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Eleven-thirty p.m. is the sweet spot. Sidewalk traffic has dwindled, yet enough stray sounds persist to mask a scuffle. In Hong Kong, that's as good as it gets.A vicious and methodical killer stalks the back alleys of Hong Kong. The victims are Chinese and Western, all from different walks of life, their faces marked with a terrifying signature wound. For Detective Inspector Herman Lok, the case is more than a midnight horror; it's a waking nightmare that mirrors t...

La sidérurgie a joué un rôle moteur dans l’éclosion du monde industrialisé moderne. Quoique son importance relative par rapport à l’ensemble des économies globalisées soit aujourd’hui en recul, il n’en demeure pas moins que, grâce à un processus d’adaptation permanente aux nouvelles données d’un environnement qui change de plus en plus rapidement, elle occupe toujours une place de choix. Aussi ses innombrables implications technologiques, commerciales, politiques, diplomatiques, culturelle...

How do you find answers in a city that is a mystery itself? That is the question officer Herman Lok of the Hong Kong Police Force confronts every day, case by case. So when the body of a young woman washes up in the Hong Kong harbor, outfitted to make her death look like an accident, he assembles his force to begin a search for answers. The team of Lok, Million Man, Old Ko, Ears, and Big Pang embark on a trail that leads them not only to the city's infamous criminal triad societies, but al...

Victorian Passions Volume 16 transports readers into the simmering underbelly of early 20th century erotica, a curated anthology of audacious tales penned anonymously between 1906 and 1908. This installment in the Twenty-One Volumes of Love, Lust, and Lost Innocence series revives historical erotica anthologies from the Edwardian twilight, where societal restraints clashed with primal urges. Spanning libertine fiction collections and classic erotic stories, it chronicles youthful protagoni...

The Rise and Fall of Napoleon assembles a capacious documentary and literary portrait of the Napoleonic age, tracing the transformation of revolutionary general into imperial ruler and defeated exile. Military analysis, memoir, biography, eyewitness recollection, political history, and romance-inflected narrative coexist here, illuminating battlefield strategy alongside courtly ceremony, private ambition, and the human costs of continental war. Vivid campaign narratives and reflections on ...

Financial Regulation presents an important restatement of the purposes and objectives of financial regulation. The authors provide details and data on the scale, nature and costs of regulatory problems around the world, and look at what sort of countries and sectors require special attention and policies. Key topics covered include:* the need to recast the form of regulation* incentive structures for financial regulation* proportionality* new techniques...

Laudato Si’ insists on a revolutionary human response to the public challenges of our time concerning the ecological crisis. The volume takes up the revolutionary spirit of Pope Francis and speaks to the economic, technological, political, educational, and religious changes needed to overcome the fragile relationships between humans and Earth. This volume identifies various systemic factors that have produced the anthropogenic ecological crisis that threatens the planet and uses the ethica...

American power has been subjected to extensive analysis since September 11, 2001. While there is no consensus on the state of US hegemony or even on the precise meaning of the term, it is clear that under George W. Bush the US has not only remained the 'lone superpower' but has increased its global military supremacy. At the same time, the US has become more dependent on its economic, financial and geopolitical relationships with the rest of the world than at any other time in its history,...

Business fads come and go, but the importance of corporate leadership as a determining factor for success has never been doubted. But exactly what is corporate leadership? Is it a CEO with a strong personality, one with strong management skills, one who has a combination of these traits--or something else entirely? What factors, in other words, make a powerfully effective corporate leader? In this era of increasingly fierce global competition few questions spark as much controvers...

Since the U.S. presidential elections of 1980, debate has intensified between those who believe that nuclear weapons can only deter a war not intended to be fought and those who see nuclear weapons as an advancement in weaponry that allows for the waging and winning of a nuclear war. At the focal point of this debate is the rise of the “counterforc

The Bloody Reign of Napoleon assembles a capacious archive of Napoleonic war, empire, and memory, juxtaposing military analysis, diplomatic chronicle, memoir, biography, and battlefield testimony. Its range extends from strategic reflections on campaigns and command to intimate accounts of marching, privation, captivity, and the human cost of imperial ambition. Major episodes—including the Peninsular conflict, the Russian campaign, and Waterloo—emerge not as settled legends but as conteste...

Since the advent of the contemporary US national security apparatus in 1947, entrepreneurial public officials have tried to reorient the course of the nation's foreign policy. Acting inside the National Security Council system, some principals and high-ranking officials have worked tirelessly to generate policy change and innovation on the issues they care about. These entrepreneurs attempt to set the foreign policy agenda, frame policy problems and solutions, and orient the decision-makin...