BEIM ZWEITEN MAL WIRD ALLES HEISSER Flirrend heiß sind Anas Nächte in Afrika – was nicht nur am tropischen Klima liegt. Sondern vor allem an einem attraktiven Mann ... ihrem Ehemann Sebastian! Nach einem Jahr Trennung taucht er unerwartet in ihrem Safariurlaub auf. Was will er hier – etwa sie? SCHENK MIR EINEN TRAUM „Gabe Hollingsworth wird immer ein Playboy bleiben!“ Was als Warnung gemeint ist, kommt Cheerleaderin Roxie gerade recht. Denn sie will keine feste Beziehung! Doch kaum hat sie eine Liebesnacht mit Gabe verbracht, spürt sie plötzlich eine ungeahnte Sehnsucht. Aber wenn sie von mehr träumt, ist sie verloren, oder? IM FALSCHEN BETT MIT MR RIGHT Erschöpft kommt James Wolfe von einer gefährlichen Mission nach Hause – und findet eine Blondine in seinem Bett. Ein Callgirl? Nein! Caitlin ist eine Bekannte seines Bruders. Und die süßeste Versuchung, seit es Frauen gibt. Doch die Dämonen der Vergangenheit verbieten ihm das Glück mit ihr ...
A biography of one of the Gilded Age’s most fascinating and mysterious society women that “reads as well as any page-turning novel” (Library Journal). At twenty-eight, Clover Adams, a fiercely intelligent Boston Brahmin, married the soon-to-be-eminent American historian Henry Adams. She thrived in her role as an intimate of power brokers in Gilded Age Washington, where she was admired for her wit and taste by such luminaries as Henry James, H. H. Richardson, and General William Tecumseh Sherman. Clover so clearly possessed, as one friend wrote, “all she wanted, all this world could give.” Yet at the center of her story is a haunting mystery. Why did Clover, having begun in the spring of 1883 to capture her world vividly through photography, end her life less than three years later by drinking a chemical developer she used in the darkroom? The key to the mystery lies, as Natalie Dykstra’s searching account makes clear, in Clover’s photographs themselves. The aftermath of Clover’s death is equally compelling. Dykstra probes Clover’s enduring reputation as a woman betrayed, and, most movingly, she untangles the complex, poignant—and universal—truths of her shining and impossible marriage.
The growth of the internet has been spectacular. There are now more than 3 billion internet users across the globe, some 40 per cent of the world’s population. The internet’s meteoric rise is a phenomenon of enormous significance for the economic, political and social life of contemporary societies. However, much popular and academic writing about the internet continues to take a celebratory view, assuming that the internet’s potential will be realised in essentially positive and transformative ways. This was especially true in the euphoric moment of the mid-1990s, when many commentators wrote about the internet with awe and wonderment. While this moment may be over, its underlying technocentrism – the belief that technology determines outcomes – lingers on and, with it, a failure to understand the internet in its social, economic and political contexts. Misunderstanding the Internet is a short introduction, encompassing the history, sociology, politics and economics of the internet and its impact on society. This expanded and updated second edition is a polemical, sociologically and historically informed guide to the key claims that have been made about the online world. It aims to challenge both popular myths and existing academic orthodoxies that surround the internet.
The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea is one of the most important constitutive instruments in international law. Not only does this treaty regulate the uses of the world's largest resource, but it also contains a mandatory dispute settlement system - an unusual phenomenon in international law. While some scholars have lauded this development as a significant achievement, others have been highly sceptical of its comprehensiveness and effectiveness. This book explores whether a compulsory dispute settlement mechanism is necessary for the regulation of the oceans under the Convention. The requisite role of dispute settlement in the Convention is determined through an assessment of its relationship to the substantive provisions. Klein firstly describes the dispute settlement procedure in the Convention. She then takes each of the issue areas subject to limitations or exceptions to compulsory procedures entailing binding decisions, and analyses the interrelationship between the substantive and procedural rules.
In American Fashion is the first scholarly analysis of the Fashion Calendar, the unique scheduling service and trade publication for the American fashion and creative industries between 1941 and 2014. Published by Ruth Finley for almost seven decades, the Calendar had an extensive impact on the development of the American fashion industry in the 20th century. Unlike European fashion capitals, the American fashion industry relied on an independent small publisher to manage the schedule of an ever-growing industry. In American Fashion shows how this independent position influenced the democratic approach reflected in the industry in the United States. Finley's unique contribution to the development of the time-system and culture of American fashion made her a key player during the ascendency of American fashion design. Natalie Nudell unveils the Fashion Calendar as a historical archive, and also looks at its development into an open-source digital humanities project (to be released in November 2023). Through historical analysis and the upcoming digitization of the Ruth Finley Collection, this study unpacks the history and impact of the publication and the women behind it.
Forced to become a child soldier, a sixteen-year-old Somali refugee must confront his painful past in this haunting, thrilling tale of loss and redemption by the bestselling author of City of Saints & Thieves. Now in paperback. When Abdi's family is kidnapped, he's forced to do the unthinkable: become a child soldier in the ruthless jihadi group Al Shabaab. To save the lives of those he loves and earn their freedom, Abdi agrees to be embedded as a spy within the jihadi group's ranks, sending dispatches on their plans to the Americans. But it's a dangerous role and if Abdi's duplicity is discovered, he will be killed. For weeks, Abdi trains with the jihadi group, witnessing atrocity after atrocity. But after being forced into a suicide bomber's vest, Abdi finally escapes to Sangui City, Kenya. Homeless and shell-shocked, Abdi is picked up for a petty theft, setting into motion a chain reaction that forces him to reckon with a past he's desperate to forget. In this riveting, unflinching tale of sacrifice and hope, critically-acclaimed author Natalie C. Anderson delivers another tour-de-force that will leave readers at the edge of their seats.
