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Arts and entertainment, Ancient history, Religion
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Packed with fascinating facts, intriguing mysteries and breathtaking discoveries, from the ancient wonders of Egypt and Pompeii to the mysteries…
of lost Mayan civilizations and the enigmatic Nazca Lines in Peru, this captivating guide offers a whirlwind tour of humanity's past through the art of archaeology.
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Science and technology, General non-fiction
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This title is endorsed for the Cambridge Pathway to support the syllabuses for examination from 2027.Introducing the third edition of…
our Student's Book to cover the updated Cambridge International AS and A Level Geography syllabus (9696) for examination from 2027, part of a suite of print and digital resources to support teaching and learning.- Trust experienced authors to guide you through the updated syllabus with comprehensive coverage of the new content, a refreshed design and individual chapters on each topic.- Build and reinforce understanding of all learners with a clear layout, accessible language, terminology and illustrations, and ESL-friendly key terms.- Build geographical skills with clear guidance and practice, including advice on fieldwork.- Ensure complete coverage with the core syllabus and all the human and physical geography options included.- Prepare for assessment and check understanding with new analyses of detailed specific examples, updated practice questions and knowledge tests at the end of each topic.- Provide an international focus with a wide range of global examples whilst encouraging students to make links with their local contexts. Auto-marked knowledge tests are available via the eBook version at the end of each topicAnswers to all the practice questions and activities are FREE to download from: www.hachettelearning.com/answers-and-extras
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Fantasy, Science fiction
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The eighth book in the bestselling Chronicles of St Mary's series which follows a group of tea-soaked disaster magnets as…
they hurtle their way around History. If you love Jasper Fforde or Ben Aaronovitch, you won't be able to resist Jodi Taylor.Because, my dear Max, you dance on the edge of darkness ... and I don't think it would take very much for you to dance my way.When an old enemy appears out of nowhere with an astonishing proposition for Max - a proposition that could change everything Max is tempted. Very tempted.With an end to an old conflict finally in sight, it looks as if St Mary's problems are over with. Can they all now live happily ever after?As everything hangs in the balance, Max and St Mary's find themselves engulfed in tragedies worse than they could ever imagine.Is this the end? Readers love Jodi Taylor: 'Once in a while, I discover an author who changes everything... Jodi Taylor and her protagonista Madeleine "Max" Maxwell have seduced me' 'A great mix of British proper-ness and humour with a large dollop of historical fun' 'Addictive. I wish St Mary's was real and I was a part of it' 'Jodi Taylor has an imagination that gets me completely hooked' 'A tour de force'
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Law and crime biography, Journals and memoirs, European history, True crime
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A mother's fight to bring her daughter's killer, Christopher Halliwell, to justice'I have lived every parent's worst nightmare. On what…
would have been my daughter's 29th birthday, Detective Superintendent Stephen Fulcher knocked on the door and told me my beautiful Becky was dead. Found buried in a shallow grave in a remote field, Becky had been brutally murdered.'When Becky Godden-Edwards was killed, her mother Karen awoke to a world where the truth was never guaranteed; where taxi driver Christopher Halliwell got away with murder and the police officer who found her daughter was punished instead. This is Karen's story. Despite unimaginable tragedy, her love for her daughter has been unbreakable: from her despair through Becky's troubled teenage years, to the agonising eight years when Becky was missing, and then the dramatic story of how a killer's confession led to a terrible discovery. The one constant has been Karen's determination to fight for Becky, tirelessly campaigning for the truth about what happened to be heard and for Halliwell to face the consequences of his evil actions. *The murders of Becky Godden-Edwards and Sian O'Callaghan will soon be the focus of major new ITV series A Confession starring Martin Freeman as Stephen Fulcher and Imelda Staunton as Karen Edwards*
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Science and technology, General non-fiction
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This title is endorsed for the Cambridge Pathway to support the syllabuses for examination from 2027.Introducing the third edition of…
our Student's Book to cover the updated Cambridge International AS and A Level Geography syllabus (9696) for examination from 2027, part of a suite of print and digital resources to support teaching and learning.- Trust experienced authors to guide you through the updated syllabus with comprehensive coverage of the new content, a refreshed design and individual chapters on each topic.- Build and reinforce understanding of all learners with a clear layout, accessible language, terminology and illustrations, and ESL-friendly key terms.- Build geographical skills with clear guidance and practice, including advice on fieldwork.- Ensure complete coverage with the core syllabus and all the human and physical geography options included.- Prepare for assessment and check understanding with new analyses of detailed specific examples, updated practice questions and knowledge tests at the end of each topic.- Provide an international focus with a wide range of global examples whilst encouraging students to make links with their local contexts. Auto-marked knowledge tests are available via the eBook version at the end of each topicAnswers to all the practice questions and activities are FREE to download from: www.hachettelearning.com/answers-and-extras
