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Duked
From an American billionaire’s daughter to a duchess… Our plan is simple, if not scandalous. Me, the 29-year-old daughter of an American billionaire, marry him, the ancient Duke of Manly on his hundredth birthday. By marrying, we each get something we desperately want. The plan is working brilliantly. Until Manly dies at the altar. With his dying breath, Manly maneuvers me into a marriage of convenience with his hot, mysterious heir, Ren Sattler, the new duke. Suddenly I'm drawn into the mysteries surrounding the castle and Ren – mysteries that threaten my hopes of saving the estate and my marriage…not to mention my heart…
China Urbanizing
China turned majority urban only in the recent decade, a dramatic leap given that less than 20 percent of its population lived in cities before 1980. This book situates China’s urbanization in the interconnected forces of historical legacies, contemporary state interventions, and human and ecological conditions. It captures the complexity of the phenomenon of urbanization in its historical and regional variations, and explores its impact on the country’s socioeconomic welfare, environment and resources, urban form and lifestyle, and population and health. It is also a book about China, in which the contributors provide new perspectives to understand the transitions underway and the gravi...
The Only Girl
A raucous and vividly dishy memoir by the only woman writer on the masthead of Rolling Stone Magazine in the early Seventies. In 1971, Robin Green had an interview with Jann Wenner at the offices of Rolling Stone magazine. She had just moved to Berkeley, California, a city that promised "Good Vibes All-a Time." Those days, job applications asked just one question: "What are your sun, moon and rising signs?" Green thought she was interviewing for a clerical job like the other girls in the office, a "real job." Instead, she was hired as a journalist. With irreverent humor and remarkable nerve, Green spills stories of sparring with Dennis Hopper on a film junket in the desert, scandalizing fans...
Ren's Treasure
The sudden death of her mother brings a sad, scared and angry Ren Adair to live with her eccentric Aunt Bar (Bear), a bibliophile and historian, in a cottage on Raven’s Cove near Vancouver, British Columbia. There, the twelve year old Ren finds a riddle in her great grandmother’s camphor chest that sends her and her new friend, Bean, on a quest to find Smuggler Jones’ long-lost treasure. Hounded by a dangerous villain, the Snake Man, Ren and Bean set out to decipher a series of hidden clues. The story that lies behind these six riddles takes the children on an exciting adventure; one that involves sacred Indigenous sites, mysterious islands, a derelict and haunted power station and sec...
Creating Chinese Urbanism
Creating Chinese Urbanism describes the landscape of urbanisation in China, revealing the profound impacts of marketisation on Chinese society and the consequential governance changes at the grassroots level. During the imperial and socialist periods, state and society were embedded. However, as China has been becoming urban, the territorial foundation of ‘earth-bound’ society has been dismantled. This metaphorically started an urban revolution, which has transformed the social order derived from the ‘state in society’. The state has thus become more visible in Chinese urban life. Besides witnessing the breaking down of socially integrated neighbourhoods, Fulong Wu explains the urban...
Governing Complex City-Regions in the Twenty-First Century
Provides a comparative study of the complex governance challenges confronting city-regions in each of the BRICS countries. It traces how governance approaches emerge from the disparate intentions, actions and practices of multiple collaborating and competing actors, working in diverse contexts of political settlement and culture.
Concrete Jungles
Concrete Jungles explores the hidden geographies of injustice in the Caribbean islands, demonstrating how mainstream environmentalism reflects and reproduces racial and economic inequalities. Based on over a decade of ethnographic research in Kingston, Jamaica and Willemstad, Curaçao, Rivke Jaffe contrasts the environmentalism of largely middle-class professionals with the environmentalism of inner-city residents.
All is Fair
Through highs and the lows, good times and the bad, life on the fair is unforgettable Julie and Dicky Otterman arrive at Grundy's fair with an extraordinary new act: the motorcycle extravaganza, The Wall of Death. This seemingly happy couple are the talk of the town, but all is not as it seems, and Dicky's dark and violent nature means Julie lives in constant fear. There's always plenty happening at Grundy's fair: Gemma knows Velda's secret. Renata is finally with Donny. New member, the well-spoken Tom, catches the eye of Jenny, the Grundy's lost daughter, returned to the fair very recently... Meanwhile, Sonny is away, angry and plotting. Amidst all the challenges the most worrying of all is betrayal from those closest to you. One thing is for sure: life on the fair is never simple. An unputdownable saga from bestseller Lynda Page, perfect for fans of Kitty Neale, Rosie Goodwin and Katie Flynn.
Iron Chef
With this official handbook, readers will go behind the scenes in Kitchen Stadium to meet Morimoto, Chen Kenichi, and all the Iron Chefs. Also included are interviews with the tasters; insight from the show's creators and producers; loads of photos; plate-by-plate commentary on every "Iron Chef" battle.
