The obituary page of The New York Times isa celebration of extraordinary lives. This groundbreaking package includes 300 obits in the book with exclusive online access to 10,000 more of the most important and fascinating obituaries the Times has ever published.The obituary page is the section many readers first turn to not only see who died, but to read some of the most inspiring, insightful, often funny, and elegantly written stories celebrating t...

Returning for its second year but reimagined in a new impulse format, with a new title, new cover, new mission, and new sensibility, here is The Socialite Who Killed a Nazi with Her Bare Hands, a pithier, quirkier collection of the 164 best page-turning obituaries from The New York Times.Written by top journalists, each story is a gem of a bio, a full life in miniature. There's the famous: Steve Jobs, including the story of how he was reunited with a sister he neve...

On a cold English morning, upon the flat open ground near the river, a duel with pistols between the politician Max Bradbury and Sheldon Hobbes' best friend and confident Mr. Bell was arranged. Bradbury had recently killed Bell's dear friend in the same manner. Hobbes' investigation couldn't prove it, but he believed Bell's friend, a young officer who was in love with Bradbury's wife, was framed and maneuvered into the duel days earlier. Hobbes foolishly agreed to be Bell's Second when loy...

Can love transcend the boundaries between heaven and earth? Can you be too old to love? Can a lone elderly woman and a lone she-wolf share the same destiny? Old Friends (Endless Love) is a collection of unique love stories written for and about seniors; the same seniors that teach us every day the true meaning of courage, dignity, honor, grace and faith.Old Friends (Endless Love) is ideal for seniors in search of a love story and caregivers in search of stories to read to their own...

Why are 3 young birds being told by their parents that they are not allowed to play with each other? Why do they play with each other anyway? What happens when one of them gets into trouble and the parents find out?

Our three friends are having a great time on their adventures, but Joy doesn’t seem to be having as much fun. What is wrong with Joy? Who is JJ, and what is he up to? Will Joy talk to anyone about what is wrong, or will she just keep it to herself?

Evolution has long shaped human behavior. Yet just recently have we learned that evolution based on natural selection is not the continuous process Darwin assumed. It is instead a two-part process of change and stability called punctuated equilibrium, with natural selection operating mainly on the frontiers of change. Taking account of biologyÆs latest understanding of evolution, it becomes clear that culture evolves by a similar process. This is important because over the past...

Kierkegaard’s Concepts is a comprehensive, multi-volume survey of the key concepts and categories that inform Kierkegaard’s writings. Each article is a substantial, original piece of scholarship, which discusses the etymology and lexical meaning of the relevant Danish term, traces the development of the concept over the course of the authorship, and explains how it functions in the wider context of Kierkegaard’s thought. Concepts have been selected on the basis of their importance for Kier...

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Kierkegaard’s Concepts is a comprehensive, multi-volume survey of the key concepts and categories that inform Kierkegaard’s writings. Each article is a substantial, original piece of scholarship, which discusses the etymology and lexical meaning of the relevant Danish term, traces the development of the concept over the course of the authorship, and explains how it functions in the wider context of Kierkegaard’s thought. Concepts have been selected on the basis of their importance for Kier...

Kierkegaard’s Concepts is a comprehensive, multi-volume survey of the key concepts and categories that inform Kierkegaard’s writings. Each article is a substantial, original piece of scholarship, which discusses the etymology and lexical meaning of the relevant Danish term, traces the development of the concept over the course of the authorship, and explains how it functions in the wider context of Kierkegaard’s thought. Concepts have been selected on the basis of their importance for Kier...

Kierkegaard’s Concepts is a comprehensive, multi-volume survey of the key concepts and categories that inform Kierkegaard’s writings. Each article is a substantial, original piece of scholarship, which discusses the etymology and lexical meaning of the relevant Danish term, traces the development of the concept over the course of the authorship, and explains how it functions in the wider context of Kierkegaard’s thought. Concepts have been selected on the basis of their importance for Kier...