After Senator Milton Bergman is exposed in a hotel room tryst with a woman of loose virtue, the balance of politics threatens to spiral out of control across the United States. A resignation by the Republican senator will surely impact the outcome of an impending major congressional vote. For Seattle-based investigative journalist Natalie Schroder, the stakes run much deeper. After she is charged with identifying the girl from the hotel, Schroder begins to uncover a web of intrigue that ti...

Founded by Cendrine Marrouat and David Ellis, Auroras & Blossoms Poetry Journal features inspirational poetry, no matter the topic.In issue 2: Poems by Jenn Ashton, Philip Berry, Marcia Conover, Doug Croft, JD Estrada, Christine Herbstritt, Daniel Lyons, John C. Mannone, Antonia Salinas Murguia, and Lynn White.In addition, this issue features social media tips, useful writing tools, and interviews with talented poets. Readers are also challenged to write some sixku, the poe...

Auroras & Blossoms Poetry Journal features inspirational poetry, no matter the topic.We are excited to introduce the works of Sandra Hurst, Suchot Sunday, Angela van Son, Antoinette Dickson, Paula Watts, James Marchiori, Daniel Lyons, Jenn Ashton, JD Estrada, and Christie Stratos.Issue 1 also includes dedicated sections for writing tools, social media tips / tricks and more.

L’auteur démontre, en effet, dans un style simple, coloré, et volontairement dépouillé d’érudition pédantesque, que notre ville n’a jamais cessé, depuis sa fondation par Plancus en 43 av. J.C., jusqu’à la fin du second Empire, d’être une ville à vocation Impériale ou Royale. Ce récit, rigoureusement historique éclaire d’un jour nouveau l’histoire de Lyon. Cet ouvrage, qui se lit comme un roman, ne pourra que passionner le lecteur amoureux de sa ville et de son passé ! L’auteur prépare en c...

Originally published in 1923, this documents the work of the famous Philadelphia-based firm which designed many outstanding residences in Mid-Atlantic and New England states.

Having written a bestselling book at 22, survived a harrowing battle with anorexia nervosa, and pursued a successful career as a clinical psychologist, Lucy Daniels has led a remarkable life. In With a Woman's Voice: A Writer's Struggle for Emotional Freedom, her first book in 40 years, Daniels shares the experience of overcoming emotional hardships and gaining valuable insights from them, through psychoanalysis, that has enabled her to help others.With a Woman's Voice...

The controversial life and career of Ernesto Ché Guevara (1928-1967) has earned the revolutionary leader admirers and detractors across the world. In his critical biography, Daniel James penetrates the myths that have grown up around Guevara since his death. The biography carefully analyzes the Cold War situations in which Guevara lived and fought, and which turned the young medical student into a guerilla and political theoretician. Ché Guevara: A Biography includes interviews with Guevar...

Henry Stanley’s physical and mental toughness earned him the nickname Bula Matari, “Rock Breaker.” Although best known for finding the lost Scottish missionary David Livingstone, the explorer and journalist had many other adventures around the world.Born in Wales in 1841, he was placed in a workhouse by his uncle at the age of six. Stanley escaped nine years later and made his way to New Orleans by working as a cabin boy. He fought for the Confederacy and was taken prisoner at Shil...

Great mistakes make great reading! No area of human endeavor is immune to human error, as these stories of mistakes throughout history clearly show.Some of these mistakes are foolish or funny. Others are serious, terrifying or disastrous. Some are famous. Others are not well known. All of them are marvelously entertaining. Here is the amusing story of a triple double play, the little-known truth about the awesome angle of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the harrowing tale of the man who...

Hiram Bingham was the ideal explorer-adventurer—handsome, rich, intelligent, brave, and tough. His life seems like something out of film hero Indiana Jones’s exploits in Raiders of the Lost Ark.The descendant of strong-willed missionaries, Bingham was born in Hawaii in 1875, At Yale he specialized in South American studies and became a college teacher. Gradually, the romance of the past took hold of his practical soul. Obsessed by the Incas and his dream of uncovering lost cities, ...

This book examines the costs and benefits of ending the fighting in a range of conflicts, and probes the reasons why negotiators provide, or fail to provide, resolutions that go beyond just "stopping the shooting." What is the desired and achievable mix between negotiation strategies that look backward to end current hostilities and those that look ahead to prevent their recurrence?To answer that question, a wide range of case studies is marshaled to explore relevant peacemaking si...

Ludwig Wittgenstein loved movies, and based on his remarks on watching them, there is a strong connection between his experience of watching films and his thoughts on aesthetics. Furthermore, however, Wittgenstein himself has been invoked in recent cinema. Wittgenstein at the Movies is centered on in-depth explorations of two intriguing experimental films on Wittgenstein: Derek Jarman's Wittgenstein and Péter Forgács' Wittgenstein Tractatus. The featured essays l...