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Masculinities and Queer Perspectives in Transitional Justice (ISSN)
by Philipp Schulz Brandon Hamber Heleen TouquetThis book addresses the theory and practice of transitional justice through the lens of masculinities and queer perspectives.What and where are the intersections between masculinities and queer theories and frameworks for better understanding lived experiences of violence, justice, and transitions? How can masculinities and queer perspectives enhance and "complexify" our understandings of the intersections between gender, sexualities, armed conflict and (post-)conflict transitions? Incorporating masculinities and queer perspectives in transitional justice in tandem, and alongside one another, this book contributes empirically, conceptually, and methodologically to an exploration of gender in processes of dealing with violent pasts. More specifically, and by taking on the task of combining, bringing into conversation, and utilizing both masculinities and queer perspectives, the book aims to facilitate and contribute toward more inclusive, holistic, and intersectional approaches of gender in dealing with the past.This book will appeal to scholars and students working in the areas of transitional justice, peace and conflict research, international relations, gender studies, and socio-legal studies.The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.
Workouts for Stepping into Emotionally Focused Therapy: Exercises to Strengthen Your Practice
by Lorrie L. BrubacherWorkouts for Stepping into Emotionally Focused Therapy is a companion to Stepping into Emotionally Focused Therapy: Key Ingredients of Change (2nd ed.). Inspired by Deliberate Practice, it is filled with exercises called workouts first with couples (EFCT), followed by a series of workouts in that same skill or move with individuals (EFIT).The workouts are more than skill-drills. They are clear, tangible ways for the reader-practitioner to become emotionally engaged within self and in attunement with each client scenario and to strengthen their EFT muscles with the practice of each of these EFT ingredients of change. Part 1 includes workouts of ten micro-skills across a wide range of client scenarios, including diversity of racial, ethnic, gender, sexual orientation, religious, neurodiversity, and other contextual diversity. Workouts with the five moves of the EFT Tango, from beginning of therapy to the completion of Stage 2 change, first with a couple and then with an individual, make up Part 2. The reader-practitioner has opportunity in Part 3 to apply the macro-intervention to Stages 1 and 2 change in their own lives, to explore barriers to following and deepening emotions, and to utilize a series of antidotes for typical EFT therapist challenges and goal-setting.Containing practical handles for the new clinician or graduate student wanting to integrate EFT into their practice, it is also stimulating and relevant for seasoned therapists and counselors seeking to sharpen EFT skills and develop confidence in the model with both couples and individuals.
Generative AI in Writing Education: Policy and Pedagogical Implications (Routledge Research in Writing Studies)
by Dylan MedinaThis book provides a theoretical framework to allow educators, researchers, and policymakers to better understand computer‑generated writing and the policy and pedagogical implications of generative AI.Generative AI, such as ChatGPT and Gemini, has substantially disrupted educational spaces, forcing educators, policymakers, and other stakeholders to reconsider writing and how it should be used in education. Responding to this disruption, this book provides technically sound guidance on how various stakeholders should engage with generative AI. After providing a foundational and technical discussion of the technology, this book directly addresses the educational context. Informed by theories of learning and knowledge transfer and utilizing rhetorical theories of writing, this book assesses the impact of AI on student learning, student performance, and academic honesty and integrity. In doing so, the book outlines how generative AI can be both a help and a hindrance for students, enabling readers to craft informed and meaningful policies and successfully integrate AI in the composition classroom.This book will be of interest to scholars in the fields of Rhetoric and Composition, Technical Writing, Communication Studies, Linguistics, and TESOL, as well as to Education and Machine Learning policymakers, program directors, and researchers.
