A game of deception, strictly for the cameras, will blur the lines between a racing driver and her billionaire boss in this new romance by Amanda Cinelli. He’s crossing the line… from enemy to fiancé! When racing driver Nina Roux gets benched, she demands early release from her contract. The team's new, infuriatingly handsome ultrarich boss refuses…until a suggestive photo of their heated argument goes viral! Tristan Falco needs innocent Nina to play his fake fiancée to stop the bad press they’re attracting. She’ll only agree if he gives her what she wants. She doesn’t need to know his hands are tied by a stipulation of his acquisition. Winning has always been Tristan’s focus, so he’s blindsided by their desire and his inconvenient craving for his convenient bride-to-be… From Harlequin Presents: Escape to exotic locations where passion knows no bounds. Read all The Fast Track Billionaires' Club books: Book 1: The Bump in Their Forbidden Reunion Book 2: Fast-Track Fiancé

IntroductionTo the country fair --Ch. 1. The merry-go-round --Ch. 2. Denmark's Hubris --Ch. 3. Tragedy in Copenhagen --Ch. 4. The failing giant --Ch. 5. The Agassiz venture --Ch. 6. Axis of melt --Ch. 7. The Arctic's poisonous secret --Ch. 8. What oil? --Ch. 9. Proposition 23 and the mirror on America --Ch. 10. Dead zones --Ch. 11. The temptations of the moon palace --Conclusion. The trouble with our brains.

Contents: Understanding Management, Planning as a Management Function, Organising as a Management Function, Staffing as a Management Function, Leading as a Management Function, Controlling as a Management Function, Environmental Issues and their Impact on Management, Conclusion.

Harlequin Presents brings you four full-length stories in one collection! Experience the glamorous lives of royals and billionaires, where passion knows no bounds. Be swept into a world of luxury, wealth and exotic locations. This box set includes: HER IMPOSSIBLE BOSS’S BABY by Millie Adams Pushed beyond her limits, Polly Prescott quits her job as uncompromising Italian Luca Salvatore’s PA. Yet the moment the clock strikes midnight on her last evening, they surrender to the incendiary attraction between them…. Fast forward four weeks: workaholic Luca has thought of – no, craved – nothing but Polly ever since. Except his foundations are rocked when Polly tells him she’s pregnant. No Salvatore heir will ever feel unwanted again. Luca’s solution? Promote Polly from ex-secretary to convenient wife! He just needs to convince her to sign on the dotted line… STOLEN PRINCESS’S SECRET by USA TODAY bestselling author Kelly Hunter Kidnapped as a child, Crown Princess Claudia’s bold reappearance shocks everyone! Especially king’s aide and falconer Tomas, whose guilt over not saving her all those years ago still tortures him. Stunned by the beautiful woman Claudia’s become, he can’t risk giving in to his red-hot attraction… Claudia is determined to convince Tomas that their chemistry can conquer their past. But after a tense encounter finally boils over into a scorching night of passion, Claudia wakes up with a life-changing secret…she’s pregnant, by a man who considers her utterly forbidden! FAST-TRACK FIANCÉ (A The Fast Track Billionaires’ Club novel) by Amanda Cinelli When racing driver Nina Roux gets benched, she demands early release from her contract. The team's new, infuriatingly handsome ultra-rich boss refuses…until a suggestive photo of their heated argument goes viral! Tristan Falco needs innocent Nina to play his fake fiancée to stop the bad press they’re attracting. She’ll only agree if he gives her what she wants. She doesn’t need to know his hands are tied by a stipulation of his acquisition. Winning has always been Tristan’s focus, so he’s blindsided by their desire and his inconvenient craving for his convenient bride-to-be… BRIDE UNDER CONTRACT (A Wed into a Billionaire’s World novel) By USA TODAY bestselling author Carol Marinelli On holiday in Malaysia, taking a break from her caregiving responsibilities, innocent Grace Andrews allows herself to give into desire with cynical tycoon Carter Bennett. They agreed it would just be one night, so his morning-after proposal is a total shock! To protect his family’s conservation legacy, Carter needs a bride. His grandfather’s will insists upon it. His and Grace’s sizzling compatibility confirmed, could a marriage contract be the answer? Carter will never open the heart he lost alongside his family…but will Grace accept that term is non-negotiable? For more stories filled with passion and drama, look for Harlequin Presents September 2024 Box Set – 1 of 2

