The veil is bleeding. The dead are waking. And the mirror remembers her name.The Echo Born Series is an epic, 10-book dark fantasy romance saga filled with dangerous magic and world-ending stakes. Perfect for fans of dark paranormal romance and psychological thrillers.When an ancient bloodline curse bleeds into the waking world, Merideth must choose between resisting the dark current and unlocking a dangerous ancest...

My book is about one man's journey from being in an abusive system and how he grew out of the pain and sorrow he knew throughout his childhood.

***Shortlisted for the Architectural Book Awards 2024***Thinking Through Twentieth-Century Architecture connects the practice of architecture with its recent history and its theoretical origins – those philosophical ideas that lay behind modernism and its aftermath. By analyzing in straightforward and jargon-free language the genesis of modernism and the complex reactions to it, the book clarifies a continuing debate. It has been specifically written to co...

The world did not end in fire. It ended in confusion.Power grids failed. Soldiers stopped reporting. Cities went dark. Then a twenty-three-second video surfaced that changed everything.When the Fallen broke through and civilization collapsed, Nick Galdarion was already prepared. For years, he had obeyed a calling he could not fully explain: build refuge, preserve the people, and prepare for the day the world would break.Beneath the Ozark Mountains, hidden in a valle...

When the Roman Empire progressively expanded its influence over the North African continent, it encountered a very heterogeneous mix of peoples with a long and diverse history. This collection of papers from the conference De Africa Romaque: Merging Cultures Across North Africa (Leicester, 2013), explores the mutual relationships between North African societies and Rome within this context. Moving away from traditional narratives of dominance and resistance, the discussions focus on bringi...

A cast of leading writers and practitioners tackle the ethical questions that architects are increasingly facing in their work, from practical considerations in construction to the wider social context of buildings, their appearance, use and place in the narrative of the environment. This book gives an account of these ethical questions from the perspectives of historical architectural practice, philosophy, and business, and examines the implications of such dilemmas. Taking the current di...

Redreaming the Renaissance seeks to remedy the dearth of conversations between scholars of history and literary studies by building on the pathbreaking work of Guido Ruggiero to explore the cross-fertilization between these two disciplines, using the textual world of the Italian Renaissance as proving ground. In this volume, these disciplines blur, as they did for early moderns, who did not always distinguish between the historical and literary significance of the texts they read ...

When The Shield first appeared on US television in March 2002, it broke ratings records with the highest audience-rated original series premiere in cable history. In the course of its subsequent seven-season run, the show went on to win international acclaim for its abrasive depiction of an urban American dystopia and the systemic political and juridical corruption feeding it. The first book dedicated to the analysis of this immensely successful series, Interrogating "The Shie...

The explosive new Sons of War series is a harrowing and realistic depiction of what a second American Civil War and the aftermath might look like, from former Homeland Security Disaster Mitigation Officer and New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sansbury Smith.All empires eventually fall…The United States is no exception…And out of the embers, a lawless new empire will rise…Across the world, the United States recalls troops t...

Black Cat Weekly #62 features modern and classic science fiction, fantasy, mystery, and adventure fiction—great novels and short stories in every issue. You are sure to find a lot you'll like, no matter what genres you enjoy most. This issue includes more than 600 pages!Mystery / Crime / Suspense:“Siren Song,” by M. A. Monnin [Michael Bracken Presents short story]“Letter Perfect,” by Hal Charles [Solve-It-Yourself Mystery]“Beneath the...

“Conan meets Mad Max for a new generation.”—Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling authorIn the brutal wasteland centuries after the nuclear apocalypse, a warrior baptized in blood will defy the brutal empire that has enslaved his people.Over two centuries have passed since the Third World War reduced civilization to ashes in a global nuclear inferno. Unforgiving geomagnetic storms rage, blocking out the sun...

Several years ago Coleman (1981) reported that in 1979 one of the many in ternational cosmetics companies had an annual sales figure of $2. 38 billion, nearly 1. 25 million sales representatives, and over 700 products, the majority of these being for the face. Cash and Cash (1982) noted that in 1979 U. S. consumers spent over $4 million on cosmetic products. They stated that, "Although this practice would seem to be a fascinating aspect of human be havior on the basis of its generality and...