John Solen’s theft should have been salvation—until the data core and the fruit it wakes burn his life to ash. Years later, Joel Solen steals a ship and crashes through Venusian ice to pull his family back together. What he finds is not the brother he remembers but Erica: a body remade by a botanical intelligence and three women who rule a planet with bioengineered godhood.Trapped in a landscape where fruit spies, drones shepherd obedience, and moral certainty decays like old lab g...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.John Solen’s theft should have been salvation—until the data core and the fruit it wakes burn his life to ash. Years later, Joel Solen steals a ship and crashes through Venusian ice to pull his family back together. What he finds is not the brother he remembers but Erica: a body remade by a botanical intelligence and three women who rule a planet with bioengineered godhood.Trapped in a landscape where fruit spies, drones shepher...

Areopagitica by Milton - The Original Classic EditionFinally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition.This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work, which is now, at last, again available to you.Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside:Nevertheless there being three principal things, without which all praising is but courtship and flatt...

Six gentlemen, one goal: the destruction of Hitler's war machineIn the spring of 1939, a top-secret organization was founded in London: its purpose was to plot the destruction of Hitler's war machine through spectacular acts of sabotage.The guerrilla campaign that followed was every bit as extraordinary as the six men who directed it. One of them, Cecil Clarke, was a maverick engineer who had spent the 1930s inventing futuristic caravans. Now, his talents w...

A Course in Wood Turning is a comprehensive instructional manual designed to guide both beginners and experienced woodworkers through the art and craft of wood turning. Authored by Archie S. Milton and Otto K. Wohlers, this classic text, first published in the early 20th century, remains a foundational resource for anyone interested in mastering the lathe and the techniques of shaping wood. The book is meticulously organized into a series of progressive lessons, each building upon the last...

Areopagitica by Milton.

Beginning with the story of Satan after he was expelled from Heaven along with his followers, Paradise Lost details Satan’s journey to the Garden of Eden and his intent to destroy God’s new creation. The poem also depicts the perspectives of both Adam and Eve, examining their personalities and motivations before and after Eve’s fateful temptation.After publishing Paradise Lost, author John Milton was immediately recognized and lauded as one of the greatest English...

Marco Polo's thirteenth-century journey from Italy to Asia marked a turning point for Western civilization. He returned with stories of exotic people, tremendous riches, and the most powerful ruler in the world Kublai Khan. The explorer told of inventions ranging from gunpowder to paper money. The intellectual ferment and cultural diversity he described helped move Europe out of the Dark Ages and into the Renaissance. In his lifetime, people scoffed at his stories. But as this book explain...

"Rugoff's spirited and immensely beguiling book takes a joyful bite out of the nineteenth century." - The New York Times. "King of the Lobbyists" Sam Ward was best known for his talent for throwing parties - courtesy of the U.S. Treasury. And Alva Vanderbilt squandered tens of thousands on one evening to crack the closed social circle of the Mrs. Astor. And when Jay Gould, of Black Friday fame, sent his card to one of the Rothschilds, it was returned with the comment, "Europe is not for sa...

This landmark study of 3 schizophrenic patients—each believing they are Jesus Christ—offers a “rare and eccentric journey” into madness, shining a light on the ethical dilemmas of institutionalized care in the mid-20th century (Slate).On July 1, 1959, at Ypsilanti State Hospital in Michigan, the social psychologist Milton Rokeach brought together three paranoid schizophrenics: Clyde Benson, an elderly farmer and alcoholic; Joseph Cassel, a failed writer wh...

John Milton, whose epic poem ‘Paradise Lost’ is widely regarded as the greatest exemplar of its form in the English language, created a body of poetry and prose that reflected his strong personal convictions and passion for freedom during the political turmoil of his day. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents Milton's complete poetical works, with rare texts, beautiful illustrations and the usual Delphi...

'An endless moral maze, introducing literature's first Romantic, Satan' John CareyIn his epic poem Paradise Lost Milton conjured up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos ranging across huge tracts of space and time. And yet, in putting a charismatic Satan and naked Adam and Eve at the centre of this story, he also created an intensely human tragedy on the Fall of Man. Written when Milton was in his fifties - blind, bitter and briefly in danger of execution - Pa...