Dangerous Heat
Dangerous Heat

Author: Sidney Bristol

Publisher: Inked Press

Published: 2019-05-01

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13:

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Retired Marine Paxton Mills likes working from the shadows, but a high-speed bridesmaid rescue brings him to the forefront as he takes over a tricky case while on vacation in South Africa. It's hard to keep his attention on the job when his partner is the sexiest woman he's ever met. Coco De Jong likes animals more than people. Navigating the social waters of her best friend's wedding gets even more complicated when she finds herself in the arms of a guy who looks like an action hero come to life. Her one night stand is one of the truly dangerous ones: an animal lover. What should have been a hot wedding fling turns serious as Paxton and Coco are drawn into a poaching investigation with ties to one of Coco's old flames. Paxton has to face the reality, that he's begun to care for Coco. As they get closer to their answers they find a new question. Are they ready to say goodbye when the vacation ends? Aegis Group Dangerous Attraction Dangerous in Training Dangerous Games Dangerous Assignment Dangerous Protector Dangerous Secrets Dangerous Betrayal Dangerous Heat Dangerous Exposure (coming soon) More soon! Aegis Group Alpha Team: an Aegis Group spin-off Dangerous in Love Dangerous in Action Dangerous in Transit Dangerous in Motion Dangerous in Charge Aegis Group Lepta Team: an Aegis Group spin-off Dangerously Taken Dangerously Involved Dangerously Deceived Dangerously Broken (2019) Dangerously Entwined (2019) Ransom Texas SWAT; an Aegis Group spin off Fighting Redemption Stolen Redemption Reckless Redemption (2019) Gone Geek; an Aegis Group spin off Beauty and the Geek Mr. Purr-fect and the Geek The Jock and the Geek The Gamer and the Geek The Adorkable Girl and the Geek The Fake Boyfriend and the Geek Twisted Royals: an Aegis Group spin-off Twisted Royals Origin Story Alpha Prince Her Prince Bad Boy Prince Noble Prince

Heat Wave
Heat Wave

Author: Eric Klinenberg

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2015-05-06

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 022627621X

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The “compelling” story behind the 1995 Chicago weather disaster that killed hundreds—and what it revealed about our broken society (Boston Globe). On July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index—how the temperature actually feels on the body—would hit 126. When the heat wave broke a week later, city streets had buckled; records for electrical use were shattered; and power grids had failed, leaving residents without electricity for up to two days. By July 20, over seven hundred people had perished—twenty times the number of those struck down by Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Heat waves kill more Americans than all other natural disasters combined. Until now, no one could explain either the overwhelming number or the heartbreaking manner of the deaths resulting from the 1995 Chicago heat wave. Meteorologists and medical scientists have been unable to account for the scale of the trauma, and political officials have puzzled over the sources of the city’s vulnerability. In Heat Wave, Eric Klinenberg takes us inside the anatomy of the metropolis to conduct what he calls a “social autopsy,” examining the social, political, and institutional organs of the city that made this urban disaster so much worse than it ought to have been. He investigates why some neighborhoods experienced greater mortality than others, how city government responded, and how journalists, scientists, and public officials reported and explained these events. Through years of fieldwork, interviews, and research, he uncovers the surprising and unsettling forms of social breakdown that contributed to this human catastrophe as hundreds died alone behind locked doors and sealed windows, out of contact with friends, family, community groups, and public agencies. As this incisive and gripping account demonstrates, the widening cracks in the social foundations of American cities made visible by the 1995 heat wave remain in play in America’s cities today—and we ignore them at our peril. Includes photos and a new preface on meeting the challenges of climate change in urban centers “Heat Wave is not so much a book about weather, as it is about the calamitous consequences of forgetting our fellow citizens. . . . A provocative, fascinating book, one that applies to much more than weather disasters.” —Chicago Sun-Times “It’s hard to put down Heat Wave without believing you’ve just read a tale of slow murder by public policy.” —Salon “A classic. I can’t recommend it enough.” —Chris Hayes

WHO Housing and Health Guidelines
WHO Housing and Health Guidelines

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 149

ISBN-13: 9789241550376

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Improved housing conditions can save lives, prevent disease, increase quality of life, reduce poverty, and help mitigate climate change. Housing is becoming increasingly important to health in light of urban growth, ageing populations and climate change. The WHO Housing and health guidelines bring together the most recent evidence to provide practical recommendations to reduce the health burden due to unsafe and substandard housing. Based on newly commissioned systematic reviews, the guidelines provide recommendations relevant to inadequate living space (crowding), low and high indoor temperatures, injury hazards in the home, and accessibility of housing for people with functional impairments. In addition, the guidelines identify and summarize existing WHO guidelines and recommendations related to housing, with respect to water quality, air quality, neighbourhood noise, asbestos, lead, tobacco smoke and radon. The guidelines take a comprehensive, intersectoral perspective on the issue of housing and health and highlight co-benefits of interventions addressing several risk factors at the same time. The WHO Housing and health guidelines aim at informing housing policies and regulations at the national, regional and local level and are further relevant in the daily activities of implementing actors who are directly involved in the construction, maintenance and demolition of housing in ways that influence human health and safety. The guidelines therefore emphasize the importance of collaboration between the health and other sectors and joint efforts across all government levels to promote healthy housing. The guidelines' implementation at country-level will in particular contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals on health (SDG 3) and sustainable cities (SDG 11). WHO will support Member States in adapting the guidelines to national contexts and priorities to ensure safe and healthy housing for all.

