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Featuring Jungkook
by Erin FalligantWhat are Jungkook’s nicknames? What famous sporting event did he perform at? What challenges has he overcome? Jungkook’s fans can learn the answers to these questions and others in this collection of fun facts, awesome photos, and more featuring the versatile star singer!
Featuring Selena Gomez
by Erin FalligantHow does Selena Gomez hope to inspire her fans? What role kicked off her acting career? What other singers has she collaborated with? Selena Gomez’s fans can learn the answers to these questions and others in this collection of fun facts, awesome photos, and more featuring the multitalented performer!
Federated Edge Learning: Algorithms, Architectures and Trustworthiness (Wireless Networks)
by Yong Zhou Khaled B. Letaief Yuanming Shi Wenzhi FangThis book presents various effective schemes from the perspectives of algorithms, architectures, privacy, and security to enable scalable and trustworthy Federated Edge Learning (FEEL). From the algorithmic perspective, the authors elaborate various federated optimization algorithms, including zeroth-order, first-order, and second-order methods. There is a specific emphasis on presenting provable convergence analysis to illustrate the impact of learning and wireless communication parameters. The convergence rate, computation complexity and communication overhead of the federated zeroth/first/second-order algorithms over wireless networks are elaborated. From the networking architecture perspective, the authors illustrate how the critical challenges of FEEL can be addressed by exploiting different architectures and designing effective communication schemes. Specifically, the communication straggler issue of FEEL can be mitigated by utilizing reconfigurable intelligent surface and unmanned aerial vehicle to reconfigure the propagation environment, while over-the-air computation is utilized to support ultra-fast model aggregation for FEEL by exploiting the waveform superposition property. Additionally, the multi-cell architecture presents a feasible solution for collaborative FEEL training among multiple cells. Finally, the authors discuss the challenges of FEEL from the privacy and security perspective, followed by presenting effective communication schemes that can achieve differentially private model aggregation and Byzantine-resilient model aggregation to achieve trustworthy FEEL. This book is designed for researchers and professionals whose focus is wireless communications. Advanced-level students majoring in computer science and electrical engineering will also find this book useful as a reference.
Feminist Art Education Archival Research: C.H.U.T.N.E.Y. Power
by Karen Keifer-Boyd Linda Hoeptner PolingFeminist Art Education Archival Research: C.H.U.T.N.E.Y. Power explores the National Art Education Association’s (NAEA) Women’s Caucus’ histories of trailblazing feminist art education research, leadership, and policy activism.From archival research, specifically delving into the NAEA Women’s Caucus Archive at The Pennsylvania State University, this led to interviews with feminist activists in art education. The book draws attention to the activism of the NAEA Women’s Caucus contextualized within tenets of critical race feminism, which calls for organizational accountability from critical examination of hegemonic structures and practices that privilege white patriarchal colonialism and serves as a structure to deconstruct, interrogate, disrupt, and reimagine inequities that exist in art education, and all of education.Feminist Art Education Archival Research: C.H.U.T.N.E.Y. Power is a unique text ideal for feminist organizations, gender studies research, and art educators at all levels of teaching from preK to higher education, and is an ideal companion text for post-secondary art education, women’s studies, leadership, and other related areas.
Feminist Climate Policy in Industrialised States: A Gender-Just Climate Emergency Response (Routledge Studies in Gender and Environments)
by Karen Morrow Martin Hultman Gunnhildur Lily MagnusdottirFeminist Climate Policy in Industrialised States explores ways in which policymakers can overcome institutional barriers and conventions in pursuit of the radical changes necessary for a gender-just climate emergency response.In 2021, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change acknowledged that addressing the climate emergency must involve social justice and equality. Feminist approaches to decision-making, policy-making, community organising and their underpinning methodologies can enable this. The authors draw critically on case studies, research and interviews with feminist practitioners, legislators and leaders who have implemented significant changes, to signal how change might be achieved and ask what lessons can be drawn. The book posits that we need to ultimately move beyond the gender mainstreaming and gender equality issues which have been integrated into existing – and failing – structures, to more transformative feminist approaches. It concludes by identifying key strands of feminist-oriented praxis that offer the potential to expedite responses to climate change across multiple levels of governance.With industrialised states shifting rightwards to a politics which diminishes the importance and urgency of gender equality, diversity, human rights and the need for climate action, this volume will inspire, guide, and provide tools for policymakers, politicians, community activists, academics, and students to take transformative action to address the climate emergency.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.
