HOPEIt should have been an easy sell.He was just another client, a wealthy target.I offered him what I had.He stole the rest.Beautiful. Confident.His Viking blood made him a conqueror.He dominated my senses.He planned to rule my body as well.I didn’t have a chance at keeping my heart.AXELHer name said it all.Hope.She came to me in my darkness.The c...

***Ireland Steinburgen is absolutely determined to never love again. Happy endings only exist in fairytales, and she’s tired of being let down over, and over, and over again. The one common denominator?Men.***Now that she’s moved her life from her small, Southern hometown all the way to the big city of San Francisco, she’s convinced she can make it in life, blissfully happy in her singledom. Of course, she’d be an awful lot happier if she could get a handle on her temper an...

The Bobcats are out, and it’s mating seasonSarahBarnet University has a tradition. It’s called The Hunt.It’s the night the football team hunts down a girl on campus and dubs her his Kitten, to serve at hisbeck and call.And somehow, I’d forgotten all about it, which is the only reason I was caught, collared, and put towork.Traditions suck.Having no ambition to be anyone’s doormat—or worse, I turn to the only way out.The captain...

Ireland Steinburgen is absolutely determined to never love again. Happy endings only exist in fairytales, and she’s tired of being let down over, and over, and over again. The one common denominator? Men. Now that she’s moved her life fromher small Southern hometown all the way to the big city of San Francisco, she’s convinced she can make it in life, blissfully happy in her singledom. Of course, she’d be an awful lot happier if she could get a handle on her temper and holddo...

Jessica Aguirre doesn’t know the definition of “living” anymore. Really, she’s just been following what she thought was the proper path. Who had forged that proper path, though, she had no idea. All she knew was that it was lonely. Andconfusing. And probably, most definitely, not the path she was supposed to be on, especially considering the recent professional success that had brought her absolutely no joy. She’s a writer, yet words completely escape her when she triesto des...

HOPEIt should have been an easy sell.He was just another client, a wealthy target.I offered him what I had.He stole the rest.Beautiful. Confident.His mafia lineage made him a conqueror.He dominated my senses.He planned to rule my body as well.I didn’t have a chance at keeping my heart.AXELHer name said it all.Hope.She came to me in my darkness.The compass that would guide me out of the stor...

Cancer Informatics chronicles the development of the National Cancer Institute's new Cancer Informatics Infrastructure (CII) - an information management system infrastructure designed to faciliate clinical trials, provide for reliable, secure information exchange, and improve patient care. The book details the challenges involved in creating and managing such a knowledge base, including technologies, standards, and current, state-of-the-art applications.The ultimate...

This book explores Black identity, from a global perspective. The historical and contemporary migrations of African peoples have brought up some interesting questions regarding identity. This text examines some of those questions, and will provide relevant essays on the identities created by those migrations. Following a regional contextualizing of migration trends, the personal essays with allow for understandings of how those migrations impacted personal and community identities. Each of...

This book comprehensively reviews current pest management practices and explores novel integrated pest management strategies in Brassica oilseed crops. It is essential reading for pest management practitioners and researchers working on pest management in canola and other Brassica crops worldwide. Canola, mustard, camelina and crambe are the most important oilseed crops in the world. Canola is the second largest oilseed crop in the world providing 13% of the world's supply. Seeds of these ...

The science of nanotechnology, the manipulation, design and engineering of devices at the atomic and molecular scale, is starting to be applied to many disciplines including aspects of agriculture and crop science. This book opens with a brief history of nanotechnology in agriculture. Applications are then examined in detail, including nanopesticides, nanosensors, nanofertilizers, and nanoherbicides. Topics covered include; the biosynthesis of nanoparticles (through microbes, plants and ot...

Discusses latest research on sorghum structure, chemistry and physiologyReviews varied uses of sorghum as a feed and food grain, forage and energy cropIncludes case studies of key challenges facing sorghum cultivation in regions such as Asia, Africa and South America

Discusses developments in good agricultural practice from crop growth models to improved water and nutrition management;Reviews advances in understanding plant physiology and genetic diversity as well as their contribution to improvements in breeding;Summarises recent research on diseases and pests as well as their control through developing disease-resistant varieties or integrated weed management