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What if your political identity, your core beliefs, and even your taste in snack food weren’t really yours? What if they were built out of language, hijacked by desire, and quietly manipulated by slogans, myths, and a Symbolic Order you didn’t ask to be born into? Welcome to the world of Jacques Lacan, where nothing means what it seems, and everything is your unconscious acting out.

I Think, Therefore I’m Wrong: Descartes and the Birth of Overconfidence is your gloriously sarcastic, brutally honest, and deeply unhinged guide to the man who launched modern philosophy with one anxious thought spiral and never looked back.

Die 23-jährige Myrkling Kay hat die Nase voll, aufgrund ihrer Abstammung diskriminiert zu werden. Schon lange hat sie die Lyslinge im Verdacht, ihresgleichen zu entführen, und schleust sich kurzerhand bei ihnen ein. Unter falschenr Identität will sie nach Hinweisen suchen. Der Sohn des Chiefs, River, sehnt sich nach nichts mehr, als seinem Vater zu überzeugen, kein magieloser Nichtsnutz zu sein. Er wittert seine Chance, als er auf die geheimnisvolle Kay angesetzt wird, um herauszufinden, was ihre Motive sind.

After another disappointing Season fending off matchmaking mamas and grasping debutantes, Fitzwilliam Darcy has given up hope of finding a wife. His business partner, Edward Gardiner, suggests a sojourn into Hertfordshire to escape the machinations of Town—and meddlesome aunts who take every opportunity to help him on the marriage mart.

Billionaire CEO Ben “The Stone-Man” Stone never cracks a smile, fires people on the spot, and won’t let anyone work on the same floor as him. Until he meets Ashley, an intoxicating young human from Marketing. Her scent drives him wild, igniting a hunger so deep he can’t resist hiring her to be his assistant.

The Richest Man in Babylon, based on "Babylonian parables", has been hailed as the greatest of all inspirational works on the subject of thrift, financial planning, and personal wealth. In simple language, these fascinating and informative stories set you on a sure path to prosperity and its accompanying joys. A celebrated bestseller, it offers an understanding and a solution to your personal financial problem. Revealed inside are the secrets to acquiring money, keeping money, and making money earn more money.

Samuel Little was serving life in prison for killing three women, when he began to confess to a string of murders. And once the admissions started, the list didn’t stop - his total murder count reached 93 victims across 19 US States. Most of them were vulnerable women - sex workers, drug addicts, or both.

I built my billion-dollar business slinging a hammer. Not with a law degree like the rest of my tight-knit family. An entire chain of luxury resorts bears my name. But that’s a cold comfort when the woman I love hates my guts. She should, considering how things ended.

Saniyah Montgomery learned at an early age what it means to be loved, but instead of setting the bar high, she chases the thrill of those who aren’t worthy. Grand Sinclair is just another thrill on the long list of bad decisions. He warns Saniyah to stay away but she’s stubborn and determined. The minute his walls come down, Saniyah realizes that the tortured fighter with eyes that crush your soul is nothing she expects but everything she wants.

If we can survive eight weeks on Royally Hitched, we’ll earn our freedom and a one-way ticket home to the human world. All we have to do is play nice with the mean girls, and stuck up ice prince. Oh, did I mention we shouldn’t even be here since we’re not actually Fae? Well, no one knows that - yet. As girls are eliminated and the competition heats up, things take a lethal turn. Someone wants the prince dead, and we all become targets. When he’s almost killed, unexpected feelings come over me. Panic. Pain. Sadness.

I am not a chosen of the Gods, but a bloody tragedy of their choices. I have endured worse than the Darkhavens. Torture. Pain. Manipulation. There is nothing anyone can do to me that I have not already done to myself. Ruen's betrayal will not break me. Despite the punishment I receive, my goal remains the same: Find the target. Terminate them. Free myself from the Underworld Assassination Guild. It doesn't matter if I let a single night of weakness bind me to one of them. I can't let it matter. They're all guilty in my eyes.