Feminist Governance and International Law: A Critical Legal History from Mandate Palestine (Feminist and Queer International Law)
by Paola ZichiDocumenting the intertwined history of international institutions and transnational feminism through the lens of Mandate Palestine in the inter-war period, this book elicits the historical formation of an early form of feminist governance at the international level. It is commonly accepted that ‘International Women’s Rights’ entered the halls of international institutions with the 1979 passage of the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women. But as this book argues, feminist interventions in international law began much earlier. Engaging the history of feminist engagements with the first international institution of modern international law, the League of Nations, this book – based on archival research and drawing upon TWAIL and critical legal feminist approaches – focuses on the Arab-Palestinian feminist movement. Uncovering a peripheral feminist legal agenda, driven by women under colonial rule, the book interrogates feminist legal advances in three different fields: criminal and anti-trafficking laws, family and divorce laws, and human rights and prisoners’ laws. Detailing this early feminist legal activism, the book demonstrates how today’s feminists’ mission, as enshrined in the UN Charter and subsequent conventions, are the by-product of a much longer history of colonial resistance and contestation. This book will be of considerable interest to scholars and researchers in the fields of international law, international history, women’s and feminist history, and feminist legal studies.
Feminist Language and Discourse in the British Suffrage Press: Words as Deeds
by Martina GuzzettiFeminist Language and Discourse in the British Suffrage Press: Words as Deeds offers a comprehensive exploration of feminist discourse, focusing on the dynamic and evolving concept of gender within the context of British suffrage periodicals from 1907 to 1914.Though its motto was ‘deeds, not words’, the movement for British women’s enfranchisement exploited the press to convey its message and aid the campaign. Adopting a (socio)linguistic perspective and a discourse analysis methodology, the book focuses on the theme of gender and on the development of feminist counter-language and counter-discourses using articles taken from the three major suffrage publications: Votes for Women, The Vote, and Common Cause. Through a combination of corpus linguistics and discourse analysis, the study of the interplay of language, representation, gender, and power provides insights into how these publications challenged and reshaped societal norms, with a specific focus on the case of medical misogyny.Feminist Language and Discourse in the British Suffrage Press: Words as Deeds challenges traditional views of suffrage activities, and is of value to researchers in fields such as feminist studies, language and gender studies, and periodical studies.
Feminist and Anti-caste Activism in the Bodhgaya Land Movement of Rural Bihar: “We Achieved Great Feats!”
by Indulata PrasadFeminist and Anti-caste Activism in the Bodhgaya Land Movement of Rural Bihar examines the long-term social, spatial, and material impacts of the Bodhgaya Land Movement (BGLM) of the 1970s and 1980s on its participants and beneficiaries. This book presents an ethnography and oral history of radical feminist and anti-caste activism based on interviews with the urban, educated Vahini activists who instigated the movement and oral narratives of the rural Bhuiyan Dalit women and men who led the protests. It also analyses the maps drawn by formerly enslaved Dalit laborers to document the social changes that resulted, as well as those that failed to materialize, from the land movement. In doing so, this book theorizes the multiple oppressions and forms of resistance with which these activists engaged to bring forth their rich experiences and analyses of social conditions in Bihar. By centering caste and gender within its examination of the social movement, this book makes multiple contributions to feminist scholarship that will be of use to social scientists and advanced undergraduate and graduate students in Gender Studies, Asian Studies and other interdisciplinary fields.
Fentanyl: From the Labs to the Streets (Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics)
by Jonathan D. Rosen Sebastián A. CutronaThe ongoing opioid epidemic in the U.S. is just a glimpse of a complex ecosystem characterized by the interaction of multifaceted actors from various countries around the world cooperating across different stages of the global supply chain.In Fentanyl: From the Labs to the Streets, twenty-one experts provide a comprehensive multidisciplinary analysis of the fentanyl supply chain, guiding the reader through the complex supply chain, the nature of criminal and state actors, and the linkages between different regions around the globe. Four parts divide the book, each one showcasing a relevant phase within the global fentanyl supply chain as well as the main mechanisms and processes shaping them. The chapters analyze the fentanyl trade from different levels of analysis while also maintaining synergies between chapters in their treatment of similar, interwoven issues related to the various phases of the fentanyl supply chain, the role of criminal organizations, and some law enforcement practices.Fentanyl will be an excellent resource to students and researchers across the social sciences and particularly in political science, international relations, and criminology. It will also appeal to scholars working on drug policy, epidemiology, illegal markets, organized crime, and policing.
