How technology and policy can come together to remove carbon from our atmosphere.Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) is recognized as essential for meeting “net-zero” climate targets. The first definitive resource on CDR, this book is an accessible guide meant to provide a fundamental understanding of the science behind CDR and how government, industry, and academia can work together to combat climate change. Taking a deep dive into the history and intricacies of CDR, How...

Anna Roberts never expected a single bite of forbidden fruit to change her life forever.One moment she's an ordinary office worker. The next, she's immortal, transformed into a newly born goddess in a realm of dragons, spirits, ancient magic, and celestial intrigue.Most of the heavenly court greets Anna's arrival with suspicion. Only Lord Eastwei, the powerful dragon god whose icy composure has kept countless admirers at a distance, seems more intrigued than threatened by t...

The Family comes first.I've been part of the Leone family since Don Massimo took me in when I was a boy.Now I sit beside his son, il capo, Don Sebastiano. Being a mobster is all I know and want. Even when betrayal comes knocking at my door.A teasing smile, the most striking cloud-gray eyes, an androgynous body wrapped in lingerie, and a belly chain around his narrow hips. Can a man be pretty? I must be drunker than I thought to wonder such ...

Six years ago, Elira's husband gambled the most important thing to them in the Quadrant Trials. He thought he was outsmarting them, until he died screaming, and the empire took the payment anyway. Now Elira has entered the Trials herself, determined to burn the world down to get it back. But the man who kept her alive, her protector, the one she was falling for despite every vow she made, had been lying the whole time.He wanted her to lose. To be broken. To owe him everything....

What if a curious question could lead you all the way to God? Tosh is a fluffy young rabbit with a head full of questions. Why does the sky sometimes cloud over and sometimes stay clear? Where did the meadow, the creek, and the forest come from? No one in his family seems to know — not his mother, not his father, not even the wisest rabbit in the meadow. So Tosh sets off with his best friend, a timid crow named Corky, and their spunky, straight-talking friend Dilly the field mouse, to find...

Ezra Hamilton hasn't felt the warm spurt of blood flow through his fingers or the indescribable feeling of pushing a knife deep into someone's flesh in a long time. Too long.He's been watching a man stalk women, curious as to what he's doing with them. Ezra's never encountered someone with similar dark tendencies before, and what starts off as genuine curiosity turns into much more when Kaspian turns the tables on him.As their chemistry builds, so does the ...

Slavery was a continuous presence in the Pre-Modern Era, roughly 500 ce to 1450 ce, when changes in geopolitical forces, demography, and cultural background contributed to the nature of enslavement. Coercion as a way of life differed across sociocultural and economic realities, ranging from chattel slaves and war captives, to sexual and domestic slaves. This volume destabilizes the deep-seated idea that during the so-called “Middle Ages,” social and cultural relationships ...

"A diverse group of angry, dragon riding cryptids burst into an international climate conference to deliver an urgent message from Mother Nature. Why?" Delegates attend an international climate change conference to find a solution to climate change. They are shocked however, when a group of mythical creatures, riding dragons, suddenly crash into the conference and take the stage. These big, hairy creatures, all with large feet have a message for the delegates from Mother Nature. 'The Bigfo...

At the height of the Cold War, when the world held its breath and every diplomatic maneuver carried the weight of potential catastrophe, one question haunted the corridors of Western power: what did the Soviet Union truly want, and how far would it go to get it? J. M. Mackintosh, writing with the precision of a seasoned analyst and the authority of someone who had watched the machinery of Soviet foreign policy grind forward across continents and decades, delivers a breathtaking examination...

Nina is excited to see her high school best friend Tahlia, but things have changed in the last two years. She is not the innocent ballerina Nina remembers. Tahlia now likes a new type of dance, one she can't wait to show Nina and her boyfriend Marcus.The characters in this short story are over 18 years of age.

He’s a notorious mafia enforcer and the beast lurking in the shadows.Bryan Quinn. Dublin Beast. Soulless criminal. Despised bastard. I protect my family, fight our battles, and uphold the Quinn legacy in Dublin’s brutal underworld. We have a code—the Quinn Laws—and while women are normally off-limits, Siobhan Daley betrayed us, acted on behalf of our enemy, and poisoned our father.She will pay for taking the life of someone I love—not that it’s the...

This book is about Newfoundland and Labrador’s response following 9/11. For the first time, Mac Moss tells the stories of people across the entire province—from Stephenville to Gander, to Goose Bay and St. John's—who pitched in and helped approximately 13,000 stranded passengers in 2001 after terrorist attacks in the United States changed the world forever. He has interviewed municipal and service organization leaders of that time, former airport personnel, members of the RCMP and Canadian...