The Dante family line has been in the fires of an ancient war between humanity and the nine circles of hell for generations. As a self-proclaimed "Aristocracy" the circles have now set their sights on the one chosen to fight the raging war ... Haven Irena Dante. But soon after the tragic death of her mother, Haven endures the vile theft of her innocence and disappears. No one has seen or heard from her in two years ... until now.Somehow she has been changed. And when all nine circl...

Science fiction and fantasy author and screenwriter Leonardo Ramirez takes us on a personal journey of faith and restored hope. From his humble beginnings in Bronx, New York, he's bootstrapped his way into the hearts of readers young and old alike. His heart and motive have always been for people who are hurting. These can be kids who have had to grow up with a missing parent as was the case in The Jupiter Chronicles. It can also be young girls who have suffered an assault like Ha...

In the tradition of "City of Ember" "A Wrinkle in Time" and "Star Wars", this family adventure is a high stakes space race to save our world from an invading force before it is too late.-Book 3-Will Ian's quest to find his destiny away from Jupiter lead to Earth's untimely demise?As he struggles with his identity, Ian Castillo helps one of Earth's greatest scientific minds, Dr. Nikola Tesla, make the scientific discovery of a lifetime: a strange min...

Book One of a Space Epic Adventure!It is the year 1892 and Ian and Callie Castillo have had to suffer the hardships of a single parent family since their father went missing five years ago. Since then Ian has refused to use the last gift that his father left the wounded boy; a telescope that sits collecting dust in the attic.When Callie decides to peer through its murky lens it activates the device and sends the Castillos to the steam-powered floating citie...

Whether you are a novelist, a poet, a screenwriter, filmmaker, producer, director or a songwriter you are called to the same goal, intimacy with the Father. Journey with me and discover that the best way to create is to surrender all that we are (including our talents themselves) to the creator and giver of talents. From there, a seed of insatiable hunger for the deep of Christ will be planted and works that spread a rich understanding of his love will reach out to a world hungry for life....

The family adventure of a lifetime continues!Book Two of the Steampunk Series, "The Jupiter Chronicles"The war has been won, the Jovians are free of the tyranny of Phobos, but the planet now lies in ruins. The Sinu and the Fiegan Firelords are threatening a civil war and the people of Jupiter are going hungry. First Petros has failed as their protector and General Ardor wants him replaced.To make matters worse, the Castillos face a new chal...

The majorconflicts between the Global North and the South can be expected toresult from the confrontation of alternative conceptions of democracy,mainly between liberal or representative democracy and participatorydemocracy.The hegemonic model of democracy, while prevailing on aglobal scale, guarantees no more than low-intensity democracy. Inrecent times, participatory democracy has exhibited a new dynamic,engaging mainly subaltern communities and social groups that fightagainst soc...

An in-depth analysis of the specific aspects of justice, equality and tax law"Justice, Equality and Tax Law" is a topic that is both old and new at the same time. Even if the society changes, the demands that tax needs to be just and equal seem to be immutable. What changes, of course, is the perception of the content of those demands.International taxation post-BEPS has been fraught with new challenges that warranted urgent responses. These challenges were...

USA TODAY BESTELLING series in one boxed set!These brothers play the game…but the women know the score…Included in this collection are:Breakaway (Jase)Faceoff (Tag)One Man Advantage (Logan)Hat Trick – The Hellers are Home for the HolidaysOffside (Matt)

In 1700, Latin America and British North America were roughly equal in economic terms. Yet over the next three centuries, the United States gradually pulled away from Latin America, and today the gap between the two is huge. Why did this happen? Was it culture? Geography? Economic policies? Natural resources? Differences in political development? The question has occupied scholars for decades, and the debate remains a hot one. In Falling Behind, Francis Fukuyama gathers together s...

The capacity to abuse, or in general affect the enjoyment of human, labour and environmental rights has risen with the increased social and economic power that multinational companies wield in the global economy. At the same time, it appears that it is difficult to regulate the activities of multinational companies in such a way that they conform to international human, labour and environmental rights standards. This has partially to do with the organization of companies into groups of sep...

This is a bold new study of the recent emergence of democracy in Latin America. Leonardo Avritzer shows that traditional theories of democratization fall short in explaining this phenomenon. Scholars have long held that the postwar stability of Western Europe reveals that restricted democracy, or "democratic elitism," is the only realistic way to guard against forces such as the mass mobilizations that toppled European democracies after World War I. Avritzer challenges this view. Drawing o...