How did an inexperienced shepherd boy defeat a giant, veteran warrior with superior weapons? How did Bill Gates, a twenty something Harvard dropout, best his rivals in the software industry? How did a young Rupert Murdock outbid his competitor with only half the resources to launch his career as a media kingpin? What enabled Lee Iacocca to take a company on the brink of ruin to solvancy in a few short years? The answer isn't much different than what allowed David to defeat Goliath over 3,0...

A full teacher's guide to the "Double Indemnity" novel and Screenplay with vocabulary, essays, grammar, quick writes, power points, literature quizzes,study guides and teacher answer keys.

A full teacher's guide to the "Brian's Song" teleplay with vocabulary, essays, grammar, quick writes, power points, literature quizzes,study guides and teacher answer keys.

Daniel L. Lowery shines a light on modern romance through this provocative collection of short stories and poetry. The characters in The Reflections of a Narcissist pursue their libido, lust and love around the globe, but never abandon their own vanity in the process. They always want, yet rarely want to give what they need to achieve their desires. Often it is the chase that provides their only satisfaction in life and in the end they frequently discover their much sought after prize was ...

In this second installment of Paradox Lost (L'Inferno) the themes of Paradise Lost, The Divine Comedy, Faust and more are fully explored. The protagonist, Steve Adams, discovers the hell of working in an environment where your every thought is monitored, where science takes a back seat to superstition and where even language is manipulated to make the abnormal seem normal. Adams gets constant pressure to sign documents that give scientific support to Creationism. As his debts continue to m...

Steve Adams at long last breaks away from the repressive Greenleaf University to journey to his beloved Galapagos Islands, but at what price? Will Adams really write a paper disproving evolution? Will he turn his back on all the science has taught him? Will his pilgrimage to the land of Darwin's greatest insight cause Adams to betray his greatest hero? Will he end up a Judas or a secular saint of science?The third and final installment to the Paradox Lost Trilogy, Il Paradisio, sees...

Daniel L. Lowery uses the power of myth to destroy the myth of creationism. He evokes such literary masterpieces as Paradise Lost, The Divine Comedy, Faust and more to expose the false idols of Creationism and Intelligent Design.As in Dante's "The Divine Comedy" this first installment shows the protagonist, Steve Adams, enduring the purgatory of high-cost education, crushing debt, poor job prospects and limited social life. It causes him to accept a position at a creationist univers...

In 'Menexenus,' Plato presents a thought-provoking dialogue that explores themes of rhetoric, memory, and virtue through a fictionalized eulogy delivered by Socrates. This work, characterized by its ironic tone and layered argumentation, critiques the art of persuasion prevalent in Athenian society while simultaneously serving as a homage to fallen soldiers. The dialogue invites readers to grapple with the ethical implications of oratory and the responsibilities of citizenship, illustratin...

Subject: Navy SEAL Lieutenant Blake LandonCurrent Status: Two weeks of enforced leaveMission: Distract himself in any way possibleObstacle: A woman who tempts him to break the rules…including his own!Navy SEAL Blake Landon (aka "Boy Scout") knows the rule book inside and out. Checked. Rechecked. But when a mission ends badly, his entire team is ordered on leave. And that's when Blake sees the tall redhead whose dark eyes sugg...

The Thirty-Nine Steps is an adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan. It first appeared as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine in August and September 1915 before being published in book form in October that year by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh. It is the first of five novels featuring Richard Hannay, an all-action hero with a stiff upper lip and a miraculous knack for getting himself out of sticky situations.The novel formed the basis for a number ...

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.Here you will find the complete 'Tom Sawyer' no...