Lucia: 1000 books

Jasmine has been married to Elliot Brookfield since she was 18 years old. He was never the one she wanted, but that didn’t matter in the south she grew up in. The last few years have been a challenge though, and she’s suffered from Elliot’s harsh and oftentimes cruel words. Now, that marriage...

Philosophy in Multiple Voices invites transactional dialogue, critical imagination, and the desire to travel to enter those discursive spaces where the love of wisdom gets inflected through both lived embodiment and situational history. The text raises significant meta-philosophical questions around...

Marti has one dream and one dream only, but when it rains . . . It pours. Marti wants to restore her beloved ranch to all its former glory. However, nothing in her life has ever been easy. From losing her mother when she was young, to losing her husband a year ago. Her world has been turned...

Marti has one dream and one dream only, but when it rains . . . It pours. Marti wants to restore her beloved ranch to all its former glory. However, nothing in her life has ever been easy. From losing her mother when she was young, to losing her husband a year ago. Her world has been turned...

What does it take to be a soldier? Strength and intelligence both play a part, but soldiers need extra help to do their job of defending their country. Enter technology such as satellites, robotics, and computers. Learn all about these forms of technology and the scientific principles behind them.

Two years ago, Amy Murphy was kidnapped and terrorized, and the trauma of that experience haunts her. Sick of living in fear, and frustrated by the slow progress of her therapy, she’s on a mission to empower herself. Her quest to learn ‘proper’ fighting leads her to Hunter Evans’s school of...

Around the seedier sides of Los Angeles she was known only as J.    One job.    One time and that was all she would need to get her the hell out of California.    It was simple enough. At least that is what she thought. There was no such thing as a simple job because sooner or later, everything catches up.

In a time when profound sociocultural and technological changes are affecting the design discipline, this book presents a number of consolidated and emerging issues in product design under four dominant perspectives: technical, human, digital and social. The book results in a read useful to design students and practitioners, but also to other professionals interested in product design.

Have you ever had one of those moments when you’ve thought or even dared to say WTF? Welcome to my world. Over the years I have, along with friends, shared stories—the good, the bad, and the ugly. Here is a collection of some of them, each with the opportune moment in which to insert the commonly...

¿Qué son realmente la magia, los hechizos y los encantamientos? ¿Qué diferencia hay entre magia blanca, negra y roja? ¿Para qué sirven las ceremonias mágicas? ¿Cuáles son las distintas prácticas antiguas y modernas, como el vudú, el chamanismo, las ceremonias del antiguo Egipto, etc.?

The appearance of political marketing and campaigning on social media is a relatively new phenomenon, whose major advantages are seen in the rapid transportation of information through the Internet and the possibilities for large numbers of people to connect. This is especially significant for politics...

When Chardonnay Selby arrives at the hotel, she immediately spots two men holding white roses—the object that her work friend Cecily told her would distinguish her blind-date from everyone else. She assumes that her guy is the one who’s dressed more casually, in jeans and sport coat, but she soon...

It has always been Lily, Kyle, and Travis.  The three of them were always together. They were a team. They grew up together, went to school together, and even graduated college together, but something in their world is shifting.  Lily is beginning to see them differently....

Rose Bowen’s life hasn’t been ideal lately. She’s been sleeping with her roommate, Cody, for three years now, but he still doesn’t want a relationship. Their friends-with-benefits arrangement has never quite satisfied her needs, though.  And while she loves her job as a secretary at a...