Technical Challenges of the Battery Electric Vehicle Transition: Emissions, Energy, and Policy Implications
by Bradley EyesThis practical guide identifies the technical challenges of transitioning to battery electric vehicles in Australia, reviews the impacts of life cycle emissions on passenger transport systems, and presents government, institutional and personal requirements for reducing passenger vehicle mode share.Accommodating renewable energy sources to achieve emission reductions following a 1.5°C pathway laid out by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will require a significant reduction in transport energy demand. This book guides the reader through multiple necessary approaches, including demand reduction, significant holistic efficiency increases, and technology adoption that progresses beyond physical transport options. The scope is for the medium to long-term, addressing the complex challenges of battery electric vehicle sales regulation and disposal to 2050. Successful examples and policies from around the world are reviewed to showcase necessary societal changes to support a transition to sustainable transport in cities. The book provides readers with a fundamental technical understanding of passenger transport energy demand and necessary emissions reduction solutions. Applying this knowledge is fundamental in decision-making for sustainable transport solutions.This accessible and practical shortform book provides information necessary for policy-makers, transport industry professionals, and interested sustainability researchers. Although the discussion and focus are on Australian cities, the cases described, policies analyzed, and recommendations made are applicable to any developed city worldwide.
Optical Brain–Computer Interface: Using a Miniscope to Detect Multi-Neuronal Dynamics during Cognition-Related Events
by Dechuan Sun Chris French Ranjith R UnnithanIn this shortform book, Sun, French, and Unnithan explore state-of-the-art optical recording techniques, with a focus on the revolutionary miniaturized fluorescence microscope – the miniscope – for real-time and in vivo monitoring of multi-neuronal dynamics during cognition-related events.The miniscope is a powerful tool that allows real-time in vivo optical recording of multi-neuronal activity in freely moving animals. This book highlights the use of the miniscope in the context of the hippocampus, a brain region crucial for memory and cognition. The authors employ a combination of theoretical concepts, practical applications, and illustrative case studies to deliver a comprehensive understanding of optical recording techniques. They provide step-by-step guides for using the miniscope, offer insights into data analysis, and discuss its implications in the context of hippocampal research and brain–computer interfaces. Readers will gain profound insights into the role of the hippocampus in memory and cognition, and expert knowledge of the latest miniaturized in vivo optical recording techniques. The book provides them with thorough guidance on implementing a miniaturized fluorescence microscope for a brain–computer interface and information on advanced analysis techniques on the activity of large neuronal populations. This book provides an invaluable short and accessible guide for researchers, neuroscientists, and brain–computer interface enthusiasts to enable them to understand and leverage the immense potential of this advanced optical recording methodology.
Meet Your Match (Kings of the Ice)
by Kandi SteinerOne Month with Vince Tanev. Twenty-four-seven access on and off the ice.Social media journalist Maven King lands an opportunity of a lifetime when she is assigned to get up close and personal with the Tampa Bay Ospreys' new shiny hockey player. Too bad that Maven has already met Vince at an all-star gala - and they were at each other's throats the entire time. Tampa's hotshot rookie is a rich, cocky playboy - a brand Maven is all too familiar with, and one she's determined to never be around again.But Vince, with his messy brown hair and heated hazel eyes, gets under Maven's skin like no one else, and it isn't long before that paper-thin line between hate and lust blurs. The tension is hot enough to melt Maven's inhibitions - and Vince's touch ignites a desire that's impossible to resist... Maven thought one month with Vince Tanev was a game she could easily win. But she might have just met her match.An utterly addictive, steamy enemies-to-lovers, opposites sides of the track and forced proximity ice hockey romance perfect for fans of Icebreaker, Collide and The Deal. Meet Your Match is book one in the Kings of the Ice series: a series of interconnected standalones following a team of professional hockey players and the women who bring them to their knees. They do not need to be read in order, but you will gain glimpses of future characters/couples in each book.
