This collection includes contributions from various interests and perspectives, in the context of current international developments in life patents, and the global agenda of harmonisation of international intellectual property. The book is divided into five sections reflecting the critical issues a[...]

Throughout the world, the number of festivals has grown exponentially in the last two decades, as people celebrate local and regional cultures, but perhaps more importantly as local councils and other groups seek to use festivals both to promote tourism and to stimulate rural development. However, m[...]

Valentine's Day sucks. And this year it's worse than usual for Kate Hamilton as she tries to seduce a handsome stranger in a motel bar - only to find out he, unfortunately, has other ideas...Escaping from embarrassment to her grandfather's tiny town of Gospel, Ohio, she's determined to relax. What s[...]

What is Clare Wingate doing? One minute she's suffering in the bridesmaid dress from hell, and the next...she's waking up beside Sebastian Vaughan, her girlhood crush turned sexy, globe-hopping journalist. Somewhere between the toast and the toss of the bouquet she'd got herself into a whole lot of [...]

Ever wanted to take the law into your own hands? Gabrielle Breedlove was under the impression that jogging was good for you. Had she known that going for an innocent morning run would result in her being booked for aggravated assault and leave her under suspicion for art robbery, she would have stay[...]

Heartache, hockey and heavenly bodies - get ready for the new red-hot read from New York Times bestseller Rachel Gibson When money-bags Virgil Duffy leaves his widow a stash of cash and his beloved ice-hockey team in his will, team captain Ty 'Saint' Savage is furious. The Chinooks are set to win th[...]

The Gibson Les Paul is possibly "the" electric guitar most associated with rock 'n' roll. The result of a collaboration between Gibson's Ted McCarty and jazz guitarist Les Paul in response to the success of Fender's Telecaster, the Les Paul has gone on to become a prized instrument played by most of[...]

"The Ultimate Gibson Book" provides an exciting new look at the history and importance of Gibson's electric guitars. Back in the 1890?s, Orville Gibson created the first Gibson instrument which would later become one of the most highly sought after guitars in the world. Today's Gibson guitars are st[...]

BookSince the inception of the first "electrical" guitars in the 1920s, no other manufacturer has produced a greater variety of professional quality models than Gibson. This book presents a documented account of the instruments released during a highly creative period from the 1930s up to the mid-60[...]

This superbly illustrated volume traces the evolution of the art of warfare in the Greek and Roman worlds between 1600 B.C. and A.D. 800, from the rise of Mycenaean civilization to the fall of Ravenna and the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. John Warry tells of an age of great military commande[...]