Amanda couldn’t believe her eyes when she witnessed her fianc? cheating. In despair, she decides to jump off a bridge, but gets saved by Malory, her fianc?’s half brother. The usually cold, stern man shows his kind and supportive side to Amanda during her struggle. Amanda cannot help but feel attracted to his kindness. Eventually, Amanda's cunning ex-fianc? spreads a fake rumor about the two, and Malory proposes an idea. He suggests that he and Amanda pretend to be engaged to stop the gossip!

Amanda couldn’t believe her eyes when she witnessed her fianc? cheating. In despair, she decides to jump off a bridge, but gets saved by Malory, her fianc?’s half brother. The usually cold, stern man shows his kind and supportive side to Amanda during her struggle. Amanda cannot help but feel attracted to his kindness. Eventually, Amanda's cunning ex-fianc? spreads a fake rumor about the two, and Malory proposes an idea. He suggests that he and Amanda pretend to be engaged to stop the gossip!

An up-to-date and comparative look at immigration in Europe, the United States, and Canada Strangers No More is the first book to compare immigrant integration across key Western countries. Focusing on low-status newcomers and their children, it examines how they are making their way in four critical European countries—France, Germany, Great Britain, and the Netherlands—and, across the Atlantic, in the United States and Canada. This systematic, data-rich comparison reveals their progress and the barriers they face in an array of institutions—from labor markets and neighborhoods to educational and political systems—and considers the controversial questions of religion, race, identity, and intermarriage. Richard Alba and Nancy Foner shed new light on questions at the heart of concerns about immigration. They analyze why immigrant religion is a more significant divide in Western Europe than in the United States, where race is a more severe obstacle. They look at why, despite fears in Europe about the rise of immigrant ghettoes, residential segregation is much less of a problem for immigrant minorities there than in the United States. They explore why everywhere, growing economic inequality and the proliferation of precarious, low-wage jobs pose dilemmas for the second generation. They also evaluate perspectives often proposed to explain the success of immigrant integration in certain countries, including nationally specific models, the political economy, and the histories of Canada and the United States as settler societies. Strangers No More delves into issues of pivotal importance for the present and future of Western societies, where immigrants and their children form ever-larger shares of the population.

Combining legal and social history, Bruce Mann explores the relationship between law and society from the mid-seventeenth century to the eve of the Revolution. Analyzing a sample of more than five thousand civil cases from the records of local courts in Connecticut, he shows how once-neighborly modes of disputing yielded to a legal system that treated neighbors and strangers alike. During the colonial period population growth, immigration, economic development, war, and religious revival transformed the nature and context of official and economic relations in Connecticut. Towns lost the insularity and homogeneity that made them the embodiment of community. Debt litigation was transformed from a communal model of disputing in which procedures were based on the individual disagreements to a system of mechanical rules that homogenized law. Pleading grew more technical, and the civil jury faded from predominance to comparative insignificance. Arbitration and church disciplinary proceedings, the usual alternatives to legal process, became more formal and legalistic and, ultimately, less communal. Using a computer-assisted analysis of court records and insights drawn from anthropology and sociology, Mann concludes that changes in the law and its applications were tied to the growing commercialization of the economy. They also can be attributed to the fledgling legal profession's approach to law as an autonomous system rather than as a communal process. These changes marked the advent of a legal system that valued predictability and uniformity of legal relations more than responsiveness to individual communities. Mann shows that by the eve of the Revolution colonial law had become less identified with community and more closely associated with society.

Vols. for 1831/32-1940 include Senate documents.

The Law of Psychic Phenomena is a classic work in the field of psychic manifestations of the human intellect. The author, Dr. Thomson Jay Hudson, Ph.D., LL.D., was the acknowledged authority in the field of metaphysics when he wrote this book in the late years of the 19th century. This book explores all areas of the metaphysical world from early philosophies to hypnotism and mesmerism, clairvoyance, visions, right through an overview of the psycho-therapeutic practices of that time. The Law of Psychic Phenomena remains as fascinating and informative today as it was when it was first published.