WHAT IF THE ONLY WANT TO FIGHT THE DARKNESS IS TO BECOME THE DARKNESS?The country is no longer safe. Pandemic deaths are rising, and detention centers now apprehend anyone deemed an outlier. With her immigrant-marked ID, Mina is especially vulnerable. But she only has one year left at Irving Academy. If she can keep her position as valedictorian, surely opportunities will appear.But when her roommate is plagued with nightmares and a man with monstrous abili...

What if the only way to set the world right is to set it on fire?Ever since government agents murdered her best friend, Raya has planned her escape. The sixteen-year-old grew up in a federally designated Dead Zone, a hollowed-out city whose people were stripped of their citizenship rights. Except Raya is lucky enough to work for her grandmother’s burgeoning virtual-media company. Creating a best-selling game could be Raya’s ticket out for good.But Raya’s pl...

Figlia illegittima di uno spiantato barone inglese, Elizabet è decisa a conquistarsi la libertà a ogni costo... fino a quando un tradimento non la getta tra le braccia di un orgoglioso scozzese.Obbligato a proteggere la donna, nonostante la sua presenza minacci la fragile pace che intercorre tra i clan, Broc dei MacKinnon si rende presto conto che l'impetuosa attaccabrighe sotto la sua custodia potrebbe essere ancora più pericolosa... per il suo cuore.

Embedding climate resilient development principles in planning, urban design, and architecture means ensuring that transformation of the built environment helps achieve carbon neutrality, effective adaptation, and well-being for people and nature. Planners, urban designers, and architects are called to bridge the domains of research and practice and evolve their agency and capacity, developing methods and tools consistent across spatial scales to ensure the convergence of outcomes towards ...

The stirring memoir of one of the greatest pianists of the postwar era—an inspiring tale of triumph over crippling incapacity that rivals Shine.The pianist Leon Fleisher—whose student–teacher lineage linked him to Beethoven by way of his instructor, Artur Schnabel—displayed an exceptional gift from his earliest years. And then, like the hero of a Greek tragedy, he was struck down in his prime: at thirty-six years old, he suddenly and mysteriously became un...

C'est dans son village natal que Léon Tolstoï reçut le témoignage bouleversant de sa voisine Anissia. Il en tira ce court roman, l'odyssée d'une jeune paysanne en route vers la Sibérie, accablée de privations mais animée d'une force de vie exceptionnelle. Du fond de la Russie du XIXe siècle, Tolstoï nous livre dans sa langue puissante un inoubliable destin de femme.

Elizabet, lahija ilegítima de un barón inglés sin dinero, está decidida a ganar su libertad cueste lo que cueste... hasta que una traición la empujará a los brazos de un escocés.Broc del clan MacKinnon, con la promesa de protegerla y a sabiendas de que tenerla retenida puede romper la frágil paz entre los distintos clanes, pronto se dará cuenta de que la mujer que mantiene cautiva podría representar un riesgo para su corazón.

Ethnographic archaeology has emerged as a form of inquiry into archaeological dilemmas that arise as scholars question older, more positivistic paradigms. Ethnographic Archaeologies describes diverse methods, objectives, and rationalities currently employed in the making of engaged and collaborative archaeological research.The contributors to this volume, for example, understand ethnographic archaeology variously as a means of critical engagement with heritage stakeholders, as the basis of...

The Canadian Mountain Assessment provides a first-of-its-kind look at what we know, do not know, and need to know about mountain systems in Canada. The assessment is based on insights from First Nations, Métis, and Inuit knowledges of mountains, as well as findings from an extensive assessment of pertinent academic literature. Its inclusive knowledge co-creation approach brings these multiple forms of evidence together in ways that enhance our collective understanding of mountains...

An engaging history of New York City's Irvington, featuring rare and vintage images documenting its transformations.Irvington, a small village 20 miles north of New York City, overlooks the widest point of the Hudson River. The 19th-century castles and chateaus built along ""America's Rhine"" have been replaced, yet Main Street remains almost exactly as it was in 1900.

UNA BIOGRAFÍA REVELADORA DEL NUEVO PAPA LEÓN XIV, TRAZADO DESDE SU VOCACIÓN MISIONERA EN AMÉRICA LATINA HASTA SU ELECCIÓN COMO LÍDER GLOBAL DE LA IGLESIA.Aires de cónclave, humo blanco, un nuevo papa. En 2025, la elección de Robert Prevost como León XIV marcó un hito para la Iglesia católica: un pontífice cuya vida encarna un puente entre culturas y continentes en un mundo fragmentado. ¿Quién es el sucesor de Francisco y qué huellas de su pasado iluminarán el rumbo de su pontificad...

« Je l’aimais parce que c’était une âme simple. » À la veille de l’abolition du servage, Anissia est mariée de force à Danilo. La vie est rude pour le jeune couple mais Anissia sait apprécier les joies simples de l’existence. Arrêté pour vol de bétail, Danilo est envoyé en Sibérie. Anissia décide de le suivre. Commence alors un long voyage vers la tragédie. Cent ans après sa première publication, cet inoubliable destin de femme – sublimé par la traduction d’Anne Coldefy-Faucard – n’a rien ...