Marcel Proust's seven-volume In Search of Lost Time, here gathered complete, charts a narrator's apprenticeship in desire, art, and society from provincial Combray to Paris salons and Balbec's shore. A signature of modernism, it turns involuntary memory—a madeleine, a paving stone—into revelation. With sinuous sentences, recursive motifs, and free indirect interiority, Proust fuses social satire to metaphysical inquiry, modeling time's distortions and recoveries across the cycle's grand de...

Posthumously published in 1733, Isaac Newton's Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John offers a rigorously historicist reading of biblical prophecy. In spare, methodical prose, Newton correlates Daniel's four kingdoms, the seventy weeks, and the 1,260 days with the long arc of imperial and ecclesiastical history, and aligns Revelation's seals, trumpets, and beasts accordingly. Drawing on philology, chronology, and the work of Joseph Mede, he assembles a d...

**"An inspiring and informative page-turner." –Walter IsaacsonLonglisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year AwardThe authoritative account of the race to produce the vaccines that are saving us all, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Man Who Solved the Market**Few were ready when a mysterious respiratory illness emerged in Wuhan, China in January 2020. Politicians, government officials, business leaders, and public-heal...

Elegantly written and deeply grounded in personal experience—works by Oliver Sacks come to mind—Physical Intelligence gives us a clear, illuminating examination of the intricate, mutually responsive relationship between the mind and the body as they engage (or don’t engage) in all manner of physical action.Ever wonder why you don’t walk into walls or off cliffs? How you decide if you can drive through a snowstorm? How high you are willing to climb up a ladder to change a l...

Return to Orchard Canyon...A Business Novel…Unlike any other business book, Return to Orchard Canyon will get you thinking - and working - toward a future you once thought was just a pipe dream.This is the story of David Reynolds, his father Ron, and his daughter Meghan. Through these unlikely teachers, you'll discover a path to understanding the plight of modern-day life.A life you yourself may be living and questioning... So many people are feeling...

A physician's life may be viewed as hard and demanding or blessed and fortunate, depending on one's perspective. Certainly, hard and demanding is the intense scientific and clinical training period, lasting over a decade past college. Adding to work demands is the natural and trained desire to never err in diagnosis or treatment that might add to a patient's suffering. So how is a physician's life blessed? Blessed is the physician granted permission by patients to enter into their lives at...

Suitable for courses addressing community economic development, non-profit organizations, co-operatives and the social economy more broadly, the second edition of Understanding the Social Economy expands on the authors’ ground-breaking examination of organizations founded on a social mission – social enterprises, non-profits, co-operatives, credit unions, and community development organizations.While the role of the private and public sectors are very much in the public li...

In 1944, hundreds of Allied soldiers were trapped in POW camps in occupied France. The odds of their survival were long. The odds of escaping, even longer. But one man had the courage to fight the odds . . .An elite British S.A.S. operative on an assassination mission gone wrong. A Jewish New Yorker injured in a Nazi ambush. An eighteen-year-old Gary Cooper lookalike from Mobile, Alabama. These men and hundreds of other soldiers found themselves in the prisoner-of-...

History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century (Vol. 1–5) delivers a sweeping, source‑literate narrative of how evangelical faith moved from cloister to council chamber. Opening with Luther's Wittenberg breakthrough and tracing Swiss and wider European currents, it blends biography, doctrine, and civic conflict. Written in vivid, providential prose, yet anchored in letters, edicts, and disputations, it locates reform within late‑medieval piety, humanism, and print. Jean‑Henri Merle d'...

Love in Excess (1719–20) plunges readers into a maze of desire among the Parisian elite: the rakish Count D'Elmont, the ardent Alovisa, the virtuous Melliora, and the compromised Amena. Misdirected letters, clandestine meetings, and jealous surveillance drive reversals that test reputation, consent, and duty. Haywood fuses the heightened rhetoric of amatory romance with the observational textures of the emergent novel, staging theatrical set‑pieces yet pausing for moral analysis; its seria...

Ready to embark on the journey of a lifetime?Explore "A Swiss Adventure," the definitive travel guide that will make your vacation to Switzerland an experience you won't soon forget. Whether you're an experienced tourist or organizing your first trip to Switzerland, this in-depth guide will help you discover the country's hidden gems.This detailed guide is designed to provide you with:Detailed Itineraries: Arrange y...

Swann's Way opens In Search of Lost Time with three movements: childhood reveries in Combray; the anatomy of jealousy in "Swann in Love"; and the desire-saturated toponyms of "Place-Names." Proust's long sentences, free indirect discourse, and phenomenology of perception install a modernist epic of consciousness. Set amid Belle Époque salons, the book displaces event with memory, showing how habit muffles experience until an involuntary shock—tea, paving stones—restores time to sensation. ...