Chance Ransom

Chance Ransom
Author: Kevin Stein
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2000
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780252068621

Winner of Poetry's Frederick Bock Prize and the Indiana Review Poetry Prize, Kevin Stein casts a wide net over the "ineffable befuddlement" of everyday life. His poems render history's chance larder of the consecrated and profane from which we ransom our fate. Often improvisational and always lyrical, Stein's poems move effortlessly through the art of Beckmann and Degas, the music of Bob Marley and garage bands, and the pathos of cancer patients, factory workers, and victims of bigotry. Insightful and refreshingly unaffected, Chance Ransom explores the shifting shore between self and other with clarity and compassion.

Ransom

Ransom
Author: David Malouf
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2010-01-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307378934

In his first novel in more than a decade, award-winning author David Malouf reimagines the pivotal narrative of Homer’s Iliad—one of the most famous passages in all of literature. This is the story of the relationship between two grieving men at war: fierce Achilles, who has lost his beloved Patroclus in the siege of Troy; and woeful Priam, whose son Hector killed Patroclus and was in turn savaged by Achilles. A moving tale of suffering, sorrow, and redemption, Ransom is incandescent in its delicate and powerful lyricism and its unstated imperative that we imagine our lives in the glow of fellow feeling.

Against All Odds

Against All Odds
Author: Danielle Steel
Publisher: Dell
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2018-01-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101883936

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The wise, moving novel from Danielle Steel, whose many bestselling tales have made her one of America’s favorite authors Taking chances is part of life, but when you bet your future against the odds, it’s a high-risk game. Kate Madison’s stylish resale shop has been a big SoHo success, supporting her and her four kids since her husband’s untimely death. Now her children are grown and ready to forge lives of their own. And they all choose to play against the odds, to their mother’s dismay. Isabelle, a dedicated attorney, is in line to make partner at her Wall Street firm when she falls for a client she represents in a criminal case. She tells herself she can make a life with him—but can she? Julie, a young designer, meets a man who seems too good to be true and falls under his spell. She marries him quickly, gives up her job, and moves to Los Angeles to be at his side—but is all what it seems? Justin is a struggling writer who pushes for children with his partner before they’re financially or emotionally ready. Will the strain on the relationship take too high a toll? And Willie, the youngest, a tech expert, makes a choice that shocks them all, with a woman twelve years older. Kate—loving, supportive, and outspoken—can’t keep her children from playing against the odds. Can the odds be beaten? Not often—as her children have to learn for themselves. For Kate, the hardest lesson will be that she can’t protect the children she loves from the choices they make—but can only love them as they make them.

Probability, Random Variables & Random Proc

Probability, Random Variables & Random Proc
Author: P. Kandasamy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre:
ISBN: 9788121922470

This Book entitled Probability,Random Variables and Random Processes is mainly designed to meet the requirements of the new syllabus of Anna University for Electronics and Communication Engineering Course of Fourth Semester.However,this will suit the syllabi of other Universities also.As our other books on Engineering Mathematics have been well received and appreciated by the students and the faculty not only throughout Tamilnadu but also in other parts of the country,for the last two decades,we were inspired to bring out this book.

Broken Shifters collection

Broken Shifters collection
Author: Julie K. Cohen
Publisher: Julie K. Cohen
Total Pages: 2239
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

When their women are threatened, these shifters will do anything to save them Ransom’s Revenge (enemies to lovers, forced proximity romance) When Ransom escapes an anti-shifter research lab, he refuses to leave Elise behind even though she’s collaborating with the enemy. Shifters don’t abandon shifters, but she won’t leave. The quiet, unassuming Elise stirs Ransom in a way he can no longer deny, but she’s a traitor. Or is she? Damien’s Dilemma (forbidden romance) Damien needs to blood-bond a shifter to keep from going feral. He would blood-bond Tess in a second, except his enemies have destroyed her ability to shift. And they’re not done with her... Blade’s Battle (abduction, second chance, redemption, found family) Blade falls for the woman responsible for the deadly Shifter Virus. Hundreds have died because of her. Except she may not be guilty. Will he surrender or mate her? Callen’s Captive (forbidden romance & secret identity) Callen’s an enforcer who’s determined to protect Kate, a human, from the anti-shifters trying to kill her. He can’t protect his pack and Kate both. Will he choose his pack or the woman he’s falling for? Hayden’s Haven (outcast, found family, tortured soul) Traitor. Outcast. Predator. That’s what they call him from the shadows. And they’re right. He’s all of those… and much more. Hayden will do anything to protect Mila, even challenge his former alpha, the brother who cast him out years ago. Frank’s Felon: (grumpty sunshine, redemption, avoid commitment) Delilah’s tainted, targeted, far from tamed. And Frank wants her, badly. She’s his future, though she won’t admit it. He won’t let her enemies take her, even if it means starting a war with the humans. Mason’s Mission (forbidden love, rejected mate, secrets) Takara’s the enemy, born on the wrong side of the border. Despite how her pack abuses her, she refuses to defect to Mason’s pack because doing so will mean war between their packs and risk something greater than her and Mason’s love for one another. ◆◆◆ This complete collection includes a prequel novella and six full-length novels. Prepare for danger, steamy sex, a lot of emotion, and several twists in these romance books. You'll encounter enemies to lovers, forbidden romance, secret identities, rescues, and courageous heroes and heroines throughout. Each romance ends in a Happy Ever After! Grab a blanket and a tissue, snuggle up and click to start reading.

