In a quiet university town, amid the crumbling ruins of a mansion, ten aspiring writers devise a most unusual experiment. . .an experiment that goes chillingly, horrifyingly wrong. . . It begins when two of the wannabe authors challenge each other to the ultimate test of inspiration. They're Eve and Angela. They're both devastatingly beautiful. . .and devastatingly competitive. Now, a violent storm has plunged the house into darkness. The doors are locked. The phones are dead. And one writer's imagination is about to run wild. . .
Kyril. Marko. Semyon. Brothers like no other, sharing an ancient blood bond and descent from Russian wolves. Sworn to lead the Pack of St. James and defend the English crown, their seductive charm is legendary among the women of London. But no one knows of the supernatural powers that raise them far above the ranks of mortal men. In WANTON, the second book of her compelling trilogy, Noelle Mack presents Marko's story. . . A Dangerous Pleasure In the year 1816, the Pack of St. James meets in secret in their London lair. An unknown assailant has begun to prey upon the women who consort with the men of the Pack--two have already died in mysterious ways and a poisoned communication threatens still more. With Kyril Taruskin and his love Vivienne away in the far north, attending to the clan's business in the Russian port of Archangel, his brother Marko begins to investigate--and finds the trail leads to a scandalous beauty known only as Severin. One of the victims was Severin's half-sister, but that alone is not enough to explain her intimate knowledge of the strange case. Well aware how a clever woman can hide more than she reveals, Marko employs all his powers of sensual persuasion, barely able to resist the allure of her amber eyes and softly seductive voice. He has never been outwitted by a woman. But Severin is different from all the rest--very different--and loving her is a dangerous game indeed. . . Praise for Noelle Mack and her novels. . . "A sexy romp on the wild side. A true page-turner." --Romantic Times on Nights In Black Satin a Top Pick! 4 1⁄2-star review "Hot sex. . .sizzling and innovative." --Romantic Times on Juicy, a Top Pick! 4 1⁄2-star review "A truly sensual story that will titillate and captivate." --Romantic Times, four-star review of Three
Fabio Boldly romantic, sinfully seductive, he's the dream lover of your most thrilling fantasies. With his sun-burnished hair and hypnotic blue eyes, he is whatever you want him to be--devil-may-care scoundrel or tender hero. Now he sweeps you away to the blazing sands of a tropical paradise, where emotions run high and desire is sensual, hot, and. . . Wild Working as a maid on the luxurious estate of a Miami businessman had its advantages--especially when A.J. Sutton met Marco Estevez With his bronzed good looks and explosive sexuality, Marco tempted A.J. as no other man ever had . . .enticing her into his arms and a passionate affair that knew no bounds. But that was before a shocking murder forced A.J. to change her name, her looks, and flee for her life. Only one other person knew what she had witnessed--the man whose seductive touch she couldn't resist. Now her dangerous desire for Marco would plunge her into a world of peril and sizzling passion, where she'd be torn between doubt and hope. . .between fear and a love that could keep her safe--if she dared to trust her heart. . .
Quicklets: Learn More. Read Less. Andrew Ross Sorkin is an award-winning journalist and New York Times best-selling author. He has been a regular contributor to The New York Times since he was a student at Cornell University. He is also a co-anchor of CNBC's Squawk Box, a business news program and founder of DealBook, a news service that reports on daily deal-making on Wall Street. Sorkin is a recipient of the Gerald Loeb award for business journalism in Too Big to Fail and a Society of American Business Editors and Writers award for breaking news. Sorkin wrote Too Big to Fail to provide a detailed, moment-by-moment account of the 2008 financial crisis. He used interviews with over two hundred individuals involved in the financial meltdown to piece together a blow-by-blow narrative of events. Too Big to Fail recounts the story of the unbelievable events of the 2008 financial crisis, Lehman Brothers' historic collapse, the Bank of America-Merrill Lynch merger, the nationalization of AIG, and Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs' transformations into highly regulated banks. Beyond the story of failed financial empires, Too Big to Fail is a human drama, telling stories of the greed, hubris and perseverance of some of the biggest players on Wall Street and in the U.S. Government. Too Big to Fail won a Gerald Loeb award and remained on The New York Times Best Seller List list for six months. Reuters dubbed it “The Book of the Crisis. Too Big to Fail received glowing reviews in top publications such as the Bloomberg News Review, The Economist, and The Financial Times. Sorkin continues to be seen as a top authority on all things Wall Street. BOOK EXCERPT FROM THE ANDREW ROSS SORKIN QUICKLET: TOO BIG TO FAIL The chapter opens with Tim Geithner, President of the New York Federal Reserve, arriving in Washington, DC. Only a few weeks earlier, Geithner had co-facilitated the $29 billion government backstop that helped persuade Jamie Dimon to take over Bear Stearns. His decision to back Bear Stearns was unpopular with many in the private and public sectors. Geithner also struggled with being unpopular on Wall Street, as he was regarded as young and inexperienced. Unlike