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      • Trusted Partner
        Literature & Literary Studies
        November 2021

        The gothic novel in Ireland, c. 1760–1829

        by Christina Morin

      • Trusted Partner
        May 2016

        13 Dinge, die mental starke Menschen NICHT tun

        An alle, die sich heute besser fühlen möchten als gestern

        by Morin, Amy / Englisch Bülow, Isabel Gräfin

      • Trusted Partner
        Business, Economics & Law
        December 2018

        World Heritage Sites

        Tourism, Local Communities and Conservation Activities

        by Takamitsu Jimura

        Heritage is a growing area of both tourism and study, with World Heritage Site designations increasing year-on-year. This book reviews the important interrelations between the industry, local communities and conservation work, bringing together the various opportunities and challenges for different destinations. World Heritage status is a strong marketing brand, and proper heritage management and effective conservation are vital, but this tourism must also be developed and managed appropriately if it is to benefit a site. As many sites are located in residential areas, their interaction with the local community must also be carefully considered. This book: - Reviews new areas of development such as Historic Urban Landscapes, Intangible Cultural Heritage, Memory of the World and Global Geoparks. - Includes global case studies to relate theory to practice. - Covers a worldwide industry of over 1,000 cultural and natural heritage sites. An important read for academics, researchers and students of heritage studies, cultural studies and tourism, this book is also a useful resource for professionals working in conservation, cultural and natural heritage management.

      • Loveoid

        by JL Morin

        This cli-fi love story is a Cygnus 1st Place Sci-fi Award Winner; Book Excellence Award Finalist, Erotica; ScreenCraft Semifinalist (top 12% of submissions); Fish shortlist (top 4% of submissions); Global Thriller Book Awards for High Stakes and Lab Lit Novels shortlist   An American euthanasist and an Egyptian astrological farmer delve into the evolution of the collective soul ... as an extremophile virus targets a select few.   The twisted scientific changes of our present-day lives catalyze love in parallel universes, as love-lacking predators on top kill off life on earth. Loveoid grapples with the dilemmas of the latest generation of humankind ⎯ that the loving don't survive. In the present-day novel Loveoid, Olivia unravels a virus that only harms the corporate elite. In combat with media, governments and corporations, Olivia finds love, and comes to question her own ideals. The impossibly mixed match encounters life-threatening obstacles, as Khalid elicits her darkest fears, yet lights the way with astrological farming and ancient holistic remedies. Will love allow them to stay human?   "Loveoid is a wildly unique and immensely realized science fiction thriller set in a dystopian present in which overpopulation is decimating the Earth and its natural resources at a rapid rate. Additionally, the world of the story is incredibly deep, filled with dense detail and nuance that give the impression of a very realized universe."   ⎯ScreenCraft   "With a new, scary virus as the backdrop, Olivia and Khalid navigate love, cures, and a different world. A timely novel with an interesting message about love and nature."    ⎯Booklist   "The smart choice to set this eco-thriller in the present brings home the tenebrous climate prognostications we usually reserve for another year." ⎯Brussels Express   "As overpopulation grows, natural resources are depleted, species go extinct, and the polar ice caps continue to melt. People now check into euthanasia hotels to escape a hopeless future.... The story's premise is interesting."⎯Library Journal   "Morin's wit can be delicious"  ⎯Canberra Times, Australia   "I take heart from her ethereal intuition: true love is what eventually will separate man from vegetable."  ⎯Andreas Bergsten, Author, The Rift   "About time some serious writers and artists grappling with the biggest issue of our time--maybe all time. This story shows that engagement is fully underway!"   ⎯Bill McKibben, Founder 350.org     JL Morin grew up in inner-city Detroit. She proffered moral support while her parents sacrificed all to a failed system. Wondering what the Japanese were doing right, she decamped to Tokyo. Her debut Japan novel, Sazzae, won an eLit Gold Medal, and a Living Now Book Award. Her second novel, Travelling Light, was a USA Best Book Awards finalist, and her third, Trading Dreams, became ‘Occupy’s first bestselling novel’. Her climate fiction novel, Nature’s Confession, won first place in the Dante Rossetti Book Awards; a Readers’ Favorite Book Award; a LitPick 5-Star Review Award; and an excerpt received an Honorable Mention in the Eco-Fiction Story Contest, published in the Winds of Change anthology of eco-fiction. Her second cli-fi novel, Loveoid, is a Cygnus Sci-fi 1st place winner, among others. Her cli-fi novels are on course syllabi at many universities. Ivy League professors have facilitated discussions with JL Morin’s writing, and it is discussed in textbooks, such as Science Fiction and Climate Change: A Sociological Approach, by Andrew Milner, ‎and J. R. Burgmann, 2020, published by Oxford University Press. Her most recent work, Tuck-a-tuck Dragon, is a diverse rhyming children’s book illustrated by children throughout their childhood from the ages of 2–21. JL Morin’s writing draws on a breadth of experience. She traded derivatives in New York while studying nights for her MBA at New York University’s Stern School of Business; worked for the Federal Reserve Bank posted to the 103rd floor of the World Trade Center; presented the news as a TV broadcaster; and she is adjunct faculty at Boston University. Morin’s fiction has appeared in The Harvard Advocate and Harvard Yisei, and her articles and translations in The Huffington Post, Library Journal, The Detroit News, European Daily, Livonia Observer Eccentric Newspapers, The Harvard Crimson, and Agence France Presse while she worked in their Middle East Headquarters.

