When seventeen-year-old over-achiever, Nic Lawson, discovers a mysterious girl with a tracker-bracelet on her ankle hiding in his barn, he has no inkling of the trouble about to invade his ordered existence. Until her toxic family infiltrate his town and begin to interfere in every aspect of his life. Stalked by the persistent Arkady clan: murderous cousin, persuasive father, calculating mother and captivating Mira, the girl in the hay, Nic risks everything to get rid of them. But they bel...

Nimbus and Celestial are the first divine on the Ethereal Realm since time unremembered. Still, even fledgling angels must prove themselves to earn a place in Seraph training with the revered Archangels. And so far, Nimbus is an unmitigated disaster: his arrows go awry, he's addicted to human food and the Nymphs run if there's the vaguest hint he'll attempt a spell. When all the Gods and Archangels on the Ethereal Realm abruptly disappear, it's up to Celestial, their irresponsible Ambrosia...

The most respected, all-in-one global STD reference - now in full-colorWith a level of detail and scientific rigor that no other text can match, Sexually Transmitted Diseases takes you through all aspects of STDs, from epidemiology to diagnosis and public health measures. Featuring an exciting new full-color format, the fourth edition of Sexually Transmitted Diseases delivers the most encyclopedic overview of the clinical, microbiological, and public healt...

Seventeen-year-old Io Calypso thinks of her life inside the domed luxury of the Maverick Institute for Advanced Thought as a drudgery of lessons and yawn-worthy boys, who'd rather fiddle with nano-electronics and spew theorems than abseil the desert cliffs with her. But on the humiliating day she is sanctioned for one act of rebellion too many, Io discovers there are far more terrible ways to exist. For it is the day a Maverick accident thrusts humanity to the brink of extinction. Fleeing ...

As the last Keeper of the vile Crone's Stone, 17 year-old Winsome Light has inherited a terrible legacy - for Satan's mistress does not take kindly to thieves. She wants her powerful stone back and the only one left to hide it is Winnie. The problem is: no one told her!The Crone is coming to take back what's hers and Winnie had better be ready... This is no fairy tale.The first in the Sacred Trinity series.

After falling for the enemy, tortured 17 year-old Rammen must choose between a forbidden attraction to a human girl and the only life he's ever known. But as the son of the ultimate demon, defying his father might cost more than just death. That's if saving Alyssa doesn't kill Rammen first. Love or Blood? In his cursed world, they mean the same thing.

In a divided future were the social order is enforced by an intra-dermal ID chip, the only way seventeen-year-old slum-born thief, Cassius, can keep above throttling poverty in the Crates and earn enough to fix his sick little sister, is a generous bid on his auction day for fertility conscription.Dragged along on her sister's auction day, his privileged opposite, Joebi, just wants to avoid an event she views as barbaric, having opposed the Chattel Contract her whole life. Imagine h...

Demonic Hordes. Biblical Plagues. The Four Riders of the Apocalypse smothering the human world in pestilence. And a girl caught smack in the middle.When Xanthe's stepfather, Bull, is executed in the most hideous way, her troubles are only beginning. For his loss rallies vengeful enemies – both mortal and unearthly – foiled for decades by Bull. But he didn't do the job alone. Now, Xan has inherited his supernatural contract and a bossy, homicidal parasite. With wings.As Hell's...

With the NASDAQ having lost 70 percent of its value, the giddy, optimistic belief in perpetual growth that accompanied the economic boom of the 1990s had fizzled by 2002. Yet the advances in information and communication technology, management and production techniques, and global integration that spurred the “New Economy” of the 1990s had triggered profound and lasting changes. Frontiers of Capital brings together ethnographies exploring how cultural practices and social relation...

Be careful what you wish for. Winnie's arrival from boarding school to sunny Sydney, thrust into the sinister world of the Crone, was further from an uplifting homecoming than she could imagine. As the last Keeper of the witch-demon's stolen possession, Winnie must hide the poisonous Stone, exposed and vulnerable until she does. And her enemy is poised to break free, her swarming followers on the hunt. Legend forecasts the final chapter nears, heralding the Stone's triumphant return and th...

After three trying months, Jace must get through one last week of work with elder twin brothers, both on parole for burglary, both total jerks. And then he's free of the family who've held him down for seventeen years. On arrival at the eerie locale of their final contract, a young girl with a crippled body warns him off Grey Manor, insisting no-one enter the abandoned mansion. But a lost cameo worth two million dollars is hidden inside and Jace faces the impossible task of keeping his gre...

This book provides a comprehensive guide to the latest techniques in female genitourinary and pelvic floor disorders. It features detailed insight into these conditions along with detailed descriptions of how treatment has changed in recent times for these disorders. The latest methodologies for pharmacological treatment, conservative therapy, surgical techniques, and how to avoid potential complications are discussed. Topics including relevant neurophysiology, measurement of urinary sympt...