Sofia: 305 books

Other books present corporate finance approaches to the venture capital and private equity industry, but many key decisions require an understanding of the ways that law and economics work together. This revised and updated 2e offers broad perspectives and principles not found in other course books,...

Sgt. Travis Cooper is a hot mess. He's a seething cocktail of PTSD, depression, and anger, with a side-helping of borderline alcoholism. The giant holes in his memory don't help either. When his partner, Kyle, walks out after ten years together, and takes his beloved dog, Travis hits rock bottom. There's...

This book approaches the concept of adjustment to aging and endeavors to build reader understanding of this construct through a critical review and discussion. Once the reader understands the origins and nature of adjustment to aging, a second innovation encompasses the development of a proposed empirical...

This book presents a critical review of a criterion of risk, created to assess the flood risk to heritage buildings, and evaluates this criterion by applying it to the sample Portuguese heritage buildings. In a first approach, the total number of potential parameters is effectively reduced and the...

This book describes and quantifies the major socioeconomic changes that have occurred in four new member states of the EU (Slovenia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria) since the early 1990s. The period covered was a particularly turbulent one, not only because of the transition process which was well...

We are all of us monsters. We are none of us monsters. Through the work of twenty-six writers, emerging to award-winning and masters of their craft, THE HUMANITY OF MONSTERS plumbs the depths of humane monsters, monstrous humans, and the interstices between: Monstrous heralds of change,...

Contains rapidly-rising writers early in their careers; stories are all published after 2010 Authors are internationally-based and encompass a wide variety of multicultural perspectives Features uncollected fiction, including one original story written for the anthology

A man having a routine activity. A woman having raging hormones. A connection between them in the physical and the para-physical world. Will they find out what it means to understand the language of their hearts?

Lonely Planet: The world’s number one travel guide publisher* Lonely Planet’s New Zealand is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Glide through turquoise waters past pods of orcas in Bay of Islands; try black-water...

Good people sometimes do bad things Marianne needs to find who's leaking secrets from her company, before they lose another major contract. What she doesn't need is an affair with her married boss. Even worse, to fall in love with him. She discovers the security leak is more than a case...

When one night just isn't enough My ex-boyfriend had commitment issues. My sadistic boss can't keep his hands to himself. No wonder I wanted to celebrate my birthday by losing myself in the delicious Jordan Merrill. His Texan drawl alone was enough to make me weak at the knees. A one-night...

When the perfect husband becomes the perfect nightmare Josh Delaney is the ideal honey trap. His charm and model good looks would be enough for most women, but coupled with his psychic ability to read their thoughts, he's impossible to resist. Suspicious husbands employ him to test their wives,...

A deal with a demon, a biker psychic and the girl who might just be his salvation… if the demon doesn't get to her first. Dante isn't your typical medium. With his leather jacket, tattoos and piercings, he looks more at home on his motorbike than he does holding a séance and Katherine has...

Daniel finds more than he ever expected while helping a photographer friend with a last minute calendar shoot. When he meets Jamie, every assumption he ever made about himself is busted! Daniel's straight. His legion of ex-girlfriends would testify to the hunky personal trainer being fiercely hetero, so why does the idea of kissing Jamie feel so absolutely right?