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Laws and statutes, General non-fiction
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Joseph Fischel’s provocative book, Sodomy’s Solicitations, builds out a politics of sexual justice that challenges state sex exceptionalism. By tracing several twenty-first…
century contestations around Louisiana anti-sodomy laws, Fischel examines patterns and practices of sexual injustice that are too easily eclipsed by our collective focus on marginalized identities. The political stories narrated in Sodomy’s Solicitations are undoubtedly stories of racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia, but they are also stories of other political problems—and political possibilities. Fischel indicts U.S. sex offender regulatory regimes as state-sponsored sexual violence; offers a qualified defense for sexual expression in public; and argues that animal sexual abuse laws, with their exemptions for industrial agricultural practices, authorize the suffering they were enacted to deter. He also makes the case that laws criminalizing the exchange of sex for money are unconstitutional, and proposes that the best way to protect trans and queer children might just be to enfranchise them. Sodomy’s Solicitations champions a right to queerness across rather than within identity formations—a right to relatively unpoliced gender, sexual, and intimate pluralism. In the series Sexuality Studies
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Science and technology
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Geomechanical Aspects of Abandoned Room and Pillar Mines and Remediation Measures addresses the occurrence, prediction, and control of subsidence issues…
encountered in room and pillar mining, including creep, degradation, and seismic aspects. The book distinguishes itself by: Presenting a unified treatise on room and pillar mines Using clear definitions and explanations of fundamental concepts Considering long-term aspects (creep and degradation), seismic effects, remedial measures, contact types, and remote sensing monitoring techniques Including physical and numerical modeling Demonstrating an in-depth view of procedures and solution techniques This book provides a clear understanding of active and/or abandoned room and pillar mines. It is aimed at academics and engineers with a mining and/or civil engineering background, but it also serves as a reference for undergraduate and graduate students.
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Laws and statutes, Science and technology, Law and crime
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Blood Stain Pattern Analysis with an Introduction to Crime Scene Reconstruction, Fourth Edition provides criminal investigators and forensic scientists with…
a complete and comprehensive handbook on bloodstain pattern analysis.Bringing over 90 combined years of practical experience—and thousands of cases worked collectively—the authors explain the complex mechanics of blood spatter analysis, including anatomical issues relative to bloodstain pattern analysis, a discussion of blood and the circulatory system, and the nature of bleeding associated with various traumatic and non-traumatic injuries. The book also details specific methodologies for crime scene analysis and reconstruction, explaining the proven methodology involved in the process. Such methodology is built upon scientific method and provides focus and structure to the analyst as they evaluate evidence and conduct their work and the investigation.Finally, all chapters are fully revised and updated to address the latest taxonomy and terminology, with over 400 full-color photographs included to illustrate the dynamics of bloodstain pattern analysis.Key features: Presents a specific and detailed taxonomy of bloodstain pattern characteristics, outlining recently updated NIST’s OSAC terminology Includes two full-color fold-outs Decision Map to guide analysts through the classification process Details the theory, principles, and methodology for crime scene reconstruction Expands the bloodstain on clothing chapter, to include new developments in the understanding of bloodstain features and characteristics on cloth Offering practical advice and tips for new and experienced professionals alike, Blood Stain Pattern Analysis with an Introduction to Crime Scene Reconstruction, Fourth Edition offers readers the necessary tools to guide and focus any investigative effort.
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Business and economics, Disabilities
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This book explores how digital marketing can drive disability inclusion in consumer culture by addressing accessibility, representation, and research methodologies.…
It offers practical and theoretical insights for academics, practitioners, and policymakers interested in marketing, communication, sociology, and public policy.The first part, Digital Marketplace Accessibility, examines strategies for reducing the digital divide, including inclusive hiring practices and accessible platform development. The second part, Digital Representation, focuses on how people with disabilities are portrayed in digital media. It analyses topics such as aesthetics, influencer marketing, mental health advocacy, and neurodiversity. The third part, Digital Methodologies, highlights research approaches like netnography and offers reflections on methodological challenges when researching consumers with disabilities. Contributors discuss practices for conducting ethical and inclusive research involving people with disabilities, providing a roadmap for scholars. The final part, Poetic Epilogue, takes a poetic turn, offering an ecopoetic reflection on lived experiences of Alzheimer’s disease.This book encourages readers to reconsider disability as a complex and intersectional category. It inspires marketers, researchers, and advocates to adopt more inclusive and socially conscious marketing practices, ultimately contributing to a more equitable digital consumer culture.
