Do you love stories with sexy, romantic heroes who have it all—wealth, status, and incredibly good looks? Harlequin® Desire brings you all this and more with these three new full-length titles for one great price! BANE (The Westmorelands) Brenda Jackson Rancher and military hero Bane Westmoreland is on a mission to reconnect with the one who got away—his estranged wife. And when the beautiful chemist's discovery puts her in danger, Bane vows to protect her at all costs… THE RANCHER'S SECRET SON (Lone Star Legends) Sara Orwig For wealthy rancher Nick Milan, hearing the woman he loved and lost tell him he's a daddy is the shock of a lifetime. The revelation could derail his political career…or put the real prize back within tantalizing reach… TAKNG THE BOSS TO BED Joss Wood After producer Ryan Jackson kisses a stranger to save her from his client's unwanted attentions, he realizes she's actually his newest employee! Faking a relationship is now essential for business, but soon real passion becomes the bottom line… Look for Harlequin® Desire's December 2015 Box set 2 of 2, filled with even more scandalous stories and powerful heroes!
Do you love stories with sexy, romantic heroes who have it all—wealth, status, and incredibly good looks? Harlequin® Desire brings you all this and more with these three new full-length titles in one collection! HIS ACCIDENTAL HEIR Billionaires and Babies by Joanne Rock When billionaire boss Cameron McNeill goes undercover in a tropical paradise to check out his newest hotel's employees, he doesn't expect the fire that ignites within him to claim beautiful concierge Maresa Delphine and her surprise baby as his own… REUNITED…AND PREGNANT The Ballantyne Billionaires by Joss Wood All that stands between a pregnant Cady Collins and bankruptcy is the biggest contract of her career. But it will mean working long hours with the sexy billionaire who got away…and soon they're tempted to turn business into pleasure! HOLLYWOOD BABY AFFAIR The Serenghetti Brothers by Anna DePalo To end scandal and gossip, sexy movie producer Rick Serenghetti agrees to pose as his leading lady's lover. But the passion that burns between them is irresistible…and now this for-the-cameras love affair has real consequences—an unexpected pregnancy surprise! Look for Harlequin® Desire's June 2017 Box Set 2 of 2, filled with even more scandalous stories and powerful heroes!
Do you love stories with sexy, romantic heroes who have it all—wealth, status, and incredibly good looks? Harlequin® Desire brings you all this and more with these three new full-length titles in one collection! #2599 SECRET TWINS FOR THE TEXAN Texas Cattleman’s Club: The Impostor by Karen Booth Dani left town after the rancher broke her heart, but now she’s back…with twin boys who look just like him! Given his secrets, he knows better than to fall in love, but their chemistry can’t be denied. Will the truth destroy everything? #2603 FRIENDSHIP ON FIRE Love in Boston by Joss Wood Jules wrote off her former best friend when he left years ago. Now he’s back…and demanding she pretend to be his fiancée to protect his business! She agrees to help, but that’s only because she wants to take it from fake to forever… #2604 ON TEMPORARY TERMS Highland Heroes by Janice Maynard Lawyer Abby Hartman is falling hard for wealthy Scotsman Duncan Stewart, but when she learns his present is tied to a secret from her past, can she prove her innocence and convince him what they share is real? Look for Harlequin® Desire’s July 2018 Box set 1 of 2, filled with even more scandalous stories and powerful heroes! Join HarlequinMyRewards.com to earn FREE books and more. Earn points for all your Harlequin purchases from wherever you shop.
Willow arrives in London looking to join forces with Angel and Faith and gain access to Angel's son, Connor. With Connor's help, Willow hopes to travel to the fearsome hell dimension, Quor'toth, and restore magic to earth! On the dark side of the moon, Spike embraces some peace, quiet and distance from the Slayer. But when a pack of demons and a succubus rip him from his melancholic reverie, he embarks on an unexpected adventure that reveals some hard truths.
Translation technology is essential for translation students, practising translators, and those working as part of the language services industry, but looming above others are the tools for automating translation: machine translation and, more recently, generative AI based on large language models (LLMs). This book, authored by leading experts, demystifies machine translation, explaining its origins, its training data, how neural machine translation and LLMs work, how to measure their quality, how translators interact with contemporary systems for automating translation, and how readers can build their own machine translation or LLM. In later chapters, the scope of the book expands to look more broadly at translation automation in audiovisual translation and localisation. Importantly, the book also examines the sociotechnical context, focusing on ethics and sustainability. Enhanced with activities, further reading and resource links, including online support material on the Routledge Translation studies portal, this is an essential textbook for students of translation studies, trainee and practising translators, and users of MT and multilingual LLMs.
