Antoinette is a young, religious, spunky teen with loads of character. She deems anyone who falls in love as pathetic, but when she meets him, she is conflicted... Does she stay true to her morals and religious values, or does she fall hard and just forget all the advice that she has been taught for the past 15 years? This decision is bigger than to love or not to love, it's a tug of war between her beliefs and her undying soul... Different stories, unique reactions, and loads of emotional outbursts. For some, they find love and acceptance easily, whereas for others, it was always meant to be an emotional rollercoaster. Each scenario leads into a poetic breakthrough of mental courage and life changing epiphanies... This book would be the definition of love, betrayal, unacceptance, and societal uprising bursting at the seams...

A searing exposé of how the multibillion dollar college sports empire fails universities, students, and athletes. With little public debate or introspection, our institutions of higher learning have become hostages to the rapacious, smash-mouth entertainment conglomerate known, quaintly, as intercollegiate athletics. In Champions Way, New York Times investigative reporter Mike McIntire chronicles the rise of this growing scandal through the experience of the Florida State Seminoles, one of the most successful teams in NCAA history. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his Times investigation of college sports, McIntire breaks new ground here, uncovering the workings of a system that enables athletes to violate academic standards and avoid criminal prosecution for actions ranging from shoplifting to drunk driving. At the heart of Champions Way is the untold story of a whistle-blower, Christie Suggs, and her wrenching struggle to hold a corrupt system to account. Together with shocking new details about prominent sports figures, including NFL quarterback Jameis Winston and former FSU coach Bobby Bowden, Champions Way shines a light on the ethical, moral, and legal compromises inherent in the making of a championship sports program. Beyond the story of Florida State, McIntire takes readers on a journey through the history of college football, from its origins as a roughneck pastime coached by nineteenth-century professors to its current incarnation as a gold-plated behemoth that long ago outgrew its scholastic environs. Illuminated in rich and disturbing detail is the hidden financial ecosystem that nourishes hundred-million-dollar teams, from the hustlers who recruit players for schools and the athletic departments controlled by rich boosters to the universities whose academic mission and moral authority have been undermined. More than pointing out flaws, McIntire examines their causes and offers hope to those who would reform college sports.

With in-depth analysis of more than fifteen countries, this volume examines the impact of the double disease burden on health care regimes, resource allocation, strategies for prevention and control on the wealthiest nations in the region, as well as the smallest Pacific islands. Milton Lewis, University of Sydney.

This book is a collection of essays arising out of the OCyZealandiaOCOs Great WarOCO conference organised by the New Zealand Military History Committee in November 2003. In 32 essays by distinguished military historians from New Zealand and around the world, various aspects of New ZealandOCOs involvement in World War One are discussed. Subjects include the Pioneer Maori Battalion, women who opposed the war, the early years of the RSA, Gallipoli, the infantry on the Somme, New ZealandOCOs involvement in the naval war, prostitution and the New Zealand soldier, the Home Defence, religion in the First World War, and the Armistice. New ZealandOCOs Great War is a fascinating miscellany of informed comment on and insight into the event that did most to shape New Zealand as a nation. Contributors include New ZealandOCOs own Chris Pugsley, Glyn Harper, Terry Kinloch, Monty Soutar, Megan Hutching, Vincent Orange and Bronwyn Dalley, as well as Peter Dennis, Jeffrey Grey, Jennifer Keene, Jenny McLeod, Pierre Purseigle, Peter Stanley and Gary Sheffield from overseas."

A civilization destroyed by magic. Those who remain are on the brink of extinction. Thane is a Dweller, one of the last of his kind. He’s lived for a thousand years and this is the first time that his goddess has sent him to assassinate a fellow deity—a testament of how close they really are to the end. His failure is inevitable, but death is only the beginning of his biggest adventure yet. Thane is reborn into a new life, as is the way of the Dweller. When he finds himself in enemy territory he has no choice but to bind himself to a human soul. In doing so, he learns there is an ancient and powerful magic that even the gods fear. The Void is coming and it will devour everything—the gods, the realms, even magic itself. If it can be harnessed, those he has come to love will never live in fear again. Soul Legacy is a standalone 120,000-word romantic epic fantasy novel featuring Thane, his soulmate Gwen, and their daughter Astrid. This is a reprint of the duology “Soul Bound” and “Soul Child.” Content includes mild violence, language, and high fantasy concepts.