Chantel Johnson has plans for her future. College, independence, and a life that's hers. Then she meets Marcus Williams. He's everything she didn't know she needed: charismatic, protective, and magnetic. The kind of first love that feels all-consuming. The kind you never forget.But love that burns hot can also be dangerous.Just after graduation, Chantel discovers she's pregnant, and everything changes. What first feels like destiny slowly reveals itself as control. Marcus b...

What do you do when your enemies begin to circle?Whatever you have to.AuroraAs the only daughter to the Don of the Marchetti Crime Family, Aurora Marchetti lives a life that most people could never fathom. However, with a loving father, two protective brothers, and a mother who is fine with her being raised by nothing but men, she's not quite the Mafia princess that most people would assume. She's something far more deadlier than anyone could imagin...

Rising sectarian tensions, deepening poverty, and growing unemployment have been intertwined and compounded with the COVID-19 pandemic and corruption, to create a conducive environment for instability in Lebanon. Drawing on a survey-based research design, Isaac E. Andakian tests hopes and fears, social dominance orientation, and levels of social cohesion among various sectarian groups to gauge their responses to crises. Lebanon's Year of Crisis (2019-2020): Unity in Adversity expl...

This textbook is a comprehensive guide to fashion buying and merchandising, covering fast fashion, environmental sustainability, ethical issues, omnichannel retailing, and computer-aided 3D design. It presents a contemporary buying cycle that reflects key industry realities, with detailed explanations of fashion product development, trend translation, and sourcing.Fully updated, this second edition expands its sustainability focus, underscoring the crucial role of ethical practices...

Integrating Intelligence explores how the present, ad hoc U.S. federal, state, and local intelligence enterprise developed, and analyses its prospects for continued evolution. Examining the types of threats that have warranted information sharing in past, Tromblay breaks down the structures of information sharing and current areas where information-sharing enterprises need to be strengthened at all levels of government to effectively disrupt threats to national security. This book...

What does it mean when the university owns the news?As hedge funds and corporations dismantle and drain existing media, Teri Finneman and Pamela E. Walck demonstrate how news–academic partnerships provide an antidote by doing the opposite. The news desert publications resulting from these collaborations lend support to rural towns, marginalized communities, and others overlooked by mainstream media as they aim to reinvent what journalism can and should be in the ha...

With a qualitative case study of two university campuses in the United States, Ingrid E. Castro examines experiences of students in forming and sustaining close interracial friendships.The data in this book are comprised of interviews with students conducted at two predominantly white institutions in the early 2000s, illuminating how women of various races struggled to find commonality across difference, particularly in relation to racism, white pr...

52 Women. 52 Weeks. One Life-Changing Biblical Journey.The most powerful stories of faith often come from those who lived in the margins of history. In 52 Weeks with Women of the Bible, trusted authors Ann Spangler and Jean E. Syswerda provide a transformative, year-long study designed to clarity, energize and deepen your love for Scripture.This study introduces you to 52 remarkable women, offering a structured rhythm of reading and reflection that makes th...

Heart – Crimson spreads quickly when Karev asks me for a favor, from one Maryland chapter vice president to another. Saving his half-sister, and claiming her the same day, is something neither of us planned. Yet, it’s the best, and only option for both of us.Floraline – I wouldn’t be in this mess if I’d listened to my half-brother. He warned me not to start a vintage shop business. Luckily, he sends the vice president of a motorcycle club to help w...

Eleven-year-old David is not ready for middle school.All summer, he tries to enjoy water gun fights, forest adventures, and pranks with his best friend, Jeremy. But beneath the fun, David feels the world changing around him. Jeremy makes friends easily. David does not. His mother works long hours, his younger brother George depends on him, and the thought of starting a new school year fills him with dread.Then the noises begin.At night, something scratches, knocks, ...

Little Buddy is delighted when Farmer Art chooses him from all the tractors on the lot. Together, they work hard to take care of the farm throughout the seasons. But one winter morning, after a long, cold, snowy night, Farmer Art doesn't come to start Little Buddy's engine. Time passes, and Little Buddy begins to deteriorate and feels forgotten until a familiar visitor from the past shows up, giving him new hope.

Originally published in 1978, Psychological Perspectives in Youth Sports came out of symposium designed to foster communication in the field of sport psychology, which was fragmented at the time. The presentations departed from previous youth sport symposia in that they were all data based and this volume includes papers selected from those reports. The book represents an early example of research into the psychological effects of sport and competition on children and adolescents,...