Author: Natalie Anderson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780263308518
Category : Kings and rulers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A royal blunder... with a nine-month consequence! Unwilling to inflict his crown on anyone else, King Niko doesn't want a wife. But then he learns of a medical mix-up. A woman he's never met is carrying his child! And there's only one way to legitimise his heir... Sheltered Maia is stunned by the King's impossible revelation - she's a pregnant virgin! With no wish to swap her familial cage for a gilded one, Maia refuses his convenient proposal. But when they're alone together in paradise, Niko's electrifying touch awakens new desires... Perhaps true freedom lies in becoming his queen!
Impossible Heir for the King
Author: Natalie Anderson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780263308518
Category : Kings and rulers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A royal blunder... with a nine-month consequence! Unwilling to inflict his crown on anyone else, King Niko doesn't want a wife. But then he learns of a medical mix-up. A woman he's never met is carrying his child! And there's only one way to legitimise his heir... Sheltered Maia is stunned by the King's impossible revelation - she's a pregnant virgin! With no wish to swap her familial cage for a gilded one, Maia refuses his convenient proposal. But when they're alone together in paradise, Niko's electrifying touch awakens new desires... Perhaps true freedom lies in becoming his queen!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780263308518
Category : Kings and rulers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A royal blunder... with a nine-month consequence! Unwilling to inflict his crown on anyone else, King Niko doesn't want a wife. But then he learns of a medical mix-up. A woman he's never met is carrying his child! And there's only one way to legitimise his heir... Sheltered Maia is stunned by the King's impossible revelation - she's a pregnant virgin! With no wish to swap her familial cage for a gilded one, Maia refuses his convenient proposal. But when they're alone together in paradise, Niko's electrifying touch awakens new desires... Perhaps true freedom lies in becoming his queen!
“The” French Revolution
Author: Hippolyte Taine
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Seeing Like a State
Author: James C. Scott
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300252986
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
“One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.”—John Gray, New York Times Book Review Hailed as “a magisterial critique of top-down social planning” by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail—sometimes catastrophically—in grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment, and uncovers the conditions common to all such planning disasters. “Beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit.”—New Yorker “A tour de force.”— Charles Tilly, Columbia University
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300252986
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
“One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.”—John Gray, New York Times Book Review Hailed as “a magisterial critique of top-down social planning” by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail—sometimes catastrophically—in grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment, and uncovers the conditions common to all such planning disasters. “Beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit.”—New Yorker “A tour de force.”— Charles Tilly, Columbia University
The Dare Collection July 2019
Author: Katee Robert
Publisher: Mills & Boon
ISBN: 9780263277425
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Introduce yourself to Mills & Boon's sexiest series yet!Make Me Need by Katee RobertNeeding money Trish Livingston accepts a job from her brother. She's even willing to put up with his best friend and business partner, the notoriously grumpy, but gorgeous, Cameron O'Clery. Have these complete opposites met their match and will they realise there is a fine line between hate and lust...Between The Lines by Lauren HawkeyeWhen writer Jo Marchande bumps into her childhood love, Theo, he is no longer the boy of her dreams but a gorgeous, hard bodied man filled with raw sensuality. Theo is offering Jo the two things she wants most--a big break for her writing career and a chance to experience all the sexy, kinky things she's only ever written about!Innocent Seduction by Clare ConnellyWorking in an underground bar, Millie Davis becomes fascinated by the handsome billionaire barrister Michael Brophy and issues him with a proposition: take her virginity, in a no-strings one-night-stand! Only Michael wants more than to introduce Millie to sex - he wants to teach her what her body is capable of, one delicious night at a time!One Wicked Week by Nicola MarshIt's been six years since multi-millionaire tech genius Brock Olsen has seen Jayda York, but one glimpse of those curves and he's transported back to that steamy night they shared. Now Jayda's back with a business proposition - Brock's expertise during the day - and mind-blowing sex at night...but for one week only!
