The history of the South China Sea is a catalyst of international cooperation and conflict. Security in the Indo-Asia-Pacific is largely governed by command of these strategic waters. More than half of global shipping transits the South China Sea, which also holds significant reserves of oil, gas and minerals, as well as some of the largest fisheries in the world. Drawing on a team of field-leading researchers, Jenner and Thuy provide an empirical study of the global ocean's most contested...

An authoritative, in-depth study on the character, legacy, and trajectory of the UK-US allianceAfter the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, many observers declared the UK-US alliance—often dubbed "the special relationship"—dead. Yet this was hardly the first time the partnership was read its last rites. Indeed, one of its defining characteristics is its resilience in the face of political volatility and geopolitical shifts.Transatlantic Storms...

When I was ten, my father indoctrinated me into the family.A brotherhood who would fight, protect, and give their lives for one another. A club whose ties ran thicker than blood, murkier than the dirt and grime that tainted my soul. Stronger than the bonds that connected me to my own family.A band of brothers, where loyalty was kept and paid in a currency of blood.When I was twenty-seven, I betrayed that brotherhood.I've spent every day since running, avoidi...

Killer. Criminal. Sociopath.All of these words have been used to describe me, and for the longest time I believed that that's all I was.I'm the man you call in to clean up your mess, assuming your mess is a guy who needs a bullet to the head. I'm the man the MC calls when they want their dirty work done.I'm the man who doesn't feel.Until now.Until her.Now, my mess is a woman who won't save herself. I'll fight like hell to save her, b...

Could you love a man who had become your ruin?JettAs the president of the Savage Saints MC, I've got a million goddamn problems. I thought the woman who cleans my clubhouse would be the least of them. But that's just what Raine Levick is—a f*cking problem.My problem.Not because she's sweet and likely gonna get herself killed without the club's protection, but because I can't stop thinking about her. I can't stop wanting her.I'...

A gripping dark romance from USA Today bestselling author Carmen Jenner writing as C. Jenner.In the land of gods and monsters, she was a toy. A plaything. A pet.His pet.Pet remembers nothing before his touch, and afterward, she craves nothing more.Sinful and merciless, Ares is her god now. He alone says when to beg, when to come, and when to kneel, but he never said anything about leaving.Warning: In the Land of Gods and ...

A gritty, enemies-to-lovers, he-falls-first MC romance from USA Today best-selling author, C. Jenner.Brothers before all others. No exception. That's the Kings of Carnage MC creed. Too bad my Sergeant at Arms forgot all about the brotherhood when he stuck it to my old lady.Now, I'm nomad.No matter how many miles I put between me and Tennessee, there's still not enough blacktop beneath my tires to outrun my nightmares. After Afghani...

From USA Today Bestselling Author Carmen Jenner, writing as C. Jenner, comes a gritty, action-packed, marriage-of-convenience motorcycle club romance set in the Saint's Outlaws MC world.As the only son of the Saint's Outlaws MC Prez, I've been expected to hold the gavel my whole life. The mouthy club brat ten years my junior, was not part of the plan. She once followed behind me like a lovesick puppy. Now? She hat...

Andrew J. Fenady has been justly rewarded for his exceptional fiction with the Owen Wister Award, the Western Writers of America's most prestigious honor. The author's immense talent is on full display in The Trespassers, the tale of four soldiers of fortune who slip into Mexico to nab five million dollars in buried gold. Before they can get their hands on this fortune, however, the rugged band will have to face off against comancheros, hostile Indians-and Benito Juarez's army.

International Review of Neurobiology is a well-respected series appealing to neuroscientists, clinicians, psychologists, physiologists, and pharmacologists. Led by an internationally renowned editorial board, this important serial publishes both eclectic volumes made up of timely reviews and thematic volumes that focus on recent progress in a specific area of neurobiology research. This volume is a cumulative subject index of volumes 26-50.

When we walk, drive a car, or fly an airplane, visual motion is used to control and guide our movement. Optic flow describes the characteristic pattern of visual motion that arises in these situations. This book is the first to take an in-depth look at the neuronal processing strategies that underlie the brain's ability to analyze and use optic flow for the control of self-motion. It does so in a variety of species which use optic flow in different behavioral contexts. The spectrum ranges ...

Some lives can be summed up in a sentence or two. Other lives are epics.In Clockwork Angels, #1 bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson and legendary Rush drummer and lyricist Neil Peart created a fabulous, adventurous steampunk world in a novel to accompany the smash Rush concept album of the same name. It was a world of airships and alchemy, clockwork carnivals, pirates, lost cities, a rigid Watchmaker who controlled every aspect of life, and his n...