**An Economist History Book of the Year“Elegant, entertaining and frequently surprising.” —Miranda Seymour, New York Times Book Review**The Victorians are often credited with ushering in our current era, yet the seeds of change were planted during the earlier Regency period (1811–1820) when the profligate Prince of Wales—the future king George IV—succeeded his father. Around the Prince Regent surged a society of contrasts: evangelicalism and hedonism, eleg...

Many investors and brokers may claim that investing in penny stocks is a good way to start small and end big. Buying penny stocks means buying low-priced shares of small businesses and companies. Penny stocks are much less “liquid” than other types of stocks, as penny stocks have few shareholders. For some investors, an initial small investment in penny stocks can mean big returns later on.Shares in penny stocks are very affordably priced, and there is always the hope that this inv...

Shortlisted for the HWA Non- fiction Crown Award 2020'Superb' The Economist'Elegant, entertaining and frequently surprising' New York TimesThe fascinating story of the Regency period in Britain - an immensely colourful and chaotic decade that marked the emergence of the modern world.The Regency began on 5 February 1811 whe...

A look at two of the United States Military's most elite and successful snipers of all-time : Chuck Mawhinney & Adelbert WaldronIn 1991 Chuck Mawhinney was reluctantly dragged out of anonymity when it was revealed that he held the record among United States Marine Corps snipers with over 103 confirmed kills. Here we take a look at the mindset and philosophy of an American Sniper as he is thrown into Arizona territory (named as such because of its numerous Wild West style firefights...

Definitive life of the author of CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, journalist, political commentator and biographer.Thomas De Quincey's friendships with leading poets and men of letters in the Romantic and Victorian periods - including William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Thomas Carlyle - have long placed him at the centre of 19th-century literary studies. De Quincey also stands at the meeting point in the culture wars between Edinburgh and London; ...

Robert Morrison was the first Protestant missionary to China and a forerunner of the modern medical missionaries. He accomplished incredible things for God, including a translation of the Bible into Chinese, an Anglo-Chinese dictionary, and hundreds of Chinese tracts and translations.Morrison toiled for twenty-five years in China, and though his ministry was not blessed by great numbers of converts, he paved the way for other missionaries to come to China. His work for Christ was w...

Unlikely heroes,they are amongst us! Angel of 2099 9 am alarm clock sirens. Time to wake up, Alex rising reluctantly to the cold frosty morning. A feeling comes over him which he never felt before which he cannot explain. A feeling that something is going to happen. Alex then attempts to fix this morning with a coffee opens the curtains .There’s fog descending of over the town, his radio is buzzing and crackling. Try’s the television no image just a faze dot .Alex then pushed for time runs...

In examining the work of eminent fourteenth century Iranian Shiite scholar Nizam al-Din al-Nisaburi, this book is the first rigorous attempt to explain the cross-fertilization of scientific and religious thought in Islamic civilization. Nisaburi did not consider himself a scientist alone, being commissioned by his patrons to work in a variety of fields. Islam and Science examines in detail the relationship between the metaphysics of Nisaburi's science, and statements he made in his Qur'an ...

Morrison offers an illuminating study of two linked traditions that have figured prominently in 20th-century thought: Buddhism and the philosophy of Nietzsche.Nietzsche admired Buddhism, but saw it as a dangerously nihilistic religion; he forged his own affirmative philosophy in reaction against the nihilism that he feared would overwhelm Europe. Morrison shows that Nietzsche's influential view of Buddhism was mistaken, and that far from being nihilistic, it has notable and perhaps...

History sometimes suggests that the only thing worse than a man without a purpose is a man with one. Be that as it may, Danny Kaneen, failed novelist, womanizer, part-time gourmet chef and problem drinker, is unwittingly and hilariously failing his way toward a better understanding of the suffering world, right here in the benighted landscape of the American masses. He's stumbling toward a purpose. Together with his unscrupulous lawyer friend Dale Credenza, Danny is unwittingly on a collis...

Descubre la profunda verdad de que las cosas más grandes de la vida a menudo dependen de los detalles más pequeños en "El Poder de lo Pequeño: Cómo los Detalles Cotidianos Forjan tu Vida". Esta obra clásica de Charles Robert Morrison, con una introducción de L. R. Meyer, te invita a reconsiderar el valor de lo aparentemente insignificante y a reconocer cómo las acciones, palabras y decisiones diarias moldean irrevocablemente nuestro destino, carácter, feli...

La historia está llena de la abrumadora importancia de las pequeñas cosas. Son las bisagras sobre las que giran las puertas de la oportunidad y el destino. Los puntos de inflexión en la vida de los hombres y las naciones son, por lo general, los acontecimientos y las cosas cotidianas y comunes de la vida.Fue una pequeña cosa la que detuvo al joven Lincoln un minuto en las calles de Nueva Orleans donde vio un mercado de esclavos. "Si alguna vez tengo la oportunidad de golpear esa co...