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Alex Ross, a thirty-year-old psychologist, enjoys the benefits of a close-knit family: her mother and aunt are twins married to two close friends, and Alex and her cousins, Rolf and Stephen, grew up as if they were siblings. When Rolf is killed in a car accident, the entire family spins into grief and chaos.

Nathaniel, a mysterious art museum curator, soon enters their lives and seems to offer solace. Frannie, Rolf's mother, becomes infatuated with the young man; Alex, who split with her long-term girlfriend in the aftermath of Rolf's death, finds herself deeply attracted to him. Only Stephen mistrusts Nathaniel-but he soon becomes consumed with the nationwide financial crisis threatening the family's stability. Will Alex choose Nathaniel over her loyalty to Stephen? Torn between competing desires, fueled by her lifelong but unexamined love of Rolf, she must turn her own training as a psychologist on herself in order to find peace amid the turmoil.

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring

Humanitarian crises are a central problem of modern history and contemporary international relations. According to United Nations estimates, 300 million people required humanitarian assistance and protection in 2024 alone, due to displacement, armed conflict, food insecurity, disasters, and the consequences of climate change. The international humanitarian system, in turn, plays a powerful role in 21st century global affairs. Since the 1990s, the aid sector has ballooned in size and influence. It is now a multi-billion-dollar industry, employing hundreds of thousands of people globally.

In a clear, accessible, and concise narrative, Humanitarianism: A Very Short Introduction explains how and why this situation came to be. In this book, historian Julia F. Irwin traces the events and trends that defined modern humanitarianism, from the eighteenth century up to the present day. It describes the origins of international humanitarian action, the development of major humanitarian organizations and movements, the evolution of international humanitarian law, and the expansion of the international humanitarian sector. It examines organized efforts to save lives, alleviate suffering, and maintain human dignity amid major conflicts, disasters, refugee crises, and other humanitarian emergencies. At the same time, Irwin shows how beliefs about race, gender, religion, and nationality have historically influenced humanitarian sentiments and actions. Attuned to the distinctions between wartime, postwar, and non-conflict situations, Irwin assesses criticisms waged against humanitarian actions and debates over the legitimacy of humanitarian interventions. This Very Short Introduction also teases out the complex relationship between humanitarianism, human rights, and international development. Finally, this book surveys diverse and competing humanitarian traditions throughout the world, placing humanitarian ideals and practices in a global context.

ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

HE WILL FOLLOW YOU TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH.

Shortly after cruise ship the Maria Calypso embarks on its latest voyage, the passengers and crew notice someone in pursuit: An elegant figure wearing a white suit who somehow keeps pace in his rowboat.

No matter how hard the crew pushes the engines, they can't escape The Boatman ... and it isn't long before sinister and mysterious events begin to unfold on the Maria Calypso.

What will it cost to learn the true nature of the man who hunts them--and will the price to keep on living prove to be too dear?

Dive into summer fun with the second volume of this graphic novel romance from Webtoon. It's perfect for fans of True Beauty and Pumpkinheads!

Amidst the chaos of her parents' bitter divorce, Alaskan teenager Waverly Lyons trades in her textbooks and parka for a summer of suntans and short-shorts with her aunt in Florida. After a few weeks of dipping her toes into these new waters, she's actually starting to feel like she's found her people. And now that she's taken a few swimming lessons with Blake -- the super-tan, super-hot, super-arrogant lifeguard next door -- their relationship starts to turn into a romantic one. What will Waverly do with summer almost at an end? And what tragic events of his past led Blake to want to teach her?

The second volume of this slice-of-life YA romance is illustrated in an anime-inspired style that readers will love. What are you waiting for? Dive in!

A charming and vibrant true story about an unforgettable summer in Japan!

