Lin Chen has survived the Lin Clan and entered the Heaven Sword Sect — butsurvival is only the beginning. Now he must climb the sect's brutal rankingsystem, face rival disciples, and uncover the secrets of the Five-ElementConvergence bloodline.With the Heaven Reversal System at his side, Lin Chen transforms from outerdisciple to core disciple, earning powerful techniques and making unlikelyallies. But danger lurks in every shadow: Young Maste...

Naomi Hale felt that they were through the tough stuff.The jobs were secure. The business was standing firm. And somewhere amid the broken machinery, the crazy figures, and too many late nights, Gabriel Ward became someone she did not intend to become, someone whom she could trust.But now comes summer.The business collapses, salaries rise, and the pledges made to save thirty-one jobs start to unravel. Naomi must consider the chance that to save her people, she will ...

This book offers a groundbreaking comparative study of Directors' and Officers' (D&O) liability insurance regulation across representative common law jurisdictions (mainly the UK and US), and the Chinese legal system, examining its legal character, regulatory frameworks, and corporate governance implications.In an era where companies are expanding across borders and operating in increasingly complex financial markets, D&O liability insurance has become an integral part of modern co...

Kieran Byrne, Alpha of his werewolf pack, avoids humans at all costs. That changes when Sienna Hart walks into his club. She is reckless, wears silver jewelry that is deadly to werewolves, and smells like trouble from the moment he sees her.An anthropology student obsessed with werewolves, Sienna has spent years researching Kieran's pack. But her investigation uncovers something far more dangerous than she expected: a dark secret tied to the truth her mother died protecting. Now, a...

Introduction to current modeling methods for electromagnetic metasurfaces using the generalized sheet transition conditionNumerical Methods for Modeling Metasurface with GSTC provides a systemic and deep monograph of numerical modeling approaches for metasurfaces and thoroughly explores various numerical methods, encompassing not only those in the frequency domain, but also those in the time domain that incorporate generalized sheet transition conditions (...

Kieran Byrne, Alpha of his werewolf pack, avoids humans at all costs. That changes when Sienna Hart walks into his club. She is reckless, wears silver jewelry that is deadly to werewolves, and smells like trouble from the moment he sees her.An anthropology student obsessed with werewolves, Sienna has spent years researching Kieran's pack. But her investigation uncovers something far more dangerous than she expected: a dark secret tied to the truth her mother died protecting. Now, a...

Teacher Preparation in Taiwan offers an analytically rich account of how teacher education has been shaped through the transnational circulation of ideas, institutions, and modes of governance.Taiwan represents both a geographically understudied and a national context in which to examine the historical origins and contemporary dynamics of teacher preparation and education policy. The book demonstrates that Taiwan’s teacher education system has been constituted through sust...

Do you ever really know the person you're dating?LENNONI lived, but I'm not really living.The world knows me as the girl on the front page of every newspaper-a photo taken after I survived something you only see in horror films. What they don't realize is that no matter how much time passes, I'm still in that room, stifling my screams, wondering if he's going to hurt me next.I walk through the world trapped in the d...