The Sickness Unto Death, and Other Fun Danish Party Games: Kierkegaard Without the Prozac is your gloriously sarcastic, brutally insightful, and occasionally soul-crushing guide to philosophy’s original sadboy, Søren Kierkegaard. Tired of listening to philosophy that feels like intellectual sandpaper? This book unpacks Kierkegaard’s anxiety-fueled, despair-drenched theology with the humor and honesty it desperately needs.

This is not a polite introduction to Thomas Aquinas. This is a fully sarcastic, gloriously disrespectful roast of the chubbiest, holiest overachiever in Catholic history—a Dominican friar who took Aristotle’s metaphysics, added Latin, guilt, and divine purpose, and built the intellectual operating system of the Catholic Church.

In M. R. James’ klassischer Erzählung "Verlorene Herzen“ wird der zwölfjährige Waisenjunge Stephen Elliott im Jahr 1811 von seinem entfernten Verwandten, dem zurückgezogen lebenden Gelehrten Mr. Abney, auf das abgelegene Anwesen Aswarby Hall eingeladen. Obwohl Mr. Abney als Experte für antike Religionen gilt und scheinbar wohlwollend erscheint, bemerkt Stephen bald unheimliche Erscheinungen und spürt, dass dunkle Geheimnisse das Anwesen durchdringen.

Tauche ein in die düstere Welt von M. R. James' klassischer Geistergeschichte 'Nummer 13'. Der britische Gelehrte Mr. Anderson reist in die dänische Stadt Viborg, um kirchengeschichtliche Forschungen zu betreiben. Er quartiert sich im Gasthof 'Zum Goldenen Löwen' ein und bezieht Zimmer Nummer 12. Bald bemerkt er seltsame Phänomene: Sein Zimmer scheint sich zu verändern, Möbel verschwinden, und aus dem angrenzenden Zimmer Nummer 13 dringen unheimliche Geräusche. Doch laut dem Wirt existiert kein Zimmer 13, da diese Nummer aus Aberglauben vermieden wird.

Courtesy of my controlling father, Marshall and I have been living together for the last couple of years. Because of his profession, we’d managed to stay out of each other’s way. His age and respect for my father is what kept him from giving in to my flirtatious advances. Over the years, we’d managed not to cross that line, until that one slightly drunken night.

Now imprisoned in Moros, buried deep in the Land of the Dead, Finnian is determined to right a wrong he made centuries ago. Somewhere in the hellish landscape is his father, and he intends to find him and flee their chains together. Cassian, the High God of Death and Curses, has one desire: get Finnian to confess where he’s hiding a valuable weapon—one deadly to deities. For centuries, the High Goddess of Fate has plagued Cassian over a dispute that took place between them long ago.

When Maren Bernabe stops by the office to update some paperwork, she’s not looking for love. Then sparks fly during an awkward meet-cute with a stranger in the bathroom, and suddenly anything seems possible. A seasoned air tanker pilot, Maren battles fires across the rugged Montana wilderness. With firefighters for roommates, she’s no stranger to tough guys—or tough situations.

Athlete. Runner. Marathoner. Are these words you wouldn't exactly use to describe yourself? Do you consider yourself too old or too out of shape to run a marathon? But somewhere deep inside have you always admired the people who could reach down and come up with the mental and physical strength to complete such a daunting and rewarding accomplishment? It doesn't have to be somebody else crossing the finish line. You can be a marathoner.

Années 1980 : sur les dancefloors parisiens, c’est la mort qui mène la danse. Embarquez avec Jean-Christophe Grangé pour une quête hallucinée sur les traces du mal... Mon premier est un médecin, mon deuxième un flic, mon troisième une lycéenne, mon tout un assassin qui aime dépecer ses victimes à la machette. Vous ne voyez pas ? Commencez par danser, et nous verrons où l’enquête vous mènera. En cet été 1982, moins il y aura de soleil, plus il y aura de sang.