Security and Privacy in Web 3.0 (Digital Privacy and Security)
by Meng Shen Xiangyun Tang Wei Wang Liehuang ZhuWeb 3.0 is the next generation of the Internet built on decentralized technologies such as blockchain and cryptography. It is designed to address issues encountered in the previous generation of the Internet such as imbalanced distribution of interests, monopoly of platform resources, and leakage of personal privacy. This book explores the challenges and solutions related to ensuring security and privacy in the context of the evolving Web 3.0 architecture. Web 3.0 represents the next generation of the web, characterized by decentralized networks, blockchain technology, and enhanced user control over data. As Web 3.0 evolves, the focus on addressing security and privacy concerns becomes increasingly crucial. This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the security and privacy issues specific to Web 3.0 and offers practical defense frameworks and methods to mitigate these challenges. This book is dedicated to the specific aspects of security and privacy in Web 3.0, from introducing the architecture and addressing the inherent issues to presenting innovative methods for privacy-preserving computing, user behavior identification, and abnormal transaction detection. It is of particular interest to researchers in the field of Web 3.0, blockchain, and network security, as it summarizes the security and privacy concerns in Web 3.0 and brings a number of innovative technologies and practical solutions to protect sensitive data and maintain user privacy in Web 3.0 environments, equipping researchers with the knowledge necessary to design secure and privacy-aware applications and systems in Web 3.0.
From Encryption to Quantum Computing: The Governance of Information Security and Human Rights (Information Technology and Law Series #38)
by Ot van DaalenThis book examines the implications of information security which plays such an important role in modern digital infrastructure. Information security technologies restrict the (mis)use of this infrastructure, while also constantly being probed by researchers, intelligence agencies and criminals. One can see this cycle of making and breaking everywhere in the digital sphere. An important example of this cat-and-mouse game is the development of quantum computers, which may in the near future break some widely used encryption technologies. This cycle also has implications for human rights: weakening encryption may affect privacy, for example. But the relationship between human rights and information security has not been investigated in-depth before. In this study, state obligations relating to information security are analysed under the European Convention for Human Rights and the EU Charter for Fundamental Rights, focusing on issues as human rights-compatible encryption policy, on how governments should deal with vulnerabilities in software, and whether governments can curtail the development and export of quantum computers. This book analyses the human rights-compatibility of quantum computing governance and offers unique insights into the connection between human rights and information security that will be relevant for legal practitioners, policy-makers and academics involved in this field of research. Ot van Daalen is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Information Law (IViR), Faculty of Law of the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Advances in Smart Medical, IoT & Artificial Intelligence: Proceedings of ICSMAI'2024, Volume 2 (Information Systems Engineering and Management #12)
by Mohammed Serrhini Kamal GhoumidThis comprehensive book brings together the brightest minds in academic, featuring a curated selection of papers and presentations from the esteemed conference. With a focus on the intersection of the conference themes, this book provides a unique platform for researchers, practitioners, and innovators to share their cutting-edge research, innovations, and solutions. Get ready to dive into the latest advancements in Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things for Healthcare, Computer Vision, world of computer science, featuring advancements in machine learning, natural language processing, and more with the Proceedings of SMAI2024. This book presents a comprehensive and interdisciplinary examination of the applications, challenges, and implications of AI-IoT convergence in different contexts such Smart Healthcare/Smart Technologies/Smart Industry, computer vision, and NLP. Through a series of erudite chapters, esteemed experts in computer sciences, healthcare, physics, technology, and research domains provide authoritative insights into the transformative potential of this synergy. As editors, we are proud to present a curated collection of contributions that reflect the latest research findings, innovations, and best practices in IA technology. The editors’ objective is to provide a nuanced and authoritative exploration of the AI-IoT nexus, with the aim of inspiring further research, collaboration, and innovation in the pursuit of excellence in Artificial Intelligence.
