Do you enjoy a thrilling science fiction novel a roller-coaster ride of mystery and intrigue with a smattering of romance? The Amant Chronicles has all this and more, with two strong female lead characters, aliens, action ranging from fistfights to firefights, and a continually twisting, building plotline. Each novel comprises two separate but interconnected story lines joined by lineage. The main story follows Amant Ducet, a half-alien, half-human hybrid, over 250 years in the future. As a wealthy, well-educated woman, she translates between the Qyron, an advanced telepathic alien race, and us humans. Her job demands frequent traveling between planets while meeting with heads of state and pillars of industry. But a chance meeting with an old friend, John, starts her down a long and winding journey full of action and mystery. The second story line focuses on Jennifer Winston in our very near future. Shes a young, naive country girl from Montana. But after her violent abduction by the Qyron, she finds her quiet country life transformed into a fast-paced lifestyle of rubbing elbows with the president, dodging dangerous situations, and being guarded by Secret Service agents. Jennifers tumultuous story lays the foundation for the entire series and ends in the first volume.

For one man, football is more than just a fantasy... As seen on ESPN's "Cold Pizza" Fantasy football -- one of America's most popular, and profitable, virtual pastimes -- became a way of life for sports humorist and author Mark St. Amant. Utterly fed up with never having won his league championship, St. Amant abandoned a successful advertising career to make fantasy football his full-time job, embarking on a sprawling reconnaissance mission to discover what really makes this game, and its 20 million players, tick. "Committed" is the result of St. Amant's ranting, relentless, and strategic pursuit of his own obsession. In this wickedly funny and deeply informative work, St. Amant offers readers an all-access sideline pass to his wild, unprecedented fantasy football season, and to the hobby itself. From its humble beginnings in a New York hotel in 1962 to a multibillion-dollar business today, from local and online leagues to high-stakes, cutthroat Las Vegas competitions, St. Amant lays bare the facts, figures, and fanaticism of fantasy football in all its multidimensional glory.

Heterographies starts with the premise that sex and gender are fundamental components of the autobiographical writings of both sexes.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.

How does a nation come to terms with losing a war—especially an overseas war whose purpose is fervently contested? In the years after the war, how does such a nation construct and reconstruct its identity and values? For the French in Indochina, the stunning defeat at Dien Bien Phu ushered in the violent process of decolonization and a fraught reckoning with a colonial past. Contesting Indochina is the first in-depth study of the competing and intertwined narratives of the Indochina War. It analyzes the layers of French remembrance, focusing on state-sponsored commemoration, veterans’ associations, special-interest groups, intellectuals, films, and heated public disputes. These narratives constitute the ideological battleground for contesting the legacies of colonialism, decolonization, the Cold War, and France’s changing global status.