Turkey’s growing assertiveness on the international stage, difficulties with EU accession, rapidly rising economy, and the long and controversial reign of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) are all necessitating a need for analysis. The present study of the Centre for European Studies presents two papers which look at Turkey and the AKP from different perspectives. Svante Cornell’s paper argues that AKP has moved away from democratic reforms and that Turkey’s ‘zero problems with the n...

Just as the Great Fire of London took place one year after the Great Plague broke out, in the 14th Century, Germany and Latvia were still burying their dead from the Black Death, or bubonic plague, when they were hit by a strange epidemic--often called Dancing Mania, St. John's Dance, or St. Vitus' Dance--that caused thousands of people to literally "dance" themselves to death. Due to the spasmodic jerkings and twitchings of the "dancers," it was thought at the time that the victims were p...

Most gardeners garden Against Nature. Some advanced gardeners garden With Nature. This book takes a different approach: gardening With Nature. The idea is that, by forming a co-creative partnership with Nature and the Spirit beings in your garden, you can create a different kind of garden - one that's alive in ways you may just be beginning to feel. This book provides an introduction to a new way - well, really a very old way - that ups your game in the garden exponentially.With Na...

Sometimes when you’re too busy, you would just want to throw everything into a slow cooker and let the heat and the ingredients blend together perfectly. We know that’s why we have create a boxed set of three books with awesome slow cooking recipes. Never again settle on fast food. With these slow cooking recipes, a hearty meal should be just within reach.

A Modest Proposal (A Modest Proposal) is a satirical essay written by Jonathan Swift in 1729 The paper proposes the problem of tenant farmers in Ireland who can not feed their children because the owners are adamant about the lease. After discussing the problem, suggests a new solution: parents should sell their children to rich landlords to be eaten. Many contemporaries did not understand Swift's satirical essay Swift and obtained written reviews for his exceptional "bad taste".

The Lifted Veil’s sickly narrator, Latimer, believes himself to be cursed with the ability to see the future and sense the thoughts and feelings of those around him. Disgusted by what he sees in the minds of others, he accepts that he will lead an unobtrusive life, constantly overshadowed by his more vigorous elder brother. That is, until he meets and becomes fascinated with Bertha, his brother’s beautiful and coquettish fiancée.The Lifted Veil sits alongside work...

I had this ugly condition. I was starving to death 20 minutes after my last meal. This is what I did to get rid of the problem, and it was a blessing.THIS BOOK IS VERY VERY SHORT. IT JUST TELLS YOU WHAT TO DO. YOU WILL STILL NEED TO BUY A LOW CARB DIET BOOK, AND A YEAST ELIMINATION BOOK.

A Winsome Defence of the Christian FaithOur modern world — wide awake to its own progress and virtues — disdains the antiquated notions of Christianity. Wouldn't humankind be much improved by the extinction of this unsightly ideology?This book is a winsome response that is delightfully sharp-witted and disarmingly sincere.In Orthodoxy, masterful thinker, literary critic, and lay theologian, G. K. Chesterton (1874-1935), pairs whimsey and wi...

Set in the fictional town of Casterbridge, “The Mayor of Casterbridge” is Thomas Hardy’s tragic story of Michael Henchard, who over indulges in alcohol at a country fair and decides to auction off his wife and daughter to a sailor. When he recovers his sobriety, Mr. Henchard realizes his mistake, but it is too late to get his family back. Devastated by his impetuous actions he decides not to touch alcohol again for the next twenty-one years. The novel advances eighteen years to find the te...

A headless horseman stalks the moonlit roads of Sleepy Hollow... Will you dare to cross the covered bridge after dark?Immerse yourself in America's most beloved supernatural tale, where ambition, rivalry, and local legends collide in the haunted hills of New York's Hudson Valley. Washington Irving's masterpiece has thrilled readers for over 200 years, and this definitive edition brings the terror and romance of colonial America vividly to life. TIMELESS CLASSIC F...

The Idiot (pre-reform Russian: Идіотъ; post-reform Russian: Идиот, tr. Idiót) is a novel by the 19th-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published serially in the journal The Russian Messenger in 1868–69.The title is an ironic reference to the central character of the novel, Prince (Knyaz) Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, a young man whose goodness, open-hearted simplicity and guilelessness lead many of the more worldly characters he encounters to mistakenly assume that...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • MORE THAN 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD • This instant classic explores how we can change our lives by changing our habits.“Few [books] become essential manuals for business and living. The Power of Habit is an exception.”—Financial TimesA WALL STREET JOURNAL AND FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEARIn The Power of Habit, award-winning busines...