Nostalgia, learning experiences, meaningful memories… This book is filled with these from a man who grew up in a strong Irish-Catholic community in the North End of Saint John in the 1950s and 1960s, went on to practise law and then become a law professor and consultant in Toronto, and most recently, joyfully embraced RVing and living in an active retirement community. But besides dusting these memories off for enjoyment, John G. Kelly has a larger purpose. By cleverly showing how his past...

This book offers a groundbreaking comparative study of Directors' and Officers' (D&O) liability insurance regulation across representative common law jurisdictions (mainly the UK and US), and the Chinese legal system, examining its legal character, regulatory frameworks, and corporate governance implications.In an era where companies are expanding across borders and operating in increasingly complex financial markets, D&O liability insurance has become an integral part of modern co...

This book presents cutting-edge research on Green Intelligent Mobility Systems, guided by the overarching vision of achieving transportation that is green, intelligent, and safe. The contributions compiled in this volume aim to advance the development of sustainable mobility and intelligent transportation technologies by enhancing interconnectivity, resource sharing, flexibility, and operational efficiency.Given its interdisciplinary scope, the book will be of interest to researche...

WHAT IS YOUR STATE OF HORROR?The birth of a devil in the 18th century resonates in today’s world. A storm hits a small mountain town and the resident must evacuate, where will they go? Visit a zoo unlike any you have experienced. The sins of the past haunt the present in a once thriving industrial town. Discover what lies beneath the boardwalk. Take a walk down memory lane as a woman is haunted by that thing she most loved. Escaping from a zombie hoard may not be t...

"Collection of Grievance Relief Stories" (“Xi Yuan Ji Lu, 洗冤集录，or洗冤录, 宋提刑洗冤集录”) is a famous forensic works in ancient China, written by Song Ci (宋慈) in Southern Song Dynasty. The book includes 53 articles in 4 volumes, covering topics such as general inspection, wound inspection, autopsy, wound identification, bone examination, etc. It also elaborates on the procedures of adjudication of criminal cases, criminal investigation and guaranty of criminal cases, and the format and procedures of...

Sarah's a foul-mouthed girl from the wrong side of the tracks, hoping to convince everyone at college that she's just another nice freshman girl from a nice college family.Anthony, Marcus, and Henry have been friends for years, but now life's pulling them in different directions: Anthony and Henry are heading off to different colleges, while Marcus is trying to survive Navy boot camp.When Sarah accidentally ends up on a text chain with Anthony and Marcus, she knows she shou...

This collection of stories runs the gamut from the award winning fantasy, "A Walk in the Park with Death and Winter", to the space opera, "Stay". There are alternate realities and distant planets, aliens, cyborgs, and queens. Fans of the science fiction and fantasy genres will find Beyond the Stars-A Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Story Collection by C.I. Chevron impossible to put down.

Midnight could be the beginning of a dream or shatter it forever.Eliana Steelhaugh's life and the lives of her friends depend on secrecy. By day she plays servant to her stepmother. By night Ella is forced to use her unusual talents and body modifications in a 'secret identity'—a thief known as Cinder. Much of her time is spent at St. Drogo, a sanctuary for modifieds, to atone for her mother having poisoned the Thames. She has little time for dreams, let alone love.Second s...

Jane Donahue, an American in Paris, simply wants someone to love her. Well, not just someone. Nicholas Colin David Sutcliffe-Ashworth IV, to be exact. And the City of Love presents the perfect landscape for the dovetailing of fate and opportunity to make that happen. But nothing comes cheaply, especially not love. Deception seems to be everyone's currency when it comes to relationships, and Jane learns that every coin has more than on side.

At high schools on opposite sides of town, two groups of girls showed up for the first day of soccer practice, and everyone thought they knew how the season would go.West Sycamore's team had always been pretty average. No one expected that to change.East Sycamore's team was the best in the state, with a lineup full of All-Stars. Anything less than a state championship would have been a disappointment.But in sports, things rarely go according to plan. There were new ...

To save her friends she will have to burn.In a small town in the middle of the U.S., the only thing Seren wants to do is fit in. This proves difficult when everything about her is different and people call her freak behind her back. Things change suddenly when she gives a boy her necklace, the one her parents told her neverto take off. Next thing she know,s she's running for her life with a smart-mouth water globule with two personalities, putting out hot flashesthat burn her cloth...

It is the early 1340s, a decade full of possibilities and freedom. Father Bernard arrives in the valley village under the three mountains, his holy orders in hand, charged with reestablishing the church of St. Cyprian's and bringing its parishioners back into the fold. But a dark undertone has taken hold of the town, where practices from a rival church defy anything Bernard'secclesiastical education prepared him for. In fact, he would call them almost cult-like. Even the power of t...