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Backward Glance
Par Robyn Carr. 1991
Available on its own for the first time: a second-chance romance from the #1 bestselling author of the Virgin River…
books—now a Netflix original series.Leigh Brackon is back home to look after her “ailing” mother. But she suspects maternal meddling when she finds her old flame John McElroy knee-deep in landscaping in her mom’s backyard. Leigh and John’s summer affair five years ago ended badly, and they’re both leery of relationships after their own failed marriages. But John has always been drawn to Leigh, even though the handyman doubts he’s good enough for the brilliant scientist and her twin boys. And Leigh has a secret that could change everything. Could they possibly have a real chance this time around?With a little help from the neighborhood matchmakers, they might see that it isn’t too late to find a way forward together.Originally published May 2001 in the Silhouette anthology To Mother with Love and November 2014 in the MIRA anthology ‘Tis the Season.Praise for Robyn Carr and her novels“For great storytelling and beautifully drawn characters, enter the world of Robyn Carr.” —Susan Elizabeth Phillips, New York Times–bestselling author“The Virgin River books are so compelling—I connected instantly with the characters and just wanted more and more and more.” —Debbie Macomber, #1 New York Times–bestselling author“No one can do small-town life like Carr.” —RT Book Reviews
The New Makers of Modern Strategy: From the Ancient World to the Digital Age
Par Williamson Murray, John Lewis Gaddis, Robert Kagan, Walter Russell Mead, Hew Strachan, Brendan Simms, Daniel Marston, Seth G. Jones, James Lacey, Carter Malkasian, Mark Moyar, Lawrence Freedman, Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh, Thomas G. Mahnken, Eric Helleiner, Jonathan Kirshner, Ahmed S. Hashim, Toshi Yoshihara, John H. Maurer, Michael V. Leggiere, Matthew Kroenig, Joshua Rovner, Thomas Rid, Guy Laron, Sergey Radchenko, Kori Schake, Priya Satia, Michael Cotey Morgan, Margaret MacMillan, Charles Edel, Dmitry Adamsky, John Bew, Francis Gavin, Sue Mi Terry, Jason K. Stearns, Eric Edelman, Antulio Echevarria II, Iskander Rehman, Matt J. Schumann, Sarah C. Paine, Tami Biddle, Tanvi Madan, Christopher J. Griffin, Elizabeth Economy, Andrew Ehrhardt. 2023
The essential resource on military and political strategy and the making of the modern worldThe New Makers of Modern Strategy…
is the next generation of the definitive work on strategy and the key figures who have shaped the theory and practice of war and statecraft throughout the centuries. Featuring entirely new entries by a who’s who of world-class scholars, this new edition provides global, comparative perspectives on strategic thought from antiquity to today, surveying both classical and current themes of strategy while devoting greater attention to the Cold War and post-9/11 eras. The contributors evaluate the timeless requirements of effective strategy while tracing the revolutionary changes that challenge the makers of strategy in the contemporary world. Amid intensifying global disorder, the study of strategy and its history has never been more relevant. The New Makers of Modern Strategy draws vital lessons from history’s most influential strategists, from Thucydides and Sun Zi to Clausewitz, Napoleon, Churchill, Mao, Ben-Gurion, Andrew Marshall, Xi Jinping, and Qassem Soleimani.With contributions by Dmitry Adamsky, John Bew, Tami Davis Biddle, Hal Brands, Antulio J. Echevarria II, Elizabeth Economy, Charles Edel, Eric S. Edelman, Andrew Ehrhardt, Lawrence Freedman, John Lewis Gaddis, Francis J. Gavin, Christopher J. Griffin, Ahmed S. Hashim, Eric Helleiner, Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh, Seth G. Jones, Robert Kagan, Jonathan Kirshner, Matthew Kroenig, James Lacey, Guy Laron, Michael V. Leggiere, Margaret MacMillan, Tanvi Madan, Thomas G. Mahnken, Carter Malkasian, Daniel Marston, John H. Maurer, Walter Russell Mead, Michael Cotey Morgan, Mark Moyar, Williamson Murray, S.C.M. Paine, Sergey Radchenko, Iskander Rehman, Thomas Rid, Joshua Rovner, Priya Satia, Kori Schake, Matt J. Schumann, Brendan Simms, Jason K. Stearns, Hew Strachan, Sue Mi Terry, and Toshi Yoshihara.
