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In "The Octopus: or, The 'Devil-Fish' of Fiction and of Fact," Henry Lee delves into the enigmatic world of the octopus, juxtaposing its representation in literature and popular culture with its biological realities. The book is a meticulous blend of natural history, folklore, and literary criticism, skillfully weaving together narratives from renowned works of fiction that feature this captivating creature. Lee's writing style is both accessible and erudite, making complex ideas digestibl...

Over two weeks before, Detective Grisham Canton arrested the wrong guy—Solomon Lynch. It wasn’t the first time it’d happened and probably wouldn’t be the last. What made it stand out, however, was the stranger who’d been with Solomon. Grisham didn’t know his name, but the memory of his lean, sexy body, wide dark eyes, and distinctive black and red hair invaded his dreams. Waking with a hard-on was quickly getting old. Grisham heads to World of Aquatica, hoping to discover the identity of t...

As they watch the days of their youth roll by, Brooklynites Eve, Hanna, and friends must confront the truth about themselves whether They 're ready to or not. The award-winning webcomic series comes to a close in this final laugh-filled, heartrending installment.

In this timely political thriller, CIA special agent Curtis Fitzgerald, scholar Simone Casoloro, and historian Michael Asbury, must race against the clock to find trillions of dollars worth of stolen funds to prevent global economic collapse. Since the end of the Second World War, an elite organization called The Octopus has controlled the funds hidden away in six bank accounts. As the crux of the global economy, the loss of the money threatens to send the world into pure chaos unless it's...

We rely on your support to help us keep producing beautiful, free, and unrestricted editions of literature for the digital age. Will you support our efforts with a donation ? At the end of the nineteenth-century, a group of wheat growers in California's San Joaquin Valley fights back when the railroad monopoly attempts to take possession of their farms. United in the local Farmer's League, they try to retain the land that they've been improving for years, while the railroad company threate...

More than 2200 years ago—nearly four centuries before the Evangelists wrote their imperishable histories of the events on which the faith of Christendom is based—Aristotle, the celebrated naturalist of Stageira, in Macedonia, recorded observations of the habits and reproduction of the Octopus which clearly show that he was more intimately acquainted with its mode of life than any writer of a later date between his day and ours. For how many centuries before his time facts and fallacies con...

Drive lasting change with a new, nimbler organization focused on continuous change.Our organizations are stuck. We talk about agility but find ourselves bogged down in bureaucracy. We aspire to innovate but run into systems built to prevent mistakes, not spark breakthroughs. We need to learn and adapt, but we're operating with an outdated playbook built for efficiency and control. And our attempts to fix all this—by pouring trillions into huge, top-down transformat...

"Cephalopods are often misunderstood creatures. Three biologists set the record straight on the behaviors and evolution of these invertebrates of the sea." — Science NewsLargely shell-less relatives of clams and snails, the marine mollusks in the class Cephalopoda—Greek for "head-foot" —are colorful creatures of many-armed dexterity, often inky self-defense, and highly evolved cognition. They are capable of learning, of retaining information—and of rapid de...

'Anyway, none of that mattered. We were moving to India'Global travel, rare antiques and quite a bit of bad behaviour: you probably haven't met a family like the StarlingsSaylor Starling wants to be normal. Her family has other ideas. And there's the issue with what her father does for a living. He may be an authority on ancient ceramics; he might just be smuggling cocaine.Against a backdrop of 70s counterculture and 80s excess, their journ...

Probing one of most organized and complex criminal enterprises in the United States, this report exposes the dynamics of the Octopus, a globe-trotting undercover intelligence operative. Based on 18 years of investigative research, this account reveals high-level, covert government operations and the elaborate corporate structures and the theft of high-tech software (PROMIS) used as smoke-and-mirror covers for narcotics trafficking, money laundering, arms sales, and espionage. The Octopus c...

'I can't think of a more perfect book for the beach' Toby Litt'Mysterious deaths, an intuitive octopus, and colourful characters in a Devonshire seaside town, make this an unmissable read' Tamar Hodes'Utterly addictive from the first page' Jonathan WhitelawDiana Parks is a beautician with a temper, and she's not the only member of Ottersea WI who's had enough of bullies and slimeballs. When the body of lecherous lan...

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