The only good thing about Lexi's barista job is her work wife, Linh. Even her burgeoning relationship with single father, Ethan, is growing cold before it's had time to sizzle. And why can't Lexi shake the feeling that Ethan's not over his wife? When a mysterious friend from Lexi's past emerges in startling circumstances, she glimpses the world of camming. Ditching espressos for the express lane to sexual empowerment and financial freedom, Lexi is lying to everyone, including herself.When ...

Award-winning contemporary romance. Fun, flirty and full of laughs.Adelaide Jones is about to taste the sweet life. Raising her 5-year-old twins is getting easier and her husband, Joe, is selling his IT company for an ungodly sum. Then, it all implodes. Could her quest to be indispensable to her husband have rendered her invisible instead? Maybe it's time Joe learned just how pampered his life is.When Alec, an unrequited love from the past, invites her to t...

“Growing up in Bolton was full of fun and laughter yet raw and gusty in its northern, rustic charm. Bolton is colourful with a real mix of races, classes and ideals. It gave me a base I am mostly proud of; a Lancashire town which was originally built on textile mills and coal mining, all held together with a strong cup of tea and a good homemade pasty.”Perspectives is an autobiography about a girl growing up in Bolton, experiencing sexual abuse, rape and self-sabotage until a near-...

How is the relationship between the Japanese state and Japanese society mediated by the press? Does the pervasive system of press clubs, and the regulations underlying them, alter or even censor the way news is reported in Japan? Who benefits from the press club system? And who loses? Here Laurie Anne Freeman examines the subtle, highly interconnected relationship between journalists and news sources in Japan.Beginning with a historical overview of the relationship between the pres...

Anne Freeman presents a heartfelt and motivating guide tailored to women who have entered their golden years or are on the cusp of this significant life transition. With a casual and compassionate tone, Anne draws from her own experiences and research to address the dearth of self-care resources for this age group in "The Art of Aging Gracefully". For too long, many women have put the needs of others before their own, whether due to work, family, or societal pressures. Anne understands the...

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist describes how Cambodia emerged from the harrowing years when a quarter of its population perished under the Khmer Rouge.A generation after genocide, Cambodia seemed on the surface to have overcome its history -- the streets of Phnom Penh were paved; skyscrapers dotted the skyline. But under this façe lies a country still haunted by its years of terror.Although the international community tried to rebuild Cambodia and int...

Feng Shui has been known in the West for the last 150 years but has mostly been regarded as a primitive superstition. During the modern period successive regimes in China have suppressed its practice. However, in the last few decades Feng Shui has become a global spiritual movement with professional associations, thousands of titles published on the subject, countless websites devoted to it and millions of users. In this book Ole Bruun explains Feng Shui's Chinese origins and meanings as w...

A first look at gunpowder's revolutionary impact on China's role in global historyThe Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries before the technology passed to the West. But by the early 1800s, China had fallen so far behind the West in gunpowder warfare that it was easily defeated by Britain in the Opium War of 1839–42. What happened? In The Gunpowder Age, Tonio Andrade offers a compelling new an...

The Sick Rose is a beautifully gruesome and strangely fascinating visual tour through disease in an age before colour photography. This stunning volume, combining detailed illustrations of afflicted patients from some of the world's rarest medical books, forms an unforgettable and profoundly human reminder of mankind's struggle with disease.Incorporating historic maps, pioneering charts and contemporary case notes, Richard Barnett's evocative overview reveals the fears and obsessio...

Ancient Greece and China Compared is a pioneering, methodologically sophisticated set of studies, bringing together scholars who all share the conviction that the sustained critical comparison and contrast between ancient societies can bring to light significant aspects of each that would be missed by focusing on just one of them. The topics tackled include key issues in philosophy and religion, in art and literature, in mathematics and the life sciences (including gender studies), in agri...

South Asian History has enjoyed a remarkable renaissance over the past thirty years. Its historians are not only producing new ways of thinking about the imperial impact and legacy on South Asia, but also helping to reshape the study of imperial history in general. The essays in this collection address a number of these important developments, delineating not only the complicated interplay between imperial rulers and their subjects in India, but also illuminating the economic, political, e...

This volume examines contemporary diplomatic, economic, and security competition between China and Japan in the Asia-Pacific region.The book outlines the role that Sino-Japanese competition plays in East Asian security, an area of study largely overlooked in contemporary writing on Asian security, which tends to focus on US–China relations and/or US hegemony in Asia. The volume focuses on Chinese and Japanese foreign policy under President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Shinzō Abe, ...