This anthology contains action, adventure, spicy tales, and some swishing tails. A rare treat of compiled stories in one place. Enjoy!

The Gulf of St. Lawrence is one of Canada’s largest and most complex marine systems, bordering on five provinces with 250,000 people living in proximity to the coast. Managing the aquatic environment of this vast territory must consider not only biophysical processes but also human use, policy jurisdiction, and politics.Environmental Governance in the Gulf of St. Lawrence focuses on the coastal margin and deepwater Gulf in a series of policy studies, covering topics such a...

Two lost men, each with a shot at redemption that's bound to a mysterious manuscript.Kichiro Nakamura has lived on the edges of two cultures, a white foundling raised by Japanese parents in a small California fishing village. He dreams of getting published in the science fiction pulps, but the bombs that fall on Pearl Harbor destroy that dream. Struggling to hold on to his fragile identity, Kichiro must decide who he wants to be, but in a world torn by war and hear...

What the world is craving isn’t more. What the world is craving is what’s real.The first thing you reach for each morning is your phone. From there, your days are spent in your head, in your inbox, in meetings. You’re successful. And underneath it all is a nagging sense that something isn’t right.With AI rewriting the rules of work in real time, it’s never been easier to get into the game, but it’s never been harder to stand out. So you work faster. Stay visible. But undern...

**THE INSTANT *NEW YORKTIMES* BESTSELLER**A breathtakingly candid memoir by Joanna "JoJo" Levesque, the chart-topping, multi-platinum recording artist behind hits like “Leave (Get Out),” “Too Little, Too Late”, and the Grammy Award-winning "Say So"."A remarkably compassionate portrait ... that's bolstered by fastidious journal entries [JoJo's] kept throughout her life ... JoJo is back in control." —Los Angeles Times**Signed to a major recor...

This practical text covers the essential aspects of managing employees, providing relevant and interesting case studies to enable students to develop the management skills and approaches needed at all levels. The book includes a wealth of case studies across industries including public relations, gaming, food service, healthcare, and nonprofits, and hailing from several regions and cultures (including Australia, the Philippines, US, and Taiwan).The five core sections of the text ea...

In this issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics, guest editor Celia Levesque of MD Anderson Cancer Center brings her considerable expertise to the topic of Management of the Hospitalized Patient with Diabetes. Top experts provide up-to-date clinical information and best practices for hospitalized patients with diabetes, covering issues such as non-insulin diabetes medications in the pediatric patient; using diabetes technology in hospitalized patients; managing diabetes in patients with hea...

During the interwar period, Quebec was a strongly patriarchal society, where men in the Church, politics, and medicine, maintained a traditional norm of social and sexual standards that women were expected to abide by. Some women in the media and religious communities were complicit with this vision, upholding the "ideal" as the norm and tending to those "deviants" who failed to meet society's expectations. By examining the underside of a staid and repressive society, Andrée Lévesque revea...

ARIELLE QUEEN Book I - A Knight for a Queen by Michel LevesqueThe best-selling, award-winning fantasy series by Michel Levesque translated into EnglishBOOK I - A KNIGHT FOR A QUEENArielle, an insecure teenager discovers on her sixteenth birthday that life is not as she once thought—boring. Suddenly thrust into the middle of a battle between evil and more evil that has been raging for centuries she learns of another world co...

The NUMISHEET conference series is the most significant international conference on the area of the numerical simulation of sheet metal forming processes. It gathers the most prominent experts in numerical methods in sheet forming processes and is an outstanding forum for the exchange of ideas and for the discussion of technologies related to sheet metal forming processes.Topics covered in this volume include but are not limited to the following:Materials Modeling and...

Two simple but profound questions have preoccupied scholars since the establishment of history education over a century ago: what is historical thinking, and how do educators go about teaching it? In Thinking Historically, Stéphane Ltévesque examines these questions, focusing on what it means to think critically about the past. As students engage in a new century already characterized by global instability, uncertainty, and rivalry over claims about the past, present, and future, ...

Her fight begins the day the world ends.Scarlett Fisher is an average California teenager. She likes hanging out with her friends and talking on the phone. She does all right at school, and she's made the best of her parents' divorce. But in one way, she's special: on her fifteenth birthday, a fast-moving plague wipes out everyone she’s ever known, yet somehow it passes her by.Her family dead, alone in a corpse-strewn metropolis, she has no choice but to survive. She needs ...