In June 1940, Italy drifts into war.For Marco di Vasile, heir to a Calabrian lineage of soldiers and barons, the call to arms does not lead him back to the soil of his ancestors but into the skies above Libya. As the Regia Aeronautica ferries its squadrons across the Mediterranean, Marco steps into a desert that feels less like a battlefield than a threshold — vast, merciless, and ancient.Carrying with him his father's gift, La Divina Commedia, Marco begins to see his jour...

This book argues that the hard problem of consciousness is epistemological, perspectival, and resolvable, rather than ontological and irresolvable. The brain as we see and otherwise sense it is the reality as known rather than the reality as such. If the same is true of our conscious experiences, it becomes possible that the hard problem is epistemological and resolvable. Conscious experiences may be ontologically reducible to certain brain states but have knowledge content that, for purel...

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The house-to-house fighting encountered in Stalingrad convinced the Wehrmacht that a heavily armoured vehicle mounting a weapon capable of destroying enemy strongpoints should be developed as a matter of urgency. The 15cm-armed Brummbär, built on the chassis of the ever-reliable Pzkpfw IV, was rendered obsolete by developments in man-portable anti-tank weapons and so the decision was made to mount an even more powerful gun on the suspension and hull of the Tiger I tank. The original intent...

Gilgamesh Told True: The Wild Man, reimagines the opening lines of the Akkadian epic "He Who Saw the Deep" wherein the gods are angry with the tyrannical rule of King Gilgamesh. They create a wild man powerful enough to challenge the king's authority and then send a prostitute to civilize the wild man. This is the story of that wild man told true. A story that strips away the myths and labels to reveal the soul of Enkidu, the wild man who became the savior of the city of Uruk, and...

Season I of The Path of Light begins a year-long course of moral formation by establishing the disciplines on which later growth depends. Its first concern is attention: learning to see clearly, pause before reaction, test impressions, and bring desire and judgment under deliberate governance.Across ninety daily essays, Dennis Houchin brings Christian wisdom into sustained conversation with Stoic philosophy and other enduring sources of moral insight. Each essay joins a classical m...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERBarnes and Noble Best Book of the YearBookpage Best of 2017Booklist Best Crime NovelPopSugar Best Book of 2017The new novel from New York Times bestseller Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River and Shutter Island“Lehane is the master of complex human charact...

Adam Strickland's hunt for the demonic Racer has led him to the abandoned Funlands Amusement Park in rural Missouri.Adam knows he's missed his chance to stop the Racer and save Abby, but at least when the Racer comes back this way, he'll find his nest destroyed.But the park isn't as abandoned as Adam thought. The Racer has left his children behind, and they come crawling from the shadows, eager to feed.

Six strangers argue about a road.They meet in a diner after a county commission meeting that got out of hand, and they are still meeting eighteen weeks later.A welder who inherited his convictions and has never examined them. A pharmacist who left a country where the government answered to God and no one answered to the government. A civics teacher who believes rights are what a people agree to. An engineer who grew up under a state ...

The mesmerizing, darklyoriginal novel that heralded the arrival of now New York Timesbestselling author Dennis Lehane, the master of the new noir—and introducedPatrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, his smart and tough private investigatorsweaned on the blue-collar streets of Dorchester.A cabal of powerful Bostonpoliticians is willing to pay Kenzie and Gennaro big money for a seeminglysmall job: to find a missing clean...

POWER AND THE GRAVY is a collection of poetry and short fiction from three friends who had been writing together since the early 1990s. These are some of their earlier works, originally published as a DIY chapbook and sold to friends. This 6700-word collection is a glimpse at the origins of horror author and Amazon bestseller C. Dennis Moore and some of his closest friends and the things they used to get up to late at night, full of coffee and shrimp platters at the local ...

Dennis Lehane returns to the streets of Mystic River with this love story wrapped in a crime story wrapped in a journey of faith—the basis for the major motion picture The Drop, from Fox Searchlight Pictures directed by Michaël Roskam, screenplay by Dennis Lehane, and starring Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, and James Gandolfini.Three days after Christmas, a lonely bartender looking for a reason to live rescues an abused puppy from a trash can and meets ...