In 1997, Eve Foster’s daughter, Kelsey, runs away to New Mexico and vanishes without a trace. Eve is convinced that she’s the victim of a serial killer who’s been hunting women in the region, but Kelsey’s body is never found. Years later, Eve dies, leaving everything to her adopted twin daughters. The majority of the wealthy estate in Vermont goes to Lisa, the “good daughter,” while Connie inherits only a small stipend and a property in New Mexico. Connie, often the target of Eve's cruelty...

I might be biased when I say this, but I do believe it India is the most interesting and fascinating country in the world. At the same time, it is also the most complex.In the beginning of my time in India, I misunderstood many things, misjudged many people and underestimated many ways of doing business. During my years in India, I have learned, adapted and changed. This book is about sharing these learnings and experiences with readers. The typical reader is either the westerner wh...

'This is not normal. It can be resisted. Find out how’ ANTONY LOEWENSTEIN'Restoring politics to its rightful place in human life is perhaps our most urgent task' KENAN MALIK, THE OBSERVER'The time has come to fight back, and reading Ruben Andersson’s book provides a starting point’ THE DAILY MAIL________________________________What would you give up to feel safe...

The United States' ignominious exit from Afghanistan in 2021 topped two decades of failure and devastation wrought by the war on terror. A long-running "fight against migration" has stoked chaos and rights abuses while pushing migrants onto more dangerous routes. For its part, the war on drugs has failed to dampen narcotics demand while fueling atrocities from Mexico to the Philippines. Why do such "failing" policies persist for so long? And why do politicians keep feeding the very crises ...

In the spring of 1897, young solicitor Jonathan Harker leaves behind his fiancée Mina and his Rent Boy lover Renfield and sets off on a business trip from London to the distant Carpathian Mountains. What begins as a sexual adventure, however, soon becomes a journey into terror as Harker falls victim to dark forces and is unable to resist the depraved authority of his host and captor, the mysterious and charismatic Count Dracula. Bram Stoker may have told the official version of the Dracula...

Tom lives with the sexually adventurous, tirelessly promiscuous Rob but everything changes the day he sees the beautiful Swan for the first time. Embarking on an intensely passionate affair, Tom is prepared to give up everything for his handsome and enigmatic young lover. But what is Swan's secret, what is the truth behind his relationship with the predatory Hugo Rothbart - and can pure, all-consuming, passionate love survive the dark forces that threaten to tear two men apart?

Work with large data sets, create statistical models, and make predictions with statistical methods using the Swift programming language. The variety of problems that can be solved using statistical methods range in fields from financial management to machine learning to quality control and much more. Those who possess knowledge of statistical analysis become highly sought after candidates for companies worldwide.Starting with an introduction to statistics and probability theory, y...

Explorer One is a collection of fourteen short tales told the alien's point of view, written by twelve up-and-coming new writers.Which will be your favorite?Featured Contributors:Jennifer AnderssonDawn DeBraalScott ChaddonE. W. FarnsworthBruce MarkusonEdwardo PerezBob PriceLincoln ReedTaylor RigsbyTodd SalviaH. R. Schwartzand Katie Stairs

Acts of Passion: Daniel Barnes is a rising star with a secret - he can't resist older men. But a chance encounter at a post show party will lead to a trail of destructive desire in a journey that includes a simmering sexual encounter on the banks of the Tiber, casual pickups in Hyde Park abd a decadent threesome where aonything goes. The First Time: A young man recalls a series of sexual firsts - everything from the first stirrings of gay desire with a boarding school roommate and a saucy ...

This book is a collection of op-eds published on Pressenza. Each article looks at a different aspect of the Western dynamic as played against other cultures and as seen through current events. While the mainstream often views these issues as either political or economic, I argue that these conflicts are deeper and rooted to a cultural historical formative landscape that I call the White-West.

Internet-Delivered CBT: Distinctive Features offers a concise overview of how internet-delivered CBT and related methods (such as smartphones) can be used as single interventions as well as part of regular CBT in the form of “blended treatments”. The book also describes different applications and adaptions of internet treatments for different target groups (young persons, adults and older adults) and cultures/languages.The book is in the style of A-Z, which means that all ...

In this groundbreaking ethnography, Ruben Andersson, a gifted anthropologist and journalist, travels along the clandestine migration trail from Senegal and Mali to the Spanish North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla. Through the voices of his informants, Andersson explores, viscerally and emphatically, how Europe’s increasingly powerful border regime meets and interacts with its target–the clandestine migrant. This vivid, rich work examines the subterranean migration flow from Africa t...