Dixon Belltower, veteran of Crushed (the "fight club" of the wine-tasting world), is indebted to a Belgian gangster and wanted by the French police. He's also in love (again) and plans on proposing to his girlfriend.However, before sipping such bliss, Paris goes up in flames and mini-Nazis start clamoring for his head.Cellared away on his father's Oregon vineyard, Dixon discovers the bucolic vines infested with his estranged mother and spite-filled friends. There's also the...

Dixon Belltower, veteran of Crushed (the "fight club" of the wine-tasting world), is indebted to a Belgian gangster and wanted by the French police. He's also in love (again) and plans on proposing to his girlfriend.However, before sipping such bliss, Paris goes up in flames and mini-Nazis start clamoring for his head.Cellared away on his father's Oregon vineyard, Dixon discovers the bucolic vines infested with his estranged mother and spite-filled friends. There's also the...

Dixon Belltower, veteran of Crushed (the "fight club" of the wine-tasting world), is indebted to a Belgian gangster and wanted by the French police. He's also in love (again) and plans on proposing to his girlfriend.However, before sipping such bliss, Paris goes up in flames and mini-Nazis start clamoring for his head.Cellared away on his father's Oregon vineyard, Dixon discovers the bucolic vines infested with his estranged mother and spite-filled friends. There's also the...

Revised and updated, this long-awaited second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to what the most thoughtful Americans have said about the American experience from the colonial period to the present. The book examines the political thought of the most important American statesmen, activists, and writers across era and ideologies, helping another generation of students, scholars, and citizens to understand more fully the meaning of America.This new second edition of the b...

Follow the most riveting cases of an elite investigative team of volunteers brought together by a famed FBI Profiler dedicated to solving crimes no one else couldWhen Gregory M. Cooper, former head of the FBI’s Behavioral Sciences Unit, founded the Cold Case Foundation in 2013, he had high expectations, but couldn’t anticipate the level of response. What started with just a half-dozen or so retired FBI agents and homicide detectives has ballooned to more than 150 w...

Most of us only half-listen to the public service announcements about safety in the home. We lock our doors at night, but do little else to change habits that may make us the next victims of the dangerous individuals who are always on the watch for their next opportunity. This updated paperback edition takes readers through the mindset of predatory criminals - their motives, various plans of attack, and way of thinking - and then teaches simple lifestyle techniques that will help reduce th...

'The Greatest Maritime Novels, Pirate Stories & Treasure-Hunt Tales' offers an exhilarating collection of high seas adventures and explorations that delve deep into the human spirit, struggles, and triumphs. Distinct in literary styles—ranging from the exhilarating romanticism of Hugo to the dark, intricate narratives of Poe—the anthology encapsulates the transitional dynamics of maritime literature. The overarching themes of bravery, treachery, and the relentless pursuit of treasure are i...

BEACH BOOKS Boxed Set gathers sea adventure, piracy, shipwreck, exploration, and treasure-hunt fiction into a capacious panorama of maritime imagination. Ranging from historical romance and nautical realism to Gothic suspense, imperial adventure, juvenile fiction, and speculative voyage, the volume charts the sea as both commercial thoroughfare and testing ground for courage, greed, loyalty, and self-invention. Its memorable island mysteries, mutinies, lost treasures, and encounters with d...

Thomas Cooper's *The Baron's Yule Feast: A Christmas Rhyme* is a socially charged Christmas narrative that places medieval festivity under the scrutiny of moral and political critique. Its title evokes the ceremonial abundance of a feudal household, while the poem's historical setting enables Cooper to examine hierarchy, privilege, poverty, and the obligations ostensibly imposed by Christian charity. Written in vigorous, accessible rhyme rather than in the polished manner of purely decorat...

In pursuance of the purpose expressed in the Prefaces to my “Bridge of History” and to “God, the Soul, and a Future State”—I herewith publish the substance of four lectures on the Resurrection of Christ, which I have delivered, wholly or in part, in almost every important town of England and Scotland, during a period extending over the last eighteen years.I have again thought it better to put what I have spoken into a bookish form, for general readers. But, I have, as before, preser...

“If that boy were left naked and friendless on Salisbury Plain, he would find the road to fame and riches!” the tutor of Sir William Jones was accustomed to say of his illustrious pupil. His observation of the great quality ofperseverance, evinced in every act of study prescribed to his scholar, doubtless impelled the teacher to utter that remarkable affirmation. A discernment of high genius in young Jones, with but little of the great quality we have named, would have led Dr. Thackeray to...

FAST MEDIA, MEDIA FAST is an exciting guide for taking a liberating media fast in an age of increasingly fast media. It is the first book to provide readers a practical, user-friendly and thought-provoking guide to gaining a newfound control and understanding of their relationship with the media. This researched, seasoned manual provides specific guidelines, important areas for thought, creative options and life-changing opportunities.FAST MEDIA, MEDIA FAST also shows how to take c...