Dragon in the Americas: China’s Power, Presence, and Regional Influence offers a sweeping, on-the-ground analysis of how China is reshaping Latin America and the Caribbean across trade, technology, security, and geopolitics--revealing growing strategic competition in the Western Hemisphere.Drawing on original research, fieldwork, and policy experience, the book moves beyond simplistic “China threat” or “White Knight” development partner narratives to uncover a far more com...

Vera Moss has spent her entire life feeling invisible. At work, in therapy, at home alone in her apartment: she exists without truly living.Then she meets Nathan.He's different.Mysterious.He makes her feel seen for the first time in years. Their connection is immediate and intense, exactly what she's been starving for.But something about Nathan isn't quite right. Something he won't, or can't, explain.The closer Vera gets to him, the stranger ...

This book offers a comprehensive sociological account of cyber-enabled fraud in Africa south of the Sahara, centred on Nigeria but extending across Ghana, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Jamaica, and Southeast Asia. Drawing on over a decade of ethnographic research, conviction case files, court documents, interviews, and cultural analysis of Afrobeats music, it examines online fraud not as isolated wrongdoing but as a patterned social response to postcolonial inequality, blocked mobility, and ins...

The poignant and very human drama of a 1914 maritime disaster that claimed the lives of more passengers than the TitanicOn May 28, 1914, the RMS Empress of Ireland began her 192nd trip across the Atlantic from Quebec City, Canada, en route to Liverpool, England, carrying 1,056 passengers and a crew of 423. In the early hours of May 29, fog descended on the St. Lawrence River, and the ocean liner was rammed by the Storstad, a Norwegian coa...

Eve Lazarus is a journalist, crime historian, and author. Her passion for non-traditional history and a fascination with murder has led to six books of non-fiction, including Blood, Sweat, and Fear: The Story of Inspector Vance, Vancouver’s First Forensic Investigator and Cold Case Vancouver: The City’s Most Baffling Unsolved Murders.

Julianna Sandoval is living in limbo. Her husband's plane has vanished over the Atlantic Ocean and although the Coast Guard has suspended the search, she clings to hope that he'll still be found alive. Three months later, a young woman appears after hours at Julianna's Ormond Beach restaurant, declaring, "He's not who you think he is." Before the stranger can say anything else, a gunshot through the window kills her instantly. Seasoned detective Paul Grant is assigned to investigate the gi...

Leon Lazarus grew up on the edge of white suburbia in apartheid South Africa, where the anthills stood taller than he did and the wild bunnies had the run of the veld. He failed exams, started bands, dodged the military police, and stumbled through the absurdities of a country at war with itself.Barking at Dogs is a riotous, tender, and oh-so-South African collection of true and true-ish tales from the backrooms of a family shop and the wild edges of late-apartheid South Af...

Laura Holland awakes in the middle of the night to see a stranger standing in her bedroom doorway. She manages to defend herself from the would-be rapist, though he threatens to return as he retreats. Traumatized with recurring nightmares, Laura seeks therapy and is exposed to a unique treatment called EMDR. She also seeks self-protection— buying a gun against the wishes of her husband. When Laura learns she could have gone to prison had she shot her fleeing assailant, she decides to write...

A Holocaust survivor chronicles growing up in occupied France while hiding from the Nazis during World War II in this moving memoir."Today's reader will find it hard not to be changed . . . by this haunting memoir." —Betsy Sterman, author of Saratoga Secret"Unpretentious and straightforward . . . a captivating read." —Dr. Mary-Ann Stadtler-Chester, Framingham State UniversityHiding in ...

Cold Case Vancouver delves into fifty years of some of Vancouver's most baffling unsolved murders. In 1953, two little boys were found murdered in the city's storied Stanley Park, and who remain unidentified to this day. In 1975, a country singer was murdered just as she was on the verge of an amazing career. And in 1994, Nick Masee, a retired banker with connections to the renegade Vancouver Stock Exchange, disappeared along with his wife Lisa, their bodies never found. Cold ...

Jackie Siegel and Aaron Slater were an odd pair in high school. He was the popular jock and she was the introverted geek, but their friendship endured until graduation, when he suddenly dumped her with no explanation. Ten years later, Aaron is arrested for one of the most notorious murders in recent history. Labeled by the media as "The Snapchat Killer," he is accused of posting videos of a college student before brutally murdering her. Rather than standing trial, Aaron takes a plea deal a...

Eve Lazarus (Cold Case Vancouver) investigates murder and missing persons cases that have perplexed and fascinated British Columbians for years.In her book Cold Case Vancouver, crime historian and reporter Eve Lazarus used investigative skills to shine a light on the city’s most baffing unsolved murders. In Cold Case BC, Lazarus casts her gaze more widely on long forgotten and unsolved murder cases throughout the province of British Colum...