Die Zukunft der Sozialen Arbeit: Chancen und neue Herausforderungen
by Sigurður A. Rohloff Lena LokschinWelche Anforderungen werden an eine robuste und gesellschaftlich anerkennenswerte Soziale Arbeit gestellt, die in ihrer wissenschaftlichen Disziplin, in der Anschlussfähigkeit ihrer Theorien und in der Anerkennung ihrer Profession überzeugt und dabei noch in sich konsistent ist? Im internationalen Vergleich der Theoriebestände und praktischen Bezüge von Sozialer Arbeit herrscht eine große Diversität und Vielfalt, die sich durch unterschiedliche gesellschaftliche und nationalstaatliche Makro-Bedingungen herausgebildet haben.Gleichzeitig globalisieren sich die Krisen wie Kriege, Pandemien, Klimawandel, Armut und Hunger in einer beschleunigten Weise, welche eher eine pragmatische Theoriebildung und Praxis der Sozialen Arbeit im Sinne von globalen Wohlergehen und Menschenrechten herausfordert. In einer neuen und beschleunigten Anpassungsdynamik reagiert Soziale Arbeit eher darauf, als dass sie selbständig agiert.Kritischer Rationalismus, kritische Gesellschaftstheorie und ethische Orientierung der Sozialen Arbeit werden gerade im internationalen Kontext unter dem Einfluss neuer und schwer überschaubarer globaler Krisen und Herausforderungen noch stärker gefragt werden. In diesem Sammelband werden Beiträge von Autorinnen und Autoren zusammengestellt, die die möglichen Zukunftsperspektiven der Sozialen Arbeit erhellen sollen.
Student Activism in the Global South: The Formation of Political Capabilities in Higher Education
by Kurauone MasungoThis book makes an original conceptual and empirical contribution to debates on the role of student activism in enhancing social justice within education in the Global South, using South Africa as a case study. The book explores the development of higher education students’ political capabilities through student activism – that is, the freedom to express political ideas and engage in protests, including the following key capabilities: participation, dialogue, practical reasoning, voice, emotional expression, contextual knowledge and physical wellbeing. The author considers the possibility of enhancing justice and democracy in higher education through the formation of such student freedoms. The book will be of interest to academics and researchers in student activism, higher education and social justice, as well as institutional staff members with knowledge of student governance, members of student representative councils and higher education administrators.
Die Bedeutung von Dankbarkeit in einer digitalen Welt (essentials)
by Irena StaudenmaierDieses inspirierende Büchlein erinnert uns daran, warum es wichtig ist, inmitten der digitalen Revolution dankbar zu sein. Mit praktischen Übungen, inspirierenden Geschichten und einer ermutigenden Perspektive ist es eine wertvolle Ressource für jeden, der nach mehr Erfüllung und Zufriedenheit in einer digitalen Welt sucht. Es bietet einen einzigartigen Blickwinkel auf Dankbarkeit in einer digitalisierten Welt. Die Autorin unterstützt mit praktischen Ratschläge und Übungen, die helfen, die vorgestellten Konzepte im eigenen Leben anzuwenden.
Consumption and Production in the Textile and Garment Industry: A Comparative Study Among Asian Countries (SDGs and Textiles)
by Sadhna Rajesh Kumar Hafeezullah Memon S. GreeshmaThis book explores the consumption and production aspects of the textile and garment industry, with a focus on the challenges and opportunities being faced by the industry. It offers a thorough exploration of consumption and production dynamics within the textile and garment industry across vital Asian countries. It aims to unravel this vital sector's economic, cultural and technological intricacies of China, India, Vietnam, Bangladesh and South Korea. It further examines the environmental and social impacts of the industry, including issues such as pollution, waste and labor conditions. It will also explore emerging trends and innovations in the industry, such as sustainable materials and production methods and the rise of ethical consumerism. It is a valuable resource for students, researchers, policymakers and industry professionals interested in understanding and addressing this critical sector's challenges.
