In "Nero," Stephen Phillips crafts a rich tapestry of historical fiction that immerses readers in the life of one of Rome's most infamous emperors. Phillips employs a lyrical and evocative prose style that reflects the grandeur and decadence of the Roman Empire while intertwining historical accuracy with imaginative narrative. The book delves into Nero's complex psyche, exploring themes of power, art, and the often blurry line between tyrant and artist. Set against a backdrop of political ...

Nero is a dramatic tragedy by Stephen Phillips that delves into the life and reign of the infamous Roman Emperor Nero. The play presents a richly poetic and theatrical exploration of power, ambition, and moral decay, painting a vivid portrait of a ruler whose excesses lead to his downfall.The story traces Nero's descent into tyranny, marked by political machinations, personal betrayals, and acts of cruelty. At the heart of the drama is Nero's struggle with his own conscience and his relent...

In this book Stephen Phillips focuses on one of the most important poems about meditation in world literature, as understood by two of the greatest philosophers of India, one classical, one modern. Sankara's commentaries on the Upanisads are a core of the Vedanta tradition and Aurobindo is a towering figure of 20th-century Hindu thought. This is the first time their approaches have been studied together.The Isa (c. 500 BCE) an “Upanisad” belongs to a genre of “

The book An ABE’s Logbook by author Stephen D. Phillips is a true story of accounts taken from his childhood and the written entries from his personal journals he kept while he served in the United States Navy from 1985 to 2005. The story begins in his childhood as he attended junior high school at Rosemont Middle School in Fort Worth, Texas, attending there from the sixth to eighth grades. These years and their events shaped and molded his life. The encouragement of family, with their lov...

Whether you are venturing into a medical aesthetics business or looking to improve your current medical spa, the Medical Aesthetics Success book contains strategies to help you build or transform Your Business into the Black! You will discover medical aesthetic success principles to help you implement a proven effective business model leading to success. No matter what position you hold within the medical spa industry, you could be a founder, an entrepreneur, or a medical professional. You...

The names solemnly displayed in Memorial Hall at the U.S. Naval Academy serve as a constant reminder of why Annapolis is different from Harvard, or Stanford, or Duke. No midshipman recognizes this more viscerally than Donald Durago, who knows all too well that some will die--heroically, tragically, slowly, or quickly--in the service of their country.Set at the U.S. Naval Academy in the 1990s, The Recipient's Son tells the story of a young man's struggle to come to terms wi...

A he and she, in the full flush of middle age, meet and spend one day together. It becomes a lifetime. In a tiny terrace house in the heart of London, they create together their very own rural idyll. They breed chickens, ducks, cockatiels, guinea pigs, and cats, and fill the pocket-handkerchief garden with fruit and flowers, sharing the house, garden, and their life with Wellington, a large black Newfoundland. Their life becomes one of life and death, a story of struggle, of hope and dread...

For serious yoga practitioners curious to know the ancient origins of the art, Stephen Phillips, a professional philosopher and sanskritist with a long-standing personal practice, lays out the philosophies of action, knowledge, and devotion as well as the processes of meditation, reasoning, and self-analysis that formed the basis of yoga in ancient and classical India and continue to shape it today.In discussing yoga's fundamental commitments, Phillips explores traditional teaching...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. In writing the series of historical narratives to which the present work pertains, it has been the object of the author to furnish to the reading community of this country an accurate and faithful account of the lives and actions of the several personages that are made successively the subjects of the volumes, following precisely the story which has come down to us from ancient times. The writer has spa...

The names solemnly displayed in Memorial Hall at the U.S. Naval Academy serve as a constant reminder of why Annapolis is different from Harvard, or Stanford, or Duke. No midshipman recognizes this more viscerally than Donald Durago, who knows all too well that some will die--heroically, tragically, slowly, or quickly--in the service of their country.Set at the U.S. Naval Academy in the 1990s, The Recipient's Son tells the story of a young man's struggle to come to terms with his le...

The Recipient’s Son is a coming-of-age story set at the US Naval Academy in the 1990s. By the author of Proximity, it tells the story of Donald Durago, a young man whose father was killed in the Vietnam War. For his heroic actions under fire, his father was a recipient of the Medal of Honor. His father’s heroism also provides Durago with an appointment to the US Naval Academy, since it is as a benefit offered to children of Medal of Honor recipients. However, his father’s legacy also carri...

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