      • Nature's Confession

        by JL Morin

        The epic tale of two teens in a fight to save a warming planet...the universe...and their love. A cli-fi quest to outsmart polluters, full of romance, honour and adventure.    “The novel is epic” –The Guardian    “It makes no apologies for its mission: to save our Planet Earth from self-destructing. A thought-provoking novel that brings the genre of ‘cli-fi’ to young adult readers.” —Florence Griswold Museum Reading Club, in an event featuringDr. Mark J. Schenker, Senior Associate Dean andDean of Academic Affairs at Yale University   Readers' Favorite Award Winner Book Excellence Finalist A Top 10  Best Science Fiction book Best Climate and Environmental Fiction book LitPick Award winner In "12 Works of Climate Fiction Everyone Should Read" 'Top Fiction Read' of the Year New York Book Festival Honorable Mention An excerpt received an Eco-Fiction Story Contest Honorable Mention     "Honestly, it's not my fault.  Humans were polluting the planet to desolation.  What else could I do?  I had to save her. "   When a smart-mouthed, mixed-race teen wonders why the work that needs to be done pays nothing compared to the busywork glorified on holovision news, the search for answers takes him on the wildest journey of anyone's lifetime. With the girl of his dreams, he inadvertently invents living computers. Just as the human race allows corporations to pollute Earth into total desolation, institute martial law and enslave humanity, the two teens set out to save civilization. Can they thwart polluters of Earth and other fertile planets? The heroes come into their own in different kinds of relationships in this diverse, multi-cultural romance. Along the way, they enlist the help of female droid Any Gynoid, who uncovers cutting-edge scientific mysteries. Their quest takes them through the Big Bang and back. Will Starliament tear them from the project and unleash 'intelligent' life's habitual pollution, or will youth lead the way to a new way of coexisting with Nature? Nature's Confession couldn't be more timely, just as the IMF reveals that governments give $5.3 trillion in fossil fuel subsidies every year, while we continue to propagate the idea that solar and wind power are unprofitable. The ideal classroom tool, with illustrations and topics for discussion at the back of the book. JL Morin entertains questions about busywork; economic incentives to pollute; sustainable energy; exploitation; cyborgs; the sanctity of Nature; and many kinds of relationships in this diverse, multi-cultural romance.

      • Anthologies (non-poetry)
        September 2021

        Impact

        Women Writing After Concussion

        by E. D. Morin and Jane Cawthorne

        In Impact, 21 women writers consider the effects of concussion on their personal and professional lives. The anthology bears witness to the painstaking work that goes into redefining identity and regaining creative practice after a traumatic event. By sharing their complex and sometimes incomplete healing journeys, these women convey the magnitude of a disability which is often doubted, overlooked, and trivialized, in part because of its invisibility. Impact offers compassion and empathy to all readers and families healing from concussion and other types of trauma. Contributors: Adèle Barclay, Jane Cawthorne, Tracy Wai de Boer, Stephanie Everett, Mary-Jo Fetterly, Rayanne Haines, Jane Harris, Kyla Jamieson, Alexis Kienlen, Claire Lacey, E. D. Morin, Julia Nunes, Shelley Pacholok, Chiedza Pasipanodya, Judy Rebick, Julie Sedivy, Dianah Smith, Carrie Snyder, Kinnie Starr, Amy Stuart, Anna Swanson

