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Pleasure, " wrote Oscar Wilde, "is the only thing worth having a theory about." What is pleasure? When is it good? When is it bad? What are the best ways to get it? And why does the quest for pleasure sometimes suck us into the quagmire of self-loathing and addiction? This is a book about the lengths people go to for pleasure, and the scientific reasons behind those impulses. Packed with extraordinary insights from science, history and literat...

How did they die Scipio and Hannibal? The two legendary generals are famous for their exploits during the Second Punic War: Hannibal by his incredible journey through the Alps with his army and his countless victories against the Romans on italic ground, Scipio for his conquest of Hispania and its strategy of taking the war to Africa where in October 202 BC Hannibal got beat in an epic battle near Zama. What happened later? What happened to bo...

Gerrard Debbington, Vane Cynster's brother-in-law, is one of London's most eligible gentlemen. Uninterested in marriage, his driving passion is to paint the fabled gardens of Lord Tregonning's Hellebore Hall -- an opportunity that is now at hand...if Gerrard agrees to create an honest portrait of Tregonning's daughter as well. Gerrard chafes at wasting his talents on some simpering miss, only to discover that Jacqueline Tregonning stirs him as...

Out Stealing Horses has been embraced across the world as a classic, a novel of universal relevance and power. Panoramic and gripping, it tells the story of Trond Sander, a sixty-seven-year-old man who has moved from the city to a remote, riverside cabin, only to have all the turbulence, grief, and overwhelming beauty of his youth come back to him one night while he's out on a walk. From the moment Trond sees a strange figure coming out of the...

Fray Bartolome de las Casas assured that "he had been involved in nearly a thousand duels to death and nobody could ever hurt him." Adventurous, charming and tough during his youth, Alonso de Ojeda embarks with Columbus on his second trip, and comes to become commander in chief of his troops. After returning to Spain, Queen Elizabeth receives from the task of traveling again to the newly discovered lands to determine if in fact this is a conti...

In 1979 a secret unit was established by the most gifted minds within the U.S. Army. Defying all known accepted military practice -- and indeed, the laws of physics -- they believed that a soldier could adopt a cloak of invisibility, pass cleanly through walls, and, perhaps most chillingly, kill goats just by staring at them. Entrusted with defending America from all known adversaries, they were the First Earth Battalion. And they really weren...

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Jack Shaftoe, el llamado rey de los Vagabundos que será rey de verdad en el Indostaní, sigue con sus peripecias por todo el mundo, de Japón a Mexico. Mientras, Eliza, la joven de Qwghlm que ha sido odalisca y espía para acabar convertida en una influyente dama en la corte de Francia, estrecha lazos con Sofía Carlota, esposa de Federico I de Prusia y protctora de Leibniz. Por su parte, la Filosofía Natural sigue avanzando en su camino para desb...

Un forajido herido se presenta en la comisaría del Sheriff King alertándole de que algo terrible está a punto de ocurrir en Ciudad Seca, un poblado abandonado cerca de la frontera mexicana. Con intención de descubrir de qué se trata, hacia allí se encamina el Sheriff King...

Pasa la noche de Halloween con Mortadelo y Filemón. Únete a nosotros con estas dos aventuras completas: "¡Pesadillaaaa...!" y "Los Monstruos". El miedo llega con tus personajes favoritos.

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Claire Laurent was a woman who embodied all of New Orleans' sultry paradoxes: beauty mixed with a mysterious elusiveness, a vibrant zest for living shadowed by secrets and hidden passions. Yet she had fought hard to make her fabulous lingerie mail order business, French Silk, into a worldwide success. Now, the three deadly bullets that killed a TV evangelist could snatch every-thing away from her, even her life. Was the killer Claire? District...

To Luca Matthews the dangers of the high mountain peaks are the air upon which he thrives. In the ruthless pursuit of his goals he would sacrifice anything - even another climber's life. His friends and family know and fear it. So when he sights a virgin peak in the Himalayas that exists on no map, no one is surprised when he becomes obsessed with being the first to scale it. Together with his climbing partner, Bill Taylor, they set off into a...

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The opaque and secretive world of Freemasonry continues to fascinate -- a clandestine topic with much esoteric lore and historical intrigue Frdric Lenoir and Marie-France Etchegoin have joined forces to undertake a thorough and engaging investigation into the myths and legends, people and places of Freemasonry.

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The main attraction of Dupayne, a small private museum in London devoted to the interwar years (1919-1939), is an unsettling Hall of crime are studied the most notorious cases of the time. Their interest is clear, but Neville, the youngest brother Dupayne considers the institution to close its doors. Uncertainty about the continuity of the museum creates an unbearable tension, which will break when they discovered the charred body of Neville. ...

Zeck Morgan, the son of a minister very puritanical, it is selected to Battle School in which Ender formed. Zeck turns to anger because of their pacifist ideology and therefore refuses to intervene in any war game simulation. Seeing a Dutchman student making a gift on Sinterklaas Day, Zeck complaints that has been a violation of the rules of the Battle School that prevent any religious practice. Surge a major scandal around the fact religious ...

Its Christmastime in London and Rafe Bowman has arrived from America for his arranged meeting with Natalie Blandford, the very proper and beautiful daughter of Lady and Lord Blandford. His chiseled good looks and imposing physique are sure to impress the lady in waiting and, if it werent for his shocking American ways and wild reputation, her hand would already be guaranteed. Before the courtship can begin, Rafe realizes he must learn the rule...