A heart-stopping, provocative story about lust and love. Who needs a white picket fence anyway?Happily ever after—what a joke! I tried that once and ended up divorced.Now, I only want one thing from men.Charlie Nelson is good at giving me that one thing. Really, really good.So good, in fact, I discovered a new side of myself.I never knew I liked to watch until I saw his talented hands touching someone else.I never knew I like...

A mother’s own childhood experiences of bigotry are triggered when her son is picked on for the colour of his skin. Another mother pre-judges a parent at the school drop-off on the basis of her appearance. A disparate group of travellers on the trans-Siberian railway in the 1930s share memories of Chinese culture, history and politics. And an Australian-Chinese visitor finds herself both fascinated and estranged riding a subway in modern-day China.Moon Orchard presents a r...

This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 10th International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting, E-Vote-ID 2024, held in Nancy, France, during October 1-3, 2025.The 13 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 39 submissions.They focus on on the development of Electronic and Internet Voting and Electoral Technologies, from aspects relating to security and usability to practical experiences and applications of voting system...

This book describes the methodology and applications of solid-state NMR spectroscopy to studies of membrane proteins, membrane-active peptides and model biological membranes. As well as structural studies it contains coverage of membrane interactions and molecular motions. Advances in biological solid-state NMR are very pertinent with high-field developments seeing applications in biological membranes and whole cells. Many of the chapter authors and contributors are world-class experts and...

Are you fascinated by hypnosis? Do you get satisfaction from helping people? If the answer to both of these is a yes, then our book is what you will need to learn how to do hypnotize people and perform self-hypnosis on yourself.Hypnotherapy is a way to help people overcome their own shortcomings, doubts, and fears to be better people. With hypnosis you can help people get over fears and phobias, allowing them to lead a less anxious and fearful life.You will have the tools n...

From the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Nikola Tesla, the scientist and inventor whose groundbreaking inventions we continue to use today.Since he was a young boy growing up in the Austrian Empire, Nikola was fascinated by science and numbers. His teachers knew he had a brilliant mind, but Nikola’s irregular routines and fondness for playing cards meant that he was

Revolving around the opera, these tales are an “archaeological excavation of the slag-heaps of our collective existence” (W. G. Sebald)Combining fact and fiction, each of the one hundred and two tales of Alexander Kluge’s Temple of the Scapegoat (dotted with photos of famous operas and their stars) compresses a lifetime of feeling and thought: Kluge is deeply engaged with the opera and an inventive wellspring of narrative notions. The titles of his stories...

This volume advances the state-of-the-art in the study of the interplay among financial crises, poverty dynamics and environmental sustainability. It offers timely and unique contributions to the immediate global challenge of sustainable development. Developing a new evidence-base, the volume offers concrete recommendations for policy action needed in advancing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in relation to environment and poverty during the current conditions of financial distres...

The CBC Literary Award–winning title story from Claire Battershill’s debut collection, winner of the Canadian Authors Association Emerging Writer Award, and a finalist for the Canadian Authors Association Emerging Writer Award and the PEN International / New Voices Award.For as long as Susan can remember, the circus has been part of her family’s DNA – her mother was a gifted contortionist, and her grandfather played the role of a man-wrestling bear. Coming from suc...

THE WORLD'S BEST-SELLING STOP SMOKING BOOK OF ALL TIME.Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking is a self-help classic. It has been a #1 bestseller in nine countries and has outsold all other quit smoking books combined. This seminal book has enabled millions of smokers to quit easily and enjoyably using Allen Carr's simple, drug-free approach. This edition has been developed specifically for smokers in the US. Using the clinically-proven Easyway method, this...

Allen Carrs Easyway is the most successful stop smoking method of all time. It has helped millions of smokers all over the world quit instantly, easily, painlessly and permanently. Finally Free! is a specially adapted, cutting-edge presentation of Allen Carrs Easyway method with accessible new text and design. Here, every aspect of smoking is examined from a female perspective, and answers are provided to every question and concern.Allen Cars Easyway works both for casual and heavy...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, LOS ANGELES TIMES, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLYFor more than four hundred years, the art of ballet has stood at the center of Western civilization. Its traditions serve as a record of our past. Lavishly illustrated and beautifully told, Apollo’s Angels—the first cultural history of bal...