This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.How to Train My Puppy: Basics to Train and Housebreak Your Dog [Winning Approach to Raise a "Healthy, Perfect, and Well-Behaved" Pet in Fun and Easy Ways.]Have you ever wished you knew how to train your dog, but had no idea where to start? In this book, we will embark on a comprehensive journey to equip you with the knowledge and skills to raise a well-behaved, confident, and happy puppy.Her...

Darkness, our most primitive fear since shadows first stirred.Within the pages of this horror anthology you will be taken back into the past, down to the depths of the ocean and across the borderline between our world and the next. You will see snapshots from the lives of small children, old-time cockney gangsters and aimless stoners. You will journey into the darkest house on the darkest street, wander hospital basements, and take a flight in the comfort of first ...

These thirteen essays have been collected to honor Melvyn New, professor emeritus (Florida), and are prefaced by a description of his scholarly career of more than forty years. Suggesting the wide range of that career, the first eight essays offer various critical perspectives on a diverse group of eighteenth-century authors. These include a reading of Eliot in the shadow of Pope; a comparison of Gainsborough’s final paintings and Sterne’s Sentimental Journey; a study of Johnson and casuis...

Theology and Literature in the Age of Johnson: Resisting Secularism contains seventeen essays exploring the complex relationships between literary intentions and theological concerns of authors writing in the second half of the eighteenth century. The diversity of literary forms and subjects, from Fielding and Richardson to Burke and Wollstonecraft, is matched by a diversity of approaches and theologies. To argue that the age “resisted secularism” is by no means to argue that resi...

Exploratory, investigative, and energetically analytical, 1650–1850 covers the full expanse of long-eighteenth-century thought, writing, and art while delivering abundant revelatory detail. Essays on well-known cultural figures combine with studies of emerging topics to unveil a vivid rendering of a dynamic period, simultaneously committed to singular genius and universal improvement. Welcoming research on all nations and language traditions, 1650–1850 invites readers int...

Samuel Johnson famously referred to his future biographer, the unsociable magistrate Sir John Hawkins, as “a most unclubbable man." Conversely, this celebratory volume gathers distinguished eighteenth-century studies scholars to honor the achievements, professional generosity, and sociability of Greg Clingham, taking as its theme textual and social group formations. Here, Philip Smallwood examines the “mirrored minds” of Johnson and Shakespeare, while David Hopkins parses intersec...

Dr. Eleanor Reed is a brilliant neuroscientist who has spent her career studying the neural pathways of empathy. Her research has led her to develop a groundbreaking technology—the Empathy Detector—that can distinguish between genuine and performative empathy. But when her work is stolen and a colleague is murdered, Ellie realizes that she has stumbled onto something far more dangerous than she ever imagined.She soon finds herself caught in a web of conspiracy that reaches the high...

He built a Temple to honor God. He murdered his family to secure his throne.In an age of titans, Herod the Great stands as a colossus of ambition and paranoia. A half-Jew granted the throne of Judea by his Roman masters, he is haunted by the one thing he can never build, buy, or conquer: legitimacy. It is a prize that belongs to his wife, Mariamne, the last princess of the Hasmonean dynasty he deposed. His love for her is a consuming fire, but her very bloodline ma...

Some women are born to power. Others must seize it with both hands.In the floating brothels of Canton, Shi Yang is a ghost, a pretty face who listens while powerful men talk. They speak of trade routes, naval patrols, and weaknesses. They never notice she is listening. That is their first, and last, mistake.When the formidable pirate lord Zheng Yi storms her world, he seeks a conquest. Instead, he finds his match. She counters his offer of marriage with a d...

Step into a time machine crafted from imagination and historical evidence. "Voices from the Dust: Imagined Interviews from Ancient Rome" transcends dusty textbooks, resurrecting the Roman world through vivid conversations with its most compelling figures.Hear Julius Caesar debate crossing the Rubicon, witness Cleopatra's strategic brilliance, and march alongside a legionary defending Rome's frontier.These meticulously researched interviews delve beyond dates and battles, ex...

Some secrets are best left buried in the deep.For generations, Marcus Chen's family has dealt in rare antiquities, meticulously authenticating whispers of history. But when a desperate stranger brings him a salt-stained journal allegedly belonging to Captain Briggs of the infamous Mary Celeste, Marcus uncovers a truth far more terrifying than any ghost story.Found adrift in 1872 with its crew vanished, the Mary Celeste has remained one of ...

In the heart of Norway's Isdalen Valley, a chilling discovery unfolds—a woman's charred remains lie amidst the rugged landscape, her identity shrouded in a web of mystery. As investigators delve into her past, they uncover a series of aliases, coded notebooks, and a possible connection to Cold War espionage. The Isdal Woman's case becomes a haunting enigma, captivating the public imagination and challenging societal norms surrounding gender, crime, and the pursuit of truth....