Publisher: Mills & Boon
ISBN: 9780263277425
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Introduce yourself to Mills & Boon's sexiest series yet!Make Me Need by Katee RobertNeeding money Trish Livingston accepts a job from her brother. She's even willing to put up with his best friend and business partner, the notoriously grumpy, but gorgeous, Cameron O'Clery. Have these complete opposites met their match and will they realise there is a fine line between hate and lust...Between The Lines by Lauren HawkeyeWhen writer Jo Marchande bumps into her childhood love, Theo, he is no longer the boy of her dreams but a gorgeous, hard bodied man filled with raw sensuality. Theo is offering Jo the two things she wants most--a big break for her writing career and a chance to experience all the sexy, kinky things she's only ever written about!Innocent Seduction by Clare ConnellyWorking in an underground bar, Millie Davis becomes fascinated by the handsome billionaire barrister Michael Brophy and issues him with a proposition: take her virginity, in a no-strings one-night-stand! Only Michael wants more than to introduce Millie to sex - he wants to teach her what her body is capable of, one delicious night at a time!One Wicked Week by Nicola MarshIt's been six years since multi-millionaire tech genius Brock Olsen has seen Jayda York, but one glimpse of those curves and he's transported back to that steamy night they shared. Now Jayda's back with a business proposition - Brock's expertise during the day - and mind-blowing sex at night...but for one week only!
American Slavery as it is
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antigua
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antigua
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Impossible Heir For The King / The Boss's Forbidden Assistant
Author: Natalie Anderson
Publisher: Mills & Boon
ISBN: 9780263306859
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A royal blunder leads to a royal baby! Unwilling to inflict his crown on anyone else, King Niko doesn't want a wife. But then he learns of a medical mix-up. Maia, a woman he's never met, is carrying his child! And there's only one way to legitimise his heir... Two weeks to resist temptation... Brazilian billionaire Salvador retreated to his private island after a tragic loss, vowing not to love again. When he must hire a temporary assistant he's convinced Harper won't meet his scrupulous standards. Instead, she exceeds them! If only he wasn't drawn by their untameable forbidden chemistry...
Publisher: Mills & Boon
ISBN: 9780263306859
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A royal blunder leads to a royal baby! Unwilling to inflict his crown on anyone else, King Niko doesn't want a wife. But then he learns of a medical mix-up. Maia, a woman he's never met, is carrying his child! And there's only one way to legitimise his heir... Two weeks to resist temptation... Brazilian billionaire Salvador retreated to his private island after a tragic loss, vowing not to love again. When he must hire a temporary assistant he's convinced Harper won't meet his scrupulous standards. Instead, she exceeds them! If only he wasn't drawn by their untameable forbidden chemistry...
Life of a Scotch Naturalist. Thomas Edward, Associate of the Linnean Society
Author: Samuel Smiles
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385510902
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385510902
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
White Trash
Author: Nancy Isenberg
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 110160848X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
The New York Times bestseller A New York Times Notable and Critics’ Top Book of 2016 Longlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction One of NPR's 10 Best Books Of 2016 Faced Tough Topics Head On NPR's Book Concierge Guide To 2016’s Great Reads San Francisco Chronicle's Best of 2016: 100 recommended books A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2016 Globe & Mail 100 Best of 2016 “Formidable and truth-dealing . . . necessary.” —The New York Times “This eye-opening investigation into our country’s entrenched social hierarchy is acutely relevant.” —O Magazine In her groundbreaking bestselling history of the class system in America, Nancy Isenberg upends history as we know it by taking on our comforting myths about equality and uncovering the crucial legacy of the ever-present, always embarrassing—if occasionally entertaining—poor white trash. “When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there’s always a chance that the dancing bear will win,” says Isenberg of the political climate surrounding Sarah Palin. And we recognize how right she is today. Yet the voters who boosted Trump all the way to the White House have been a permanent part of our American fabric, argues Isenberg. The wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlement to today's hillbillies. They were alternately known as “waste people,” “offals,” “rubbish,” “lazy lubbers,” and “crackers.” By the 1850s, the downtrodden included so-called “clay eaters” and “sandhillers,” known for prematurely aged children distinguished by their yellowish skin, ragged clothing, and listless minds. Surveying political rhetoric and policy, popular literature and scientific theories over four hundred years, Isenberg upends assumptions about America’s supposedly class-free society––where liberty and hard work were meant to ensure real social mobility. Poor whites were central to the rise of the Republican Party in the early nineteenth century, and the Civil War itself was fought over class issues nearly as much as it was fought over slavery. Reconstruction pitted poor white trash against newly freed slaves, which factored in the rise of eugenics–-a widely popular movement embraced by Theodore Roosevelt that targeted poor whites for sterilization. These poor were at the heart of New Deal reforms and LBJ’s Great Society; they haunt us in reality TV shows like Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and Duck Dynasty. Marginalized as a class, white trash have always been at or near the center of major political debates over the character of the American identity. We acknowledge racial injustice as an ugly stain on our nation’s history. With Isenberg’s landmark book, we will have to face the truth about the enduring, malevolent nature of class as well.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 110160848X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
