Athena: 115 books

What is life and where can it exist? What searches are being made to identify conditions for life on other worlds? If extraterrestrial inhabited worlds are found, how can we explore them? In this book, two leading astrophysicists provide an engaging account of where we stand in our quest for habitable...

In a near-future world, they meet and flirt on an adult dating website, the wealthy computer geek and the tattooed play-mistress. To Mike's surprise, she invites him to her country property and dark playroom without the usual preliminary meetings. But is he truly prepared for the wicked, kinky, mysterious...

She's the empire's secret weapon, but her secrets could bring down the regime. All he has to do is get out of her handcuffs and into her mind to unlock them. When surprise alien attacks left Treska Sivekka's body battered and her mind a blank slate, the regime that rose from the ashes gave...

"...a flirty, sexy romp." - IvyD, ManicReaders "...a light, fun read, and more than occasionally funny, but it's also got a lot of depth to it, and some ideas worth pondering long after the book has been set down." - Anna, GenreReviews After making a fool out of herself too many...

They can have anything they want...except a future. When a princess who's no stranger to scandal runs afoul of the secrets of the most powerful cabal on Landfall, even her crown can't protect her from the consequences. Nothing infuriates Princess Ione Ra more than having someone else...

A good deed is a hard sell when you're a bad girl. Among Landfall's elite, reputation runs everything--even the economy. Princess Ione has cashed in on playing the party girl for most of her life, but not even an imperial princess can escape the fallout of one too many scandals. Her efforts...

The Boneman will have his due… When Niamne is tricked into delivering the yearly Tithe to the Dread Lord, she never expects to be part of the sacrifice. The last necromancer is a creature of terrifying legend, but the reality is more compelling than frightening, and very much a man. Orphios...

Between 1800 and the First World War, white middle-class men were depicted various forms of literature as weak and nervous. This book explores cultural writings dedicated to the physical and mental health of the male subject, showing that men have mobilized gender constructions repeatedly and self-consciously...

While paediatric healthcare professionals view play as the treatment tool of choice for children under school age, the theory and practice underpinning play-based therapeutic approaches often remain less clear to individual practitioners. Paediatric intervention approaches are increasingly being questioned,...

This book examines how the fairy tale is currently being redeployed and revised on the contemporary teen screen. The author redeploys Victor Turner’s work on liminality for a feminist agenda, providing a new and productive method for thinking about girlhood onscreen. While many studies of teenagehood...

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Dozens of amazingly beautiful women pose in various states of undress in this wonderful new series of black and white erotic photo books!

Dozens of amazingly beautiful women pose in various states of undress in this wonderful series of black and white erotic photo books! Collecting four volumes of the hit series.