Sheila is a young girl who grows up in an inner city project where the poor are placed and forgotten. She struggles to stay alive at the hands of an abusive father and a narcissistic mother. Her first escape fails and she finds herself living on the street desperately trying to survive. Sheila will be forced to return and live behind the drapes, until she is able to plan another getaway. Time passes, but the dream that one day she will be free never dies. The day will arrive and she will escape for good. Once she finally breaks free from her prison, Sheila will struggle to bury the memories and deal with the lasting scars. Sheila Parks will discover, some scars will never heal but they will fade over time.

Dream Seer, Judy Prudhomme, shares her lifelong visions of The New Ones and why Kleech, the alien Priest, created this superhuman species to rule and protect Atlantis. The New Ones of Atlantis will ignite your imagination and whirl your emotions with a colorful adventure of extremes: shipwrecks and rescues; pirate debauchery and dedicated Priests; dangerous Warriors and happy children; whores and virginity; demons, ghosts and the Holy Spirit; death, resurrection and reincarnation; Warrior Practice and Temple Day. The first New One, Lord Priest, is a black, bird-beaked, Warrior/Priest, Healer, Scientist, Educator, Seer, Magician and reincarnate of the Egyptian God Thoth. The second New One, Lord Beast, The King, is a genetic combination of Lord Priest and an African Lioness. Lord Beast appears human until his beastly traits surface and his deadly perfection proves why he is The Killing Beast of Atlantis and the undefeated Leader of the most feared Army on Earth. The Third New One, Lady Athena, demonstrates her courage when she challenges Lord Beast's most dangerous Warriors to fight for the coveted position of Army Co-Trainer. After the bloody battles, Athena claims her victory and becomes The Third Ruler and Goddess of War. Enjoy Athena's beloved friend, six-year-old Daisy, as she grows more like Athena everyday, leads the Little Flower Warriors and communicates to God in a unique way. Laugh at Atlantis' greatest war heroes, the comical Warriors Burr and Mayner, as they try to get their buddy, The King, laid by slipping him past his Seer Father. Unfortunately, the dangerous Lord Priest is not amused. Guarantee: You will not want this book to end

This book provides new insights into the economic impacts, strategic objectives and legal structures of an emerging branch of government incentives conditioned on meeting intellectual property-related requirements. Despite becoming more common in recent years, such incentives - ranging from patent fee subsidies and patent box tax deductions to inventor remuneration schemes - are still under-researched. A diverse range of analytical methods, including econometric analyses, case studies and comparative legal analysis, are used to study these incentives in countries in Europe and China. Scholars, policymakers and practitioners can benefit from the conceptual and practical insights as well as policy recommendations provided.

This book evaluates the risks that China's intellectual property (IP) regime poses to innovation. China's IP regime has been heavily criticized as potentially stifling innovation. However, the country's innovation capabilities have risen significantly and major reforms have recently been made to its IP regime. How risky, really, is China's IP regime for innovation? This book investigates this question at different units of analysis based on a multidisciplinary assessment involving law, management, economics, and political science. Specifically, it critically appraises China's substantive IP laws, measures for boosting patent quantity and quality, measures for transmitting and exploiting technological knowledge, new experimental IP measures, and China's systems for administering and enforcing IP. Practitioners and scholars from various backgrounds can benefit from the up-to-date analysis as well as the practical managerial tools provided, including risk assessment matrices for businesses and recommendations for institutional reform.