Invitation To Ruin

Author : Bronwen Evans
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780758267832

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Invitation to Ruin by Bronwen Evans Pdf

One Good Lady Is About to Go Bad. . . The only thing Miss Melissa Goodly has ever wanted out of a marriage is love. But any hope of that dissolves one wild night, when she loses herself in the arms of the most irresistible--and unobtainable--man in all of England. For when they are discovered in a position as compromising as it is pleasurable, she has no choice but to accept his proposal. Avowed bachelor Anthony Craven, Earl of Wickham, never meant to seduce an innocent like Melissa. Yet now that the damage is done, it does seem like she'd make a very convenient wife. After all, she is so naive he won't have to worry about ever being tempted. Or so he thinks, until the vows are spoken and they are left alone--and his new bride reveals a streak just as brazen and unrestrained as his own. . .

Author : Bronwen Evans
Publisher : NYLA
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780996448710

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Heal Me by Bronwen Evans Pdf

From USA Today bestselling author, Bronwen Evans’s flirty new contemporary romance series, the second Coopers Creek romance... After her fiance dies, Kate Donoghue has picked up the broken pieces of her heart and moved on. She’s sworn off men and is building a new life in Coopers Creek, Colorado as the local vet and senior member of the mountain rescue team. So why now is she suddenly distracted by the seriously sexy investment banker come cowboy, Ric Standford? The man screams big city playboy but what can it hurt to indulge? Kate swears she won’t fall for Ric... but the heat between them is scorching. Investment Banker Ric Stanford is enjoying his new life in the New York office. He’s finally putting distance between his hometown memories of Lizzie and her reckless death. So he’s more than pissed when on a trip home to Coopers Creek he breaks his leg and is stuck there for the foreseeable future. That is, until sexy vet, Kate Donoghue, arrives to attend to his sister’s dog and suddenly a month in Coopers Creek looks totally irresistible. Coopers Creek holds painful memories for Ric and Kate. Can they heal from their pasts; can the town hold a beautiful new future for them both? Don’t miss Tyler and Emily’s electrifying happily ever after in the first Coopers Creek romance – Love Me. “If you are a lover of romance ... [Bronwen] Evans’s novels are the way to go. She constantly reminds us what passion is all about, and because she is so on point with her lively characters, you just can’t go wrong.”—RT Book Reviews

Author : Bronwen Evans
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780758279071

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Invitation to Scandal by Bronwen Evans Pdf

Catch Me If You Can Plagued by scandalous rumors, Rheda Kerrich will stop at nothing to restore her reputation and make an honest living for herself--and she's determined to do it without a husband. But times are hard, and smuggling is a risky though profitable trade. So when a dashing agent for the English government catches her in the act, she desperately resists his charms and conceals her illicit profession. Until she realizes he may be the key to her ultimate freedom--and unbridled passion. . . Rufus Knight, Viscount Strathmore, has never had trouble beguiling the ladies of Kent. When his search for "Dark Shadow," a cunningly elusive smuggler, leads him to alluring and headstrong Rhe, her objections to his amorous advances merely incite a tantalizing game of cat and mouse. Soon, they'll find the very secrets driving them apart could ensnare them in a love they can't escape. . . "Passion, adventure, secrets and danger will keep you turning the pages." --Anna Campbell "A darkly sensual tale of intrigue, romance, and unexpected twists." --Lorraine Heath

Author : Lynn Churchill,Dianne Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317086291

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Occupation: ruin, repudiation, revolution by Lynn Churchill,Dianne Smith Pdf

Bringing together an international range of contributors from the fields of practice, theory and history, this book takes a fresh look at occupation. It argues that occupation is a prospect that begins with ruin--a residue from the past, an implied or even a resounding presence of something previous that holds the potential for transformation. This prospect invites us to repudiate, re-imagine and re-define lived space, thereby asserting occupation as an act of revolution. Authors drawn from the fields of architecture, urbanism, interior architecture, dance dramaturgy, art history, design and visual arts, cultural studies and media studies provide a unique, holistic view of occupation, examining topics such as: the authority of architecture; architecture as an act of revolution; women in hypersexual space; occupation as a serialized act of ruin; and the definition of space as repudiation. They discuss how acts that re-invent territory and/or shift boundaries--psychological, social and physical--affect identity and demonstrate possession. This theme of occupation is significant and topical at a time of radical flux, generated by the proliferation of hypermedia, and also by the dramatically shifting environmental, political and economic context of this era. The book concludes by asserting that it is through occupation (private and public: real, virtual, remembered, re-invented) that we appear or disappear as the individual or collective self, because the spaces we construct assert particular agendas which we may either contest or live in accord with.

