Amidst the land of Draconia, young Rowan embarks on a perilous quest with a singular goal: to win the heart of the prince and claim the throne.Yet, as fate would have it, the prince has designs of his own, and Rowan finds herself ensnared in a web of intrigue, seduction, and danger. In this realm where dragons reign supreme, Rowan's mixed heritage marks her as an outcast, serving as a pawn in the schemes of her cruel stepfather. As she struggles to keep her mystic ...

Success comes in many versions. Personal success is often measured with a six-figure bank balance. But what if it's more personal and ethereal...?

Lee Hyemi's poetry is characterized by fluidity and wetness, with subjects moving about and soaking in each other through curious means.Unexpected Vanilla's exchange of liquids often involves sex, but intercourse can be nonsexual: drinking tea or alcohol, going to the beach, sitting in the same tub, crying, feeling your lover's sweat on your palm. In this way, Lee explores a wide variety of relationships, attractions, and sensations. Her erotically charged, surrealist sens...

Will the future be a climate disaster? Will biotechnologies bring huge improvements to lifespan? Predictions vary, but children's status as human embodiments of the future puts them at the centre of attempts to shape the world and the discipline of childhood studies can therefore make a critical and creative contribution to future-making.

This book provides an accessible introduction to the variational formulation of Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics, with a novel emphasis on global descriptions of the dynamics, which is a significant conceptual departure from more traditional approaches based on the use of local coordinates on the configuration manifold. In particular, we introduce a general methodology for obtaining globally valid equations of motion on configuration manifolds that are Lie groups, homogeneous spaces, a...

Years ago a marriage ended for me, and a new life started. This book is partly a self-help book, partly a memoir of what I did to get my life back on track.I cover the steps taken to get life sorted out in eight self-contained chapters covering finance, work, legalities, social life, health and a few other aspects that need to be taken care of once you end up alone.How you take that next step after a marriage ends is up to you. This book is how I did it, and I wrote the boo...

In Case Study Research, Bill Lee and Mark Saunders describe the properties of case study designs in organizational research, exploring the uses, advantages and limitations of case research. They also demonstrate the flexibility that case designs offer, and challenges the myths surrounding this approach.Ideal for Business and Management students reading for a Master’s degree, each book in the series may also serve as reference books for doctoral students and faculty...

A little girl holds lessons learned in her grandfather’s sari-sari store close while adjusting to a new home in this sweet picture book about the joy of community, connection, and Filipino culture.For one girl, summers used to mean helping Lolo run his sari-sari store, which was always brimming with goods for the neighborhood: shampoo packets for Ate Jane, rice and eggs for Tonton, and a sympathetic ear for anyone who needed it. “Sari-sari means a good variety—just...

A young girl in the Philippines uses music to connect with her grandmother as her memory fades in this warm and moving picture book perfect for fans of Pixar’s Coco.There is always singing in Lola’s house. Sammy Davis Jr. in the morning, Dean Martin in the afternoon, and all throughout the evening, old Tagalog love songs from Nora Aunor, Basil Valdez, and more. Lola always says: “If you want to hold on, you gotta sing your songs.”Her granddaughter ...

No Greater Honor is a fascinating look at leadership principles from the perspective of a retired Major General in the US Army, one of the few women to have achieved that rank. The advice she offers is based on her own experience but is also applicable to other industries. She shares the lessons she learned from almost 40 years uniform. Her stories capture the opportunities she seized and the struggles she faced as she rose through the ranks from Private First Class to Major General. No Gr...

In a magical world where fairies, elves, and dragons exist...one girl is the key to saving humanity.Heir to the throne of a god, Lilae is one of the world's most wanted humans. After traveling the world with her surrogate family, Lilae learns she's being hunted. A dangerous sorcerer tracks her. Just when her magical abilities are revealed, she's captured and enslaved in a foreign empire.But, the handsome and charismatic emperor who keeps her captive isn't w...

**In Veruth, there are three different races--sun elves, gnomes, and the pitiful lot Ava belongs to......humans.**Or so she thought.After centuries at war with the mystical sun elves, the humans lost, and now serve as slaves, toiling each day by working menial jobs. Ava works on the massive structure the elves use to keep them imprisoned. They say it is protection from the monsters on the other side--from an ancient force.As Ava reaches the ...