Socrates, Plato, Descartes, Spinoza, Mesmer, William James, Pavlov, Freud, Piaget, Erikson, and Skinner. Each of these thinkers recognized that human beings could examine, comprehend, and eventually guide or influence their own thought processes, emotions, and resulting behavior. The lives and accomplishments of these pillars of psychology, expertly assembled by Morton Hunt, are set against the times in which the subjects lived. Hunt skillfully presents dramatic and lucid accounts of the t...

One dead lord. One dirty county. No clean exits.The fifty-third Amersham Hunt Ball is forty minutes old when Lord Pemberton Ashcroft-Hale hits the parquet with his face locked in the grimace of strychnine poisoning.Two hundred witnesses. A string quartet. And before the ambulance has reached the drive, his widow is in the car park with a chequebook.Private investigator Vali Noir takes the hire. She's ex-Metropolitan Police - resigne...

Monsters have invaded New York City!At least for those who have the illegal Monster Hunter app, like musician Chase Knowles.Through the app, Chase becomes the Alpha to two powerful Huntresses: a sexy half-dragon whose combat prowess is matched only by her mouth, and a dangerously beautiful warrior with two killer blades and an insatiable appetite for… reading.Avoiding arrest for long enough to earn some money is at the top of their To-Do list, but t...

For three centuries, as the Black Death rampaged through Europe and the Reformation tore the Church apart, tens of thousands were arrested as witches and subjected to torture and execution, including being burned alive. This graphic novel examines the background; the witch hunters' methods; who profited; the brave few who protested; and how the Enlightenment gradually replaced fear and superstition with reason and science.Famed witch hunters Heinrich Kramer, architect of the infamo...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.One dead lord. One dirty county. No clean exits.The fifty-third Amersham Hunt Ball is forty minutes old when Lord Pemberton Ashcroft-Hale hits the parquet with his face locked in the grimace of strychnine poisoning. TTwo hundred witnesses. A string quartet. And before the ambulance has reached the drive, his widow is in the car park with a chequebook.Private investigator Vali Noir

One dead lord. One dirty county. No clean exits.The fifty-third Amersham Hunt Ball is forty minutes old when Lord Pemberton Ashcroft-Hale hits the parquet with his face locked in the grimace of strychnine poisoning.Two hundred witnesses. A string quartet. And before the ambulance has reached the drive, his widow is in the car park with a chequebook.Private investigator Vali Noir takes the hire. She's ex-Metropolitan Police — resigne...

Broadway. The Great White Way. In its theatres—one day you’re an understudy, the next a star. Your name in headlines and lights. But Broadway has an underbelly. A troubled side through which to view humanity at its worst: corrupt, dark, venal and violent.For Detective Danny Clover every time he walked that street another case was always just a few footsteps away. He knows everyone along Broadway—from pan handlers to operatic prima donnas—but he’s still sentimental about the street,...

In recent years, political, religious, and other special-interest groups have waged war on behavioral and social research projects that threaten their interests and values. They have hounded researchers out of universities, cut off their funding through congressional and state legislative pressure, and harassed them with public demonstrations and picketing, all in the hope of forcing them to abandon their research. Formerly such unwanted involvement came from activists on the left. Now it ...