Reimagining Capitalism in a Post-Globalization World: Proceedings of the 13th Griffiths School of Management & IT Annual Conference (GSMAC 23), Oradea, Romania, June 9, 2023 (Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics)
by Silvia L. Fotea Sebastian A. Văduva Ioan Ş. FoteaIn a world that is grappling with soaring energy costs, widespread inflation, armed conflicts, and the looming specter of trade wars, world leaders and pundits are actively seeking transformative paradigms to usher in a sense of stability, many of them envisioning a reimagination of capitalism. This volume offers a unique Eastern European perspective on this phenomenon. Featuring select contributions presented at the 13th Annual Griffiths School of Management & IT’s Conference on Business, Entrepreneurship and Ethics (GSMAC 2023), this book explores the future of innovation, digital entrepreneurship, digital leadership and management, stakeholder capitalism, corporate social responsibility, among other areas. The enclosed research identifies challenges of the new social, economic, and technological paradigms companies are facing and offers concrete solutions.
Measuring the Physiologic Use Conditions of Medical Devices
by Walt Baxter Ryan LahmThe physiologic use conditions medical devices are subjected to during implant and long-term in vivo use are critical to ensuring device reliability, efficacy, and safety. This book highlights advanced analyses for measuring the physiologic use conditions of medical devices, introducing important challenges facing engineers. The chapters include: A working definition for the physiologic in vivo use conditions used to further improve medical device performance in patients. Introductions to common approaches used to measure medical device use conditions so that engineers can use similar techniques where useful. Detailed case studies that highlight problem statements, approaches for measuring physiologic use conditions, and example outputs from such analyses. This book provides an up-to-date resource for device engineers so that they can accurately measure conditions that devices experience during and after implantation—key to reliability testing, computational modeling, and choosing optimum designs. This is an ideal book for medical device engineers and scientists designing and manufacturing devices for human use, students interested in understanding how devices interact with anatomy, and academic researchers seeking to apply advanced analyses to unmet use condition needs in the medical device field.
Reflective Affective Dramaturgies of Participatory Theatre: Larping Audiences into Performance
by Sarah HooverAs the popularity and diversity of participatory theatre productions increase, scholarly and artistic attention toward the audience as agentive contributors and interpreters must keep pace. Simultaneously, the COVID-19 pandemic has added urgency to the collective artistic encounter and its value to individual and community health. This book proposes “reflective affective” dramaturgies of participatory theatre aimed toward incorporating participants’ reflections and affective responses as material in an emergent exploration of represented systems of power. The volume's interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks stem from performance studies discourses including feminist materialism, phenomenology and affect theory, bringing them together with larp scholarship on character/self performance, agency and emergence. Through its integration of the practical and theoretical, this work serves as an essential study for scholars, students and artists in theatre studies, performance studies, visual art studies, role-play studies, cultural studies, and philosophy.
HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, volume 14 number 2 (Fall 2024)
by HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of ScienceThis is volume 14 issue 2 of HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science. Presenting international, peer-reviewed scholarship on the history of philosophy of science, HOPOS explores connections across a range of social, economic, and political contexts. The work of philosophers of science is a central focus, as well as the development, interpretation, and impact of the philosophy of science as a discipline. The journal features articles, special issues, book reviews, and review essays of recent scholarship in growing areas of the field. HOPOS is the official journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science.
Speculum, volume 99 number 4 (October 2024)
by SpeculumThis is volume 99 issue 4 of Speculum. Speculum, an English-language quarterly founded in 1926, was the first journal in North America devoted to the Middle Ages. It is open to contributions in all fields and methodologies studying the Middle Ages, a period that ranges from approximately 500 to 1500. The journal welcomes scholarship that takes a global approach as well as articles that bridge disciplines and appeal to a broad cross section of medievalists. European, Arabic, Byzantine, Hebrew, and Slavic studies are included.
