Perhaps most striking is the human face of affirmative action today, which emerges radiantly from the stories gathered here.

Secret, strange, dark, impure and dissonant...Enter the haunted landscapes of folk horror, a world of ­pagan ­village conspiracies, witch finders, and teenagers awakening to evil; of dark fairy tales, backwoods cults and obsolete technologies. Beginning with the classics Night of the Demon, Witchfinder General, The Wicker Man and Blood on Satan's Claw, We Don't Go Back surveys the genre of screen folk horror from across the world. Travelling from Watership Down to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, with every stop inbetween, We Don't Go Back is a thoughtful, funny and essential overview of folk horror in TV and cinema."A beautiful rumination on the dark films and television that shaped me and a generation of odd children, for good or ill, worth a year of your time, because you won't just read the book, you'll feel a burning desire to watch everything mentioned within." - Robin Ince"A comprehensive, accessible and often riotously funny tome weaving together folk horror in all its forms, from British television to the American backwoods, from Eastern European fairytales to the vengeful ghosts of East Asia. Ingham explores uncanny landscapes haunted by things buried, old cultures converging with the reluctance of contemporary reason, that very tension that gives his book its name. He attempts to both define folk horror and free it from definition, creating the ultimate guide to the genre's manifestations on film and offering a convincing argument as to why the genre resonates so compellingly with people today." - Kier-La Janisse, author of House of Psychotic Women

A deeply-reported examination of why "doing what you love" is a recipe for exploitation, creating a new tyranny of work in which we cheerily acquiesce to doing jobs that take over our lives. You're told that if you "do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life." Whether it's working for "exposure" and "experience," or enduring poor treatment in the name of "being part of the family," all employees are pushed to make sacrifices for the privilege of being able to do what we love. In Work Won't Love You Back, Sarah Jaffe, a preeminent voice on labor, inequality, and social movements, examines this "labor of love" myth—the idea that certain work is not really work, and therefore should be done out of passion instead of pay. Told through the lives and experiences of workers in various industries—from the unpaid intern, to the overworked teacher, to the nonprofit worker and even the professional athlete—Jaffe reveals how all of us have been tricked into buying into a new tyranny of work. As Jaffe argues, understanding the trap of the labor of love will empower us to work less and demand what our work is worth. And once freed from those binds, we can finally figure out what actually gives us joy, pleasure, and satisfaction.

You have to do it everyday And I know it will be hard, some days it may feel even impossible But you have to believe in your Self and I promise you'll never Experience setbacks from the Hands of believing in yourself Just get it done

In Across the Distance we heard from Jillian, now its time to hear Griffin's side of the story... "I could not put it down . . . Loved it!" -- Jen McLaughlin, New York Times bestselling author on Across the Distance When Jillian moved next door, she refused to get out of the car. I climbed into the backseat beside her and promised to never leave her. Now, I'm driving her a thousand miles away, so she can leave me. She has to go. What else would she do? Follow me and my band from one cheap bar to another, get hit on by sleazy promoters? Because Jillian would definitely get hit on. She's the most gorgeous, talented girl I've ever known, and she doesn't even see it. This scholarship gives Jillian the chance to study at the best design school in the country. It's what she's always wanted. I won't stand in the way of her dreams, no matter how much it hurts to watch her go. I just wish she wasn't leaving without knowing the truth . . .

This is a guide meant to help those industrious individuals who just don't know what they want to do when faced with forced job change, or who have chosen to go in a different direction in their vocational life, and don't know how to begin. You will gain a new found connection with yourself that will help you be more in touch with your inner processes, and increase your confidence and capabilities to determine any new path you choose in your life. The aim here is to provide some methods and raise some questions that can quickly get you moving in a new direction whether you're experiencing a career crisis or thinking of a change for your own personal and professional development.

Alexander Bill grew up on Quackenbush Avenue in Brooklyn. She’d had a provincial childhood, walking the distance between her grandparents’ house and home, just three doors away. She’d never wanted for anything and had adored her father, but her dream was to become a teacher and move somewhere out west. If there was one thing that prevented her from dreaming, it was her father. He was a New Yorker through and through and the world beyond New York ceased to exist. He thought Alex would one day marry a nice New York boy and live somewhere in Brooklyn. Alex’s mother had left when she was two after falling in love with a guy who predicted that one day “wine would be big.” He was right, and they’d settled in northern California and had joined the ranks of the very wealthy. Alex also inherited a stepbrother named Thom that she rarely saw but disliked just the same. When her mother offered her a job in the company business, Alex decided to try it for a year. The salary was great, but the thought of finally seeing the world appealed to her the most. She’d been dreaming of foreign lands her entire life. What she didn’t expect was to have to work closely with a stepbrother who had a penchant for business and an even better penchant for love. --- TAGS: Stepbrother Romance, Stepsister Romance, Stepsibling Romance, Step-brother Romance, Step-sister Romance, Steamy Romance, Hot Alphas, Hot Billionaires, Billionaire Romance Books, Office Romance, Alpha Male Romance, Dominant Possessive Book, Contemporary Love Sex, Forbidden Romance, Boss Romance Novels, New Adult Romance Ebooks

The Fan is a young city that consists of three races. Humans: possessing no supernatural power, Elementals: able manipulate matter, and Imps: the failed and mutated attempt at a man-made Elemental. Like the Fan that exists in a delicate balance, Lilah's natural born Elemental family is constantly on the brink. With her mother slowly wasting away from an incurable illness for ten years, she lives every day with her like it's the last. In that time, her father, one of the strongest Elementals alive, used his very life-force to keep his wife going. Until one day...he didn't.