FOREVER HER MANThey'd been together since they were babes. Wil and Issy, joined at the hip. Closer than best friends, they knew each other's minds. They were family.As teenagers, Wil knew Issy would be his forever. But the fiercely independent Isabeau couldn't see the future Wil imagined.He left to become the King's Guard, and returned home after seven long years to fulfill a mission for his king. Still harboring a bruised heart, he could barely stand to be around I...

A BATTLE OF HEARTSBastard son of a king, Aleksandr has scrimped and saved to attend the races at King Asad's City by the Sea. Nothing will stop Aleksi from returning home with a string of fine horses, a sizable purse of gold, and an easy tempered wife who will bear his children. What he finds is a spitting tigress with unparalleled beauty, a will of iron, and a mare she assures him will beat his stallion. She's also the king's pampered, spoiled daughter and is off limits. But that ...

DREAMS AND OMENSWith a temper fiery enough to warn off any soldier not to take what isn't offered, Lara's reputation as a wildcat is deadly. To add to her troubled life, which keeps most villagers at bay, she was born with the ability to foretell the death of her friends, enemies, and lovers.When Lara's arrested for assaulting a guard, she's cast into servitude under Talon, the king's captain. She's foreseen meeting Talon for most of her life, and is now living her own priv...

STAR CROSSEDA northern princess captured by pirates is sold into slavery and gifted as dowry to the cruel father of a prince betrothed to a woman he despises. So is the lot of Oona, the Swan, an exceptional singer and dancer, stolen from her father's ship along with her sister, the Dove. Of all the horrors that awaits them, including training to be pleasure women for the brutal king, Oona never would have believed his son, Asad, the lion, Prince Black Mane of the Southern Great Val...

In September 2015, world leaders adopted a new post-2015 development agenda, centered on 17 Sustainable Development Goals intended to transform the world. This report provides basic information about the new agenda—its content, aspirations, and global partnership approach. It describes the complex challenges to the agenda’s effective implementation, including the multiplicity of participants, the growing diversity of financing, the need for better knowledge, and the persistence of state fr...

There is a broad and enduring international consensus that good governance and the rule of law are important for the attainment of sustainable development results. But recognizing that good governance is important for development is one thing; carrying out effective international programs to support improved governance is something very different. It seems logical that international cooperation efforts intended to help achieve such results should include programmatic support for these impo...

George Gamow, the famous cosmologist and nuclear physicist, conjectured that the Universe may be rotating and this may be the cause of galaxy rotation.The author models a complex rotational configuration for the Universe demonstrating that such a spin configuration would have impacted directly on how the Universe developed and behaved.From first principles and using basic concepts in school physics, a young spinning ellipsoidal Universe is modelled to determine possible beh...

Zaiya, a powerful phoenix with a terrible past, descends from the skies to find a mate. Instead, captured by Rikka, the sorceress, the firebird is forced to attack a village. When the inhabitants fight back, the phoenix is nearly destroyed.But fate decrees that she is be rescued by a kind carpenter, Kin Woodsmith. As the phoenix and the carpenter grow closer, the young man helps Zaiya to regain her powers and overcomming her past. In return, she gives him special gifts, and togethe...

Carefully organized and tightly edited, this insightful book considers potential causes of men′s violence against women, utilizing a variety of theoretical perspectives. It summarizes what is known about the multiple causes of men′s violence against women and the importance of identifying men′s risk factors in order to prevent future violence.The editors′ approach is unique but systematic. In chapter 2, the editors present a preliminary multivariate model that explains men′s violen...

Everyone knows vampires don’t exist.So when Mildred Schmidt, one of Charlie’s customers, is convinced that her next-door neighbor’s house sitter is actually a vampire, Charlie of course has to step in to see what is really going on.What she finds is … disturbing. The house sitter DOES have some peculiar habits—like digging holes in the backyard in the middle of the night.Surely, they aren’t … graves.But then Polly, a local teenager, goes missing.Of c...

Five friends went into the woods. Only four came back.If something ails you, Charlie Kingsley likely has a tea to fix it.So, when Charlie witnesses a young woman faint on the side of the road, she has no choice but to offer her services. (Along with a cup of her famous tea, of course.)In no time at all, the young woman is back to normal, which is good news, as she's about to go camping with her friends.Charlie thinks that will be the last of it … so...

Madness, sexuality, power, knowledge—are these facts of life or simply parts of speech? In a series of works of astonishing brilliance, historian Michel Foucault excavated the hidden assumptions that govern the way we live and the way we think.The Archaeology of Knowledge begins at the level of "things aid" and moves quickly to illuminate the connections between knowledge, language, and action in a style at once profound and personal. A summing up of Foucault's own methodo...