Longlisted for the 2022 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel An embittered dog walker obsessed with a social media influencer inadvertently puts a curse on a young man—and must adventure into mysterious dimension in order to save him—in this wildly inventive, delightfully subversive, genre-nonconforming debut novel about illusion, magic, technology, kinship, and the emergent future. The year is 20__, and Penfield R. Henderson is in a rut. When he's not walking dogs for cash or responding to booty calls from his B-list celebrity hookup, he's holed up in his dingy Bushwick apartment obsessing over holograms of Aiden Chase, a fellow trans man and influencer documenting his much smoother transition into picture-perfect masculinity on the Gram. After an IRL encounter with Aiden leaves Pen feeling especially resentful, Pen enlists his roommates, the Witch and the Stoner-Hacker, to put their respective talents to use in hexing Aiden. Together, they gain access to Aiden's social media account and post a picture of Pen's aloe plant, Alice, tied to a curse: Whosoever beholds the aloe will be pushed into the Shadowlands. When the hex accidentally bypasses Aiden, sending another young trans man named Blithe to the Shadowlands (the dreaded emotional landscape through which every trans person must journey to achieve true self-actualization), the Rhiz (the quasi-benevolent big brother agency overseeing all trans matters) orders Pen and Aiden to team up and retrieve him. The two trace Blithe to a dilapidated motel in California and bring him back to New York, where they try to coax Blithe to stop speaking only in code and awkwardly try to pass on what little trans wisdom they possess. As the trio makes its way in a world that includes pitless avocados and subway cars that change color based on occupants' collective moods but still casts judgment on anyone not perfectly straight, Pen starts to learn that sometimes a family isn't just the people who birthed you. Magnificently imagined, linguistically dazzling, and riotously fun, Future Feeling presents an alternate future in which advanced technology still can't replace human connection but may give the trans community new ways to care for its own.
Do you love stories with sexy, romantic heroes who have it all—wealth, status, and incredibly good looks? Harlequin® Desire brings you all this and more with these three new full-length titles in one collection! #2461 FOR BABY'S SAKE by Janice Maynard Billionaires and Babies Lila Baxter is all business. That's why she and easygoing James Kavanagh broke off their relationship. But when she unexpectedly inherits a baby, she'll have to face him again…and he might win it all this time. #2463 PREGNANT BY THE MAVERICK MILLIONAIRE by Joss Wood From Mavericks to Married When former hockey player turned team CEO finds out his fling with a determinedly single matchmaker has led to unexpected consequences, he insists he'll be part of her life from now on…for the baby's sake, of course! #2465 THE CEO DADDY NEXT DOOR by Karen Booth CEO and single father Marcus Chambers will only date women who would be suitable mothers for his young daughter, but when his free-spirited neighbor temporarily moves in after a fire destroys her apartment, he finds himself falling for the worst possible candidate! Look for Harlequin® Desire's August 2016 Box set 2 of 2, filled with even more scandalous stories and powerful heroes!
... Offers a framework for developing a Key Stage 3 Drama curriculum which ensures key skills and concepts are taught in a coherent and structured way" -- Back cover.
This volume contains the updated and expanded lecture notes of the 37th Saas-Fee Advanced Course organised by the Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy. It offers the most comprehensive and up to date review of one of the hottest research topics in astrophysics - how our Milky Way galaxy formed. Joss Bland-Hawthorn & Ken Freeman lectured on Near Field Cosmology - The Origin of the Galaxy and the Local Group. Francesca Matteucci’s chapter is on Chemical evolution of the Milky Way and its Satellites. As designed by the SSAA, books in this series – and this one too – are targeted at graduate and PhD students and young researchers in astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology. Lecturers and researchers entering the field will also benefit from the book.
