Best Selling Books by James Hill

This new book has been completely revised and updated to provide a guide to the workings of the Convention on the Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods by Road. The text takes an article by article approach, discussing the relevant English and European case law to illustrate how the courts interpret the convention in practice.

A long-standing détente has shattered leading to war. Hatched far from home, the Lost Princess of Ilmatar has narrowly evaded capture by hostile forces intent on using her in a dangerous game of leverage. With assistance from unorthodox sources, the Red Star Regime suffered their first defeat at a great cost. War is declared as relations between staunch allies fray to the point of dissolution. Resources are hastily reshuffled as harsh realities shatter illusions. Red Star contemplates their next moves while mysterious friends are reunited. Snow and Giem, dragon and man, once more find themselves subject to executing the decisions of others. Together with cryptic Satchel and battered Ottavia, they must journey into a daunting unknown, venturing to a place and people that appears utterly alien.

Unhinged and unwanted, an abandoned veteran finds himself suddenly ensnared in the grasp of an enigmatic mafioso and her shadowy world of high-class, high-stakes organized crime. It is not an arena for the faint of heart, and Olivia Hayden has plans for the broken man. Refurbished by the power of Predator Soul and rearmed with a Manifest, she intends to wield Josh Brown as a weapon in the defense of her interests, but unseen fractures badly mended make him as much a threat to himself as to her enemies. In Tiger Ring, storm clouds of plotting and jealousy are building along the horizon; emboldened rivals are openly encroaching on Hayden’s turf. Insulted by the audacity, she plans her revenge, but the explosive violence may yet shatter her sharpest blade.

Screenwriter/producer James Hill was Rita Hayworth''s fifth and last husband. When love bloomed, and though marriage soon followed, the relationship was doomed. Hill wanted to revitalize Rita''s career--getting her a serious role in Separate Tables, pairing her with Gary Cooper in They Came to Cordura, and obsessively pushing her to reveal her comedienne talents to the world. Rita, on the other hand, preferred reading and painting and quiet--finally revealing her utter lack of interest in movies-of all varieties. Hill thought to rescue her from the "sharks" of the film business but found that he too was using her. There are a few intriguing movie making details and copious anecdotage in this often-gushy, likable-yet-murky view of the star herself. Not the usual star-bio by a long shot--with only intermittent appeal for the legion of Hayworth fans.

How did white Southerners in the nineteenth century reconcile a Christian faith that instructed them to turn the other cheek with a pervasive code of honor that instructed them to do just the opposite—to demand satisfaction for perceived insults? In Edgefield, South Carolina, in the 1830s, white Southerners combined these seemingly antithetical ideals to forge a new compound: a wrathful moral ethic of righteous honor. Dueling Cultures, Damnable Legacies investigates the formation and proliferation of this white supremacist ideology that merged masculine bellicosity with religious devotion. In 1856, when Edgefield native Preston Smith Brooks viciously beat the abolitionist Charles Sumner on the Senate floor, the ideology of righteous honor reached its apogee and took national center stage. Welborn analyzes the birth of this peculiar moral ethic in Edgefield and traces its increasing dominance across the American South in the buildup to the Civil War, as white Southerners sought to cloak a war fought in defense of slavery in the language of honor and Christian piety.

The fictional story of "Girl & Boy" takes place in a Midwest city in July of 1973. A heroin addict mother and a hot headed father leaves Junior without parents. He moves in with his father''s mother. At the age of 17, he learns a lifelong lesson in a few years. With determination to succeed, he does it! With help and support of his girl and a strong willed uncle, he''s wealthy before he''s thirty years old. However, he has been through hell and back and recognizes love

The home food production system would give you hundreds of fishes and enough fresh foods that your family needs without much stress. This is a sure way to get premium, fresh and quality fishes and vegetables for your family and friends. You would end up loving the aquaponics gardening system. It is relaxing, fun and is something you can do throughout the year. In this book, you have all you need to go from beginner to expert in running a successful aquaponic gardening system. This aquaponic gardening guide is loaded with plenty information to get you on your way to stress-free farming and healthy living for you and your loved one. Benefits of Aquaponics Systems Include: · Low set-up costs · Less water used – only 2% of conventional gardening, so ideal for hotter climates where drought can be a real problem · No need for fertilizers, pesticides or herbicides · No waste to get rid of as it is all used within the system · No need for fertile soil If you''re a beginner who wants to produce organic vegetables and fresh fish in your home, this book is your key to learning this gardening method. Whether you have a sprawling backyard or just a tiny balcony, aquaponics offers an opportunity to grow a diverse array of produce while protecting the environment.

