Memoirs of a Jackass is a story of two women and their anti-social antics born out of boredom in a rural mid-west town where emotion and excitement have seemed to have died. Laura, and her best friend, Molly, vent their frustrations in a multitude of ways that the rest of us only wish we had imagined. As the story progresses, their brooding anti-social anxiety surfaces in unexpected and hilarious ways through schemes hatched and predicaments created.

This book explores the role of the ideology of nature in producing urban and exurban sprawl. It examines the ironies of residential development on the metropolitan fringe, where the search for nature brings residents deeper into the world from which they are imagining their escape-of Federal Express, technologically mediated communications, global supply chains, and the anonymity of the global marketplace-and where many of the central features of exurbia-very low-density residential land use, monster homes, and conversion of forested or rural land for housing-contribute to the very problems...

This book explores the role of the ideology of nature in producing urban and exurban sprawl. It examines the ironies of residential development on the metropolitan fringe, where the search for "nature" brings residents deeper into the world from which they are imagining their escape-of Federal Express, technologically mediated communications, global supply chains, and the anonymity of the global marketplace-and where many of the central features of exurbia-very low-density residential land use, monster homes, and conversion of forested or rural land for housing-contribute to the very problems...

Kidnapped, tortured and forcibly converted into a wolf shape shifter, Dee is alone and terrified... until a mysterious man rescues her from the hideous lab and she is taken in by Il Trosa, a pack of wolf shifters living in England's north. But her troubles are far from over, as she finds herself caught in the middle of a centuries-old war that threatens to wipe out the shifters, and is astonished to realise that she is the subject of an ancient and deadly prophecy. "A striking and original story that takes place in the world we know but quickly departs from it for some place more magical and...

This book is about politics and planning outside of cities, where urban political economy and planning theories do not account for the resilience of places that are no longer rural and where local communities work hard to keep from ever becoming urban. By examining exurbia as a type of place that is no longer simply rural or only tied to the economies of global resources (e.g., mining, forestry, and agriculture), we explore how changing landscapes are planned and designed not to be urban, that is, to look, function, and feel different from cities and suburbs in spite of new home development...

Born into a life of violence and uncertainty, Caroline has fought tooth and nail to escape her destructive past, joining the Den of wolf shape shifters in northern England and rising through the ranks to become Alpha, the most powerful female on the estate. But the ghosts of her past are not so easily laid to rest. After fifteen years apart, an old acquaintance steps back into her life; Andre, an assassin for the Council, the ruling body of the shifter nation. The reunion stirs up old desires in both of them that threaten to distract them from their duty. As the shifters face new threats from...

Skip would be the first to admit that she is no warrior. After surviving a nightmarish childhood, she now fights the wolf-shifters' war with the Noturatii from behind the scenes, using her formidable skills with technology to hack enemy databases and monitor communications, but never venturing onto the frontlines of the war. But when Skip is kidnapped by the Noturatii, she must find a courage she didn't know she possessed. Injured and without backup, she is faced with a daunting task: outwit her captors, endure the elements, and even defy her own Den in order to safeguard the shifters' future...

Disaster has befallen the wolf-shifter nation; Genna-Ul of the Grey Watch stands accused of breaking the Treaty of Erim Kai Bahn, a sacred document that has preserved peace between Il Trosa and the Grey Watch for centuries. Now, both factions are scrambling to negotiate a resolution before war breaks out. But Tank, a powerful warrior from Il Trosa, believes there is more to the situation than meets the eye. Old rivalries and hidden transgressions will be brought to light as Tank and Genna forge new alliances, seek to expose the sinister truth at the heart of the Grey Watch pack, and try to...