This is the twenty-third edition of the "Harvard Economic Studies", focusing on the intricacies of the boot and shoe industry in Massachusetts before 1875. It chronicles the evolution and development of the industry from 1760-1875 and includes supplementary chapters on such subjects as Medieval shoemaking tools, modern shoe repair, contemporary manufacturing processes, and more. This volume is highly recommended for those with an interest in the history of the shoe industry, and it is not ...

The Cattle Chronicles assembles twenty-two works that map cattle's place in ranching imagination, agricultural science, commerce, and everyday rural life. Its range moves from frontier and range narratives to practical discussions of breeding, feeding, disease, markets, and livestock management. Fictional adventure and regional storytelling stand beside technical manuals, association publications, and industry-oriented texts, making the volume a revealing record of how cattle became both c...

The Korean Studies Guide serves as a comprehensive handbook for exploring the diverse aspects of Korean culture, history, and society. Developed in 1951 under the auspices of the University of California's Institute of East Asiatic Studies, this guide reflects a renewed Western interest in Korea prompted by postwar geopolitical realities and the Korean War. With financial support from the Rockefeller Foundation and access to unparalleled resources like the Asami collection of Korean litera...

Some mistakes are meant to happen.When Danica Jordan, daughter of the famous actor Samuel Jordan, gets involved in yet another horrible scandal, her father cuts her off, leaving her stranded and forced to get a—gasp!—CLEANING JOB. If that isn’t bad enough, someone keeps leaking photos of her to the paparazzi. All Dani wants to do is disappear.Famous football star Austin Scott is staying at the Billionaire Club to recuperate from an injury. When D...

It was a simple marriage of convenience. Just two years. What could possibly go wrong?Nara couldn't believe it when her father came up with the crazy idea that she needed to marry Mr. Stuffy himself. Derek Marshall. Sure, he was stinkin' gorgeous and made her insides quiver. But marry him? She was on her way to getting her dream job as a fashion designer. Well, on her way if you counted getting coffee for someone who had her dream job.Derek has been in lo...

Cattle Farming Techniques gathers four classic instructional works into a compact archive of livestock knowledge, tracing the practical arts of breeding, selecting, feeding, housing, and managing cattle. Its pages move between systematic husbandry, breed evaluation, commercial calculation, and the everyday observations of the stockman, revealing a range of styles from concise technical guidance to more expansive agricultural argument. Especially valuable are the sustained treatments of con...

While the town of Harding grapples with a catastrophic and unexpected flood, a young businesswoman is found dead, beaten to death on the steps of her father’s mansion.Detective Kyle Villante gets his first call after coming off a two-year undercover stint that ended in a bloodbath and marred his reputation with the brass. But he doesn’t get to work the case alone. Detective Solomon Aduwo of the State Police has arrived in Harding to assist with the investigation. Villante bristles ...

Boss from hell. Satan personified. A tyrant everyone fears.Nate Parrish loathes his boss from the moment they meet.Raffaele Ferrara is probably the most insufferable, domineering man in the world. He doesn’t seem to understand that his personal assistant isn’t actually his personal slave. He expects Nate to do his bidding with a single word. He expects that Nate’s whole life will revolve around him. He expects other, entirely unreasonable things, even though they’r...

Professor Derek Rutledge is hated and feared by all of his students. Strict, reserved, and ruthless, he doesn't tolerate mistakes and has little patience for his students.Shawn Wyatt is a twenty-year-old struggling to provide for his younger sisters after the death of their parents. On the verge of losing his scholarship, Shawn becomes desperate enough to go to Professor Rutledge.Everyone says Rutledge doesn't have a heart. Everyone says he's a ruthless bastard. Shawn finds...

These feelings are utterly wrong. He’s an impostor. But if he isn’t? They're even more wrong.The last time Liam Blake saw Anthony, Liam was five and Anthony was sixteen. Liam barely remembers him. He remembers adoring him and remembers missing him, but his childhood memories faded as he grew up.Fifteen years later, a man who calls himself Anthony Blake finally comes home after the war ends. He has documents that prove his identity, and he has Anthony's dark hair, b...

Jordan Gates isn't easily flustered—or easily scared.When his boss asks him to accompany him to Italy for a family wedding, Jordan agrees. He'll get paid handsomely for his trouble.There's a catch, though. Several catches.He's there as bait: Jordan has to pose as his boss's real boyfriend, who looks a lot like Jordan.Someone in his boss's mafioso family wants to murder them.That someone is probably Damiano Conte, a col...

Alexander Sheldon likes order and control in his life. He isn’t happy when his girlfriend invites another guy for a threesome. Alexander believes in monogamy, and he’s never been good at sharing his things. It doesn’t help that Christian rubs him the wrong way from the beginning.But what starts as animosity turns into something else. Something unexpected and very wrong.He was never supposed to touch Christian. He was never supposed to feel possessive of the guy. And he most...