Over the past years, the screams, echoing from within the old house, varied from ecstasy to desperation. Apart from the wildlife, the cries fell on deaf ears; the Mistress liked it this way. Surrounded by acres, including woodland and wide-open stretches of pasture, Mondesto Manor suited her sordid and relatively solitary Machiavellian life style perfectly. Employing only a few staff, her main interest lay in her slaves. They came and went over time until she found the perfect willing subm...

A leading scientist argues that we must consider deploying climate engineering technology to slow the pace of global warming.Climate engineering—which could slow the pace of global warming by injecting reflective particles into the upper atmosphere—has emerged in recent years as an extremely controversial technology. And for good reason: it carries unknown risks and it may undermine commitments to conserving energy. Some critics also view it as an immoral human bre...

In this innovative book, Keith Watenpaugh connects the question of modernity to the formation of the Arab middle class. The book explores the rise of a middle class of liberal professionals, white-collar employees, journalists, and businessmen during the first decades of the twentieth century in the Arab Middle East and the ways its members created civil society, and new forms of politics, bodies of thought, and styles of engagement with colonialism.Discussions of the middle class ...

Growing up in Roath Park, Cardiff, John Richards never envisaged a career in the cut-throat corporate 'City' – London, the world-renowned hub of trading, retail and financial marketing. Spending his childhood obsessed with trainspotting, music and girls, John had no aspirations to become a player in the arena of stocks and retail. But through a combination of luck, hard work and happy 'accidents' he found himself in the esoteric world of stockbroking. The path of John's career moved into r...

Over the past years, the screams, echoing from within the old house, varied from ecstasy to desperation. Apart from the wildlife, the cries fell on deaf ears; the Mistress liked it this way. Surrounded by acres, including woodland and wide-open stretches of pasture, Mondesto Manor suited her sordid and relatively solitary Machiavellian life style perfectly. Employing only a few staff, her main interest lay in her slaves. They came and went over time until she found the perfect willing subm...

Bread from Stones, a highly anticipated book from historian Keith David Watenpaugh, breaks new ground in analyzing the theory and practice of modern humanitarianism. Genocide and mass violence, human trafficking, and the forced displacement of millions in the early twentieth century Eastern Mediterranean form the background for this exploration of humanitarianism’s role in the history of human rights.Watenpaugh’s unique and provocative examination of humanitarian thought a...

System smashing/replacing and unparalleled is how the idea in this book has been described by my peers as an author. I want to seed this idea in the consciousness of Planet Earth. The financial idea is what I’m talking about. The other ideas will be taken or left believed or not as the world does in it’s ineffable way. But please if you would like to see a fairer world take a long look at this publication.

**In this heart-pounding thriller from the world’s most popular storyteller, Detective Alex Cross and his beloved fiancé find themselves tangled in a complex murder investigation—threatening not only public safety, but their chance at happiness together.Inspiration for the thrilling Prime Video show, Cross.**Alex Cross is happy, but his happiness is threatened by a series of chilling murders—murders with a pattern so twisted, it leaves investigators reeling. Cross'...

The book Son of God is a tie-in with the major motion picture of the same title, slated for wide theatrical release (through 20th-Century Fox) on February 28, 2014. Like the movie, the book possesses an epic scope, providing a panoramic picture of first-century Judea as it recounts the events and reveals the meaning of Jesus's life, death, and resurrection.Though based on New Testament accounts, including the four Gospels as well as the book of Acts, Son of God re...

Ecological Dynamics Approach to Football is the first book to apply insights from research in ecological dynamics to the sport of football.Ecological dynamics is a theoretical framework that draws on ecological psychology, complexity sciences, and dynamical systems concepts in examining interactions among constraints and the emergence of movement and performance behaviours.This book shows how an ecological dynamics approach can be used to design better practices fo...

From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves—and our world today.For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of t...

**In this #1 New York Times bestseller from the world’s most popular storyteller, two killers-one operating in America, one in Europe, believe Alex Cross is the only worthy opponent in the deadly game each has planned.Inspiration for the heart-pounding Prime Video show, Cross.**Gary Soneji, a dying prison escapee, is looking for revenge on Cross, while another insane killer is pursued by Thomas Augustine Pierce-a brilliant and relentless detective who may ...