star is out to get him. And Josh''s sister keeps offering him lame advice about how to make friends, as if he needs her help finding allies!Josh knows that his best bet is to keep his head down and stay under the radar. If no one notices him, nothing can touch him, right? But when Josh''s mom sees his terrible grades and takes away his video games, it''s clear his strategy has failed. Josh needs a new plan, or he''ll never make it to the next level, let alone the next grade.He''s been playing not to lose. It''s time to play to win.

Josh Baxter is sick and tired of hitting the reset button. It''s not easy being the new kid for the third time in two years. One mistake and now the middle school football star is out to get him. Josh knows that his best bet is to keep his head down and stay under the radar. If no one notices him, nothing can touch him, right?

This paper investigates the housing form and neighbourhood design preferences of residents of North Cowichan, a small community in the peri-urban zone between Victoria and Nanaimo, BC, Canada. Using a mixed methods approach, residential preferences among residents were documented in order to establish the degree to which they are consistent with the principles of smart growth and, thus, supportive of urban containment.The research finds that in general residents value privacy, separation from neighbours and independence above other residential characteristics, characteristics that are not consistent with traditional smart growth residential forms. However, there is a subset of the population, particularly among residents over fifty years of age, who want to live in more urbanized environments. This paper concludes that residential forms need to reflect the values of privacy and independence in order draw more people into denser forms of housing and toward urban cores.

Dive, run, and soar through this exhilarating special edition in the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling series, with a story by WILD BORN author, Brandon Mull. Briggan the Wolf, Uraza the Leopard, Jhi the Panda, and Essix the Falcon -- the Four Fallen. Long before they were spirit animals, they roamed the wilds as Great Beasts, the most powerful beings in Erdas. When a mad king arose, the four banded together with an army of humans and animals to defeat him. But they weren''t the only Great Beasts in the war. A deadly scheme was already underway, hatched by two of their own. To save their world, the four had to give up their lives.These are the lost stories of the most selfless acts of bravery that Erdas has ever seen, and the secret betrayal that started it all. These are TALES OF THE GREAT BEASTS.

This paper examines the equity market reaction to 77 industrial incidents involving publicly traded companies in the United States over the period 2000-2013. This sample of incidents involves 14,449 injuries and 105 fatalities, with contributing factors identified as company violations and safety errors, equipment failure, human error and vandalism. The equity market reaction is identified using a GARCH-methodology. Companies that experienced incidents that were identified as safety violations are found to suffer from the highest costs in terms of equity price reductions, but the volatility effects of these incidents tend to mitigate within two weeks. Incidents caused by vandalism experience the sharpest volatility increases, but are found to reduce within two days. Whereas, equity market volatility associated with incidents caused by equipment failure tends to persist for almost four weeks after the event. Injuries are found to cost publicly traded companies $14 million each, however, fatalities lead to equity market capitalisation reductions of between $465 and $720 million depending on the cause of the incident. Hence, these results shed light on the equity market''s role as a driver for enhanced compliance with health and safety regulation and compliance with industry good practice.

This paper examines the impact of chemical industry incidents on the stock prices of the accident company and their direct competitors. Results show that the incident company experiences deeper negative abnormal returns as the number of injuries and fatalities as a result of the incident increases. The stock value of the competitor companies also suffer substantial losses stemming from contagion effects when disasters occur causing ten or more injuries or fatalities, but benefit from the incident though increasing stock value when the levels of injury and fatality is minor.

Physical Dreaming is about me and the world. It is about what may be invisible. It is about people and places that may have had influence. Physical dreaming is something to do with the fact that we may all be dreaming, even though there is still a body!. Of the physical variety. In waking dreams and sleeping dreams there is much going on. And I hope that some of my poetry points towards something that may be free of all dreaming. Enjoy!.

Recent years have seen a dramatic upsurge of interest in the connections between sexualities, space and place. Drawing established and ''founding'' figures of the field together with emerging authors, this innovative volume offers a broad, interdisciplinary and international overview of the geographies of sexualities. Incorporating a discussion of queer geographies, Geographies of Sexualities engages with cutting edge agendas and challenges the orthodoxies within geography regarding spatialities and sexualities. It contains original and previously unpublished material that spans the often separated areas of theory, practices and politics. This innovative volume offers a trans-disciplinary engagement with the spatialities of sexualities, intersecting discussions of sexualities with issues such as development, race, gender and other forms of social difference.

Over a racecourse measuring 39,270 nautical miles, the world''s leading sailors delivered the closest race ever in pursuit of one of sailing''s most coveted prizes, the Volvo Ocean Race Trophy. Sur les 39270 milles du parcours, les meilleurs marins au monde ont disputé une course serrée comme jamais pour remporter l''un des prix nautiques les plus convoités: le Trophée de la Volvo Ocean Race. Sobre un recorrido de 39270 millas nâuticas, los mejores regatistas del mundo disputaron la regata màs renida que ha habido en la batalla por uno de los trofeos mâs codiciados de la vela, el Volvo Ocean Race Trophy.