Iason and Commander Voshka Khosi have had a falling out; will it mean war on Amoi? And will Riki and Iason at last be reconciled as Master and pet? Find out in the thrilling long-awaited conclusion to the Volume II trilogy of Best-Selling Author Kira Takenouchi's Taming Riki. Publisher's Note: Thank you to Rachel Livingston of DMP for permission to publish Taming Riki. Ai no Kusabi remains a copyright of DMP and Rieko Yoshihara.

Riki has been captured by the notorious Federation rebel, Amon Qentu, and Iason has gone to rescue him. But will Iason be able to save his beloved pet and himself from Amon's dark agenda? Meanwhile on Alpha Zen, Aranshu is discovering that much has changed during his ten year absence from the Commander's side. Find out what happens next in Kira Takenouchi's continuation of the salaciously controversial Taming Riki series, Volume II: A World Divided, Part 2. Author's Note: Thank you to Rachel Livingston from DMP for permission to publish Taming Riki.

How Sex Changed is a fascinating social, cultural, and medical history of transsexuality in the United States. Joanne Meyerowitz tells a powerful human story about people who had a deep and unshakable desire to transform their bodily sex. In the last century when many challenged the social categories and hierarchies of race, class, and gender, transsexuals questioned biological sex itself, the category that seemed most fundamental and fixed of all. From early twentieth-century sex experiments in Europe, to the saga of Christine Jorgensen, whose sex-change surgery made headlines in 1952, to today’s growing transgender movement, Meyerowitz gives us the first serious history of transsexuality. She focuses on the stories of transsexual men and women themselves, as well as a large supporting cast of doctors, scientists, journalists, lawyers, judges, feminists, and gay liberationists, as they debated the big questions of medical ethics, nature versus nurture, self and society, and the scope of human rights. In this story of transsexuality, Meyerowitz shows how new definitions of sex circulated in popular culture, science, medicine, and the law, and she elucidates the tidal shifts in our social, moral, and medical beliefs over the twentieth century, away from sex as an evident biological certainty and toward an understanding of sex as something malleable and complex. How Sex Changed is an intimate history that illuminates the very changes that shape our understanding of sex, gender, and sexuality today.

To save her family’s business, fledging CEO Daisy Carter must win the bid on a resort on St. Maarten. There’s a small catch, though. The seller insists all bidders visit the island and experience the singles retreat firsthand. This wouldn’t be so bad...if only rule-maker Daisy weren’t paired with her bitter rival, the hot and broody Alexander Gillard. Keeping her enemy close just became a whole lot harder. Alexander “Zan” Gillard didn't expect to be partnered with gorgeous Daisy at the idyllic singles retreat. A challenge that has them cuffed together ignites an explosive chemistry, and soon Zan wants more than four days with this bewitching woman who is nothing like he expected her to be. But their families are at odds and reality awaits them at home, along with a betrayal that threatens to blow their newfound trust apart...

Verslag van een project van de kunstenaars Marina Abramović en Ulay, waarbij zij, ieder voor zich, over de Chinese Muur lopen en elkaar na drie maanden halverwege ontmoeten.

This is a compilation of fairy tales and folktales from around the world concentrating on children. There is one fairy tale for each letter of the alphabet. The illustrations are all collaged art created by the author for this book. The collages are from torn and cut pieces of paper from magazines, outdated wall calendars and old catalogs.

The politics of scientific advice across four environmental conflicts in Chile, when the state acted as a “neutral broker” rather than protecting the common good. In Science and Environment in Chile, Javiera Barandiarán examines the consequences for environmental governance when the state lacks the capacity to produce an authoritative body of knowledge. Focusing on the experience of Chile after it transitioned from dictatorship to democracy, she examines a series of environmental conflicts in which the state tried to act as a “neutral broker” rather than the protector of the common good. She argues that this shift in the role of the state—occurring in other countries as well—is driven in part by the political ideology of neoliberalism, which favors market mechanisms and private initiatives over the actions of state agencies. Chile has not invested in environmental science labs, state agencies with in-house capacities, or an ancillary network of trusted scientific advisers—despite the growing complexity of environmental problems and increasing popular demand for more active environmental stewardship. Unlike a high modernist “empire” state with the scientific and technical capacity to undertake large-scale projects, Chile's model has been that of an “umpire” state that purchases scientific advice from markets. After describing the evolution of Chilean regulatory and scientific institutions during the transition, Barandiarán describes four environmental crises that shook citizens' trust in government: the near-collapse of the farmed salmon industry when an epidemic killed millions of fish; pollution from a paper and pulp mill that killed off or forced out thousands of black-neck swans; a gold mine that threatened three glaciers; and five controversial mega-dams in Patagonia.