My addiction...

Before Samson McShane, I was merely Sable Cole, the oldest daughter of our town’s druggie. Multiple eyes were on me, watching my every action—waiting for me to mess up.

When I met Samson, we couldn’t be more different yet he became my escape. He took me out of the protective shell I created for myself and showed me what it meant to be free.

Our lives would drift apart.

I saw him, clashed with him, and loved him sixteen times.

My past should have shown me the error in loving him. It never did.

Samson McShane was my sin and my addiction. He was my sixteenth need.　

Olivia became mysteriously sick in second grade and saw her world change forever. Activities she had loved were no longer possible. Friends she had counted on disappeared. Doctors could not figure out what was the matter or how to help her feel better. But Olivia never gave up. Eventually, she would find not only a diagnosis and a treatment, but a purpose for her life. She became committed to helping others protect themselves from tick-borne diseases and heal their chronic illness, too. She began meeting with doctors and politicians around the country, advocating for new policies, raising money to support other families struggling with Lyme, and creating apps to help others like herself.

Olivia offers hope and inspiration to young people meeting all kinds of challenges—from the ordinary ups and downs of schoolyard bullying to the exceptional challenges of illness and despair. Olivia was determined to get better…and she did. Not only that, a great part of her healing consisted of helping others feel better, too. She shows young people what is possible when you are determined to succeed. We don’t have to accept the way things are. We can change them.　

Money laundering is a serious crime that presents a heightened, yet underrated, global threat. Although often thought of as a victimless crime, money laundering significantly impacts the global financial system, which leads to further crime, corruption, human exploitation, and environmental degradation and causes tremendous human suffering, especially in the most impoverished populations. Recent advances in technology, communications, and globalization mean there are more illicit funds in circulation today than ever before. In order to catch these criminals and expose their underground networks, compliance professionals must learn to navigate an increasingly complex web of criminal activity.

In The Flow of Illicit Funds, Ola M. Tucker goes beyond the implementation of anti―money laundering compliance programs offered by most guides and provides professionals with a holistic understanding of the modern money laundering system. Using recent case studies, Tucker explains some of the most common money laundering techniques used by criminals today, describes the key role of the financial system in the disguise and transfer of illicit funds, and offers valuable insight into how financial institutions can protect themselves from being used as conduits for the movement of dirty money. The book concludes by offering suggestions to help compliance professionals better detect and deter money laundering.

Through this unique perspective, compliance professionals and students will gain a broader overall understanding of the process of money laundering and the techniques criminals commonly use, including valuable insight into how criminals find legal loopholes and manipulate the financial system.　

Written in three parts, Charleston follows the lives, loves, and shifting fortunes of the Bells, saints and evildoers mingled together in one unforgettable family, from the American Revolution through the turbulent antebellum years to the Civil War and the savage defeat of the Confederacy. Delving into our country’s history as only he can, Jakes paints a powerful portrait of the Charleston aristocracy who zealously guarded their privilege and position, harboring dark family secrets that threatened to destroy them all. Sweeping from the bitterly divided Carolina frontier of the 1770s through the tragic destruction of the city during the Civil War, and peopled by a sprawling cast of memorable characters-patriots and cowards, aristocrats and abolitionists, slaves and freedmen, heroic men and courageous women-Charleston represents America’s premier storyteller at his very best. Read less　

Through a series of detailed and rigorously "non-judgmental" readings, Manish Sharma provides new insight into each of the prologues and tales and intervenes into scholarly debates about their collective import. In so doing, The Logic of Love in The Canterbury Tales deploys Chaucer’s understanding of charity to consider the limitations of modern critical approaches to The Canterbury Tales, including deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and gender theory. In the course of the analysis, Sharma shows not only how love and medieval philosophy together inform Chaucerian composition, but also how Chaucer could serve as a resource for contemporary theoretical reflections on love and ethics.　