Sharks in the Rivers
by Ada LimónThe speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself multiply dislocated: from her childhood in California, from her family's roots in Mexico, from a dying parent, from her prior self. The world is always in motion and it is also full of risk.In such a world, how should one proceed? Throughout Sharks in the Rivers, Limón suggests that we must cleave to the world as it 'keep[s] opening before us,' for, if we pay attention, we can be one with its complex, ephemeral, and beautiful strangeness. Loss is perpetual, and each person's mouth 'is the same / mouth as everyone's, all trying to say the same thing.' For Limón, it's the saying - individual and collective - that transforms each of us into 'a wound overcome by wonder,' that allows 'the wind itself' to be our 'own wild whisper'.
Wise Women: Myths and stories for midlife and beyond
by Sharon Blackie Angharad WynneAn unforgettable collection of retold myths and folk tales celebrating the wisdom and power of women in midlife and beyond, from the award-winning author of Hagitude'An extraordinary selection of stories ... beautifully and vividly retold' TLS'Read it, absorb it, treasure it!' SHAHRUKH HUSAIN, author of The Virago Book of Witches'A fascinating collection of female myths and legends' SARA SHERIDAN, author of The Fair BotanistsFrom early childhood, we learn about the world and its possibilities through myths and fairy tales. The heroines, though, tend to be golden-haired princesses, and the evil-doers often older women. But women today are searching for positive versions of themselves from midlife onwards, and this dazzling array of not-to-be-messed-with characters - from ungainly giantesses and sequin-strewn fairy godmothers to misunderstood witches and craggy crones - provides them. They outwit monsters, test and mentor younger heroines, embody the cycles and seasons of the earth, weave the world into being - and almost always have the last laugh.These women manifest their wisdom in different ways, and so offer us inspiration for how we too can walk boldly and live authentically in the second half of life.'Wonderful, both comforting and inspiring' VICTORIA SMITH, author of Hags'The book I've been longing for' JILL DAWSON, author of The Bewitching'I adored Wise Women - this is the missing piece of the jigsaw puzzle when it comes to reframing the narrative in our culture about the role of older females' ELEANOR MILLS, author of Much More to Come: Lessons on the mayhem and magnificence of midlife 'Reading it quenched a thirst I didn't know I had. Oh for a world where stories of the power and joy of women's elder years are celebrated everywhere' DOREEN CUNNINGHAM, author of Soundings'Revisits our old stories, making them thrilling for us now' STELLA DUFFY OBE
The American No: ‘[An] eccentric and exquisite new collection of stories' Tatler
by Rupert Everett'Rupert Everett is one of my favourite writers. He's brilliantly witty, acutely perceptive and highly sensitive, and his writing is incredibly good. His stories are both moving and tender, often outrageous, and funny too. A gifted storyteller' Santa MontefioreEight stories of love and loss, drama and glamour, hope and rejection, from a writer at the height of his powers. In Rupert Everett's first, glorious collection of stories, he takes us on an exhilarating journey with a cast of extraordinary characters. A blackly humorous story of a chaotic and emotional funeral in Paris. Oscar Wilde's last night in Paris, vividly evocative, unflinching and elegiac. A Russian-American countess who confronts sex and age in a Wiltshire teashop. The ferociously unforgiving life of an L.A. talent agency and the unexpected twist that launches a completely different kind of career. The deathbed confession of a woman who left home for 1850s India, never to return. A story of emigration, love and grief. And a beautifully evocative and touching portrayal of Proust's creative life and his childhood. A brilliantly witty, funny and tender collection of stories that draws on the wealth of film and TV ideas Rupert Everett has created over the course of his career, The American No will delight and surprise his many fans.'A supremely gifted writer' Lynn Barber, The Times
Jokes, Jokes, Jokes: My Very Funny Memoir
by Jenny Eclair'As hilarious and outrageous as you might expect' Rosie Ramsey 'Funny. Poignant. Fascinating. Just the sort of hilarious, disrespectful, ribald book I love to get stuck into' Jo Brand How did little Jenny Hargreaves become Jenny Eclair and elbow her way into the male dominated world of 1980s stand-up?Daughter of Major Derek Hargreaves (spy?) and June Hargreaves (spy's wife?) sister of Sara (born to be Head Girl) and Ben (the usurper), Jenny's comedy career took off via drama school, cider, sausage rolls, sleeping with men who looked like they lived under a carpet, punk poetry, anorexia, bedsit misery, waitressing and not really having a clue about anything.This was a world before microphones, mobile phones, before everyone gave up smoking or started taking coke. Jenny Eclair was on the comedy circuit before there really was a comedy circuit and was the first woman to win the Perrier Award along the way.Still gigging to sell-out crowds forty years later, Jenny Eclair's memoir charts her childhood, her career and the changing face of women in comedy, all told with hilarious brilliance in Jokes, Jokes, Jokes, her very funny memoir.