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Laws and statutes, General non-fiction
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This book proposes a framework for regulating sex robots – human-like machines designed to engage emotionally and sexually with users…
through customisable, often AI-powered features.Although they occupy a niche in the adult entertainment and technology industries, sex robots raise complex issues that extend beyond current debates. To date, sex robots are frequently portrayed either as tools for societal liberalisation and remedies for sexual inequalities or as mediums for sexual commodification and personal degradation. These conflicting perspectives echo longstanding feminist debates, which often lead to polarisation and normative deadlock, overlooking the lived experiences of individuals beyond binary and heteronormative frameworks. The evolving legal landscape further complicates these issues. Regulatory bodies, such as the European Union, struggle to keep pace with emerging technologies and human-machine interactions. Their tendency to evaluate innovations as products with hypothetical risks – through a detached, top-down approach – fails to address the intersectional dynamics of privilege and oppression. This book enriches the conversation by moving beyond binary narratives of emancipation and oppression. It challenges the socio-legal construction of gender and sexuality, critiques regulatory inertia and morality policing, and advocates for nuanced, context-aware regulation of sex robots.It will appeal to researchers in socio-legal studies, law and technology, gender and law, as well as those in sociology and gender studies, offering critical insights into the regulation of gendered and sexualised technologies and their broader societal implications.
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Laws and statutes, General non-fiction
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The book brings together a range of socio-legal and law and humanities scholars to elaborate and explore the idea of…
the legal ‘masterplot’.There is a class of narrative, sometimes referred to as ‘masterplot’ or ‘metanarrative’, that stands above the plethora of other stories, plots, and myths that may be found in law. This book focuses on the masterplot concept as providing a productive yet largely under-explored way of seeing, understanding, and responding to legal controversies and socio-legal problems. Masterplots may be understood as those prevalent and enduring ideas and narratives that form the basis of expectations, assumptions, stereotypes, and prejudices. In legal contexts, masterplots give shape and significance to particular experiences or issues. In aligning with them, legal arguments, judgments, and reforms gain acceptability and can be presented as authoritative, proportionate, and legitimate. Reflecting, from different legal perspectives and subdisciplines, on the masterplots at play in our current legal frameworks, this collection illuminates the often-hidden ways in which law functions.This book will appeal to students and scholars of socio-legal studies, sociology, social policy, and humanities approaches to law.
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Philosophy, Religion
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This book conducts a comparative study between Confucian political philosophy and contemporary political philosophy in the analytic tradition.The author demonstrates…
the relevance of Confucianism to contemporary discussions on important political ideals, such as equality, democracy, human rights, perfectionism, and global justice. He also introduces individual Confucian thinkers, including both historical figures like Kongzi, Mengzi, and Xunzi, and contemporary thinkers such as Kang Youwei and Mou Zongsan. By arguing whether certain Confucian ideals can broaden current debates in political philosophy, the book moves the discussion further.The book will appeal to graduate students and scholars studying ethics, political philosophy, and Chinese philosophy.
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European history, History
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In the first major engagement with Aberdeenshire’s rural society since Carter’s The Poor Man’s Country of 1979, Riddell’s study of…
Northeast Scotland encourages readers to consider the vast potential held by Digital Genealogy for second-wave Digital Humanities.Often overlooked in contemporary historical scholarship, this study carves out a place for Digital Genealogy in academia. Riddell constructs a new lens to examine rural society in the nineteenth century, through which he extends and challenges Carter’s analysis. In recovering a breadth of people and their social networks through prosopographical data, the book reveals the agency of individuals who left minimal records. Riddell not only puts forward a fresh perspective on the social structures of Scotland’s north-eastern society but also informs a discussion on the nature of Britishness both within concepts of a developed western civilisation and beyond them.This book will interest a broad readership; Scottish history enthusiasts, pursuers of Digital Genealogy and, scholars and students of the Digital Humanities will all find value in this study.
