This final book in Debra Driza's exhilarating MILA 2.0 series is perfect for fans of books filled with suspense and imagination, like The Bourne Identity and Legend, and it will surprise and thrill readers to the very end. Now available in paperback.Mila has been running for her life for so long. But that was before she betrayed Hunter, the boy she'll always love, and before she discovered she was an incredible danger to anyone who dares to get close to her.Now she's gone into hiding with friend and tech expert Lucas. But when Mila discovers that her enemy General Holland is an even bigger threat to humanity than she is, she must make a choice: either push aside her fears and fight him with everything she's got . . . or turn her back on the world forever.
Since its inception in the late 19th century, Britain's mail order industry both exploited and generated social networks in building its businesses. The common foundation of the sector was the agency system; Sales were made through catalogues held by agents, ordinary people in families, neighbourhoods, pubs, clubs and workplaces. Through this agency system mail order firms in Britain were able to tap social networks both to build a customer base, but also to obtain vital information on creditworthiness. In this, the first comprehensive history of the British mail order industry, the authors combine business and social history to fully explain the features and workings of this industry. They show how British general mail order industry firms such as Kay and Co., Empire Stores, Littlewoods, and Grattan grew from a range of businesses as diverse as watch sales or football pools. A range of business innovations and strategies were developed throughout the twentieth century, including technological development and labour process rationalisation. Indeed, the sector was in the vanguard of many aspects of change from supply chain logistics to computerization. The social and gender profile of the home shopper also changed markedly as the industry developed. These changes are charted, from the male-dominated origins of the industry to the growing influence of women both within the firm and, more importantly, as the centre of the mail order market. The book also draws parallels and contrasts with the much more widely studied mail order industry of the United States. The final section of the book examines the rise of internet shopping and the new challenges and opportunities it provided for the mail order industry. Here the story is one of continuity and fracture as the established mail order companies struggle to adjust to a business environment which they had partly created, but which also rested on a new range of core competencies and technological and demographic change.
Maia has been assigned the task of returning four crystals to the earth, to help save the environment. She has also been given a necklace possessing magical powers, by a mysterious lady named Rose.Join Maia and her friends as she goes on a quest; with the help of an angel named Raziel, Queen Una of Fairyland and her cat Theothian.Maia soon realises that everyone and everything is interconnected, and that the weather is somehow linked to Rose's emotions. Who is Rose really? Is she just a sweet elderly lady, or someone else entirely?A beautiful, heartfelt tale about trusting your feelings and intuition, standing up for what you believe to be true, and loving yourself for who you really are."I LOVED this book. I would also like my friends to read it so that they can become aware that they have the power and the choice to make significant changes to the environment. It is good for children to realise (they can) be sensitive and share their feelings."Liana 11 years.
Maia has been assigned the task of returning four crystals to the earth, to help save the environment. She has also been given a necklace possessing magical powers, by a mysterious lady named Rose.Join Maia and her friends as she goes on a quest; with the help of an angel named Raziel, Queen Una of Fairyland and her cat Theothian.Maia soon realises that everyone and everything is interconnected, and that the weather is somehow linked to Rose's emotions. Who is Rose really? Is she just a sweet elderly lady, or someone else entirely?A beautiful, heartfelt tale about trusting your feelings and intuition, standing up for what you believe to be true, and loving yourself for who you really are."I LOVED this book. I would also like my friends to read it so that they can become aware that they have the power and the choice to make significant changes to the environment. It is good for children to realise (they can) be sensitive and share their feelings."Liana 11 years.
'Manila Takes Manhattan is my favourite of Carla de Guzman’s books to date.' Reader review ????? How do you follow your heart when it’s torn? Filipino musician and producer Mon Mendoza has been in New York for less than a day. Just long enough to feel like he doesn’t belong despite landing a life-changing opportunity. All he can do is set a date night for himself and some comfort food from home. Which, as it turns out, is the only invitation his gorgeous Pinoy neighbour needs… Actress Olivia Angeles can wear a character like a well-fitted dress. It’s her real self she’s having a hard time fitting into. But right now, all she wants is comfort in the form of tasty noodles and her outrageously hot new neighbour. But then they realise that for the next month Mon and Olivia are working on the same film. And they’re discovering they have a lot more in common than Pinoyness and sizzling chemistry. But how do you find yourself and your person when you’re caught between two different worlds? Perfect for fans of: Workplace romance ?? Forced proximity ?? Big-city settings ??
In the ""Heroides"" the Roman poet Ovid wittily plucks 15 abandoned heriones from ancient myth and literature and creates the fiction that each woman writes a letter to the hero who left her behind. But in giving voice to these heroines, is Ovid writing like a woman, or writing ""Woman"" like a man? Using feminist and psychoanalytic approaches to examine the ""female voice"" in the ""Heroides"", Sara H. Lindheim closely reads these fictive letters. She points out that in Ovid's verse epistles all the women represent themselves in a strikingly similar and disjointed fashion. Lindheim turns to Lacanian theory of desire to explain these curious and hauntingly repetitive representations of the heroines in the ""female voice"". Lindheim's approach illuminates what these poems reveal about both masculine and feminine constructions of the feminine.
