"Dating other guys is just so fun and so easy!" ...said basically no one ever.But why is dating so hard for men who like men? Why do so many of us struggle to find happy, stable relationships? And does it have to be that way?Backed by psychological research, personal stories and more than a few d*ck jokes, Boys Who Like Boys is the in-depth guide to gay, bi and queer dating we've long been waiting for.Inside, you'l...

About the BookRelay is the true story of a broken-hearted narcissist as told by a chronic liar.Everyone has been in love and has had their heart broken before.But no one has hurt quite like this.

Do you have what it takes?Most Christian men never ask that question out loud but it never stops asking itself. Somewhere between boyhood and bills, between dreams and deadlines, something in you went quiet. You show up. You provide. You do what's expected. And still, at two in the morning, a part of you wonders if this managed, domesticated life is really all there is.Untamed Heart is a battle cry and a healing path for the Christian man w...

This fascinating study follows the fortunes of the Höchstetter family, merchant-manufacturers and financiers of Augsburg, Germany, in the late-fifteenth and early-sixteenth centuries, and sheds light on the economic and social history of failure and resilience in early modern Europe. Carefully tracing the chronology of the family’s rise, fall and transformation, it moves from the micro- to the macro-level, making comparisons with other mercantile families of the time to draw conclusions an...

Everything was fine until that innocent little rich girl walked into my garage. Since the second I laid my eyes on her, all I've wanted to do is get my dirty hands on her pure body.There's one minor obstacle standing in my way, but I've got a plan. All I've got to do is claim her, and she'll be mine forever.Warning: This book is over-the-top, insta-love. There's nothing but steamy scenes, babies trying to be made, and an obsessed bearded alpha hero claiming a virgin who wil...

Sean Sparrow has one more job to pull: break into the bank, steal what he was hired to take, and get out. He plans everything to the very last detail, sure of success... until he sees Tessa.Tessa Martin lives a humdrum life. With a boring job and a crappy roommate, she's sure there must be more to life than this. She's not prepared for the muscle-bound bearded man who walks into her life, offering her everything she's ever wanted.When Sean breaks down all of Tessa's walls, ...

Thea James is scraping by and trying to make a decent life for herself. She keeps her nose clean and stays out of trouble, trying to do what she can to pay the bills. One night on her way home she becomes a witness to a murder. Suddenly, with the shot of a bullet, she's thrust into a world she had no idea existed. But what's Thea to do when the darkness that could swallow her is exactly where she wants to go?Salvatore Costello is the boss in the Los Angeles mafia. He's in charge of...

This volume takes up bankruptcy in early modern Europe, when its frequency made it not only an economic problem but a personal tragedy and a social evil. Using legal, business and personal records, the essays in this volume examine the impact of failure on business organizations and practices, capital formation and circulation, economic institutions and ethics, and human networks and relations in the so-called "transition" to modern society, from the early-sixteenth to the early-nineteenth...

One cannot conceive of capitalism without labor. Yet many of the current debates about economic development leading to industrialization fail to directly engage with labor at all. This collection of essays strives to correct this oversight and to reintroduce labor into the great debates about capitalist development and economic growth before the Industrial Revolution. By attending to the effects of specific regulatory, technological, social and physical environments on producers and produc...

This edited collection analyses the prison through the most fundamental challenge it faces: escapes. The chapters comprise original research from established prison scholars who develop the contours of a sociology of prison escapes. Drawing on firm empirical evidence from places like India, Tunisia, Canada, the UK, France, Uganda, Italy, Sierra Leone, and Mexico, the authors show how escapes not only break the prison, but are also fundamental to the existence of such institutions: how they...

How did children feel in the Middle Ages and early modern times? How did adults feel about the children around them? This collection addresses these fundamental but rarely asked questions about social and family relations by bringing together two emerging fields within cultural history – childhood and emotion – and provides avenues through which to approach their shared histories.Bringing together a wide range of material and sources such as court records, self-narratives and educa...

Winner of the 2020 PROSE Award for Multivolume Reference/HumanitiesIn the early modern age technological innovations were unimportant relative to political and social transformations. The size of the workforce and the number of wage dependent people increased, due in large part to population growth, but also as a result of changes in the organization of work. The diversity of workplaces in many significant economic sectors was on the rise in the 16th-century: famil...