Forbidden friendship, political conspiracy and incendiary passion draw Australian woman Annie Brand deep into the glamour and turmoil of 1920s Shanghai.Leaving behind the loneliness and trauma of her past in country Australia, Annie Brand arrives to the political upheaval and glittering international society of Shanghai in the 1920s. Journeying up the Yangtze with her new husband, the ship's captain, Annie revels in the sense of adventure but when her husband sends...

A thirst for learning and a passion for astronomy draw an extraordinary young woman deep into the intellectual maelstrom, political complexities and religious extremism of Renaissance Florence. This beautifully crafted novel will appeal to readers of Karen Brooks' The Good Wife of Bath and Pip Williams' Dictionary of Lost Words.1496 It is the height of the Renaissance and its flowering of intellectual and artistic endeavour, but the city state of ...

Rebecca finally finds the nerve to approach Mr. Russo...certain that with his experience, he will know what to do with a frustrated virgin. Flirtation explodes into lust, and Mr. Russo must decide if he will resist, or give in to the temptation that is...Rebecca. Their families...his wife...the neighbors...They must keep this secret from everyone...if they decide to give in...to a taste of the forbidden.Mr. Russo finds himself unable to resist Rebecca's charms. She is young, sexy, w...

The War Dentists British Army Dentists, Dead Spies, and the Secret RegistryEvery tooth tells a story. In wartime, that story could save a network or destroy one.London, September 1939. Major James Aldous Harcourt of the British Army Dental Corps is summoned to a meeting he was not told the subject of, by a colonel who hands him a grey file and a question that will define the next six years of his life: what would it take to build a dental identific...

If a line were drawn directly south from Pittsburg it would almost pass through the middle of Cuba. The Island, which is the largest of the Antillean group, lies about fifty miles distant from Santo Domingo and somewhat more than eighty miles from Jamaica. Its western end nuzzles into the opening between the peninsulas of Florida and Yucatan, Key West being ninety miles from, and the nearest point of Campeche within one hundred and thirty miles of Cape San Antonio. This situation gives to ...

The Young Collector's Handbook of Ants, Bees, Dragon-flies, Earwigs, Crickets, and Flies by W. Harcourt Bath is a comprehensive guide designed for young naturalists and budding entomologists interested in studying and collecting insects. This book provides detailed instructions on how to identify, collect, and observe a variety of insects, focusing on species like ants, bees, dragonflies, earwigs, crickets, and flies. Bath offers practical advice on the best techniques for safely collectin...

For kids who want to get into racket sports, Zane Harcourt's "Racket Sports for Kids A Step-by-Step Guide: Step-by-Step Training for Kids in Tennis, Badminton, & More" is the best book out there. The fun, step-by-step approach in this interesting & complete book is meant to teach kids the basics of tennis, badminton, & other popular racket sports. This book has everything kids need to improve their skills, feel more confident, & have fun on the court. It has clear instructions, useful dril...

In October 1943, Frederick Bailey, a wireless operator who had trained with the Royal Armoured Corps, was selected for Special Operation Executive’s wireless training centre at Fawley Court, Henley-on-Thames. It was the start of an incredible wartime career that saw Fred serve behind enemy lines in both the European and Far East theatres.With his training complete, and having adopted the fieldname Rétif, Sergeant Bailey became a member of one of the famous Jedburgh units, Team Citr...

As a young man, Harcourt "Harky" Klinefelter became involved in the US's civil rights movement of the 1960s. He was at the right place at the right time--the Selma March of 1965--to become the soundman for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This meant that Harky was there to record King's sermons and historic speeches that Harky then prepared for re-broadcasting. After King's assassination in 1968, Harky worked as minister to the street people and in 1972 he moved to Europe, where he is working to...

From random security checks at airports to the use of risk assessment in sentencing, actuarial methods are being used more than ever to determine whom law enforcement officials target and punish. And with the exception of racial profiling on our highways and streets, most people favor these methods because they believe they're a more cost-effective way to fight crime.In Against Prediction, Bernard E. Harcourt challenges this growing reliance on actuarial methods. These pred...

This new Special Limited Edition provides everything a new owner needs to know about caring for and training a Bearded Collie. Author Bryony Harcourt-Brown, a long-time Beardie breeder from England, has written an insightful chapter on the breed's origins in its homeland, and guest author Christine Walkowicz has provided an insider's view of the breed's development in the US. This colorful handbook also covers the breed's characteristics and breed standard as well as helpful information ab...

Mic check! Mic check! Lacking amplification in Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street protestors addressed one another by repeating and echoing speeches throughout the crowd. In Occupy, W. J. T. Mitchell, Bernard E. Harcourt, and Michael Taussig take the protestors' lead and perform their own resonant call-and-response, playing off of each other in three essays that engage the extraordinary Occupy movement that has swept across the world, examining everything from self-immolat...