Managing the Climate Crisis
Managing the Climate Crisis

Author: Jonathan Barnett

Publisher: Island Press

Published: 2022-07-14

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 1642832006

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Natural disasters from heat waves to coastal and river flooding will inevitably become worse because of greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere. Managing them is possible, but planners, designers, and policymakers need to advance adaptation and preventative measures now. Managing the Climate Crisis: Designing and Building for Floods, Heat, Drought and Wildfire by design and planning experts Jonathan Barnett and Matthijs Bouw is a practical guide to addressing this urgent national security problem. Barnett and Bouw draw from the latest scientific findings and include many recent, real-world examples to illustrate how to manage seven climate-related threats: flooding along coastlines, river flooding, flash floods from extreme rain events, drought, wildfire, long periods of high heat, and food shortages.

100 Most Dangerous Things on the Planet
100 Most Dangerous Things on the Planet

Author: Anna Claybourne

Publisher: Qeb Publishing -- Quarto Library

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 57

ISBN-13: 1682974197

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Learn how to survive in 100 real life dramas, from natural disasters and dangerous weather to fighting off dangerous animals.

Dangerous Connections
Dangerous Connections

Author: Sidney Bristol

Publisher: Inked Press

Published: 2020-01-28

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13:

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Being a bodyguard to an internet celebrity should be a walk in the park. At least that's what Marine Silas Herrera tells himself when he agrees to escort the woman he's never heard of on some kind of press grab. He doesn't much care about how beautiful a woman is if she's rotten on the inside. Ekko Kaur is playing chicken with a country, and she's not about to blink. With cameras aimed at her she knows her former home country can't make a move and silence her like they've done to so many others. Like her brother. Now if a certain hunky, obnoxious someone would just stay out of her way. The simple bodyguard job turns complicated when Silas discovers that Ekko is smuggling people out of the country. And not just anyone. Whistleblowers scheduled to testify at the United Nations. His camera hungry client isn't at all what she appears and very soon he finds himself falling for the woman the world doesn't know. But he has to keep her alive first.

Dangerous Firsts
Dangerous Firsts

Author: Sidney Bristol

Publisher: Inked Press

Published: 2020-09-08

Total Pages: 2572

ISBN-13:

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Settle in for your next exciting read. This box set contains the books: DANGEROUS ATTRACTION, BEAUTY AND THE GEEK, ALPHA PRINCE, DANGEROUS IN LOVE, HEART OF DANGER, DANGEROUSLY TAKEN, STOLEN RISK, and JUST BUSINESS. DANGEROUS ATTRACTION, AEGIS GROUP 1 The hunters become the hunted in this tale of serial killers and SEALs for hire. One broken man must unpack his baggage, a woman has made a leap of faith and a sister chooses to live. Aegis Group Series: Dangerous Attraction Dangerous in Training Dangerous Games Dangerous Assignment Dangerous Protector Dangerous Secrets Dangerous Betrayal Dangerous Heat Dangerous Connections BEAUTY AND THE GEEK, GONE GEEK 1 An on-line romance unplugs when these two lovers come face to face. Will their chemistry withstand the in-person test? Gone Geek: Beauty and the Geek Mr. Purr-fect and the Geek The Jock and the Geek The Gamer and the Geek The Adorkable Girl and the Geek The Fake Boyfriend and the Geek ALPHA PRINCE, TWISTED ROYALS 1 A one night stand turns into a race for survival. A private investigator must team up with a mafia princess in hiding to put a stop to her evil stepmother's schemes. Twisted Royals: Twisted Royals Origin Story Alpha Prince Her Prince Bad Boy Prince Noble Prince DANGEROUS IN LOVE, AEGIS GROUP ALPHA TEAM 1 The last thing Shane and Lacey have time for is love. As the team races home and bullets fly, rules fall by the wayside and lines begin to blur. With a traitor in their midst, will love be a distraction or a strength? Aegis Group Alpha Team: Dangerous in Love Dangerous in Action Dangerous in Transit Dangerous in Motion Dangerous in Charge HEART OF DANGER, BODY OF DANGER 1 Christmas is a special time of year for Valentina, and Duke is going to make sure it's a special one. Even if he has to take on the whole valley to make it happen. Body of Danger: Heart of Danger Spirit of Danger Mind of Danger DANGEROUSLY TAKEN, AEGIS GROUP LEPTA TEAM 1 The closer Erin and Riley get to the truth behind Erin's kidnapping the more dangerous their path becomes. Someone wants Erin silenced at any price. Riley can’t let that happen. Aegis Group Lepta Team: Dangerously Taken Dangerously Involved Dangerously Deceived Dangerously Broken Dangerously Entwined STOLEN RISK, AEGIS GROUP TASK FORCE 1 Tabby and Jamie must put aside their differences and ignore their chemistry if they're going to get to the bottom of the international theft before time runs out. Aegis Group Task Force: Stolen Risk Forged Risk Technical Risk Necessary Risk More soon! JUST BUSINESS, AEGIS GROUP DANGEROUS LADIES 1 Haley is the only person Konstantin can trust to have his back, but being on the run together means facing the fact that he's very much in love with her. Together they'll face down an old threat and a new enemy all in the name of love and family. Aegis Group Dangerous Ladies: Just Business Just Casual Just Friends

