This story of the immigrant experience in the harrowing Chicago stockyards has drawn comment from historians, policymakers, and literary critics, and it is a widely assigned teaching text. The novel is accompanied by an introduction and explanatory annotations. "Contexts and Backgrounds" provides re[...]

"Studying PGCE Geography at M Level" is for all students undertaking their PGCE, those working to gain Masters credits, and experienced teachers who wish to broaden their understanding of geography education. Bridging the gap between theory and practice, it is designed to support and challenge teach[...]

For Aristotle, excellence is not an act but a habit, and Hume regards habit as 'the great guide of life'. However, for Proust habit is problematic: 'if habit is a second nature, it prevents us from knowing our first.' What is habit? Do habits turn us into machines or free us to do more creative thin[...]

Collaborations in Architecture and Engineering focuses on team-building and problem-solving between architects and engineers to prepare you for working together in practice. It provides an overview and foundation for interdisciplinary collaboration so that you can create innovative proposals for opt[...]

Sparks fly when a hardboiled reporter meets a handsome senator. But a political scandal--and attempts on her life--could drive them apart. Or maybe adversity could draw them into a bond even more intense than their steamy sexual embraces.[...]

While investigating the disappearance of a woman named Megan, who, after being paroled, is on the run from the law with her newborn daughter, journalist Sophie Alton's search leads her to Megan's brother, a convicted killer, who becomes her greatest ally as she tries to find the truth. Original.[...]

Denver journalist Natalie Benoit and Deputy U.S. Marshal Zach McBride find themselves captives of a bloodthirsty Mexican drug cartel. Working together, they escape through the desert toward the border, the attraction between them flaring hotter than the Sonoran sun. They fight to stay ahead of the d[...]

When he awakens sweet passion in a convent-bred French lass, Morgan MacKinnon finds himself cursing the war that's forced him to choose between upholding his honor and pledging himself to the woman he loves.[...]

"Sometimes survival isn't just about staying alive..." Widowed and alone on the frontier, Elspeth Stewart will do whatever it takes to protect herself and her unborn child from the dangers of the wilderness and of men. Though her youthful beauty doesn't show it, she is broken and scarred from the wa[...]