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Her mission to the past is in shambles. Her future's in deadly peril. Can this resourceful spitfire stop the present from going sideways? Wilda Firestone suffers no fools. And the seasoned retiree refuses to be tempted by the thrill of time-traveling shenanigans and instead buckles down to train her clueless new protégé. But when a bomb reduces the time machine next door to ashes and reduces her life's work to rubble, the angry woman takes o...

Her mission to the past is in shambles. Her future's in deadly peril. Can this resourceful spitfire stop the present from going sideways? Wilda Firestone suffers no fools. And the seasoned retiree refuses to be tempted by the thrill of time-traveling shenanigans and instead buckles down to train her clueless new protégé. But when a bomb reduces the time machine next door to ashes and reduces her life's work to rubble, the angry woman takes o...

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No matter where the watch hands turn, she'd rather remain home. But with every time-traveling trekker's life at stake, can she stop a deadly clock? Wilda Firestone survives off black coffee and white-hot sarcasm. And despite the colorful slew of characters filing through her time tourism costume shop, the retired First Nations Temporal Agent would prefer a quiet, more linear existence. So she's less than impressed when a dying explorer crash...

Trajan's military campaigns allowed the Roman Empire to attain its greatest military, political and cultural achievements. The book draws on novel theories, recent evidence and meticulous research, including field visits to Italy, Spain, Germany and Romania to ensure accurate, vivid writing that transports the reader to Trajan's territory.

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Wilda retired from the Temporal Agents for an excellent reason. Retired Temporal Agent Wilda Firestone just wanted to run her Toronto shop: garb Time Tourists and send them on their merry way into the past. She's content with her cat, sarcasm, and whiskey. All of that changes when a deathly ill Time Traveller literally falls at her doorstep, setting off a chain reaction which forces her to return to the job she'd retired from decades before. T...

This book provides a unique account of how perceived justice is influenced by various aspects of an organizational merger and investigates the impact on behavior for those involved in the process. Drawing from both psychological and sociological insights, the author considers justice from an individual and group perspective in light of the political and strategic implications of mergers and acquisitions. Experiences from two empirical cases ar...

A Book Of Visual Poems is a book of insights and inspirations expressed as poetry. Ranging from the simple and spiritual to the surreal, abstract, and playfully experimental, this book aims to unveil the fruits of focus within the beauty of words (those flowering instruments of shape, space, line, color, and energy).

This book provides a unique account of how perceived justice is influenced by various aspects of an organizational merger and investigates the impact on behavior for those involved in the process. Drawing from both psychological and sociological insights, the author considers justice from an individual and group perspective in light of the political and strategic implications of mergers and acquisitions. Experiences from two empirical cases ar...

The Zuree Girls... Akua, Roxan and Wynter are good friends, drawn together by a common heartache of leaving their warm tropical homes to venture to a new and cold country with an entirely novel environment - not to mention the prestigious St Anna's school, situated on the outskirts of London, where they initially met and face the daily challenges school life offers. It is in Year 9 that they begin to encounter the experiences they never had du...

In a normal town, abnormal occurrences begin. Co-workers, friends, and loved-ones start vanishing. Lore of the 'Reoccurring Cult' spreads, and the disappearance of one man Paul Grayson, triggers a police department investigation. Veteran officers Carl and Ralph are placed on the case. Leads are hounded, and evidence is stacked, when it happens again- to someone dear to them. Motivated, they spend themselves, searching of the elusive, bewilderi...

Magnolia Hills' is a two-part book. It opens with the introduction of a student-housing apartment landlord. Bosses order her to give eviction notices to three residents. An advocacy group enters the town, to represent the students and guarantee justice. The law is cast aside, as the groups collide in the town square. Magnolia Hills is shaken, reeled, and awestruck at the outcome. In the second part, a kindhearted woman is injured in a factory ...

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This 2007 book was the first full account of the famous debate between Thomas Hobbes and John Bramhall.

From his Repository of the Arts at 101 The Strand, London, the Anglo-German engineer, printer and entrepreneur Rudolph Ackermann (1764-1834) published numerous lavishly illustrated books on literature, art, fashion and architecture. His shop, one of the first in London to be lit by gas, provided up-to-date information about the latest fashions, and became a popular haunt for sophisticated members of the upper classes. In 1814 and 1815 he p...

This is the first full account of one of the most famous quarrels of the seventeenth century, that between the philosopher Thomas Hobbes (1588–, 1679) and the Anglican archbishop of Armagh, John Bramhall (1594–, 1663). This analytical narrative interprets that quarrel within its own immediate and complicated historical circumstances, the Civil Wars (1638–, 1649) and Interregnum (1649–, 1660). The personal clash of Hobbes an...