Author : Great Britain. Parliament
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1020 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : HARVARD:32044106512981

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The Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain. Parliament Pdf

Author : Bjørnar Olsen,Þóra Pétursdóttir
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317695806

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Ruin Memories by Bjørnar Olsen,Þóra Pétursdóttir Pdf

Since the nineteenth century, mass-production, consumerism and cycles of material replacement have accelerated; increasingly larger amounts of things are increasingly victimized rapidly and made redundant. At the same time, processes of destruction have immensely intensified, although largely overlooked when compared to the research and social significance devoted to consumption and production. The outcome is a ruin landscape of derelict factories, closed shopping malls, overgrown bunkers and redundant mining towns; a ghostly world of decaying modern debris normally omitted from academic concerns and conventional histories. The archaeology of the recent or contemporary past has grown fast during the last decade. This development has been concurrent with a broader popular, artistic and scholarly interest in modern ruins in general. Ruin Memories explores how the ruins of modernity are conceived and assigned cultural value in contemporary academic and public discourses, reassesses the cultural and historical value of modern ruins and suggests possible means for reaffirming their cultural and historic significance. Crucial for this reassessment is a concern with decay and ruination, and with the role things play in expressing the neglected, unsuccessful and ineffable. Abandonment and ruination is usually understood negatively through the tropes of loss and deprivation; things are degraded and humiliated while the information, knowledge and memory embedded in them become lost along the way. Without even ignoring its many negative and traumatizing aspects, a main question addressed in this book is whether ruination also can be seen as an act of disclosure. If ruination disturbs the routinized and ready-to-hand, to what extent can it also be seen as a recovery of memory as exposing meanings and presences that perhaps are only possible to grasp at second hand when no longer immersed in their withdrawn and useful reality? Anybody interested in the archaeology of the contemporary past will find Ruin Memories an essential guide to the very latest theoretical research in this emerging field of archaeological thought.

Author : Cian O'Callaghan,Cesare Di Feliciantonio
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781447356882

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The New Urban Ruins by Cian O'Callaghan,Cesare Di Feliciantonio Pdf

This book provides an innovative perspective to consider contemporary urban challenges through the lens of urban vacancy. Centering urban vacancy as a core feature of urbanization, the contributors coalesce new empirical insights on the impacts of recent contestations over the re-use of vacant spaces in post-crisis cities across the globe. Using international case studies from the Global North and Global South, it sheds important new light on the complexity of forces and processes shaping urban vacancy and its re-use, exploring these areas as both lived spaces and sites of political antagonism. It explores what has and hasn't worked in re-purposing vacant sites and provides sustainable blueprints for future development.

Author : Monica Hughes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1993-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780671866921

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Invitation to the Game by Monica Hughes Pdf

Unemployed after high school in the highly robotic society of 2154, Lisse and seven friends resign themselves to a boring existence in their "Designated Area" until the government invites them to play The Game.

Author : Jack Du Brul
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002-12-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101098011

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River of Ruin by Jack Du Brul Pdf

In the heart of Panama, a volcanic lake feeds a serpentine river—its stone banks laid by the Inca, who took back the gold and jewels plundered from them by the conquistadors. Legend has it that the Twice-Stolen Treasure has been buried for centuries in the Panamanian jungle. Discovering it means surviving the unpredictable black waters of the River of Ruin.... It begins at a Paris auction house, with a favor granted by an old high school friend to geologist Philip Mercer: the opportunity to buy a rare diary written during the French attempt at digging the Panama Canal. But Mercer isn’t the only one who wants it. Three Chinese assassins have been dispatched to get it, forcing Mercer into a subterranean game of cat and mouse that takes him from the hellish maze of l’empire de la mort and through the sewers of Paris. Mercer realizes he has uncovered an intricate Chinese plot to trigger a deadly shift in the world’s balance of power. At stake is control of the canal, recently handed over to the government of Panama by the United States. Only Philip Mercer—with help from beautiful U.S. Army officer Lauren Vanik, a cell of tough French Foreign Legion commandos, and a crusty eighty-year-old retired sea captain named Harry White—can stop them.

