Download or read book Dark Paths written by Markus Heitz and published by Jo Fletcher Books. This book was released on 2016-08-04 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third in the fast-and-furious fantasy adventure The Legends of the Älfar: the worlds of the dark elves and the dwarves collide in what Malazan Empire calls 'Tolkien with a dash of Gemmell and a sprinkling of George R.R. Martin'. There are four races: the Elves, the Dwarves and the Humans and the Älfar. The other three all know the Älfar to be dark, relentless warriors, set on conquest; they have been deadly enemies since time immemorial. But are things about to change? The young älfar triplets Sisaroth, Tirigon and Firüsha have been banished to the deadly underground realm of Phondrasôn, two of them exiled for a murder they did not commit, the third determined to stay with them, to help them survive this terrifying place full of monsters. Then Sisaroth meets a dwarf, Tungdil, who has been locked up in the Dark Abyss (Tungdil will be well-known to readers of the Dwarves series!) - and their unexpected relationship will change the fate of the älfar and the dwarves - for ever. Dark Paths is the third book in bestselling author Markus Heitz's Legends of the Älfar series.

Download or read book From Internationalism to Postcolonialism written by Rossen Djagalov and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Would there have been a Third World without the Second? Perhaps, but it would have looked very different. From Internationalism to Postcolonialism recounts the story of two Cold War-era cultural formations that claimed to represent the Third World project in literature and cinema, and offers a compelling genealogy of contemporary postcolonial studies.

Download or read book Technology Innovation and Creativity in Digital Society written by Daria Bylieva and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 1009 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book requires an interdisciplinary understanding of creativity, ideal for the formation of a digital public culture. Educating students, young professionals and future engineers is to develop their capacity for creativity. Can creativity be learned? With this question, the relations of technology and art appear in a new light. Especially the notion of "progress" takes on a new meaning and must be distinguished from innovation. The discussion of particular educational approaches, the exploration of digital technologies and the presentation of best practice examples conclude the book. University teachers show how the teaching of creativity reinforces the teaching of other subjects, especially foreign languages.

Download or read book Advances in Neuroergonomics and Cognitive Engineering written by Hasan Ayaz and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-03 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a broad overview of the field of cognitive engineering and neuroergonomics, covering emerging practices and future trends toward the harmonious integration of human operators and computational systems. It gathers both theoretical and practice-oriented studies on mental workload and stress, activity theory, human reliability, error and risk. It covers applications in various field, and corresponding strategies to make assistive technologies more user-oriented. Further, the book describes key advances in our understanding of cognitive processes, including mechanisms of perception, memory, reasoning, and motor response, with a particular focus on their role in interactions between humans and other elements of computer-based systems. Gathering the proceedings of the AHFE 2021 Conferences on Neuroergonomics and Cognitive Engineering, Industrial Cognitive Ergonomics and Engineering Psychology, and Cognitive Computing and Internet of Things, held virtually on July 25-29, 2021, from USA, this book offers extensive information and a thought-provoking guide for researchers and practitioners in cognitive engineering, neuroergonomics and their applications.

Download or read book E marketing written by Judy Strauss and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional marketing coverage with an e-marketing twist. Strauss/Frost offers traditional marketing coverage with a twist: its focus is on the Internet and other technologies that have had a profound effect on marketing. The sixth edition focuses more on e-marketing strategy and practice, and less on principles of marketing refresher material.

Download or read book Prey to the Heart written by Kristen Banet and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-13 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She sees them and wants to bolt. They see her and want to chase. Abigail Harris has spent her life searching for a place to belong. One phone call and a new job working for the Kingson Pride means she may have found it. Everything about Wild Junction calls to her and her inner animal. There's only one problem. Also new to Wild Junction are Thomas, James, and Antonio-men who set Abigail's prey instincts on edge and drive her body wild with temptation. The wolves are just looking for a new start, having lost everything they once held dear. Abigail might be that new start.*The Wolves of Wild Junction is a steamy Reverse Harem Paranormal Romance duology. The leading lady will not choose between her three love interests. Intended for mature audiences.**Set in the Wild Junction Universe. It is not required to read the Kingson Pride before starting the Wolves of Wild Junction.*

Download or read book Postmodern Crises written by Mark Lipovetsky and published by Ars Rossica. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postmodern Crises collects previously published and yet unpublished Mark Lipovetsky's articles on Russian literature and film. Written in different years, they focus on cultural and aesthetic crises that, taken together, constitute the postmodern condition of Russian culture. The reader will find here articles about classic subversive texts (such as Nabokov's Lolita), performances (Pussy Riot), and recent, but also subversive, films. Other articles discuss such authors as Vladimir Sorokin, such sociocultural discourses as the discourse of scientific intelligentsia; post-Soviet adaptations of Socialist Realism, and contemporary trends of "complex" literature, as well as literary characters turned into cultural tropes (the Strugatsky's progressors). The book will be interesting for teachers and scholars of contemporary Russian literature and culture; it can be used both in undergraduate and graduate courses.

Download or read book Counterstory written by Aja Martinez and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Makes a case for counterstory as methodology in rhetoric and writing studies through the framework of critical race theory.