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Arts and entertainment, General non-fiction
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Museum Design with, by, and for Children makes an important contribution to contemporary museum theory and practice by focusing on…
the role and rights of children in museums from a new angle: design.At a time when museum practitioners are challenged to work within their particular buildings and contexts to help the children in their communities feel welcome, invited, and involved, this book presents alternative approaches that are being implemented across the world and pushing the museum field further in its commitment to children, starting with design. This book provides inspirational insights into large- and small-scale ways that children can participate in museum design and therefore exercise their human rights, gain agency, develop their sense of belonging, and form part of museum communities. Drawing on case studies from Argentina, Australia, England, Italy, Mexico, and Paraguay, and theoretical insights from the Reggio Emilia Approach, constructivism, designerly learning, laboratory-style design, and the work of Paulo Freire and Francesco Tonucci, this book explores the extent to which museums’ design processes are child-centered and how children’s material culture can be reflected in the museum design work that will ultimately shape their own early learning experiences. This book explores museum design as a process that involves key stakeholders in procedural planning and associated tasks and discussions, such as those regarding color, light, shape, form, space, and building materials.Museum Design with, by, and for Children will be valuable for museum practitioners, students, and researchers with an interest in children’s experiences in museums, particularly how children can be empowered as active participants with rights to the museum.
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Poles, Polonia, and the Quest for Liberty provides a scholarly analysis of how Poles and Polish-Americans have cherished liberty and…
democracy in Poland and struggled to achieve those ideals across the centuries.Experts in the field tackle a series of topics that illuminate major themes in the history of a nation and a state that once again is playing an increasingly important role on the international stage. Chapters cover a wide historical period – from the Middle Ages to recent years – and address several subject areas, including international relations, security studies, political theory, area studies, and diplomatic and cultural history. The contributors deal with fifteenth-century conciliarism and contextual scrutiny of the varied meanings of liberty in the Constitution of May 3, 1791. Others examine various nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century diplomatic, financial, military, and cultural efforts in support of, and in one case, contrary to, Polish freedom and independence.Exploring divisive issues that challenged and continue to challenge policy-makers and the average person on both sides of the Atlantic, this timely book examines increasingly relevant topics concerning democracy and Poland. It will be of interest to those studying the history and politics of Eastern Europe.
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Philosophy, Christianity
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This book examines Clement of Alexandria’s interdisciplinary approach to nature contemplation—which he terms “physiology” and “physics”—showing its internal consistency even…
in the absence of a clear methodological outline.It reconstructs Clement’s method of nature contemplation, which, while discernible throughout his writings, does not feature as such in one place. Yet it exists within the second stage of the broader threefold roadmap of spiritual advancement, which progresses from ethics to physics to divine vision (“epoptics”). Specifically, Clement’s physics itself has three steps: analysis, interpretation, and the spiritual vision of the world. To advance through the three stages of physics, one must acquire virtue, contemplative skills, and sound information regarding the nature of things. But only transformed people, whom Clement calls “holy gnostics,” saintly sages, have access to the final stage, “gnostic physiology.” This third step amounts to an insightful—“noetic”—perception of nature irreducible to either keen observation or the information gathered and processed by way of analysis and interpretation. This book presents Clement’s method against the backdrop of ancient disciplines of nature contemplation—and as paving the way for contemporary science-engaged theology.The volume is suitable for postgraduate students and scholars of the history of science and religion, religious studies, early Christian and late antique studies, and patristic studies, particularly those working on Clement of Alexandria.
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Adventure stories, General fiction, Police procedural fiction, Suspense and thrillers
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A double murder. A divided city. A detective who won&’t walk away. The author of One Bad Turn delivers this…
pulse-pounding crime thriller. When teenagers Jamal Deng and Aisha Saforo are shot dead on the edge of a notorious estate, DS Chris Ashcroft knows why he&’s been assigned the case—and he doesn&’t like it one bit. Refusing to write the murders off as gang violence, Ashcroft insists on digging deeper—something doesn&’t add up. Jamal and Aisha came from different worlds. They had no reason to be together . . . As tensions in the city explode, Ashcroft is pulled into a deadly game that threatens the safety of those closest to him. And when a break finally comes in the form of dashcam footage, it leads him straight to the shocking truth . . . For fans of Angela Marsons and M. W. Craven, this is a gritty, gripping crime thriller where justice is never black and white.
