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Jessica James

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Stella Bloom

Gold Medal from the Military Writers Society of America, Readers' Favorite Award Winner, Golden Leaf Award WinnerWhat do you do when the person you most want to protect is the one risking everything to make sure you survive?It started as a chance encounter on the beach, and ended 24 hours later when they parted to go their separate ways.Or so they thought.WHEN LAUREN CANTRELL said goodbye to the guy she had just met on the beach, she had no way of knowing their ...

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James J. Bloom

For centuries, humankind has wondered what is "out there" and has embarked on countless voyages to find out. This book traces the history and literature of the imaginary voyage--stories of mariners journeying through uncharted waters to find strange and marvelous sights. Well-told tales of adventurous journeys--The Odyssey, The Aeneid, Gulliver's Travels, Robinson Crusoe, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea--conjure up images that transcend our mundane lan...

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James D. Bloom

Treating Philip Roth as a war writer—as well as a sportswriter, crime reporter, political commentator, and Newark chronicler—Roth’s Wars: A Career in Conflict offers a thoroughly researched account of the novelist’s preoccupation with wars around the world and wars at home. This wide-ranging social and cultural history of Roth’s career examines intersections between Roth’s preoccupations as a writer and the work of contemporaries, such as J.D. Salinger, Joan Didion, George Plimpto...

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James D. Bloom

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Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

This book examines the phenomenon of 'the male gaze', a concept which has spread beyond academia and become a staple of cultural conversations across disciplinary boundaries.Male gazing has typically been disparaged and even stigmatized as a reflection of misogyny and an instrument of objectification, often justifiably so. But as this book argues and illustrates, male gazing can also be understood as an illuminating, intellectually engaging, aesthetically compelling, and even polit...

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Claire Bloom, James Reston

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Jim Meskimen

A bestselling historian recounts sixteen years that shook the world—the epic clash between Europe and the Ottoman Turks that ended the Renaissance and brought Islam to the gates of ViennaIn the bestselling Warriors of God and Dogs of God, James Reston Jr. limned two epochal conflicts between Islam and Christendom. Here he examines the ultimate battle in that centuries-long war, which found Europe at its most vulnerable and Islam on the attack. This drama was prope...

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Nicholas Bloom, James Liang, Roy Zhang

From the “prophet of remote work,” the science-backed playbook for leading productive, profitable, and happy hybrid teams.All work is hybrid now. No matter your formal RTO policy, we are all remote from an important colleague or client. Yet many business leaders still treat flexibility as a concession: greater flexibility must mean weaker performance. Hybrid work overturns that logic.Informed by two decades of research, randomized trials, and case studies f...

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M.J. Mercer

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CJ Bloom, James Cavenaugh

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House of Frost

Fleeing from the man she loves, psychic FBI agent Jess Bryant finds herself captured.There’s no way he’s coming for her after she ran out on him. With no other choice, Jess is forced to reveal the truth to her captor, betraying David in the process. She doesn’t want to let him go, but she’d never forgive herself if he risked his life because of her.David Woods can’t stand by with Jess in danger, especially since it’s his fault.After saving her life ...

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Anna Bloom

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Molly Morkham, James Joseph

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Sea Salt Bay

'This book just blew me away, it is sooooo good!' ★★★★★The first in a gritty, emotional, small-town romance series set on the windswept Cornish coast.Isla Quinn had no plans to return to Sea Salt Bay. But after the worst year of her life, she finds herself back at her grandmother’s cottage, facing the past she thought she’d left behind.Ten years after leaving Kit Harding, her first love, Isla discovers he’s now a widowed single father, carrying wounds as deep as the...

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Advances in Neurobiology

This book contains a compendium of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) articles and reviews concerning state of the art technologies and how they are being applied to human neurodevelopmental disorders. With the establishment of effective technologies to produce iPSCs and their derivatives, like neural precursors, neurons, and glia, researchers have new platforms to study neurodevelopmental disorders. iPSC technology enables researchers to study how human neurons develop in individuals ...

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M.J. Mercer

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CJ Bloom, James Cavenaugh

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House of Frost

An ancient prophecy, a love renewed, and an otherworldly power threatening to annihilate everything they’ve worked so hard to build.Jess Bryant never believed she was the one the prophecy spoke of, but when she used her psychic abilities to open a doorway to the Dimension of Light, she could no longer deny her fate. But her gift came with a hefty price tag—danger in the form of a vengeful angel hellbent on destroying her.If he succeeds, the prophecy will be...

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Derek Royal, James Bloom, Ira Nadel, Miriam Jaffe Foger, Debra Shostak, Matthew Shipe, Maggie McKinley, Brett Ashley Kaplan, Nigel Rodenhurst, Mark Shechner

Roth and Celebrity is composed of 10 original essays that consider the vexed and ambivalent relationship between Philip Roth and his own celebrity as revealed both in personal interviews as well as in the fiction that spans his publishing history. With its simultaneous interest in American popular culture and the work of the most important living American writer to-date, the collection will hold wide appeal to advanced readers in American studies, literary scholarship, and film.

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Alvin Feinman, Harold Bloom

A definitive edition that introduces a major American poet to a new generation of readersAccording to Harold Bloom, "The best of Alvin Feinman's poetry is as good as anything by a twentieth-century American. His work achieves the greatness of the American sublime." Yet, in part because he published so sparsely, Feinman remained little-read and largely unknown when he died in 2008. This definitive edition of Feinman's complete work, which includes fifty-seven previo...