Watch Your Mouth (Kings of the Ice)
by Kandi SteinerGrace Tanev is off limits to her brother's teammates - but that doesn't stop her from daring Jaxson Brittain to be the first to break the rule.Grace is all too aware of the hot, broody defenseman for the Tampa Bay Ospreys, with his icy blue eyes and ink sprawling his muscular arms - and she has far too much fun testing Jaxson at every turn.It was just one steamy night of teasing, flirting and messing around knowing nothing would ever come of it. But when the universe throws Grace and Jaxson back together two weeks later on a secret road trip, all bets are off.Grace longs for him to touch her, and tries her hardest to tempt him. Jaxson doesn't have a death wish and, a true gentleman, keeps his hands to himself. But the closer they get on the road, miles and miles away from all the reasons they shouldn't cross the line, temptation is harder and harder to resist...A spicy, wholly irresistible opposites-attract, forced proximity forbidden ice hockey romance perfect for fans of Hannah Grace, Elsie Silver and Elle Kennedy. Watch Your Mouth is book two in the Kings of the Ice series: a series of interconnected standalones following a team of professional hockey players and the women who bring them to their knees. They do not need to be read in order, but you will gain glimpses of future characters/couples in each book.
Consider This: Reflections for Finding Peace
by Nedra Glover TawwabDaily reminders for growth and positive change, from the New York Times bestselling author of SET BOUNDARIES, FIND PEACE and DRAMA FREECONSIDER THIS is a collection of messages intended to uplift, support, and guide us deeper into ourselves. Instead of focusing on what others should do, or who's holding us back, or trying to control external influences, licensed therapist Nedra Glover Tawwab will help you shift your perspective for the better.In this inspiring book of daily insights, Nedra delivers food for thought, friendly reminders, and perspective shifts to help us stay true to who we are and what matters most. Topics include setting boundaries, rising above drama, expressing ourselves with clarity and integrity, and finding peace and joy every chance we can get.This empowering and embraceable book will help us stay the course - and grow more fully into ourselves every day.
Meet Your Match (Kings of the Ice)
by Kandi SteinerOne Month with Vince Tanev. Twenty-four-seven access on and off the ice.Social media journalist Maven King lands an opportunity of a lifetime when she is assigned to get up close and personal with the Tampa Bay Ospreys' new shiny hockey player. Too bad that Maven has already met Vince at an all-star gala - and they were at each other's throats the entire time. Tampa's hotshot rookie is a rich, cocky playboy - a brand Maven is all too familiar with, and one she's determined to never be around again.But Vince, with his messy brown hair and heated hazel eyes, gets under Maven's skin like no one else, and it isn't long before that paper-thin line between hate and lust blurs. The tension is hot enough to melt Maven's inhibitions - and Vince's touch ignites a desire that's impossible to resist... Maven thought one month with Vince Tanev was a game she could easily win. But she might have just met her match.An utterly addictive, steamy enemies-to-lovers, opposites sides of the track and forced proximity ice hockey romance perfect for fans of Icebreaker, Collide and The Deal. Meet Your Match is book one in the Kings of the Ice series: a series of interconnected standalones following a team of professional hockey players and the women who bring them to their knees. They do not need to be read in order, but you will gain glimpses of future characters/couples in each book.