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They’ve been called the hardest scenes to write in the Romance genre and are often what many authors get wrong. Horribly, cringingly wrong!But scenes of physical affection between your two main characters don’t have to be uncomfortable to write, find you running the other direction or even deleting...

This four-volume reference work builds upon the success of past editions of Elsevier’s Corrosion title (by Shreir, Jarman, and Burstein), covering the range of innovations and applications that have emerged in the years since its publication. Developed in partnership with experts from the Corrosion...

For all the bombast and rhetoric demonizing one side by the other, here is a little book of humor which explores the actual differences between so called conservatives and liberals. It is an apolitical jaunt through the characteristics that supposedly divide our citizenry. Composed of simple two line...

The sports of Europe and the United States were imitated and assimilated and became symbols of national and cosmopolitan identity. This work examines the national and international importance of sport and its role in shaping post-millennium global culture.

As sport has grown, progressively replacing religion, in its power to excite passion, provide emotional escape, offer fraternal (and increasingly sororital) bonding, it has come to loom larger and larger in the lives of Europeans and others. It has become an inescapable reality linking public environment...

In the tradition of the fortune cookie and Bartlett's Quotations, comes an original collection of over 700 supposedly pithy, sage, humorous morsels of deep thought. It is the perfect pre-packaged ingredient list for a better life, mind, and spirit in today's hectic self absorbed age. Enlightenment...

First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

What is preventing you from reaching success? What is stopping you from reaching your goals or your true potential? Theodore Roosevelt stated: "With self discipline most anything is possible" Most successful people in life do not attribute their success to their abilities...

Few surviving Celtic myths bear any resemblance to their originals. In the course of time they have been infused with romance, pseudohistory and Christian theory. Stories of Ireland and Wales have been combined with tales of love, war and slaughterdeeds both noble and ignoble. In this classic study,...

China to Chinatown tells the story of one of the most notable examples of the globalization of food: the spread of Chinese recipes, ingredients and cooking styles to the Western world. Beginning with the accounts of Marco Polo and Franciscan missionaries, J.A.G. Roberts describes how Westerners’...

Charles Repington was Britain's most influential military correspondent during the first two decades of the twentieth century. From 1914 to 1918, Repington's commentary in The Times, 'The War Day by Day', was read and discussed by opinion-shapers and decision-makers worldwide who sought to better...

J.A. Froude’s powerful philosophical novel tells the story of Marcus Sutherland, a young priest whose crisis of faith has tragic consequences for himself and those close to him. One of the most controversial and influential novels of the Victorian period, it crystalized the agonising doubt that...

Contributes simultaneously to both British imperial and Indian history. This work demonstrates that missionary understandings and interactions with India, rather than being party to imperial ideologies, often diverged from metropolitan and imperial norms.

The well-known Catholic tradition of The Stations of the Cross focuses our attention on the immense love Jesus has for us by undergoing His Passion and Death. By His Cross, Jesus united us to His Father, our Father, bringing us to know His healing and Light as we journey with Him throughout our ordinary...