Weiyona—known to the galaxy as Y—thought she had escaped Lynoch's iron grip forever.She was wrong.After the blood-soaked arena where her mother, the rebel Starbreaker Weiyinur, fell to Jardoc's blade, Y vowed to leave the rebellion behind. She wanted only one thing: her Esishan family, the orphanage children and the Directress who raised her. But Lynoch had other plans. The children were abducted, the orphanage burned, and now Y mus...

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During the 1890s, British women for the first time began to leave their family homes to seek work, accommodation, and financial and sexual freedom. Decadent Women is an account of some of these women who wrote for the innovative art and literary journal The Yellow Book.For the first time, based on original research, Jad Adams describes the lives and work of these vibrant and passionate women, from well-connected and fashionable aristocrats to the desperately poor. ...

Jad traces the transformation of the Palestinian women’s movement from the 1930s to the post-Oslo period and through the Second Intifada to examine the often-fraught relationship between women and nationalism in Palestine. Offering one of the first intensive studies of Islamist women’s activism, Jad also explores the impact of emerging feminist NGOs in depoliticizing the secular Palestinian women’s movement. Studying these two developments together illuminates the nature of women’s engagem...

Before 1893 no woman anywhere in the world had the vote in a national election. A hundred years later almost all countries had enfranchised women, and it was a sign of backwardness not to have done so. This is the story of how this momentous change came about. The first genuinely global history of women and the vote, it takes the story of women in politics from the earliest times to the present day, revealing startling new connections across time and national boundaries - from Europe and N...

[In the wake of a devastating war, engineer Jude Crux's dream of a Martian colony shatters when Byond crashes, leaving him reborn as Yonder—a hybrid of man and machine. Stranded on Mars, he hears a desperate signal from Isha Banerjee, his lost love, leading Epi Zona's resistance on a ruined Earth. Tasked with Project Genesis, a secretive US plan to purge humanity's remnants under the cryptic "one race begins" directive, Yonder builds a formidable fleet of 15 warships and 60 drones from the...

Choice of Darkness is a tale of blighted love and mass murder based on the hunt for the biggest serial killer in nineteenth-century America.Jad Adams tells the story of Henry Holmes from the point of view of the detective who tracked him down, burdened by a love betrayed.Frank Geyer is a detective in Philadelphia who in 1894 is called to investigate the death of Ben Pitezel.He encounters Dr Henry Holmes who says he is acting for Pitezel's family to collect ...

Life is usually about routine, but for Reth, it's about making the best bet at the right time. Follow this Day Trader as he works through sour deals, accountability, and a shift in perspective as he bets on himself with an all or nothing mentality. What could possibly go wrong when you think you're "Dealing Up"?

If you are British, drawing a pension, and quietly wondering whether you could actually live in Spain, this book is for you. I've worked it all out the hard way, so you won't have to.It starts with the question most guides skip, which is whether you can really afford it, and then goes through the bits that catch people out. You will learn how the Non-Lucrative Visa works and how to get through the BLS application centres without coming unstuck. There is a proper look at your State ...

Science Fiction Novel with unexpected twists with action and questions to ask about the development of our society.Homo homini lupus est ?Introduction: Chronology of events"The earth is doomed". Over centuries, this mantra known to all, had become reality. The steps leading to this critical stage had been long, painful, and numerous. By the end of the 20th century, a consensus had attributed the ecological disaster to industrialisation and the intensive use of coal a...

Because history is nothing more than a natural footprint left by the people who walked it before we did, the telling of their lives should be conveyed to the listener in the same spirit that footprint was pressed into the earth. In other words, the real life characters of the past (the good ones and the bad ones) at least deserve to have their stories accurately described. Sea Buzzards does that. Our received version of what, when, and who has been tampered with diluted facts, vague extrap...

In today's economy, founders are under relentless pressure to lead their businesses successfully.The stakes are high, the path forward isn't always obvious, uncertainty is debilitating, and outcomes are unpredictable. This takes a huge toll on the one quality that will see a founder through to success: resilience.In this timely and practical book, entrepreneur and business coach Jad Atwe delivers a decisive framework for navigating the comp...