To trainee translators and established professionals alike, the range of tools and technologies now available, and the speed with which they change, can seem bewildering. This state-of-the-art, copiously illustrated textbook offers a straightforward and practical guide to translation tools and technologies. Demystifying the workings of computer-assisted translation (CAT) and machine translation (MT) technologies, Translation Tools and Technologies offers clear step-by-step guidance on how to choose suitable tools (free or commercial) for the task in hand and quickly get up to speed with them, using examples from a wide range of languages. Translator trainers will also find it invaluable when constructing or updating their courses. This unique book covers many topics in addition to text translation. These include the history of the technologies, project management, terminology research and corpora, audiovisual translation, website, software and games localisation, and quality assurance. Professional workflows are at the heart of the narrative, and due consideration is also given to the legal and ethical questions arising from the reuse of translation data. With targeted suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter to guide users in deepening their knowledge, this is the essential textbook for all courses in translation and technology within translation studies and translator training. Additional resources are available on the Routledge Translation Studies Portal.
A gripping tale of psychological suspense perfect for the readership of Minette Walters and Ruth Rendell, Half Broken Things is a novel that peers into the lives of three dangerously lost people…and the ominous haven they find when they find each other. Jean is a house sitter at the end of a dreary career. Steph is nine months pregnant and on the run. And Michael is a thief. Through a mixture of deceit, good luck, and misfortune, these three damaged loners have come together at a secluded country home called Walden Manor. Now all three have found what they needed most: a new beginning, a little kindness, a little love. Living off the manor’s riches, tending its grounds and gardens, they leave the outside world far behind and build a happiness so long denied them. That is, until the first unexpected visitor arrives...igniting a chain reaction that is at once spellbinding and disastrous. A stunning, thought-provoking crime novel of chilling moral complexity, Half Broken Things is a gripping, haunting exploration of love and our need for it, of the damage done when we go long without it, and the deeds we might be driven to in its name.
Be careful what you wish for! It's time for Lu Sheppard to get back in the game--fact. After ten years of playing mom to her younger brothers the boys have left home and she's determined to make up for lost time! Item number one on her list? A man to have some fun with! Rugby coach Will Scott is just what Lu needs to ease herself back into the dating game. Only in town temporarily, king of the fling...he's perfect. But his kisses are so electric that remembering they have an expiry date is getting harder. Suddenly Lu starts wondering...maybe it is possible to have too much of a good thing!
Now the entire four-part West Palm series is available in one ebook! This fast-paced psychological thriller captures the quirkiness of South Florida—where trash meets class. In West Palm Beach on Christmas Eve, a local funeral home director catches a night guard performing a bizarre personal ritual with the corpses. But even after a narrow escape, the psychopathic guard will stop at nothing to find new victims for his compulsive calling. Soon a retired police detective turned private eye named Smoker teams up with a near victim, the beautiful but tough ex–coast guard female ship captain, and together they try to stop the killer in his tracks. With taut pacing and humor, and in the vein of Elmore Leonard and Carl Hiaasen, author Joss Cordero creates a relentlessly addictive story that will leave you breathless.
Hearts and Minds Without Fear: Unmasking the Sacred in Teacher Preparation is the first book of its kind that focuses on the critical urgency of integrating creativity, mindfulness, and compassion in which social and ecological justice are forefronted in teacher preparation. This is especially significant at a time of cultural turmoil, educational reform, and inequities in public education. The book serves as a vehicle to unmask fear within current educational ethical deficiencies and revitalize hope for community members, teacher educators, pre-service, in-service teachers, and families in school communities. The recipients of these strategies are explicitly presented in order to build understanding of a compassionate paradigm shift in schools that envisions possibility and social imagination on behalf of our children in schools and our communities. The authors unabashedly place the arts and aesthetics at the core of the educational paradigm solution. The book lives its own message. Within each seed chapter, the authors practice authentically what they preach, offering a refreshing perspective to bring our schools back to life and instill hope in children’s and educators’ hearts and minds.
