Love is in the air…or is it? When it comes to love, anything can go awry.What if Cupid's aim isn't so perfect after all? What if the arrow finds the wrong target, or the right target at the wrong time?Romance can blossom in an ancient castle, at a local café, or on an interstellar generation ship. But what happens when magic, technology, planetary alignments, or sheer bad luck turn romance into a disaster?What if the meet-cute is not so cute?

British Plant Communities is the first systematic and comprehensive account of the vegetation types of this country. It covers all natural, semi-natural and major artificial habitats in Great Britain (but not Northern Ireland), representing the fruits of fifteen years of research by leading plant ecologists. The book breaks new ground in wedding the rigorous interest in the classification of plant communities that has characterized Continental phytosociology with the deep concern tradition...

The third book in the Lord Terrence Reid series takes us to the Scottish Highlands for a contemporary Christmas mystery set in a castle. Full of holiday trappings and wonderful food, we escape the everyday and step into another world.Scottish Police Superintendent Terrence Reid tears himself away from a murder investigation in Glasgow to return to his family's ancestral home for a Christmas house party celebrating the christening of his son. Dunbaryn Castle is all decked out for Ch...

Although Rori Cross has been restless, she has never wanted to enter another relationship…until now.Something about smooth-talking Guy Matthews makes Rori want to forget past hurts, current stalkers, and her constant worry over her still grieving father.Rori is gun-shy when it comes to relationships, and she isn't ready for Guy Matthews, editor of an elite gun magazine based in Wyoming. She is a lover of romance novels, rock-n-roll, and a secret craving for all things pink....

The fifth book in the Lord Terrence Reid/Anne Michaels mystery series, Violent Seeds takes the couple to the picturesque English Cotswolds for a gourmet experience that turns deadly.Detective Superintendent Lord Terrence Reid hopes for a quiet week with his family in the Cotswolds while his wife, Lady Anne, restores Whitethorn Manor's famous walled garden. The manor's Summer of Chefs program promises seven nights of haute cuisine from a celebrated mystery chef, just the respite his...

Suspecting that his estranged wife is having an affair with a famous artist from a renowned American art dynasty, Scottish Police Superintendent Terrence Reid, heir to a whiskey fortune and Scottish title, travels to the small California seaside town of Bodega Bay to try to win her back—only to discover that her lover's six-year-old daughter has just been kidnapped.Anne, a talented historic garden designer, doesn't know whether to bless or curse the luck that had her husband show up...

Diagnosed as a psychopath as a child and trained as an assassin at a secret CIA institute, Emma Garthright is not like other teens. But now Emma is faced with the one mission she isn't prepared for—making friends at an ordinary high school.Sixteen-year-old Emma has spent most of her life at the remote Early Institute, a boarding school operating under the guise of helping children like Emma become better people. But the Early Institute's altruistic façade hides a d...

Recovery is a process, not an event.Gain insight into that process through the unique approach of Together We Heal: A Real-Life Portrait of Recovery in Group Therapy.Many adult lives are affected by the loss of their childhood. For some, as with the participants in Together We Heal, these losses were generated by chemical dependency in the family. Although written primarily for adult children of alcoholics, most of the issues broached are relevant for anyone who grew up in ...

SERIES PREMIERE Stargate meets His Dark Materials in a new non-stop sci-fi action blockbuster! Hannah's life imploded the day her father failed to return from the secretive Smith-Petersen Research Station in Antarctica. Alone and on the street, she's at her lowest ebb when a friend offers help. Retrained as an engineer, Hannah secures a job at the same Antarctic station to search for her father and stumbles headfirst into a conspiracy that threatens everything she's ever believed.

A FUTURE EARTH IN WHICH EVERY ROAD AND BUILDING UTILISES NANOTECHNOLOGY TO MAKE CLEAN FUEL, FOOD AND FERTILISER JUST FROM WATER, SUN AND AIR.When agent Jean Moulin investigates the mysterious connections between a murdered woman in Hampstead and assassination attempts on the President of the Whole Earth Council, he's led back to the origins of the Global Synthetic Photosynthesis Project in Namibia as well as the forces that wish to destroy it and its visionary eco-gendered founder.Split by...

Reveals how consumer choice can be better understood and influenced using social networks analysis (SNA)Intuitively, we all appreciate that we can be influenced by our friends and peers in what we do, how we behave, and what products we consume. Until recently, it has been difficult to measure this interdependence, mainly because data on social networks was difficult to collect and not readily available. More and more companies such as mobile phone carriers or soci...

Suspecting that his estranged wife is having an affair with a famous artist from a renowned art dynasty, Scottish Police Superintendent Terrence Reid, heir to a whiskey fortune and Scottish title, travels to the small California seaside town of Bodega Bay to try to win her back--only to discover that her lover's six-year-old daughter has just been kidnapped. Anne a talented historic garden designer, doesn't know whether to bless or curse the luck that had her husband show up on her doorste...