I see dead people.While it might sound cool, I can assure you, it's not. The dead are even bigger assholes than the living.I learned at a young age to be invisible. Even breathing wrong could set my father off. The beatings became progressively worse as I got older, and I feared I wouldn't survive to see my eighteenth birthday.So I plotted my escape, and no one was more surprised that it worked than me!The outside world is nothing like I exp...

What happens when global sovereign debt crosses the mathematical point of no return? Modern economic policy relies on a polite fiction—that national obligations can expand forever without consequence. In "The Fiat Endgame", author William Cain strips away political rhetoric to reveal the rigid arithmetic driving today's global monetary system. As compounding interest outpaces real economic output, central banks are forced into endless debt monetization, trapping the world in an inescapable...

Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXXII, June 1911 is a comprehensive and authoritative compilation of scholarly papers, technical discussions, and professional insights reflecting the state of civil engineering at the dawn of the twentieth century. Published by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), this volume serves as a vital historical record, capturing the innovations, challenges, and achievements of the engineering community during a period of ra...

PierceThe Russians have taken far too much from me. So I’ll take something of theirs. Except, I never expected my captive to be a woman. She could be the key to destroying them entirely. I’ll do whatever it takes to get revenge. Even seduce the enemy.Soon I discover she may not be my enemy after all.MilaFor nearly my entire life I’ve been held prisoner by darkness and pain. And just when I think freedom is within my reach, it’s stolen by yet another man dete...

JacobMy father is dying, and I’ve been called back to Brooklyn to take my place as the head of the Italian syndicate. After a seven-year absence, my first test of loyalty is to marry the granddaughter of the Irish mob’s leader. I may not want a wife, but I’ll kill anyone who tries to harm her.I only hope she doesn’t expect love in our marriage. I can’t—won’t—love her. Not ever. I don’t have it in me.BrennaMy life has always been about duty. When my grandfath...

When my past haunts me more than the ghosts of the dead, it's time to start slaying my demons.My worst nightmares have come to pass. Not only has my father found me, but I'm now locked away in an asylum. What bothers me more is that I don't know where I stand with the guys. After our brutal battle with a vengeful ghost, I wouldn't blame them if they don't want anything to do with me.As though my life wasn't already in shambles, my gifts have come to the att...

I don’t care that she’s the boss’ cousin and far beyond my reach. I’ve been patient, but now I’m claiming what’s mine.GiovanniOne year. That’s how long I’ve wanted Francesca. I’ve worked my way up the ranks, dedicating my life to the syndicate while I tried easing her fear of men.The time has finally come for me to claim her.FrancescaSeven years ago, my family’s enemy took everything from me. I’ve been determined to get it all back. When those same e...

Henry James's acclaimed 1879 biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne is an entertaining and incisive survey of this author's life and work. James contrasts the sparse cultural landscape of nineteenth-century America with Europe's achievements and traditions, and he examines the challenges this situation posed to Hawthorne's artistic aims. He describes Hawthorne's literary journey from obscurity to recognition, evaluating his novels and praising his sketches and tales. Sometimes critical of its su...

When a group of American professors gathers in London to teach a theatre course, the sparks fly as they squabble over academic politics, with egos, reputations, and careers at stake.An L.A. Theatre Works full cast production, starring Ken Baltin, William Cain, Tara Callaghan, Lindsay Crouse, Julie Harris, Will Lyman, Kathleen McInerny, Dossy Peabody, Paula Plum, Alan Rachins, Mark Schilling, Wallace Shawn.Directed by Andreas Teuber. Recorded before a live audience by L.A. T...

This book brings together chapters by academics, researchers and practitioners to analyse how crimes such as sex work, domestic violence and rape and sexual assault have risen up the Government agenda in recent years. For example, the 'Paying the Price' consultation exercise on sex work in 2004, and recent legislation around sex crimes, including the Sex Offences Act (2003). This is a multi-disciplinary, social scientific, pro-feminist collection, which draws upon practice, empirical resea...

40 WW1 Novels gathers a wide-ranging body of fiction shaped by the First World War and its far-reaching social, imperial, and psychological consequences. Moving between espionage, trench narrative, romance, adventure, satire, domestic drama, and moral inquiry, the volume reveals how the conflict transformed popular as well as high literary forms. Its striking range encompasses accounts of combat and military discipline, stories of clandestine operations and endangered civilians, and narrat...

Voices from the Trenches: 40 First World War Novels surveys the Great War not as a single event but as a literary crucible of combat, espionage, displacement, grief, patriotism, and disillusion. Its wide-ranging selection moves among trench narratives, psychological studies, romances, political fiction, adventure tales, and mysteries, revealing how popular and experimental modes alike registered modern warfare. Vivid depictions of frontline endurance stand beside works attentive to the hom...