Download or read book Echoed Defiance written by K. N. Banet and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-13 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My duty to my family is simple. Help maintain order and uphold the Law for my werecat father, Hasan, a member of the Tribunal.But I've always had a defiant streak.To do what's right, I'm willing to throw the Law out the window and turn my back on everything I've been told. Everyone around me knows I'm willing to risk everything for what I believe in. All I can hope is that my beliefs and the Law don't clash again.Because I have another duty. A duty to blood. A duty to the bond between those who once shared a face and a life.My name is Jacky Leon and my twin has found her way back into my life. My echo, strangely similar and yet different, Gwen is a piece of me that I tried to leave behind.And it seems defiance runs in the family.

Download or read book Family and Honor written by Kristen Banet and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-16 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacky Leon got away with it. She defended a little human girl, made a few unlikely acquaintances, and survived to tell the tale. Now she's the only werecat in the supernatural community who can say a small family of werewolves lives in her borders.That isn't a good thing, though. As news of her heritage and relation to Hasan becomes more well known, Jacky finds herself in the spotlight, slammed with guilt over recent werecat problems and her duty as a daughter of Hasan. Having ignored the supernatural world and its politics for so long, she had no idea what sort of repercussions would come from her actions to defend Carey Everson. Ignorance can no longer be her shield.Jacky wants to do better. She'll step up to her responsibilities and stop running. She'll learn how to live up to the obligations and expectations of her family. Her honor demands it.

Download or read book Oath Sworn written by Kristen Banet and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacky Leon isn't someone who goes looking for trouble. She owns a bar, pays her taxes, and serves her drinks cold outside a small town in Texas. The fact that she's a werecat is just something she's had to live with. Alone in her territory, she's lived a secretive life for six years: under the radar, avoiding her past and the baggage that comes with it.Trouble finds Jacky, though, in the form of an eleven year old girl and a werewolf turf war just outside her borders. Forced to honor an ancient treaty and the Laws of the supernatural world, Jacky swears an oath to protect Carey Everson, the human daughter of a local werewolf Alpha from Dallas.When his enemies come after Jacky and her charge, she's going to have to embrace the more dangerous side of who and what she is. She's going to have to challenge the very Laws that govern her kind.And nothing is going to stop her from honoring her word.

Download or read book Indebted to the Vampires A Reverse Harem Vampire Romance written by Erin Bedford and published by Embrace the Fantasy Publishing, LLC. This book was released on with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A broken vase isn’t all this maid owes her masters… Piper is desperate for a job, but when the temp agency assigns her to be a maid for a bunch of entitled rich men, she isn’t sure the long hours and meager pay are worth it. But a priceless, broken vase takes away any other option, and Piper suddenly finds herself far more indebted to her new employers than she ever thought possible. Now, Piper comes to find that her clumsiness is the least of her troubles. Her mysterious and dangerously tempting employers have a secret. One that they are willing to kill to keep. She already owes them her time and her pay… But will she owe them her life? keywords: paranormal romance, fantasy romance, reverse harem romance, boss employee romance, workplace romance, vampire romance, steamy romance, vampires, alpha heroes, alpha vampires, damsel in distress, mythology, love story, mystery, horror

Download or read book Bounty written by K. N. Banet and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They call me Executioner, but I'm much more than that.They call me dangerous, irresponsible, and antagonistic, but they only know the half of it.My reputation is larger than the desert I live in and I've spent decades cultivating it.When a friend asks me to look into a supernatural bounty on a human, I find myself diving head first into a conspiracy that has been in the shadows for nearly a decade. I'm too curious to get out before it too late, a fatal character flaw that I should have been more careful about. But the truth beckons me and I can never resist a good mystery. Especially when the stakes are high.There's no turning back, no putting the lid back on the box.I'm Kaliya Sahni, a Tribunal Executioner, bounty hunter, and the last nagini. In my world, the stakes are all or nothing.And I don't like to lose.

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Download or read book A Night of Redemption written by Kristen Banet and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the final trial of an assassin once called Shadow in the conclusion to the Amazon Top 100 Bestselling series, THE REDEMPTION SAGA! Sawyer Matthews is a retired and presumed-dead assassin. Ripped from her life of shadows and secrets, she's decided to gamble it all and accept a new chapter in her life--one that may lead to a brighter future.It slipped between her fingers. At the eleventh hour, the World Magi Council took away her evidence of redemption. The one thing she truly wanted and needed to live a normal life and prove she wasn't what everyone believed. Instead, she has one journey left to make. One man to bring to justice.But her support is reeling. The men she loves are dealing with a pain she only knows too well. They're going to need to pull themselves together, look to the future, and finish this last task. She needs them and they need her as they work together on this trying and painful case as one question looms over them, casting a shadow over their days.Can Sawyer find redemption in killing the monster that made her one? This is an Urban Fantasy reverse harem series of full length novels where the leading lady doesn't have to choose from her romantic interests. This series will have M/M content.These books are rated for mature audiences, 18+ due to violence, language, and sexual themes.This series deals with several triggering topics including, but not limited to, suicide, child abuse, rape, and PTSD.