Love at Second Sight
Par F. T. Lukens. 2025
When a teen has an unexpected vision about a future murder, he must juggle newfound interest from the supernatural community…
with trying to prevent the murder from happening in this &“riveting&” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) new romantic fantasy from New York Times bestselling author F.T. Lukens.Fifteen-year-old Cam Reynolds wants to spend his sophomore year flying under the radar. That shouldn&’t be too hard, considering he&’s a human going to school with kids who have paranormal powers, like his best friend and witch, Al, and his longtime werewolf crush, Mateo. Then Cam has a psychic glimpse of the future in front of most of the student body, seeing a gruesomely murdered teen girl from the point of view of the killer. When Cam comes to, he knows two things: someone he goes to school with is a future murderer, and his life is about to change. No longer a mere human but a clairvoyant, one of the rarest of supernatural beings, Cam finds himself at the center of attention for the first time. As the most powerful supernatural factions in the city court Cam and his gift, he&’ll have to work with his friends, both old and new, to figure out who he can trust and who might be a werewolf in sheep&’s clothing. Because the clock is ticking, and Cam and his friends must identify the girl in the vision, find her potential killer, and prevent the murder from happening. Or the next murder Cam sees might be his own.
Spell Bound
Par F. T. Lukens. 2023
An instant New York Times bestseller! Two rival apprentice sorcerers must team up to save their teachers and protect their…
own magic in this &“charming and engaging&” (School Library Journal) young adult romantic adventure from the author of In Deeper Waters and So This Is Ever After.Edison Rooker isn&’t sure what to expect when he enters the office of Antonia Hex, the powerful sorceress who runs a call center for magical emergencies. He doesn&’t have much experience with hexes or curses. Heck, he doesn&’t even have magic. But he does have a plan—to regain the access to the magical world he lost when his grandmother passed. Antonia is…intimidating, but she gives him a job and a new name—Rook—both of which he&’s happy to accept. Now all Rook has to do is keep his Spell Binder, an illegal magical detection device, hidden from the Magical Consortium. And contend with Sun, the grumpy and annoyingly cute apprentice to Antonia&’s rival colleague, Fable. But dealing with competition isn&’t so bad; as Sun seems to pop up more and more, Rook minds less and less. But when the Consortium gets wind of Rook&’s Spell Binder, they come for Antonia. All alone, Rook runs to the only other magical person he knows: Sun. Except Fable has also been attacked, and now Rook and Sun have no choice but to work together to get their mentors back…or face losing their magic forever.
Monster of the Week (The Rules)
Par F. T. Lukens. 2019
Spring semester of Bridger Whitt's senior year of high school is looking great. He has the perfect boyfriend, a stellar…
best friend, and an acceptance letter to college. He also has this incredible job as an assistant to Pavel Chudinov, an intermediary tasked with helping cryptids navigate the modern world. His days are filled with kisses, laughs, pixies, and the occasional unicorn. Life is awesome. But as graduation draws near, Bridger's perfect life begins to unravel. Uncertainties about his future surface, his estranged dad shows up out of nowhere, and, perhaps worst of all, a monster-hunting television show arrives in town to investigate the series of strange events from last fall. The show's intrepid host will not be deterred, and Bridger finds himself trapped in a game of cat and mouse that could very well put the myth world at risk. Again.
Broken Moon Series Digital Box Set (Broken Moon)
Par F. T. Lukens. 2020
Ren grew up listening to his mother's stories about Star Hosts—mythical people possessed by the power of the stars. In…
a twist of fate, Ren learns his destiny is closely tied to his mother's tales. He befriends a soldier named Asher, who helps him master his growing power, and together they comb the galaxy in search of Ren's missing brother. But with allegiances uncertain, Ren must make decisions to protect the ones he loves from a brewing galactic war. From the award-winning author of "The Rules and Regulations for Mediating Myths & Magic," the Broken Moon series is a space opera roller coaster ride for Young Adult readers.This digital boxed set includes the complete series and exclusive new content, including a short story from the Broken Moon universe and character art.
