Destiny lies along an uncharted course… Commission Captain and special operative Sevan Vasil has enough problems without the strange dreams that seem to be his mind’s version of a cruel joke. No woman could be that perfect…except perhaps his fated mate. No human or alien alive would dare answer a lion-shifter’s call. Not with the state of unrest and anti-supernatural movement in the universe. When the raven-haired beauty who invaded his dreams appears on his communication screen, he knows everything is changing, and maybe destiny is on his side. And just maybe, she is his mate. He just needs to find a way to keep her safe on her own planet before he can keep her for eternity.

"I wanted to capture the memory, the sensations of Instanbul in a jewel." Sevan Bicakci A native of Istanbul, Sevan Bicakci is a luminary in jewellery design, fusing elements of Byzantine and Ottoman history, storytelling, and architecture into his award winning creations. Bicakci is best known for his majestic rings crafted with his signature reverse-intaglio technique, in which monuments, mythological figures, animals, birds, and flowers are carved into precious stones with intricate detail. His awe-inspiring creations, filled with storytelling artistry, are avidly sought by the world' most discerning and sophisticated collectors. AUTHOR: Vivienne Becker is an award-winning journalist, jewellery historian, and author of several books on the history of jewellery design. Based in London, Becker is a contributing editor to the Financial Times' How to Spend It magazine, writes for newspapers and magazines around the world, and lectures and broadcasts on her subject. She organised and wrote the catalog for the first major exhibition of the jewellery of Rene Lalique, and curated Jewels of Fantasy, a travelling exhibition of twentieth-century costume jewellery. Becker's previous books for Assouline include 'De Beers Jewellery' and 'The Impossible Collection of Jewelry'. 120 illustrations

When their friends are kidnapped, Sevan and Nadio find themselves marooned on the tourist Planet of Pallene. Their predicament gets worse when Republic troops transport them to a prison planet from which no-one has ever escaped. But escape is exactly what Sevan must do if he is to save the life of his friend, Nadio. End of the Universe is the third novel in the light-hearted space opera series, Mastery of the Stars.

Finding himself suspended upside down from a burning tree above a pack of ravenous beasts was a bit of a surprise for Sevan. It had been one heck of a week. One minute he'd been struggling to meet his Corporation targets, the next he'd been promoted... And then he'd found himself on a stolen freighter with the Resistance, on their way to find the President of the system. But sometimes, stuff like that just happens... right? When he discovers that the President is really a ball of gas, and the Corporation is trying to destroy the presidential cruiser on which he's trapped, that's when he starts to lose his sense of humour. It couldn't possibly get worse ... or could it? If this book was the illegitimate offspring of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Star Wars, they would probably put it up for adoption. Mastery of the Stars is the first novel in the light-hearted Mastery of the Stars space opera series.

This volume presents the main environmental security challenges facing transition countries as well as practical methods and approaches for addressing them, which are equally applicable to all countries. Coverage also details lesson learned as illustrated via research and case studies as well as issues related to metals in the environment.

Southwest Asia is one of the most remarkable regions on Earth in terms of active faulting and folding, large-magnitude earthquakes, volcanic landscapes, petroliferous foreland basins, historical civilizations as well as geologic outcrops that display the protracted and complex 540 m.y. stratigraphic record of Earth's Phanerozoic Era. Emerged from the birth and demise of the Paleo-Tethys and Neo-Tethys oceans, southwest Asia is currently the locus of ongoing tectonic collision between the Eurasia-Arabia continental plates. The region is characterized by the high plateaus of Iran and Anatolia fringed by the lofty ranges of Zagros, Alborz, Caucasus, Taurus, and Pontic mountains; the region also includes the strategic marine domains of the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, Caspian, and Mediterranean. This 19-chapter volume, published in honor of Manuel Berberian, a preeminent geologist from the region, brings together a wealth of new data, analyses, and frontier research on the geologic evolution, collisional tectonics, active deformation, and historical and modern seismicity of key areas in southwest Asia.