Abby lives in the United States and loves comics, zines, and punk music. Yuuko lives in Japan and loves manga, American movies, and creating art. When Yuuko visits New York City and sees a comic that Abby made, she writes a letter to Abby and they become pen pals. Later, Abby takes the opportunity to enroll in a summer university program in Japan, and the two girls get the chance to meet in person. What follows are charming and funny adventures in Tokyo as Abby and Yuuko explore the city together. Things get even more exciting when they decide to combine their talents and make a comic to sell at Comiket, one of the largest comics conventions in the world. This will be an extraordinary summer of life-changing friendship!

This thorough guide will be the go-to for clinical herbalists, alternative medicine practitioners, and herb enthusiasts--providing detailed step-by-step instructions, how-to information, and "why-to" explanations so readers can confidently move from following recipes to designing and preparing their own herbal remedies.

More and more people are turning to herbal remedies for healing, whether they are purchasing the remedies or making them on their own. Herbalists want their clients to have good experiences with these remedies, both to help them heal and to foster a positive regard for herbs and, by extension, the healing power of nature. This in-depth guide teaches readers respect, care, and understanding for all aspects of preparing herbal medicines, to ensure what they make is safe and efficacious.

Individual chapters address making herbal extractions in water, oils and fats, alcohol, vinegar, honey, glycerin, and other media, supplemented with easy-to-follow tables and charts. Herbal Pharmacy also covers the practical aspects of administering herbal remedies: figuring dosage, duration of care, and the specifics of deciding how to apply a remedy to produce the best outcome.

Throughout, Bancroft--a professional member of the American Herbalists Guild who has been educating for over three decades--provides detailed instructions to help even inexperienced or anxious medicine makers successfully design and prepare their own recipes for effective remedies.

Practical trading psychology insight that can be put to work today

Trading Psychology 2.0 is a comprehensive guide to applying the science of psychology to the art of trading. Veteran trading psychologist and bestselling author Brett Steenbarger offers critical advice and proven techniques to help interested traders better understand the markets, with practical takeaways that can be implemented immediately. Academic research is presented in an accessible, understandable, engaging way that makes it relevant for practical traders, and examples, illustrations, and case studies bring the ideas and techniques to life. Interactive features keep readers engaged and involved, including a blog offering ever-expanding content, and a Twitter feed for quick tips. Contributions from market bloggers, authors, and experts bring fresh perspectives to the topic, and Steenbarger draws upon his own experience in psychology and statistical modeling as an active trader to offer insight into the practical aspect of trading psychology.

Trading psychology is one of the few topics that are equally relevant to day traders and active investors, market makers and portfolio managers, and traders in different markets around the globe. Many firms hire trading coaches, but this book provides a coach in print, accessible 24/7 no matter what the market is doing.

• Understand the research at the core of trading psychology
• Examine the ways in which psychology is applied in real-world trading
• Implement practical tips immediately to see first-hand results
• Gain the perspective and insight of veteran traders who apply these techniques daily

While markets may differ in scale, scope, and activity, humans remain human, with all the inherent behavioral tendencies. Studying the market from the human perspective gives traders insight into how human behavior drives market behavior. Trading Psychology 2.0 gives traders an edge, with expert guidance and practical advice.

What element is found in all known forms of life? Carbon!

Scientists call carbon the chemical backbone of life on Earth. That's because without carbon, there'd be no humans, animals, plants, microbes, or any other kind of life. In The Carbon Cycle: Track the Path of Life's Essential Element, young scientists explore how the first life forms that evolved on our planet consumed carbon and now, 4 billion years later, carbon is still the building block of all known forms of life.

Carbon regulates the planet's temperature, serves as the foundation of our food web, and provides the energy that fuels the global economy. Carbon is stored in rocks, sediment, the ocean, the atmosphere--and in every living thing, including people. Carbon rotates through these reservoirs in what we call the carbon cycle. The carbon cycle relies on balance, but as we continue to burn fossil fuels, more of the carbon stored in rock gets released into the atmosphere, upsetting the careful balance that keeps our climate healthy and habitable.

