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In this pioneering new work, based on a thorough re-reading of primary sources and new research in the Austrian State Archives, Franz Szabo presents a fascinating reassessment of the continental war. Professor Szabo challenges the well-established myth that the Seven Years War was won through...

This book examines the dramatic increase in automotive assembly plants in the former Socialist Central European (CE) nations of Czechia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia from 1989 onwards. Enticed by relatively lower-wage labour and significant government incentives, the world’s largest...

Before he was known as Mehmet... he was called Lucifer. Here's the story of how he fell. When angels appear in Celestia's groves as malformed and without wings, they're cast out of paradise and into the darkness below. Lucifer has been charged to roam the Birthing Forests and find a child of...

Jack Callahan is in a financial bind, so when Australian novelist Bruce Logan offers him a small fortune to marry him so Bruce can get his green card, Jack agrees. The two men know enough about each other to pull off the immigration interview at Homeland Security and they can happily share an apartment...

Quinn Novak is a Honolulu Police Department detective working to solve an unusual string of robberies in the economically depressed town of Makaha Beach. A gang of thieves appears to be trailing pest control units then breaking into houses tented for termites. So one night, Quinn is assigned to watch...

Feng and Russell have made a life together in LA’s Chinatown, except that Feng has no memory of the centuries-old vampire, the imperious, mysterious Banpaia, who abducted then returned them and dozens of other men to their everyday lives.   Feng had fallen in love with Banpaia, who...

*Mature adults due to language and sexual nature* Tall, dark, and sexy as hell, Thorne Hollow knows the power he holds over the opposite sex and how to use it. Cast out by the gods thousands of years ago, he roams the earth working as an assassin for The Sicarii, a secret society who protects...

Inspector Lestrade and Interpol have a mystery that only the Supper Club can unravel. Sherlock Sam, Watson and their friends have to travel to Tokyo, Japan, and eat their way through a baffling series of clues before they can solve the tasty crime! Will Sherlock Sam prevail? Or will everything get lost in translation, leaving our intrepid detectives cold and hungry?

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction (new and classic works), articles, interviews and art. Our April 2018 issue (#139)  contains: Original fiction by Rich Larson ("Carouseling"),...

***This book is intended for mature audiences.*** Assassin Thorne Hollow wants to know two things. Who is the mysterious Kataya Clarke and what the hell kind of mind games is she playing with him? His curiosity causes him to do something he hasn’t done in over two thousand years. He...

From this "fabulous storyteller" (Carolyn Brown, New York Times bestselling author) comes the first book in an all-new western romance series. Delaney Harper thought she'd seen the last of Meadow Valley after her deadbeat husband left her brokenhearted and, well, just flat broke....

As new discoveries complicate the scientific picture of the universe, the evolving theories about the nature of space and time and the origins and fate of the universe threaten to become overwhelming. Enter David Seargent. Continuing the author's series of books popularizing strange astronomy facts...

This is a study of the legal rules affecting the practice of female prostitution at Rome approximately from 200 B.C. to A.D. 250. It examines the formation and precise content of the legal norms developed for prostitution and those engaged in this profession, with close attention to their social context....

Jacqueline 'Diamond' Bloomberg, was a rising star in the banking world, her Dad, the biggest banker in the country was her biggest fan, he tried to stop her joining her countries Army but she joined anyway and shone there to. It was when she left the Army and purchased an ailing band that she gained enemies, deadly enemies.