He’s the ruthless king of New York's underworld. She’s the queen who doesn’t let anyone reign over her.Gio, New York’s most powerful crime boss, doesn’t do loose ends. When a night with one of the Q Agency’s high-end escorts goes sideways, the city’s most dangerous don demands answers straight from the top—from owner Kara Delaine herself.Kara didn't build her empire by sweating over a dangerous man. Stunning, untouchable, a...

Thoroughly revised, the eighth edition of this accessible and highly respected text provides a rigorous yet digestible introduction to the European Union. It authoritatively explains developments that continue to bring challenges to this powerful institution in times of great political change.Key features include:Clearly covers the history, governing institutions, and policies of the EU.Thorough reflection on destabilizing issues such as immigration and the ...

Women in Mycenaean Greece is the first book-length study of women in the Linear B tablets from Mycenaean Greece and the only to collect and compile all the references to women in the documents of the two best attested sites of Late Bronze Age Greece - Pylos on the Greek mainland and Knossos on the island of Crete. The book offers a systematic analysis of women’s tasks, holdings, and social and economic status in the Linear B tablets dating from the 14th and 13th centuries BCE, ide...

Information Technology (IT) is conquering the world. It affects our jobs, our lives as private citizens, and society. Its impact is greater than other technologies, such as railways, personal cars, and the telephone. However, while most can understand the potential and constraints of these technologies, IT is often experienced as a “black box,” producing its effects without giving a clue as to how they are achieved. The aim of How Information Technology Is Conquering the World is to open t...

When Caroline's parents are blown off course in a balloon race, she is sent to live with an Aunt she has never met, or even heard anything about. She's worried and doesn't know what to expect. Not in her wildest imagination would she have ever believed the adventures that awaited at her aunt's home in the Enchanted Hollow. In the Hollow the regular world is kept out by temperamental bushes, the dogs all speak and you will most likely be lectured by a retired show horse. Caroline explores t...

"[The] text and photos make this . . . more than a pretty coffee-table book, Route 66 aficionados will want to add this descriptive tome to their collections." — Ruidoso News (New Mexico)Much more than a ribbon of crumbling asphalt, Route 66 is a cultural icon revered the world over for its nostalgic value—an east-west artery pointing America toward all the promise that the great West represented. But as stretches of Steinbeck's "Mother Road" were bypassed ...

Information technology is changing the world through automation, by bypassing middlemen and by digitization. We see dramatic effects today in the music industry, going from CDs to streaming, in newspapers, from paper to online, and in the banking industry, from branch offices to the Internet. One of the most fundamental changes is the replacement of physical cash, money and coins, by bits in a computer.A Cash-Free Society is about this dramatic change. It shows the advantages and di...

May 10th, 1869 marked the momentous day when the Central Pacific Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad joined in Promontory, Utah and became the Transcontinental Railway. No longer was the West a hazardous and costly journey made only by the most adventurous or the most desperate. With first class train cars to take them there*, the wealthy began to migrate as well, starting what was called the "Nobility Ranches" and belief in their "Manifest Destiny" ...

First published in 1986. This book integrates current knowledge about the military, political, economic, and cultural roles of the armed forces in sixteen Asian countries, examining the interplay of these factors and their bearing on each society's civil-military relations. The authors explore the history, current status, and potential future course of each country. Analyzing all key Asian armed forces, they provide a comprehensive view of the military's domestic role-a crucial factor in a...

The Editor of this publication is Dr Elise Olsen, Director of the Duke University Cutaneous Lymphoma Research and Treatment Center and professor of Dermatology and Oncology. In 2014, cutaneous lymphoma (CL) is considered a chronic, non-life threatening disease since the majority of patients are diagnosed at early stage, though progression to later stages does result in death from the disease. This issue covers T-cell and B-cell lymphomas, with content emphasis on Mycoides fungoides and Sez...

The Honey of Souls is the first full-length study of the Explanation of the Psalms by Cassiodorus. While the Explanation became a seminal document for the monastic movement in the West and was eagerly read and widely quoted for centuries, it has languished in relative obscurity in the modern period. Derek Olsen explores Cassiodorus and his strategies for reading as a window into a spirituality of the psalms that defined early Western biblical interpretation.

This provocative critique of Washington's current security policies, draws on the arguments made by an array of non-interventionist and conservative-nationalist scholars. It provides a blueprint for a more restrained and unilateral US role in global affairs.