This robust, dynamic, and international field has grown to include interdisciplinary research, continually improving methodology, and globalization of training. Reflecting the diverse nature of the science from experts who have shaped it, Forensic Anthropology: A Comprehensive Introduction Second Edition builds off of the success of the first edition and incorporates standard practices in addition to cutting-edge approaches in a user-friendly format, making it an ideal introductory-level text.
Bought: One Night, One Marriage Natalie Anderson When Cally wins the services of sexy tycoon Blake McKay, she's mortified! Aware of her non–model looks, she steers clear of good–looking men – and this guy is way off the handsome scale. Blake can see there's a fiery, passionate woman beneath Cally's perfectly poised exterior, so he buys another date with her. This time, though, he's going to be calling the shots, and he will give her a night she'll never forget! But neither of them has bargained on what might happen next...
The book explores Oakeshott's thought on the key role human imagination plays in relation to the political. It addresses four main themes: imagination, foundational narratives, the question of political societies' identities as well as that of human living-together, to use Hannah Arendt's expression. The book's main objective is to show that Oakeshott may be rightfully understood to be a philosopher of the imagination as well as a foundationalist thinker in the Arendtian narrative constructivist tradition.
TO: All staff – Is this the hottest kiss you've ever seen? Finally our playboy boss plays around at work! Watch this steamy clip of Alex Carlisle getting down and dirty in the lift with the brand-new temp... Heart-throb Alex has recently been spotted prowling the office floor – is brunette bombshell Dani Russo the reason? From this sizzling encounter, we think so! Now Dani's lost her job, and the office grapevine says our bad-boy boss has moved her into his bachelor pad and found her a job – but is an X-rated action replay on the cards?! Watch this space... Hot Under the Collar Naughty nights with the boss...
Nadia Keenan's first date Do's and Don'ts: 1. Do boost your confidence by looking hot 2. Don't put out until at least date two 3. If the man is trouble (however sexy!) do After being trashed on Nadia's website, serial dater-and-dumper Ethan Rush is about to put Nadia's rules to the test. He's determined to change her mind about him. She'sdetermined to prove him for the cad he is. Let the battle of the dates begin.…
With this ring I thee bed! Ana couldn't believe her luck when irresistibly sexy Sebastian Rentoul proposed. Seb made Ana feel less like a gangly, awkward beanpole and more like a stunning, desirable supermodel. Until she realised that being Mrs Rentoul didn't mean she had her husband's love Now Ana's issued divorce papers and is getting on with her life. But Seb, fascinated more than ever by his reluctant bride, decides to make sure she fully understands how much pleasure she'll be missing out on
This book is about culture and comparison. Starting with the history of the discipline of comparative literature and its forgotten relation to the positivist comparative method, it inquires into the idea of comparison in a postcolonial world. Comparison was Eurocentric by exclusion when it applied only to European literature, and Eurocentric by discrimination when it adapted evolutionary models to place European literature at the forefront of human development. This book argues that inclusiveness is not a sufficient response to postcolonial and multiculturalist challenges because it leaves the basis of equivalence unquestioned. The point is not simply to bring more objects under comparison, but rather to examine the process of comparison. The book offers a new approach to the either/or of relativism and universalism, in which comparison is either impossible or assimilatory, by focusing instead on various forms of “incommensurability”—comparisons in which there is a ground for comparison but no basis for equivalence. Each chapter develops a particular form of such cultural comparison from readings of important novelists (Joseph Conrad, Simone Schwartz-Bart), poets (Aimé Césaire, Derek Walcott), and theorists (Edouard Glissant, Jean-Luc Nancy).
Essay from the year 2022 in the subject Law - Civil / Private, Trade, Anti Trust Law, Business Law, grade: 11 Punkte, University of Münster (Rechtswissenschaften), course: International Competition Law, language: English, abstract: In an increasingly globalized world, the challenges facing competition law and its enforcement are more prominent than ever. With domestic markets opening to foreign trade and multinational corporations operating globally, there is a pressing need for international harmonization of competition law and the establishment of a global competition authority. This essay begins by highlighting the essential elements for effective international harmonization: substantive provisions and enforcement measures. It argues that for the global economy to thrive, competition law must evolve internationally, requiring harmonization across diverse legal frameworks. Exploring the proliferation of over 130 diverging systems of competition law worldwide, the essay reveals the bureaucratic hurdles and significant costs and fines imposed, hindering the entry of small firms and start-ups into the global market. This unequal economic landscape favors large corporations, stifling competition and growth, particularly in developing countries. The essay delves into the challenges posed by global monopolies, demonstrating how national competition laws often fail to address "borderless markets." Using examples such as differing legal thresholds for market dominance, it underscores the inadequacy of national regimes in regulating global corporate behavior effectively. Highlighting the legal complexities surrounding monopolistic practices, such as those permitted under one jurisdiction but prohibited under another, the essay emphasizes the need for policymakers to adapt to the realities of a borderless economy.
When high–flying Daniel Graydon hires Lucy Delaney as a temporary bar manager, he doesn't expect much from her. Lucy is his complete opposite: carefree and fun–loving. He can't figure out why on earth he's so attracted to her! The only thing Lucy and Daniel have in common is their reluctance to have a committed relationship. When one steamy night together is not enough, Lucy is offered a short–term contract in Daniel's bed...only to find she's falling for him, the one man she can't have...
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