Sorcery and Small Magics (The Wildersongs Trilogy)
Par Maiga Doocy. 2024
Desperate to undo the curse binding them together, an impulsive sorcerer and his curmudgeonly rival venture deep into a magical…
forest in search of a counterspell - only to discover that magic might not be the only thing pulling them together. An irresistible cosy fantasy for fans of A Marvellous Light and Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries.Leovander Loveage is a master of small magics, content to spend his days thinking up charms that can summon butterflies or turn hair pink. That is, until a mishap with forbidden magic compels Leo to obey his longtime rival, Sebastian Grimm. Grimm is Leo's complete opposite - respected, talented and an absolutely insufferable curmudgeon. They need a counterspell, and fast.Chasing rumours of a powerful sorcerer, Leo and Grimm enter the Unquiet Wood, a forest teeming with murderous monsters and dangerous outlaws. To break the curse, they'll have to uncover the true depths of Leo's magic, set aside their animosity and - much to their horror - work together. Even as an odd spark of attraction flares between them.'Maiga Doocy's voice is nothing short of masterful . . . I would gladly take an arrow for either Leo or Grimm'Megan Bannen, author of The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy'I loved this book! . . . One of the best slow-burn relationships I've seen in a long time. Prepare to get deeply invested in Leovander Lovage and Sebastian Grimm.' Melissa Caruso, author of The Last Hour Between Worlds
New Babylonians: A History of Jews in Modern Iraq
Par Orit Bashkin. 2012
Although Iraqi Jews saw themselves as Iraqi patriots, their communitywhich had existed in Iraq for more than 2,500 yearswas displaced…
following the establishment of the state of Israel. New Babylonianschronicles the lives of these Jews, their urban Arab culture, and their hopes for a democratic nation-state. It studies their ideas about Judaism, Islam, secularism, modernity, and reform, focusing on Iraqi Jews who internalized narratives of Arab and Iraqi nationalisms and on those who turned to communism in the 1940s. As the book reveals, the ultimate displacement of this community was not the result of a perpetual persecution on the part of their Iraqi compatriots, but rather the outcome of misguided state policies during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Sadly, from a dominant mood of coexistence, friendship, and partnership, the impossibility of Arab-Jewish coexistence became the prevailing narrative in the regionand the dominant narrative we have come to know today.
Farewell to Dejla: Stories of Iraqi Jews at Home and in Exile
Par Tova Sadka. 2009
Cleverly elucidating the somber diaspora of Iraqi Jews, this collection of stories explores the little-publicized migration of a people escaping…
oppression, only to be confronted with the difficult realities of new nations and customs. Sadka's work spans Iraq, Israel and the U.S. with beautiful, laconic prose, magnifying the everyday adversity of immigrants. These moving, impressive stories are based on historic fact inasmuch as they deal with the destruction of the world's oldest Jewish community. It is estimated that there were 150,000 Jews in Iraq in 1948; Israel has absorbed some 132,000. At the moment, there are about eight Jews remaining in Iraq, half over eighty years old.
The Jews Of Iraq: 3000 Years Of History And Culture
Par Nissim Rejwan. 1986
This book provides an account of the Jews of Iraq, their history, culture and society. It covers the Iraqi Jewish…
history in three parts: from the Assyrian Captivity to the Arab Conquest (731 bc–ad 641); the encounter with Islam (641–1850); and the last hundred years (1850–1951).
Outclassed: How the Left Lost the Working Class and How to Win Them Back
Par Joan C. Williams. 2025
An eye-opening, urgent call to mend the broken relationship between college and non-college grads of all races that is driving…
politics to the far right in the US.Is there a single change that could simultaneously protect democracy, spur progress on climate change, enact sane gun policies, and improve our response to the next pandemic? Yes: changing the class dynamics driving American politics. The far right manipulates class anger to undercut progressive goals and liberals often inadvertently play into their hands. In Outclassed, Joan C. Williams explains how to reverse that process by bridging the “diploma divide”, while maintaining core progressive values. She offers college-educated Americans insights into how their values reflect their lives and their lives reflect their privilege. With illuminating stories —from the Portuguese admiral who led that country’s COVID response to the lawyer who led the ACLU’s gay marriage response (and more)— Williams demonstrates how working-class values reflect working-class lives. Then she explains how the far right connects culturally with the working-class, deftly manipulating racism and masculine anxieties to deflect attention from the ways far-right policies produce the economic conditions disadvantaging the working-class. Whether you are a concerned citizen committed to saving democracy or a politician or social justice warrior in need of messaging advice, Outclassed offers concrete guidance on how liberals can forge a multi-racial cross-class coalition capable of delivering on progressive goals.
