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Barry Whittington used to be a Ranger. Now he's a lawless gun heading a gang of desperados who prey on Army supply trains. Ranger Sam Cody goes undercover with a young firebrand to track down Whittington and his gang. But when the inexperienced Ranger gets involved in holdup, and an innocent girl is taken hostage, Cody must step in to prevent a wide-open bloodbath.

When an outlaw gang led by the renegade Comanche Red Moon kidnaps the 19-year-old daughter of Lieutenant Whitcomb, Sam Cody and his fellow Rangers pursue the outlaws into the Badlands of West Texas. Another strong adventure in an exciting series of the Texas Rangers, filled with action and the color of the Old West.

A heart-pounding thrill ride through the dangerous world the modern gem trade, by the acclaimed author of Diamond.

This chapter defines the philosophical terms to be used and explains the book's reliance on the Christian Scriptures. It then sets out the book's thesis, that God intends that sin occur. The chapter marshals at some length examples of thinkers arguing against the book's thesis, and examples in favour of it. It is suggested that the predominant view in the past has been against the book's thesis, not only in Roman-Catholic thought but also in P...

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In this explosive sequel to The Russian Pink, Alex and Lily are thrust into a murderous cat-and-mouse across the Arctic diamond fields, dodging Chinese assassins while at the same time struggling with the personal betrayals that torment their passionate affair. Alex Turner and his treacherous lover, the Russian diamond thief Slav Lily, are back on the hunt. An American prospector is murdered in the great diamond field of northern Canada-a ma...

What happens when poets combine vernacular language with the spirit of modernity? Can a poem be cosmopolitanism and vernacular at the same time? Nations of Nothing But Poetry answers these questions through case studies of Scottish, English, and "Black Atlantic" poetries from the landmark modernist year of 1922 through the mid 1970s. Hart combines discussions of canonical poets, such as T.S. Eliot and W. H. Auden, with chapters on key but less...

An explosive debut featuring renowned diamond expert caught in a web of deception and malice while trying to uncover the secrets behind the most expensive diamond in the world.

Extraterritorial spaces fall outside of national borders but enhance state power. Matthew Hart reveals extraterritoriality's centrality to twenty-first-century art and fiction and presents a new theory of literature that explains what happens when dreams of an open, connected world confront the reality of mobile, elastic, and tenacious borders.

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The first comprehensive publication on Mexican-born artist Bosco Sodi, whose paintings and sculptures combine preindustrial minimalist and arte povera traditions with elements of Oaxacan and Japanese culture.Sodi has described his creative process as "controlled chaos" that makes "something completely unrepeatable and unique." In his most celebrated body of work, the artist mixes raw pigment with sawdust, wood, pulp, and natural fibers to crea...

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The King is dead, and so are his sons. All except one. Matthew, son of King Turin, nephew of the newly appointed steward Janus, comes to terms with his father's death, realizing that there might be more to the story than he previously thought. Matthew gives up his right to the throne, and sets out on a quest to find those he believed long dead, the entire time guided by a mysterious lamb. Bloodline is a story of love, friendship, and the pursu...

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Alively narrative exploration of our love affair with gold, that has and continues to shape the world.

The Last Iteration Of Dexter Maxwell is the first book in a series that takes the reader on an exciting journey to find out who Dexter Maxwell really is. The novel explores the intersection of different technologies and how they evolve subject to one another, and the intersection of science and faith. There are implicit thematic elements of sustainability and balance, and on the influence of information technology. -- Dex knows first-hand how ...

Recent major advances in model theory include connections between model theory and Diophantine and real analytic geometry, permutation groups, and finite algebras. The present book contains lectures on recent results in algebraic model theory, covering topics from the following areas: geometric model theory, the model theory of analytic structures, permutation groups in model theory, the spectra of countable theories, and the structure of fini...