Fichte’s Aesthetic of Striving: Context and Development (Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy)
by Kienhow GohThis book explores Fichte's theory of sensibility, focusing on its theoretical and practical significance. It offers unique insight into Fichte’s reinterpretation of Kant's aesthetic theory.Fichte's theory of sensibility can be found in his unpublished manuscript Practical Philosophy (1793/94). The author approaches this text as Fichte's attempt to reorganize Kant’s transcendental aesthetic and aesthetic of pure practical reason into a unified whole. The first half contains one of the first chapter-length studies of Abicht’s Attempt at a Metaphysics of Gratification (1789) and Fichte’s Practical Philosophy. In this section, the author examines the context and development of a “philosophy of striving” in Practical Philosophy, explains the background of Fichte’s aesthetics, and provides a concise discussion of Kant’s sensationalist view of pleasure. The second half explores how the investigations in Practical Philosophy reemerge in the Jena period through the theory of aesthetic experience and artistic creation, theory of moral deliberation, and theory of truth and justification (particularly in philosophy) and illustrates the pivotal role Fichte assigns to feelings in human spiritual development.Fichte’s Aesthetic of Striving will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in the history of modern philosophy, the history of aesthetics, German idealism, and 19th-century philosophy.
Fiction, Memory, and Ethnic Politics in the South Caucasus (Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series)
by Mikail Mamedov Peter Orte Nona Shahnazarian Ulvi IsmayilThe book explores the aftermath of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the effects of war and nationalism in the South Caucasus. While the Soviet Union’s dissolution seemed to promise democracy and liberalization, the rise of nationalist movements in Armenia and Azerbaijan led to those countries becoming undemocratic monoethnic states, which ethnically cleansed their largest minorities.During the violence of the first stage of the Karabakh War (1992–1994), Armenians were expelled from Azerbaijan, and Azerbaijanis were expelled from Armenia. The persistence of this violent conflict through the second (2020) and third (2023) stages has led to competing, incompatible national narratives and an entrenched imagination of the other as the enemy. Explaining these events’ historical context by tracing them back to specific Soviet and Tsarist policies, the contributors of this volume examine the impact of the Karabakh conflict on ordinary people’s lives in Armenia and Azerbaijan by analyzing fiction, film, and other forms of public memory. Ultimately, they show how “eternal enmity” is a myth and point to potential solutions to the conflict.This study will be useful to students and scholars of Soviet and Post-Soviet History, Nationalism, Empire, and Conflict Studies.
Fighting for Love: Journal of a Training Analysis
by Marianne Lovink GoldsmithFighting for Love: Journal of a Training Analysis is a unique account of an eight-year psychoanalysis, journaled and retrospectively annotated from the patient’s perspective in the aftermath of a traumatic dissociation. This book tells the story of that analysis in two parts.Part One, The Awakening, places the analysis in its dynamic and historical context and sets the stage for the analysis. A survivor of a Japanese concentration camp in Indonesia in WWII, parental loss and recurrent abandonments as a child, Goldsmith takes the reader deep into the pain she repressed and dissociated. Part One incorporates important components of the analysis, such as its ‘signal dream’, within the narrative. Part Two, The Analysis, is an edited version of Goldsmith’s original journal with retrospective and expository comments inserted, documenting the evolution of the transference and the relationship with her analyst. With the help and love of her analyst, the author was able to find the words she did not have as a child and feel the feelings she could not feel before.This book will resonate with anyone who has experienced trauma and offers insight to those who treat its aftermath. Psychoanalytic professionals in practice and training, including psychotherapists and counselors, will find this book compelling, as will readers interested in the psychoanalytic process.
Finance, Innovation and Corporate Sustainability: The Impact of Proactive Environmental Strategy on Firm Performance (Routledge Studies in the Economics of Business and Industry)
by Balamurugan Balusamy Daniel Arockiam Sonal Trivedi Krishnaraj Nagappan Dinesh Krishnan SubramaniamThis book explores how the problem of global sustainability could turn into a major force for innovation leading to enhanced firm performance. It addresses whether proactive environmental strategy and innovation are integrated with a firm’s performance. The goal of this book is to advance the rapidly developing field of sustainable business beyond the straightforward logic of cost, waste and risk reduction.The authors offer significant insight into how internal—life cycle design—and external—image and reputation—innovation strategies serve to mediate and possibly reinforce one another by investigating the relationship between proactive environmental strategy and innovation in relation to firm performance. The book includes empirical research, case studies and real-world examples as well as lessons learned from the successful and unsuccessful transformation initiatives of numerous international companies.This book is primarily aimed at an academic audience of scholars, researchers and advanced students in the fields of finance, economics, sustainability, innovation and environmental studies and will also appeal to practitioners and industry experts in these areas.