The New York Times bestseller A New York Times Notable and Critics’ Top Book of 2016 Longlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction One of NPR's 10 Best Books Of 2016 Faced Tough Topics Head On NPR's Book Concierge Guide To 2016’s Great Reads San Francisco Chronicle's Best of 2016: 100 recommended books A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2016 Globe & Mail 100 Best of 2016 “Formidable and truth-dealing . . . necessary.” —The New York Times “This eye-opening investigation into our country’s entrenched social hierarchy is acutely relevant.” —O Magazine In her groundbreaking bestselling history of the class system in America, Nancy Isenberg upends history as we know it by taking on our comforting myths about equality and uncovering the crucial legacy of the ever-present, always embarrassing—if occasionally entertaining—poor white trash. “When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there’s always a chance that the dancing bear will win,” says Isenberg of the political climate surrounding Sarah Palin. And we recognize how right she is today. Yet the voters who boosted Trump all the way to the White House have been a permanent part of our American fabric, argues Isenberg. The wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlement to today's hillbillies. They were alternately known as “waste people,” “offals,” “rubbish,” “lazy lubbers,” and “crackers.” By the 1850s, the downtrodden included so-called “clay eaters” and “sandhillers,” known for prematurely aged children distinguished by their yellowish skin, ragged clothing, and listless minds. Surveying political rhetoric and policy, popular literature and scientific theories over four hundred years, Isenberg upends assumptions about America’s supposedly class-free society––where liberty and hard work were meant to ensure real social mobility. Poor whites were central to the rise of the Republican Party in the early nineteenth century, and the Civil War itself was fought over class issues nearly as much as it was fought over slavery. Reconstruction pitted poor white trash against newly freed slaves, which factored in the rise of eugenics–-a widely popular movement embraced by Theodore Roosevelt that targeted poor whites for sterilization. These poor were at the heart of New Deal reforms and LBJ’s Great Society; they haunt us in reality TV shows like Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and Duck Dynasty. Marginalized as a class, white trash have always been at or near the center of major political debates over the character of the American identity. We acknowledge racial injustice as an ugly stain on our nation’s history. With Isenberg’s landmark book, we will have to face the truth about the enduring, malevolent nature of class as well.
A History of the American People
Author: Paul Johnson
Publisher: Harper
ISBN: 9780060168360
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
Book Description
"The creation of the United States of America is the greatest of all human adventures," begins Paul Johnson's remarkable new American history. "No other national story holds such tremendous lessons, for the American people themselves and for the rest of mankind." Johnson's history is a reinterpretation of American history from the first settlements to the Clinton administration. It covers every aspect of U.S. history--politics; business and economics; art, literature and science; society and customs; complex traditions and religious beliefs. The story is told in terms of the men and women who shaped and led the nation and the ordinary people who collectively created its unique character. Wherever possible, letters, diaries, and recorded conversations are used to ensure a sense of actuality. "The book has new and often trenchant things to say about every aspect and period of America's past," says Johnson, "and I do not seek, as some historians do, to conceal my opinions." Johnson's history presents John Winthrop, Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson, Cotton Mather, Franklin, Tom Paine, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton, and Madison from a fresh perspective. It emphasizes the role of religion in American history and how early America was linked to England's history and culture and includes incisive portraits of Andrew Jackson, Chief Justice Marshall, Clay, Lincoln, and Jefferson Davis. Johnson shows how Grover Cleveland and Teddy Roosevelt ushered in the age of big business and industry and how Woodrow Wilson revolutionized the government's role. He offers new views of Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover and of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal and his role as commander in chief during World War II. An examination of the unforeseen greatness of Harry Truman and reassessments of Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Reagan, and Bush follow. "Compulsively readable," said Foreign Affairs of Johnson's unique narrative skills and sharp profiles of people. This is an in-depth portrait of a great people, from their fragile origins through their struggles for independence and nationhood, their heroic efforts and sacrifices to deal with the `organic sin' of slavery and the preservation of the Union to its explosive economic growth and emergence as a world power and its sole superpower. Johnson discusses such contemporary topics as the politics of racism, education, Vietnam, the power of the press, political correctness, the growth of litigation, and the rising influence of women. He sees Americans as a problem-solving people and the story of America as "essentially one of difficulties being overcome by intelligence and skill, by faith and strength of purpose, by courage and persistence...Looking back on its past, and forward to its future, the auguries are that it will not disappoint humanity." This challenging narrative and interpretation of American history by the author of many distinguished historical works is sometimes controversial and always provocative. Johnson's views of individuals, events, themes, and issues are original, critical, and admiring, for he is, above all, a strong believer in the history and the destiny of the American people.
