Mills & Boon Modern — Escape to exotic locations where passion knows no bounds. The Maid the Greek Married - Jackie Ashenden She owes him her life…and vows to wear his ring! Imprisoned on a compound since childhood, housemaid Rose has no recollection of anything before. So, when she learns super-rich Ares Aristiades needs a wife, she proposes a deal: her freedom in exchange for marriage! Before binding her to him permanently, Ares gives virgin Rose a year to experience being his bride. His mansions across the globe are hers to share, but the hardened widower’s heart is locked away. Still, their charged encounters make Ares feel far too much. Especially when he doesn’t want to feel anything at all… The Christmas He Claimed the Secretary - Caitlin Crews A show for the cameras, a desire that’s not just for Christmas! Annie Meeks has given up her dreams to shoulder her sister’s debt. But one chance meeting with smoldering Tiziano Accardi and, suddenly, the life she’s always imagined is within reach…if she’ll play the role of the billionaire’s mistress. To avoid the marriage being foisted upon him, playboy Tiziano needs to manufacture a love affair. Innocent secretary Annie is the perfect candidate for his ruse. Yet he’s wholly unprepared for the wild heat that rises between them… which he must attempt to restrain before it devours them both! Forbidden to the Desert Prince - Maisey Yates She was promised to one man…but has always desired another! Ariel Hart thought she was free from her arranged marriage to the sheikh. But fifteen years after a coup deposed the royal family, Prince Cairo, her betrothed’s brother appears…demanding she uphold the bargain! Cairo’s allegiance to his brother is his driving force. If the sheikh wants his promised bride, Cairo will deliver her. But the forbidden desire between them threatens everything. Her plans, his honour, the future of a nation. Can they resist a need that burns hotter than the desert sun? Pregnant Princess in Manhattan - Clare Connelly Expecting the royal heir. Expected to wed the billionaire! Escaping the oppressive control of her protection detail leads Princess Charlotte Rothsberg to the New York penthouse of sinfully attractive Rocco Santinova. But this one rebellious night leaves innocent Charlotte pregnant with Rocco’s’s baby… Rocco’s self-made reputation is the stuff of Manhattan legend. But discarded and disowned by his own father, he has no intention of letting history repeat itself. So he makes Charlotte a proposal she can’t refuse; he’ll save her from royal disgrace — as long as she agrees to be his Christmas bride!

The Greek’s Surprise Christmas Bride - Lynne Graham Letty can’t let her family fall into financial ruin. A convenient Christmas wedding with Leo is the ideal solution! Until their paper-only arrangement is scorched...by the heat of their unanticipated attraction! Secret Prince’s Christmas Seduction - Carol Marinelli Prince Rafe is floored by his unexpected connection to chambermaid Antonietta. All he can offer is a temporary seduction. But unwrapping the precious gift of her virginity changes everything. Now Rafe must choose – his crown, or Antonietta... Christmas Contract For His Cinderella - Jane Porter Duty has always dictated Marcu’s actions, making free-spirited Monet, with her infamous family history, strictly forbidden. But when their long-simmering passion burns intensely enough to melt the snow, will Marcu claim his Christmas Cinderella...? Maid For The Untamed Billionaire - Miranda Lee Being suddenly swept into Jake’s world – and his arms! – is an eye-opening experience for shy maid Abby. But when Jake’s number one rule is no long-term relationships, how can Abby possibly tame the wild billionaire?

For women of the Italian Renaissance, the Virgin Mary was one of the most important role models. Who Is Mary? presents devotional works written by three women better known for their secular writings: Vittoria Colonna, famed for her Petrarchan lyric verse; Chiara Matraini, one of the most original poets of her generation; and the wide-ranging, intellectually ambitious polemicist Lucrezia Marinella. At a time when the cult of the Virgin was undergoing a substantial process of redefinition, these texts cast fascinating light on the beliefs of Catholic women in the Renaissance, and also, in the cases of Matraini and Marinella, on contemporaneous women’s social behavior, prescribed for them by male writers in books on female decorum. Who Is Mary? testifies to the emotional and spiritual relationships that women had with the figure of Mary, whom they were required to emulate as the epitome of femininity. Now available for the first time in English-language translation, these writings suggest new possibilities for women in both religious and civil culture and provide a window to women’s spirituality, concerning the most important icon set before them, as wives, mothers, and Christians.

In this fifth edition of A Cognitive Psychology of Mass Communication, author Richard Jackson Harris continues his examination of how our experiences with media affect the way we acquire knowledge about the world, and how this knowledge influences our attitudes and behavior. Presenting theories from psychology and communication along with reviews of the corresponding research, this text covers a wide variety of media and media issues, ranging from the commonly discussed topics – sex, violence, advertising – to lesser-studied topics, such as values, sports, and entertainment education. The fifth and fully updated edition offers: highly accessible and engaging writing contemporary references to all types of media familiar to students substantial discussion of theories and research, including interpretations of original research studies a balanced approach to covering the breadth and depth of the subject discussion of work from both psychology and media disciplines. The text is appropriate for Media Effects, Media & Society, and Psychology of Mass Media coursework, as it examines the effects of mass media on human cognitions, attitudes, and behaviors through empirical social science research; teaches students how to examine and evaluate mediated messages; and includes mass communication research, theory and analysis.