Being the only survivor of the terrorist attack in the Niger-Delta, Lieutenant Theodore Diogu returns to military camp only to face threats from his superiors who make accusations against him. But he is not tried according to law, rather assigned to a mission he might not return.Saving the President from a terrorist attack, Theodore is welcomed to the government house. A night with the President, he is acquainted with classified information beyond his pay grade, which makes him a t...

On the outskirt of Oma Kingdom, a powerful woman is found at a riverbank living in solitude. Kings, gladiators, and heroes rise to ask her hand in marriage, but she will marry only the man who is able to defeat her in a battle arena. The paragon of beauty becomes the bane of conquerors until she meets a man of her match who comes from a small village in Greece to propose to her. Ure is astonished to discover that her new lover is a childhood friend, a titan called Omanze.The prince...

This volume shifts the focus from violence to peace studies in Latin America and sheds light on how social groups and individuals resist to violence and strive to create peaceful or at least less violent conditions of conviviality. Drawing on social sciences, history, and anthropology, but also on cultural, literary, and film studies, the book examines the role of social mobilizations, civic activism, and cultural/artistic initiatives as responses to the crisis of violence, which the state...

Dancing ballet makes Rose feel fulfilled. Her greatest joy is that she is travelling to the city to teach a crew of dancers her style, and it is rumoured all over her school that by the time she returns home, she will be one of the most famous girls in the country. What Rose does not approve of is that her parents assigned her an old military man to be her bodyguard. She thinks the journey will be full of fun if she's allowed to go with her best friend.After the accident on her way...

This volume presents national reports describing the legal instruments that are available to prevent the payment of bribes for acquiring contracts. Anti-corruption is one of the preeminent issues in the modern global commercial order and is tackled with the help of criminal law and contract law in different ways in different countries. The reports included in this volume, from very diverse parts of the world, represent a unique and rich compilation of court decisions, doctrinal discussions...

Detective Isaac Bell tracks a killer across the nation’s oilfields in this adventure in the #1 New York Times–bestselling historical series.As Van Dorn private detective Isaac Bell strives to land a government contract to investigate John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil monopoly, the case takes a deadly turn. A sniper begins murdering opponents of Standard Oil, and soon the assassin—shooting with extraordinary accuracy at seemingly impossible long range—kill...

In the beginning there was.a turtle.Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place which might sound and smell very much like our own, but which looks completely different. Particularly as it's carried though space on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown). It plays by different rules.But then, some things are the same everywhere. The Disc's very existence is about to be threatened by a strange new blight: th...

Earth Beings is the fruit of Marisol de la Cadena's decade-long conversations with Mariano and Nazario Turpo, father and son, runakuna or Quechua people. Concerned with the mutual entanglements of indigenous and nonindigenous worlds, and the partial connections between them, de la Cadena presents how the Turpos' indigenous ways of knowing and being include and exceed modern and nonmodern practices. Her discussion of indigenous political strategies—a realm that need not ab...

Another great title in the best-selling Go Girl series. Chloes nervous about going back to school. She has to get used to a new teacher and harder work. But she didnt expect to be the only one to find the new maths so difficult. Is everyone else really smarter than Chloe?

Since being elected president in 1998, Hugo Chávez has become the face of contemporary Venezuela and, more broadly, anticapitalist revolution. George Ciccariello-Maher contends that this focus on Chávez has obscured the inner dynamics and historical development of the country’s Bolivarian Revolution. In We Created Chávez, by examining social movements and revolutionary groups active before and during the Chávez era, Ciccariello-Maher provides a broader, more nuanced account of Chá...

"Latin America" is a concept firmly entrenched in its philosophical, moral, and historical meanings. And yet, Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo argues in this landmark book, it is an obsolescent racial-cultural idea that ought to have vanished long ago with the banishment of racial theory. Latin America: The Allure and Power of an Idea makes this case persuasively.Tenorio-Trillo builds the book on three interlocking steps: first, an intellectual history of the concept of Latin Americ...

From the author of The Day of the Jackal comes Frederick Forsyth's Avenger, a heart-stopping thriller of murder, intrigue, deception, and revenge.Attorney Calvin Dexter hangs his shingle in a quiet New Jersey town, has a reasonably successful practice, and takes the hills strong while triathlon training. But Dexter is no ordinary lawyer. On Sundays, he reads the paper and shuffles around his dark, empty house, trying to forget about a life he has ...