What's the big deal about a few dates between friends?Here's the thing—Mack has been Chase's best friend for half her life, and they've always been platonic with a capital P. He's also her business partner, and without question the best person she's ever met. And Chase? She’s a self confessed disaster; she works too much, considers curly fries a food group, and might have an unhealthy dependency on iced coffee and whiskey. Then there's her relationship history, which leans more tow...

Integrated Landscape Approaches for Africa's Drylands presents emerging fi ndings on the importance of moving beyond single-sector interventions to embrace integrated landscape management that takes into account the health of the ecosystems that support human livelihoods and contribute to the resilience of rural communities in Sub-Saharan African drylands. Integrated landscape management is particularly important for these drylands because people depend on production systems that are frequ...

Creative research methods for data generation have expanded over recent decades and researchers are eager to take a creative approach to data analysis.It is challenging to bring creativity into data analysis while retaining a systematic, rigorous, and ethical approach. Written by experts in the field, this handbook addresses these challenges. The chapters adapt analytical techniques in creative ways for novice and expert researchers. Existing and novel methods from analysis of quan...

I was sold to him to settle a debt... but Dante Bellanti never settles.My father was always a gambling man.Unfortunately, he never could pick winners.When the wolves closed in, he chose himself, like always.He traded his freedom... for mine.He forced me to marry.Now Dante Bellanti owns my body.I'm just another possession for a man who already has too much.So I won't let him have my heart.But you know what they...

You can’t run from the past… or from a Bellanti.I’ve always been a foolish girl.I should have learned my lesson the first time a man betrayed me.It hurt when Rico abandoned me. My father’s deal was agony.Dante’s betrayal… it might kill me.And there’s nothing I can do.He’s not the kind of man who takes orders from his wife.And he’ll never let me leave.There’s nowhere I can go that he won’t find me.My father for...

I thought the past was behind me… but becoming Mrs. Bellanti put a target on my back.My husband isn’t a gentle man.And God knows he isn’t the sharing type.Rico’s announcement has dropped a bomb into my marriage.I never thought I’d see Rico again.Never thought Dante would ever have to know.Seeing the way he looks at me now, as though I’m just another problem to be handled?It’s breaking my heart.I thought I was in love ...

Reality can be far more surreal—and cruel—than fiction. This is the heart-wrenching true story of Erin Gray, who was lured, held hostage by, and eventually escaped from a serial predator. Broken Butterfly delves into horror-movie territory in this retelling of a young woman’s spiral into drug addiction after prolonged exposure to brutal physical, sexual, and mental torture. Told by her mother, Wanda Gray, this first-hand account follows Erin’s journey through violent trauma, complex PTSD, ...

In recent years non-fiction history programmes have flourished on television. This interdisciplinary study of history programming identifies and examines different genres employed by producers and tracks their commissioning, production, marketing and distribution histories.With comparative references to other European nations and North America, the authors focus on British history programming over the last two decades and analyse the relationship between the academy and media profe...

Already acknowledged by Metacritic and the Guinness World Records as the highest-rated series in the history of television, Breaking Bad has elicited an unprecedented amount of criticism. Writers both popular and academic, columnists as well as eager commenters, have addressed every imaginable topic, from the show’s characterization and major scenes, to fine details such as Walt’s knack for picking up habits from those he kills, and the symbolism inherent within the cars that characters ow...

*Now a 2021 RWA's Vivian Award Finalist*Marry the love of my life.Become a mother.Write a book.Number one was complete. I was well on my way to checking off goals two and three, before a cancer diagnosis derailed my plans.A story meant to chronicle the journey of impending motherhood with wit, became a brutally honest memoir of living life to the fullest.Make every breath count.When finally confronted with the knowledge...

In 2007, Mary Eldergill, a volunteer member of Amigos de Los Animales (Friends of the Animals), discovered a group of newborn puppies on Dead Dog Beach in Puerto Rico. Mary rescued and rehabilitated them and, three months later, they flew to Newark, New Jersey, to be placed in their forever homes.Jean Baur and her husband adopted one of Mary’s rescues-a dog named Bella-and opened her Pennsylvania home to her new best friend. Just as Jean enrolled Bella in certified therapy-dog clas...

How to Research is a clear and accessible guide to the business of doing a research project. It systematically takes the reader through from the planning to the writing up and finishing off.