A physician's life may be viewed as hard and demanding or blessed and fortunate, depending on one's perspective. Certainly, hard and demanding is the intense scientific and clinical training period, lasting over a decade past college. Adding to work demands is the natural and trained desire to never err in diagnosis or treatment that might add to a patient's suffering. So how is a physician's life blessed? Blessed is the physician granted permission by patients to enter into their lives at...

Isis Unveiled (Vol. 1 & 2) is Blavatsky's sweeping synthesis and polemic: Volume I ("Science") challenges nineteenth‑century materialism; Volume II ("Theology") rebukes ecclesiastical dogma, proposing a perennial wisdom. In an encyclopedic, citation‑heavy collage ranging from the Vedas and Buddhist sutras to Neoplatonists, Hermeticists, and Church Fathers, it argues for occult causation and latent psychic faculties, emblematic of the Victorian occult revival amid Darwinian debate and nasce...

Love in Excess (1719–20) plunges readers into a maze of desire among the Parisian elite: the rakish Count D'Elmont, the ardent Alovisa, the virtuous Melliora, and the compromised Amena. Misdirected letters, clandestine meetings, and jealous surveillance drive reversals that test reputation, consent, and duty. Haywood fuses the heightened rhetoric of amatory romance with the observational textures of the emergent novel, staging theatrical set‑pieces yet pausing for moral analysis; its seria...

In these two volumes, Sarah Tytler offers a measured, anecdotal life of Queen Victoria, tracing her guarded childhood, accession in 1837, early reliance on Lord Melbourne, and the consolidation of constitutional monarchy. Attentive to her partnership with Prince Albert—culminating in the Great Exhibition—Tytler interweaves public ceremony with private duty, mourning, and renewed visibility. In decorous Victorian cadence, and using court reports, parliamentary sources, and the Queen's publi...

Now and After, subtitled The ABC of Anarchism, distills the aims and mechanics of anarchist communism. Berkman surveys the roots of exploitation and authority, critiques wage labor, private property, prisons, and the state, and sketches how free communism might organize production, education, and justice through federated councils and voluntary association. He answers common objections about human nature and disorder, grounding ethics in mutual aid. Written in lucid, didactic prose with ex...

Posthumously published in 1733, Isaac Newton's Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John offers a rigorously historicist reading of biblical prophecy. In spare, methodical prose, Newton correlates Daniel's four kingdoms, the seventy weeks, and the 1,260 days with the long arc of imperial and ecclesiastical history, and aligns Revelation's seals, trumpets, and beasts accordingly. Drawing on philology, chronology, and the work of Joseph Mede, he assembles a d...

Marcel Proust's seven-volume In Search of Lost Time, here gathered complete, charts a narrator's apprenticeship in desire, art, and society from provincial Combray to Paris salons and Balbec's shore. A signature of modernism, it turns involuntary memory—a madeleine, a paving stone—into revelation. With sinuous sentences, recursive motifs, and free indirect interiority, Proust fuses social satire to metaphysical inquiry, modeling time's distortions and recoveries across the cycle's grand de...

For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first Hospital directors job, or to apply for a better job.What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines. It ensures that the narrative will follow a logical structure and reminds you not to leave out the most important points. With this book, you'll be able to revise your application into a much ...

Memoirs of the Empress Josephine offers an intimate, meticulously observed chronicle of the Consulate and early Empire, charting the textures of court life at the Tuileries and Malmaison while sketching flexible, psychologically acute portraits of Josephine and Napoleon. Madame de Rémusat writes in a lucid, restrained prose that blends moral reflection with understated irony, attentive to etiquette, sentiment, and the mechanics of power. Composed after the fall of the Empire and situated w...

Lorna Doone (1869) is John Ridd's first-person chronicle of love and vengeance on Exmoor. Set amid the Monmouth Rebellion and the Bloody Assizes, it entwines a yeoman's courtship of Lorna—ward of the Doone outlaws—with feud, ambush, and the cadences of rural labor. Blackmore blends Scottian historical romance with Victorian regional realism: melodrama is checked by close observation of weather, waterways, hedgerows, and dialect, making the landscape a moral arena as well as a stage. R. D. ...

Brought to you by Penguin.You know what went wrong.This is the untold story of what went right.Few were ready when a mysterious respiratory illness emerged in Wuhan, China, in January 2020. Politicians, government officials, business leaders and public-health professionals were unprepared for the most devastating pandemic in a century. Many of the world's biggest drug and vaccine makers were slow to react or couldn'...

Return to Orchard Canyon...A Business Novel…Unlike any other business book, Return to Orchard Canyon will get you thinking - and working - toward a future you once thought was just a pipe dream.This is the story of David Reynolds, his father Ron, and his daughter Meghan. Through these unlikely teachers, you'll discover a path to understanding the plight of modern-day life.A life you yourself may be living and questioning... So many people are feeling...