Marital bliss, happily-ever-after, and counting racks on racks on racks… that's the energy that should be surrounding Lynx Carter.Life should be sweet for him and his wife, Malayah. However, the universe is throwing Lynx's world on its axis and stirring up trouble. Issues that were supposed to be buried resurfaced and could potentially threaten his happy home. Lynx also has to deal with the law trying to creep into his life. He rules his empire with an iron fist, a...

The Carter Cartel always came out on top.Lynx knew it when he sat at the head of the table, and he knew that passing the reigns of the business down to Nori and Malik wouldn't change anything. There would always be something, or someone, to watch out for. The Carter men had eyes and ears everywhere, so fear never moved through them. They were the ones to incite fear, and that wouldn't change no matter who was in charge.Nori was ready to step up, even if tha...

Many people today are walking this world, feeling alone and afraid. This book is a journey through the situations of this world with the company of our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ (who overcame this world).Through the Scriptures (which are God speaking), it will be giving us advise, instructions, and company to all the lonely and confusing time we are presently experiencing. However, our Heavenly Father gives us the light that shinesAs the Bible says, “I am the Light o...

The team at Hot Bed HQ bring you extracts of our favourite authors. We know there is a lot of love for these amazing authors, but you might find someone new here, and it will undoubtedly be Love at First Sight.Featuring:Sweet Thing by Renée CarlinoRush Too Farby Abbi GlinesUgly Love by Colleen HooverBeautiful Oblivionby Jamie McGuireCollide by Gail McHughUnteachableby Leah RaederDesert Heat by Elizabeth ReyesWorking It...

Bringing together the expertise of rhetoricians in English and communication as well as media studies scholars, Arguments about Animal Ethics delves into the rhetorical and discursive practices of participants in controversies over the use of nonhuman animals for meat, entertainment, fur, and vivisection. Both sides of the debate are carefully analyzed, as the contributors examine how stakeholders persuade or fail to persuade audiences about the ethics of animal rights or the valu...

Black Hands, White House documents and appraises the role enslaved women and men played in building the US, both its physical and its fiscal infrastructure. The book highlights the material commodities produced by enslaved communities during the Transatlantic Slave Trade. These commodities—namely tobacco, rice, sugar, and cotton, among others—enriched European and US economies; contributed to the material and monetary wealth of the nation's founding fathers, other early European i...

During China’s Cultural Revolution, Chairman Mao Zedong’s "rustication program" resettled 17 million urban youths, known as "sent downs," to the countryside for manual labor and socialist reeducation. This book, the most comprehensive study of the program to be published in either English or Chinese to date, examines the mechanisms and dynamics of state craft in China, from the rustication program’s inception in 1968 to its official termination in 1980 and actual completion in the 1990s.

The gold standard for the treatment of nonunions was set by Weber and Cech in the early 1970s. With this new book the Editors René K Marti and Peter Kloen provide a comprehensive update on the state-of-the-art treatment of nonunions.More than 130 case descriptions are included in the unique cases section; the core of this collection represents 40 years of René Marti's personal experience in nonunion treatment, demonstrating the principle "technique over technology". The editors hav...

Osteotomies in the treatment of degenerative and posttraumatic arthritis seem to be a lost art. Even for young patients joint replacement is in vogue.An international group of renowned surgeons present an outstanding hands-on approach to perform correction osteotomies in posttraumatic deformities from the clavicle to the foot.Most of the content is based on case presentations and each case provides step-by-step description of case history, planning, surgical approach, osteo...

Political tensions on Bajor are once again on the rise, and the various factions may soon come to open conflict. In addition, a series of murders has shaken everyone on board the station. While Security Chief Odo investiages the murders, Commander Sisko finds himself butting up against a new religious faction that plans to take over Bajor and force the Federation to leave Deep Space NineTM.Odo traces the murders to a bizarre and dangerous new form of holosuite technology, ...

This text will act as a quick quality improvement reference and resource for every role within the healthcare system including physicians, nurses, support staff, security, fellows, residents, therapists, managers, directors, chiefs, and board members. It aims to provide a broad overview of quality improvement concepts and how they can be immediately pertinent to one's role. The editors have used a tiered approach, outlining what each role needs to lead a QI project, participate as a team m...

Library workers at all types of organizations, as well as LIS students learning about this newest Core Value of Librarianship, will find this book an easy-to-digest introduction to what staff at a range of libraries have accomplished in incorporating sustainability into their decision making and professional practices. In addition, a discussion about the role of economics and sustainability will challenge readers to stretch in new ways to positively impact their communities.As a co...