Financial Inclusion Law and Over-Indebtedness (Routledge Research in Finance and Banking Law)
by Michelle Kelly-Louw Duygu Damar-BlankenThe book addresses the current challenges faced by financial consumers in the context of enormous technological developments. This edited collection covers safeguarding financial consumers, encompassing topics such as financial inclusion, data protection, and consumer over-indebtedness. Addressing specific issues related to vulnerable consumer groups and the increasing digitisation of financial services, it grapples with the emerging challenge demanding that consumers possess technological literacy.The book offers a distinct new perspective, going beyond the traditional understanding of financial inclusion, which typically only considers the possession of a bank account. Instead, it explores new dimensions, including the obstacles consumers face in obtaining credit, establishing a credit history, and coping with issues such as being blacklisted. The book explores diverse strategies for enhancing financial inclusion, such as leveraging data, and open banking. It also scrutinises the pursuit of credit fairness and examines methods to either mitigate or effectively address over-indebtedness, a persistent and formidable challenge for financial consumers.The book will be of interest to researchers, practitioners, and governmental organisations in the field of finance law and the law of emerging technologies.Chapter 2 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 International license.
Financial Information Analysis: The Role of Accounting Information in Modern Society
by Philip O'ReganAccounting information is one of the most vital and important sources of information in the modern world. Those who understand this and can analyse its context and content have the power to influence key decision-making processes.Philip O’Regan’s authoritative and important textbook provides readers with the tools and techniques to analyse accounting information and present it in a manner that is clear, focused and valuable. Updated to reflect changes in IFRS, governance codes and regulatory frameworks, as well as new sustainability reporting rules, the text sheds light on the role of accounting information in modern society and the many ways in which it can be used by a variety of stakeholders, including shareholders, investors, employees, environmentalists and others.For readers across the UK, Ireland and continental European, this new edition is completely updated to incorporate relevant accounting standards, sustainability/ESG regulations and advanced analytical techniques. Features which add unique value to this fourth edition of Financial Information Analysis include case studies in every chapter with numerous supporting articles from the major financial presses, questions for review, and comprehensive online support and materials.This essential textbook is core reading for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students wishing to understand the role of accounting information in modern society.
Financial Management for Public, Health, and Not-for-Profit Organizations
by Steven A. Finkler Daniel L. Smith Thad D. CalabreseReflecting recent changes in accounting standards, this Eighth Edition of Financial Management for Public, Health, and Not-for-Profit Organizations provides a comprehensive yet practical introduction to the financial decision-making and management skills required of students and practitioners in the public, health, and not-for-profit sectors. Assuming that readers have no prior training in financial management, the authors artfully combine the principles, theory, and analytics of accounting and finance. In every chapter, a wide range of exercises, case studies, and problems help students develop strong financial assessment and judgment proficiencies while reinforcing the essential mechanics of accounting.
Financial Management for Public, Health, and Not-for-Profit Organizations
by Steven A. Finkler Daniel L. Smith Thad D. CalabreseReflecting recent changes in accounting standards, this Eighth Edition of Financial Management for Public, Health, and Not-for-Profit Organizations provides a comprehensive yet practical introduction to the financial decision-making and management skills required of students and practitioners in the public, health, and not-for-profit sectors. Assuming that readers have no prior training in financial management, the authors artfully combine the principles, theory, and analytics of accounting and finance. In every chapter, a wide range of exercises, case studies, and problems help students develop strong financial assessment and judgment proficiencies while reinforcing the essential mechanics of accounting.