Learn all about the carbon cycle and the human influence on that cycle through a compelling narrative, links to online resources, essential questions, text-to-world observations, hands-on STEM activities, and graphic-novel style illustrations and photographs.

Additional materials include a glossary, a list of media for further learning, a selected bibliography, and index. All books are leveled for Guided Reading level and Lexile and align with Common Core State Standards and Next Generation Science Standards.

All titles are available in paperback, hardcover, and ebook formats.

I trusted him with my life. I shouldn't have...

Opening my eyes, I see a nurse standing over my bed. She wipes away my tears as she tells me I was in a car crash and it was my fault. Confused, I only remember snapshots of my life, but I'm not convinced the crash was an accident.

My marriage had been perfect, until my husband, John, met Rebecca. He said they were just friends and that I was imagining things when I saw them cosied up like they were on a date. Now, as I lie in my recovery bed, fragments of that night come back to me-John late home from work, an empty wine glass, Rebecca climbing out of John's car, a blazing row on the doorstep...

I beg John to tell me what happened, but he insists I don't try to recall any details, that it'll harm my recovery. He reminds me that I'm lucky to even be alive.

But when someone leaves a note, my blood runs cold: Don't trust anyone. Were my instincts right? Did someone try to kill me? As I look into my husband's lying eyes, all I can think is, will I make it out of this marriage alive...?

This absolutely nail-biting and addictive psychological thriller is perfect for readers of The Housemaid, The Girl on the Train and The Perfect Marriage. Prepare to be hooked!

What readers are saying about The Liar I Married:

'It has me hook, line and sinker... I could not put it down. I was fully engrossed right from the start!... incredible!... soooo intriguing. I finished this in one single sitting. It was full-on twisty, suspenseful and the ending, just wait till you read that!... will keep you up all night and you won't forget in a hurry... I held my breath almost constantly... I tried going to sleep, I really did but every time I closed my eyes, I just kept thinking about this book, and I had to know how it finished and BAM, what a twist!' arcreviews_by_m_, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

'What a masterpiece... it had me on my toes, guessing who it was and who did it!... I was compulsively reading this and could not put it down... just *chef's kiss*... this book's twists are perfect because they genuinely left my jaw on the floor... I LOVE THIS.' Booktuberforlife, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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This enemies-to-lovers fantasy romance follows a strong-willed, sword-wielding heroine who takes control of her own destiny.

The embers of revolution have spread... and set the people of Albion ablaze.

Having been rescued by revolutionary leader Logan Taylor, Prince Kenneth joins the rebel uprising against the monarchy and Theo Eclipse. However, Logan's radical ideals--as well as his vision for Albion's future--may prove irreconcilable with Kenneth's own. If not for the citizens of Albion's sake, what is the true purpose of Logan's revolution...?

Meanwhile, held captive at the Eclipse's estate, Anna learns that Lady Isabella and Theo have devised a plan to wipe out the rebel army--and possibly send the nation into all-out war. But in order to help Kenneth before it's too late, Anna must first escape the manor and rally forces of her own...

The Margrave's Daughter heads into battle to rescue her foolish Enemy Prince!

This girls love workplace rom-com by popular Twitter artist Sal Jiang features two lovestruck coworkers -- who each think the other is straight!

Ayaka is passionately, head over heels in love with her work senior, Hiroko -- and has finally plucked up the courage to confess after their unexpected meeting at a lesbian bar! But what does it mean when Hiroko awkwardly plays it off as a chance encounter, lying to Ayaka that she isn't interested in women?

Hiroko isn't out at work, though she's got a reputation for being a real womanizer in the local lesbian community. But how's a woman supposed to feel when her beautiful and busty work subordinate confesses to her?

With their differences in age and experience, can Hiroko really make Ayaka happy?

Regency romance meets cozy fantasy in this entertaining tale of rivals to lovers, a fake engagement, spit-your-tea-out banter, and endless magical shenanigans.

