Single Los Angeles South Bay interior designer, Cassidy Brooks, works so hard to forget her horrific sham first marriage, she's all but abandoned romance and love, much to the dismay of her mother on the family ranch in Montana. Enter Bud Griffith, a Los Angeles commercial land developer with a world of love to give. The problem is, he keeps giving everything--except love--to the ex-wife he divorced years before. He is stuck in his past, and only the hidden privilege of his past remains. C...

Alternatively praised and vilified, Pope, now Saint, Paul VI is perhaps one of the least understood pontiffs in modern history. Often caricatured by both liberals and conservatives, he will forever be known as the pope who “held the line” on Church teaching regarding contraception through his landmark encyclical Humane Vitae. Divided into four sections—his life, his papacy, his teachings, and his times and legacy—this pictorial retrospective of the Church's newest saint is sure to...

Terrarium hobbyists and arachnid lovers will rejoice at this comprehensive guide on tarantulas! The Tarantula Keeper's Guide provides in-depth information on their biology and advice on housing and caring for pet tarantulas.Tarantulas are small and easy-to-maintain exotic pets that are fun and captivating to watch. The Tarantula Keeper's Guide includes detailed information on the natural history and biology of these fascinating creatures. This spi...

David Olguin, a young U.S.-raised Mexico-born man, sees one chance to get life right. His first love has careened sideways. The baby shoes on his rear view mirror call the stakes. Having self-deported, he lands in an isolated Mexican coastal village armed only with his talent as a cook. Here, winter gringo squatters pit themselves against a struggling native co-op for rule over beachfront land, and a resplendent resort arises across the bay. It's 1996, only months after communications dere...

The Roman World from Pre-History to Augustus: A History of the Roman People offers students a comprehensive, readable introduction to Rome’s early history and the Roman Republic.Based on the new eighth edition of the hugely successful A History of the Roman People, this volume guides readers through the mists of Roman pre-history and a survey of the peoples of pre-Roman Italy to a balanced, thoughtful account of the complexities of the Roman Republic. It covers Ro...

Cellular Actuators: Modularity and Variability in Muscle-Inspired Actuation describes the roles actuators play in robotics and their insufficiency in emerging new robotic applications, such as wearable devices and human co-working robots where compactness and compliance are important. Piezoelectric actuators, the topic of this book, provide advantages like displacement scale, force, reliability, and compactness, and rely on material properties to provide displacement and force as reactions...

For Chumash and Tongva people of the Southern California coast and valleys, the world unravels as catholic missions stretch their influence from the Los Angeles basin eastward. Gallop ahead through three generations as this western frontier novel from an Arizona author unfolds. Villages pit themselves against invading settler-evangelists and their escort soldiers. Fierce battles arise. And something rivals newly discovered gold in value--the land. In this coming of age family saga, only th...

A History of the Roman People offers students a comprehensive, up-to-date, readable introduction to the whole span of Roman history. Richly illustrated, this fully updated volume takes readers through the mists of Roman prehistory and a survey of the peoples of pre-Roman Italy to a balanced, thoughtful account of the complexities of the Roman Republic, its evolution into a full-fledged empire, and its ultimate decline. This latest edition enhances the political narrative with expl...

Alternately praised and vilified, Pope, now Saint, Paul VI is perhaps one of the least understood pontiffs in modern history. Often caricatured by both liberals and conservatives, he will forever be known as the pope who ;held the line; on Church teaching regarding contraception through his landmark encyclical Humanae Vitae. Divided into four sections—his life, his papacy, his teachings, and his times and legacy—this pictorial biography of the Churchs newest saint is sure to be a treasured...

Although human beings are technically part of the ecosystem, there still remains a conceptual conflict between technology and nature. These concerns highlight the idea of human superiority in which the priority is given to technology versus living in synchronization with nature. Technology versus Ecology: Human Superiority and the Ongoing Conflict with Nature explores the issues revolving around the conflict between technology versus human beings, the concern for the separation of human be...

A History of the Roman People offers students a comprehensive, up-to-date, readable introduction to the whole span of Roman history.Enhanced with additional illustrations, this fully updated volume takes readers through the mists of Roman prehistory and a survey of the peoples of pre-Roman Italy to a balanced, thoughtful account of the complexities of the Roman Republic, its evolution into a full-fledged empire, and its ultimate decline in the West and continuation in the ...

The Roman Empire from Augustus to Late Antiquity: A History of the Roman People provides an in-depth, readable introduction to the history of the Roman Empire.Based on the new eighth edition of the hugely successful A History of the Roman People, this volume offers readers a balanced account of Rome’s evolution from an imperial Republic into a monarchic empire, its emergence into the world of Late Antiquity, and its ultimate decline. It covers Roman history from t...