Drawing on a range of examples from classical times to the present, from Cicero to Virginia Woolf to Greta Gerwig, this Very Short Introduction considers why human beings are drawn to exchanging feelings and ideas via letters and why we continue to be fascinated by them today.

Mexico is an enchanting land full of many secrets. Some wonderful to behold, and some best kept secret. Deep in the heart of the Yuctan, in a steamy, forgotten jungle, lies one. In 1962, the Mexican government conducted clandestine operations to test an herbicide designed to compete with agent orange, the American militarys herbicide of choice. It was staged over a long abandoned eco-attraction called Yucatanland. It was a failure, in that it didnt kill the plants, but mutated the animals....

"Breathtaking. Cock-throbbing." L'HOMO Magazin. This is the first volume of Eric Kollen's Fragrance of Sin series – thirty stories across six volumes, amounting to 1,667 pages of boundary-pushing passion. In the Netherlands they count among the most popular gay books of all time. These stories are full of imagination and dazzling variety: some are set in the present, but the next moment you find yourself caught up in homoerotic entanglements during the Second World War, in the seventeenth ...

Explores a novel metaphysical vision in the American philosophical tradition and unpacks its relevance to a number of topics, including the relationship between sentience and nature.The Mind in Nature is a series of explorations within a contemporary and eclectic development of American philosophy. Centered around the work of Robert S. Corrington, ecstatic naturalism advances an ontological vision integrating the insights of transcendentalism, pragmatism, ...

They burned everything down.Four years ago, Sebastian Langley walked away from the only man who ever made him feel real. He told himself it was for Ethan's good. For his future. For all the reasons that made sense in his head, even if they shattered Ethan's heart.Now Ethan is back . . . whether Sebastian is ready for it or not.Ethan has learned how to survive without him. How to be sharper. Stronger. How not to fall apart every time...

From Australia's favourite novelist, author of the Scarecrow series and the Jack West Jr series with new novel Mr Einstein's Secretary out now.*A dauntless young hero.An army of brutal monsters.An impossible quest.Journey to the mountain ...*In an isolated valley, a small tribe of humans is dying from a terrible illness.There are rumors, however, that the trolls of Troll Mountain, the valley's fearsome overlords, hav...

From Australia's favourite novelist, author of the Scarecrow series and the Jack West Jr series with new novel Mr Einstein's Secretary out now.*A dauntless young hero.An army of brutal monsters.An impossible quest.Journey to the mountain ...*Raf's mission to Troll Mountain is in ruins.Having penetrated the mountain, only to be caught in the act of stealing the fabled elixir, Raf must now face the trolls' champion in ...

“Heart-stopping and relentlessly gripping. Tabor takes us on an odyssey into unfathomable worlds beneath us, and into the hearts of rare explorers who will do anything to get there first.”—Robert Kurson, author of ShadowDiversIn 2004, two great scientist-explorers attempted to find the bottom of the world. American Bill Stone took on the vast, deadly Cheve Cave in southern Mexico. Ukrainian Alexander Klimchouk targeted Krubera, a freezing nightmare of a su...

Two members of a team who descended into the Huautla cave complex in Mexico describe their perilous and deadly trek into one of the world's deepest caves.The Huautla in Mexico is the deepest cave in the Western Hemisphere, possibly the world. Shafts reach skyscraper-depths, caverns are stadium-sized, and sudden floods can drown divers in an instant.With a two-decade obsession, William Stone and his 44-member team entered the sinkhole at Sotano de San August...

With the Russians vanquished, fighter pilot Hawk Hunter sets his sights on an old enemy poised for trouble in Panama.A Boeing 727 is making a routine charter flight out of Football City—formerly known as St. Louis—when three F-4 Phantoms appear on its tail and open fire. No match for the lightning-quick Phantoms, the 727's pilot is about to give up when his assailants explode in mid-air, becoming the latest casualties of Hawk Hunter, the Wingman.Hunter is t...

“A stunningly inventive novel that . . . weaves together Mayan history, modern science, game theory and the coming Mayan apocalypse. BEWARE DECEMBER 21, 2012!”—Douglas Preston, author of The Monster of FlorenceIt was predicted. We were warned. December 21, 2012. The day time stops.The year is 2012. Jed DeLanda, a descendant of the Maya, is a math prodigy raking in profits from online trading. But Jed’s life is thrown into chaos when his former mentor, Taro, and a m...

Patagonia is a strange and terrifying place, a vast tract of land shared by Argentina and Chile where the violent weather spawned over the southern Pacific charges through the Andes with gale-force winds, roaring clouds, and stinging snow. Squarely athwart the latitudes known to sailors as the roaring forties and furious fifties, Patagonia is a land trapped between angry torrents of sea and sky, a place that has fascinated explorers and writers for centuries. Magellan dis...