"A comprehensive compilation of readings for students studying the social and psychological aspects of appearance and dress." Jessica Strubel, University of North Texas, USA

Learn how-and why-consumers buy clothing and accessories, and increase your global awareness as you study dress and appearance.

Contributions are from writers on four continents and examples are from ten countries, including Ghana, Vietnam, Norway, and Jamaica, among others. The book includes more than 40 articles on topics such as wearable technology, cosplay, lesbian dress, and genderqueer fashion.

- Contributors are experts in fashion theory, cultural studies, psychology, sociology, gender studies, religion, material culture, consumer behavior, and popular culture
- Two separate chapters on gender and sexuality
- International examples are included from Afghanistan, China, Ghana, India, Jamaica, Japan, Norway, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Vietnam
- More than 100 black and white images　

Andrew Reilly, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Fashion Design and Merchandising at University of Hawaii, Manoa, US.

Kim K. P. Johnson is Professor of Design and Retail Merchandising in the Department of Design, Housing, and Apparel at the University of Minnesota, USA.

Nancy Rudd is Faculty Emeritus in the Department of Human Sciences at Ohio State University, USA.

Divided into three thematic parts, Financial Advice and Investor Protection begins with a holistic discussion of the subject, including an examination of the impact of relatively recent technical innovations such as robo-advice. The second part evaluates the role of private law in achieving investor protection, considering in particular how tort law, contract law and equity allocate risk and liability for investment advice. Finally, the book outlines the investor protection frameworks in the jurisdictions of six significant financial centres.

This book will be a crucial read for various stakeholders in the investor protection debate including practitioners advising clients who work in this field, particularly across several of the jurisdictions covered, as well as policymakers interested in the development of law and regulation in this area. Scholars and students of financial law will also benefit from its comprehensive and critical treatment of the subject.

Over many years in his therapy practice, Colman noticed a pattern: no matter the issue – mood, anxiety, eating, exercise or alcohol use – problems occur when people are doing too much or too little of something. Every one of his clients was in the 0–3 or 8–10 zone. By getting your life in the 4–7 zone, you will nurture your relationship with yourself, better negotiate challenges and discover a happy, harmonious way of living.　

In The Accidental Soberista, Kate chronicles the challenges and obstacles on the path to giving herself the greatest gift she has ever received - freedom from alcohol. Whether you’re sober-curious or want to remove the final obstacle in the way of your own health and life goals, this could be just the journey for you too.　

From encounters with its rarest and most striking fauna, like the blue whale and basking shark, to the broader considerations of its impact on language, on history, and our shared sense of place, this genre-defying work is an eloquent and urgent tribute to the enduring beauty of our natural heritage.　

This timely and original book lays out the latest scientific understanding of mass extinction on our planet. Cutting-edge techniques across biology, chemistry, physics, and geology have transformed our understanding of the deep past, including the discovery of a previously unknown mass extinction. This compelling evidence, revealing a series of environmental crises resulting in the near collapse of life on Earth, illuminates our current dilemmas in exquisite detail.

Beginning with the oldest, Professor Michael J. Benton takes us through the “big five” die outs: the Late Ordovician, which set the evolution of the first animals on an entirely new course; the Late Devonian, apparently brought on by global warming; the cataclysmic End-Permian, also known as the Great Dying, which wiped out over 90 percent of alllife on Earth; the newly discovered Carnian Pluvial Event; and the End-Cretaceous asteroid. He examines how global warming, acid rain, ocean acidification, erupting volcanoes, and meteorite impact have affected conditions on Earth, and how life survived, adapted, and evolved.

Benton’s expert retelling of scientific breakthroughs in paleobiology is illustrated throughout with photographs of fossils and fieldwork, and artistic reconstructions of ancient environments. In Extinctions, readers will learn about revolutionary new tools used to uncover ancient extinction events and processes in forensic detail, and how scientists are improving our understanding of the deep past. New research allows us to link long-ago upheavals to crises in our current age, the Anthropocene, with important consequences for us all.

