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Moving between the past and the present, and mixing the real with the delusional, Death Anniversary suggests that losing the will to live is akin to death.

The foundation for all modern economic thought and political economy, "The Wealth of Nations" is the magnum opus of Scottish economist Adam Smith, who introduces the world to the very idea of economics and capitalism in the modern sense of the words. Smith details his argument in the following five books: Book I. Of the Causes of Improvement in the productive Power of Labour, Book II. Of the Nature, Accumulation, and Employment of Stock Introd...

First performed in 1913, "Pygmalion" is George Bernard's Shaw's play regarding two scholars of phonetics, Professor Henry Higgins and Colonel Pickering, trying to test their theories on an unsuspecting flower girl. When Higgins boasts he could pass anyone off as a lord or lady simply by teaching them to speak right, Pickering wagers that he can't and offers to pay for the speech lessons of Eliza Doolittle, a poor flower girl. Eliza accepts the...

A joyous, melodious, sensual book, just what you would expect from an Irish poet. Handy keepsake you will read whenever a reminder is needed of what happiness exists in our world.

Lawrence County is fortunate to have newspapers which survived the years of the late 1800s, while other county newspapers of the era didn't exist or have been lost to time. This book represents clippings from 1876 through 1883. The White family of Moulton established a newspaper dynasty with the Advertiser that lasted well into the 20th Century. Interesting articles are presented describing the rich history of Lawrence County and the Tennessee...

When a wolf descends upon your flocks, all you gain by killing her is a short respite, for other wolves will come. If instead you feed the wolf and tame her and turn his pups into your guard dogs, they will protect the flocks when the pack comes ravening. Some scholars have suggested that the 10% regard all faiths as equally false, believing themselves to be more powerful than any god or goddess. They look upon priests and temples as relics of...

Y'all gather round for thirteen more tales of Southern Gothic horror: Boys find evil in their favorite sweet treat, a perfume shop that makes more than scents, a hurricane carries a mother's vengeance, a conjure woman lies dying, unable to name a successor... This is Gothic horror Southern style-shadowy rice fields, creatures that assume humanity at will-where even the most damaged and delicate have their power. Spook Lights II takes us again ...

Commentary on the letter from the Apostle Paul to the church in Colosse. The apostle penned the letter to counteract the appearance of false teachings that threatened the spiritual future of the church. The church at Colosse appears to have been founded as a result of Paul's outstanding ministry at Ephesus, the effects of which were so influential and far-reaching that "...all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jew...

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Mark Twain's first attempt at historical fiction, "The Prince and the Pauper", was first published in 1881. It is a story set in the time of Prince Edward, of house Tudor, who at age nine would become King Edward VI. When young Prince Edward meets a Pauper, Tom Canty, who likes a lot like him, he convinces the two to switch clothes so that they can be mistaken for each other and end up switching places. While they play out their new roles, Pri...

First published in 1889, "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" was inspired by a dream in which the author, Mark Twain, imagined himself as knight in the time of chivalry. The book relates the tale of Hank Morgan, an engineer from 19th century Hartford Connecticut, who is inexplicably transported to the early medieval England of King Arthur. While there he uses his knowledge of modern technology to appear as though he is a magician. De...

The dignified rank which Herodotus holds among the historians of antiquity, while it stamps his character of excellence and superiority, renders his pages interesting, and his authority indisputable, but if clothed in the partial obscurity of a learned language, he is accessible only to the critic, and the more classical members of society. It is the unavoidable lot of many, whom accident or laborious employments have deprived of the pleasures...

You men got a choice. Pull leather and die, or drop your guns. Makes no never mind to me."Callum Logan is a man of quick decision and execution. His fast gun has saved him on more than one occasion. Though hardened by the horrors of the Civil War, he gives each man a chance, unless they prove it's undeserved.Now, on his way to begin a new life in the Colorado West, he's eager to put the killing behind him. But while rescuing a family from desp...

It's another day in the life of Dew Bear. He and Sharky enjoy a hot day at floating on inner tubes at Soggy Boggy Bay. Sharky offers Dew a penny for his thoughts. Find out where the penny came from and what thought it purchased. Then follow its epic journey through Memory Forest and beyond.

It's another day in the life of Dew Bear. He and Sharky enjoy a hot day at Soggy Boggy Bay, floating around on old inner tubes. Sharky offers Dew a penny for his thoughts. Find out where the penny came from and what thought it purchased. Then follow its epic journey through Memory Forest and beyond.

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Pavlo Tychyna (1891-1967) is arguably the greatest Ukrainian poet of the twentieth century and has been described as a "tillerman's Orpheus" by Ukrainian poet and literary critic Vasyl Barka. With his innovative poetics, deep spirituality and creative word play, Tychyna deserves a place among the pantheon of his European contemporaries such as T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Rainer Maria Rilke, Federico Garcia Lorca, and Osip Mandelstam. His early col...

Eine Bewegung muss in Gang kommen ... Henry, ein kleiner Orang-Utan, lebt glücklich und zufrieden mit seiner Mutter in den Regenwäldern der Insel Borneo. Doch schnell muss er lernen, dass seine Heimat und seine Artgenossen durch die Abholzung und Brandrodung der Menschen bedroht sind. Um Verbündete zu finden und seinen Lebensraum zu schützen, macht sich Henry auf die weite Reise rund um den Globus. Aber ob diese ihm helfen kann, seinen geliebt...

Die heile Welt der Liz Berger, ihres Zeichens Schulleiterin einer Grundschule in einem kleinen Bundesland, gerät von einem Tag zum anderen vollständig aus den Fugen: Zuerst erfährt sie von ihrem Schulrat, dass ihre Schule geschlossen werden soll. Dann kehrt ihre Tochter Barbara plötzlich aus den USA zurück weil sie sich mit ihrem amerikanischen Verlobten zerstritten hat. Doch Liz lässt den Kopf nicht hängen: Gemeinsam mit ihren Schulkindern, E...