Most likely written between 170 and 180, Meditations is a remarkable work, a unique insight into one of the most conscientious and able Roman emperors, Marcus Aurelius, who ruled at the apex of the empire’s power. The work is a series of notes, written for its author’s own improvement; it has no formal structure, and its arguments follow no obvious pattern. Yet its immediacy makes it one of the best and most accessible accounts of what is known as Stoic philosophy. Marcus Aurelius’s distin...

The goal of this book is to provide a clear and concise understanding of catching trophy largemouth and smallmouth bass without a lot of fluff. Graphics and line charts that have been presented in many other bass fishing books were intentionally omitted. Many pictures were inputted to enhance text understanding and make the book entertaining and an easy read. The format is to present some foundation information in each chapter followed by detailed tips and presentations in Sections V and V...

Despite being written between 170 and 180, Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations often resonates with modern readers because of its remarkable resemblance to a self-help book. Written as a series of personal notes in the last decade of his reign as Roman emperor, the meditations were never intended for circulation. But they remain today among the classics of stoic philosophy – and as exquisite examples of problem-solving.Meditations sees a great leader engaged in solving o...

Adam goes off on an adventure to the Land of the Pharaohs. As he travels from Luxor to Aswan then to Cairo and back to Aswan, he discovers the hidden treasures of the Nile. Some of the treasures were not so hidden...... This is an erotic gay novel. It is only suitable for adult readers.

A collection of Gay Short Stories. Starting with Littlehampton Beach. Erotic in nature. Adult reading. All characters depicted are eighteen years of age or older.

Jeremy knew he was different. He described himself as someone who was sexually attracted to persons of both sexes. He couldn’t help it.

Richard gets involved in the forced prostitution and people trafficking that exists on the borders of Thailand and Burma. He discovers corruption on both sides of the border. Yet, he finds time to fall in love.

This Gospel gives the account of the sayings and doings, but specially of the miracles, of Jesus in His boyhood up to His twelfth year. The reference to one of the stories in Irenæus (above, p. vi.), shows that the work originated in Gnostic circles, and was in use in substance in the second half of the second century. It is cited by Origen (Hom. i. in Luc.), and after him frequently by Fathers of the Church. We do not, however, possess the Gospel in its original form, but only in much lat...

A Restatement of the grounds of belief in the great fact of the Lord’s Resurrection seems called for in view of the changed forms of assault on this article of the Christian faith in recent years. It is difficult, indeed, to isolate this particular fact, outstanding as it is, from its context in the Gospel history taken as a whole, every point in which is made subject to a like minute and searching criticism. On the other hand, the consideration of the evidence for the Resurrection may fur...

The Apocrypha began to be produced (so far as known) in the second century, mostly in Ebionitic and Gnostic circles, and, with few exceptions, were repudiated and condemned by the Church. Only later, and in modified and expurgated forms, did their stories pass into the general Catholic tradition. The second century seems to have been a perfect hot-bed for the production of this class of writings.Of the purely heretical Gospels most have perished (for an account of some of the Gnosti...

This oldest of the extant Apocryphal Gospels claims to have been written by James (the Just) in Jerusalem. It was first published in the Latin version of Postellus in 1552. It exists in numerous Greek MSS., the best of which is said to be one of the tenth century. The Syriac versions are older, and, with occasional abbreviations, agree fairly with the Greek text, and with one another. The fragment translated by Dr. Wright is supposed to belong to the sixth century; the text on the palimpse...

The Fertile Crescent, nicknamed "The Cradle of Civilization" due to the birth of various kingdoms within its borders, is a crescent-shaped region containing the comparatively moist and fertile land of otherwise arid and semi-arid Western Asia, and the Nile Valley and Delta of North East Africa. Jordan is part of the Fertile Crescent. Jamie travels to Aqaba and the Dead Sea where he finds the Jordanians very accommodating……