This volume explores the relationship between culture and the military in Chinese society from early China to the Qing empire, with contributions by eminent scholars aiming to reexamine the relationship between military matters and law, government, historiography, art, philosophy, literature, and politics.The book critically investigates the perception that, due to the influence of Confucianism, Chinese culture has systematically devalued military matters. There was nothing inheren...

Treat yourself to this 6-book collection of spicy romances from unlikely couples! Contains 18 stories!Love In ParadisePregnant by Morning by Kat CantrellDevoured by Cathryn FoxThe Greek’s Forbidden Innocent by Annie WestMedics In LoveBreaking Her No-Dating Rule by Amalie BerlinA Stolen Kiss with the Midwife by Juliette HylandAwa...

The Maverick Collection and the Spanish Scandals Collection from Mills & BoonIncluding the titles:Mavericks: Her Secret MaverickMavericks: Taming the Bad BoyMavericks: Her Playboy Prince CharmingMavericks: Resisting the RebelMavericks: Bringing Home the BillionaireMavericks: Tempting the BachelorSpanish Scandals: Risking it AllSpanish Scandals: Heat of the NightSpanish Scandals: Ultimate Temptation

Passion and scandal combust in the Hidden Heirs CollectionIncluding the titles:A Double SecretOne Night…to WifeA Nine Month ScandalBehind Palace DoorsConsequences of a PlayboyHis One Night Heir

The Spanish Scandals Collection from Mills & BoonIncluding the titles:Spanish Scandals: Risking it AllSpanish Scandals: Heat of the NightSpanish Scandals: Ultimate TemptationSpanish Scandals: Secrets at SunsetSpanish Scandals: A Private AffairSpanish Scandals: Dangerous Liaisons

The perfect double collection to curl up withIncluding the titles:A Double SecretOne Night…to WifeA Nine Month ScandalBehind Palace DoorsConsequences of a PlayboyHis One Night HeirPostcards from Paradise: CaribbeanPostcards from Paradise: BrazilPostcards from Paradise: HawaiiPostcards from Paradise: Costa RicaPostcards from Paradise: AustraliaPostcards from Paradise: Bali

From the Alcatraz East Crime Museum and Jack the Ripper guided tours to the Phnom Penh killing fields, ‘dark tourism’ is now a multi-million-pound global industry. Even in the most pleasant tourist destinations, underlying harms are constantly perpetuated, affecting both consumers and those who work or live around such tourist hotspots. Highlighting 50 travel destinations across six continents, expert criminologists, psychologists and historians explore the past and contemporary issues whi...

When a snowstorm pummels the western half of the country, three couples find once off-limits love just in time for Christmas. An unforgettable holiday anthology from bestselling authors Jennifer Ryan, Maisey Yates, and Lia Riley.Close to Perfect: A Montana Men Novella by Jennifer RyanAt sixteen, Abigail gave Dex the gift of a lifetime, but the cost of it was more than he ever knew. Now she’s back in town with a secret that has been ten years in the making and this ...

"I don't take orders. Not from you or anyone."Holly Perez has one last chance to sort out the train wreck her life has become. But being housekeeper to reclusive CEO Julius Ravensdale is as close to a prison as Holly could imagine. Julius may be devastatingly gorgeous, but he's also brooding, formal and completely off-limits!Julius is renowned for his ironclad control, but provocative whirlwind Holly pushes him to his breaking point! Especially when he disc...

The book describes how the author went through a mental health diagnosis and medication to introducing alcohol to her treatment. The alcohol contributed to her downfall. She only knew that she took her treatment out of the hands of the medical staff and into her own.

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Bringing together interdisciplinary climate change scholarship and grassroots activism, this book considers the possibilities of planetary justice across human difference, generations, species and the concept of life and non-life. Writing amidst bushfires, cyclones, global climate strikes and a global pandemic, contributors from the Earth Unbound Collective share stories from India, Australia, Canada and Scotland. Chapters d...

He wants her-no matter what the cost!Daniil Zverev is the world's most ruthless and sinfully seductive tycoon. No one would ever know the cruelty and rejection that fueled his ascent. But beautiful ballet teacher Libby Tennent is getting under Daniil's skin and dangerously close to the truth.From the moment she waltzed into his office, feisty Libby has challenged the dark-hearted Russian. He doesn't do favors, yet he helps Libby's business. He definitely do...