Step away from the rush of everyday life and into worlds shaped by imaginationShort stories that invite you to slow down just enough to be transported somewhere extraordinary. In Imaginary Journeys in Time, Bill Day invites readers to pause—just long enough—to discover the quiet wonder, humor, and insight that unfold within a few brief pages. Whether you have thirty minutes or three, these stories will carry you through moments in time, across distant worlds, and into the heart of r...

A biographical work on Thomas Starr King has been presented here. His preaching that took him from Boston to San Francisco is discussed in detail. His work in turning the sympathy for the Unionists in California is also mentioned.

The aim of this book is to comment on, and clarify, the mathematical aspects of the theory of thermodynamics. The standard presentations of the subject are often beset by a number of obscurities associated with the words "state", "reversible", "irreversible", and "quasi-static". This book is written in the belief that such obscurities are best removed not by the formal axiomatization of thermodynamics, but by setting the theory in the wider context of a genuine field theory which incorpora...

In this book, practitioners, judges and academics provide a comprehensive assessment of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999, a legislative cornerstone of English contract law.The 1999 Act is a central statute in contract law, which transformed the rules on privity. Yet comparatively little is written on it. On the Act's 25th anniversary this study fills that gap. Experts in the field from academia and practice assess its reach and impact, shedding ligh...

African Americans from Pittsburgh have a long and distinctive history of contributions to the cultural, political, and social evolution of the United States. From jazz legend Earl Fatha Hines to playwright August Wilson, from labor protests in the 1950s to the Black Power movement of the late 1960s, Pittsburgh has been a force for change in American race and class relations. Race and Renaissance presents the first history of African American life in Pittsburgh after World War II. ...

Looking for entertaining stories of drama, glamour and passion featuring sophisticated and sensual African American and multicultural heroes and heroines?Harlequin Kimani Romance brings you all this and more with these four new full-length books for one great price!UNDENIABLE ATTRACTIONBurkes of Sheridan FallsKayla PerrinWhen a family wedding reunites Melissa Conwell with Aaron Burke, she’s determined to prove she’s over the...

This open access book explores the politics of emotions under the ruling Justice and Development Party in Turkey and the leadership of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. It examines how emotional politics and, particularly, the use of a Neo-Ottomanist narrative created a new national mood and contributed to the durability of Erdoğan’s rule. The author analyses the interactions between national narratives, symbolic politics and emotions. She argues that these interactions have formed the basis...

A hookup with a handsome stranger at 30,000 feet… Yes, please.Coming home to three off-limits contractors who want to claim me? That escalated fast.After one life-shattering day, I ditched New York and ended up in a tiny airplane bathroom being given the best O of my life.I didn't catch his name. Or expect to see him again. But fate has jokes.Now I'm back in my hometown, Aspen Springs—figuring out my mess of a life, helping my mom, and break...

The November/December 2024 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.Featuring new fiction by Adrian Tchaikovsky, William Alexander, Sonya Taaffe, Lauren Beukes, Marissa Lingen, Naomi Day, and Angel Leal. Essays by Vivian Shaw, Tania Chen, Tansy Rayner Roberts, and Alex Jennings, poetry by Brandon O'Brien, Sneha Mohidekar, Abu Bakr Sadiq, and Katherine James, interviews with William Alexander and Marissa Lingen by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Julie Dillon, an...

Essential reading for candidates for the MRCPath examination and similar postgraduate examinations in clinical biochemistry. The book gives an overview of the acquisition of data, as well as concentrating on clinical aspects of the subject, giving detailed coverage of all conditions where clinical biochemistry is used in diagnosis and management. In common with other diagnostic specialties clinical biochemistry now uses an increasing number of techniques involving the 'new biology': these ...

Multi-agency working continues to be a core focus in criminal justice and allied work, with the government investing significantly in training criminal justice professionals. This fully revised and expanded edition of this comprehensive text brings together probation, policing, prison, social work, criminological and organisational studies perspectives, and is an essential guide for students and practitioners in offender management and other managed care environments. The contributors prov...

The modern vision of the world as one dominated by one or more superpowers begs the question of how best to understand the world-system that existed before the rise of the first modern powers.Janet Abu-Lughod's solution to this problem, in this highly influential work, is that Before European Hegemony, a predominantly insular, agrarian world was dominated by groups of mercantile city-states that traded with one another on equal terms across a series of interlocking areas o...