Cain is magnetic, powerful, controlling—and hiding more than one secret. The old man took a chance on him when he was nothing but a kid with a record, and now he’s the multi-millionaire owner of a rival firm. Kat Martin is the New York Times bestselling author of sixty-five books across multiple genres.

But Linc’s money can’t protect Carly from the men who’ll do anything to shut her down, or the secrets behind Drake Trucking. Sixteen million copies are in print and she has been published in twenty-one foreign countries, including Japan, France, Argentina, Greece, China, and Spain. ★ 04/17/2017In this standalone novel of romantic suspense, Martin (Into The Whirlwind) whips together unforgettable characters and a high-octane plot with more twists and turns than a street in San Francisco.

This will be the first of five unsuccessful attempts at designing a direct entry calculating clock in the 17th century (including the designs of Tito Burattini, Samuel Morland and René Grillet)).

Gottfried Leibniz improved the earlier machines, making the Stepped Reckoner to do multiplication and division.

Now a wealthy trucking entrepreneur himself, Linc never forgot the trust that Joe showed him after a regrettable teenage mistake—and just before Joe died, he asked Linc to keep Carly safe.

Most mainstream paleontologists and geologists place dinosaurs on earth’s timeline at around 220 million and 65 million years ago, during the Mesozoic Era.

He said that he found over 30,000 of them with the help of a farmer.

Wilhelm Schickard drew a calculating clock on a letter to Kepler.He also invented the binary numeral system and envisioned a universal calculus of reasoning (alphabet of human thought) by which arguments could be decided mechanically.Leibniz worked on assigning a specific number to each and every object in the world, as a prelude to an algebraic solution to all possible problems.The world in space -- The world in time -- The beginnings of life -- The age of fishes -- The age of the coal swamps -- The age of reptiles -- The first birds and the first mammals -- The age of mammals -- Monkeys, apes and sub-men -- The Neanderthaler and the Rhodesian Man -- The first true men -- Primitive thought -- The beginnings of cultivation -- Primitive Neolithic civilizations -- Sumeria, early Egypt and writing -- Primitive nomadic peoples -- The first sea-going peoples -- Egypt, Babylon and Assyria -- The primitive Aryans -- The last Babylonian Empire and the Empire of Darius I -- The early history of the Jews -- Priests and prophets in Judea -- The Greeks -- The wars of the Greeks and Persians -- The splendour of Greece -- The empire of Alexander the Great -- The Museum and Library at Alexandria -- The life of Gautama Buddha -- King Asoka -- Confucius and Lao Tse -- Rome comes into history -- Rome and Carthage -- The growth of the Roman Empire -- Between Rome and China -- The common man's life under the early Roman Empire -- Religious developments under the Roman Empire -- The teaching of Jesus -- The development of doctrinal Christianity -- The barbarians break the Empire into East and West -- The Huns and the end of the Western Empire -- The Byzantine and Sassanid Empires -- The dynasties of Suy and Tang in China -- Muhammad and Islam -- The great days of the Arabs -- The development of Latin Christendom -- The Crusades and the age of papal dominion -- Recalcitrant princes and the Great Schism -- The Mongol conquests -- The intellectual revival of the Europeans -- The reformation of the Latin Church -- The Emperor Charles V -- The age of political experiments; of grand monarchy and parliaments and republicanism in Europe -- The new empires of the Europeans in Asia and overseas -- The American War of Independence -- The French Revolution and the restoration of monarchy in France -- The uneasy peace in Europe that followed the fall of Napoleon -- The development of material knowledge -- The industrial revolution -- The development of modern political and social ideas -- The expansion of the United States -- The rise of Germany to predominance in Europe -- The new overseas empires of steamship and railway -- European aggression in Asia, and the rise of Japan -- The British Empire in 1914 -- The age of armament in Europe, and the Great War of 1914-18 -- The revolution and famine in Russia -- The political and social reconstruction of the world -- Chronological table. ”—Linda Lael Miller New York Times bestselling author Kat Martin raises chills as danger stalks a woman determined to make it in a man’s world . Now she’s burying Drake Trucking’s top driver, and the cops have no leads on the hijacking or murder.