A princess risks duty when she surrenders to their forbidden passion…and reveals she’s expecting! A new royal pregnancy romance by USA TODAY bestselling author Kelly Hunter. His princess from the past… has a secret to change his future! Kidnapped as a child, Crown Princess Claudia’s bold reappearance shocks everyone! Especially king’s aide and falconer Tomas, whose guilt over not saving her all those years ago still tortures him. Stunned by the beautiful woman Claudia’s become, he can’t risk giving in to his red-hot attraction… Claudia is determined to convince Tomas that their chemistry can conquer their past. But after a tense encounter finally boils over into a scorching night of passion, Claudia wakes up with a life-changing secret… She’s pregnant, by a man who considers her utterly forbidden! From Harlequin Presents: Escape to exotic locations where passion knows no bounds.

A networking expert shares his trademarked seven-step N.E.T.W.O.R.K. process to help readers make the right connections in both their business and personal lives, emphasizing such steps as "Never leave home without one's business cards" and "Keep it going--the art of follow-up and relationship-building." Original.

Life as a military spouse is especially tough these days, and information is not easy to find. Today's military has changed dramatically in just the last four years. For example, the introduction of Individual Augmentation (taking a service member from his or her current job and sending him or her to Iraq or Afghanistan for a year, usually with very little notice) has dramatically changed the level of preparedness expected of families. Shore duty no longer means a spouse will not end up deploying-something spouses need to be prepared for. The author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Life as a Military Spouseis a military spouse herself, and in her book readers will find- How to enrol your child in the Child Development Homes program. What you need to do before a permanent change of station (PCS) move. How to prepare for deployment andthe return of a spouse. Little-known but important information such as the fact that a spouse can use his or her spouse's GI bill to further his or her education if they are stationed overseas. Easy ways to calculate benefits, allowances, and special pays.

Phaedra and Logan turned their fake relationship into true love. Everything was going great. Until Phaedra found out she was pregnant. With her business growing and Logan's legal career on the fast track, this baby couldn't be coming at a worse time. But, Phaedra is thrilled. She always dreamed of having a family of her own, and this baby could make her dreams come true... unless Logan wants no part. Afraid of how he'll react, Phaedra decides to hide her pregnancy from Logan. How will he react when he finds out about their secret baby? Will it destroy his career ambitions? Can their love survive this secret? Find out in Her Focus, the second installment in the Exposed to Love series by Savina Joyce.

Low Carbon Development: Key Issues is the first comprehensive textbook to address the interface between international development and climate change in a carbon constrained world. It discusses the key conceptual, empirical and policy-related issues of low carbon development and takes an international and interdisciplinary approach to the subject by drawing on insights from across the natural sciences and social sciences whilst embedding the discussion in a global context. The first part explores the concept of low carbon development and explains the need for low carbon development in a carbon constrained world. The book then discusses the key issues of socio-economic, political and technological nature for low carbon development, exploring topics such as the political economy, social justice, financing and carbon markets, and technologies and innovation for low carbon development. This is followed by key issues for low carbon development in policy and practice, which is presented based on cross-cutting issues such as low carbon energy, forestry, agriculture and transportation. Afterwards, practical case studies are discussed from low carbon development in low income countries in Africa, middle income countries in Asia and Latin America and high income countries in Europe and North America. Written by an international team of leading academics and practitioners in the field of low carbon development, this book is essential reading for students, academics, professionals and policy-makers interested in the fields of low carbon development, climate change mitigation, climate policy, climate change and development, global environmental change, and environment and development.

Hollywood, California, and Kell, Wyoming, are the unlikely bookends for Hawk Brannon's life now. An award-winning actor, he knew something was missing from his life even though he had a shapely showgirl fiancée and more money than he could ever spend. When his car broke down in Kell, he discovered what he was missing. There he fell in love with the uncomplicated country lifestyle and with a young ranch girl named Sam. However, Sam's beautiful, but immoral sister, Savannah, also wanted Hawk, and she would stop at nothing to win his attention-and his checkbook to pay her gambling debts. Savannah has a history of making others suffer when she doesn't get her way-even if the result is death. Can Hawk resist the temptation of "Savannah Sugar" to find the contentment missing from his life since his parents' untimely deaths? And when Savannah attracts an element of underworld crime, will the brutality follow her back to Kell and destroy the idyllic life Hawk has found there?