Puppy training is a wonderful time for you and your pet. If you want them to be more obedient but are uncertain about the training process, look no further!With this book, you'll learn:The use of collars, leashes, treats, and clickersBasic and elaborate tricksHow to keep your puppy from bitingHow to housetrain your puppy like a proAnd much more!Presenting life-changing instructions, this book is a journey you and ...

In the last ten years, there has been a resurgence of interest in repression and violence within states. Paths to State Repression improves our understanding of why states use political repression, highlighting its relationship to dissent and mass protest. The authors draw upon a wide variety of political-economic contexts, methodological approaches, and geographic locales, including Cuba, Nicaragua, Peru, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Israel, Eastern Europe, and Africa. This book is inva...

L.E. Modesitt, Jr.'s The Death of Chaos continues his bestselling fantasy series the Saga of Recluce, which is one of the most popular in contemporary epic fantasy.Lerris has settled into being a woodworker and building a life with Krystal. But this newfound peace is endangered when both Candar and Recluce come under the threat of invasion from the Empire of Hamor. Despite the imminent possibility of destruction, the lands of Candar will not unite and Recluce will not heed the peri...

Focusing on twenty-first century Western films, including all major releases since the turn of the century, the essays in this volume cover a broad range of aesthetic and thematic aspects explored in these films, including gender and race. As diverse contributors focus on the individual subgenres of the traditional Western (the gunfighter, the Cavalry vs. Native American conflict, the role of women in Westerns, etc.), they share an understanding of the twenty-first century Western may be u...

The Unarmed Witness: 30 Accounts of Civil War Behind the Lines gathers a compelling polyphony of civilian, medical, journalistic, and literary testimony from the American Civil War. Diaries, memoirs, letters, reportage, and retrospective narratives illuminate the war's domestic theatres: hospitals, occupied towns, refugee routes, households, prisons, and makeshift relief networks. Moving between Union and Confederate settings, the volume foregrounds the often-overlooked labor of care, endu...

For fifteen-year-old Joe Martin, growing up on the outskirts of West London, the summer of 1977 means punk rock, busy pubs, disco girls, stolen cars, social-club lager, cutthroat Teddy Boys and a job picking cherries with the gypsies. Life is sweet—until he is attacked by a gang of youths and thrown into the Grand Union Canal with his best friend Smiles.Fast forward to 1988, and Joe is travelling home on the Trans-Siberian Express after three years away, remembering the highs and l...

**A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice“A window to the soul of a great city.” —Inga Saffron, Pulitzer Prize–winning architecture criticA two-time Pulitzer finalist explores the story of American urban design through San Francisco’s iconic Ferry Building.**Conceived in the Gilded Age, the Ferry Building opened in 1898 as San Francisco’s portal to the world—the terminus of the transcontinental railway and a showcase of civic ambition. In silent films ...

Headhunters is the story of five friends. Carter USM is a live wire who lives on the edge; Mango can't stop thinking; Harry is a beer-lover and dreamer; Balti his drinking partner, out of work and hoping for a fresh start; while Will is the quiet romantic, a voice of reason as the lives of the others become increasingly chaotic. It is also a story of London, rooted in the streets, workplaces, pubs and music - but a parallel society exists where the planet's wealthy can buy and sell whateve...

Are you struggling to cope with a narcissist in your life? Are you dealing with the emotional and psychological fallout of a relationship with someone who exhibits pathological lying, compulsive lying, and manipulative narcissistic behavior? If so, this book is for you. Pathological Lying and Narcissism: Understanding, Coping, and Healing is a comprehensive guide that explores the complex relationship between narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), lying behavior, and emotional manipulati...

You're about to learn a unique approach for creating your ultimate landscape fantasy, using planning techniques that I've laid out for you in an easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide.

“John King is an adventurous avant-garde novelist. The sheer virtuosity of his language overflows with a richness of invention.” —Boyd Tonkin, The IndependentBest known for the social realism of novels such as The Football Factory, Human Punk, and London Country, John King’s writing also carries speculative strands, with his interest in dystopian fiction clear in several books. The Liberal Politics of Adolf Hitler

'John King is an adventurous avant-garde novelist. The sheer virtuosity of his language overflows with a richness of invention.' -Boyd Tonkin, The Independent Best known for the social realism of novels such as The Football Factory, Human Punk, and London Country, John King's writing also carries speculative strands, with his interest in dystopian fiction clear in several books. The Liberal Politics of Adolf Hitler took this further, and the main story in this collection, 'Machine Elves De...