Aisling: 35 books

This remarkable true story of a Chinese peasant girl’s unlikely rise to success is “like a suspense novel . . . Impossible to put down”(Library Journal, starred review). Aisling Juanjuan Shen was born to illiterate peasants in a tiny farming hamlet in China’s Yangtze Delta in 1974....

With the sensational arrest of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1998, the rise to prominence of universal jurisdiction over crimes against international law seemed to be assured. The arrest of Pinochet and the ensuing proceedings before the UK courts brought universal jurisdiction into...

YOUR FACE’S NEW BEST FRIEND The face of beauty has changed. Gone are the days of the simple cleanse–tone–moisturise skincare routine, when the most complex make-up decision we had to make was whether to treat ourselves to a lipstick or a gloss. Now, we’re faced with a bewildering world...

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989 is one of the most highly ratified human rights treaties in the world, with 192 states currently signed up to it. Article Twelve is fundamental to the Convention and states that all children capable of forming views have the right to express...

While advances in science and technology bring many advantages, we must not ignore the harm that they can cause. Rapid changes in genetic testing are a prime example, and indicators can now help to detect, address and treat diseases. However, in this new study, Aisling de Paor examines how genetic...

Electric Vehicles: Prospects and Challenges looks at recent design methodologies and technological advancements in electric vehicles and the integration of electric vehicles in the smart grid environment, comprehensively covering the fundamentals, theory and design, recent developments and technical...

Sparks fly when Chance meets tall, sexy Xav at a Wilmington bar and they have the hottest one-nighter of their lives. But Chance doesn’t do repeats, Xav seems detached, and they go their separate ways without a word. Later, when closeted Assistant District Attorney C. Evan “Chance” Fairchild...

Il est là ! Je le sens... malgré ce gouffre au fond de moi qui me fait mal. Pourtant nuit après nuit, alors qu’il visite mes songes, qu’il fait battre mon cœur, je garde une étincelle d’espoir. J’en viens à souhaiter qu’il soit réellement présent et qu’il fasse tout pour me sortir...

An old Indian legend of shapeshifters haunts a young woman who is following reports of large wolves in the area. Isolated in a cabin deep in the New Hampshire woods, she finds romance with a young Abenaki man with deep green eyes and learns that wolves can also become men.

This textbook offers an accessible, modern introduction at undergraduate level to an area known variously as general topology, point-set topology or analytic topology with a particular focus on helping students to build theory for themselves. It is the result of several years of the authors' combined...

Un mage vampire, un jeune homme Romani, et un amour interdit qui ne peut être renié. Lord Taliesin Solitaire est né albinos, a été rendu muet par la malédiction des feys et trahi par un amant vampire. Pendant deux cents ans, le mage vampire a juré de ne plus jamais aimer et n'a utilisé...

Harper Kidd is a highly respected marine archaeologist. Yet, with the economy in a slump, he’s trapped working in an oil company’s exploration division. Now, at the ripe age of thirty, Harp is disgusted with his employer’s damage to the undersea world he loves, tired of his ATM-card-filching...

Modern Intellectual Property Law combines coverage of each intellectual property right granted for creations of the mind into a thoughtful, unified textbook. Deconstructing the fundamental topics into short, clear sections separated by subheadings throughout, Colston and Galloway's text is the ideal...

Quelques fois, le destin est étrange, voire surprenant, en mettant sur notre chemin des personnages qui perturberont notre quotidien. J’en ai fait l’expérience et je peux vous assurer que, même dans mes rêves ou mes cauchemars les plus fous, jamais je n’aurais imaginé être liée à de...