Flawless: Flawless All The Pretty Girls Saint's Gate The Secret Sister (New York Confidential #1)
Par Heather Graham. 2016
“Intricate, fast-paced, and intense, this riveting thriller blends romance and suspense in perfect combination and keeps readers guessing and the…
tension taut until the very end.” —Library JournalNew York’s Diamond District has been hit by a rash of robberies, and then Kieran Finnegan is stuck in the middle of one! The criminal psychologist is trying to “unsteal” a stone taken by her light-fingered youngest brother. But try telling that to the hardnosed FBI agent, Craig Frasier, who saves her from the thieves.When the robberies turn violent, the police and FBI wonder if there may be two gangs: the original and a copycat group using the crime to cover a murder. The killers seem to think their scheme is as flawless as the stones they steal. Thrown together by circumstance, Kieran and Craig are both assigned to the case. But to Kieran’s horror, there’s more and more evidence that somehow her family’s pub, Finnegan’s on Broadway, is involved. Because everyone goes to Finnegan’s…and someone doesn’t want the cracks in their plans revealed…FBI Agent Craig Frasier and criminal psychologist Kieran Finnegan meet for the first time in the page-turning beginning to the New York Confidential series, only from New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham.Don’t miss the other incredible stories in this series!FlawlessA Perfect ObsessionA Dangerous GameA Lethal LegacyThe Final Deception
Camilla's Roses: A Novel
Par Bernice L. McFadden. 2004
A reissue of a hidden gem from the award-winning author of Sugar, this novel tells the story of a woman…
who uncovers the fragility of life and the enduring strength of family love.Camilla&’s childhood was immersed in love and chaos, and steeped in perfection. As an adult she hasn&’t looked back, refusing to acknowledge the people and places that scarred her so many years ago. But a cancer diagnosis forces Camilla to turn to the past, and all its pain, to save her daughter.As Camilla discovers the bittersweet limitations of motherhood and reconciliation, she also awakens an inspiring message about the mortality issues we all must face.Unfolding in a progression of powerful chapters, Camilla&’s Roses portrays a life haunted by the past, and the choices we all make to fight for a future.
The UK Association of Supportive Care in Cancer Handbook of Supportive Oncology
Par Richard Berman Frcp. 2025
What does supportive oncology do that palliative care doesn’t already do? Answering that question forms part of the rationale behind…
this text. Supportive oncology is delivered across the whole cancer experience from diagnosis through treatment to post-treatment care, and so necessitates the involvement of most clinical specialties and many non-clinical services. Palliative care – which focuses on advanced disease and end of life – has a special and important role within this broader and longer-term scope of supportive care in cancer.This handbook defines the new and emerging specialty of supportive oncology and equips the workforce with the appropriate skill sets: Providing personalized and targeted treatments consistent with the stage of disease A focus on preservation and improvement in quality of life Affecting survival and the quality of that survival Permitting the use of the most effective anti-cancer agents Assisting in accurate diagnosis and management
Ballistics: Theory and Design of Guns and Ammunition
Par Donald E. Carlucci, Sidney S. Jacobson. 2024
Ballistics examines the analytical and computational tools for predicting a weapon’s behavior in terms of pressure, stress, and velocity, demonstrating…
their applications in ammunition and weapons design. It includes updated and revised equations, end-of-chapter problems, case studies, and practical examples.Explaining the physics of a gun launch, the book describes the behavior of the propelling charge that moves the projectile through the gun tube and the necessary methods to calculate how the projectile will fly. The new edition features a new chapter on closed vessel experimentation and analysis, which discusses closed bomb testing to incorporate new propellants into interior ballistics designs. It covers the mathematical fundamentals that are key to developing a safe and reliable gun system.With its thorough coverage of interior, exterior, and terminal ballistics, this new edition continues to be the standard resource for ballistics experts and researchers studying the technology of guns and ammunition and designing state-of-the-art propellants.Instructors will be able to utilize a Solutions Manual and Figure Slides for their course.