Since earliest times the strategy and tactics of the Celts in battle has exhibited a continuity over the centuries that is quite surprising. This book provides a comprehensive study of the way in which the Celtic people fought and the weapons that they used. After an introduction which sets the background, the book concentrates on the Irish Wars, the civil war in Scotland, the campaigns of Graham of Claverhouse, Bonnie Dundee, the Jacobite uprisings of 1715 and 1745, and the North American War against the French and the Indians. Battles which are analyzed in detail include Clontibret, Yellow Ford, Moyry Pass, Kinsale, Tippermuir, Aberdeen, Inverlochy, Auldearn, Kilsyth, Killiecrankie, Preston, Sheriffmuir, Prestonpans, Falkirk, and Culloden. The author of this volume provides a sound, factual, and analytical base that identifies the continuity in Gaelic warfare from the 1590s to the 1760s which will interest all concerned with the study of the military history of Ireland, Scotland, England, and North America.

Playing at War offers an innovative focus on Civil War video games as significant sites of memory creation, distortion, and evolution in popular culture. With fifteen essays by historians, the collection analyzes the emergence and popularity of video games that topically engage the period surrounding the American Civil War, from the earliest console games developed in the 1980s through the web-based games of the twenty-first century, including popular titles such as Red Dead Redemption 2 and War of Rights. Alongside discussions of technological capabilities and advances, as well as their impact on gameplay and content, the essays consider how these games engage with historical scholarship on the Civil War era, the degree to which video games reflect and contribute to popular understandings of the period, and how those dynamics reveal shifting conceptions of martial identity and historical memory within U.S. popular culture. Video games offer productive sites for extending the analysis of Civil War memory into the post–Confederates in the Attic era, including the political and cultural moments of Obama and Trump, where overt expressions of Lost Cause memory were challenged and removed from schools and public spaces, then embraced by new manifestations of white supremacist organizations. Edited by Patrick A. Lewis and James Hill Welborn III, Playing at War traces the drift of Civil War memory into digital spaces and gaming cultures, encouraging historians to engage more extensively with video games as important cultural media for examining how contemporary Americans interact with the nation’s past.

As a young boy camping in the foothills of the West Wall, Giem Kyler stumbles across a wonderfully bizarre creature thought not to exist within the miles high confines of the Basin crater. Curiosity turns this first encounter bloody, leaving the eleven year old with a scar and a lingering desire to know... Seven years later this same curiosity lands him in a pinch of trouble with the kinds of people his Father wouldn’t be real keen on, and he is persuaded into a trip back up those crumbling hills in search of answers. With his best friend Satchel at his side - always dependable, ever the cynic - Giem returns. On the back of happenstance and less-than-stellar decision making he, incredibly, uncovers the answer, discovers a truth. And this truth is complicated. Dangerous, even. What he finds is far more than an ecological oddity: the dragon hatchling''s very existence here in the fringes of the Basin thrusts the trio center stage of an ideological struggle between superpowers half a world away. Who she is threatens to turn a cold war very, very hot.

Understanding Social Policy offers a sketch of the history of social policy, in the UK and explores the influences upon the making and implementation of social policy. It shows that it is not just new initiatives in social policy which need attention. Constitutional changes are occurring, including in particular the devolution of power to Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, which will re-shape political and administrative institutions and in due course have a profound impact upon the social policy scene. The book also examines specific areas of social policy, including the Labour initiatives on welfare reform, the reshaping of the NHS to replace the internal market with health care commissioning, and the new initiatives on education and training.

"The Public Policy Process is essential reading for anyone trying to understand the process by which public policy is made. Explaining clearly the importance of the relationship between theoretical and practical aspects of policymaking, the book gives a thorough overview of the people and organisations involved in the process. Fully revised and updated for an 8th edition, The Public Policy Process provides: Clear exploration, using many illustrations, of how policy is made and implemented; Examines challenges to effective policy making in critical areas - such as inequality and climate change - including the influence of powerful interests and the Covid-19 pandemic; New material on unequal democracies, interest groups influence, behavioural policy analysis, global policies and evidence-based decision making; Additional European and comparative international examples. This text is essential reading for students of public policy, public administration and management, as well as more broadly highly relevant to related courses in health and nursing, social welfare, environment, development and local government"--

The best-selling, official, and definitive guide to the characters of the dynamic, ever-expanding Marvel Universe. Compiled by a team of comic book experts in close collaboration with Marvel Comics, this fully updated and expanded edition features more than 1,200 iconic Superheroes and villains, with hundreds of expanded entries detailing their adventures since the previous edition (2019). Major new characters have also been added, and the latest Marvel Universe crossover events, such as Judgment Day, Empyre, and War of the Realms, are included as in-depth features. With every character illustrated with superb artwork from the original Marvel Comics, this is the one book every Marvel fan must own. © 2023 MARVEL