Paco Ignacio Taibo II is one of the most popular and influential authors in Latin and South America. His endlessly inventive, highly-political detective novels, featuring the idiosyncratic private eye Hector Belascoaran Shayne, are set in the teeming landscape of Mexico City, a combustible mix of poverty, tragic class warfare, the anarchic and absurd. For Shayne it is a world that can bring tears one moment and blood the next.An Easy Thing is the first nov...

Harlequin® Special Edition brings you four new titles for one great price, available now! These are heartwarming, romantic stories about life, love and family.This Harlequin Special Edition box set includes:SWEET ON A YOUNGER MANBishop Honey Bee Farmby Nina CrespoOne night of sweet escape. Or the first taste of love?Fabulous, single and almost forty, Ivy Daniels is ready to embrace the life she put on ...

BESTSELLING AUTHOR COLLECTIONReader-favorite romances in collectible volumes from our bestselling authors.Dreaming of a Bright Christmas by #1 New York Times bestselling author Robyn Carr, previously published as Informed RiskMike Cavanaugh is a firefighter—he rescues people. Inviting them home isn’t usually part of the job description. But when he pulls Christine ...

In Heavy Metal Music in Latin America: Perspectives from the Distorted South, the editors bring together scholars engaged in the study of heavy metal music in Latin America to reflect on the heavy metal genre from a regional perspective. The contributors’ southern voices diversify metal scholarship in the global north. An extreme musical genre for an extreme region, the contributors explore how issues like colonialism, dictatorships, violence, ethnic extermination and political persecution...

The wedding is just a smoke screen…Isn’t it?Maid of honour Zurie has been working secretly with best man Mace Calderone to plan her cousin’s wedding to a well-known actress. To keep their wedding plans from leaking to the press, Zurie and Mace must pretend they are the ones getting married. It all seems like harmless fun…until Zurie realises she’s feeling something real for her fake fiancé…

Harlequin® Special Edition brings you three new titles for one great price, available now! These are heartwarming, romantic stories about life, love and family. This Special Edition box set includes:HER HOMETOWN MAN (A Sutton’s Place novel)by New York Times bestselling author Shannon StaceySummoned home by her mother and sisters, novelist Gwen Sutton has made it clear—she’s not staying. She’s returning to her quiet l...

“In your country,” Ignacio Martín-Baró remarked to a North American colleague, “it’s publish or perish. In ours, it’s publish and perish.” In November 1989 a Salvadoran death squad extinguished his eloquent voice, raised so often and so passionately against oppression in his adopted country. A Spanish-born Jesuit priest trained in psychology at the University of Chicago, Martín-Baró devoted much of his career to making psychology speak to the community as well as to the individual...

Web localization is a cognitive, textual, communicative and technological process by which interactive web texts are modified to be used by audiences in different sociolinguistic contexts.Translation and Web Localization provides an in-depth and comprehensive overview into this emerging field of study. The book covers the key areas and main theoretical and practical approaches of the subject, rather than a step by step practical guide. Topics covered include the often controversial...

His poison pen…Would soon be Cupid's arrow!Bea Fortune vows that she'll be the most talked about restaurateur in Chatelaine. But when her opening night’s sabotaged and she’s skewered in the local paper, those dreams take a nightmarish turn. So after she’s unexpectedly thrust together with the affronted critic—Devin Street, the paper’s multifaceted owner—she expects another rebuff. But to her surprise, the charming single dad sweeps her off her feet…and into his bed. Now sh...

A mixed infantry formation made up of about 3,000 men armed with pikes, swords and handguns, the innovative and influential tercio or 'Spanish square' was the basic combat unit of the armies of Spain throughout much of the 16th and 17th centuries.Arguably the first permanent tactical formation seen in Europe since the Roman cohort, the tercio was the forerunner of modern formations such as the battalion and regiment. The variety of different weapons fielded in the ...

A fake romance could catapult their careers to higher levels—or reignite heartbreak they never recover from.Actor Ignacio Santana needs to fund his passion project, an indie film he’s poured his heart into. But the buzz he needs only arrives when a headline claims he’s back with his ex, R&B singer Delta James—the woman who shattered his heart eleven years ago.Delta’s career is running on fumes, but the alleged reunion with Ignacio could be just what she needs to re...

Natalie Winters thought she’d married the man of her dreams…but her marriage ended way too soon in a nightmarish divorce. She even has to share custody of the dog! The stress is killing her, so she decides to take a night off and attend the Breakup Bash—a private party for women celebrating their breakups—with her friends.Former executive security specialist turned bartender Rome Collier is drawn to the woman easily trading sexy banter with him. And if she wants the “Do Me” condoms...