When Mariselle Brightcrest and Evryn Rowanwood accidentally bind themselves to a decades-old enchanted contract laying out the restoration of the failed magical attraction known as Dreamland, they must transform from bitter enemies to reluctant allies, staging the Season's most shocking romance while secretly working together to resurrect the magical legacy that once tore their families apart.

Let the banter-laced warfare, magically assisted sabotage, and dangerously simmering slowburn commence!

An account of flawed justice, based on the true story of a murder in a housing project outside Paris.

He is guilty, yes. He is guilty of having yielded, of not allowing himself to be crushed. He is guilty of not having been reasonable, of not having stayed in his place, the one that was his. To have disturbed the order of things...

Ten stab wounds. An old woman in a pool of blood. A nineteen-year-old neighbor now a murderer.

Since publishing her first novel in 2018, Constance Debré's work has exposed the flaws in the social order with dizzying passion and intelligence. Her first-person trilogy--Playboy, Love Me Tender, and Name--describes the trajectory of leaving a comfortable bourgeois life as mother and wife employed as a criminal justice attorney to become a writer and lesbian. Her books radically challenge all received ideas of the couple, motherhood, family, and inheritance.

In Offenses, Debré trains her sights on a single case of inevitably flawed justice that, like hundreds of others like it, reveals the enmeshed culpabilities of the perpetrator, the victim, the place, and the past. In a housing project adjacent to Paris, an unemployed teenager kills his elderly neighbor in order to pay off a drug debt of 450. Writing with impassioned detachment, Debré uses forensic detail to explore the ambient senselessness behind this senseless crime.

There is a geography, Debré writes. We live in a vertical world, you don't see. A world made of worlds. Not side by side but set concentrically and upon one another. A bit like Middle Age representations of the universe, a bit like Dante's circles of hell. Each world only communicating with the worlds directly in contact with it and none of the others.

In Offenses, Debré scathingly describes the misery of poverty and the absence of any horizon beyond.

Conquer Back Pain and Reclaim Your Quality of Life!When your back hurts, everything suffers--your mood, your focus, and your freedom to move.But pain doesn't mean you're broken. It doesn't mean you're weak. And it certainly doesn't mean you need to rely on costly treatments or endless clinic visits to get relief.With expert guidance and scientifically proven exercise strategies drawn directly from the bestselling book Rehab Science, you can take control, overcome your pain, and rebuild a strong, resilient spine from the comfort of home.Inside this book, you'll discover: Proven Techniques for Pain Relief: Effective strategies including self-guided soft-tissue massage, targeted stretching, mobility exercises, and strength-building movements to rapidly reduce pain and aid your recovery.A Step-by-Step Rehab System: Identify whether you have acute or chronic back pain, select the correct rehab program, and progressively improve your spinal health and overall movement and mobility.Professionally Guided Programs: Simple, three-phase exercise protocols directly adapted from Rehab Science, specifically designed to address the most common back and spinal conditions, including: - Low back pain (acute and chronic)- Sciatica- Muscle strains and facet joint sprains- Disc herniation- Lumbar stenosis- Mid-back and rib pain- Spondylosis and spondylolisthesis- SI joint dysfunctionKnowledge is your best ally in overcoming back pain. Whether your pain is new, injury-related, or a chronic issue, these protocols empower you to confidently manage your recovery, prevent future problems, and restore your active life.Don't let back pain hold you hostage. It's time to break free and take control of your own recovery.

An energizing coming-of-age story about a teenager, Blade Girl follows Rin as she navigates life with a new prosthetic leg. She meets fellow athletes along the way in this three-volume manga full of heart, drama, and action! A Kodansha Print Club series.

LEAPS AND BOUNDS
The Blade Runners are competing in the Kanto Para Athletics Championship, and Rin's set to be in the 100-meter dash. It's her first official run, so she just wants to make it to the finish line! But when a teammate is injured ahead of the main race, Rin learns that the funding for the blade development project hinges on the team's performance that day... She quickly jumps in as an alternate--now, the future of the project lies with her!