Paul Parker: 28 books
Captured by Pirates
22 Firsthand Accounts of Murder and Mayhem on the High Seas
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Pirates are primarily known for their swashbuckling attitudes, their freebooting lifestyle, their high-seas adventures and their stolen treasure, but their victims tend to be forgotten. These are the innocent and not-so-innocent voyagers who find themselves suddenly snatched up, brutalized, and franticly...
by John Law, Kalpana Shankar, David Hakken
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field.
Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and...
With Our Eyes Open
Book a Break anthology, #2
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Fancy a trip to Pluto? Or how about a fearful drive along a stretch of country road, or a long, hot, dusty walk to Nairobi? Unless you prefer to go to church with a strange woman in green tights, her hair alive with electricity. Here you have 34 stories, each one a journey, whether planned or unexpected,...
by John Warsinske, Christopher Hoover, Ben Malisow
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2019
The only official, comprehensive reference guide to the CISSP
All new for 2019 and beyond, this is the authoritative common body of knowledge (CBK) from (ISC)2 for information security professionals charged with designing, engineering, implementing, and managing the overall information security...
Reading Asian Art and Artifacts
Windows to Asia on American College Campuses
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
This book begins with the understanding that, in addition to its aesthetic qualities, Asian art and material artifacts are expressive of cultural realities and constitute a 'visible language' with messages that can be read, interpreted, and analyzed. Asian art and artifacts are understood in their...
by Michael W. Austin, Raymond Angelo Belliotti, Scott F. Parker
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
It is said the champions of the ancient Olympic Games received a crown of olive leaves, symbolizing a divine blessing from Nike, the winged goddess of victory. While the mythology of the ancient games has come to exemplify the highest political, religious, community, and individual ideals of the time,...
by Michael B. Ballard, Stephen Nathaniel Dossman, William B. Feis
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Ulysses S. Grant’s ingenious campaign to capture the last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River was one of the most decisive events of the Civil War and one of the most storied military expeditions in American history. The ultimate victory at Vicksburg effectively cut the Confederacy in...
Southeastern Ceremonial Complex
Chronology, Content, Contest
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
A timely, comprehensive reevaluation of the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex.
One of the most venerable concepts in Southeastern archaeology is that of the Southern Cult. The idea has its roots in the intensely productive decade (archaeologically) of the 1930s and is fundamentally tied to yet...
Ovid's Heroides
A New Translation and Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
This volume offers up-to-date translations of all 21 epistles of Ovid’s Heroides. Each letter is accompanied by a preface explaining the mythological background, an essay offering critical remarks on the poem, and discussion of the heroine and her treatment elsewhere in Classical literature. Where...
Die Plattform-Revolution
Von Airbnb, Uber, PayPal und Co. lernen: Wie neue Plattform-Geschäftsmodelle die Wirtschaft verändern
Language: German
Release Date: April 26, 2017
Von bekannten Branchenführern wie airbnb, Uber, PayPal und Co. lernen Strategie, Design, Launch, Monetarisierung, Governance, Metriken und Policy Geschrieben von renommierten Wirtschaftsexperten und Unternehmensberatern Uber. Airbnb. Amazon. Apple. PayPal. Alle diese Unternehmen revolutionierten...
Second Taste
Book a Break anthology, #3
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
Humour, fantasy, tragedy, drama, romance... Startling and original, the stories selected for this mouth-watering anthology are guaranteed to satisfy your appetite for the unique pleasure of reading.
From a sad tagine to vintage blood, bottled light to luminous water, the theme of nourishment...
99 erotische S/M-Fantasien
Von Zart bis Hart
Language: German
Release Date: January 22, 2016
In diesen 99 Storys dreht sich alles um das bizarre Phänomen Lustschmerz, den bittersüßen Genuss der erotischen Qual, die ihre Anhänger auf so einzigartige Weise befriedigen kann und unendliche Lustmöglichkeiten bietet. Denn wenn's um fantasievolle, tabulose, "verbotene" Praktiken geht,...
William Trevor
Revaluations
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Offers a comprehensive examination of the oeuvre of William Trevor
Der Lust ausgeliefert
26 Kurzgeschichten
Language: German
Release Date: January 15, 2009
Ganz langsam beginnt es, kriecht unaufhaltsam weiter, nimmt Geist und Körper gefangen: Lust, Begierde Doch es gibt Situationen, in denen wir dieses unbeschreibliche, alles überflügelnde Gefühl nicht spüren dürfen und es zu unterdrücken versuchen. Mit aller Kraft kämpfen wir dagegen an, wollen...
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