Volume 25 of 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era investigates the local textures that make up the whole cloth of the Enlightenment. Ranging from China to Cheltenham and from Spinoza to civil insurrection, volume 25 celebrates the emergence of long-eighteenth-century culture from particularities and prodigies. Unfurling in the folds of this volume is a special feature on playwright, critic, and literary theorist John Dennis. Edited by Claude Willan, ...

I'm not a decent man.I'm not someone my mother would be proud to have given her life for. I've killed. Maimed. Hurt people far beyond the scope of what the human mind can imagine. Because that's what I was told I was. Destruction. And that's all I was good for. That's all I want to do right now.Breaker is a complicated man with many dark secrets. He's the breaker of rules, of codes, of men... He's also the only one who dares to defy Fallon, the powerful man...

Four masked men. Two best friends. One night."Kitten, we're always on the hunt... And you're our prey."Delilah has always played it safe. Not that it was her choice. Her father, a formidable figure and power-hungry businessman, always seems to cast a long shadow over her decisions. No matter what she does, Delilah can never seem to escape her father's control.When Delilah's best friend Cora drags her out of her house to attend a costume party, she d...

They are ours to do with as we please.Those are our direct orders: to make her, them, ours. And by the time we're done with them, they'll do anything and everything we ask.In twenty-four hours, Delilah's life took an unexpected turn. When she and her best friend Cora decided to have a night of fun with four hot masked men, they never expected what would come next.Now? The two women wake to everyone's worst nightmare. They're being held captive by th...

"It’s almost uncanny how well Mr. Horowitz summons Bond’s mindset . . . Yet this Bond also feels the winds of change: 'He had his licence to kill. But was it possible that in this new, more questioning age, that licence might have expired?' A drop of retro pleasures, a pinch of things to come; shaken, not stirred." — Wall Street JournalInternationally bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s third James Bond novel, after Forever a...

A spy is dead. A legend is born. This is how it all began. The explosive prequel to Casino Royale, from bestselling author Anthony Horowitz.Forever and a Day is the story of the birth of a legend, in the brutal underworld of the French Riviera, taking readers into the very beginning of James Bond’s illustrious career and the formation of his identity.***M laid down his pipe and stared at it tetchily. “We have no choice...

From author Emily Blackwood comes a dark and twisted romantasy about two powerful mystics and the forces that urge them together—even if they hate each other.Athena is an earthly. She wields no power, and though war rages across the lands, she lives a relatively normal life in isolation until she's kidnapped by the Ministry and questioned for the magic they're certain she possesses.As she struggles to grasp her new reality, she's forced into a dungeon with ...

Ein Spion ist tot. Eine Legende ist geboren. Normalerweise behält das Meer seine Geheimnisse für sich. Doch dieses Mal nicht. Eine Leiche. Drei Kugeln. 007 treibt in den Gewässern von Marseille, getötet von unbekannter Hand. Es ist an der Zeit, dass ein neuer Agent an seine Stelle tritt. Zeit für eine neue Waffe im Kampf gegen das organisierte Verbrechen. Zeit für James Bond, sich seine Lizenz zum Töten zu verdienen. Dies ist die Geschichte der Geburt einer Legende in der brutalen Unterwel...

SUCCESS IS NOT WHAT HAPPENS TO YOU.IT IS THE MEANING AND EXCELLENCEYOU BRING TO EACH TASK.In this vivifying omnibus, historian and popular voice of esoteric spirituality Mitch Horowitz abridges and introduces nearly forty world classics of inspiration, motivation, and successful living.From The Art of War and The Prince to The Power of Your Subconscious Mind and The Magic of Believing, read...

With emphasis on power system protection from the network operator perspective, this classic textbook explains the fundamentals of relaying and power system phenomena including stability, protection and reliability. The fourth edition brings coverage up-to-date with important advancements in protective relaying due to significant changes in the conventional electric power system that will integrate renewable forms of energy and, in some countries, adoption of the Smart Grid initiative....

This Life-Changing Classic Will Revolutionize How You See Yourself-Now in a Special Compact EditionFor more than a century, James Allen's beloved meditation on the power of thought, As a Man Thinketh, has reshaped countless lives. The book's message seems to reach people at just the right moment, transforming failure and indirection into power and purpose.Now, PEN Award-winning historian and New Thought writer Mitch Horowitz reintroduces this inval...

Master Your Mind!, a fascinating three-book collection of life-changing classics, will help you find the awesome power within. Joseph Murphy's classic of bold living, The Power of Your Subconscious Mind, shows you your true potential for achievement, wellness, and success. In As a Man Thinketh, James Allen's beloved meditation on the power of thought, you'll learn how to transform failure and indirection into dynamism and purpose. Florence Scovel Shinn's ...