Noble Bishop, a government trained assassin known as The Scythe, has transitioned from his nefarious past to one of normality. While on the job as a security specialist at a popular Portland nightclub, happenstance brings him into contact with a psychopath and his life is altered in the most profound of ways.Temperate loner Victor Kukorian is hanging on to his sanity by a thread. After finishing the last of his late mother's hospice formula, he is left with psychopathic impulses boi...

The CIA has made contact with being from another world.Joined by a select group of DARPA scientists, they are scheduled to make contact somewhere in the Rocky Mountains. Their objective is to exchange technology for live bodies.This meeting, however, has not gone unnoticed.For RED Team, an ultra-covert unit affiliated with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, all the years of preparation and development are about to pay off with the capture and control of an...

Seraphs son book descriptionSeraph – noun - a member of the highest order of angelsCole Belle is an aviator with a wounded soul.Overwhelmed with guilt over a crash that took lives, he seeks atonement through a self-imposed exile that finds him on a remote Alaskan outpost.He's resolved to fill the remainder of his days off the beaten path living the solitary existence of a bush pilot.However, fate often has other plans.One day Cole receives word t...

Harper Rose is a billionaire heiress and the PR Queen of New York.The only problem is that she is unlucky in love. After another failed relationship, she decides to give up on dating and heads to The Paradise Club Resort to heal.Unexpectedly, she runs into Felix St. Pierre, the much younger, tattooed, ice hockey bad boy, and they hit it off instantly.Don't they say to get over someone, you have to get under someone else?Felix St. Pierre is a...

Stella Price has always had a crush on her boss—even with his reputation of being the "Playboy Chef of New York."She gets to see another side to him outside of his celebrity persona. Stella's also a realist and knows nothing can ever happen between the two of them.Except everything changes that fateful day in Vegas when she nearly lost her life.Elliot "EJ" Jones has the New York culinary scene at his feet and the city's most beautiful women on their...

This third edition of Reconstructing Quaternary Environments has been completely revised and updated to provide a new account of the history and scale of environmental changes during the Quaternary. The evidence is extremely diverse ranging from landforms and sediments to fossil assemblages and geochemical data, and includes new data from terrestrial, marine and ice-core records. Dating methods are described and evaluated, while the principles and practices of Quaternary stratigra...

GiorgioI've always been the dutiful son, living my life for everyone else but me.So, walking in on my fiancée with someone else during our engagement party should have filled me with devastation, but instead, I felt relieved.When a drunken message to the woman whose heart I broke all those years ago comes back with a reply, will this be the second chance I've always hoped for, or is it too late?PaigeThis isn't at all...

Chloe Jones is trying to put the scandal of leaving her Super Bowl legend fiancé at the altar behind her.There is no better way to escape than to turn her island honeymoon into a much-needed vacation with her girls. What she isn't expecting is to meet a hot stranger. Don't they say to get over someone you need to get under someone else?Chloe's ready for a fresh start. Shame her vengeful ex is making it difficult for her. That is until she lands the job of h...

Forms of thought are involved whenever we name, describe, or identify things, and whenever we distinguish between what is, might be, or must be the case. It appears to be a distinctive feature of human thought that we can have modal thoughts, about what might be possible or necessary, and conditional thoughts, about what would or might be the case if something else were the case. Even the simplest thoughts are structured like sentences, containing referential and predicative elements, and ...

The ancient Indian linguistic tradition has been influential in the development of modern linguistics, yet is not well known among modern Western linguists. This unique book addresses this gap by providing an accessible introduction to the Indian linguistic tradition, covering its most important achievements and ideas, and assessing its impact on Western linguistics. It shows how ancient Indian methods of linguistic analysis can be applied to a number of topical issues across the disciplin...

This book introduces the concept of the ‘native speaker’ frame: a perceptual filter within English Language Teaching (ELT) which views the linguistic and cultural norms and the educational technology of the anglophone West as being normative, while the norms and practices of non-Western countries are viewed as deficient. Based on a rich source of ethnographic data, and employing a frame analysis approach, it investigates the ways in which this ‘native-speaker’ framing influenced t...

In this book, Robert J. Lowe introduces frame analysis, a qualitative research approach grounded in the critical theory of the early Frankfurt School and framing in the social sciences. Lowe sets out the principles of the frame analysis approach and provides a guide to conducting this kind of research in practice.Focused on identifying and challenging ideology through immanent critique, Lowe presents a methodological guide and research report. He begins by explaining early critical...