He was my brother's best friend… but my brother was never the problem. Everything else was.SloanHave you ever felt such a pull to one person that you cannot control yourself around them? Just one mention of their name and a fire ignites deep within?Well I, Sloan Barton, had that connection... with my brother's best friend.You see, I was in love with Wesley King long before I ever knew what love was. Always tagging along, adm...

The first night I met Parker Cole, he insulted me within five minutes of opening his gorgeous mouth.Between the banter and nicknames thrown at each other, a spark ignited that lingered well beyond that evening.Our next encounter was a night full of masked pleasure and fun, with no expectations. Well, maybe one… for him to stop being such a jerk.Now, much to his disapproval, he's my new boss.As time passes, his presumably impenetrable walls s...

As kids, we had an unexplainable bond. One I don't think we even understood back then.Over time, the pull between us developed into something we could no longer ignore.We were reckless, we were impulsive, we were… everything.Until it all came shattering down.Now, he's a single father, and I'm the estranged best friend who's still hopelessly in love with him—Eli Barton, America's favorite baseball pitcher and the man I walked away from.

This book marks the 10th anniversary of the Routledge journal Transnational Cinemas, and its renaming to Transnational Screens.The introduction reflects on the changing ways in which film is produced, distributed and consumed with the emergence of streamed content providers. Each chapter expands on previous scholarship and interrogates key areas of transnational cinema. Taken together they revisit key concepts of transnational cinema; explore the relationship betw...

MEMS and Nanotechnology, Volume 6: Proceedings of the 2012 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics represents one of seven volumes of technical papers presented at the Society for Experimental Mechanics SEM 12th International Congress & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, held at Costa Mesa, California, June 11-14, 2012. The full set of proceedings also includes volumes on Dynamic Behavior of Materials, Challenges in Mechanics of Time-Dependent Materials and P...

23 very well-known people from the arts, sport, and business worlds talk about how dyslexia affected their childhood, how they were able to overcome the challenges and use the special strengths of dyslexia to achieve great success in adulthood. Darcey Bussell CBE, Eddie Izzard, Sir Richard Branson, Meg Mathews, Zoe Wanamaker CBE, Richard Rogers, Benjamin Zephaniah, Steven Naismith, Lynda La Plante CBE, Sir Jackie Stewart OBE, Sophie Conran and others share their stories, and their advice.

No longer preoccupied with the East-West divide, contemporary foreign policymakers now have to confront regional conflicts, peace-enforcing and humanitarian missions, and a host of other global problems and issues in areas such as trade, health, and the environment. During the Cold War a widely-shared consensus on national interest and security in the United States and western Europe affected news reporting, public opinion, and foreign policy. But with the end of this Cold War frame of ref...

It was a dream job – until I got hit in the head with a pickle. . . My dress-up shoes are pinching my toes. . . Mississippi Mamaw muscadine jelly biscuits for breakfast, and the fried bologna on the white wonder for lunch. . . Life can be this frightening sometimes. . . "Where are we?" she asks with anxious uncertainty. . . The queen called. . . Sir John FitzAlan drew a slow breath against the pain in his half-healed side. . . Mandy crunches on thinly packed snow with her powder blue hikin...

In The Mindful Leader, Peter Shaw unpacks the Christian concepts underpinning good leadership and management - such as wisdom, hope and truth - offering a toolkit for leaders who are aspiring to be more authentic.

Published in 1919, Heartbreak House is an examination of the failings of the European leisure classes before World War I-failings that author George Bernard Shaw blamed for the war, and that he predicted would quickly lead to another, longer war.The play is set in an English country house, where representatives of every type of English society have gathered at the home of the seemingly mad Captain Shotover. Hidebound aristocrats and cultured bohemians, wealthy capitalists ...

History of the Comstock Patent Medicine Business and Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills is a comprehensive historical account that delves into the fascinating world of 19th-century American patent medicines, focusing on the rise and operations of the Comstock family business and their most famous product, Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills. The book traces the origins of the Comstock enterprise, beginning with Edwin Perkins Comstock and his brothers, who established themselves as prominent figures i...

TAROT WILL TRANSFORM YOUWhether you're curious about tarot, but don't know where to start, or if you'd like to deepen your relationship with the cards, this book can help you.Unveiling the Tarot offers a simple yet profound method for studying tarot based on classic interpretations combined with a modern, personalized and embodied experience of the cards. As a result, each page offers the opportunity to leverage the archetypal wisdom of tarot for personal awakening...