The cult-favorite television series from creator Joss Whedon continues in comics with Season 10, where Buffy and the Scoobies are rewriting the rules of magic and monsters . . . This oversized Library Edition collects the materials from Buffy Season 10 Volume 1 and Volume 2 softcovers, along with all the comic book covers, and an expanded sketchbook section. While slaying the zompires that have overrun a small California town, Buffy and her pals are shocked to discover another new kind of vampire: harder to kill, able to transform, and walk in the light of day--like Dracula . . . If that weren't enough, the rules of magic are literally being rewritten in the Vampyr book. The crew attempts to restore the status quo, all while Xander is the victim of a haunting, his relationship with Dawn begins to crumble, and Dracula himself enters the picture. Then when the Vampyr book goes missing--now a highly coveted item--Buffy and the Scoobies head for what might be a disaster in Sunnydale where Andrew is up to his good/bad/old tricks again. As everyone feels the responsibility of protecting the book and writing the new magical rules, they are tempted by what new rules can do for them . . . just like the Big Bads who have come knocking on Buffy's door! Writers Christos Gage (Angel & Faith) and Buffy star Nicholas Brendon team with artist Rebekah Isaacs (Angel & Faith) to take on the Slayer and her teammates in her tenth season; they're joined by guest artists Richard Corben (Hellboy), Karl Moline (Fray), and Cliff Richards (Dollhouse).
Interest in the sustainable city is growing around the world and with it come important questions about governing sustainable urban development. Why are there blockages to achieving the goal of a sustainable city? How is it possible to overcome the practical difficulties that initiatives often face? And how can an increasingly technocratic focus be rebalanced with more of a public perspective? In this wide-ranging text, Simon Joss examines mainstream policy and practice and looks at the approaches that can overcome some of their drawbacks. The author examines the core elements of sustainable planning, and how processes of innovation, governance and policy-making work together to achieve sustainable urban change. He assesses the various challenges faced at both the domestic and international level, and across a range of urban scales. These challenges include how to resolve environmentally problematic ways of city-living at the same time as providing for urban social and economic development, and how to adapt the idea and reality of the sustainable city to different geopolitical contexts. The author recognizes that there is no 'one-size-fits-all' solution and examines the range of methods available. In an era where entirely new eco-cities are being built and established ones being retro-fitted in response to environmental pressures, this text looks at the varying successes of the urban sustainability movement and its relationship to the planners, policy-makers and citizens who are inseparable from it. Providing an accessible account of the latest developments in research and policy as well as examples from around the world, this is indispensable reading for students, researchers and practitioners alike.
CWA Silver Dagger Award winner Morag Joss peers into the soul of a wounded family in this haunting, harrowing masterpiece of psychological suspense. With equal parts subtlety and menace, Joss takes us on a dizzying journey toward a collision between fantasy and reality—and an astounding moment of revelation that shatters illusions, hopes, and lives forever. The year is 1960. The place is a Scottish seaside town utterly devoid of culture and charm. Here, Lila lives as the third player in her parents’ dramatically embittered marriage. Until her flamboyant, irrepressible uncle George shows up from London and her family decides to squander a windfall on the most preposterous of causes: a civic production of the Puccini opera Turandot. Lila knows nothing of opera and little of her uncle or the dashing young man he hires to sing the role of Calaf. But Lila does know passion. Because it’s coursing through her veins—and rushing blindly, wildly all around her. Now a girl on the verge of womanhood is about to blunder into a grown-up world where secrets are kept and exposed, hopes soar and wither, and where crimes petty and great exact the most chilling punishments of all. Masterfully paced and spellbinding till its final, haunting scene, Puccini’s Ghosts is a piercing look into the fierce darkness that lurks behind seemingly ordinary lives.
Tough times haven't ended for Mal Reynolds and his crew aboard the Serenity. When a call for help to find a missing friend takes them to an Alliance post on the Outer Rim, they encounter a new force building strength to fight the battle of the Browncoats--soon leading the crewmembers to question their individual values . . . Discovering that their friend is in Alliance custody and that an Alliance Operative is on the way, Mal concentrates his energy on the problem at hand and strikes an uneasy partnership for a daring rescue. But this is only the beginning of the story. Success will be when the Serenity's crew makes it off this planet alive and all accounted for . . . Georges Jeanty (Buffy Season 8, Season 9, Serenity) returns to the 'verse! iZombie creator Chris Roberson writes the continuing adventures of Mal and the crew. Follows the film Serenity, and the comics series Serenity: Leaves on the Wind. Executive Producer Joss Whedon! Collects: Serenity No Power in the 'Verse #1-6, and Free Comic Book Day 2016 "Serenity: The Warrior and the Wind
Addie Joss (1880-1911) mowed down batters for the Cleveland Broncos/Naps from 1902 to 1910 before his career was cut short by his tragic death from tubercular meningitis in 1911. With a career ERA of 1.89 and two no-hitters, Joss earned Hall of Fame election despite a career that lasted less than ten years, the only player to do so. In the off-season, Joss also excelled as a sportswriter for the Toledo News-Bee and the Cleveland Press, filling the empty winter months penning stories about the game he knew firsthand. This collection of Joss's newspaper columns and World Series reports is a treasury of the deadball era with intimate first-person observations of the game and its players from the first decade of the American League. Informative annotations, archival photographs, and a brief biography complete the work.