80 illustrations

In this comprehensive yet accessible book, Dr. Reese provides an attachment framework for treating clients who have experienced a multitude of traumas, ranging from abuse and neglect to medical traumas, natural disasters, and exposure to violence. Through a variety of worksheets, exercises, and activities, this book provides clients with the tools they need to develop a foundation for healing so they can find feelings of safety and security within relationships again.

Inside, clinicians will find tools to help clients heal from the impact of:

In these timeless stories of the untamed American West, John Jakes thrillingly portrays the harsh realities of life on the frontier with tales of lawmen in the Sierra Nevada, railroad workers in Kansas, and gamblers on the steamboat River Queen. From a saloon showdown unlike any other and outlaws double-crossing each other to a fur trapper hell-bent on vengeance and a power struggle between medicine men, Jakes’s frontier stories capture the same sweeping historical drama and unforgettable characterizations as his epic novels in the Crown Family Saga, the Kent Family Chronicles, and the North and South Trilogy.

“At the very heart of every Jakes saga is a story that throbs to the beat of history.” —The Cleveland Plain Dealer　

1915. Giacomo Cordero lives in Val Maira, Piedmont, with his grandfather Girolamo, his mother Lunetta and the elderly and reserved Desideria. The boy has studied but is forced to stay at home, in Prazzo, where people mainly work as lumberjacks or small farmers, and often live in small mountain huts in conditions of absolute misery. Italy has just entered the war and the elderly Girolamo, the family’s gruff breadwinner, a shrewd and capable merchant, has become the official supplier of goods for the army. Giacomo, exempted from military service, is therefore entrusted with the most delicate part of the family business, the collecting of hair which will be carefully worked during the winter by the local women, and then resold in the spring to the ateliers of the big cities across the border to make wigs, still in great demand. For the hair trade in France, Giacomo relies on an expert salesman, Natale Rebaudi, who will guide him by confiding old secrets about his father. When the boy is forced to face an unexpected situation and take over the family business, the greatest lesson will come to him from the memory of the days spent alone in the mountains, which will help him appreciate the value of the little things and the simplicity of daily life.　

贾科莫免除了兵役，因此被委托从事家族事业中最精细的部分，即收集头发，这些头发将在冬天由当地妇女精心制作，然后在春天转售给边境另一边大城市的工作室，制作仍然需求量很大的假发。 对于法国的头发贸易，贾科莫依赖于一位专业的推销员，娜塔莉·雷巴迪(Natale Rebaudi)，他将通过向他吐露关于他父亲的尘封的秘密来指导他。当男孩被迫面对一个意想不到的情况并接管家族企业时，他从独自一人在山上度过的日子的记忆中得到了最大的教训，这将帮助他理解琐碎小事的价值和简单的日常生活。(Sandy)

Franco Faggiani Lives in Milan and is a journalist. With La manutenzione dei sensi (Fazi Editore, 2018), winner of the Parco Majella Award 2018, the Città delle Fiaccole Literary Award 2018 and the Be Kind Award 2019, he made himself known and loved by many readers. With Il guardiano della collina dei ciliegi (Fazi Editore, 2019), he won the 2019 Biblioteche di Roma Award and the 2020 Bancarella Selezione Award. His other books, also published by Fazi Editore, are Non esistono posti lontani (2020) and Tutto il cielo che serve (2021). All of his novels have been published in the Netherlands to great critical and public acclaim. Two of them were also published in Ukraine.

At the crossroad between causality and destiny, Leonardo Guerrieri and Martino Rochard meet. Leonardo is a fifty-year old widowed with a brilliant past and a drifting future, Martino Rochard is a little boy, forced to face his own insecurities in solitude. Leonardo and Martino have different origins and ages, but the same secretive and taciturn character. Martino, in temporary foster care, does not ask, claim nor tell: he keeps to himself and never disturbs. He is diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome. To escape the apathy that is about to enfold both of them, Guerrieri decides to move to a large, remote and isolated home, in the woods and high-altitude pastures of the Piedmont Alps. It is right in the solitude of the mountains, gazing at the clouds and bringing the animals to the pasture, that they cultivate their own passions in contact with the simplest things and the most genuine people. There, the boy will find himself and his father a new serenity.　