"Slusala je sitno, ubitacno jednolicno sljapkanje kise pod prozorima, i Cangino suho kasljanje u drugoj sobi, i Jovanovo hodanje po predsoblju, i bas zato sto je bila sama kao nikad u zivotu, sama kao u grobu, jace je osjecala te znakove tudih zivota s kojima je nista ne veze, od kojih je toliko odvojena da je zbog toga gusi mucan bol. Okrecuci glavu nevidljivom zidu, od koga bije leden dah, ona je svjesna cudne misli, a i ne misli o njoj, da se zbog necega mladici i jedan bolestan covjek teturaju ovog casa po dalekom kaljavom drumu, zbog necega sto je jace od sna i od straha, da zbog neke svoje misli onaj susicavi covjek u drugoj sobi danju i nocu obigrava sela na svojim stulastim nogama, ne misleci na bolesno kasljucanje i ne tuzeci se na umor, da zbog neceg sto mu je vaznije od zivota Jovan mirno gleda na sve sto se oko njega desava, on zna za nesto od veceg znacaja."
"Slusala je sitno, ubitacno jednolicno sljapkanje kise pod prozorima, i Cangino suho kasljanje u drugoj sobi, i Jovanovo hodanje po predsoblju, i bas zato sto je bila sama kao nikad u zivotu, sama kao u grobu, jace je osjecala te znakove tudih zivota s kojima je nista ne veze, od kojih je toliko odvojena da je zbog toga gusi mucan bol. Okrecuci glavu nevidljivom zidu, od koga bije leden dah, ona je svjesna cudne misli, a i ne misli o njoj, da se zbog necega mladici i jedan bolestan covjek teturaju ovog casa po dalekom kaljavom drumu, zbog necega sto je jace od sna i od straha, da zbog neke svoje misli onaj susicavi covjek u drugoj sobi danju i nocu obigrava sela na svojim stulastim nogama, ne misleci na bolesno kasljucanje i ne tuzeci se na umor, da zbog neceg sto mu je vaznije od zivota Jovan mirno gleda na sve sto se oko njega desava, on zna za nesto od veceg znacaja."
Manila, 1645 reconstructs what the city of Manila was like before the earthquakes of the mid-seventeenth century.The book demonstrates the importance of addressing the history of Southeast Asia as a multi-layered framework, rather than a series of entangled histories. In doing so, Manila is contextualized not merely as a Spanish settlement connected to New Spain via America, but instead within Southeast Asia, situated between the Chinese and the Sulú Seas, and located in the centre of commercial routes used by Armenian, Dutch, and Portuguese traders. This historical and geographical context is crucial to understanding later cultural dialogues. Urban planning, housing and architecture, and social networks in the city are also examined. The book will appeal to students and scholars interested in early modern history, global history and architectural history.
Manila, 1645 reconstructs what the city of Manila was like before the earthquakes of the mid-seventeenth century.The book demonstrates the importance of addressing the history of Southeast Asia as a multi-layered framework, rather than a series of entangled histories. In doing so, Manila is contextualized not merely as a Spanish settlement connected to New Spain via America, but instead within Southeast Asia, situated between the Chinese and the Sulú Seas, and located in the centre of commercial routes used by Armenian, Dutch, and Portuguese traders. This historical and geographical context is crucial to understanding later cultural dialogues. Urban planning, housing and architecture, and social networks in the city are also examined. The book will appeal to students and scholars interested in early modern history, global history and architectural history.
Martin, a craggy, hard-working Yorkshire landowner and bachelor, lives with his punctilious spinster sister Ivy on the farm they inherited from their parents. Desperate for companionship, Martin pays for a Filipino woman, Maria - whom he has discovered through a video-dating agency - to come and live with them. Maria, shrewd, intelligent and warm-hearted, desperately wants to start a new life with a "respectable English gentleman farmer". But Ivy resents the intrusion, and on the day of Maria and Martin's wedding, she digs up information about Maria's past, with shocking consequences for them all. From the author of "Beulah", Robson has created a play about East and West in which a lonely, unfulfilled man and a resourceful woman come together in an attempt to mend their broken lives.
Liliana has a sparkle few can deny and no one can resist. The trophy wife of a border magnate living in Texas she's seemingly impeccable. But beneath that polished exterior lies a fierce determination to survive at any cost. When Liliana's true desires break the surface she'll have to decide between the value of obligation versus the price of freedom.
***Enjoy this fantastic collection of puzzles from the Mail on Sunday.Compiled by Mitchell Symons, these challenging crosswords will test your general knowledge and allow you to build a variety of facts on the tip of your tongue.Perfect for seasoned puzzlers and novices alike, The Mail on Sunday General Knowledge Crosswords 1 are ideal for quiz and crossword lovers.
Mila’s Meals: The Beginning & The Basics’ is an award-winning 500- page collection of over 100 nourishing wholefood recipes and food ideas for baby’s first years (and the rest of the family too). Free from gluten, refined sugar, dairy and artificial additives. Part cookbook, part nutrition encyclopaedia, part journal of the author's journey into motherhood, Mila's Meals is a call to action for every parent to be conscious of what they are feeding their little ones, providing a guideline on how to achieve this as effectively, effortlessly and joyfully as possible. It is as much about learning how and what to feed your little one, as it is about RE-learning how to feed yourself. Mila's Meals: The Beginning & the Basics has been awarded seven international book awards including: Gourmand Best of The Best – Diet Category; Gourmand ‘Best In The World’ Award – First Book Category; Next Generation Indie Book Award – Health/Wellness Category; Reader’s Favorite Award – Non-Fiction, Cooking/Food Category; Living Now Book Award – Cookbooks Natural, Nutrition, Organic, Vegetarian Category; International Rubery Book Award – Shortlist – Non-fiction Category; Gourmand World Cookbook Awards – National Winner – Self-Published Category. It was also a finalist in the Rubery Awards.