True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee

True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee
Author: Abraham Riesman
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2021-02-16
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0593135725

The definitive, revelatory biography of Marvel Comics icon Stan Lee, a writer and entrepreneur who reshaped global pop culture—at a steep personal cost HUGO AWARD FINALIST • “A biography that reads like a thriller or a whodunit . . . scrupulously honest, deeply damning, and sometimes even heartbreaking.”—Neil Gaiman Stan Lee was one of the most famous and beloved entertainers to emerge from the twentieth century. He served as head editor of Marvel Comics for three decades and, in that time, became known as the creator of more pieces of internationally recognizable intellectual property than nearly anyone: Spider-Man, the Avengers, the X-Men, Black Panther, the Incredible Hulk . . . the list goes on. His carnival-barker marketing prowess helped save the comic-book industry and superhero fiction. His cameos in Marvel movies have charmed billions. When he died in 2018, grief poured in from around the world, further cementing his legacy. But what if Stan Lee wasn’t who he said he was? To craft the definitive biography of Lee, Abraham Riesman conducted more than 150 interviews and investigated thousands of pages of private documents, turning up never-before-published revelations about Lee’s life and work. True Believer tackles tough questions: Did Lee actually create the characters he gained fame for creating? Was he complicit in millions of dollars’ worth of fraud in his post-Marvel life? Which members of the cavalcade of grifters who surrounded him were most responsible for the misery of his final days? And, above all, what drove this man to achieve so much yet always boast of more?

Aristotle's Concept of Chance

Aristotle's Concept of Chance
Author: John Dudley
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 487
Release: 2012-02-23
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1438432283

This landmark book is the first to provide a comprehensive account of Aristotle's concept of chance. Chance is invoked by many to explain order in the universe, the origins of life, even human freedom and happiness. An understanding of Aristotle's concept of chance is indispensable for an appreciation of his views on nature and ethics, views which have had a tremendous influence on the development of Western philosophy. Author John Dudley analyzes Aristotle's account of chance in the Physics, the Metaphysics, in his biological and ethical treatises, and in a number of his other works as well. Important complementary considerations such as Aristotle's criticism of Presocratic philosophers, particularly Empedocles and Democritus, Plato's concept of chance, the chronology of Aristotle's works, and the relevance of Aristotle's work to evolution and quantum theory are also covered in depth. This is an essential book for scholars and students of Western philosophy.

Broken Shifters Collection (volume 1)

Broken Shifters Collection (volume 1)
Author: Julie K. Cohen
Publisher: Julie K. Cohen
Total Pages: 1353
Release: 2022-10-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

When their women are threatened, these shifters will do anything to save them Ransom's Revenge (enemies to lovers, found family, secret identity) After weeks of walking by Ransom’s cage, Elise frees him but refuses to escape. He’s determined to take her with him. Something has to give… and it won’t be Ransom. Damien’s Dilemma (forbidden romance, shifter disability) Damien needs to blood-bond a shifter to keep from going feral. He would blood-bond Tess in a second, except his enemies have destroyed her ability to shift. And they’re not done with her... Blade’s Battle (abduction, second chance, redemption, found family) Blade falls for the woman responsible for the deadly Shifter Virus. Hundreds have died because of her. Except she may not be guilty. Will he surrender or mate her? Callen’s Captive (forbidden romance & secret identity) Callen’s an enforcer who’s determined to protect Kate, a human, from the anti-shifters trying to kill her. He can’t protect his pack and Kate both. Will he choose his pack or the woman he’s falling for? ◆◆◆ This collection includes a prequel novella and three full-length novels that include danger, steamy sex, a lot of emotion, and several twists. Each ends in a Happy Ever After! Grab a blanket, a tissue, snuggle up and click to start reading.