Fatal Isolation
Fatal Isolation

Author: Richard C. Keller

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2015-05-07

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 022625111X

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In a cemetery on the outskirts of Paris lie the bodies of a hundred of what many have called the first casualties of global climate change. They are the so-called abandoned or forgotten victims of the worst natural disaster in French history, the devastating heat wave that struck France in August 2003, leaving 15,000 people dead. They are those who died alone in Paris and its suburbs, buried at public expense when no family claimed their bodies. They died (and to a great extent lived) unnoticed by their neighbors, discovered in some cases only weeks after their deaths. And as with the victims of Hurricane Katrina, they rapidly became the symbols of the disaster for a nation wringing its hands over the mismanagement of the heat wave and the social and political dysfunctions it revealed. "Chasing Ghosts" tells the stories of these victims and the catastrophe that took their lives. It explores the official story of the crisis and its aftermath, as presented by the media and the state; the anecdotal lives and deaths of its victims, and the ways in which they illuminate and challenge typical representations of the disaster; and the scientific understandings of catastrophe and its management. It is at once a social history of risk and vulnerability in the urban landscape, and an ethnographic account of how a city copes with dramatic change and emerging threats.

Face of Danger
Face of Danger

Author: Sidney Bristol

Publisher: Inked Press

Published: 2021-11-16

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13:

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Former child actor Chris Madura returns to his hometown for Christmas with only one goal. He wants to give his stalker the slip. For one month he wants to live like a normal person without always looking over his shoulder. And maybe he'll run into his first crush? The girl he never got up the nerve to ask out before it was too late. But he can't go ten feet without people taking his picture. With one click of a button, Mel finds herself the focus of a familiar face. It's her childhood friend and the star of all her teenage fantasies back home again. But this reunion isn't just hot, boozy chocolate and making eyes at this dreamy man. Chris is near to breaking under the stress of being hunted by an obsessed fan. Mel can't let him go through this alone, which means getting very close to one irresistible man. It doesn't take long for the sparks to fly between Mel and Chris, drawing the ire of the person who believes Chris belongs to them. And then literal sparks send Mel's home up in a blaze, making the situation that much more dangerous this holiday. Body of Danger Heart of Danger Spirit of Danger Mind of Danger Face of Danger Aegis Group Dangerous Attraction Dangerous in Training Dangerous Games Dangerous Assignment Dangerous Protector Dangerous Secrets Dangerous Betrayal Dangerous Heat Dangerous Connections Dangerous Legacy Dangerous Beginnings (coming soon) More soon! Aegis Group Task Force: an Aegis Group spin-off First Risk (newsletter exclusive short story) Stolen Risk Forged Risk Technical Risk Necessary Risk Intercepted Risk Targeted Risk (2021) Hard Risk (TBA) Burned Risk (TBA) Final Risk (TBA) Aegis Group Dangerous Ladies: an Aegis Group spin-off Just Business Just Friends Just Casual Just Enemies Just Dangerous Aegis Group Alpha Team: an Aegis Group spin-off Dangerous in Love Dangerous in Action Dangerous in Transit Dangerous in Motion Dangerous in Charge Aegis Group Lepta Team: an Aegis Group spin-off Dangerously Taken Dangerously Involved Dangerously Deceived Dangerously Broken Dangerously Entwined Ransom Texas SWAT; an Aegis Group spin off Fighting Redemption Stolen Redemption Forbidden Redemption Reckless Redemption (coming soon) Gone Geek: an Aegis Group spin off Beauty and the Geek Mr. Purr-fect and the Geek The Jock and the Geek The Gamer and the Geek The Adorkable Girl and the Geek The Fake Boyfriend and the Geek

The Dangerous Sex
The Dangerous Sex

Author: Hoffman R Hays

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-07-07

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 1000879054

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First published in 1966, The Dangerous Sex shows how the irrational concept of the "dangerous sex" evolved and how it was – and is – used by man to maintain his dominance. He examines sexual practices and beliefs, marriage customs and rituals, and social behaviour in every society and every age from pre-historic times to the present day. The result is a revealing picture of the deep-seated male hostility that generates the way of the sexes and has fed it throughout human history. It is also a blazing indictment of this ingrained psycho-social pattern, as it unconsciously destroys and disrupts huge areas of human happiness. In this enquiry into misogyny, H. R. Hays suggests that men must face their own compulsions before a true and balanced relation between the sexes is achieved. This book therefore throws a new light on the problems of feminism, the feminine mystique and the whole controversy concerning the place of women in society, and will be of interest to students of literature, gender studies, anthropology and psychology.