This book is based on more than 40 years of research in the area of carbonate sediments and rocks of different geological ages in Venezuela. It includes examples from the Permian age (more than 270 million years ago) to the Quaternary environments belonging to modern ecosystems located on the southeast and northeast margins of the Caribbean Sea.It focuses on the description, mainly petrographic, of carbonate sediments and rocks in continental Venezuela, and its modern carbonate sys...

Expert journalist and editor-in-chief of Caracas Chronicles Rafael Osío Cabrices offers a riveting, rigorous, and deeply personal account of the modern history of his country, from the rise of Chávez and the slow erosion of democracy, to the U.S. invasion and capture of Maduro.In this singular narrative of a country that often mystifies outsiders, Osío Cabrices brings to life the pivotal moments that led Venezuela to its c...

Ten full-length erotic romance novels that swing between Regency drawing rooms and stadium equipment cages without ever losing the collar. Dukes, countesses, executives, and alphas take their partners in hand through contracts, ledgers, ruts, and halftime, and femdom sits comfortably beside the dominant lords. Explicit power exchange from the first page.This scorching hot bundle contains the following full length erotic novels:Pregnant By The DukeShe signs the contra...

¿Y Yo También? brings together a diverse range of Latina voices to address the under-representation of Latinx voices in the #MeToo movement and discussions of sexual violence. Through scholarly analysis of literature, media, podcasting, film, art, and testimonio alongside memoir, poetry, a short play, and personal essays, the authors address varied Latina experiences of sexual assault and harassment. These authors grapple with these traumas alongside their intersectional contexts,...

Two kinds of leaders fail for two opposite reasons.One holds the line and loses the people. The other protects the people and loses the mission. Somewhere along the way, leadership development split into two camps — drive results, or take care of people — and handed every leader a membership card to only one of them.Mission-Driven Leadership rejects the choice.Drawing on a career spent in uniform, in business ownership, and in coaching lead...

Feeling with Demons offers a renewed approach to early modern witchcraft through the lens of the history of emotions. It examines the intellectual, judicial, and emotional frameworks that shaped witch-hunting in Old and New England, as well as the personal and communal tensions that fuelled accusations, their connections to demonic possession, and the arguments advanced by those who challenged the trials.Drawing on demonological treatises, sermons, witchcraft pamphlets, an...

The title says it ... My father antique toys... It is about how a father showed his kids, and daughter and son that they can actually play. With simple things like he did when he was a child? In this case, it is the rim of a bicycle the message of today is you do not need no computer. No video game nothing electronic. You killed 2 birds. With one Stone, you go out and you play physically... As you can see , it's a very short story to the point

The RYA Day Skipper Handbook Motor eBook is the digital companion to the RYA Motor Cruising Day Skipper Course, continuing the RYA practical series of books that accompany the courses.The new Day Skipper Handbook Motor covers the elements of the course in simple illustrated steps. It is ideal as the practical guide to aid students on the course, or just as a stand-alone book to guide you through the practical elements of motor boating.Chapters include:Pilotage...

A folder of photographs shatters a billionaire marriage before sunrise.One lie destroys everything.Winslow Ashford thought she had the perfect husband.Until proof of his betrayal lands on her table.One quiet question changes both their lives."Tell me it is false."He cannot.She walks away.He loses the only woman he has ever loved.But the affair is only the begin...

The bank transfer should never have existed.One name changed everything.One hidden payment shattered years of perfect love.Celestine believed she had married the only man who would never betray her.Prescott gave her everything a woman could dream of.Power.Luxury.Passion.Forever.Then a routine financial review uncovered a secret buried inside his accounts.A woma...

She found them at five in the morning.Her own bracelet on the wrong wrist, inside her husband's truck, sixty feet from the bed she thought was safe.Paige Delaney did not scream.She did not beg.She left one key on the counter, centered and deliberate, and drove away with the only thing nobody could take from her.Herself.Brody Delaney is Road Captain of the Reaper's Cross MC.Four states...

Every organization has one.One person nobody can replace. One supplier no one questions. One system everyone assumes will always work. One decision that quietly holds everything together—until it doesn't.When organizations fail, the collapse rarely begins with a dramatic catastrophe. It begins years earlier with small, reasonable decisions that slowly create a hidden weakness: a single point of failure.In Single Point of Failure, Dr. Jose A...