After four centuries of bondage, the nineteenth century marked the long-awaited release of millions of black slaves. Subsequently, these former…
slaves attempted to reconstruct the basis of American democracy. W. E. B. Du Bois, one of the greatest intellectual leaders in United States history, evaluates the twenty years of fateful history that followed the Civil War, with special reference to the efforts and experiences of African Americans.Du Bois's words best indicate the broader parameters of his work: "the attitude of any person toward this book will be distinctly influenced by his theories of the Negro race. If he believes that the Negro in America and in general is an average and ordinary human being, who under given environment develops like other human beings, then he will read this story and judge it by the facts adduced."The plight of the white working class throughout the world is directly traceable to American slavery, on which modern commerce and industry was founded, Du Bois argues. Moreover, the resulting color caste was adopted, forwarded, and approved by white labor, and resulted in the subordination of colored labor throughout the world. As a result, the majority of the world's laborers became part of a system of industry that destroyed democracy and led to World War I and the Great Depression. This book tells that story.
This edited volume recognises the need to cultivate a critical and acute understanding of AI technologies amongst primary and elementary…
school children, enabling them to meet the challenge of a human- and ethically oriented management of AI technologies.Focusing on school settings from both the national and international level to form comparative case studies, chapters present a robust conceptual and foundational framework within a global context as the idea of AI and our relationship to it advances apace. The book uses research garnered from interviews and observational data, qualitative and quantitative research, and theoretical findings gathered from single schools or institutions across the world. Providing an innovative perspective in promoting the importance of a critical, creative and ethical orientation based on aesthetic experiences, the book focuses on development in areas like visual arts, literature, environmental education, robotics, photography and screen education, movement and play.Ultimately, the book responds to an urgent and time-sensitive call to provide guidance on AI to primary education researchers and will be of interest to academics, scholars and researchers in the fields of primary and elementary education, technology in education, children's rights education, and moral and values education more broadly.
Adam of Bremen’s Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum is one of the most important accounts documenting the history, geography and ethnology…
of Northern and Central-Eastern Europe in the period between the ninth and eleventh centuries. Its author, a canon of the archdiocese of Hamburg-Bremen, remains an almost anonymous figure but his text is an essential source for the study of the early medieval Baltic. However, despite its undisputed status, past scholarship has tended to treat Adam of Bremen’s account as, on the one hand, an historically accurate document, but on the other, a literary artefact containing few, if any, reliable historical facts. The studies collected in this volume investigate the origins and context of the Gesta and will enable researchers to better understand and evaluate the historical veracity of the text.
1666: Plague, War and Hellfire
Par Rebecca Rideal. 2016
1666 was a watershed year for England. The outbreak of the Great Plague, the eruption of the second Dutch War…
and the Great Fire of London all struck the country in rapid succession and with devastating repercussions.Shedding light on these dramatic events, historian Rebecca Rideal reveals an unprecedented period of terror and triumph. Based on original archival research and drawing on little-known sources, 1666: Plague, War and Hellfire takes readers on a thrilling journey through a crucial turning point in English history, as seen through the eyes of an extraordinary cast of historical characters. While the central events of this significant year were ones of devastation and defeat, 1666 also offers a glimpse of the incredible scientific and artistic progress being made at that time, from Isaac Newton's discovery of gravity to Robert Hooke's microscopic wonders. It was in this year that John Milton completed Paradise Lost, Frances Stewart posed for the now-iconic image of Britannia, and a young architect named Christopher Wren proposed a plan for a new London - a stone phoenix to rise from the charred ashes of the old city.With flair and style, 1666 shows a city and a country on the cusp of modernity, and a series of events that forever altered the course of history.
Scholars and Scholarship in Late Babylonian Uruk (Why the Sciences of the Ancient World Matter #2)
Par Christine Proust, John Steele. 2019
This volume explores how scholars wrote, preserved, circulated, and read knowledge in ancient Mesopotamia. It offers an exercise in micro-history…
that provides a case study for attempting to understand the relationship between scholars and scholarship during this time of great innovation. The papers in this collection focus on tablets written in the city of Uruk in southern Babylonia. These archives come from two different scholarly contexts. One is a private residence inhabited during successive phases by two families of priests who were experts in ritual and medicine. The other is the most important temple in Uruk during the late Achemenid and Hellenistic periods. The contributors undertake detailed studies of this material to explore the scholarly practices of individuals, the connection between different scholarly genres, and the exchange of knowledge between scholars in the city and scholars in other parts of Babylonia and the Greek world. In addition, this collection examines the archives in which the texts were found and the scribes who owned or wrote them. It also considers the interconnections between different genres of knowledge and the range of activities of individual scribes. In doing so, it answers questions of interest not only for the study of Babylonian scholarship but also for the study of ancient Mesopotamian textual culture more generally, and for the study of traditions of written knowledge in the ancient world.