Palace intrigue, high seas piracy, the first war in Afghanistan, Elizabethan politics and TR’s take on the War of 1812 – it’s all here and more in Strategy Six Pack Six, another awesome military multi-manual for historians and tacticians. In this six-pack: The Suppression of Piracy by Henry Keppel and James Brooke. Queen Elizabeth by Jacob Abbott. The First Afghan War by Mowbray Morris. The Naval War of 1812 by Theodore Roosevelt. Oliver Cromwell by Elbert Hubbard. Plot and Counterplot: Ja...

Drawing on the latest food science and cutting-edge developments in flavor mapping technology, this revised edition of the critically acclaimed “food pairing bible” reveals the next evolution of flavor-pairing science. Updated with 25 new recipes and photos, 60 new matrices and flavor bridging graphics, and a new section on pairing flavors with spirits.A groundbreaking ingredient-pairing guide, The Flavor Matrix showed how science can unlock unheard-of pos...

Explore the universe from its tiniest particles to its largest structures with The Physics of Everything: From the Micro to the Macro. This captivating book takes you on a journey across the scales of existence, uncovering the fundamental principles and mind-bending concepts that govern everything from the atomic world to galaxies, stars, and beyond. Whether you’re curious about the forces that shape matter or the mysteries of space-time, this book brings the wonders of physics to life in ...

This is the essential guide for anyone looking to get ahead in the warzone that is often the workplace.However good you are, there are always times you come under fire at work. But how do you turn a crisis into an opportunity, and make yourself bulletproof?In Be Bulletproof, business trainers James and Simon Brooke reveal the top practical solutions for strengthening your resilience – so you can bounce back from every setback, rejection or criticism. You’ll learn to be conf...

Do you know where reality ends and nightmares begin? And can you sense the strange, thin curtain between the real and the unreal, the natural and the supernatural?It began with a chance meeting, the casual showing of a photo and a remark: 'My sister-in-law looks like your sister-in-law.' And from that, a strange series of events take place.Jane and her husband Adam are on their way to a make-or-break second honeymoon. As their train pulls into Oxford station, she gets a sud...

The races enjoy the fruits of the first political alliances. Kings hold feasts, while a diligent few smell war on the wind. The perception of peace fades with the division of the Elven House and the rumor of a dragon with an army of slaves moving north. The fires of war are soon kindled. The Dwarves and their allies rush to prepare their forces to march out and meet a crushing wave. A mountain village bears the brunt of the first attack, and the consequences of a desperate attempt to stem ...

When her brother meets an untimely death, Beckett Soule takes his place as the new mob boss, a job she never wanted, and Jason Collins-Royce is her number one enemy. Getting kidnapped by the rich, handsome, and powerful Royce was not on her to-do list, but with a mob war brewing Beckett must turn to unlikely sources and create new allies.

Printed in 1891, Till He Comes was written by James Hall Brookes to argue that Christians should be looking for and anticipating the return of Christ. He wrote during a time when being a premillennialist was unpopular, and postmillennialism was assumed by many to be correct. Although the original is now over 130 years old, this revised edition allows the reader to examine Brookes' arguments in modern language and format. During a time when postmillennialism is seeing a reemergence...

The rise to the top must be carefully made, the higher you climb, the harder you fall on the way back down…O’Mar and Tray have played the game for a long time, but now they’ve found out that the riches that they’ve borrowed over the years must now be repaid. As Entrepreneurs, the two turned a lucrative good business into a thriving organization, but as the cash grows, they find out that someone is always watching around every corner; before they can make a grand exit and live like ...

With one football legend, a feral cage fighter, the country's youngest Senator, and one seriously stern professor, the Thorne Pack couldn't be more intimidating, even without an omega to bond them.Which is probably for the best—with all their sharp edges, how could they ever take care of anything precious?Turns out, they may not have a choice.When happenstance hands them an omega who needs help, the bond is instant—and accidental. Now, they have to ...

Scientific philosophers examine the nature and significance of levels of organization, a core structural principle in the biological sciences.This volume examines the idea of levels of organization as a distinct object of investigation, considering its merits as a core organizational principle for the scientific image of the natural world. It approaches levels of organization--roughly, the idea that the natural world is segregated into part-whole relationships of i...

The British public school is an iconic institution, a training ground for the ruling elite and a symbol of national identity and tradition. But beyond the elegant architecture and evergreen playing fields is a turbulent history of teenage rebellion, sexual dissidence and political radicalism. James Brooke-Smith wades into the wilder shores of public-school life over the last 300 years in Gilded Youth. He uncovers armed mutinies in the late-eighteenth century, a Victorian craze for...