Chance Hale is more interested in running around with fascinating women than following in his father's footsteps as head of the billion-dollar tech company Halcyon Enterprises. Called home for an important announcement, Chance seeks to liven up the weekend retreat by bringing along the first interesting woman he finds: an alluring young lady named Cadence Turing, who claims to be visiting his home planet Arrhidaeus from the planet Paraesepe. But when someone turns up murdered, all evidence...

Two puzzles of modern Indiaone well known, the other overlookedform the core of this book. For fifty years, the state of Kerala has been famed, first as a home of Communists, then as a perplexing model of development. But why Communists? And why development, especially in a place where the economy usually underperformed even lowly national averages? Part of an answer lies in the unusual place of women in Kerala and their changing role in the past 200 years.Another part lies in the other, ofte...

Relationships are never easy. Captain of industry Chance Hale and android detective Cadence Turing know that better than most. Struggling to find their place together, an attempt on Chance's life soon eclipses all other problems. When the attack on him is linked to a recent murder, things begin to spin completely out of control. Drug runners, freedom fighters, law enforcement officers - everyone and everything seems to be conspiring against Chance and Cadence as the pair are forced to reck...

FROM EXCITING AUTHOR OF LGBTQIA ROMANCE ROBIN JEFFREYA Family Business storyAlex serves liquor neat, but his love life is messy as hell…Forced to flee the UK because he witnessed his cousin’s murder at the hands of a ruthless drug lord, bartender Alexander Harris has found refuge at the Bronze Arrow in New York City. A sophisticated and select bar that seeks to redefine luxury, the Bronze Arrow also happens to be a front fo...

The system is falling apart. Political turmoil leaves no one's life untouched, including captain of industry Chance Hale and detective-story-obsessed android Cadence Turing. Recently reunited after successfully solving the murder of Chance's father, the pair struggle to find their footing in a rapidly changing world. The death of an android rights activist puts them in the path of a desperate killer with everything to lose. As they navigate the planet Arrhidaeus' seedy underworld in search...

In India, you can still find the kabaadiwala, the rag-and-bone man. He wanders from house to house buying old newspapers, broken utensils, plastic bottles—anything for which he can get a little cash. This custom persists and recreates itself alongside the new economies and ecologies of consumer capitalism. Waste of a Nation offers an anthropological and historical account of India’s complex relationship with garbage.Countries around the world struggle to achieve s...

Since the publication of the 2005 Human Security Report, scholars and policy-makers have debated the causes, interpretation and implications of what the report described as a global decline in armed conflict since the end of the Cold War. Focusing on the Asia-Pacific region, this book analyses the causes and patterns of this decline.In few regions has the apparent decline in conflict been as dramatic as in the Asia-Pacific, with annual recorded battle deaths falling in the range of...

Human beings are primates, and primates are political animals. Our brains, therefore, are designed not just to hunt and gather, but also to help us get ahead socially, often via deception and self-deception. But while we may be self-interested schemers, we benefit by pretending otherwise. The less we know about our own ugly motives, the better—and thus we don't like to talk or even think about the extent of our selfishness. This is "the elephant in the brain." Such an introspective taboo m...

Professional, Ethical, Legal, and Educational Lessons in Medicine: A Problem Based Approach provides a comprehensive review of the complex and challenging field of professional medical practice. Its problem-based format incorporates a vast pool of practical, board-exam-style multiple-choice questions for self-assessment, and is an ideal resource for exam preparation as well as ongoing clinical education among trainees and clinicians The practice of medicine is not only about clini...

Corneal Topography is designed to provide complete, practical coverage of a new field for both the general ophthalmologist and the subspecialist in the area of corneal disease. The volume explores the history of corneal topography and comprehensively demonstrates the usefulness of all forms of current instrumentation in clinical and ivestigative work striving toward improved surgical intervention in the cornea

This debut novel is the richly woven story of a town settled by former slaves on the outskirts of Halifax, Nova Scotia, known as Africville, and of the Sebolt family, who moves there in the 1930s. Teenager Kath Ella Sebolt wants desperately to escape the town that she equates with deprivation and lack of opportunity. Months after her boyfriend is killed during a clash between young people in the village and Halifax constables, she moves with her infant son to Montreal. After attending coll...

The papers in this volume derive from the 29th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies. This was held for the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies in the University of London in March 1995, in order to complement the British Museum exhibition 'Byzantium. Treasures of Byzantine Art and Culture'. The objective of the symposium was to explore the ways in which British scholars, travellers, novelists, architects, churchmen and critics came into contact with Byzantium, and how they perc...