In \'The Character of Rain\', we learn that divinity is a difficult thing from which to recover, particularly if, like the child in this story, you have spent the first two and a half years of life in a nearly vegetative

Young gamers control the action in this interactive series from the bestselling author of Trapped in a Video Game. With more than 30 endings and an unlockable bonus adventure, this second book in the series promises hours of screen-free fun. This is one book that will super-power the interest of any \"I\'d rather be gaming\" kid. In this pick-your-path adventure, you join eight strangers inside a video

Simply throw the three coins six times to create a hexagram. Each of the resulting 64 hexagrams can be read for platonic friendship, an existing partnership or a new romance.In this beautiful package readers will find all they need to consult the time-honored I-Ching oracle to find love, understand relationships and mend friendships. Based on the eight natural laws (or energies) of the I-Ching - heaven,

The multi-award-winning series, Strangers In Paradise, gets a brand new update in four exciting volumes! Strangers in Paradise is the compelling love story of three unlikely friends who find themselves bound together by their pasts... Katchoo is a beautiful young woman living in the spare bedroom of her high school friend, Francine. Brash and outspoken, Katchoo makes no secret of her love for Francine

The boys love (BL) genre was created for girls and women by young female manga (comic) artists in early 1970s Japan to challenge oppressive gender and sexual norms. Over the years, BL has seen almost irrepressible growth in popularity and since the 2000s has become a global media phenomenon, weaving its way into anime, prose fiction, live-action dramas, video games, audio dramas, and fan works. BL\'s

Drawing on his experiences cooking around the world, a celebrated chef revisits his Southern cooking roots by reimagining iconic dishes of the American South with bold international flavors. Learn to cook favorite traditional Southern dishes, adding variety and spice through the use of different techniques and ingredients. Each of ten chapters offers an iconic Southern dish and then international variations,

A set of state of the art empirical analyses at the country, regional, and global level that work from a new theoretical framework that analyzes the politics of growth and stagnation. As highlighted by the recent debate on \'secular stagnation, \' economic growth has slowed down considerably, and this has given rise to a host of new problems, from financial instability to the collapse of mainstream

Tim Ekaterin has a lot of money. Unfortunately, it is other people\'s, and it is his job to invest it wisely, or get fired. And right now he\'s taken a big risk: using GBP5 million to stud a champion racing stallion. When the resulting foals have birth defects, Tim is worried and decides that there may be something else going on at the

2018 Reprint of 1999 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. This volume pulls together and republishes, with some editing, updating, and additions, articles written during 1978-86 for internal use within the CIA Directorate of Intelligence. The information is relatively timeless and still relevant to the never-ending quest for better analysis.

From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower In his rich and nuanced portrait of the remarkable, elusive Rothschild family, Oxford scholar and bestselling author Niall Ferguson uncovers the secrets behind the family\'s phenomenal economic success. He reveals for the first time the details of the family\'s vast political network, which gave it access to and influence

The West was stunned when the Soviet Union dropped its first atomic bomb in August 1949 and a year later the Korean War showcased Russia\'s incredible technological progress in the form of the MiG-15 - a fighter capable of besting anything the RAF had to offer at that time. In the wake of the Second World War, funding for the RAF\'s Fighter Command had fallen away dramatically but now there was an

Modern conservatism was born in the crisis of the French Revolution that sought to overturn Christianity, monarchy, tradition, and a trust in experience rather than reason. In the name of reason and progress, the French Revolution led to the guillotine, the dictatorship of Napoleon Bonaparte, and a decade of continental war. Today Western Civilization is again in crisis, with an ever-widening progressive

Introducing the Selected Works of Simone Weil Some of Simone Weil\'s most important thinking was done through the medium of her notebooks. She used them in several inter-related ways. First, she used them to note things she had read and was researching. Far more often, they were workbooks where she worked through her ideas. Many of the ideas in her completed essays can first be found in her notebooks,

This book presents ground-breaking ideas based on current research on how stigma can cause bodily felt trauma in stigmatised or marginalised people, particularly those on the autism spectrum. Gordon Gates draws on his academic research, professional knowledge as a counsellor, and lived experience with Asperger\'s syndrome to provide a unique framework for combating the psychological and emotional impact

What happens when the one that got away comes back? Find out in this sparkling comedy from #1 bestseller Mhairi

One of the last things Elinor Simentov wants is to be a prophet of God, but God has other plans. A Jewish woman of no particular renown, Elinor is told by God to give a warning to all who will listen. Will she serve as a prophet, sacrificing her goals for herself, self-image, and reputation in order to do something that may be completely useless? God\'s message is simple. Humankind must radically change

An updated edition of Otfried Hffe\'s revolutionary study of Kant\'s philosophy. Published in English for the first time, Kant\'s Critique of Practical Reason is an abridged and updated edition of Otfried Hffe\'s groundbreaking work which was originally published in German. In the book, the author systematically introduces one of the most important areas of Kant\'s philosophy and relates its basic

Written by #1 New York Times bestselling author V.E. Schwab, this all-new story is set in the five years between VICIOUS and VENGEFUL. Set in the years between VICIOUS and VENGEFUL, \"ExtraOrdinary\" follows a teenage girl named Charlotte Tills who survives a bus crash and becomes EO--ExtraOrdinary, gaining the ability to see people\'s deaths in reflective surfaces. But when she looks into her own

This book is a practical revision aid for postgraduate junior doctors preparing for MRCS (Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons) examinations, as well as for undergraduate students preparing for medical finals examinations. Presented in the style of OSCE (Objective Structured Clinical Examination) format, the book describes 35 clinical examinations divided into chapters according to organ systems,

In Living on Your Own Terms: What Is Real Rebellion?, one of the twentieth century\'s greatest spiritual teachers reveals how you can resist the rules and regulations that oppose your values while retaining your own individuality. \"People can be happy only in one way, and that is if they are authentically themselves. Then the springs of happiness start flowing; they become more alive, they become