Step away from the rush of everyday life and into worlds shaped by imaginationShort stories that invite you to slow down just enough to be transported somewhere extraordinary. In Imaginary Journeys in Time, Bill Day invites readers to pause—just long enough—to discover the quiet wonder, humor, and insight that unfold within a few brief pages. Whether you have thirty minutes or three, these stories will carry you through moments in time, across distant worlds, and into the heart of r...

A biographical work on Thomas Starr King has been presented here. His preaching that took him from Boston to San Francisco is discussed in detail. His work in turning the sympathy for the Unionists in California is also mentioned.

The aim of this book is to comment on, and clarify, the mathematical aspects of the theory of thermodynamics. The standard presentations of the subject are often beset by a number of obscurities associated with the words "state", "reversible", "irreversible", and "quasi-static". This book is written in the belief that such obscurities are best removed not by the formal axiomatization of thermodynamics, but by setting the theory in the wider context of a genuine field theory which incorpora...

The Woodchopper paints a vivid picture of the devastation heaped upon one family by the destructive Biafran War in Nigeria. However, the strength of the autobiographical work is its portrayal of the lives of common people in the twelve small villages of Achi in southeastern Nigeria prior to and after the Biafran War. Their worship of idols and deities; the ferocity of Igbo warriors in hand-to-hand combat; the emergency night meetings of village elders, fetish priests, and others with spiri...

The incredible true story of former Navy SEAL Mike Day, who survived being shot twenty-seven times while deployed in Iraq.On the night of April 6, 2007, in Iraq's Anbar Province, Senior Chief Mike Day, his team of Navy SEALs, and a group of Iraqi scouts were on the hunt for a high-level al Qaeda cell. Day was the first to enter a 12x12 room where four terrorist leaders were waiting in ambush. When the gunfight was over, he took out all four terrorists in the room, ...

A hookup with a handsome stranger at 30,000 feet… Yes, please.Coming home to three off-limits contractors who want to claim me? That escalated fast.After one life-shattering day, I ditched New York and ended up in a tiny airplane bathroom being given the best O of my life.I didn't catch his name. Or expect to see him again. But fate has jokes.Now I'm back in my hometown, Aspen Springs—figuring out my mess of a life, helping my mom, and break...

This open access book explores the politics of emotions under the ruling Justice and Development Party in Turkey and the leadership of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. It examines how emotional politics and, particularly, the use of a Neo-Ottomanist narrative created a new national mood and contributed to the durability of Erdoğan’s rule. The author analyses the interactions between national narratives, symbolic politics and emotions. She argues that these interactions have formed the basis...

I have three new bosses: My one-night stand. My first love. And a shameless flirt.Send help.After the city chewed me up and spit me out, I returned to Medford with nothing but a bruised ego.So when a smokeshow at the bar offered one night of distraction—with a capital D—I didn't even pretend to hesitate.But the next morning? Mr. Distraction—Samuel—is sitting in my job interview.Next to Kai? The 'boy' I left behind. Now he's all

The November/December 2024 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.Featuring new fiction by Adrian Tchaikovsky, William Alexander, Sonya Taaffe, Lauren Beukes, Marissa Lingen, Naomi Day, and Angel Leal. Essays by Vivian Shaw, Tania Chen, Tansy Rayner Roberts, and Alex Jennings, poetry by Brandon O'Brien, Sneha Mohidekar, Abu Bakr Sadiq, and Katherine James, interviews with William Alexander and Marissa Lingen by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Julie Dillon, an...

A fairytale escape with The Once Upon a Time CollectionIncluding the titles:BeautyThe BeastCinderellaA Perfect FitCharmedHeartbreaker

The modern vision of the world as one dominated by one or more superpowers begs the question of how best to understand the world-system that existed before the rise of the first modern powers.Janet Abu-Lughod's solution to this problem, in this highly influential work, is that Before European Hegemony, a predominantly insular, agrarian world was dominated by groups of mercantile city-states that traded with one another on equal terms across a series of interlocking areas o...

'Students will find this work stimulating, engaging and enlightening. Practitioners in commercial law will find nuanced and insightful articulations of their stock-in-trade.' Sir David Foxton, Judge in Charge of the Commercial CourtThis book unpacks the themes and controversies that pervade commercial law. Commercial parties trade in three things: property, services and credit. In all but the most basic of businesses, a commercial enterprise must have more than one...