在因果和命运的十字路口，莱昂纳多·格列耶里( Leonardo Guerrieri )和马蒂诺·理查德(Martino Rochard )相遇了。莱昂纳多是一个50岁的寡妇，有着辉煌的过去和飘渺的未来，马蒂诺·理查德是一个小男孩，被迫孤独地面对自己的不安全感。列奥纳多和马蒂诺的出身和年龄不同，但他(她)们都有着同样的神秘和沉默寡言 的性格。在临时寄养下的马蒂诺，不问，不求，不说:他独来独往，从不打扰别人。他被诊断患有阿斯伯格综 合症。为了逃避即将包围他们俩的情感冷漠，格列耶里决定搬到一个大的、偏僻的家，在阿尔卑斯山前的森 林和高海拔的牧场。正是在深山的幽静中，在凝望云雾、把动物赶到牧场的时候，他们在接触最简单的事物 和最真诚的人的过程中，培养了自己的感情。在那里，男孩和他的父亲会找到新的宁静。(Sandy)

Franco Faggiani Lives in Milan and is a journalist. With La manutenzione dei sensi (Fazi Editore, 2018), winner of the Parco Majella Award 2018, the Città delle Fiaccole Literary Award 2018 and the Be Kind Award 2019, he made himself known and loved by many readers. With Il guardiano della collina dei ciliegi (Fazi Editore, 2019), he won the 2019 Biblioteche di Roma Award and the 2020 Bancarella Selezione Award. His other books, also published by Fazi Editore, are Non esistono posti lontani (2020) and Tutto il cielo che serve (2021). All of his novels have been published in the Netherlands to great critical and public acclaim. Two of them were also published in Ukraine.

On the anniversary of that event, Franco Faggiani pays tribute to the victims of the tragedy with a moving and heartfelt story that will captivate readers.

Franco Faggiani is a much loved author, an essential point of reference for mountain fiction for his ability to weave positive stories with an uplifting ethos.

In emergency situations, either you give your best or you give your worst.

In August 2016, Francesca Capodiferro, a young geologist and head of the Rome Fire Department, is on a job in the Laga mountains, on the border between Lazio, Marches and Abruzzo. On the night of the 24th she camps on the mountain above Amatrice together with her two dogs but that very night several violent earthquakes destroy the town below and the neighbouring hamlets causing the collapse of most of the houses and the death of almost 300 people. Francesca is among the first to arrive on the site and organise the rescue operations, initially with makeshift means, then helped by some of her team’s members. Reinforcements arrive and Francesca, emotionally tried by the disaster and also by the conflicts that have arisen with her colleagues, decides to leave alone in search of the missing people who have remained stuck in the surrounding valleys: it will be a difficult journey, in the pain and beauty of nature, which can sometimes be so violent and indifferent to human affairs. But it will also be a necessary inner journey for Francesca, allowing her to finally make peace with her job, her men and her life.　

Franco Faggiani Lives in Milan and is a journalist. With La manutenzione dei sensi (Fazi Editore, 2018), winner of the Parco Majella Award 2018, the Città delle Fiaccole Literary Award 2018 and the Be Kind Award 2019, he made himself known and loved by many readers. With Il guardiano della collina dei ciliegi (Fazi Editore, 2019), he won the 2019 Biblioteche di Roma Award and the 2020 Bancarella Selezione Award. His other books, also published by Fazi Editore, are Non esistono posti lontani (2020) and Tutto il cielo che serve (2021). All of his novels have been published in the Netherlands to great critical and public acclaim. Two of them were also published in Ukraine.