Financial Regulators and Macroprudential Policy (Routledge Critical Studies in Finance and Stability)
by Walter JamesThe 2008 global financial crisis was a rude awakening for financial regulators. In its wake, a novel approach called “macroprudential policy” became an important pillar of financial regulation to ensure the stability of the financial system. But in the decade after the crisis, financial regulators in different countries implemented macroprudential policies that varied widely in their stringency. This is a worrying gap since uneven regulation across borders and different financial sectors was a key driver of the 2008 crisis. What explains these cross‑country, cross‑sectoral, and temporal variations in macroprudential policy? This book answers this question through an in‑depth comparative historical analysis of the banking and asset management sectors in the United States and Japan. By comparing two sectors of the financial industry in two diverse economies, we can observe consistent dynamics in the politics of regulatory reform that illuminate the causes of different policy stringencies.The subject matter of this book will appeal to researchers and students of finance, financial regulation, political economy, and the politics of regulation. Its theoretical and methodological underpinnings will be of interest to scholars of comparative politics, comparative sociology, historical institutionalism, and those interested in interview‑based qualitative methods.
Finding Meaning in Healthcare: Looking Through the Hermeneutic Window
by Robert Clarke Rupal Shah P. Syam PrasadThis pioneering book illustrates the ways in which an interpretive or hermeneutic stance can be incorporated into modern healthcare across clinical practice, clinical ethics, education and leadership – and the transformative effects of doing so.Combining practical case studies and narrative, this book introduces the hermeneutic window, in which meaning making frames clinical and educational decision making. It shows how best practice requires more than clinical knowledge, communication skills and application of evidence based medicine. It is within the hermeneutic window that assumptions, meanings and values are examined, questioned and re-examined. Drawing on a wide range of expertise, the chapters challenge existing assumptions about the essence of healthcare and the role that clinicians play within it.This book is valuable reading for all healthcare practitioners, particularly GPs, physicians, psychiatrists and psychologists, as well as professions allied to medicine, medical students and other trainees.
Finding Your Groove: Resonant Leadership in a Disconnected World
by Chris Dalton Barry van ZylFinding Your Groove is an inspiring guide that challenges you to rediscover your innate rhythm amid today’s disjointed, fast-paced world. Drawing on the timeless language of music and the universal patterns of nature, this book reframes everyday challenges as opportunities for creative transformation and genuine connection.Author Barry van Zyl, a veteran drummer and creative thinker from South Africa, and his co-author, UK business school academic Dr Chris Dalton, invite you to explore the profound impact of aligning your personal and professional lives with natural rhythms. Their insights blend personal narrative with practical reflection, offering a fresh perspective on leadership, collaboration, and self-awareness. By embracing the principles of Groove – from the beat of an individual’s heart to the synchrony of a well-led team – you can foster resilience, spark innovation, and build more harmonious relationships at work and beyond. Whether you are seeking to enhance your creative potential or to inspire collective change in your organisation, this book provides a compelling, entertaining, and thought-provoking realignment with the pulse of life.Finding Your Groove is a call to reclaim the joy of connection, balance, and mindful presence. It invites you to lead with authenticity in an increasingly complex world.
Finishing in Architecture: Polishing, Completing, Ending
by Paul Emmons Marcia Feuerstein Negar Goljan Camila MancillaFinishing in Architecture: Polishing, Completing, Ending explores the topic of finishing and the fascinating physical and metaphysical implications of its various conceptions in architecture. Finishing is essential to all human practices and concepts of time, yet simultaneously it is largely impossible to identify an entirely finished state of being. As mortals, we organize our worlds into beginnings and endings, starts and finishes. Architecture’s temporality, however, may contain something of both the mortal and immortal within it – a desire for permanence combined with lamentation over its impossibility.While many approaches to finishing construct two opposed ontological conditions (the finished and the unfinished), this dualistic ploy neglects the complexity of architectural practice, cultural reception, and historiographic shifts in semiotics during the lifetime of a building. More nuanced approaches are examined in this collection of 38 essays and creative works from a diverse group of scholars, architects, and artists who conceptualize finishing not simply as a final outcome, but as an extended action, a mood that presumes an end is near, all the while working continuously toward (but never achieving) completion. It is here that the concept of finishing is not a state of being but a state of becoming, as an active thickening of time when the end is thought to be imminent but not yet attained. Finishing, more than a final endpoint, is a void state that is extended through efforts framing its territory, while never quite containing it.From the material to the procedural and the conceptual, this volume explores the practices of finishing in architecture within three currents: surfaces, projects, and most broadly, architectural times. It will be of interest to students and instructors of architecture and design, architectural historians, and other scholars.
