Modern Box Set 5-8 Mar 2023/The Boss's Stolen Bride/The Prince's Forbidden Cinderella/A Convenient Ring to Claim Her/The Nights She Spen

Modern Box Set 5-8 Mar 2023/The Boss's Stolen Bride/The Prince's Forbidden Cinderella/A Convenient Ring to Claim Her/The Nights She Spen
Author: Kim Lawrence
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
Total Pages: 683
Release: 2023-03-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1867278960

Mills & Boon Modern — Escape to exotic locations where passion knows no bounds. The Boss’s Stolen Bride - Natalie Anderson Today is not only Darcie Milne’s last day working for her insufferable yet infuriatingly handsome boss, billionaire Elias Greyson...it’s also her wedding day! She must marry to take custody of her orphaned goddaughter but, arriving at the registry office, Darcie finds herself without her convenient groom. Renowned businessman Elias’s solution: he’ll wed his irreplaceable assistant — immediately! After all, taking a bride will help him secure an important contract. But then their first eye-opening kiss as man and wife suggests this marriage arrangement may not stay strictly professional... The Prince’s Forbidden Cinderella - Kim Lawrence Consumed with guilt after his wife’s death, Prince Marco fears he can’t be the parent his little girl needs. But so used to being in command, this royal is surprised to be brought to task by his daughter’s new nanny, fiery Kate Armstrong! Kate is refreshingly honest and undeniably attractive. But Marco is most intrigued by the vulnerability that sometimes slips past her barriers. And when their forbidden connection turns to intoxicating passion, Marco finds himself dangerously close to giving into what he’s always promised to never feel... A Convenient Ring to Claim Her - Dani Collins Life has taught orphan Quinn Harper to trust only herself. So, whilst her secret fling with billionaire Micah Gould was her first taste of passion, it wasn’t supposed to last forever. Although it gets harder and harder to pull herself away from his bed... The abominable actions of Micah’s father have left a permanent mark. Love isn’t in his future. Then his relationship with Quinn is suddenly exposed and, in Berlin, a new possibility presents itself. Quinn could be the convenient bride Micah needs. But can he be what she deserves? The Nights She Spent with the CEO - Joss Wood With two sisters to care for, chauffeur Lex Satchell can’t risk her job. Ignoring her ridiculous attraction to CEO Cole Thorpe is essential. Even when it’s clear that attraction is mutual. So, accompanying him on a business trip to his luxurious ski resort is pure torture! Everything changes when a snowstorm cuts them off from reality. Suddenly, their passion becomes inevitable. But Lex never imagined Cole would let her see into his hardened heart. Or that what she sees would make her dream beyond a few forbidden nights...

Distinction

Distinction
Author: Pierre Bourdieu
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 641
Release: 2013-04-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 113587316X

Examines differences in taste between modern French classes, discusses the relationship between culture and politics, and outlines the strategies of pretension.

The Periodic Table

The Periodic Table
Author: Primo Levi
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Total Pages: 279
Release: 1996-10-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0679444637

The Periodic Table is largely a memoir of the years before and after Primo Levi’s transportation from his native Italy to Auschwitz as an anti-Facist partisan and a Jew. It recounts, in clear, precise, unfailingly beautiful prose, the story of the Piedmontese Jewish community from which Levi came, of his years as a student and young chemist at the inception of the Second World War, and of his investigations into the nature of the material world. As such, it provides crucial links and backgrounds, both personal and intellectual, in the tremendous project of remembrance that is Levi’s gift to posterity. But far from being a prologue to his experience of the Holocaust, Levi’s masterpiece represents his most impassioned response to the events that engulfed him. The Periodic Table celebrates the pleasures of love and friendship and the search for meaning, and stands as a monument to those things in us that are capable of resisting and enduring in the face of tyranny.

Women in Game of Thrones

Women in Game of Thrones
Author: Valerie Estelle Frankel
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2014-04-28
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0786494166

Game of Thrones, one of the hottest series on television, leaves hundreds of critics divided on how "feminist" the show really is. Certainly the female characters, strong and weak, embody a variety of archetypes--widow queens, warrior women, damsels in distress, career women, priestesses, crones, mothers and maidens. However, the problem is that most of them play a single role without nuance--even the "strong women" have little to do besides strut about as one-note characters. This book analyzes the women and their portrayals one by one, along with their historical inspirations. Accompanying issues in television studies also appear, from the male gaze to depiction of race. How these characters are treated in the series and how they treat themselves becomes central, as many strip for the pleasure of men or are sacrificed as pawns. Some nude scenes or moments of male violence are fetishized and filmed to tantalize, while others show the women's trauma and attempt to identify with the scene's female perspective. The key is whether the characters break out of their traditional roles and become multidimensional.

How Race Is Lived in America

How Race Is Lived in America
Author: Correspondents of The New York Times
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2002-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780805070842

A collection of essays which attempt to capture the raw emotions and candid words which often surround race relations in the United States.

Clean Air

Clean Air
Author: Sarah Blake
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2022-02-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1643752227

In this postapocalyptic story of mystery, suspense, grief, and loss, a girl processes her mother’s death as a serial killer’s presence makes her already dangerous world even more deadly. The climate apocalypse has come and gone, and in the end it wasn't the temperature climbing or the waters rising. It was the trees. They created enough pollen to render the air unbreathable, and the world became overgrown. In the decades since the event known as the Turning, humanity has rebuilt, and Izabel has grown used to the airtight domes that now contain her life. She raises her young daughter, Cami, and attempts to make peace with her mother's death. She tries hard to be satisfied with this safe, prosperous new world, but instead she just feels stuck. And then the tranquility of her town is shattered. Someone—a serial killer—starts slashing through the domes at night, exposing people to the deadly pollen. At the same time, Cami begins sleep-talking, having whole conversations about the murders that she doesn't remember after she wakes. Izabel becomes fixated on the killer, on both tracking him down and understanding him. What could compel someone to take so many lives after years dedicated to sheer survival, with society finally flourishing again? Suspenseful and startling, but also poetic and written with a wry, observant humor, this “skillful blend of postapocalyptic science fiction, supernatural murder mystery, and domestic drama is unexpected and entirely engrossing” (Publishers Weekly).

Logical Reasoning

Logical Reasoning
Author: Bradley Harris Dowden
Publisher: Bradley Dowden
Total Pages: 516
Release: 1993
Genre: Critical thinking
ISBN: 9780534176884

This book is designed to engage students' interest and promote their writing abilities while teaching them to think critically and creatively. Dowden takes an activist stance on critical thinking, asking students to create and revise arguments rather than simply recognizing and criticizing them. His book emphasizes inductive reasoning and the analysis of individual claims in the beginning, leaving deductive arguments for consideration later in the course.

India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy

India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
Author: Ramachandra Guha
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Total Pages: 871
Release: 2017-07-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1509883282

Ramachandra Guha’s India after Gandhi is a magisterial account of the pains, struggles, humiliations and glories of the world’s largest and least likely democracy. A riveting chronicle of the often brutal conflicts that have rocked a giant nation, and of the extraordinary individuals and institutions who held it together, it established itself as a classic when it was first published in 2007. In the last decade, India has witnessed, among other things, two general elections; the fall of the Congress and the rise of Narendra Modi; a major anti-corruption movement; more violence against women, Dalits, and religious minorities; a wave of prosperity for some but the persistence of poverty for others; comparative peace in Nagaland but greater discontent in Kashmir than ever before. This tenth anniversary edition, updated and expanded, brings the narrative up to the present. Published to coincide with seventy years of the country’s independence, this definitive history of modern India is the work of one of the world’s finest scholars at the height of his powers.