In het Syrische Emesa (het huidige Homs) wordt in het jaar 170 een meisje geboren dat een opmerkelijke rol zal gaan spelen in de geschiedenis van het Romeinse Rijk. Domna, mooi en intelligent, is een dochter van de priester van zonnegod El-Gabal en bovendien van koninklijken bloede. Ze wordt opgemerkt door de ambitieuze Romeinse senator Lucius Septimius Severus. Septimius is een Noord-Afrikaan en, net als Domna, geboren aan de randen van het Rijk.

Met Domna aan zijn zijde wordt Septimius in ...

In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County-to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto-pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them.

In a story spanning five decades, Last Night in T...

The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs...

The updated sixth edition of International Human Resource Management is an authoritative resource that focuses on international human resource management (IHRM) within multinational enterprises (MNEs). The book includes fifteen chapters with rich pedagogy students have come to expect and is organized into four sections:Strategic ContextNational and Cultural ContextGlobal Talent ManagementRole and the Future of IHRMEach chapter has been designed to lead readers through key topics in a highly e...

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A compassionate, hilarious tour of the United States explores the quirky side of life in America, from airline food to tax returns, from the perspective of a world traveler who has lived abroad for two decades. By the author of A Walk in the Woods. Reprint.