      • Romance
        September 2015

        To Love a Traitor

        by Merrow, JL

        Wounds of the heart take the longest to heal. When solicitor's clerk George Johnson moves into a rented London room in the winter of 1920, it's with a secret goal: to find out if his fellow lodger, Matthew Connaught, is the wartime traitor who cost George's adored older brother his life. Yet as he gets to know Matthew—an irrepressibly cheerful ad man whose missing arm hasn't dimmed his smile—George begins to lose sight of his mission. As Matthew's advances become ever harder to resist, George tries to convince himself his brother's death was just the luck of the draw, and to forget he's hiding a secret of his own. His true identity—and an act of conscience that shamed his family. But as their mutual attraction grows, so does George's desperation to know the truth about what happened that day in Ypres. If only to prove Matthew innocent—even if it means losing the man he's come to love.This is a novel-length expansion of previously published novella.

      • Humanities & Social Sciences

        Du drame au pouvoir de la renaissance (Préface d'Edgar Morin)

        Analyse d'une offre politique pour la République Démocratique du Congo

        by Etiti Yomo Djeriwo

        Pays riche en ressources naturelles et humaines, miné par des fractures économiques et sociales , la RDC a pourtant les moyens de son développement. Sa situation géopolitique et économique exceptionnelle donne aux Congolais de l'intérieur comme de l'extérieur, des raisons d'espérer en des lendemains meilleurs. Comme le dit Etiti Yomo Djeriwo : "Il appartient aux congolais de transformer le pays en un arc-en-ciel de l'Afrique centrale". C'est selon lui, l'ambition du Docteur Donat Mupapa Kibadi, président de la Fédération des démocrates et des républicains congolais. Pour nous en convaincre, il nous rapporte ici la vision politique pleine d'espoir du célèbre "docteur Ebola".

      • December 2010

        Dulce et Decorum Est

        Out of Print

        by JL Merrow, Catt Ford

        The First World War cast a long shadow, and in the winter of 1920, it's still at its darkest. When solicitor's clerk George Johnson moves into new digs, he's instantly attracted to friendly fellow lodger Matthew Connaught, who lost an arm in the Great War. As the two become inseparable, George begins to wonder whether it's just friendship that Matthew feels for him or something more. And if it's something more... can George risk a revelation of his shameful past? ;

      • Anthologies (non-poetry)
        May 2021

        You Look Good for Your Age

        An Anthology

        by Rona Altrows

        You Look Good for Your Age is a collection of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry about ageism by 29 women writers ranging from their forties to their nineties. The anthology responds to a culture that values youth and that positions aging in women as a failure. Questions arise. What effects do negative social assumptions have on women as they age? What messages about aging do we pass on to our daughters? Through essays, short stories, and poetry, the contributing writers explore these questions with thoughtfulness, satire, and fury. Contributors: Rona Altrows, Debbie Bateman, Moni Brar, Maureen Bush, Sharon Butala, Jane Cawthorne, Joan Crate, Dora Dueck, Cecelia Frey, Ariel Gordon, Elizabeth Greene, Vivian Hansen, Joyce Harries, Elizabeth Haynes, Paula Kirman, Joy Kogawa, Laurie MacFayden, JoAnn McCaig, Wendy McGrath, E.D. Morin, Lisa Murphy Lamb, Lorri Neilsen Glenn, Olyn Ozbick, Roberta Rees, Julie Sedivy, Madelaine Shaw-Wong, Anne Sorbie, Aritha van Herk, Laura Wershler

      • December 2010

        Batteries Not Included

        Out of Print

        by JL Merrow, Paul Richmond, Paul Richmond

        How would you react if you woke up one morning to find you were in bed with your favorite pop star? More to the point: how would the pop star react? Sam's celebrity crush, Cain Shepney, isn't so pleased to wake up with a stranger, but that's far from the worst shock the day has in store for them both! Sam's used to his mother messing with his love life, but this time, Lilith may really have gone too far. ;

      • Adventure stories (Children's/YA)
        November 2014

        Malou

        1- The Sheep that Cried Moo!

        by Laurent Chabin, Jean Morin

        A sheep that thinks it’s a cow. Have you ever seen anything of the sort! Malou, asked for advice, can barely contain her laughter. To her, it seems, a sheep that moos is the funniest thing ever! She believes the animal is free to do as it pleases. Does this maverick realize what it’s risking by being different? Part of a duology

      • Changeons de voie

        by Edgar Morin and Sabah Abouessalam

        If we struggle to make sense of the current pandemic, at least let us draw conclusions for the future. A microscopic virus in a faraway Chinese town has caused the world to unravel. There may have been pandemics in the past, but COVID-19 has been radically different in the fact that it has launched a worldwide polycrisis with multiple factors, interactions and uncertainties, all intricately woven. The aftermath will be an uncertain adventure where the worst and the best (which is yet to make a grand entrance) will compete. But the worst is not set in stone, and the unexpected can still happen. A brilliant analysis by the philosophical father of intricacy.