his predecessors, he wasn't a former Wall Street banker or an investor, but a career technocrat. Despite Geithner's "greenness", he was one of the few who was skeptical of Wall Street's credit boom before it collapsed. Geithner and Robert Steel, Undersecretary for Domestic Finance for the Treasury, attend a meeting with the Senate Banking Committee. Steel dodges questions regarding the government's role in the Bear Stearns fire sale deal. Members of the Senate express their discontent with the government-assisted takeover and question whether this might set a dangerous precedent for other companies on Wall Street. Steel and Geithner defend their actions and explain that the deal was done for the good of the country and the global financial system, not for private gain. The details of the Bear Stearns deal are revealed in this chapter. Weeks earlier, Dimon received a call from Alan Schwartz, the CEO of Bear Stearns, asking for help – he needed $30 billion to survive. Unable to produce the amount on short notice, Dimon called Geithner, who was able to grant JP Morgan a loan over the weekend. Geithner pressured Dimon to take over Bear Stearns in order to stabilize the financial market. ...to be continued! Quicklets: Learn More. Read Less.
In a quiet university town, amid the crumbling ruins of a mansion, ten aspiring writers devise a most unusual experiment. . .an experiment that goes chillingly, horrifyingly wrong. . . It begins when two of the wannabe authors challenge each other to the ultimate test of inspiration. They're Eve and Angela. They're both devastatingly beautiful. . .and devastatingly competitive. Now, a violent storm has plunged the house into darkness. The doors are locked. The phones are dead. And one writer's imagination is about to run wild. . .
Fabio Boldly romantic, sinfully seductive, he's the dream lover of your most thrilling fantasies. With his sun-burnished hair and hypnotic blue eyes, he is whatever you want him to be--devil-may-care scoundrel or tender hero. Now he sweeps you away to the blazing sands of a tropical paradise, where emotions run high and desire is sensual, hot, and. . . Wild Working as a maid on the luxurious estate of a Miami businessman had its advantages--especially when A.J. Sutton met Marco Estevez With his bronzed good looks and explosive sexuality, Marco tempted A.J. as no other man ever had . . .enticing her into his arms and a passionate affair that knew no bounds. But that was before a shocking murder forced A.J. to change her name, her looks, and flee for her life. Only one other person knew what she had witnessed--the man whose seductive touch she couldn't resist. Now her dangerous desire for Marco would plunge her into a world of peril and sizzling passion, where she'd be torn between doubt and hope. . .between fear and a love that could keep her safe--if she dared to trust her heart. . .
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 7th ERCIM Workshop on User Interfaces for All, held in Paris, France, in October 2002. The 40 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected during two rounds of refereeing and revision. The papers are organized in topical sections on user interfaces for all: accessibility issues, user interfaces for all: design and assessment, towards an information society for all, novel interaction paradigms: new modalities and dialogue style, novel interaction paradigms: accessibility issues, and mobile computing: design and evaluation.
James Weldon Johnson’s Modern Soundscapes provides an evocative and meticulously researched study of one of the best known and yet least understood authors of the New Negro Renaissance era. Johnson, familiar to many as an early civil rights leader active in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and an intentionally controversial writer on the subject of the significance of race in America, was one of the most prolific, wide-ranging, and yet elusive authors of twentieth-century African American literature. Johnson realized early in his writing career that he could draw attention to the struggles of African Americans by using unconventional literary methods such as the incorporation of sound into his texts. In this groundbreaking work, literary critic Noelle Morrissette examines how his literary representation of the extremes of sonic experience—functioning as either cultural violence or creative force—draws attention to the mutual contingencies and the interdependence of American and African American cultures. Moreover, Morrissette argues, Johnson represented these “American sounds” as a source of multiplicity and diversity, often developing a framework for the interracial transfer of sound. The lyricist and civil rights leader used sound as a formal aesthetic practice in and between his works, presenting it as an unbounded cultural practice that is as much an interracial as it is a racially distinct cultural history. Drawing on archival materials such as early manuscript notes and drafts of Johnson’s unpublished and published work, Morrissette explores the author’s complex aesthetic of sound, based on black expressive culture and cosmopolitan interracial experiences. This aesthetic evolved over the course of his writing life, beginning with his early Broadway musical comedy smash hits and the composition of Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912), and developing through his “real” autobiography, Along This Way (1933). The result is an innovative new interpretation of the works of one of the early twentieth century’s most important and controversial writers and civil rights leaders.
