A love story-- Navy style. One woman, three men, one naval air training unit on a small island in the pacific northwest. Total entanglement as passions explode between a senior officer, his wife, a very un-inhibited junior officer and a former lover who arrives in enlisted uniform with a secret assignment.

In German Idealism and the Jew, Michael Mack uncovers the deep roots of anti-Semitism in the German philosophical tradition. While many have read German anti-Semitism as a reaction against Enlightenment philosophy, Mack instead contends that the redefinition of the Jews as irrational, oriental Others forms the very cornerstone of German idealism, including Kant's conception of universal reason.Offering the first analytical account of the connection between anti-Semitism an...

Meermädchen Aquina hat sich schon immer anders gefühlt, als die übrigen Meermenschen auf Rulantica. Kurz nach ihrem zwölften Geburtstag erfährt sie das Unglaubliche: sie hat einen Zwillingsbruder. Mats, ein Menschenjunge! Und er befindet sich in großer Gefahr. Für Aquina gibt es kein Halten mehr, sie muss ihre wahre Familie finden, bevor es zu spät ist. Mats ist in einem Waisenhaus aufgewachsen, seit er als Findelkind am Strand aufgelesen wurde. Schon immer fürchtet er sich vor dem Meer un...

Considering the support behind Brexit and Donald Trump's 'America first' policies, this book challenges the idea that they are motivated solely by fear and instead looks at the hope and promises that drive these renewed forms of nationalism. Addressing these neglected motivations within contemporary populism, Michael Mack explores how our current sense of disappointment with our ecological, economic and political state of affairs partakes of a history of failed promises that goes back to t...

Highlighting literature and philosophy's potential impact on economics, health care, bioethics, public policy and theology, this book analyses the heuristic value of fiction.It alerts us to how we risk succumbing to the deceptions of fiction in our everyday lives, because fictional representations constantly feign to be of the real and claim a reality of their own. Philosophy and literature disclose how the substantive sphere of social, economic and medical practice is sometimes dr...

Belle, Oni und Oliver befinden sich in der Ausbildung zu waschechten Abenteurern! Die Welt bereisen, magische Gegenstände entdecken und mysteriöse Wesen erforschen stehen auf dem Stundenplan. Leider werden sie zum langweiligsten aller Kurse verdonnert: Erdkunde-Exkursion mit Professor McFinnegan und seinem sprechenden Zeppelin TICI. Gähn! Doch dann wird der sagenumwobenen magische Dolch aus der Akademie gestohlen und ausgerechnet die drei stellen den Dieb: Meisterdieb Connor Blaze, bekannt...

Jason loves his life as a stay-at-home dad, but being a divorced single father wasn't part of the plan.Besides his kids, pies are his passion. He makes and sells his creations at the Heartcraft Market, but it's not enough to live off of.After his father's recent health scare, Nico is determined to help revive their family diner. Then he meets Jason, whose pies are as sweet as he is, and an idea begins to form.Jason's kids are everything to him, but ...

The Second Mystery Megapack selects 25 more tantalizing mystery tales, by modern and classic authors. Included are:FUNNY STUFF, by Ron GoulartPIT ON THE ROAD TO HELL, by John Gregory BetancourtWHAT IS COURAGE? by Mack ReynoldsJUST THE FACTS, by Meg OppermanTEN GRAINS OF SAND, by Christopher B. BoothMORE ALLISONS THAN I KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH, by Michael HemmingsonREFLECTION OF A DREAM, by Jean LorrahGRIM REAPER'S HANDICAP, by Fergus Tr...

Combat Monsters brings together twenty award-winning and bestselling speculative fiction authors who each bring their own spin on an alternate history of World War II.New research has uncovered deeply buried military secrets—both the Allied and Axis special operations during World War II included monsters. Did the Soviets use a dragon to win the Battle of Kursk? Did a vampire fight for the Canadians in Holland? Did the US drop the second atomic bomb on a k...

Collin is big, burly, and rides a Harley.He's the last person anyone would expect to have a passion for yarn. He crochets and sells his wares at the Heartcraft Market.Harper is new to town. He wants to plant roots and find someone to share a life with. He has only dated women since that unforgettable night with a biker who took his V-card. Harper compares every man he meets to the one he can't get out of his head. Finding him at the Heartcraft Market seems ...

Mack presents evidence pro and con, and various speculative explanations of many aspects of the UFO abductions. Despite a lack of conclusive proof for or against the reality of abductions, Mack says, "If the mystery's there, we might as well embrace it rather than run from it."