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A city of turmoil. A string of disappearances. The deciding move of a perilous game.It's springtime in Monfort, and unrest is stirring everywhere. Shops are closing, trust in the Crown is faltering, and support for Pon Lanali's anti-magic rhetoric is growing by the day. But for Kaedrich Mannly, it's all background noise: between classes at the academy of arms, work, independent studies, and a new batch of friends, there's little time for such ...

No one ever said coming back to life would be easy.Clair Maxwell didn't ask to be resurrected, or to inherit the mind, body, and superpowers of her parallel self, but she's done her best to live with it. Even if it means carrying around memories that aren't hers, even if it means living on a world not quite her own, even if it means learning how to be a reluctant superhero. She has her childhood sweetheart-turned-wife back, and a second chance...

Some people are born to greatness, others have greatness thrust upon them... and some are just drawn like that. As the creator of a popular new comics franchise, Jane Maxwell knows a thing or two about heroes, but has no illusions of being one herself. All of that is shattered, however, when she finds herself swept into a parallel world-one where her characters are real, and her parallel self is their leader. There's just one problem: that Jan...

A woman banned from using magic. An errand boy with a secret past. A journey to the heart of death itself.For Praxis Fellows, greatness has always been a given. But life doesn't always go according to plan, and now she finds herself half a world away from where she started. Banned from using magic, employed by the son of a railroad baron to realize a dead man's dreams, Praxis's life has become a sort of living death.Kaedrich Mannly has never d...

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The book analyses how international law addresses interactions between international organizations. In labour governance, these interactions are ubiquitous. They offer each organization an opportunity to promote its model of labour governance, yet simultaneously expose it to adverse influence from others. The book captures this ambivalence and examines the capacity of international law to mitigate it. Based on detailed case studies of mutual i...

This thesis presents an in-depth exploration of imperfections that can be found in self-catalysed III-V semiconductor nanowires. By utilising advanced electron microscopy techniques, the interface sharpness and defects at the atomic and macroscopic scale are analysed. It is found that a surprising variety and quantity of defect structures can exist in nanowire systems, and that they can in fact host some never-before-seen defect configurations...

Examines the diverse oeuvre of internationally recognised French-Algerian director Rachid Bouchareb.

Tis a place where no mortals shall roam, " she said cryptically. Declan felt chills and just a wee bit frightened."No mortals shall roam, yet you went, " he said."I am not mortal."Aileen knew from the moment she was born that she was different. She had a power that she didn't understand, yet somehow the foreign boy Declan knew more about her power than she did. Fighting to ignore her power, Aileen distracts herself with decorated soldier Cohli...

While shelves are filled with accounts of industry titans, politicians, and exalted military leaders, this is a tale of an estranged young man making his way in a hard, cold, and often cruel world. Escaping a dull future with little meaning, he follows the example of his childhood hero and comes west into the Kansas Territory to seek his fortune. He first joins a freighting company down the Santa Fe Trail and then returns to the turbulent "Ble...

Tis a place where no mortals shall roam, " she said cryptically. Declan felt chills and just a wee bit frightened."No mortals shall roam, yet you went, " he said."I am not mortal."Aileen knew from the moment she was born that she was different. She had a power that she didn't understand, yet somehow the foreign boy Declan knew more about her power than she did. Fighting to ignore her power, Aileen distracts herself with decorated soldier Cohli...

A visual cultural history of contemporary borders and border outlooks through a film and television tour of Europe. Screen borders explores what screen representations of European borders, with France as a starting point, reveals about popular and institutional outlooks on European borders. -- .

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Es war wie das Lesen eines Buches, welches mir mehr, als nur bekannt vorkam. Denn ich war die Feder, dieser langlebigen Seiten. Nur zu meinem Bedauern waren abschließende Worte, dem Reichtum an Mangel verfallen und hielten sich weiter am fernen Ort, den es zu erreichen, so schien es, mir ein unmögliches war. Wo befand sich stattdessen, mein geschriebenes Leben? War es die Mitte? Dann lebe die Hoffnung wieder auf. Stand ich vielleicht schon vor...

A magisterial history of the foundation of the British Empire, and the forgotten story of native resistance.

The book analyses how international law addresses interactions between international organizations. In labour governance, these interactions are ubiquitous. They offer each organization an opportunity to promote its model of labour governance, yet simultaneously expose it to adverse influence from others. The book captures this ambivalence and examines the capacity of international law to mitigate it. Based on detailed case studies of mutual i...