Author : Harriet S. Cosgrove,C. Burton Cosgrove
Publisher : Peabody Museum Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780873652148

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The Swarts Ruin by Harriet S. Cosgrove,C. Burton Cosgrove Pdf

This classic volume on the evocative and enigmatic pottery of the Mimbres people has become an irreplaceable design catalogue for contemporary Native American artists. The Peabody’s reissue of The Swarts Ruin once again makes available a rich resource for scholars, artists, and admirers of Native American art.

Author : Isobel Noble
Publisher : EarthBound Books
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0977181804

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RUIN, Book One by Isobel Noble Pdf

A collage of adventure, futuristic fiction, fascinating and unforgettable characters.

Author : Hugo Jackson
Publisher : Inspired Quill
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781913117993

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Ruin’s Dawn by Hugo Jackson Pdf

“I want to hear everything, Osiris. All that you can tell me.” In the desert town of Mahrae, a young fox is about to discover his power. A single bolt of crystal energy begins Aidan’s journey, one that will test him to his furthest limits and deepest loyalties. The gryphon Osiris takes Aidan under his wing and together they battle shadows and suspicion to bring warring nations to the pinnacle of invention and prosperity – the new city Nazreal. But not every creature strives for a bright and industrious future. Conflict is an unsteady foundation for the burgeoning metropolis. The launch of a thousand incredible dreams plants the seed for an immeasurable disaster that even Aidan and his friends do not have the power to prevent. This is the story of Nazreal’s ascension... and the end of the world. ----- Ruin's Dawn is part of The Resonance Tetralogy, but can be read and enjoyed independently. For lovers of anthropomorphic or furry fiction, this novel combines the best parts of a fantastical setting, compelling characters, and the bravery and necessity of remaining hopeful in an increasingly fractured world.

Author : ID Johnson
Publisher : ID Johnson
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781983048906

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Ruin's Promise by ID Johnson Pdf

To prove herself to the other Keepers, Ru must close three portals to Hell…. Ruin Roberts is just coming to grips with the idea that she is actually a Keeper, a half-angel charged with keeping Grim Reapers from claiming unmarked souls, when she is tasked with closing the remaining portals to Hell. She’s made a promise to her friend Cutter that she’ll complete her mission, no matter the cost. Luckily, she has a team of experienced Keepers to help her. If she can find her missing mother, who may hold the map to the portals, in time, Ru may be able to complete her task before Thanatos hunts her down. Will Ru find her mom and the portals before Thanatos finds her, or will Ru lose everything to the half-demons stalking the citizens of Reaper’s Hollow?

Author : Dorothea Olkowski
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1999-10-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780520216938

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Gilles Deleuze and the Ruin of Representation by Dorothea Olkowski Pdf

Item includes discussion of Mary Kelly's work.

Author : Ricardas Zitikis,Jiandong Ren,Kristina Sendova
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783039285167

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Risk, Ruin and Survival by Ricardas Zitikis,Jiandong Ren,Kristina Sendova Pdf

Developing techniques for assessing various risks and calculating probabilities of ruin and survival are exciting topics for mathematically-inclined academics. For practicing actuaries and financial engineers, the resulting insights have provided enormous opportunities but also created serious challenges to overcome, thus facilitating closer cooperation between industries and academic institutions. In this book, several renown researchers with extensive interdisciplinary research experiences share their thoughts that, in one way or another, contribute to the betterment of practice and theory of decision making under uncertainty. Behavioral, cultural, mathematical, and statistical aspects of risk assessment and modelling have been explored, and have been often illustrated using real and simulated data. Topics range from financial and insurance risks to security-type risks, from one-dimensional to multi- and even infinite-dimensional risks. The articles in the book were written with a broad audience in mind and should provide enjoyable reading for those with university level degrees and/or those who have studied for accreditation by various actuarial and financial societies.