By Royal Demand

By Royal Demand
Author: Robyn Donald
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2006-08-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1552545458

For Gabe Considine, Grand Duke of Illyria and a ruthless billionaire businessman, it's payback time! He believes his ex-fiancée, Sara Milton, stole a priceless family heirloom and betrayed him with another man. Now Gabe wants his pride — and his property — returned! He'll lure Sara to his remote castle — and keep her there until she gives him everything he wants, even if he has to seduce her into submission.…

The Rich Man's Royal Mistress

The Rich Man's Royal Mistress
Author: Robyn Donald
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2006-10-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1552546462

Princess Melissa Considine of Illyria is instantly captivated by billionaire Hawke Kennedy. She throws caution to the winds and lets Hawke teach her how to love…and be loved. But Melissa is virginal and innocent. How can she handle a man of the world like Hawke? And she's been brought up to put duty before love. But to leave Hawke's bed is to leave his life—what should she do?

Pope Innocent II (1130-43)

Pope Innocent II (1130-43)
Author: John Doran
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2016-06-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317078306

The pontificate of Innocent II (1130-1143) has long been recognized as a watershed in the history of the papacy, marking the transition from the age of reform to the so-called papal monarchy, when an earlier generation of idealistic reformers gave way to hard-headed pragmatists intent on securing worldly power for the Church. Whilst such a conception may be a cliché its effect has been to concentrate scholarship more on the schism of 1130 and its effects than on Innocent II himself. This volume puts Innocent at the centre, bringing together the authorities in the field to give an overarching view of his pontificate, which was very important in terms of the internationalization of the papacy, the internal development of the Roman Curia, the integrity of the papal state and the governance of the local church, as well as vital to the development of the Kingdom of Sicily and the Empire.

His Royal Request

His Royal Request
Author: Brittney Mulliner
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2019-07-21
Genre:
ISBN: 9781081727352

Charlie Avery is hoping to find direction when she arrives in Ireland, but feels more lost than ever, until she meets the mysterious Aiden who offers her the adventure of a lifetime. The only catch? She has to pretend to be his girlfriend at a family wedding. A Royal Wedding.Aiden, the second eldest prince of Lochland, is used to being recognized, so when he meets Charlie and realizes she thinks he's a normal guy he takes a chance and invites her into his world. When Charlie discovers the truth will she forgive Aiden and keep up the act or run from the feelings building in her heart?

The Social Life of Things

The Social Life of Things
Author: Arjun Appadurai
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 350
Release: 1988-01-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1107392977

The meaning that people attribute to things necessarily derives from human transactions and motivations, particularly from how those things are used and circulated. The contributors to this volume examine how things are sold and traded in a variety of social and cultural settings, both present and past. Focusing on culturally defined aspects of exchange and socially regulated processes of circulation, the essays illuminate the ways in which people find value in things and things give value to social relations. By looking at things as if they lead social lives, the authors provide a new way to understand how value is externalized and sought after. Containing contributions from American and British social anthropologists and historians, the volume bridges the disciplines of social history, cultural anthropology, and economics, and marks a major step in our understanding of the cultural basis of economic life and the sociology of culture. It will appeal to anthropologists, social historians, economists, archaeologists, and historians of art.

Catalonia in Spain

Catalonia in Spain
Author: Gabriel Tortella
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2017-08-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3319549510

This book explores the complex history of Catalonia in relation to Spain from an economic and political perspective. It begins in the Middle Ages and ends in the present day, analysing the intricate political problems of modern day Catalonia within a context of European integration and nationalism.

Clydesdale Stud Book

Clydesdale Stud Book
Author: Clydesdale Horse Society of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1148
Release: 1914
Genre: Clydesdale horse
ISBN:

A History of the Inquisition of Spain - Volume I

A History of the Inquisition of Spain - Volume I
Author: Henry Charles Lea
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2017-01-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1988297796

The beginning of this four volume set that lines out the complete history of one of the most infamous yet influential branches in Roman Catholic history. This volume starts the series off by showing us the history of the origins of the Inquisition including the reasons behind the formation of such a dangerous sect. This volume reveals that the sect did not have its difficulties getting started and ends off by outlining how the group had to deal with state lines and who had say in what.

Creativity on Demand

Creativity on Demand
Author: Eitan Y. Wilf
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2019-02-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 022660702X

Business consultants everywhere preach the benefits of innovation—and promise to help businesses reap them. A trendy industry, this type of consulting generates courses, workshops, books, and conferences that all claim to hold the secrets of success. But what promises does the notion of innovation entail? What is it about the ideology and practice of business innovation that has made these firms so successful at selling their services to everyone from small start-ups to Fortune 500 companies? And most important, what does business innovation actually mean for work and our economy today? In Creativity on Demand, cultural anthropologist Eitan Wilf seeks to answer these questions by returning to the fundamental and pervasive expectation of continual innovation. Wilf focuses a keen eye on how our obsession with ceaseless innovation stems from the long-standing value of acceleration in capitalist society. Based on ethnographic work with innovation consultants in the United States, he reveals, among other surprises, how routine the culture of innovation actually is. Procedures and strategies are repeated in a formulaic way, and imagination is harnessed as a new professional ethos, not always to generate genuinely new thinking, but to produce predictable signs of continual change. A masterful look at the contradictions of our capitalist age, Creativity on Demand is a model for the anthropological study of our cultures of work.