Three things Astar knows for certain: she's good with a sword, she's terrible at diplomacy, and the Bramble Throne is the most uncomfortable seat in the Twelve Realms.She killed her traitorous uncle in single combat to claim it. Three months later, she's fending off marriage proposals, a hostile council, and two invading armies, one of them led by a dark sorceress. When Astar ends up in her dungeon, the only way out involves trusting a half-dead mage who shouldn't exist in a kingdo...

Fat on Campus: The Voices and Images of Fat College Students and the Impacts of Fatphobia amplifies the voices of 11 fat college students across the United States. Defined as “a pathological fear of fatness often manifested as negative attitudes and stereotypes about fat people” (Robinson et al., 1993, p. 468), fatphobia, like other forms of oppression, impacts our students and our campuses. Unlike other cultural phenomena, fatness is one of the last socially acceptable forms of b...

Accused of the most dishonorable conduct, cast off from the navy and the life he loved, Graydon still found opportunity to serve his country and erase the stain on his honor. The echoes of the ship’s bugle, calling away the second whaleboat, died softly in the still harbor of San Juan de Gracias. The boat crew ran out on the boom, down its swinging rope ladder to the thwarts beneath, and pulled out to the gangway. At the head of the gangway stood a man in blue civilian serge and wide-brimm...

Her intelligence is what draws him … and what makes him so wrong for herFrom the start Detective Ronan Cafferty knows Tiff Carson is too good for him. But the sexy professor’s passion for her work and undeniable beauty brings him back to her again and again.As his notorious ability to hide his emotions crumbles, Tiff shows him he might be the right match for her after all.But when her sharp eye gets them a lead they desperately need to catch a bruta...

In 1930, anthropologist E. E. Evans-Pritchard journeyed deep into the Sudanese savanna to uncover the mysteries of the nomadic Nuer tribes - this book presents his compelling discoveries.The harsh dry plains of the Sudan cannot sustain sufficient agriculture for the tribes; to thrive, the Nuer move their camps in accordance with the seasons. At the core of daily life are cattle whose milk and meat sustain the people; the cow's pliant, agreeable nature is ideal for a tribe to manage....

Get ready to change the way you invest. This disruptive book shows that most people–even wealthy investors–put their trust in a demonstrably inferior way to invest: actively managed funds and private portfolios. The better way is with index funds–but not just any index funds. Instead, this book will introduce you to the One-Decision funds, a type of index fund that market data show is the smartest way to invest. You'll also learn:  The 4 basic rules for investment success  Reasons to be ...

The appalling story of Hitler's murderous policies aimed at the disabled including tens of thousands of children killed by their doctors. Between 1939 and 1945 the Nazi regime systematically murdered thousands of adults and children with physical and mental disabilities as part of its 'euthanasia' policy. These programmes were designed to eliminate all people with disabilities who, according to Nazi ideology, threatened the health and purity of the German race. Hitler'...

How can this life have meaning if at my death nothing of me remains? This is the essential question with which Miguel de Unamuno, the most accomplished Spanish man of letters of the twentieth century, struggled during his entire life. Unamuno's views have been the subject of vigorous debate: Was he a Catholic, a Protestant, or an unbeliever? Miguel de Unamuno's Quest for Faith seeks to appreciate and clarify Unamuno's faith commitments without diminishing or exaggerating them. His historic...

I sat watching the new john lewis advert some three years ago, and this bear and hare advert started my mind on the journey of
Columbus Park. The story follows the early years of a young cub discovering a big wide world with his friends. As the early years
in a hostile environment are full of adventure Jobe gets in to many scrapes on his journey to adulthood. His Father fives in the wild
mountains of Canada, forced there by the humans intent on hunting a bear who lost his way in pursuance ...

The contributors of this volume share with the scholarly community how they have learned to strive, resist, adapt, and re-conceptualize Black women's mental health and labor during the dual pandemics of white supremacy and COVID-19. This book is unique in that it calls for the contributing authors to draw upon and reflect on the use of sisterhood and a literacy circle to cope with an economic crisis, mass death, and racial battle fatigue during a worldwide pandemic. Specifically, the invit...

Three years after a catastrophic mission to Venus left him carrying a power no human was meant to bear, Joseph Vance lives in exile on a distant paradise world. Even there, the ground begins to decay beneath his presence.Earth is unraveling.Martian refugees are hunted by the shadowed Silent Institute. The Order of Leoht has risen in Joseph's name, proclaiming him divine. And terrifying visions summon him home to confront a truth he cannot outrun.When Siereis, an anc...

The compelling and little-known history of satellite communications that reveals the Soviet and Eastern European roles in the development of its infrastructure.Taking its title from Hannah Arendt’s description of artificial earth satellites, No Heavenly Bodies explores the history of the first two decades of satellite communications. Christine E. Evans and Lars Lundgren trace how satellite communications infrastructure was imagined, negotiated, and built a...