Fire Department Incident Safety Officer
by Forest F ReederFire Department Incident Safety Officer, Fourth Edition with Navigate Advantage Access is a print and digital solution that prepares aspiring and current incident safety officers (ISOs) to meet and exceed the specific job requirements outlined in NFPA 1550, which includes Chapter 5, Incident Safety Officer (NFPA 1521).
Fire Officer: Principles and Practice, Fifth Edition
by Michael J. Ward Dane A CarleyFire Officer: Principles and Practice, Fifth Edition with Navigate Premier Access is a print and digital solution that prepares today's firefighters for successful leadership and management in the fire service, with an emphasis on how effective leadership skills can be used to meet the challenges fire officers face. The fifth edition has been updated to meet the job performance requirements for Chapters 9: Fire Officer I and 10: Fire Officer II of NFPA 1020, Standard for Fire and Emergency Services Instructor, Fire Officer, and Emergency Medical Services Officer Professional Qualifications, 2025 Edition.Numerous updates make this renowned fire text the most comprehensive training resource for students studying to become fire officers. New content includes the following:Summary, review questions, discussion questions, and a progressive case study with critical-thinking questions in each chapterUpdated correlation grid featuring the detailed knowledge and skill objectives for each JPR requirementNew chapter: "Crew Resource Management"New content on leadership, retention, and managing crew member expectationsNew community risk reduction (CRR) discussions on creating buy-in, population health, the economic impact of commercial fires, and moreNew discussion of the incident command system, five types of ICS incidents, and a seven-step process for making decisionsNew content on active shooter/hostile events, catastrophic events, mass volunteer resignations, and labor relationsNew section on behavioral health resourcesNew discussion on eyewitness accounts and when to suspect arson in vehicle firesMuch more! Our Premier print and digital resources include a printed textbook, eBook, audiobook, lesson plans, lecture outlines, slides, interactive lectures, flashcards, and TestPrep. Table of ContentsFire Officer IChapter 1 The Fire Officer as Company Officer Chapter 2 Understanding Leadership and Management TheoriesChapter 3 Crew Resource ManagementChapter 4 Leading a TeamChapter 5 Community Relations and Risk ReductionChapter 6 Fire Department AdministrationChapter 7 Preincident Planning and Code EnforcementChapter 8 Command of Initial Emergency OperationsChapter 9 Safety and Risk Management Fire Officer IIChapter 10 The Fire Officer II as a ManagerChapter 11 Applications of LeadershipChapter 12 Managing Community Risk Reduction ProgramsChapter 13 Administrative CommunicationsChapter 14 Fire Cause DeterminationChapter 15 Managing Major Incidents Appendix: NFPA 1020 Correlation GridGlossaryIndex © 2026 | 550 pages
Firebird (The Fire That Binds)
by Juliette CrossAn instant New York Times bestseller!House of the Dragon meets From Blood and Ash in this epic, scorching dark romantasy. A conqueror captivated… A witch prophesied to save them all… An unforgiving world where dragons rule Rome. Julian Dakkia, Roman general and nephew to the emperor, has played his role as conqueror well. Yet, the moment he laid eyes on Malina, he was enthralled by the Dacian dancer. Years later, the fierce beauty stands before him, a captive on a scarred battlefield, her life in danger. He instinctively shifts into his fierce dragon form to save her, an action that may mean his head on the imperial gate. The rules of their world dictate that he is the conqueror and she is the captured. But he and his dragon know one thing: their bond has nothing to do with the laws of mighty Rome. She belongs to them. And they belong to her. Fierce and powerful, twenty-one-year old Malina has survived the loss of her family and she is determined to fight until her dying breath. Still, she can’t believe that the centurion who had once bestowed a secret talisman on her is the Roman general of legendary brutality…and now holds her life in his hands. Nor can she deny how her soul has always seemed to answer his. Slowly she learns that Julian is caught in his mad uncle’s machinations for domination, and helps him plot the downfall of the empire itself. As they navigate a world where flying deathriders conquer and burn, their love will ignite a firestorm that can only end in heartbreak or death. Or both.Firebird is an adult romantasy novel that contains dark themes, including slavery in Ancient Rome, which may be uncomfortable for some readers.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
First Responder Inspector with Navigate Advantage Access
by National Fire Protection Association, International Association of Fire ChiefsThis groundbreaking edition of First Responder Inspector with Navigate Advantage Access provides a deep understanding of the First Responder Inspector’s roles and responsibilities and meets and exceeds the JPRs set forth in the 2024 Edition of NFPA 1030.