      • 2018

        Escapades virtuelles

        Vol. 1 : Sueurs froides au pays des momies

        by Jessica Wilcott Illustrated by Jean Morin

        Escapades virtuelles (Virtual Getaway) is a series of illustrated novels (three published, two more to come) packed with humour and adventure. Guillaume and Katherine are literally caught inside their video game! To survive, they will have to travel through ancient civilizations (Egypt, Greece, Vikings, Mays, and Romans) and make their way through unknown dangers while battling fantastical and mythical creatures.To learn more about this publisher, click here: http://bit.ly/2ZeYCwK

      • Fiction

        Y avait-il des limites si oui je les ai franchies mais c'était par amour ok

        by Michelle Lapierre-Dallaire

        WERE THERE LIMITS IF SO I CROSSED THEM BUT IT WAS OUT OF LOVE OK? In this uncompromising work of autofiction, the author attempts to reconcile herself to a world that endlessly denies her voice, her femininity and her trauma.  Summary Michelle’s life starts in early childhood with unspeakable abuse that will haunt her into adulthood.  The narrator suffers from borderline personality disorder, which blurs the line between excessive behaviour and hypersensitivity, revealing a woman furiously attached to the need to love and be loved.  The first book by Michelle Lapierre is disarmingly, unsettlingly frank. A rare incursion into the borderline psyche, Were There Limits… features a kaleidoscope of barely bearable scenes and luminous reflections on mental illness, family, romantic relationships—told in breathtakingly beauty prose.  *** French sample : https://flipbook.cantook.net/?d=%2F%2Fwww.entrepotnumerique.com%2Fflipbook%2Fpublications%2F111787.js&oid=255&c=&m=&l=&r=&f=pdf See other PDF for English sample.

      • August 2010

        Making Contact

        Out of Print

        by Emily Moreton, Andrea Speed, Sue Brown, Andi Deacon, Cornelia Grey, Cari Z., Lyn Gala, JL Merrow, Analise Dubner

        Everyone knows that love can turn your world upside down, but it can also be literally out of this world! In this selection of M/M science fiction short stories, there's romance among the shooting stars, love that matches the glory of the spheres, and passion that burns like the largest of suns, and making first contact takes on a whole new meaning.See Excerpt for story list. ;

      • May 2010

        Necking

        Out of Print

        by Lori Toland, Jana Denardo, Josephine Myles, Evan Gilbert, Aundrea Singer, Emily Moreton, Heidi Cullinan, Heidi Champa, Dar Mavison, Jamie Freeman, JL Merrow, Zahra Owens, Devon Rhodes, G.S. Wiley, Lenore Black

        Edited by Julianne BentleyJust close your eyes and feel: soft, warm lips skimming from your shoulder to your ear, your skin prickling and tickling. Then add another set, echoing the first, layer upon layer of sensation as two sets of hands join the game, stroking, sliding, ratcheting up the heat. And when your lips part and the tip of your tongue darts out, it's met by two more in a luscious, messy, three-way kiss. This is necking, pure and hot, sending shivers of arousal down your spine. In these stories, the men come in threes: triple the pleasure, triple the love. ;

      • Media studies
        October 2021

        Communico

        Languages, Images, Algorithms

        by Mario Ricciardi

        The book traces a wide-ranging overview of communication: a cultural dimension in which different knowledge converges and merges. The author takes into consideration numerous voices – from McLuhan to Barthes, from Pasolini to Castells, just to name a few – to analyse, first, the processes of civilization from the alphabet to digital technology and to show, then, how the media system takes over society and how, in the age of mass consumption, the critical role of public opinion is weakened by market and advertising. Finally, attention shifts to the leap that leads to our days: the algorithm is the pervasive and dominant technology, the personalization operated by digital communication produces new forms of individual mythologies.

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