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It is a time of turmoil, with the nation mired in an unpopular war in Korea and with Senator Joseph McCarthy stirring up fear of a lurking Communist "e;menace.

'Muse of Nightmares is a philosophical fantasy adventure, an epic love story, a daring quest that demands to be read and reread and deserves to be remembered forever.

When technology solves the problems of energy, transportation, and physical health, the last problem to solve is humanity's spiritual unhappiness.

';Compulsively readablea masterpiece, maybe the masterpiece of science journalism.

From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, the second installment in the world-renownedSharpe series, chronicling the rise of Richard Sharpe, a Private in His Majestys Army at the siege of Seringapatam.

Et si la véritable inégalité n'était pas économique mais affective ?

With her life spinning out of control, Ryan Coe just wants to find a place where she can rest.

This book explores how women scientists are portrayed in hit American TV comedies The Big Bang Theory, Never Have I Ever, and Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist using a science communication lens.

Award-winning editor Paula Guran presents a diverse reprint anthology collecting classic myths and legends, retold by today's top fantasy writers.

A New York Times bestseller ?

When war broke out between the British and Turkish empires in 1914, the 6th (Poona) Division sailed from India to Basra to bolster Britain's allies, deny the port to enemy shipping, and secure Britain's Persian oil supplies.

Vier Jahre ist es inzwischen her, seit es die Familie Herbert und Lilo Roller mit den Zwillingen Lucie und Tom in die geheimnisvolle Herberge "Zum Alten Märchenschloss" verschlagen hat – natürlich nur dank der Träume ihres Familienoberhauptes.

In this special collectors' edition, relive the action in Vince Flynn's #1 New York Tmes bestselling political thrillers: Term Limits, Transfer of Power, and The Third Option.

An exploration of the personal and spiritual truths revealed through LSD *; Reveals that LSD visions weave an ongoing story from trip to trip *; Shows that trips progress through three stages: personal issues and pre-birth consciousness, ego-loss, and on to the sacred *; Explores psychedelic use throughout history, including the mass hallucinations common in the Middle Ages and the early therapeutic use of LSD Toward the end of his fifties, Christopher Gray took, for the first time in years, a 100-microgram acid trip.

Quatre nouvelles d'un des plus importants écrivains croates contemporains traduites du croate par Tomislav Dretar et Gérard Adam, où il est question de tyrannie des sens, d’incommunicabilité, de fragilité des relations.

Zu lange hat sich Billy auf den Lorbeeren ihres ersten Buches ausgeruht.

Schon die Anspielung an Meister Eckharts tröstende Gebetszeile "So wirt der sun in uns geborn: daz wir sin sunder warumbe gebiert die literarische Energie, mit der Christian Uetz seine Themen zur Sprache bringt.

When a photographer witnesses a violent crime in New York’s Lower East Side, he hunts down the missing camera that may hold answersEugene is a midwesterner living in New York, an erstwhile Catholic and not-quite-openly-gay photographer.

From the New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Wife Between Us, a fantastic collection of three of Sarah Pekkanen's earlier novelsplus three short stories!

This book was the first to provide a comprehensive survey of linguistic research into African-American English and is widely recognised as a classic in the field.

LONGLISTED FOR THE GERALD LAMPERT MEMORIAL AWARDDeer with binoculars, wolves with resumes: bioengineered poetry that unsettles truth, fact, and history.

La petite fille de l’Assistance Publique semble perdue au cœur de cette Beauce qu’elle découvre pour la première fois.

After a lull of four years, the 'silk stocking rapist' is back at work on the Upper East side, but this time Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper and Detective Mike Chapman have perfect DNA evidence to work with.

Rich Murphy's Practitioner Joy is the poet's confrontation with his practice as a poet and, at least in part, his inevitable death.

The enormous popularity of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy has raised awareness of other contemporary European authors of crime fiction.

Cultural Studies seems to have lost its way somewhere between today's preoccupation with the empirical and the theory revolutions of the 1980s and 90s.

Amid the violent last days of the glittering Russian monarchy, a princess on the run finds her heart where she least expects it.

Woods Cop mystery author Joseph Heywood takes readers to an era when people had to be as hard as the lives they lived.

Großbritannien 1938.

A woman’s tortured past is reawakened when a twisted murderer strikes close to home in this “original, spellbinding, and horrifying read” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

"e;Lynwood Montell has collected ghost tales all over the state of Kentucky, from coal mining settlements to river landings, from highways to battlefields.

Following Witches, this is our second in a themed series of Jim Henson's The Storyteller tales, this time centered around dragons.

Racism refers to a host of practices, beliefs, social relations, and phenomena that work to reproduce a racial hierarchy and social structure that yield superiority and privilege for some, and discrimination and oppression for others.

Als eine der wenigen Frauen ihrer Generation besteht Vera Brittain 1914 die Aufnahmeprüfung zum Oxford College, zudem mit Bravour.

Eine meisterhaft erzählte Geschichte von göttlicher Rache und teuflischem Zorn.

Masculinity is not a monolithic phenomenon, but a historically discontinuous one-a fabrication as it were, of given cultural circumstances.

'Tom Holt may be the most imaginative satirist to land on our shores since Douglas Adams' - Christopher Moore'Holt has a zany humor that will appeal to fans of Terry Pratchett and Christopher Moore.

Band 1 und 2 eine aufregende Liebesgeschichte aus zwei PerspektivenNach einer langen Zeit treffen sich die Kindheitsfreunde June und Kian.

Tiggy D’Aplièse passe ses jours à admirer la beauté sauvage des Highlands de l’Écosse, adorant son travail dans un sanctuaire de cerfs.

This book investigates representations of the nation of India as characterized by unity and diversity in the works of six contemporary novelists, linking their work to important political, historical and theoretical writings.

What are the key 50 events you really need to understand to grasp the developments of our world?

A former Wall Street veteran, quarantined by the coronavirus, becomes consumed with madnessor the fulfillment of his own mythic fate.

Ava ist 28 und arbeitet als Designerin in einer Werbeagentur.

Aliens, flying saucers, ESP, the Bermuda Triangle, antigravity .