The international monetary system is characterized by vast numbers of daily transactions involving huge sums of money. In an increasingly globalized world economy, these trades can have enormous repercussions on economies and can ocassionally cause c...

Summer just got a whole lot hotter... Summer Chase has already loved and lost once and she has no intention of going through that pain again. But when a hunky Camaro-driving P.I. shows up at her B & B looking for a room for the week, she sees somethi...

In 1968, at the age of twenty-three, Karl Marlantes was dropped into the highland jungle of Vietnam, an inexperienced lieutenant in command of a platoon of forty Marines who would live or die by his decisions. Marlantes was a bright young man who was...

Typically provocative, at once comic and tragic, Pirandello's "Naked" uncovers the machinery of guilt, deceit, and betrayal underlying the motives of five people. The heroine is a young governess, Ersilia Drei, who has been reduced to despair by a se...

"Madame Butterfly" is a short story by American lawyer and writer John Luther Long. It is based on the recollections of Long's sister, Jennie Correll, who had been to Japan with her husband—a Methodist missionary, and was mainly influenced by Pierre...

As new groundbreaking research suggests that climate change played a major role in the most extreme catastrophes in the planet's history, award-winning science journalist Peter Brannen takes us on a wild ride through the planet's five mass extinction...