Bøger af C. Miller

Regulator JCE-286 (Jaycee) has spent her entire life training to use her particular skillset. Genetically modified and engineered to alter her appearance, she's always known it was just a matter of time before school would end and she'd be sent to work.When she's paired with a group of other Regulators, all of them considered only passable and none of them having stepped foot out of their facility... what could possibly go wrong? The Genome Soldier assigned as a bodyguard-and sometimes babysitter-helps them get their footing out in the real world as they learn about life beyond what they were taught. But what happens when he becomes a distraction for Jaycee, compromising the mission as a whole?With the secret of their existence on the line, failure is not an option. A story of love and friendship through the eyes of someone seeing the world and experiencing life for the first time.

The major cities of Texas have developed through a complex web of politics, society, and economics. To describe and explain the state's urban evolution, the contributors to Urban Texas use comparative and multidisciplinary perspectives that explore the relationships among interest groups and voting; religion, reform, gender, and race; civic clubs and suburbs; infrastructure and land development. Texas' cities have experienced boom and expansion, bust and depression. They have also been marked by inequity and disadvantage. Today's cities face not only the limits of a period of economic downturn, but also the inheritance of a history of bias and public-sector inactivity. The story of such forces, challenges the myths that surround Texas' explosive growth and probes the staggering costs that growth has entailed.

Theological concepts continue to maintain political concepts well after those theological concepts are no longer supported by belief.