When Marie finally wrote back to Andrew, he truly learned how words can seduce, corrupt and inflame. The stories Marie and Andrew now make up, trading e-mails, consume them. They begin a passionate affair, and their deepening obsession with each other penetrates their writing. Then the stories take over and change everything. Oh, and the bit with the shoe is freaking wild. Fun, well-told, intelligent and absorbing, Heart-Break-Proof is about words that bind tighter than any rope. (Actually...

Social research efforts are often more concerned with basic social processes or patterns than with the dynamic relationship between social processes and social institutions. In this classic collection, contributors posit generalizations drawn from contemporary sociology. Their analyses go beyond elementary principles - they interpret them, qualify them, or state them more precisely. Each of the contributors focuses on the modern American social structure, and they are either explicitly com...

This time, we have a rare mystery from Hulbert Footner (whose Madame Storey mysteries I greatly enjoy). His novel Queen of Clubs in this issue is a jazz-age mystery that—well, I don’t want to spoil the surprises. Read it and see for yourself!Also on the mystery front, we have original tales by Andrew Welsh-Huggins and Robert Lopresti (thanks to our Acquiring Editors, Michael Bracken and Barb Goffman), a classic crime story by David Goodis, and, of course, a solve-it-yourse...

In the twilight of his life, a renowned author reflects on the complexities of love, loss, and the enduring power of memory. As he navigates the labyrinth of his past, he encounters a cast of unforgettable characters who have shaped his journey. From the enigmatic woman who ignited his passion to the loyal friend who stood by him through adversity, each encounter becomes a poignant meditation on the human condition. Through lyrical prose and profound insights, A Late Good Night invites rea...

A collection of crossdressing stories, from how your friend dressed up as a hot girl for Halloween to a girlfriend's fetish for forced feminization! These are anonymous confessions of how a few "gurls" discovered their love of dressing up and being taken!

Yascha Mounk shows why a focus on personal responsibility is wrong and counterproductive: it distracts us from the larger economic forces determining aggregate outcomes, ignores what we owe fellow citizens regardless of their choices, and blinds us to key values such as the desire to live in a society of equals. In this book he proposes a remedy.

St Claudia is not religious in the slightest. She is merely a beautiful woman that has caught the of eye of Tim as she drops her daughter of at school. Tim loves her car and uses it as a way to get to know her. He thinks she in nothing short of perfection, hence his 'pet-name' for her, St Claudia. However, what he doesn't know is that she comes from loveless relationship and craves the things she sees in adult movies. But her husband is out of town. And it's a cold day. And Tim is wearing ...

Kyle and McKenzie are getting to know ALL about each other during their weekend stay in his private Maui estate.When Kyle rescued McKenzie during her final night at the club, the King was going to have his way with her (and that's back door way, *wink, wink*). Ever since knowing his grand plans, Kyle has been going crazy with the fantasy of having the same experience with McKenzie. Thus, they both indulge in this fantasy and Kyle leads McKenzie for her first time of anal sex. After...

No study of international relations is complete without consideration of foreign policy processes and an understanding of state security, conflict in global politics, and the relationship between the world economy and international behavior. Conflict, Security, Foreign Policy, and International Political Economy: Past Paths and Future Directions in International Studies consists of twelve original essays that point out the strengths and weaknesses of current approaches in these research ar...

Why Men Rebel was first published in 1970 after a decade of political violence across the world. Forty years later, serious conflicts continue in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Ted Robert Gurr reintroduces us to his landmark work, putting it in context with the research it influenced as well as world events. Why Men Rebel remains highly relevant to today's violent and unstable world with its holistic, people-based understanding of the causes of political protest and rebellion. With its ...

It's a beautiful chair. All gleaming and evocative and wicked looking; an object of desire, more than just a piece of furniture. I shouldn't have bought it. Yet when I saw the chair, I saw Simon in it. I could just imagine him lounging against the leather, enthroned like a sex god and ready to dispense retribution, just like one of those vintage disciplinary gentlemen in the Blue Book….Simon and Suzanne have been exploring their wicked fantasies of dominance and discipline...

Published in 1987, the first edition of The Struggle for**the American Curriculum was a classic in curriculum studies and in the history of education. This new third edition is thoroughly revised and updated, and includes two new chapters on the renewed attacks on the subject curriculum in the 1940s and 1950s, as well as the way individual school subjects evolved over time and were affected by these attacks.