Sam is a young man who has decided that the world he lives in is fundamentally flawed and in need of fixing—and he is determined to do something about it. The task is daunting and not without considerable risk. Unable to convince him to accept the status quo and in order to minimize the risk, his family opts to help him with astonishing results over the next two years. As Sam purposely acquires the label of terrorist, he takes on what he hopes is his final project. But in order for Sam to ...

You're only a first-time CFO once, but that first time can be a daunting challenge for startup leaders. Without a blueprint or a guide, you're in a tough spot to manage all the details of finance, set up the accounts and systems, plus build out your team. Startup CFO was written to help the first-time CFO navigate finance challenges and provide tactics and best practices for how you can grow a high-performing function.Matt Blumberg and Jack Sinclair have decades of finance...

Martin Eden, Jack London’s semiautobiographical novel about a struggling young writer, is considered by many to be the author’s most mature work. Personifying London’s own dreams of education and literary fame as a young man in San Francisco, Martin Eden’s impassioned but ultimately ineffective battle to overcome his bleak circumstances makes him one of the most memorable and poignant characters Jack London ever created. As Paul Berman points out in his Introduction, “In Martin, [...

If you know London primarily through novels like WHITE FANG, these stories will provide a new perspective. Full of intriguing characters and snippets of pidgin, they also highlight London's concern with social issues.

Anchored. Powerful. Deadly.My mates and I are being hunted by a dark force set on destroying the line of Nyx. They've not only put me in danger—but my family, too. But I've completed the three mate bonds I need in order to come into my power. Now, I have to learn how to wield it.I've been enrolled in Oberon Academy, the supernatural school of the elite. A place where status is earned through blood and power. Only the most ruthless survive here. And I need to prove ...

Fate. Destiny. A force so powerful it could bring worlds to their knees . . .Avalon, the home of the supernatural race, is claiming me as its Queen. Their current ruler needs me to return, but the organization out to kill me still wants me dead, and they're hunting me with the help of someone on the inside.If I want to survive, I have to find my mates, complete the bonds, and grow my power.Adrian, my charming mage, is mine to take. But there are others call...

A novella featuring the characters of the Daughters of Nyx and their happily ever after!I fought the war. I won the battle. I gave destiny the middle finger. And now . . .Now I'm in for rest. Right?Except my nine wonderful mates are hiding something from me. As they help me raise my three little sisters and dote on me while pregnant with our very first babies, I can't help but feel like I'm missing something . . .The Heart of Nyx is...

I, Ivy Wilson, am apparently a Queen.It sounds far fetched. I had a five-year plan: work at the Camilla until I had enough for a deposit on a shop to start the romance bookstore of my dreams, write my regency romance novels, and survive my pestering mother.All that crumbles when they appear. Adrian, Rowan, Elias, and Maeve. They claim they're here for me—the new Queen of Nyx, the rightful heir to the throne of all supernaturals.But I'm being hunted by fate, darkness...

Death to the Queen. Let the true King rise.The throne belonging to the Queen's of Nyx has been claimed by another. By a mage determined to see the line of Nyx end, and bring in a new era power.But I can't let that happen—I won't. If he wins, then the entire supernatural world will be destroyed.My mates and I must venture into the lost home of the supernaturals: the Old World. Once ravaged by war, it started the reign of Queens. Now, nothing but darkness rem...

First published in 1975, this book compiles a number of studies concerning institutional care and children, which address the question of why institutions that serve apparently similar functions differ so much.The book uses comparative methods such as measurement of different ‘dimensions’ of institutional care and analysis of interrelationships among specific structural and functional features which characterise particular institutions. As a result, the book draws broad conclusions...

This 2nd volume contains the following 50 works, arranged by authors' last names: Pride and Prejudice [Jane Austen] Beauty And The Beast [Barbot de Villeneuve, Gabrielle-Suzanne] The Law [Frédéric Bastiat] Cabin Fever [B. M. Bower] Jane Eyre [Charlotte Brontë] The Way of All Flesh [Samuel Butler] Discourse on the Method [Descartes] Sister Carrie [Theodore Dreiser] The Three Musketeers [Alexandre Dumas] A Simple Soul [Flaubert] The Good Soldier [Ford Madox Ford] North and South [Elizabeth C...

The 'Dystopia Boxed Set: 18 Dystopian Classics in One Edition' encapsulates a rich tapestry of imagined societies confronting bleak futures marked by oppressive regimes and societal collapse. This anthology brings together diverse literary styles from early groundbreakers in speculative and dystopian fiction to mid-century innovators whose narratives shaped a genre that continues to resonate. Within its pages, readers will traverse settings as varied as a regimented, hyper-rational state, ...