Created by the multi-talented Joss Whedon and beloved the world over, your favorite characters and moments from the Buffy television series are all represented in this engrossing adult colouring book. Containing 45 intricately-detailed original illustrations, you can add your own colours to Buffy and the good guys as well as all the big bad guys!
Do you love stories with sexy, romantic heroes who have it all—wealth, status, and incredibly good looks? Harlequin® Desire brings you all this and more with these three new full-length titles in one collection! #2593 BILLIONAIRE’S BARGAIN Billionaires and Babies by Maureen Child When billionaire Adam Quinn becomes a baby’s guardian overnight, he needs help. And his former sister-in-law is the perfect woman to provide it. She’s kind, loving and she knows kids. The only complication is the intense attraction he’s always tried to deny… #2594 THE NANNY PROPOSAL Texas Cattleman’s Club: The Impostor by Joss Wood Kasey has been Aaron’s virtual assistant for eight months—all business and none of the pleasure they once shared. But the salary he offers her to move in and play temporary nanny to his niece is too good to pass up—as long as she can resist temptation…. #2596 ONE UNFORGETTABLE WEEKEND Millionaires of Manhattan by Andrea Laurence When an accident renders heiress Violet an amnesiac, she forgets about her hookup with Aidan…and almost marries the wrong man! But when the bar owner unexpectedly walks back into her life, she remembers everything—including that he’s the father of her child! Look for Harlequin® Desire’s June 2018 Box set 2 of 2, filled with even more scandalous stories and powerful heroes! Join HarlequinMyRewards.com to earn FREE books and more. Earn points for all your Harlequin purchases from wherever you shop.
Do you love stories with sexy, romantic heroes who have it all—wealth, status, and incredibly good looks? Harlequin® Desire brings you all this and more with these three new full-length titles in one collection! #2630 THE RIVAL’S HEIR Billionaires and Babies by Joss Wood World-renowned architect Judah Huntley thought his ex’s legacy would be permanent trust issues, not a baby! But when rival architect Darby Brogan steps in to help—for the price of career advice—playing house becomes hotter than they imagined… #2633 BLAME IT ON CHRISTMAS Southern Secrets by Janice Maynard When Mazie Tarleton was sixteen, J.B. Vaughan broke her heart. Now she has him right where she wants him. But when they’re accidentally locked in together, the spark reignites. Will she execute the perfect payback, or will he make a second chance work? #2634 NASHVILLE REBEL Sons of Country by Sheri WhiteFeather Sophie Cardinale wants a baby. Best friend and country superstar Tommy Talbot offers to, well, help her out. But what was supposed to be an emotions-free, fun fling suddenly has a lot more strings attached than either of them expected! Look for Harlequin® Desire’s December 2018 Box Set 1 of 2, filled with even more scandalous stories and powerful heroes! Join HarlequinMyRewards.com to earn FREE books and more. Earn points for all your Harlequin purchases from wherever you shop.
How to take the pulse of customer emotions weekly without breaking the bank? What would make customers shift their spending to the competition? How to spot new consumer trends and pivot fast? How to build your own AI-powered data routine to improve competitiveness? The Customer Affinity Manifesto by Joss Gillet looks into pressing issues that businesses have to adapt to since the pandemic. People have high expectations and their reactions to an unpleasant user experience are immediate, loud, and unequivocal. While the future is uncertain, evidence shows that keeping a blind eye on the damage companies could suffer from poor customer affinity would be fatal. This book is filled with the nectar extracted from three million customer comments posted on social media over a five-year data project. The learnings are fascinating as we explore the events that drove customers mad, including the impact of Covid-19, US presidential elections, Brexit, scams, racism or homophobia on customer sentiment. Gillet seeks to understand how emotions influence purchase decisions in a digitized and polarized world. He invites you to step into the shoes of your customers and learn a new method that could help nurture deeper relationships with your customers.
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