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Both a history and an examination of human thought and behavior spanning three thousand years, On Politics thrillingly traces the origins of political philosophy from the ancient Greeks to Machiavelli in Book I and from Hobbes to the present age in Book II. Whether examining Lord Acton's dictum that "absolute power corrupts absolutely" or explicating John Stuart Mill's contention that it is "better to be a human dissatisfied than a pig satisfied," Alan Ryan evokes the lives and minds of our greatest thinkers in a way that makes hearing about them a transcendent experience.

Set in 1994, The Coast Road tells the story of two women—Izzy Keaveney, a housewife, and Colette Crowley, a poet. Colette has left her husband and sons for a married man in Dublin. When she returns to her home in County Donegal to try to pick up the pieces of her old life, her husband, Shaun, a successful businessman, denies her access to her children.

The team behind How Google Works returns with management lessons from legendary coach and business executive Bill Campbell, whose mentoring of some of our most successful modern entrepreneurs has helped create well over a trillion dollars in market value. Bill Campbell played an instrumental role in the growth of several prominent companies, such as Google, Apple, and Intuit, fostering deep relationships with Silicon Valley visionaries, including Steve Jobs, Larry Page, and Eric Schmidt.

This timely and powerful novel tells the story of three different children seeking refuge. Josef is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world. Isabel is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety in America. Mahmoud is a Syrian boy in 2015. With his homeland torn apart by violence and destruction, he and his family begin a long trek toward Europe.

The American Civil War stands at the center of the story, its military history and the drama of emancipation the highlights. Taylor relies on vivid characters to carry the story, from Joseph Hooker, whose timidity in crisis was exploited by Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson in the Union defeat at Chancellorsville, to Martin Delany and Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Black abolitionists whose critical work in Canada and the United States advanced emancipation and the enrollment of Black soldiers in Union armies.

Alan Moore channels both the ecstatic visions of William Blake and the theoretical physics of Albert Einstein through the hardscrabble streets and alleys of his hometown of Northampton, UK. In the half a square mile of decay and demolition that was England's Saxon capital, eternity is loitering between the firetrap housing projects. Embedded in the grubby amber of the district's narrative, among its saints, kings, prostitutes, and derelicts, a different kind of human time is happening.

At a time when society’s relationship with science is increasingly polarized while threats to human life on earth continue to rise, Townsend offers a balanced, moving perspective on the common ground between science and religion through the spiritual fulfillment he found in his work. Awash in Townsend's electrifying and breathtaking prose, THIS ORDINARY STARDUST offers hope that life can carry on even in the face of near-certain annihilation.

Un podcast entre mejores AMIGOS para darle un UPGRADE a tu vida. Aprendamos juntos a disfrutar y expandirnos en el segundo acto de nuestra vida. Somos dos mejores amigos desde hace más de 17 años, con vidas diferentes pero viviendo la mismo etapa y con un mismo objetivo: pasarla bien y encontrar todos los hacks, tips, teorías, herramientas, filosofías, mentores y demás que nos puedan ayudar a ser una mejor versión de nosotros mismos. Estás invitado a acompañarnos en este camino, a divertirte y si quieres, a sumarte en esta búsqueda de bienestar.

Walking the World: Memories and Adventures elevates the act of walking from something we do every day without thinking about it to a means for putting more fun and excitement into our lives. And we can become healthier, at the same time. Whoever said, “No pain, no gain,” was out to lunch. In Part I, Alan Cook addresses the difficulty of learning and relearning (after an accident or illness) to walk, which makes us appreciate walking more. He has fond memories of walking with parents, walking in college, walking for love and his son walking to school.

Family Portraits explores the many ways people come together to become a family - and the obstacles and triumphs they encountered along the way. You will hear true stories from Sanford Health patients as they talk about the ways that becoming a family challenged them, changed them, and brought them joy.

Joy kidnaps Abigail at the behest of Reina, who promptly betrays Joy and sells both of them to a slaver. Alexander promptly finds them all recovers Abigail and enslaves the conspirators. Joy and Reina discover the unexpected joys of submission.

Part 3 of Emma and Karma Knox’s adventures in slavery. Emma is ruthlessly interrogated to learn exactly what she learned and who she contacted in her investigation. Karma, learns new ways to reach ecstasy and receives on-the-job training in the tycoon’s bordello. Together they hatch a scheme for Emma to return home, and Emma learns that pain is also arousing and decides slaves have more fun than captives. In her fantasies she is Larry’s slave, despite the indications she will never see him again.

Janice and Sue Harmon go on a meandering cross-country road trip. They stop for the night on a small southern town. After a few drinks, Sue gets in a fight with a local girl and sends her to the hospital. Janice tries to stop the police from arresting Sue and both end up in jail. To their horror they discover that women who break the law are sentenced to immediate shaming and punishment by the townsfolk and auctioned off to serve as bond servants, literally, submissive sex slaves, to whoever buys them, under the Female Justice Reform act. Jan and Sue are arrested and sentenced to two weeks ...

Larry takes Emma and Ruth back to Jefferson County, WA. Reinaldo has hired him as Regional VP of Superior Products and given him the two girls. Emma and Ruth like being his slaves but have been kept in the dark about their new home and his intentions toward them save that they will be kept enslaved and exposed to the public.

Iris was taken and trained as a pleasure slave six months ago. Her sexual response has been strengthened to an amazing degree. Pain and pleasure are now one to her. Her masters have made her instantly responsive and taken complete control of her body. Her climaxes are now far stronger and longer lasting than she ever dreamed of. She is the perfect foil for her master's needs and stamina. Now she is being introduced to the male dominated society of her Master. All men are her masters, though only one owns her. Other slaves are sisters in servitude and masters don't allow them to compete. ...

Beautiful, successful Samantha is alone and privately miserable. Every man she has dated has showered her with gifts, pampered her and bored her. She craves energy, excitement. She wants a Bad Boy, a scalawag, a rascal, someone who will ravish her, make her blood boil, excite her. She needs passion not mere pleasure and comfort. She despairs of finding a man to excite her. Spurred on by her sister she pursues her aloof boss, the enigmatic Matt Steele. In the first minutes of their first date she is lost. He takes complete control and pushes her into the throes of ecstasy so intense she ...

Good private investigators are nosy, perceptive, knowledgeable, confident, and above all, persistent. Sometimes the work presents unexpected danger, especially when the target cannot tolerate disclosure of his activities. Emma Knox unearthed a connection between the death she was hired to investigate and a shadowy “Superior Industries.” Only when she awoke naked, with a steel collar on her neck, chained to a wall in a bare cell, did she realize her peril. Even then, she had no suspicion of how much her captor intended to change her.

The powerful debut novel from Alan Brennert, Moloka’i tells the story of Rachel Kalama, a seven-year-old Hawaiian girl who contracts leprosy and is quarantined on the island of Moloka’i during the 1890s. Separated from her family and forced to grow up in the leper colony of Kalaupapa, Rachel experiences intense isolation. But she remains strong, finding moments of joy, and even love. Rich in Hawaiian history, this novel proves itself a stellar piece of historical fiction.

After his little sister vanishes before his eyes, Kellen awakens in another realm inhabited by mythical creatures and people who shape the very forces of nature. These are the Beastcallers, wielders of elemental magics who ascend alongside their beast companions.

Jon-Tom and Mudge are bored. Their adventuring days long behind them, the spellsinger and his once-thieving otter sidekick have settled into a life of tepid domesticity, and they are sick of it. They hunger for an old-fashioned adventure, but there are no more great evils to combat. And so they decide to follow the music. Literally.