While first accounts of food allergy date back to antiquity, only in recent years has food allergy become recognized as one of the major allergic diseases. During the last decade the output of research papers on food allergy increased tremendously, and today, issues related to food allergies still attract a lot of attention among academics and the general public. Featuring contributions by world-renowned experts, this book presents the current concept, practice and recent advances in the f...

From USA Today bestselling author T. Kingfisher comes A Sorceress Comes to Call--a dark retelling of the Brothers Grimm's Goose Girl, rife with secrets, murder, and forbidden magic.Cordelia knows her mother is . . . unusual. Their house doesn't have any doors between rooms--there are no secrets in this house--and her mother doesn't allow Cordelia to have a single friend. Unless you count Falada, her mother's beautiful white horse. The only time Cordelia feels truly free is on her d...

A riveting collection of the hardships, hairbreadth escapes, and mortal struggles of enslaved people seeking freedom: These are the true stories of the Underground Railroad.Featuring a powerful introduction by Ta-Nehisi CoatesAs a conductor for the Underground Railroad—the covert resistance network created to aid and protect slaves seeking freedom—William Still helped as many as eight hundred people escape enslavement. He also meticulously ...

This book sets out to answer the call for the historic turn in organization studies through the development of an alternative methodology for history, one that we call ANTi-History. In responding to that call, this book contributes generally to the broad critique of the ahistorical nature of management and organization theory, but more specifically it sets out to address the need for more historicized research and in particular, alternative ways of writing and conceptualizing history. The ...

Fall in love with these four stories of Christmas in Crescent Falls.Grant and SamiyaA crashed website...A burning flame...Bryce and TeyonOne hotel room...Two strangers...Vicktor & ChanningA canceled flight…An unlikely attraction…Kelton & AveriStranded with no reservation...A last-minute rescue from a sexy stranger...

A riveting collection of the hardships, hairbreadth escapes, and mortal struggles of enslaved people seeking freedom: These are the true stories of the Underground Railroad.Featuring a powerful introduction by Ta-Nehisi CoatesAs a conductor for the Underground Railroad—the covert resistance network created to aid and protect slaves seeking freedom—William Still helped as many as eight hundred people escape enslavement. He also meticulously ...

Tibetan Subjectivities on the Global Stage: Negotiating Dispossession explores the many ways Tibetans are reimagining their cultural identity since the communist takeover of Tibet in the 1950s. Focusing on developments taking place in Tibet and the diaspora, this collection of essays addresses a wide range of issues at the heart of Tibetan modernity. From the political dynamics of the exiled community in India to the production of contemporary Tibetan literature in the PRC, the collection ...

Scholars in the field of children's literature studies began taking an interest in the concept of “liminal spaces” around the turn of the 21st century. For the first time, Liminal Spaces in Children's and Young Adult Literature: Stories from the In Between brings together in one volume a collection of original essays on this topic by leading children's literature scholars. The contributors in this collection take a wide variety of approaches to their explorations of liminal spaces...

What happens after your dreams come true?Patisserie-Chef Stevie is stuck in a rut. Her beloved Great Aunt Peggy has passed away and she's lost both her job and the love of her life. Then she gets the call from the solicitor's office about Peggy's will, and everything changes.When Stevie sees a quirky tea shop up for sale in the beautiful village of Tanglewood, she decides to take Peggy's advice and turn her life around.But the vil...

Something old, something new, something borrowed, something untrueEdie has enough on her plate keeping her tyrannical boss happy at Moira's Wedding Shop. So when society bride Tia begs Edie to design her wedding dress and keep it a secret from the domineering mother-in-law to be Edie reluctantly says 'I will' to making Tia's dream come true. If her deception is found out, though, it would mean losing her jobMeanwhile best m...

Visions of sugarplums can’t fix this one. It’ll take a whole lot of Dragon Magic sprinkled with fairy dust and tied together with yards of tinsel and garland.It’s over the river, through the woods, and straight to Christmas hell for Chance Nichols. His twin has taken off on a mission to the Frozen North, and most of the other Guardsmen are cuddled up with their mates, so it’s up to Chance to decorate the Lair before the snow begins to fall.One trip to town ...

Beth Ryder’s dangerously sexy and seemingly all-powerful boss has disappeared, leaving an increasingly desperate group of Nolanders — and one inept Second — in charge of policing other-worldly activity across much of North America. What better time for a legendary monster to emerge from the Second Emanation and make New York City its hunting ground? But little does Beth know that dealing with the voracious Thirsting Ground will pale in comparison to a shocking betrayal that threatens to de...