Treacherous Temptations
Treacherous Temptations

Author: Victoria Vane

Publisher: Entangled: Scandalous

Published: 2013-01-21

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1622668677

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A reluctant heiress resigned to her fate... Mary Elizabeth Edwardes possesses one of the largest fortune's in England, but has no desire to leave her quiet country existence... and even less to acquire a husband she cannot choose for herself. A dissolute nobleman bent on retribution... Trapped in a duplicitous existence since scandal destroyed his fortune and family name, Lord Hadley Blanchard has spent the better part of a decade posing as a disaffected exile while spying and seducing in the service of the English Crown. A dangerous game of seduction, and intrigue... By employing the full measure of his seductive charm, he woos the ward of the man who destroyed his life, little knowing that winning Mary's fortune will mean risking his own treacherous heart.

Temptation and Treachery
Temptation and Treachery

Author: Sahara Roberts

Publisher: Entangled: Ignite

Published: 2017-09-25

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 164063245X

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Andres “Rio” Rivera became his ICE profile years ago. Cold and calculating, he never promises anything beyond right now. But when he ends up with a cancelled flight and a shared hotel room with the secretive Celeste Patron, the fire behind Celeste’s buttoned-up exterior melts every barrier. He may only have her for one night, but that’s long enough to make her every fantasy come true. When Celeste leaves, Rio returns to hunting a notorious cartel leader. His shock upon arresting the man is eclipsed when he discovers the woman he fell for is his daughter...and she’s pregnant with Rio’s baby. Books in the Dangerous Desire series: Desire and Deception Secrets and Seduction Temptation and Treachery

The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations: Volume 4, Challenges to American Primacy, 1945 to the Present
The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations: Volume 4, Challenges to American Primacy, 1945 to the Present

Author: Warren I. Cohen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-05-13

Total Pages: 397

ISBN-13: 1316175626

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Since their first publication, the four volumes of the Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations have served as the definitive source for the topic, from the colonial period to the Cold War. The fourth volume of the updated edition explores the conditions in the international system at the end of World War II, the American determination to provide leadership, and the security dilemma each superpower posed for the other. This revised and expanded edition incorporates recent scholarship and revelations, carrying the narrative through the years following the end of the Cold War into the administration of Barack Obama. The character of the American political system is explored, including the separation of political powers and the role of interest groups that prompted American leaders to exaggerate dangers abroad to enhance their domestic power. This new edition examines the conditions in the international system from the end of World War II to the present, focusing on the American determination to provide world leadership.

The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations
The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations

Author: William Earl Weeks

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-05-13

Total Pages: 397

ISBN-13: 0521763622

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This book explores the conditions of international relations from the end of WWII to the present, focusing on the American determination to provide world leadership.

The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations: Volume 4, America in the Age of Soviet Power, 1945-1991
The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations: Volume 4, America in the Age of Soviet Power, 1945-1991

Author: Bradford Perkins

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9780521483810

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'Happily the new, four-volume book provides an opportunity to scan the past two centuries for indications of the shape of foreign policy in the post-Cold War world. Each of the four books stands on its own. Each offers a clear overview of a particular period written by a distinguished historian drawing on considerable body of research, itself the product of decades of scholarly endeavor. None is simply a chronicle of events.'- World Policy Journal

The Elements of Power
The Elements of Power

Author: Terry Bacon

Publisher: AMACOM

Published: 2011-01-26

Total Pages: 526

ISBN-13: 0814415121

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Discover invaluable insights about power and leadership with up-and-coming influencers from the former CEO of a global consulting firm. Author Terry R. Bacon teaches you how things like your own knowledge, expressiveness, history, character, network, and reputation can open the complex combination lock to true leadership and irresistible influence. Whether you’re interested in taking on a more substantial role in your professional or personal life, these tools already at your disposal are the key to achieving success. Applying the latest research on the nature of power all over the world, Elements of Power shows you: how power works in organizations, how people use and lose power, the relationship between power and leadership, what makes famous people powerful, and how to lead and influence others more effectively. Complete with examinations of key business figures and world leaders and a handy self-assessment tool, Elements of Power offers an accessible and unprecedented pipeline to the many sources and types of internal and external power and provides insights on how to leverage each and how to exert the most important power of all: the power of will.

My Vita, If You Will
My Vita, If You Will

Author: Ed McClanahan

Publisher: Catapult

Published: 1998-09-12

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1887178775

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If you don't know Ed McClanahan, this "anthology of his essays, reviews, short stories, and novel excerpts (from early drafts) ought to do the trick" (Booklist). Highlighting the collection is "Grateful Dead I Have Known," a long prize-winning meditation about Jerry Garcia and the fanatical devotion of his fans. Also collected here for the first time are McClanahans's earliest short stories, along with book reviews, lost chapters of The Natural Man, and a substantial afterword to Famous People I Have Known. His recollections of famous friends and fellow travelers form an integral part of this book. He joins his buddy Ken Kesey in a bus-journey reunion with other gray-haired Merry Pranksters, and he pokes fun at his own graduate-school flamboyance in a touching remembrance of his mentor Wallace Stegner.

I Just Hitched in from the Coast
I Just Hitched in from the Coast

Author: Ed McClanahan

Publisher: Catapult

Published: 2011-10-11

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1582437580

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This rollicking collection—personally selected by the author (in collaboration with his editor Tom Marksbury)—gathers the best of Ed McClanahan's work, making it a must–have for both long–time fans and newcomers alike. Comprised of fourteen works, I Just Hitched in from the Coast is an admixture of fiction and non–fiction, memoir and imagination. It includes such classics as "Fondelle, or: The Whore with a Heart of Gold," and the wry essay "The Day the Lampshades Breathed," chronicling McClanahan's time in the 1960s. In "The Essentials of Western Civilization," McClanahan imagines the affairs of Assistant Professor Harrison B. Eastep, MA, of Arbuckle State in Oregon, and of the gradual erosion of his dedication to academia. Weaving together Vietnam, rock and roll, a lackluster counterculture past, and the Great Plague of London, this is storytelling at its best by a master of the craft. The foremost stylist of the Yippie generation, McClanahan writes with bemused affection. He parlays his Southern sensibilities and California experiences with a mastery of language, to tantalize his readers with musings that are absurd, whimsical, outrageous, and, in the words of one reviewer, "wickedly sharp."

The Grateful Dead Reader
The Grateful Dead Reader

Author: David Dodd

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2000-08-24

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0199728631

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Arranged in chronological order, these pieces add up to nothing less than a full-scale history of the greatest tour band in the history of rock. From Tom Wolfe's account of the Dead's first performance as the Grateful Dead (at an Acid Test in 1965), to Ralph Gleason's 1967 interview with the 24-year-old Jerry Garcia, to Mary Eisenhart's obituary of the beloved leader of the band, these selections include not only outstanding writing on the band itself, but also superb pieces on music and pop culture generally. Fans will be fascinated by the poetry, fiction, drawings, and rare and revealing photographs featured in the book, as well as the anthology's many interviews and profiles, interpretations of lyrics, and concert and record reviews. Still, The Grateful Dead was more than a band--it was a cultural phenomenon. For three decades it remained on one unending tour, followed everywhere by a small army of nomadic fans. This phenomenon is both analyzed and celebrated here, in such pieces as Ed McClanahan's groundbreaking article in Playboy in 1972, fan-magazine editor Blair Jackson's 1990 essay on the seriousness of the drug situation at Dead concerts, and Steve Silberman's insightful essays on the music and its fans.