Nimona meets Mooncakes in VERSE Book 3: The Song where magic, monsters, and hard choices weave a final, dangerous destiny!THE VERSE IS FAILING.As the monstrous Vel step up their attacks, the last encampments of people find themselves defenseless as their only connection to magic falters. Their sole hope lies in Neitya, the young girl with horns and a mystical gift from the past. Torn between wanting to be free of the burden of des...

Finding Out**, Fourth Edition** introduces readers to lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender-queer (LGBTQ) studies. By combining accessible introductory and explanatory material with primary texts and artifacts, this text/reader explores the development and growth of LGBTQ identities and the interdisciplinary nature of sexuality studies. Now available in a digital ebook format, the fourth edition has been thoroughly updated to include a new chapter on "Trans Lives and T...

Return to the days when science fiction magazines carried readers to impossible worlds and introduced ideas unlike anything they had encountered before.Lost Sci-Fi Books 241 thru 260 brings together twenty vintage science fiction stories packed with strange planets, dangerous experiments, unexpected visitors, ingenious schemes and ordinary people caught in decidedly extraordinary circumstances.Ray Bradbury explores a fascinating question of identity in

Continuing a three-decade tradition, The State of the Parties 7th edition brings together leading experts to evaluate change and continuity in American electoral politics. Political parties in America have never been more contentious and divided than they are right now. Even splits within the parties themselves have the power to elevate relatively unknown candidates to power and topple established incumbents. With sections devoted to polarization and the electorate, polarization and politi...

’Wherever the European has trod, death seems to pursue the aboriginal.’ So wrote Charles Darwin in 1836. Though there has been considerable discussion concerning their precise demographic impact, reflected in the articles here, there is no doubt that the arrival of new diseases with the Europeans (such as typhus and smallpox) had a catastrophic effect on the indigenous population of the Americas, and later of the Pacific. In the Americas, malaria and yellow fever also came with the slaves ...

The most comprehensive and authoritative reference available today on colorectal surgeryThis revised fourth edition of Gordon and Nivatvongs' Principles and Practice of Surgery for the Colon, Rectum, and Anus edited by David Beck, Steven Wexner, and Janice Rafferty strikes a perfect balance between evidence-based medicine, in-depth details, and clinical pearls. The result is a highly engaging and authoritative tome in the grand tradition of Philip Gordon a...

Fascinating account of the apparently minor chance encounter between German and British cavalry, supported by artillery, in the opening stages of the First World War as the German army wheeled through Belgium and Northern France. The engagement was a tenacious struggle and L Battery of the Royal Horse Artillery won three VCs and the honour title "Nery" during this clash.Illustrated with 4 sketches and 4 photographs.

This book, first published in 1919, represents a study undertaken by former Royal Artillery Major Archibald Frank Becke on the action fought by General Sir H. Smith-Dorrien and the troops under his command on August 26th, 1914 at Le Cateau—a critical day that proved not only a triumph for the British arms, but had a most important bearing on the whole retreat.The book served to show Officers of the Regiment the use that will be made of their War Diaries, and the nature of the inform...

Reflecting major contemporary developments in theory and clinical practice, the second edition of this authoritative guide has been significantly rewritten with 85% new material. Cognitive therapy (CT) pioneer Aaron T. Beck and associates provide cutting-edge knowledge about the cognitive model of depression and the most effective, lasting ways to reduce clients' suffering. The volume links clearly explained theoretical principles to specific therapeutic strategies. Techni...

This is the 1936 revised edition of the 1914 two-volume account of Napoleon's last campaign by Britain's pre-eminent military historian of the early 20th century, now combined in one handy single volume.This first part takes the story of the Hundred Days from the Emperor s return from exile in Elba up to his despatch of the incompetent Marshal Grouchy to head off the Prussians while he faced Wellington at Waterloo. The book looks at Napoleon's strategy and tactics as well as his dis...

Understanding an epic story’s key belief patterns can reveal community-level values, the nature of familial bonds, and how divine and human concerns jockey for power and influence. These foundational motifs remain understudied as they relate to South Asian folk legends, but are nonetheless crucial in shaping the values exemplified by such stories’ central heroes and heroines.In Hidden Paradigms, anthropologist Brenda E.F. Beck describes The Legend of Ponnivala, an...

"A worthy synthesis both for victims who want to know why and for policymakers who need to know what to do" about violence in society ( Scientific American ).Why is there evil, and what can scientific research tell us about the origins and persistence of evil behavior?Considering evil from the unusual perspective of the perpetrator, Roy F. Baumeister asks, How do ordinary people find themselves beating their wives?...