Kay, wolf queen's daughter and owner of the vampire bar The Midnight Drink, has spent centuries providing safety and stability for herself and others. In the face of accusation, she stands as bulwark between her girlfriend Logan and the vampire houses roused from the lethargy of their stalemate by rumors of fire and deception. Come what may, Kay will protect her family, no matter the personal cost such care may extract.As a vampire, Logan always seek to fill herself with stolen lif...

Rewiring Narratives: New Media Art from the Arab World rethinks the positioning of artistic and media practices from the Arab world in the grander discourse of New Media Art; not through the mere filling of representational gaps, but through a rethinking of the field as a whole. Emphasizing localized histories, cultural frameworks, political contexts, and technological conditions, this volume maps a dispersed yet interconnected terrain of Arab artists, institutions, and works that challeng...

A highly provocative, mindbending, beautifully designed, and visionary look at the landscape of our rapidly evolving digital era.50 years after Marshall McLuhan's ground breaking book on the influence of technology on culture in The Medium is the Massage, Basar, Coupland and Obrist extend the analysis to today, touring the world that’s redefined by the Internet, decoding and explaining what they call the 'extreme present'.THE AGE OF EARTHQUAKES is ...

"Love is the sharpest of blades, and a fallen star can undo even a dragon."When stars fall from the sky, pulled down by ancient magic, Laura of the Ash Clan is determined to protect her territory. Accused of breaching Starborn law by dragons seeking an advantage, she relies—begrudgingly—on Calia, a dragon with whom she shares deep familiarity and history, one who is unafraid to face assassins and brave an ancient forest of necromantic rot. But in the end it is Laura who ru...

On the eve of a coup d'etat, the wife of a diplomat newly returned to Turkey from the United States finds that the new Minister of Foreign Affairs, Fuat, is in fact a childhood friend. Having married more for status than love, and quizzically unmoored from the reality of day-to-day existence in the capital, she begins to nurse an impossible love for her husband's superior, and in the process of telling us of her Bovary-like, novelistic infatuation, she confesses innumerable details of her ...

Whisper is a blade that kills their wielders, always in search of a stronger body, even if it breaks them. When they face Heliodora the Insatiable, they think their end has finally come. They do not expect the dragon to spare her meal, much less to be kept as her personal blade. With her strength at their disposal, Whisper can finally be the weapon they were always fated to be; ruthlessly efficient, and so drunk on blood that the days blur together in dance and slaughter. But the detached ...

This edited volume offers a comprehensive examination of the emerging security threats confronting the GCC and NATO. Bringing together scholars and practitioners with deep area expertise, this book surveys military, technological, environmental, biological, and socio-political challenges. Combining historical analysis with forward-looking insights, it provides a holistic perspective on the emerging threats and their impact on regional and global security. Using case studies from the Russo-...

Hunger, yearning lesbians, and monstrous love.Monsters are real, and Ryann is one of them. Chosen as a weapon in a war that is not her own, she finds an outlet for her anger in the fighting pits beneath Toronto, and on the hunt for the vampires that changed her. Whatever the cost, she'll take back her life, her control—or make them fear the hunger they've roused in her.Burdened by monstrosity, Meg, assassin of the Scorching Dawn, drowns her pain in the bloo...

Dragons rule in secret, known only to a few chosen humans—and Rhi, who strikes a deal with a dragon: Servitude for protection.Rhi is small, anxious, and gifted with magic that disables them more than it helps—Powerful magic, which many would stop at nothing to obtain. In their desperate search for safety, Rhi turns to none other than one of the secret dragon masters of Habitat Seventeen, Laura, Lady of Ash.Exposing Rhi's forbidden knowledge could garner Lau...

With the agricultural sector pledging to improve its sustainability, there is an urgent need to move away from linear food production models which rely on significant raw material inputs and generate large amounts of residual waste.Developing circular agricultural production systems reviews the emergence of circular agriculture as an approach to improving the sustainability of the agricultural sector. The book addresses recent advances in understanding and...

Mean-Field-Type Game Theory II is the second of two volumes that together form a comprehensive treatment of mean-field-type game theory and applications, focused on finding state-of-the-art solutions to issues surrounding the next generation of cloud social networking, smart energy systems, transportation and wireless networks. The text shows how mean-field-type game theory provides the ideal framework for designing robust, accurate and efficient algorithms for the autonomous and ...

This book is about thriller story. There are two chapters in this book which give you a environment of horror activity. This book was written by the experience of the writer. The book was written by one of the Bangladeshi popular writer Khairul Basar Shuvo who has a big name in the country.