In this 2013 winner of the prestigious R.R. Hawkins Award from the Association of American Publishers, as well as the 2013 PROSE Awards for Mathematics and Best in Physical Sciences & Mathematics, also from the AAP, readers will find many of the most significant contributions from the four-volume set of the Collected Works of A. M. Turing. These contributions, together with commentaries from current experts in a wide spectrum of fields and backgrounds, provide insight on the significance a...

Dear Remington Parker,You may think you're the handsome prince of the law firm and I'm your dutiful wench, but I'm not here to be your plaything.Yes, you're handsome-ish.Yes, you're a partner at the firm.Yes, I'm your ugly duckling assistant.But no, I'm not desperate, and I don't want you.I have no interest in being the nanny to your newly found kid when you want to go on dates. And I have even less interest in your offer to ...

Dear Grumpy Horrible Boss,You suck as a lawyer. I don't even know how you passed the bar. Or how you sleep at night taking clients like Jack Whittington.Just in case you didn't know, you can't fire me just because I have a part-time job working bachelor parties. What I do on the weekend is none of your business and not a part of my employment contract. If I want to go back to wearing coconut bikinis and popping out of cakes, I can.As soon as I get m...

In Inklings of Invisility: Essays on Asexual and Aromantic Traces in Speculative Fiction S.L. Dove Cooper examines the depictions of asexuality and aromanticism in science fiction and fantasy, genres uniquely situated to create a marginalised lens through which to view contemporary society.These seventeen essays explore both popular and lesser-known depictions of asexuality and aromanticism in speculative fiction. From discussing the impact of semantics in everyday languag...

The prequel novella to Forbidden Arrangement.Valentina Ford is the only daughter of a rich businessman. She loves her family but wants to find her own way in life. And then she meets him, Sam Valenti...and everything she thinks she knows about life and love is turned upside down.

I just wanted to have some fun...It all started when I moved into my new apartment in Brooklyn and met my neighbor, Olivia. We became fast friends and so when she had to go out of town on an emergency work trip, I agreed to give her brother her keys so he could look after her dog. And then I met him. Her brother was Carter Stevens and he was sex on legs. He was a banker by day and a musician by night; arrogant, handsome, with the most tantalizing smile I'd ever seen. When he invited...

A-List actor and rockstar Oracle Lion needs no introductions. He's the handsome playboy of New York & Hollywood and every woman wants to be with him. Every woman except for Piper Meadows. Piper wants nothing to do with a man like Oracle. And that's why she pretends she has no idea who he is when she first meets him. She wasn't to know that would make Oracle see her as a challenge. She wasn't to know that her lack of interest would lead to an offer that she was going to find hard to refuse....

Dear Mr. Gallagher,I do not need this job. In fact, I will remind you that I'm doing you a favor. I am working for you only because I don't want you to inflict your grumpiness on my friends any longer. I am a strong, confident woman and know how to put men like you in their place.I won't succumb to your flirtations or your attempts to try and shock me. I am not impressed by your six-pack or your six-figure bank account. I suggest you realize that I am out o...

My big Greek family wants me to find a husband. I have a year to find a boyfriend or my grandma is going to ship me off to Greece to marry a fisherman in a small village. And I do not want that to happen.I decided to use up all the money on my credit cart to join a high-end dating service in the hopes of meeting Mr. Right.I wasn't to know that my Mr. Right might very well not be looking for his perfect match, but not that's not going to stop me. I'm going to find love, no m...

I just announced my engagement to a hot billionaire.Yes, you read that right. A billionaire. And it was announced in the New York Frigging Times.My family is ecstatic and already celebrating. Only they don't know the truth.My engagement is faker than my Chanel handbag. My fake fiancé, Jackson Pruitt, is paying me to pretend to be in love with him so he can inherit his family's company. How cliché!My parents are planning fr...

This book is a reader that describes, discusses and analyzes homeschooling from an array of different and international perspectives. We portray the energy of this movement, looking at the history of “education writ large” in a larger social, political and religious context. Like most movements in education, this one is both a reaction to the problems and inadequacies of existing schools, and a new direction in schooling that stands on its own. This book grew out of the efforts of Associat...

Taking inspiration from Public Enemy's lead vocalist Chuck D - who once declared that 'rap is the CNN of young Black America' - this volume brings together leading legal commentators to make sense of some of the most pressing law and policy issues in the context of hip-hop music and the ongoing struggle for Black equality. Contributors include MSNBC commentator Paul Butler, who grapples with race and policing through the lens of N.W.A.'s song 'Fuck tha Police', ACLU President Deborah Arche...