What is this thing called 'life' all about? If it's all just an accident, a cosmic hiccup, where in some strange way matter became conscious, then Aristotle and Plato and Hume and Kant and all the great idea makers of humanity were just blowing in the wind. They would have been better off amassing great fortunes, consuming vast quantities of matter and making hordes of babies. Why bother with thinking other than as it pertains to the acquisition of food and the continuation of the species?...

Gideon McGee, unlike Jonas of Lois Lowry's, The Giver, longs not for the perfect world, but for a world of total fairness. Fourteen year old Gideon is the quintessential woe-is-me teenager until the day he falls through the ice of a frozen pond while trying to save his sister, Prudence. Gideon is like many youngsters (and adults) who wonder why the world is put together in such a way that it is so emotionally difficult to navigate. He blames bad luck, others and an unfair world for all his...

Augusto DeRosa PhD is a psychotherapist and a professor of psychology at Columbia University. Like most shrinks he thinks he has his mind pretty much figured out. At least that's what he believed until he went to sleep one December night in 2009. Before that night he was a man driven by invisible beliefs that directed his every act. In that sense he wasn't any different than the rest of us navigating our worlds on auto pilot. That December night switched off Augusto's auto pilot and sent h...

Coloreds to blacks, queers to gays, tits to boobs, Miss and Mrs to Ms, Indians to Native Americans, retards to mentally challenged...these are just a few of the language and conceptual changes the Baby Boomers have gone through. As Billy DeRosa begins his life story from his vantage point of a sixty-six year old liberal Democrat, he feels cheated by his exclusion from the generation that spawned the Summer of Love. A wannabe Boomer, Billy DeRosa, bemoans his fate of being born One Year Sho...

The Nature of My Game follows the four central characters from their early years growing up in Jersey City, new Nersey in the 1950's, through their Vietnam experience and ultimately though their redemption of Stanley Kronicki Jr., the central character of the novel. Kronicki, whose marred soul is etched into the contours of his deformed face, enters the belly of Jonah's whale as an adult through the murder of men that physically resemble his abusive father, who awaits his lethal injection ...

The story of the P-51B Mustang aircraft from its development prior to the American entry into the war through to D-Day in June 1944.During World War II, the United States Army Air Corps was led by a cadre of officers who believed implicitly that military aviation, particularly fast heavy bombers at high altitude, would be able to destroy strategic enemy targets during daylight with minimal losses. However, by 1942 the Flying Fortress was proving vulnerable to Luftw...

Many people have wondered what the future will be like. The Future Revealed answers that question and many more. The question should be, Are you ready for what will happen in the future? It is not Are you physically ready? Rather, it is, Are you spiritually ready?

This is the first full-length monograph in English about one of France's most important contemporary filmmakers, perhaps best known in the English speaking world for his award winning Les Roseaux sauvages/Wild Reeds of 1994. This study locates André Téchiné within historical and cultural contexts that include the Algerian war, May 1968 and contemporary globalisation, and the influence of Roland Barthes, Bertolt Brecht, Ingmar Bergman, William Faulkner and the cinematic French wave. The ori...

This book explains the true nature of death, why it is necessary for continuing life. I explain what happens when you die, what new dimension you will enter and what to expect when you no longer have a physical body.I explain what it is like in the "After Death Dimension", how you will materialize a new body, appearing much like the body you left behind, but with far more freedoms and capabilities.I also talk about how the survival personality can perceive and in many cases...

**A mind-blowing anthology of 18 stories bringing you the infinite Earths of the multiverse.Featuring Alastair Reynolds, Ian McDonald, Lavie Tidhar, Eugen Bacon and more.**INFINITY. HERE. NOW.What if every decision you’ve ever made created a new reality. A new life, a new world of possibilities for what you could become? What if the best of all possible worlds is just around the corner? Or the worst?This anthology brings together an international cast of lum...

**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OVER THREE MILLION COPIES SOLD! “Packed with incredible insight about what it means to be a woman today.”—Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club Pick)In her most revealing and powerful memoir yet, the activist, speaker, bestselling author, and “patron saint of female empowerment” (People) explores the joy and peace we discover when we stop striving to meet others’ expectations and start trusting the voice deep within us.**

This “highly recommended” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) collection edited by New York Times bestselling author Lee Child pairs the beloved characters of twenty-two internationally bestselling writers in “a must-read for fans of the thriller genre” (The Real Book Spy).The incredible follow-up to FaceOff features twenty-two of the world’s bestselling and critically acclaimed thriller writers pairing their series characters in...