Darius Santiago is the King's most trusted man, a master spy and assassin. He is handsome, charming, and ruthless, but he has one weakness--the stunning Princess Serafina. She is all he has ever wanted and everything he cannot have. Serafina has worshipped Darius from afar her whole life, knowing that deep in the reaches of her soul--where she is not royalty but a flesh-and-blood woman--she belongs to this dangerous, untouchable man. Unable to...
Caesar Augustus's story, one of the most riveting in western history, is filled with drama and contradiction, risky gambles and unexpected success. He began as a teenage warlord, whose only claim to power was as the heir of the murdered Julius Caesar. Mark Antony dubbed him a boy who owes everything to a name, but in the years to come the youth outmaneuvered all the older and more experienced politicians and was the last man standing in 30 BC....
A response of the engineering profession to the challenges of security, poverty and underdevelopment, environmental sustainability, and native cultures is described. Ethical codes, which govern the behavior of engineers, are examined from a historical perspective linking the prevailing codes to models of the natural world. A new ethical code based on a recently introduced model of Nature as an integral community is provided and discussed. Appl...
To date, the most common form of simulators of computer systems are software-based running on standard computers. One promising approach to improve simulation performance is to apply hardware, specifically reconfigurable hardware in the form of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). This manuscript describes various approaches of using FPGAs to accelerate software-implemented simulation of computer systems and selected simulators that incorpo...
Andi Bowe was chosen 5 years in a row (2000-2004) as one of only 33 poets out of millions chosen every year by poetry.com for The Sound of Poetry, a 3 CD set, and has numerous poems published in Best Poems and Poets of 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and the Best Poets and Poems of 2012, an exclusive and impressive collection of poets. Library of Congress ISBN: 978-1-60880-132-9.
This anthology is a compilation of 4 Alphabet poetry books. She is the ...
Can one truly escape from dark pleasures so overwhelming, intensely satisfying, yet deeply destroying, death becomes a long-wished-for relief? Moving beyond a moment in time riddled with lost hopes and broken dreams is never easy. Gripped in the hazy, clingy, and strong claws of addiction, Kevin Grose wallows in the dirty yet high-profit business of selling illegal drugs. He excels in it. He willingly sells his soul for it. Understand his jour...
Alex Miller: The Ruin of Time is the first sole-authored critical survey of the respected Australian novelist's eleven novels. While these books are immediately accessible to the general reading public, they are manifestly works of high literary seriousness - substantial, technically masterful and assured, intricately interconnected, and of great imaginative, intellectual and ethical weight.Among his many prizes and awards, Alex Miller has twi...
Incredible! You'll be on the edge of your seat to see if the heroine can make it out alive.-Catherine Coulter, New York Times bestselling authorWhen adrenaline runs high, so does the force of desire...>IRRESISTIBLE FORCE by D.D. AyresOfficer James Cannon is one tall, strong alpha male who's convinced that Shay stole his dog. But once he gets closer to the suspect, he realizes that this stubborn, independent woman not only needs a guard dog, sh...
While the Second Boer War and its concentration camps resulted in intense reactions, some criticised war-related issues have been misrepresented. Then-contemporary British individuals and the British media distorted them to mitigate British responsibility and in addition to this, a group of historians discredited Afrikaner sources due to their political relevance. It seems that the 20th century did not conclude the debate over the true nature ...
Der kalvinistisch-puritanische Glaube entwickelte einen spezifischen Blick auf die Natur, der sich nicht nur in der Landschaftsmalerei, sondern auch in der Landschaftsfotografie wiederfindet. Wie zeigt sich jedoch dieser , reformierte Blick auf die Natur' in den Fotografien von Carleton Watkins? Das Buch vergleicht die religiös intendierte Malerei und die , moderne' naturwissenschaftliche Fotografie Watkins' des Yosemite Tals in den Sechzigern...
This book examines the expression of the future in a range of diverse languages and from a variety of theoretical perspectives. It reveals the value of linking linguistic considerations of tense and aspect to philosophical approaches to modality and time and will be a valuable resource for all those working on time, tense, and temporal reference.
Legislatures are arguably the most important political institution in modern democracies. The Oxford Handbook of Legislative Studies, written by some of the most distinguished legislative scholars in political science, provides a comprehensive and up-to-date description and critical assessment of the state of the art in this key area.