Historical literatures recovers a rich, vibrant and complex tradition of Restoration and early eighteenth century English historical writing. Highlighting the wide variety of historical works being printed and read in England between the years 1660 and 1740, it demonstrates that many of the genres that we now view primarily as literary – verse satire and panegyric, memoir, scandal and chronicle – were also being used to represent historical phenomena. In surveying some of this period’s 'historical literatures', it argues that many satirists, secret historians and memoirists made their choice of historical subject matter a topic of explicit commentary, presenting themselves as historians or inscribing their works in an English historical tradition. By responding to other varieties of history in this self-conscious way, writers like Andrew Marvell, John Dryden, Delarivier Manley, Daniel Defoe and John Evelyn were able to pioneer influential new techniques for representing their nation’s past.
This work reconsiders and critically evaluates the complex international legal framework which seeks to regulate wars of national liberation in the light of two fascinating case studies. It tests the effectiveness of both the jus ad bellum and jus in bello aspects of the current legal framework by applying it to self-determination wars waged in the South Moluccas and Aceh by armed groups against Indonesia. The book highlights the various difficulties inherent in the current legal framework as well as the ad hoc and unpredictable practice of States in relation to its application. The work concludes with recommendations on how the current framework should be updated and enhanced so that it can adequately deal with modern self-determination conflicts.
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Kyril. Marko. Semyon. Brothers like no other, sharing an ancient blood bond and descent from Russian wolves. Sworn to lead the Pack of St. James and defend the English crown, their seductive charm is legendary among the women of London. But no one knows of the supernatural powers that raise them far above the ranks of mortal men. In WANTON, the second book of her compelling trilogy, Noelle Mack presents Marko's story. . . A Dangerous Pleasure In the year 1816, the Pack of St. James meets in secret in their London lair. An unknown assailant has begun to prey upon the women who consort with the men of the Pack--two have already died in mysterious ways and a poisoned communication threatens still more. With Kyril Taruskin and his love Vivienne away in the far north, attending to the clan's business in the Russian port of Archangel, his brother Marko begins to investigate--and finds the trail leads to a scandalous beauty known only as Severin. One of the victims was Severin's half-sister, but that alone is not enough to explain her intimate knowledge of the strange case. Well aware how a clever woman can hide more than she reveals, Marko employs all his powers of sensual persuasion, barely able to resist the allure of her amber eyes and softly seductive voice. He has never been outwitted by a woman. But Severin is different from all the rest--very different--and loving her is a dangerous game indeed. . . Praise for Noelle Mack and her novels. . . "A sexy romp on the wild side. A true page-turner." --Romantic Times on Nights In Black Satin a Top Pick! 4 1⁄2-star review "Hot sex. . .sizzling and innovative." --Romantic Times on Juicy, a Top Pick! 4 1⁄2-star review "A truly sensual story that will titillate and captivate." --Romantic Times, four-star review of Three
In seeking answers from the woman who dumped him, Thomas finds his answers—and desires fulfilled—with another. Thomas Spaulding is an ambitious, career-oriented banker who views his personal life through the lens of how it will help him achieve his professional goals. He believes he's on track to get engaged, get married and start a family but is startled when his fiancée, a childhood friend, abruptly dumps him. Thomas goes to the nightclub where she works as a waitress, ready to do whatever he can to get things back on track for the sake of his career. However, things go awry when he gets drunk and another waitress, Karin, is forced to drive him home. Although Karin is attracted to Thomas's good looks and hot body, she's frustrated by his obnoxious attitude, especially since it causes her to miss out on a night of lucrative tips she dearly needs. Because of such a rocky start, the last thing either one of them expects is to wind up in bed together...over and over again. But sometimes, desire leads you to places you least expect...
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