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Ancient history, History, Criticism
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Weaving together literary and archaeological evidence, Emily Hauser illuminates the rich, intriguing lives of the real women behind Homer’s Iliad…
and Odyssey. Achilles. Agamemnon. Odysseus. Hector. The lives of these and many other men in the greatest epics of ancient Greece have been pored over endlessly in the past three millennia. But these are not just tales about heroic men. There are scores of women as well—complex, fascinating women whose stories have gone unexplored for far too long. In Penelope’s Bones, award-winning classicist and historian Emily Hauser pieces together compelling evidence from archaeological excavations and scientific discoveries to unearth the richly textured lives of women in Bronze Age Greece—the era of Homer’s heroes. Here, for the first time, we come to understand the everyday lives and experiences of the real women who stand behind the legends of Helen, Briseis, Cassandra, Aphrodite, Circe, Athena, Hera, Calypso, Penelope, and more. In this captivating journey through Homer’s world, Hauser explains era-defining discoveries, such as the excavation of Troy and the decipherment of Linear B tablets that reveal thousands of captive women and their children; more recent finds like the tomb of the Griffin Warrior at Pylos, whose tomb contents challenge traditional gender attributes; DNA evidence showing that groups of warriors buried near the Black Sea with their weapons and steeds were, in fact, Amazon-like female fighters; a prehistoric dye workshop on Crete that casts fresh light on “women’s work” of dyeing, spinning, and weaving textiles; and a superbly preserved shipwreck off the coast of Turkey whose contents tell of the economic and diplomatic networks crisscrossing the Bronze Age Mediterranean. Essential reading for fans of Madeline Miller or Natalie Haynes, this riveting new history brings to life the women of the Bronze Age Aegean as never before, offering a groundbreaking reassessment of the ancient world.
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Computers and internet
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This second edition walks you through the full lifecycle of Go microservice development, from scaffolding and system design to cloud-native…
rollout. Learn to secure, observe, and fine-tune services that stay responsive under load.Key FeaturesDesign and deploy scalable microservices using gRPC, Protocol Buffers and KubernetesDiscover industry best practices and gain insights into Go microservice development tools, patterns, and solutionsWork with hands-on Golang microservice examples in each chapterPurchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBookBook DescriptionMicroservices with Go, Second Edition explains the key benefits and common issues faced by developers when working with microservices, helping you understand the problems microservice architecture solves, the issues it introduces, and how to tackle them. The author distils his 18+ years of experience in building scalable and reliable infrastructure to help you grasp the importance of using the right principles and standards to achieve all that microservice architecture has to offer. You'll see why Go is a popular choice for microservice development, as well as navigate its foundational aspects, including service scaffolding, discovery, data serialization, communication, deployment, and testing. After covering development, you'll move to maintenance and reliability. This second edition is fully updated with newly added topics, including security and compliance, distributed system challenges, and performance monitoring. The final section focuses on advanced concepts, such as system reliability, observability, maintainability, and scalability. Through best practices and practical examples, you'll learn how to apply key ideas to existing applications using previously scaffolded services. By the end of this book, you'll have gained hands-on experience in developing scalable, reliable, and high-performance microservices with Go.What you will learnLeverage event-driven architecture and messaging patterns for efficient microservice communicationAutomate testing, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment strategies for Go microservicesEstablish secure communication between microservicesOptimize microservice performance by monitoring, profiling, and debugging techniquesGet hands-on experience in cloud-native observability and deployment toolsExplore solutions to advanced distributed system scenarios, such as leader electionWho this book is forThis book is for all types of developers, from individuals interested in learning how to write microservices in Go to seasoned professionals who want to master the art of writing scalable and reliable microservice-based systems. A basic understanding of Go will come in handy.
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Canadian non-fiction
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Blaine Higgs was the premier of New Brunswick from 2018 to 2024. Leading his Progressive Conservative Party through six years…
of headline-making policy, in September 2024 he called an election, trying and failing to become the first premier since Liberal leader Frank McKenna to win three consecutive terms in that province.*The Higgs Years *analyzes Higgs’s premiership, particularly in terms of his party’s electoral pledge fulfillment record. Contributors portray Higgs as both a unifier and a divider: he successfully reduced New Brunswick’s public debt, implemented ambitious governance reforms, and managed the province’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic in a bipartisan manner. Yet he also intensified ethnic and linguistic divisions, embraced an executive style of governance, and emphasized wedge issues, such as abortion restrictions and gender identity in schools. While Higgs largely avoided divisiveness in critical areas such as housing, health care, and the environment, he was nonetheless known to alternate between being a unifying and a polarizing leader.Drawing on original data from the Polimeter, a nonpartisan tool that measures whether politicians keep the promises they make, The Higgs Years raises vital questions about the integrity of the relationship between voters and their government in New Brunswick.