Publisher: Harper
ISBN: 9780060168360
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
Book Description
"The creation of the United States of America is the greatest of all human adventures," begins Paul Johnson's remarkable new American history. "No other national story holds such tremendous lessons, for the American people themselves and for the rest of mankind." Johnson's history is a reinterpretation of American history from the first settlements to the Clinton administration. It covers every aspect of U.S. history--politics; business and economics; art, literature and science; society and customs; complex traditions and religious beliefs. The story is told in terms of the men and women who shaped and led the nation and the ordinary people who collectively created its unique character. Wherever possible, letters, diaries, and recorded conversations are used to ensure a sense of actuality. "The book has new and often trenchant things to say about every aspect and period of America's past," says Johnson, "and I do not seek, as some historians do, to conceal my opinions." Johnson's history presents John Winthrop, Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson, Cotton Mather, Franklin, Tom Paine, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton, and Madison from a fresh perspective. It emphasizes the role of religion in American history and how early America was linked to England's history and culture and includes incisive portraits of Andrew Jackson, Chief Justice Marshall, Clay, Lincoln, and Jefferson Davis. Johnson shows how Grover Cleveland and Teddy Roosevelt ushered in the age of big business and industry and how Woodrow Wilson revolutionized the government's role. He offers new views of Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover and of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal and his role as commander in chief during World War II. An examination of the unforeseen greatness of Harry Truman and reassessments of Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Reagan, and Bush follow. "Compulsively readable," said Foreign Affairs of Johnson's unique narrative skills and sharp profiles of people. This is an in-depth portrait of a great people, from their fragile origins through their struggles for independence and nationhood, their heroic efforts and sacrifices to deal with the `organic sin' of slavery and the preservation of the Union to its explosive economic growth and emergence as a world power and its sole superpower. Johnson discusses such contemporary topics as the politics of racism, education, Vietnam, the power of the press, political correctness, the growth of litigation, and the rising influence of women. He sees Americans as a problem-solving people and the story of America as "essentially one of difficulties being overcome by intelligence and skill, by faith and strength of purpose, by courage and persistence...Looking back on its past, and forward to its future, the auguries are that it will not disappoint humanity." This challenging narrative and interpretation of American history by the author of many distinguished historical works is sometimes controversial and always provocative. Johnson's views of individuals, events, themes, and issues are original, critical, and admiring, for he is, above all, a strong believer in the history and the destiny of the American people.
Changing Planes
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0575100303
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
'All le Guin's stories are metaphors for the one human story; all her fantastic planets are this one' Margaret Atwood ARMCHAIR TRAVEL FOR THE MIND: It was Sita Dulip who discovered, whilst stuck in an airport, unable to get anywhere, how to change planes - literally. With a kind of a twist and a slipping bend, easier to do than describe, she could go anywhere - be anywhere - because she was already between planes ... and on the way back from her sister's wedding, she missed her plane in Chicago and found herself in Choom. The author, armed with this knowledge and Rornan's invaluable Handy Planetary Guide - although not the Encyclopedia Planeria, as that runs to forty-four volumes - has spent many happy years exploring places as diverse as Islac and the Veksian plane. CHANGING PLANES is an intriguing, enticing mixture of GULLIVER'S TRAVELS and THE HITCH-HIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY; a cross between Douglas Adams and Alain de Botton: a mix of satire, cynicism and humour by one of the world's best writers.
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0575100303
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
'All le Guin's stories are metaphors for the one human story; all her fantastic planets are this one' Margaret Atwood ARMCHAIR TRAVEL FOR THE MIND: It was Sita Dulip who discovered, whilst stuck in an airport, unable to get anywhere, how to change planes - literally. With a kind of a twist and a slipping bend, easier to do than describe, she could go anywhere - be anywhere - because she was already between planes ... and on the way back from her sister's wedding, she missed her plane in Chicago and found herself in Choom. The author, armed with this knowledge and Rornan's invaluable Handy Planetary Guide - although not the Encyclopedia Planeria, as that runs to forty-four volumes - has spent many happy years exploring places as diverse as Islac and the Veksian plane. CHANGING PLANES is an intriguing, enticing mixture of GULLIVER'S TRAVELS and THE HITCH-HIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY; a cross between Douglas Adams and Alain de Botton: a mix of satire, cynicism and humour by one of the world's best writers.