Solve a mermaid's problem…Step off the edge of a roof…Dig up a grave at midnight…Take advice from a fortune cookie…Visit the last library…Meet a bridge troll…And more…In one instant, like a bolt of lightning, a single impossible event changes a person's life. And like the trace of lighting in the sky, each is unique and interesting.These wildly different flash stories delight, astonish, scare, and inspire. Enjoy 64 delightfully ecle...

Self-Sacrifice to Save the Planet. The year is 2065. Following a freak encounter with a mysterious woman, Brian, a bored and frustrated dentist in the midst of a personal crisis, finds himself in the position to expose a conspiracy to control world population. Fifty-five years earlier, the manipulators — a mysterious group with aims to influence the course of the world — set in motion an irreversible chain of events by creating genetically engineered prophets with God-like powers who heale...

With contributions by international experts in academia, chemical manufacturing, government research laboratories, regulatory agencies, and private consulting, this guide explores the potentially damaging influence of environmental agents on the endocrine system. It examines endocrine toxicology's increased importance in environmental safety issues

This book offers comprehensive, easy to understand guidance for medical device technology innovators on how to work through the United States Food and Drug Administration (US FDA) regulatory review and approval/grant/clearance process, while also providing insight on the various intellectual property concerns that many medical device innovators face. In the first portion of this book, readers are introduced to important concepts concerning FDA compliance for medical devices, as well as str...

Edmund Husserl, generally regarded as the founding figure of phenomenology, exerted an enormous influence on the course of twentieth and twenty-first century philosophy. This volume collects and translates essays written by important German-speaking commentators on Husserl, ranging from his contemporaries to scholars of today, to make available in English some of the best commentary on Husserl and the phenomenological project. The essays focus on three problematics within phenomenology: th...

When Bader's parents died in a house fire, she ended her plans for law school and went home to run the family bookstore.Five years later, the world is changing once again and Bader's life changes with it. Does she have what it takes?Will she take risks with her heart and find her truth?

These world-renowned museums hold some deadly secrets ...Murder at the Fitzwilliam1894. Daniel Wilson, who made his name investigating the case of Jack the Ripper alongside the formidable Inspector Abberline, is now working as a private enquiry agent. When the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge finds itself in need of urgent - and discreet - assistance, he is the natural first choice.The museum will soon unveil its new Egyptian ...

Freedom comes in many forms, all of them illusions.They'd finally escaped the Facility for a life together that promised security and something like peace. Sorta. Maybe.The three soldiers didn't have to go to war any longer, but being hybrids meant there were those in the world that hunted them as if they were all animal - not just some cells. Now, Affie, Zeb and Peter are building a family together - the kind of life for themselves they've dreamt of for ye...

August 1940. On the streets of London, locals watch with growing concern as German fighter planes plague the city's skyline. But inside the famous Ritz Hotel, the cream of society continues to enjoy all the glamour and comfort that money can buy during wartime - until an anonymous man is discovered with his throat slashed open.Detective Chief Inspector Coburg is called in to investigate, no stranger himself to the haunts of the upper echelons of society, ably assisted by his trusty ...

Sid & Sin are learning some life lessons.Sin has discovered that life is a whole lot different when you have a baby.It's even more complex when that baby is showing magical abilities way too early.Sid is finding out how much fun it can be to juggle multiple partners.Fun being the objective, that is.Witches are rising up against the Faery folk.They're blaming the disruptions in their magic on the fae.It's entirely possible they're corr...

At age three, Emlen watched her mother's murder.Years later, she returned to the scene of the crime to try and solve that murder.That set into motion a series of events that took her from a coastal cottage to the White House.One of the few magical Descendants of Charlemagne, protected by an ancient cadre of guardians, Emlen learns that power can give life - and take it away.Come enjoy the series that has captivated the imagination of many and makes you think...

The "exquisite and richly illustrated" New York Times bestseller from the renowned makeup artist, "a retrospective written for all women, everywhere" ( Vogue France).Makeup, as we know it, has only been commercially available in the last 100 years, but applying decoration to the face and body may be one of the oldest global social practices. In Face Paint, Lisa Eldridge reveals the entire history of the art form, from Egyptian and Classica...