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Bianca will risk everything to be with Lucas.After escaping from Evernight, the vampire boarding school where they met, Bianca and Lucas seek refuge with Black Cross, an elite group of vampire hunters. Bianca must hide her supernatural heritage or risk certain death at its hands. But when Black Cross captures her friend—the vampire Balthazar—all her secrets threaten to come out.Soon, Bianca and Lucas are on the run, pursued not only by Black C...

Most writing on Mount Athos has focused on its Byzantine history and sacred heritage. This uncovers a set of alternative and largely unexplored perspectives, equally important in the mapping and dissemination of Athos in popular imagination. Each chapter considers a different narrative channel through which Athos has entered Orthodox and western European imagination: the mythical, the utopian, the sacred, the scholarly, the geopolitical, and t...

The book is most appropriate for an integrated design history course, typically titled History of Architecture, Interior Design, Furnishings, and Decorative Arts. Architecture and Interior Design: An Integrated History to the Present provides a survey of architecture, interiors, furniture, and decorative arts from the past to the present. It is a completely integrated and interdisciplinary reference for: architecture, architectural details, ar...

Orientierung wird häufig verstanden als das Aufzeigen einer Richtung. Noch heute wird empfohlen, seine Berufswahl möglichst nach den geläufigen Prognosen auszurichten. Ulrike Dorothee Hansens Ratgeber hingegen nimmt sich der Suchenden an, ohne das Umfeld aus dem Blick zu verlieren. In einer frischen, unverstellten Sprache werden Jugendliche durch diesen Leitfaden ermutigt, ihrer Intuition zu vertrauen, einem Bild von sich zu folgen, das jeder ...

Memory is a universal function of organized matter. What is the mathematics of memory? How does memory affect the space-time behaviour of spatially extended systems? Does memory increase complexity? This book provides answers to these questions.It focuses on the study of spatially extended systems, i.e., cellular automata and other related discrete complex systems. Thus, arrays of locally connected finite state machines, or cells, update their...

One of the most important stories in Latin American studies today is the emergence of left-leaning social movements sweeping across Latin America includes the mobilization of militant indigenous politics. Formed in 1995 in Ecuador to advance the interests of a variety of people's organizations and to serve as an alternative to the country's traditional political parties, Pachakutik Plurinational Unity Movement (Pachakutik) is an indigenist-bas...

A lively craft book which shows how to make toys, jewellery, dolls and lots more from fleece and yarn. A range of projects for children of all ages.

From the investment experts at Weiss Research, the ultimate guide to preparing for and profiting during a disaster of any kind Life is unpredictable. Economic and natural disasters can happen anytime and anywhere. The Ultimate Suburban Survivalist Guide: The Smartest Money Moves to Prepare for Any Crisis describes the simple things people can do today to prepare for anything and everything that life might throw at them tomorrow. It also offer...

The New York Times bestselling author of Heart-Shaped Box returns with a relentless supernatural thriller that runs like Hell on wheels . . .Merrin Williams is dead, slaughtered under inexplicable circumstances, leaving her beloved boyfriend Ignatius Perrish as the only suspect. On the first anniversary of Merrin's murder, Ig spends the night drunk and doing awful things. When he wakes the next morning he has a thunderous hangover . . . and ho...

Grant Madsen's got issues. He's still battling his Mafia family and doing everything possible to keep his loved ones safe. With the cruising season coming to an end, he has to find another job soon or he'll rejoin his father in prison. And he's trying to convince his rebellious teenage nephew to stay away from their criminal relatives (you can imagine how that's going). But worst of all, Grant's parole officer has mandated that he attend thera...

The war between The Black Hornet and The Green Hornet reaches its shattering climax in this second volume of Kevin Smith's daring reimagining of the classic character. As The Green Hornet and Kato pursue his father's killer, The Black Hornet reveals a plan that could spell doom for the world itself. Played out on the streets of Century City, a deadly struggle between Hornets threatens to destroy not only our heroes, but the legacy they hoped t...

As mob families go, the Philadelphia Mafia is the most dysfunctional familyof all—with brother turning against brother, sons turning on their fathers.In 1993, an embittered legacy of rivalry and hatred exploded into a brutal, bloody battle between old world mobster and the young, flamboyant JoeyMerlino. However, this would be warfare different from any other. This time, theFBI had it all down on tape. Among the mobsters caught on tape:John Sta...

Zum WerkMit der Dienstleistungsrichtlinie (RL 2006/123/EG) werden die Regelungen der Dienstleistungsfreiheit im Art. 56 ff. des Vertrags über die Arbeitsweise der Europäischen Union (AEUV) konkretisiert. Die Vorgaben des Europäischen Primärrechts spielen insbesondere bei der schwierigen Umsetzung in den einzelnen Mitgliedstaaten eine besondere Rolle. Das Werk behandelt demgemäß sowohl die Regelungen des AEUV, als auch die Richtlinie und natürl...

No matter what kind of team you're in or what role you play, Brilliant Teams gives you the core ingredients to make you and your team a truly brilliant one. You'll find out exactly what it takes to excel as a team player and leader, as well as common team 'traps' to avoid. Brilliant outcomes¿ Find out what it takes to be a brilliant team player and leader¿ Learn how to get the best out of your environment¿ Understand different teams and what m...

On a blustery night, detectives from the Massachusetts State Police knocked on Amy Gleason's door. Gleason, along with fellow nurse Kim Hoy, had helped a patient deal with pain and suffering at the end of her life. Now the patient was dead, and the two nurses were being investigated for murder. Both believed they had done the right thing, but they had no idea what it would cost them.In this captivating and powerful true story, Dr. Lewis M. Coh...

Catherine de Valois, daughter of the French king Charles VI, is born into troubled times. Though she is brought up in a royal court, it is a stormy and unstable environment. Before she is out of her teens, Catherine is married off to England's Henry V as part of a treaty honoring his victory over France. She is terrified at the idea of being married to a man who is a foreigner, an enemy, and a rough soldier, and is forced to leave her home for...

On February 13, 2003, a plane carrying three American military contractors crash-landed in the jungle-covered mountains of Colombia. Within minutes, FARC guerrillas swarmed the wreckage and killed the American pilot and a Colombian crew member, then marched the survivors—Marc Gonsalves, Keith Stansell, and Thomas Howes—at gunpoint into the rain forest. The Colombian government sent 147 soldiers to rescue the Americans. The troops spent weeks s...

This collection of review articles is devoted to new developments in the study of chaotic dynamical systems with some open problems and challenges. The papers, written by many of the leading experts in the field, cover both the experimental and theoretical aspects of the subject. This edited volume presents a variety of fascinating topics of current interest and problems arising in the study of both discrete and continuous time chaotic dynamic...

In the first book in the new series from a beloved author of Amish inspirational romances, two lives converge one stormy night on a train headed to Cleveland.

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), winner in 1923 of the second annual Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, was a daring, versatile writer whose work includes plays, essays, short stories, songs, and the libretto to an opera that premiered at New York's Metropolitan Opera House to rave reviews. Millay infused new life into traditional poetic forms, bringing new hope to a generation of youth disillusioned by the political and social upheaval of the Fir...